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[Fiona (Titch)]

I've finished The Morganville Vampires Book Ten: Bite Club - Rachel Caine. Now I am going to read The Morganville Vampires Book Eleven: Last Breath - Rachel Caine.

[Alias Reader]

I finished
Power Foods for the Brain: The Revolutionary Plan to Protect Your Memory and Improve Your Health~Neal D. Barnard
I thought it was well done.

I just started
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration~~Isabel Wilkerson

[Chetan]

just finished with The God of Small Things...!

[AlanCummingFan]

I want to read next Luna really bad

[Fiona (Titch)]

Last night I finished The Morganville Vampires Book Eleven: Last Breath - Rachel Caine. Now I am going to carry on reading Bang: Memoirs of a Relationship Assassin - David Wailing on my kindle.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Thomas Mann (for a GR discussion group) and The Cambridge Companion to Liszt.

[Fiona (Titch)]

I've finished The Morganville Vampires Book Twelve: Black Dawn - Rachel Caine and Bang: Memoirs of a Relationship Assassin - David Wailing.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Liszt - A Listener's Guide: Unlocking the Masters Series
Mann: Buddenbrooks
The German Tradition in Literature 1871-1945

Also still reading a Mann bio, with another Mann bio in the wings.

The problem is when I immerse myself in several books on the same topic, I tend to get bored. I like a lot of variety.

[Alias Reader]

For my library group I'm reading
The Newlyweds~Nell Freudenberger

[Fiona (Titch)]

I've finished The Morganville Vampires Book Thirteen: Bitter Blood - Rachel Caine. Now I am going to read Hyde, an Urban Fantasy - Lauren Stewart.

[Fiona (Titch)]

I've now finished Hyde - Lauren Stewart. Now I am going to read Cruel Justice - M.A. Comley.

[Driftwood]

I took a break from all these new porn books for ladies, and I am hooked on Cassandra Clare Mortal Instruments series. The new Sylvia Day comes out in a few days, so I will be back on the porn wagon.

[Sally, la reina]

Read East of Eden. It is my all-time favorite Steinbeck.


I am almost finished with re-reading Poisonwood Bible. Next I'm going to re-read A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. I'd like to try Gravity's Rainbow, or re-reading Magic Mountain this summer too.

[Cynthia]

Second East of Eden. Also Cannery Row.

[Cynthia]

Oh, good. You're way ahead of me.

[Sally, la reina]

Have you read The Long Valley?

[Fiona (Titch)]

Last night I finished listening to Twilight - Stephenie Meyer. Next Sunday I am gonna listen to New Moon - Stephenie Meyer. Now I am going back to Death Bringer - Derek Landy.

[Fiona (Titch)]

I've finished Skulduggery Pleasant: Death Bringer - Derek Landy. Now I am gonna read Bloodlines - Richelle Mead.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Slogging through Thomas Mann: Eros and Literature. It's not bad, I just feel in a bit of a rut. Back to back biographies of the same person makes for sloggy reading.

[Fiona (Titch)]

Last night I listened to Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen which I throughly enjoyed, made me laugh at all sorts of bits in the audio. I've since gone on to read The Mirror of the Soul - J. Lloyd Morgan which is different to what I normally read. Quite good so far.

[Aliyah]

currently readingThe Poisonwood Bible and Cloud Atlas

[Fiona (Titch)]

I've listened to New Moon - Stephenie Meyer today which isn't anything like the film lol. But still love the story.

[Suefly]

The Gardner Heist

[[deleted user]]

I'm on hiatus.

[[deleted user]]

Rereading Dragonlance Chronicles.

[Suefly]

At the beach, reading Blink. I've had this copy for years and finally(!) reading it

[Fiona (Titch)]

I gave up on The Mirror of the Soul - J. Lloyd Morgan and I've read and finished Lily and the Billionaire: Vol. 1 - Ana Vela. Now I am going back to Edge of Disaster - A.M. Hargrove.

