What 📔book are you reading right now?

[Mr. Underhill]

I've been going through "The Return of the Shadow" and am almost finished. I got "The Treason of Isengard" for Christmas many years ago, but never read it cover to cover. I just kind of used it as reference material. After I found this site, and the movies started coming out, my interest in Tolkien re-emerged (having read "The Hobbit", "The Lord of the Rings", and "The Silmarillion" many, many years ago). So I picked up "The Return of the Shadow" and "The War of the Ring" to go along with my "The Treason of Isengard". I'm going to read them consecutively as a trilogy to get a little more insight into Tolkien's world ... and so far I find them fascinating. After that I'll probably read my son's new Harry Potter book, "The Order of the Phoenix". Yes, I'm a Harry Potter fan too ...

 

[Rhiannon]

Now that I'm done with Hinds Feet on High Places (book group was fun), I can get back to Vera Chapman's The King's Damosel and Irish Murdoch's The Green Knight...Only I just recieved three (THREE!) packages of books today (all for ME ME ME!) including Virgin Blue by Tracy Chevalier, Still Life with Oysters and Lemon by Mark Doty (which is a slim, attractive volume, and I liked the first page, so I will probably read it first) and the graphic novel Ghost World.

Decisions, decisions...

 

[FoolOfATook]

Ah, Ghost World. Great book, really good movie. What else can one want?

 

[Rhiannon]

Well I started reading the graphic novel last night...and I don't like it. I don't like these people it seems to be about. And not much seems to be happening. But I'll persevere and we'll see.

I really like the beginning of Still Life with Oysters and Lemon, though.

 

[TaranisCain]

Umm....Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather, with a refresher of the Sil every once and a while.

 

[FoolOfATook]

Right now I'm re-reading The Da Vinci Code (I just love this book), and after I finish (which should be sometime today), I picked up Umberto Eco's Foucalt's Pendulum to read. I'm really looking forward to it, since I've heard so much about this novel.

 

[reem]

Originally posted by Isilme
I really enjoyed the mists of avalon, is the priestess of avalon be4 or after the one i've read?

hmm...not sure...maybe someone else can answer that for you...but i think it'll be written somewhere on ur book.
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[reem]

has anyone tried reading anything by Jibran Khalil Jibran?? he's very good.
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[Snaga]

I just bought Foucaults Penduluum too, FoaT. So its on my list.

I just finished a whole bunch of Sherlock Holmes short stories. They're fun!

Now I'm reading 'Captain Corelli's Mandolin' by Louis de Bernieres. Its fantastic!! The best book I've read in a long time. It kept me awake all night on an overnight flight home from America to England... that and the crappy movie they played, and the 3 year old who kept kicking me in ribs might have helped too I guess...

 

[Rhiannon]

I have got to read that one. I've heard a lot about it, and nothing negative.

 

[FoolOfATook]

I just bought Foucaults Penduluum too, FoaT. So its on my list.

I have got to read that one. I've heard a lot about it, and nothing negative.

What's that I smell? Could it be? Yes! It's the first steps towards the TTF Umberto Eco reading group...

 

[Rhiannon]

Sounds good to me, if I could get a copy...

 

[Snaga]

In which case you should rope in Dengen-Goroth too. He's a huge Umberto Eco fan... he's actually read some I believe!

 

[Lantarion]

I've read the Name of the Rose about a ibllion times! All that Latin, *drool*..
And the movie is great as well. ANd YES I read the book before seeing the movie..

Anyway: I have been reading a fantastic fantasy/very mildly scifi series called the Dragonriders of Pern. It tells about a planet that humans colonized to live a simpler life, who have forgotten where they firts came from; and they have bred dragons to protect them from a threat from a planet which comes too close to Pern (the planet they live on) every 200 years, and rains this stuff called Thread onto the planet, which the dragons burn out of the air. VERY interesting, I recommend them. There are 14 books in that series, by Anne McCaffrey.

I started reading the Kalevala (which would blow any Finn away with the beautiful, archaic langauge), but I just remembered that I had to read 'Hamlet' and 'Romeo and Juliet' in Finnish (BLECH) for Finnish class.. So I'm rading Hamlet in FInnish now. I am going to read most of Shakespeare's works in English, at some point, because I HAVE to.

 

[Rhiannon]

I burned out on McCaffery pretty quickly; I was interested in the world, but not the characters.

I'm still reading Vera Chapman's Arthurian trilogy (but I'm now on the last book, King Arthur's Daughter), I'm still reading Irish Murdoch's The Green Knight (and to get an understanding of the two books I was reading on the subject, I did a really really fast skim of Tolkien's translation of the poem- just enough to get the general story- which helped), I'm still reading Still Life with Lemon and Oyster, and now I've added Emma by Jane Austen (we were in the mall! I didn't have any of my current books in my bag and I didn't want to have to go in to the Gap!), and Kim by Rudyard Kipling (for next months YA Reading Group discussion at R'ville- I didn't even get through the first chapter before I wiped out last night, though- I did enjoy the first 26 pages, though), and I need to read Till We Have Faces by CS Lewis (before next week for another online reading discussion).

Oh yes, and my brother is nagging me to read Dolores Clairborne, my dad is nagging me to read Armed and Female, and I want to read the Zimiamvia Trilogy at some point in the near future.

 

[Snaga]

I read a bunch of Anne McCaffrey novels way back when. But I always found something pretty irritating about them, although I can't exactly remember what... the tone I think. And yes, I didnt like the characters much either.

 

[Rhiannon]

the tone I think. And yes, I didnt like the characters much either.

Yeah. They just weren't my cuppa, I suppose.

 

[alorien]

Just finished J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye

Halfway through Zaide Smith's White Teeth (which I love thus far).

 

[Lossengondiel]

Anne Frank Remembered by Miep gies, and The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne frank

As for a different topic of books...Requiem by Graham Joyce is quite a wonderful novel!

 

[Samwise_hero]

At the moment, Frankenstien (for school, yr 12 english, yeah!), Abhorsen by Garth Nix, and this other book called Moon(something). I'm talented, reading more than one book at once! Lol! Nah, reading only one book at a time gets boring unless it's a really engrossing book.