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[Janice]

Jammies wrote: "Re-reading Ghost Storyin the run-up to Halloween."

I thought you were referring to this book: Ghost Story I loved the movie based on this novel.

[Jammies]

Hmm, I hadn't heard of that one--did you like the book, or just the movie?

[Janice]

Jammies wrote: "Hmm, I hadn't heard of that one--did you like the book, or just the movie?"

I haven't read the book yet. I've seen the movie several times.

[Cheri]

The Pale King

[Angela~twistedmind~]

Finally finished The Soprano Sorceress. It ended up being a fairly good book. It just took so long to get into. Started The Spellsong War: The Second Book of the Spellsong Cycle byL.E. Modesitt Jr..

[Fiona (Titch)]

Last night I finished Molly's Millions - Victoria Connelly. Now I am going back to read Sister - Rosamund Lupton.

[Sarah]

Recently I requested a whole bunch of new books from the library. I expected that it would take months, as usual, since most of them were listed as 'on order.' Instead they seem to all be showing up at once. And they're really new so I don't think I'll be allowed to renew if I don't finish.
The new Eugenides came yesterday and I just got notice that the new Neal Stephenson has arrived. Decisions, decisions. Since I've already picked up The Marriage Plot: A Novel I may be a jerk and deliberately leave Reamde til the last possible moment to buy myself some extra time.

[Sally, la reina]

What is "the new Eugenides?"

If I mail you an extra return envelope with your 4th of July shebangs can I borrow it while you read that new Frazier novel?

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Sally wrote: "What is "the new Eugenides?" "

The Marriage Plot.

[Sarah]

Sally wrote: "What is "the new Eugenides?"

If I mail you an extra return envelope with your 4th of July shebangs can I borrow it while you read that new Frazier novel?"

What LG said. The Marriage Plot is Jeffrey Eugenides' new novel. I really really really liked his book Middlesex. This one feels a little like Zadie Smith's On Beauty right now, which I didn't love, but I'll give it some time.

Is that second question for me as well?

[Sally, la reina]

Yes!

But I didn't much like On Beauty.

[Sarah]

Sally wrote: "Yes!

But I didn't much like On Beauty."

Me neither. I think the similarity is in the academic language. I'm sure there are professors and grad students who walk around talking like that, but it sounds really fake when applied to teens and undergrads. The titles of papers don't feel right, or the motivations.

[Sarah]

The second question still doesn't sound like it was intended for me, as I didn't do a 4th of July shebang, I don't know who Frazier is, and it's probably not a good idea for me to send a library book to Colorado :)

[Sally, la reina]

Oh. Lots of good reasons why not. I'm a moron.

[Fiona (Titch)]

Confessions of a Sugar Mummy - Emma Tennant

[Jim]

Sally wrote: "Oh. Lots of good reasons why not. I'm a moron."

Are you in the Moron Tabernacle Choir?

[Emily]

There's a choir?

[~Geektastic~]

Sarah Pi wrote: "Sally wrote: "Yes!

But I didn't much like On Beauty."

Me neither. I think the similarity is in the academic language. I'm sure there are professors and grad students who walk around talking lik..."


After all the hype, and all my faith in Eugenides following The Virgin Suicides (and the good I've heard about Middlesex, which I own but haven't read), I'm becoming sadly disappointed by the reviews I've seen on Goodreads so far. No one really has anything good to say, and I'm sad because I was looking forward to it, but it looks like it may not live up to all the hype. I'll still give it a shot, but I'm much more wary than I was before.

[Sarah]

I am actively disliking it, and considering taking it back to the library today. I gave it fifty pages.

I loved Middlesex so much, but this feels like a book only a really snooty English major could love. I'm sure it's very clever and has lots of secret parallels to the books it references, as On Beauty referenced Howard's End. I just don't believe the characters as college students. It's set at Eugenides' alma mater in the time that he attended, so maybe Ivy League students of the early 80s really did moon around quoting Barthes, but I don't buy it.

[Annette]

I borrowed Ingo to read for one of my groups but after the first chapter or so I think its going back unfinished.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Sarah Pi wrote: "so maybe Ivy League students of the early 80s really did moon around quoting Barthes, but I don't buy it. "

This seems completely within the realm of possibility to me. Maybe the way he's written it is unconvincing, though. I didn't go to his alma mater but I definitely had a period where I obsessed over the bons mots in Mythologies.

Not that that would make the book a pleasure to read, of course.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Just finished Desperate Characters.

[Fiona (Titch)]

I am also listening to Dark Blood - Stuart MacBride.

[Pam]

In the middle of "The Cat's Table," by Michael Ondaatje. I'm really enjoying it so far.. It's about 3 kids on a 1950's cruise from India to England.. This guy wrote "The English Patient."

[Pam]

Just finished that new "Frazier" novel and "Dovekeepers."

[Cyril]

I'm reading Welcome to Your Child's Brain: How the Mind Grows from Conception to College.

[Fiona (Titch)]

Have just listened to and finished Dark Blood - Stuart MacBride

[Fiona (Titch)]

Have just listened to and finished Dark Blood - Stuart MacBride

[Youndyc]

I'm reading Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

I finished Trouble with Lichen. Started My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance.

[Fiona (Titch)]

This morning I have decided to listen to Shatter The Bones - Stuart MacBride.

[Fiona (Titch)]

Just finished listening to Shatter The Bones - Stuart MacBride.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Halfway through The Unpossessed.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Time for someone to pick my next fiction to read.

Pick a number between 364 and 521. Please, choose wisely.

If you pick a book in a series and I haven't read the books before it, I will read the first book in the series that I haven't read.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

427= In the Memory of the Forest.

Now I have to find it. I'll start with the bookcase...

[Lee]

lol....like your next read lotto!

[janine]

I've been reading The Unicorn for over a week now, which doesn't happen often. It's not bad, I just don't feel compelled to read more than twenty pages at once and sometimes don't even get through more than four.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

See if you can get it down to three.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

I'm reading what Barb picked for me. A kind of literary murder mystery (but not genre fiction), set in Poland after the fall of Communism. A dude is found in the forest with his head bashed in and his friend and the other villagers are trying to figure out whaddup.

[Sally, la reina]

Finishing Freedom tonight. Going to start a Ray Bradbury book The October Country soon.

[Youndyc]

Currently reading The Night Eternal

[Jammies]

Beauty and the Werewolf

[[deleted user]]

I'm currently reading House of Chains, book 4 of the Malazan series. A gory and gruesome fantasy series with some brilliantly written characters. I'm in for the long hall, there are 10 books in the series. I'll call you when I'm done.

[Sally, la reina]

I'm not liking October Country. Suggestions, please?

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

See if you like Desperate Characters. It gets rave reviews from the critics, and it's not very long.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Did you finish Freedom?

[Sally, la reina]

I finished Freedom. LOVED it like I've never loved Franzen before.

[Sally, la reina]

I acutually started a Bill Bryson book tonight. It is great and I'm looking forward to an early bedtime to read a bit.

[Emily]

Sally wrote: "I acutually started a Bill Bryson book tonight. It is great and I'm looking forward to an early bedtime to read a bit."

Bill Bryson is really good reading, I liked Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe if you haven't read that one yet :)

[Youndyc]

I agree with Emily - Bill Bryson is definitely good reading. I liked A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail and In a Sunburned Country

I also liked the book where he talked about coming back to America, but I can't recall the title.