What 📔book are you reading right now?

[Beleg]

Picture of Dorian Grey is simply boring.
I mean to read the Alchemist, I have it around somewhere but just haven't gotten around to it.
Right now, I am thinking of starting Stephen King's Carrie...
It's a choice between either Carrie or War or Peace.

 

[Rhiannon]

I've just started re-reading Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, killing time until my Amazon.com order arrives...

 

[Manveru]

Originally posted by Beleg
I mean to read the Alchemist, I have it around somewhere but just haven't gotten around to it.

That's a really good book (I mean as far as my 'taste' is concerned). Beleg, my bro, I strongly recommend it to you (and to all that haven't read it yet)... I should finish it sometime today, but I think I'll reread it....

 

[FoolOfATook]

Right now I'm reading Terry Pratchett's The Color of Magic, and waiting for the library to get it's copy of The Eyre Affair back, since I'm obligated to Rhiannon to read it.

 

[Rhiannon]

In a plate o' shrimp moment, I'm obligated to Jam to read The Color of Magic, only I wanted to re-read Alcott's Little Women before Katharine Weber's The Little Women arrived, since they're loosely related.

I'd forgotten how much I love Little Women. When I was 9 I wanted to be just like Jo (I put on lots and lots of plays; one of my finest ended in the heroine committing dramatic suicide by hanging up her umbrella- there was a fairy involved).

 

[Manveru]

I finished The Alchemist yesterday. Now I'm going back to Dumas' Three Musketeers, which I 'set aside' only to read The Alchemist (time pressure--I had to return it in a hurry). After that I'm planning to read a Polish book Stara Basn (The Old Legend--I think it can be translated in this way...). I have to hurry, because it's already been filmmed and I want to read it before I see it.

 

[Eliot]

I'll be starting Shakespeare's Macbeth very soon. I'm very much looking forward to it.

 

[Rhiannon]

Macbeth is one of the best things ever, Eliot- whenever my sister and I are in the mood for 'butchering the Bard' (as we call it), we usually go for Macbeth ('butchering the Bard' involves being in our pajamas at some ungodly hour of the night and randomly deciding we want to do some Shakespeare, and hauling out a couple of 'The Complete Work'- there are at least four or five in this house- and having at it. I make a terribly Romeo, but my sister's Juliet is passable, and we enjoy arm-wrestling over who gets to be Beatrice. I'm always Lady Macbeth, though, and Witches #1 & 3).

I'm almost done with Little Women, which is good because my new books arrived yesterday (I had to take some time to gloat over them).

 

[Lantarion]

My class has been studying some plays in Finnish Literature class, and I've had to read "Romeo and Juliet", "Medea" and something called "Miss Julie". R&J was not terribly good in Finnish, but it was alright (and I read it in english on the side, woot!); Medea was just...cruel! But it offered us a great chance to study ancient Grek tragedy.. That's part of why I'm reading Aristotle's Poetics right now (still haven't got past the intro ).

 

[Eliot]

Ooooooo........Rhiannon...sounds fun.

I finished the old English Hamlet a little while ago. I'll be starting Macbeth very soon.

 

[Wolfshead]

I just thought I'd give a Magician update At present I'm a third of the way through, and I am thoroughly enjoying it, none of the boredom I was forewarned about has even threatened to rear itself. So there

 

[Rhiannon]

Ooooooo........Rhiannon...sounds fun.

It is

I read Katharine Weber's The Little Women in one sitting last night (didn't sleep until 4am), and really enjoyed it, especially as one of three sisters; The book is very loosely inspired by Alcott's Little Women- there are three sisters named Meg, Joanne, and Amy, and their family is inclusive and 'perfect'- until they find out their mother had an affair. And their father doesn't really react to the news. So...the sisters leave.

What really interested me in the book was the inclusiveness of the 'perfect' family; because that's my family. We're not perfect, but we are very clannish. I, at least, am very wrapped up in my family.

 

[Arebeth]

I just read "Le diable et le bon Dieu", by Sartre. See my deep thought (for those who don't speak French -you should learn-, it means: "You'll never be like them. Not better nor worse: different. And if you agree with them, it will be because of a misunderstanding." Well, something like that.
Good book, the guy had a gift to make quotes. Good ideas, too. The problem is, he was an obscure communist who hated all kind of religion and couldn't help reminding that at every single page. A bit boring in the end.

And Rhia, I'm always Lady Macbeth, too! One of the best female characters ever, if you ask me... I also loved the Alchemist (but who didn't?). Just a bit frightening when you realize that you don't do much of what he writes so well.

 

[Rhiannon]

I just finished Preludes & Nocturnes, vol. I of Sandman by Neil Gaiman, which was great as promised; I love Death. FoaT, do the other volumes tell more about Dream's family?

I'm also halfway through with my re-read of Till We Have Faces by CS Lewis, for my book group (I think this meeting will be most interesting). I really really love that book.

As soon as I'm done with it, I'll re-read Sunshine by Robin McKinley, now that's it's been officially released and I have my gorgeous new hardback in hand.

And in between I am reading a smattering of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple short stories (fun and not demanding), and working on the Mabinogion- the Mabinogion proper, just the original four branches, not the romances.

 

[Finduilas]

I just finished Terry Pratchet's The Last Hero and am now reading Martin Karbowski's Social Experiment. It's a lovely but Bulgarian book and therefore unknown to most of you.

 

[Eliot]

I'm almost done reading the old English version of Macbeth. After finishing that, I'll start Julius Caesar. I've also just started Brian Jacques' Loamhedge.

 

[Rhiannon]

I finished re-reading Till We Have Faces. I. Love. This. Book. I was very disturbed when my friend- one of the intellectual-type ones- didn't know what it was. Of course, he didn't know who Ray Bradbury was either. That felt like betrayal. When when three more of my friends didn't know either....where did I go wrong? Where?

So, according to my calendar this week is TEEN READ WEEK. I'm kicking off my celebration with my promised re-read of Sunshine, some Patricia McKillip, a little Miss Marple, and who knows what all else.

 

[Manveru]

Originally posted by Rhiannon
I finished re-reading Till We Have Faces. I. Love. This. Book. I was very disturbed when my friend- one of the intellectual-type ones- didn't know what it was. Of course, he didn't know who Ray Bradbury was either. That felt like betrayal. When when three more of my friends didn't know either....where did I go wrong? Where?

You think it's your fault? C'mon...

And I must admit I haven't heard of him either, but I'm not an "intellectual-type", I guess (shallow... Am I really? ).

 

[Eliot]

I finished Macbeth, and have now started Gus Russo's The Outfit: The Role of Chicago's Underworld in the Shaping of Modern America. It's a book I've been meaning to read for a long while, just haven't had the time till now. It's very interesting, especially for one like me who's been living in the Chicago area all my life.

 

[Rhiannon]

You think it's your fault? C'mon...

I have failed in my duty to spread the bookish-goodness all over the world...

And I must admit I haven't heard of him either, but I'm not an "intellectual-type", I guess (shallow... Am I really? ).

Well, some of my friends read more than others, and these were some of the ones that read, like read-about-as-much-as-I-do kind of read. Ray Bradbury is one of the Grand Masters of Science Fiction: He wrote Farenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, Dandilion Wine and Something Wicked This Way Comes, among lots of other things.