What 📔book are you reading right now?

[Aerin]

<subliminal message to Rhiannon>Take Emma, Sense and Sensibility, and Winter Rose.</subliminal message to Rhiannon>

I'm in the middle of reading Ragwitch by Garth Nix right now, although I have probably a dozen books I need to read (again, hehe). I finished the fifth Harry Potter two days after it came out (I didn't have time until then! *weepsob*); I was sad about it, but it didn't seem all that unexpected. Yes, I am trying to keep from giving out spoilers!

AH HA! I just found my copy of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy! I've been looking for it for months! And it's been sitting on my bookshelf, not two feet from where I'm sitting....

 

[Rhiannon]

(I think I'm going to take Emma, Winter Rose, andTombs of Atuan)

 

[Manveru]

Originally posted by Rhiannon:
-The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin

This book is great... All the 'Earthsea' trilogy is worth reading

 

[Captain]

Exodus *gag*. It's summer reading for high school.

 

[Rhiannon]

Exodus as in the Bible, or something else?

 

[Eliot]

Originally posted by Captain
Exodus *gag*. It's summer reading for high school.

If it's the Exodus from the Bible, then I think you'll enjoy it. It's pretty interesting.

 

[Rhiannon]

Yeah. There's mass genocide, lots of war, plagues, giants...

 

[Finduilas]

Amm...right now I'm reading 'Catch 22'.
Has anyone read it (except GG )?

 

[Captain]

It's not from the Bible. It's historical fiction around WWII

 

[Rhiannon]

I was supposed to read that too- I don't think I finished it, because we were moving at the time.

 

[Courtney]

I just finished reading the 5 Harry Potter books, and now I am reading Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte and Are You Out There, God? by Sister Mary Rose McGeady (I got it free in the mail 'cause I sent their charity money or something and then I felt guilty about not reading it...)

 

[Manveru]

Originally posted by Finduilas
Amm...right now I'm reading 'Catch 22'.
Has anyone read it (except GG )?

I have... quite humorous book... it shows how pointless and stupid can be 'rules' in the army
Have fun Findi

 

[Beleg]

Sons and Lovers by D.H.Lawerence

 

[Finduilas]

Originally posted by Manveru
I have... quite humorous book... it shows how pointless and stupid can be 'rules' in the army
Have fun Findi

Thanks, Manveru.
However, well, GG has retold it for me a couple of times or at least the juice and it left the impression in me that it's not a humorous book although there may be some humourous elements. I think it must be more of an irony...but I haven't read it yet so I'll come back here when I finish it.

 

[Manveru]

Originally posted by Finduilas
Thanks, Manveru.
However, well, GG has retold it for me a couple of times or at least the juice and it left the impression in me that it's not a humorous book although there may be some humourous elements. I think it must be more of an irony...but I haven't read it yet so I'll come back here when I finish it.

Humorous elements... exactly
Well, I read this book long time ago and I could not remember anything else about it. I mean... this 'irony' is the only thing I now remember. I don't want to argue about that, 'cause I know that every single book has some 'hidden' thought inside...
When I've written 'quite humorous book' I meant the impression that this book left me with...
(my own thoughts only)

 

[Finduilas]

Yeah, the impression...well, I'll probably have the same one after let's say, a couple of years...

I've been reading just a minute ago and I've still read only 2 chapters but I can't help not noticing the humourous style with which Heller describes the events. That's probably the reason for this imression..

 

[Manveru]

See... I've told you...

 

[Finduilas]

Originally posted by Manveru
See... I've told you...

Amm.....yes you did....
I'll listen you from now on...

 

[Wolfshead]

Originally posted by Rhiannon
(Eliot, I thought the Scottish flag was green)

Not the last time I checked And I see the flag fairly often...

We have the flag in Eliot's avatar - the St Andrew's Cross. And we also have the Lion Rampant. Originally the royal symbol, now adopted as an unofficial flag - yellow with red lion on it.

Originally posted by Finduilas
Amm...right now I'm reading 'Catch 22'.
Has anyone read it (except GG )?

Me. I did it for an English project last year. It was funny, and a great book to do essays on, but it did bore me a bit. Not my usual style of reading.

 

[Eliot]

Originally posted by CraigSmith
And I see the flag fairly often...

Yeah, I imagine you would.....