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[Lu]

Starting today

[Lauren]

I enjoyed Simon Green's Deathstalker, so I jumped right into the next book in the series Deathstalker Rebellion. More of same escapist fun, as long as you don't mind how over-the-top it is. Great for light reading.

Also reading a bio of one of my favourite sci fi writers: James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon. Pretty awesome so far.

[Claudia]

I started reading A Game Of Thrones, but I'm just not in the mood to continue reading it. So now I'm reading The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack, and it's very good so far.

[Claudia]

I went to the library in search of a book on the life of Elizabeth I. But oh horror, they did not have ANY history books! For serious. The two librarians stared at me, one all cross-eyed and the other pityingly. "We have a book on Osama?" Oh joy.

So instead I got this book

which was my absolute favourite all through my teens. It still has all the stamps from when I borrowed it last. And no one else has read it since then. I feel like stealing it now.

[Crusader]

Now, now. Control yourself. Resist the urge... I hear prison libraries are even worse than public ones. ;)

[Lauren]

Kahlan wrote: "I went to the library in search of a book on the life of Elizabeth I. But oh horror, they did not have ANY history books! For serious. The two librarians stared at me, one all cross-eyed and the ot..."

Ooh, I'd really have to resist the urge to throttle those librarians!
Your thing with World of the Stiks is really cool though :) I hope it lives up to your nostalgia.

[Barbara]

Do you live in a very small town where no one ever goes to the library?
I shouldn't be talking anyway. The last time I went to a library that wasn't attached to an educational institution was like 30 years ago.

[Claudia]

Small town, tiny library. Walking in there, instead of getting a happy feeling to see all the books, I get get depressed.

If you stand far away you can still be fooled into thinking they have a wide selection of books. But get up close, you'll see it's really the same books over and over. Like they have 4 copies of Patricia Cornwell's Blowfly, but nothing else in the series. Browsing through a row, it's 3 of this book, 2 of this, 5 of this. Ridiculous. It's not like they need that many. No one goes to the library except to make photocopies. Haha.

[Lauren]

I was planning on sticking to my reading challenge plans by starting Wuthering Heights, but then I forgot to load it onto my Kindle and ended up reading A Clash of Kings (the second book in A Song of Ice and Fire). Wuthering Heights is going to have to wait another 800+ pages.

[Claudia]

I want to start on A Game of Thrones, but I'm in such a slump this week. Literally only getting through one chapter a day on my current book. When this cold/flu thing I have passes, hopefully I'll be reading more again.

[Sonette]

Ditto on the slump thing Kahlan. I have so many books and arcs that I want to read that I can't decide where to start and then I end up reading nothing! And I really want to read ou new Book of the Month. Have been meaning to read it forever!

[Lu]

I think i'm going to put A game of thrones aside for a few days and focus on something light, possibly

[Lauren]

I'm struggling a bit with my two 'epic' reads, so I picked up something shorter: Shadows by South African author Joan De La Haye.

It's another horror novel, and since I read The Mall recently, I thought it would be a good idea to follow with this.

[Julia]

I'm reading "Hammer of Eden" - Ken Follett. He is my favourite author - have read many of his books. This one was definitely written in a very "sexual" stage of his life. :) Good storyline though - as usual.

[Barbara]

I am reading way to many books right now. I can't decide what I want to read and than I end up reading them all. Especially if the book you're reading was supposed to be for a challenge but than it isn't about what you thought and it turns out that you can't use it for a challenge. Very dissapointing. I am reading 6 books right now. Way to much.

[Lu]

Reading and actually read 50 pages in one go! its progress :)

[Kae]

reading keeping it real.
its okay...

[Lauren]

Kae wrote: "reading keeping it real.
its okay..."

The Justina Robson novel? I thought it could have been really cool, but Lila worked on my nerves and all the awesome fantasy and sci fi stuff just didn't work well enough together.

[Fela]

Manning Marable - Malcolm X: A life of reinvention
Ngugi wa Thiongo - A Grain of Wheat
Salman Rushdie - Midnights Children

[Lauren]

How are you finding Midnight's Children Fela?

[Fela]

As good as advertised....I'm about 80% and it's really a great read....pick it up!

[Lauren]

I've already read it - was seriously impressed, although I have to admit it was quite a tough read at times! Definitely a novel that requires a few re-reads but promises to be more rewarding with each one.

[Fela]

Yes, you need a dictionary next to you as well....I love it though!

[Lauren]

Yes, Rushdie's writing is absolutely beautiful. Even when I wasn't quite sure exactly what was going on or who the characters were, it was just lovely to read. Sometimes when I come across his quotes on this site I feel the urge to pick up one of his novels asap.

[Naz]

I just finished The Voyage of the Dawn Treader and started A Game of Thrones but dont think I'm going to get very far tonight.

