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[[deleted user]]

Finally caught up on Pandora Hearts! Woohoo! The plot jumped to the next level in the last few volumes... o.O

[Faith]

Aubrey wrote: "After you see the movie, you'll have to let me know how the novelization is, Faith. :)"

Yes, ma'am! *salutes* Since it is based off the movie, I am guessing that it follows the movie very well. :)

[Katie]

I'm reading "Utopia" and "Flatland." At the same time. Help me.

[Theodora]

I finally finished "Firmament: Radialloy"! :D (It took a long time because of my business, by the way, not because it was a boring book - it was an AMAZING book.)

Next up, "Red Rain". ^_^

[Leah]

Renna wrote: "Next up, "Red Rain". ^_^"

I just read "Red Rain" recently. My brother and I both really enjoyed it.

[Rebekah]

Katie, what is Utopia about?

[[deleted user]]

*can only grin*

[Joe]

How do you like Flatland Katie? I found it most awesome!

[M F]

Currently reading Clockwork Prince by Cassandra Clare. I have read five of her books already this summer. I feel like I should branch out a little, so next I'm reading A Tale Of Two Cities by Dickens. Even though I have never managed to get very far with Dickens before. We'll see whether I ever finish it.

I feel like I should finish Hunchback of Notre Dame, too, but I haven't got the energy. Damn it, Victor Hugo.

Oh, and I need to read the Iliad by next Thursday. Hahahahahaha. No. Although I do have two free periods before my Classics lesson and probably no homework by then (because it's the second day of term), so I can probably get some of it done actually on Thursday. At least I don't have Class Civ on a Wednesday.

Wait ... no, I don't need to have read it until Friday because my Thursday lesson is the other module! Oh, glory be. I have a whole week to force myself to endure that thing.

So that's what I'm reading. Classics and YA bestsellers. Hmmm.

[[deleted user]]

*laughs* Not a bad mix, Miriam. ;) *is still thinking about trying the City of Bones series*

[M F]

It has a very diverse cast. I like that not everyone is the same colour, religion, or sexuality. That's too rare in YA these days.

[Hannah]

I'm still working on "The Grafters", but am almost done. I've been writing too much again! :)

[Elisabeth]

Ooo, Anna Karenina. I really enjoyed that. I must re-read it one of these days.

I've been in a reading slump for a while, but I finally finished a book this weekend: The Uphill Climb, a fairly short Western by B.M. Bower.

Right now I want to read some P.G. Wodehouse, but my library isn't being any help...they have practically none of the Blandings Castle series. I settled for #8 or so (I've only read #1!) and then put a couple public domain Wodehouse titles and some Robert Benchley on my Kindle. Reading humor, you see, to get in the mood for working on a comedy later this fall...

Speaking of which, has anybody here ever read Dorothy Parker? Any good?

[[deleted user]]

*high-fives Hannah* I've been writing this week, too. I managed to finish a MLP comic, though! XD

[Kaleb]

I just finished the first book in Marvel's "Annihilation" event with Nova and Drax the Destroyer and an 11 year old girl who went with Drax to escape her boring life in Alaska. It was really good. I'll have to read more about Nova, I think. I also read a collection of DC's #1s in the New 52 relaunch that is two and a half times as thick as my Bible, weighs about 10 pounds, and dwarfs even some of the longest high fantasy novels I've read.

[[deleted user]]

And some people complain that comic books are short.

[Faith]

I finished reading "Star Trek: Into Darkness" and wrote a review on it. I got brutally honest in the review. Well, brutal to the author anyway. :P I'm not sure what I will read next, but we shall see.

[Kaleb]

Most of them were, but you collect 52 of them in one book, and that becomes a lot of pages.

[M F]

Haven't got any further with the Iliad or with my French book, but I'm on page 145 of a Tale Of Two Cities, the furthest I've ever got in a Dickens novel.

[[deleted user]]

Brutally honest reviews are good. ;)

I should read something tonight, even if it's a little something. I finished one writing project last night and need to embark on another this week, so a little refueling would be good...

[Hannah]

Aubrey wrote: "*high-fives Hannah* I've been writing this week, too. I managed to finish a MLP comic, though! XD"

Again I did not read tonight. But I finished another chapter! :)

[M F]

I finished A Tale Of Two Cities and am distracting myself with "In Search Of The Dark Ages" instead of reading the Iliad because it's eight months overdue and infinitely more readable.

[Katie]

Look! I'm still alive!

Flatland was boring. I think I don't understand Victorian satire because I don't like Gulliver’s travels or Jane Austen either.

Utopia is by Sir Thomas More, and is his semi-fiction depiction of his ideal government/political system. It's the original for the phrase "utopia" which basically means paradise on earth.

What am I reading now? I don't know. Am I reading anything? *checks shelves* Probably not...

[[deleted user]]

Katie may not be reading, but she released a new book today: http://www.amazon.com/Dreams-Shadows-... Now you can all find out why I have a huge crush on Floyd. (Hey, at least I admitted it.)

[Elisabeth]

I never could finish Gulliver's Travels either, but I love Jane Austen (and neither of those are Victorian!).

