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[whichwaydidshego, the sage of sass]

I want to be absorbed in a book again! Gah! Must-read-soon.

[Elizabeth (Miss Eliza)]

Yeah, I can hear my book calling me back saying "pretend to still be sick so you can finish me..." I think I have just enough energy for Beatles Rock Band though...

[Lori]

Right now I'm more or less absorbed with 2 books: The Godfather and Public Enemies America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34. I'm going to have to figure out what to do about this. The Godfather is my pleasure book, which I read for an hour before bed. Public Enemies is for school. I may have to just plow through Public Enemies this weekend...

[whichwaydidshego, the sage of sass]

Lori, Public Enemies sounds really interesting.

I found a book I am most definitely absorbed with, but time is my problem! I think I might skiff off tomorrow just to read American on Purpose. I was crushing on Craig Ferguson before the book, but now I'm really interested!

I expected a bawdy tale filled book about his exploits, humorous and otherwise, but this is quite another thing. I mean, I'm sure I'll get to some of those, but this is a real autobiography... very personal. And I really love his writing style.

All day I've been pining to read it and haven't gotten more than a few paragraphs in - it's horrible and wonderful, this wanting!

[Lori]

Michelle, Public Enemies was fantastic. Run out and get a copy!

I finished The Godfather and started The Sicilian. So far it seems very much like a sequel, but hopefully it will get better. I'm really feeling drawn to Swann's Way (I watched a first season episode of Gilmore Girls last night and the first season always makes me want to read that). I may be reading that soon, but I should probably finish Anna Karenina first since my goal is to finish that one by my birthday.

[[deleted user]]

I'm currently reading Smooth-Talking Stranger by Lisa Kleypas.

[Misty]

Started Sea Glass by Maria V. Snyder, which had a kind of crappy start, but I am starting to like.

[whichwaydidshego, the sage of sass]

Well, I gave a bunch of the looming library books back without reading them (which I hate), but I feel much less pressure now, so am actively reading again! I'm speeding through The Lottery, then it's back to finish The Colour of Magic as I interrupted it with American on Purpose and to finish an annoying book. What's great is I have not been in the right frame of mind for short stories for like a year, so every time I start a collection I get annoyed and toss it back. But I'm flying through The Lottery! Such a nice change to be up for them again!

[Misty]

I'm reading The Ask and the Answer, which is the sequel to the fantastic The Knife of Never Letting Go. I want to read it all the time, but this work thing...

[Lori]

Right now I'm reading Anna Karenina for fun, Eat, Pray, Love One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia with a group of friends (and for fun), and Go Down Together The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde for my thesis. I'm thoroughly enjoying all of my reading right now.

[Misty]

Ooh, Bonnie and Clyde, huh? Sounds interesting.

[Lindz]

Bonnie and Clyde would be incredibly interesting. After reading Eat Pray Love my cousin went to India and now wants to live in Mumbai.

I am reading I Claudius and really enjoying it.

[Lori]

Bonnie and Clyde are fascinating to read about! Bonnie was my age (21) when all of that started and her personality reminds me a lot of myself...you know, except for the whole crime spree.

Lindsay, I really want to go to Italy. This is one of several books that makes me want to learn, experience, and BE Italian.

[Ann]

Oh my goodness! It's been AGES since I've posted here! (what have I been doing with my life!?) Anyway, here's a recap of the recent books I've been reading:

Twenties Girl A Novel by Sophie Kinsella
*****LOVED this book! I think it's a great novel for this group, too. I can see The Gilmore Girls both sitting down and reading this (well, okay, more like Lorelai would watch the movie, but still).
I listed to the audio versions of Kenneth Oppel's
Airborn and Skybreaker.
***** to both! Really great books, with fantastic characters!! (It's not like Harry Potter really at all, but I do feel a sense of friendship to these characters like I do those in HP:>)
Well, I reread Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (for the third time;>) Five stars, of course.
I've finally read
The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale. I'm almost afraid to say it, but I wasn't *overly* enthralled with it. I did enjoy it, but I just wanted there to be more (more detail, more character growth, something). At times I felt Hale's style was really beautiful and poetic, and at other times it felt redundant. But, I know I'm in the minority as this is a beloved book by many, many people. So, it could have just been a totally personal thing that it didn't strike that right cord with me...
Presently I'm working my way through three books: Eldest (I'm finally half-way through!) They Came to Baghdad by Agatha Christie (I'm only 6 chapters in an already totally enthralled!) and Her Royal Spyness by Rhys Brown (quite fun thus far, and probably a good match for this group).
Phew... sorry that was such a long-winded post! (I must do better at monitoring my posts! ;P)

[Lori]

I decided to pick up Anna Karenina because I made it a goal to finish by my 22nd birthday. I have just under a month and somewhere between 250 and 300 pages left. I love this book! I wish I didn't have to eat or sleep or do homework or anything else so that I could finish. I'm loving the story and I'm loving Tolstoy's writing style. Admittedly, I do kind of skim the agricultural and political conversations, but other than that, I'm enthralled by this book!

