What 📔book are you reading right now?

[Eliot]

I'm reading Wrigley Field right now. It's a really cool book. It's "A Celebration of the Friendly Confines."

 

[Rhiannon]

I finished In the Forests of Serre a few days ago- I loved it- and now I'm halfway through Song for the Basilisk. Most of my reading time is in between classes and before bed right now, so it's kind of slow going, but I really really love McKillip.

 

[Eliot]

Just finished Wrigley Field...

I've started What Bears They Were by Richard Whittingham. It's pretty cool. It's about the Chicago Bears.

 

[Celebthôl]

Im on LOTR again, im on "In the house of Tom Bombadil"

 

[Courtney]

I am reading a book about someone who lived a long time with the orangutans. It is called: Reflections of Eden by Birute Galdikas. I really like it, and I don't usually like nonfiction. I love orangutans, though! They are sooooooo cute!

 

[Rhiannon]

Courtney, you'd probably enjoy A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons by Robert M. Sapolsky. A very funny, often moving book. I really liked it.

Let's see, I finished Song for the Basilisk- enjoyed it a lot, though I don't think it's my favorite McKillip- and Set This House in Order by Matt Ruff, a really riveting novel about multiple personality disorder. That was an excellent book.

 

[celebdraug]

ive started on the sil again!
really good book!
im on the first chapter!

 

[Eliot]

I finished What Bears They Were a couple days ago. It was good. Yesterday, I started Baseball's Greatest Games by Dan Gutman. Very interesting.

 

[Lantarion]

We're analyzing 'The Waste Land' in English right now, so I won't be reading much else, it's so crazy; or sleeping, for that matter.
No but it's an amazing poem, though so complex under its outwardly weirdness that it will definately take us a while to take it all in.

Well, a little 'book' that I am reading right now is an etymological dictionary of the Finnish language: i.e. where many Finnish words come from. It's called Sanojen synty (read 'sa-no-yen' and 'süntü'), 'the birth of words', and although it doesn't have nearly all of the words of the Finnish language it has several thousand, and is actually very interesting indeed.

 

[Rhiannon]

I tried to start Eregon, which is a recent best-seller written by a teenager, but my enjoyment is stifled by the fact that I keep thinking 'I could do this so much better.' I can't help thinking the book could have used a few more re-writes...but I'm not very far in at all. Maybe it gets less stilted.

 

[Thorondor]

Human Resource Management and also the thrilling read: Modern Labor Economics, Theory and Public Policy...*sigh*

 

[Persephone]

The Bible - from Genesis to Revelation

 

[flame]

the two towers

 

[Thorondor]

Right now: Lies, and the lying liars who tell them. A fair and balanced look at the right by Al Franken

It's a great read! While I'm not a Liberal, he shows blowhards like Bill O'Reilly and Ann Coulter for what they are.

Side note: The auther(Franken) announced he wants to run for Senator for Minnesota in the next election! Maybe I'll have to put off moving so I'll be able to vote for him.


(note: My opinions on the book, and those people discussed are my opinions, and if others may feel differently that is fine, but I do NOT want to get into any political agruments in this thread)

 

[Eliot]

I finished Baseball's Greatest Games days ago, and then I read America Storms the Beaches: 1944. I forgot the author's name. I finished that in a couple days. Now I'm trying to finish The Return of the King for the third time.

 

[Rhiannon]

Thoronder, is that book really harsh, ie does it get personal and nasty? My family (especially my dad) are pretty solidly right (and he reads Ann Coulter and listened to Rush religiously and all of that), but I like to keep things in perspective. But I usually hate anything political because half the time it's like being beaten over the head.

I recently read, in one afternoon, Eva Moves the Furniture by Margaret Livesy (sp?), a very strange, pretty book. I enjoyed it a lot, but I can't think of anyone I'd recommend it to. But it really suited my needs at the time. It's been a rough last two weeks and I needed a retreat.

 

[Lantarion]

Whoo, well I just started Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales two days ago.. I must say, despite the incredibly archaic and difficult language, the book is extremely funny and interesting! Here's a tidbit for you all.

Whan that April with his showres soote
The drought of March hath perced to the roote
And bathed every vein in swich licour,
Of which vertu engendred is the flowr;
Whan Zephyrus, eek, with his sweete breeth
Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
The tender croppes, and the yonge sonne
Hath in the Ram his halve course y-runne
...

Haha, by the way:
eek = also.

 

[Wolfshead]

Currently reading: Book 8 of the Wheel Of Time! A/The Path of Daggers. It came into the library exceptionally quickly, which was nice.

Can't remember if I said this before, but I thoroughly enjoyed Magician by Raymond E Feist, despite being warned about it being no good. It was even voted number 89 in the BBC's Big Read project (the nation's favourite books).

I've read a couple of Sharpe novels by Bernard Cornwell since then as well. Very good, of course, Richard Sharpe is a superb character.

 

[Rhiannon]

I thoroughly enjoyed Magician by Raymond E Feist, despite being warned about it being no good.

It was enjoyable- not really to my taste, but enjoyable.

 

[Manveru]

Yesterday's night I finished reading By the river Piedra I sat down and wept by Paolo Coelho (his books rock!!). I read it nearly at one sitting (a little interruptions of this 'real-world-things'). Now, I'm having a little break (delving 'The Sil'---> preparing Fingolfin's bio, I'm already late with that--should be done soon). Anyway... still reading, right?