What 📔book are you reading right now?

[Eliot]

I finished The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler, and started The Return of the King.

 

[Eliot]

Well, I started, and then finished a couple days later, The Victorious Opposition by Harry Turtledove. Pretty soon, I'll read one of his other books, Ruled Britannia. I stopped reading The Return of the King for a little while, and I'm still reading America's Wars.

 

[Rhiannon]

Recently I read:

In Open Spaces by Russell Rowland, which is a novel about a Montana ranch family during the Depression. It is a really excellent book- just a fine novel.

Emma by Jane Austen- of course I loved it. There was never a question of me not loving it, it was just a matter of me getting it read. I am excessively fond of Mr. Knightley.

'The Man Who Would Be King' by Rudyard Kipling; I've been wanting to read the short story ever since I watched and loved the movie. Of course the story was excellent.

I also finally finished The Green Knight by Iris Murdoch. It was really bizarre. I understand she wrote it towards the end of her life, when she was starting to go off the deep end, and that certainly explains a few things.

Right now I'm reading Sense and Sensibility and enjoying it a great deal, and I'm planning to re-read Little Women in hopes that I can find a copy of Katharine Weber's just-released The Little Women, which modernizes the story and is, so I hear, excellent.

 

[Courtney]

Oh! I love everything by Jane Austen!!!! Mansfield Park is my favorite, and I would reccomend it to you, Rhiannon, that is if you haven't read it already.

I never actually finished Little Women... maybe I should try again... I haven't tried to read it since 4th grade.

Right now, I am reading Evolution's Shore, by Ian McDonald. It is pretty interesting so far, but not really what I was looking for. I wanted something like Bradbury or Orwell... but this is just about all my silly little dorm library has... I guess I could manage to walk over to the real library... but then I'd have to get out of my pj's!

 

[Froggum]

I'm reading So You Want to be A Wizard by Diane Duane, a kiddie fantasy.

 

[Rhiannon]

I stayed up all night the night before I had to get up early for our trip to Fort Worth finishing Sense and Sensibility Now I'm pretty sure that Mansfield Park and Northanger Abbey are the only Austen novels I haven't read (not counting the incomplete/juvenile works that have been released).

During the trip I tried to start We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates, but I felt too sick for it, and now I'm not in the mood. I think I'll pick up The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury instead.

 

[Estella Bolger]

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden, for about the tenth time. So now I'm reading LotR...again.

 

[Rhiannon]

I decided to save The Halloween Tree for next month, so yesterday I got most of the way through Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers.

 

[flame]

i finished a child called it and the lost boy (the first two books about david peltzers life) a very sad book, and true.

 

[Wolfshead]

I've recently finished Sharpe's Tiger by Bernard Cornwell, and now I'm reading Legend, the first book that David Gemmell ever published.

 

[Eliot]

I'll be reading the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx soon.

 

[FoolOfATook]

I'm about to re-read Richard II for class (On first glance, it probably doesn't make sense to read Richard III before Richard II, but that's actually the order in which Shakespeare wrote them. Hey, it's not up to us to question the genius.) I've been on a real tear in my pleasure reading this week, knocking off The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal by Thomas Harris, Casino Royale (The very first James Bond novel) by Ian Fleming, and Tourist Season by Carl Hiassen in the past seven days. I haven't completely decided what's next, but either I'll finally get around to taking the plunge and reading Foucalt's Pendulum, I'll read Dave Eggers' You Shall Know Our Velocity, or I'll re-read Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently novels.

Or maybe James Dickey's Deliverance, or Phillip Roth's The Great American Novel. I'm so full of surprises for myself...

 

[Rhiannon]

I finished Gaudy Night at some ungodly hour because I was this far from the end- which was wonderful. Must. Have. More. Lord. Wimsey.

Next I picked up A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons, which had me laughing out loud several times and which I thoroughly enjoyed.

I have solomnly sworn to make some kind of dent in my stacks of books-I-own-but-haven't-read-yet, but I couldn't help a re-read to end my Jane Austen streak, so now I'm re-reading Pride and Prejudice- next I need to read Noughts and Crosses for the Readerville YARG discussion, and re-read Till We Have Faces by CS Lewis for my real life book group (as soon as I get it back).

or I'll re-read Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently novels.

Love that Dirk Gently.

 

[Arebeth]

I have to read Le Père Goriot (Balzac), Germinal (Zola) and L'Etranger (Camus) for class. But in the same time I'm still reading The Pianist. I don't have much time these days...

 

[Anamatar IV]

I'm trying to read A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Emphasis on trying because for the past week I'm being forced by school to read a book called Lincoln's Admiral, a biography on David Farragut.

 

[Tinuvien21]

I'm reading 'The Pilgrim's Progress", and "Return of the King"

Return of the King is Uber cool

 

[flame]

Originally posted by Eliot
I'll be reading the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx soon.

isnt Karl Marx the Russian guy who invented communism?

 

[Eliot]

Originally posted by flame
isnt Karl Marx the Russian guy who invented communism?

Yes, that's correct. Except, he wasn't Russian. He was Jewish German.

 

[Beleg]

Tom Jones by Henry Fielding.
Till now I find the style of narration pretty boring at times. Interesting book though.

 

[Rhiannon]

I just, a few minutes ago, finished my re-read of Pride and Prejudice (yes, it's even better the fourth time around); what to read now?

Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman? Probably should, because the discussion is next month, and since I'm on a Great Britain kick anyway...

The Verb 'To Bird' by Peter Cashwell? Everyone says it's hysterical, which I doubt not since Peter is a funny guy, but maybe I don't want to read a book about 'birds' so soon after my book about 'baboons' (which mostly talked about Africa in general). Hm....

or At the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald?

Decisions, decisions. I suppose I'll spring for N&C, but don't bet your life on it.