I think it's going to be one of those that will be a hard act to follow. But I have some specific books that I want to try out (and hopefully finish!) before the end of the year.

[DJ]

Glad your enjoying it.I do feel sorry for your next book...hard act to follow!!!

[Lori]

I've been doing a little thinking about it. I think the main problem is that I own soooooo many books that I have a bunch of choices. That said, I could see myself reading For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Dharma Bums, or Swann's Way next or maybe some non-fiction. Those books are very different, so it's going to be a big toss-up.

[Misty]

Ha! I'm going to follow up everyone's ambitious plans (Anna Karenina, Swann's Way, etc) with something utterly silly that I'm reading for Halloween: Gil's All Fright Diner. I think I just brought the class average down...
;p

[B]

Thanks, Misty! Now I don't feel quite so bad for mentioning I'm back in the final Harry Potter! So much for our "highbrow" reading and literary intentions...

[DJ]

Hey,reading is reading!
No matter what form it takes!

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North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

[Amy]

I need to read some Gaskell. How's it going? I've heard she's harder to read than Dickens, but I do love all the miniseries that have been made from her books!

[[deleted user]]

Amy wrote: "I need to read some Gaskell. How's it going? I've heard she's harder to read than Dickens, but I do love all the miniseries that have been made from her books!"

I haven't read any Dickens (I know, shame on me.. LOL) so I can't really say if Gaskell's writing is harder to read than Dickens. But I will let you know what I think after I'm done reading.♥

[Deborah]

I feel like I haven't posted in ages. I've had a very black summer, bed-ridden for a lot of it. (I went to a pain clinic and encountered only truth in advertising: Pain. And big scary needles.) I did however get even MORE reading done. At one point I averaged @ one and a half books a day.

One of the best was Homer and Langley A Novel by E.L. Doctorow. I forget what a great writer he is until I pick up one of his books.

A good first novel, The Little Giant of Aberdeen County by Tiffany Baker, and a good creepy first novel, The House of Lost Soulsby F>G> Cottam.

Speaking of creepy, has anybody read Audrey Niffenegger's new book, Her Fearful Symmetry? Not as good as Time Traveler (no great music playlist), but some interesting characters and a look at the dark side of twindom.

I'm also working my way through Christopher Moore's catalog. He's hilarious, a little Tom Robbins, a taste of Pynchon, a dash of Douglas Adams, and plenty of originality!

[Rebecca, the princess of prose]

Amy wrote: "I need to read some Gaskell. How's it going? I've heard she's harder to read than Dickens, but I do love all the miniseries that have been made from her books!"

Not even! I love Gaskell and the way she writes! I would start with North and South and then try Ruth or Cranford, My lady Ludlow is a little tough and Mary Barton can be depressing although it is one of my favorites!

You should try Wilkie Collins as an author...Moonstone is the best!

[Amy]

Thanks for the advice, Rebecca! I will definitely try North and South first. Thanks!

I have watched Moonstone but haven't read. Story of my life!

[Ann]

Deborah wrote: "I feel like I haven't posted in ages. I've had a very black summer, bed-ridden for a lot of it. (I went to a pain clinic and encountered only truth in advertising: Pain. And big scary needles.) ..."

Hope your autumn and winter go better than your summer, Deborah!

[Dini, the master of meaning]

Meghan, it also took me long to finish Vanity Fair, but once you finish it'll make you feel so accomplished, like finishing a marathon or something. LOL.

[Lori]

I've got about 130 pages until I finish Anna Karenina. I'm really excited (because I started the book about a year ago) but I'm also kind of sad (I really like Anna as a character). I'll probably just plow through it this weekend, even though I have other things I really should be doing.

[Kristi]

Currently reading Trainspotting and Await Your Reply A Novel.

[Juliana]

Just started Marked. Guess Vampires are a must now, after the Twilight series, here comes The House of Night series..