[Claudia]

I have friends that talk me into things I wouldn't normally do/read. So tomorrow I'll be starting on John Scalzi's Fuzzy Nation.

[Lauren]

I'm reading A Clash of Kings. Got off to a slow start with it, but now I'm really enjoying it.
Will be offline for a bit (hopefully no more than a day or two) as I'm moving out of the hotel (sob!) and into a temporary house, so I have to get an internet connection set up. In Addis you buy a modem and then go to telecommunications (?) to get the sim card and have them connect it. Most places are closed on Sundays, so I can only do that tomorrow.

[Lu]

Good luck with the move!

[Lauren]

Thanks :) I need it! And right now Clash of Kings is like my book version of a warm fuzzy blanket. Thank God it's so long.

[Emma]

Currently reading

[Lu]

Almost finished with and

[Barbara]

You guys, I need some peptalk! I am still reading Ulysses and in the beginning I really liked the book but it is really starting to get on my nerves. I really want to be finished with the book before I leave for America on Thursday. I still have a little over 200 pages to go and normally I wouldn't worry. but I know what is coming in the sense of the way he has written it. Like in the last chapter of about 70-80 pages there are only 8 sentences and no comma's or other punctuation and it is what I call a thought chapter which are really annoying. And the chapter before that doesn't look to promising either. So please, encourage me :(

[Claudia]

I bet you couldn't finish it before Thursday. You just couldn't.

[Claudia]

*Hint
You're suppose to answer: "Oh yes, I can!" and then read up a storm and finish it in one day. =)

[Barbara]

What are we betting for???? :P
It is so bad I find all these little excuses for not reading. Like washing that one glass I used or checking if I have any mail (real or e-) or refreshing the cat's waterbowl for the fifth time today. It's really terrible and the really bad part is I only read this book because I wanted to.

[Naz]

I started Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time. Although the story is really interesting the writing itself is annoying me. It's another case of a could-be brilliant story ruined because its told in such a distracting way.

[Lauren]

I'm reading Un Lun Dun by China Mieville. Besides enjoying the story so far, I also love the picture of Mieville on the inside of the cover:
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=h...

Yum [growly noise]. Firstly, because of his books, (I read Perdido Street Station before I saw him). Then because he looks like that and writes books, really cerebral speculative fiction books that I LOVE. I've heard him speak and he's got a surprisingly gentle voice with lovely Brit accent too. He's like some bad-ass, totally awesome intellectual spec fic writer. Yum [growly noise].

[Lu]

Reading and listening to

[Naz]

Reading The Prophet and Sense and Sensibility. Listening to Cleopatra: A Life in a desperate attempt to finish the Patchwork challenge.

[Lu]

Starting

[Lauren]

Reading Grimm's fairytales. Boring, so very very boring. This type of storytelling might work orally or if told in isolation within a larger story, but reading a bunch of them one after the other is torture.

[Barbara]

That is why with short stories books I always read them at the same time as other books. Then you can read one or two stories a day and it never gets boring that way.

[Lauren]

The thing is that most of them are just a few pages long, so reading one or two at a time takes about ten minutes and seems ridiculous. Also, they're not great stories. They lack the impact of the sci fi short stories I'm more used to reading, and they're very repetitive (you get many similar stories). I don't normally mind reading a short story collection without a novel, because for me the stories are fine on their own. Not so here.

And some are just totally weird - there was one story about a mouse, a bird and a sausage who live together. At one point the sausage goes out and gets eaten by a dog. The bird lodges a complaint with the dog, but the dog accuses the sausage of carrying forged letters and says that eating him justified. WTF?

The themes are kind of interesting in a historical sense (you can see what ideals were valued at the time) but the stories are lame.

[Barbara]

I have read a lot of the Grimm stories but I can't remember the sausage one. I have to read that one. I know what you mean by impact but I find that inherent in fairytales or stories like that. Another good tip is read them during commercial breaks on tv. Also a method I use with boring books and stuff. In the Netherlands a commercial break takes a couple of minutes and you have enough time to read a story and not enough time to get bored with it.

[Lauren]

Hahaha, I would do that, but I don't watch much TV :)

[Emma]

Currently reading The Sword of Shannara By Terry Brooks

Thorougly enjoying it even though it is similar to Lord of the Rings. Good fantasy book.

[Milan]

I'm currently busy with Mercy by Jussi Adler-Olsen. Brilliant so far. I loves me Scandinavian crime fiction authors. :P

[Lu]

Trying to finish before I watch the movie tomorrow afternoon.

[Milan]

Lu wrote: "Trying to finish before I watch the movie tomorrow afternoon."

The movie is brilliant, just saw it! Enjoy :P

[Milan]

Finished Mercy, was brilliant. Next maybe some Stephen King or H.P. Lovecraft [if I feel up to such an arduous task :P].