[Sally, la reina]

Finished Under the Dome and now beginning World War Z.

[Sally, la reina]

Still should be reading Tale of Two Cities.

[[deleted user]]

I've tried several times, Sallers. I never get more than a chapter or two.

[Fiona (Titch)]

I've just finished Edge of Disaster - A.M. Hargrove. Now I am reading book 4 of The Guardians of Vesturon series ReEmergent - A.M. Hargrove.

[Aliyah]

Have been reading disappointing books so far...
The Poisonwood Bibleleft me with a bitter taste in my mouth.

Am slightly disappointed in Death Note. Because I am at vol 9 and the plot is boring and mindless.

I'm also reading The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes but its boring me to death :(

[CD]

Grape Expectations has just been added to the currently reading list. An impulse read from the library. Lots of stories of 'religious underwear' I understand. Some light reading for the holiday (July 4).

Also just picked up a copy of Feynman for the 'collection' and I will start it soon. This graphic novel thing could become a major sub-genre in my library. These are getting better and better recently, the quality and the subject.

[CD]

Aliyah wrote: "Have been reading disappointing books so far...
The Poisonwood Bibleleft me with a bitter taste in my mouth.

Am slightly disappointed in Death Note. Because I am at vol 9 and the plot is boring ..."

The original Conan-Doyle stories have no substitute. Various attempts at emulation of the past century have all been lacking in my estimation.

[Alias Reader]

I just finished

Martha Washington: An American Life~~Patricia Brady
I thought this was an interesting book. I decided to read it because I am following the
C-SPAN series on the first ladies.

I just started to read
My Family and Other Animals~~Gerald Durrell
I am enjoying this often funny memoir.

[Aliyah]

Charly wrote: "Aliyah, I thought the father in Poisionwood Bible was high among the most despicable characters I have read."

Yes. He was, but (to me) he seemed underdeveloped as a character and I think that Kingsolver exemplified him way too much as "the evil evangelist". I wished that more was known about his past... I can only assume that he was insane/predisposed to insanity and his condition was triggered by PTSD (that he might have incurred) during his military service (i.e. WW2)

[Aliyah]

Mr Price was a lot like Heathcliff (to me) in Wuthering Heights.

As for the daughters, they annoyed me the most, especially: Adah, Ruth May and Rachel (in her later years).

[Susan]

Ada was my favorite character.

[Aliyah]

Susan wrote: "Ada was my favorite character."

She wasn't an awful character,and I felt bad for her disability but she came across as being cold and robotic. And her inner dialogue by reading words upside down or backwards drove me nuts...

[Susan]

I liked her contrast in character from her twin. I felt she gave the best analogies of her environment and what was going on in her life. She was the backwards and upside down character of the book so it just made sense to me that she see many things in her life that way.

[Aliyah]

Susan wrote: "I liked her contrast in character from her twin. I felt she gave the best analogies of her environment and what was going on in her life. She was the backwards and upside down character of the bo..."

it makes sense, but at the same time Adah's philosophy didn't make sense.

[Aliyah]

Anyway, finally done with Death Note have to finish Sherlock Holmes.

[[deleted user]]

My mama Wendy gave the The Poisonwood Bible several years ago. It's on the shelf...still unread. I have to confess, I don't even know what it is about. I'm not very good with assigned reading. Which is why I don't join book clubs.

[Aliyah]

Amelia wrote: "My mama Wendy gave the The Poisonwood Bible several years ago. It's on the shelf...still unread. I have to confess, I don't even know what it is about. I'm not very good with assigned reading. ..."

Bookclubs suck anyway and assigned books also suck because almost all the books I read in high school, I dislike. I read Poisonwood Bible by choice. Sometimes reading books that I disagree with or messes with my mind are still interesting nonetheless. And don't feel bad about not reading it... At times, I felt like giving up on Pride and Prejudice-Darcy (I will admit) was boring as fuck.