[Ann]

Meghan wrote: "ooh, amy, you definitely need to read north and south AND wilkie collins.

you guys! i am STILL reading vanity fair, and i am not even joking. it's killing me! i have a lot of vacation time comin..."

Meghan - I was recently introduced to Little Dorrit via the BBC mini series. I fell in love! If you read it, I'd be curious to know what you think of it (I've yet to read the book yet...). Of course, some of my love for the series MAY have something to do with a certain Matthew Macfadyen... ;>

[[deleted user]]

I just finished The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman and truly enjoyed the book. It will not be the last Gaiman book that I'll be reading. ♥

I'm currently reading Graceling by Kristin Cashore.

[Dini, the master of meaning]

Grain de Beaute, have you read Gaiman's Coraline? It's another one of his children's books I really liked.

[[deleted user]]

Dini wrote: "Grain de Beaute, have you read Gaiman's Coraline? It's another one of his children's books I really liked."

Hello Dini,

The Graveyard Book is the first Neil Gaiman book that I've read and I loved it. Haven't read Coraline though. But I'm planning to read it soon together with American Gods.

[DJ]

Just started Drood by Dan Simmons

[Dini, the master of meaning]

Grain de Beaute wrote: "The Graveyard Book is the first Neil Gaiman book that I've read and I loved it. Haven't read Coraline though. But I'm planning to read it soon together with American Gods."

Those two books should be interesting to compare/contrast as they are quite the opposite from each other. Coraline is a short children's book while American Gods reads like a saga and is for adults. I remember it took me so long to finish AG.

[Kristi]

Am loving North and South.

[Dini, the master of meaning]

Congrats on finishing the Vanity Fair marathon, Meghan! :D

[Lori]

My very first post ever in this group and on Goodreads was on December 10, 2008. In that post I announced that I was reading Anna Karenina, which I had picked up about a month prior to that post. I am pleased to inform everyone that at 11:34 central time on November 3, 2009 I finished Anna Karenina.

[[deleted user]]

Yay! Congrats, Lori :) Unfortunately, I didn't end up taking the Anna Karenina Seminar for the spring semester.. It just didn't fit my schedule :(

[Dini, the master of meaning]

Way to go, Lori!

[Kristel]

Lori, congrats!
Marion, do they really do that in the States? Spend an entire seminar on one novel? and off topic but: how are you doing over there?

[Lori]

Thanks! It was a huge weight off my shoulders because it had taken so long to read despite my actually really liking the overall story (the long discussions about religion, agriculture, and politics were not my favorite) and because I decided that I wanted to finish by the end of my birthday. I finished over a week ahead of schedule.

Right now I'm going to finish The Grapes of Wrath; I only have 175 pages left, so it shouldn't take very long. It's a really depressing story! I don't think Oklahoma, where I've lived my whole life, has ever really recovered from the Depression.

[[deleted user]]

Kristel, it depends from class to class. There are classes that talk about a certain time period. Talking about one novel only is definitely a special format, this class I am talking about is a first year seminar at my school, which means it is designed especially for freshmen and it's supposed to transition the way from high school to college classes, so I guess that's why. It said in the course descriptions that they were going to read the book really slowly with special attention to symbolism and the setting within the time period, and they are going to watch a couple of movie adaptions to contrast them with the book.
I'm doing pretty good, I really like my college and I've made a lot of friends here. Seems like I managed to pick a lot of classes that are A LOT of work (in comparison to my roommate, who never has any homework although she didn't pick easy classes on purpose), so I didn't read anything that wasn't for class so far. But I hope my schedule for the spring is more balanced and I can actually get some other things done apart from school work.
We've got a gorgeous library here, and since my college is in the pioneer valley, which claims to be the most book-loving part of the US, there are a lot of used bookstores around, so I can't wait until I've actually got some time to explore the area and the bookstores :)

[Ann]

Recently started the third Percy Jackson book The Titan's Curse. :)

[Lori]

Rolling merrily along through The Grapes of Wrath. I will finish soon.

[Corey]

Currently, I have received my copy of Anna Karenina, so I will begin to read it after I have finished reading Mansfield Park by Jane Austen . (for the second time =D)

[Lori]

Coery, I'll be interested to see what you think about Anna K.

For anyone who is interested...after I finish The Grapes of Wrath (25 pages left) I'm going to read the Collette biography they mention on the show Secrets of the Flesh A Life of Colette if anyone is interested in joining me.

[Emily]

I am currently reading [and indulging:] in Olive Kitteridge A Novel in Stories. It is a wonderful novel thus far with intertwining short stories, and written in an eloquent manner.