This week I read The Man Upstairs and Other Stories by P.G. Wodehouse, and then finally got hold of These Wonderful Rumours!: A Young Schoolteacher's Wartime Diaries. Interlibrary loan couldn't find me a copy, so I gave in and bought the rather pricey Kindle edition—and I'm glad I did; it was delightful.

Now I've got another Wodehouse on hand for spare moments in what promises to be a busy weekend, what with closing our pool and getting ready to bring home a new puppy.

[Kaleb]

I've been reading the $30 worth of comics I bought yesterday. Those would be Captain Marvel issues #12-15. Dark Horse's "The Star Wars" which is the 8 issue mini-series recreating what George Lucas had written down in his first draft, and issues #1-3 on the new Astro City run. I realized something. Marvel and DC, they're like most of the stuff we read. Read it, put it down, maybe come back and reread it later. For me, though, Astro City is actually more like Harry Potter or Narnia. Not in a children's book way, but the world is rich enough and close enough, that it feels like home, and reading is like vising old friends and coming home. I think that sort of happened pretty soon after I read the first two or three issues in the first trade paperback I read.

Now I'm back to reading Marvel's Annihilation epic, and some Avengers Assemble.

[[deleted user]]

I really need to read Astro City. Also this SW comic sounds like my kind of thing.

[Kaleb]

Yeah, the Star Wars one is okay. More of a prologue than anything else. Not much actually happens, and the one action sequence felt pretty static, for some reason.

If you want to pick up on the current issues, there only $3.99 a piece, and there's only about 3 out so far.

[[deleted user]]

Current issues of which? Astro City? I think comixology.com has it, so I'll get to it once I clear through ST and MLP and the assorted Marvel stuff I've got.

[Kaleb]

Astro City, yeah, but The Star Wars is pretty much the same. Yeah, Comixology probably has itand the comic shop should too.

[[deleted user]]

Yes, I read an MLP chapter book today, and yes, I counted it. You got a problem with that, buddy?

[Kaleb]

No. Unless you're skipping out on writing because of it.

[Jonathan]

Aubrey wrote: "Yes, I read an MLP chapter book today, and yes, I counted it. You got a problem with that, buddy?"

Until I scrolled down and saw the books in question in your feed, my mind parsed "MLP" as "Marcher Lord Press" ... :)

[[deleted user]]

I think Kaleb wins for best comeback, though... ;)

[Kaleb]

Naturally.

[M F]

Still reading In Search Of The Dark Ages. Also still reading the Iliad. Planning to add A Place Of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel to the mix on Wednesday (will hopefully have finished the Dark Ages by then).

[Jonathan]

I just read The Edge. My parents have been pushing me to read Dick Francis for myself, rather than merely knowing the stories from their retelling, but this was "my first Dick Francis". After this one, I certainly intend to read more; fortunately our family has quite a large number of them in our collection ...

[Hannah]

Read "The Trailers" by Ruth Little Mason today. It was good! One good thing about being laid up with gum surgery is the chance to catch up on reading...

[[deleted user]]

I'm all caught up on both MLP comic series!

...not that that counts for anything...

[Hannah]

I read two books today, vastly different types, and both of them are new favorites! "The Pride of Jennico", by Agnes and Egerton Castle, has been on my to-read list for years, ever since I read their "If Love But Knew", another favorite of mine (I haven't gotten around to entering it on here yet, as the book is not in the database). That one is pure fun, with princess and villain and riches and attempts on the hero's life.
"Bob Hampton of Placer" by Randall Parrish is the type of book one feels larger for having read. There's so much of human emotion in a book well written, in a book that transcends genre like this one. Prosaic me even felt like crying over one thing that was plainly inevitable from the very beginning of the book...but the ending was good. Very good!

[Leah]

Just finished The Lord Is My Shepherd. It's a Christian murder mystery. I'm not a normal mystery reader, but it was good.

[M F]

FINALLY finished In Search of the Dark Ages. First book I managed to complete since term started on the 4th. School is so stressful.

(No, I haven't finished the Iliad.)

[[deleted user]]

The first book sounds like something I'd enjoy, Hannah... :D

[Jenni]

Finally finished Surprised by Joy by C. S. Lewis on audio. Downloading That Hideous Strength again to finish as well as Going Postal (both audiobooks) as I'm going to Chicago this week and need stuff to listen to. :D

Other than that, I've been reading web manwha so I haven't been able to list anything as read. I'll get back to reading non-web stuff eventually here. After the convention.

[Hannah]

Aubrey wrote: "The first book sounds like something I'd enjoy, Hannah... :D"

I bet you would! :)

[Theodora]

I'm still reading "Red Rain". I'm loving and enjoying it as much as I did the first time. ^_^

[Kaleb]

I read The Paragon Prison which was a fantastic ending to the second trilogy in the Grey Griffons series. I'm looking forward to what they do next with it.

[[deleted user]]

*gives Renna-dear a happy look and a cupcake*

[M F]

This week:

A Place Of Greater Safety (which I've started)
Here Lies Arthur (which I read about six years ago)
This Boy's Life (which is for school)

... wish me luck.

[[deleted user]]

*offers a cupcake of motivation*