Charly wrote: "The father reminded me in a way of the doctor in The Timekeeper's Daughter. (Sorry I can't remember the names and it's too hot to look them up)."

Thats OK, I found the book on the net :)

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Aliyah, what books in HS have you been forced to read? I actually missed out on a lot of the usual suspects due to crappy education (we weren't assigned that many books really, pretty
much just Sophomore year) and the fact that I went to an inner city school, so the books we were assigned were more like Black Boy, Black Like Me, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings and To Kill A Mockingbird.

I read a lot of the books other people I knew had to read much later in life. I think that was actually to my benefit. One, they were my choice, and two I was in a different place when I read them.

[Aliyah]

Amelia wrote: "Aliyah, what books in HS have you been forced to read? I actually missed out on a lot of the usual suspects due to crappy education (we weren't assigned that many books really, pretty
much just So..."

I remember having Shakespeare drilled into my head.I was assigned with: Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth and Othello for my final year. I was also at a public school so the only classic that I read was Animal Farm (also in my final year). I also read Hamlet and Lord of the Flies as well (but that I could not finish).

Like you, I am also currently reading books that I read at my own pace. I always find that the reading experience is much better when you don't have to have teachers or students preaching about how "awesome" or "amazing" a crappy book is and/or be surrounded by others complaining about how much they loathe books they are forced to read. In that way, I'm also glad that I'm at Med School instead of doing a BA (not dissing anyone who majors in the Arts).

For that reason, I don't blame some people (to a certain extent) for being put off from reading forever or gravitating towards reading YA,Nicolas Sparks or books like Twilight.

[Aliyah]

but Pride and Prejudiceand The Great Gatsby were books I read by choice. But if I had to read those at school, I would probably dislike both books. Currently, I gave both books 3-star ratings, if I had to read them at school, I would've rated both 1 star.

[[deleted user]]

I love both of those, but I love Lord of the Flies as well. All three were read in my 20's for the first time, and by choice.

We read Taming of the Shrew and R&J, that was all the Shakespeare we read. Loved the first, hated the second. I think that with Shakespeare it is more about not minding reading play format, than the old English. Neither bother me, nor do subtitles or dubbed films. If I'm into it, it all just blurs into the background. I can see where it could be distracting and detract from the story for people though.

My favorite Jane Austen is the much less famous Persuasion.

I also read Twilight and enjoy me some YA. Pretty much the only genre I won't touch is straight up romance novels and westerns. I don't know if I never will, but have never felt inclined to pick up Nicholas Sparks either...makes me think of that Bridges Over Madison County...didn't care for that.

[Aliyah]

Amelia wrote: "
We read Taming of the Shrew and R&J, that was all the Shakespeare we ..."

I guess with Shakespeare, its each to his/her own. Personally, I found Macbeth to be the worst of the lot. The Elizabethan English and extensive metaphors bothered me only 10%...what I don't like about his work was the predicable plot. All the characters in the plays I have read either die or commit suicide and have major personality changes and/or become maniacs through the course of an Act or 2. I remember reading Othello and thinking. Really, really?..

By the way, did you watch the film, Ten Things I Hate about You? (its a modern adaptation of Taming of the screw).

I used to read YA roughly 3-4 years ago, currently I just can't get into it. Ever since I started to read deeper novels, it just didn't feel right...YA I used to read in my younger years was mainly
Meg Cabot and some teen romance as well.

But its also good to read something that doesn't require much thought, I prefer comic books/manga to balance out reading too much serious stuff.

The only Nicolas Sparks film I watched was The Notebook.

[Aliyah]

Amelia--Back to the point of Poisonwood Bible, I dunno if you will like it or not, because the priest in the book is portrayed as the "evil man", and is a crazy zealot. I just didn't like that the author didn't provide much reason as to why he was the way he was...I think his characterization may be offensive. I read somewhere under "Fodder for the corner joint" thread that you are a Christian Republican. I just thought that I should point that out to you. (not sure how religious you are)