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 Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 2:57 pm
That's right.
Whenever you pick up a new book, I want to know what it is you are reading.
Are you enjoying it?
For me, at the moment I am reading The Hickory Staff by Robert Scott and Jay Gordon.
I am only about a chapter in (Since I only just started it xD) but I am already loving it.
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Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 7:28 pm
Funnily enough, I just picked up two new books today.
[ i ] Kakfa On The Shore by Haruki Murakami
[translated from the original Japanese into English by Phillip Gabriel]
I have yet to start reading it, but the reason I bought it was for this line in the blurb:
"Cats converse with people; fish tumble from the sky; a forest harbours soldiers apparently un-aged since WWII."
[ ii ] The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
[Will read after Kafka On The Shore and fill you in then.]
~
I also need to get my hands on textbooks.
Uni starts soon.
Damn.
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Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 8:20 pm
Currently I am reading the tantalizing book entitled
"The Western World"
Its a roman history book filled with primary source of people being murdered "Ceaser" -Cough- and the roman military system.
Yum History!
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Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 12:28 am
I didn't know what to read, so I closed my eyes and grabbed a random book, that book was terrible so I decided to just get a better one myself!
Now I'm reading Son of a Witch, the sequel to Wicked.
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Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 7:23 am
♪ Oh My Gosh Isalace! I love the Wicked trilogy...tell me how you like it when you get done!
What I'm Reading? A little of this...a little of that...in other words, when i'm not reading something like Le Morte D'Arthur or Beowolf for British Lit...i'm rereading the Kushiel Series...and many of my books by James Rollins...whom I just picked up another one by Him...it's called the Doomsday Key..and it's about the paganistic Celts and a worldwide hunger...and how scientist plan to advert it. ♫ Love as thou wilt - Jaqueline Carey
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Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2010 8:01 am
As of right now, I'm reading I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have To Kill You by Ally Carter. It's the first book in the Gallagher Girls series. I sadly voted for it to be read and discussed in October for my school's book club, and I'm regretting it because it's basically a 'chick book', for lack of better terms. Start ranting now...
The writing seems very juvenile and immature, like it's directed toward a younger audience. And that'd be just fine, if it wasn't in the teen section. It has some underlying themes that wouldn't be appropriate for some younger kids, like sex and (almost) swearing, but I think it would fit in the 'Independent Reader' section (which, at my bookstore, is for ages eight to twelve) instead of the 'Young Adult' section (which, at my bookstore, is for ages thirteen to seventeen). One thing that absolutely irritated me was their use of 'the b-word' instead of just 'b***h'. The girls in these books are sophormores in high school, but they sound like sixth graders! Also, the trying to decifer rumors and find out if their true or not thing doesn't seem like something someone would do in high school, or maybe that's just me and my high school environment. I know we don't do that because no one cares anymore. I'm not that far into it, I'm only on chapter five or so, but I can already tell I'm not going to like it very much.
The only reason I voted for it was because the other two books were either a book I've never heard of and didn't look interesting or Vampire Academy and I'm really sick of vampires at the moment. Plus, the description the girl who suggested the books gave us was that it was a spy book. That sounded good to me, so I voted for it. Once I saw the cover, I regretted it because I looked at the summary on Borders.com on that book and concluded that it was a chick book. I didn't look at the title, silly me. But, at least it's relatively short and I could probably finish it today if I really worked at it.
I feel like I'm the youngest person here...is it bad that I've never heard of any of the books you guys posted on here, other than Wicked (and I didn't even know there were sequels) and Beowulf?
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Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2010 4:43 pm
Good Omens-Neil Gaiman
&
A Freewheeling History of the Libertarian Party
(Kineka, It is fine. These sort of discussions are specifically to lay grounds for discussion and point one in the general direction of stuff you havent experienced yet. look a few of the books up, you never know, you might love them.)
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