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[Emma]

Currently reading The Book Thief By Markus Zusak.

[Lu]

Finished (4 1/2). Reading

[Lauren]

Just finished - a good, quick read, finished it in a day.

Still reading and .

[[deleted user]]

Emma! How is the reading going?
I love that book... Liesl is such a brilliant character I think

[[deleted user]]

Currently reading Black dagger #6 and The Women in White

[Emma]

Niecole wrote: "Emma! How is the reading going?
I love that book... Liesl is such a brilliant character I think"

Yes I have been enjoying the book, I got the large print by accident from the library though lol So its rather a big book. Love Liesel and all the characters, not so sure why the writer gives the game away at times telling you what is going to happen. But I do like it.

[[deleted user]]

Its interesting how its Death telling the story.
Sometimes the story gets really sad...
Loved the book

[Sonette]

YEAH, I love this time of the year! Got plenty of time to read! Or shall I rather say I make plenty of time to read! Got just now and am definitely reading that tonight and also busy with and still struggling through .

[Lu]

Finished , starting

[Lauren]

Reading .

[[deleted user]]

Reading

[Craig]

Artemis Fowl

A good book so far. Anyone else read it?

[Lu]

I have :) Enjoyable enough, the characters were just too cartoony for me.

[Lauren]

Help! Does anyone know of any books that have major characters whose names start with 'X' or 'U'?

I'm trying to finish the A-Z character challenge, but those two letters are really hard.

[[deleted user]]

Hehe in one of the Black Dagger Brotherhood there is a character called Xhex...
In David Copperfield one of the major characters is called Uriah Heep

[Lauren]

Thanks Niecole! Don't know if I have the stamina for David Copperfield though... :)

[[deleted user]]

Hehe I know what you mean. When writing Literature last week I had to read a part of David Copperfield, and its a very complicated story...

[[deleted user]]

Hey, the Little Mermaid has Ursula in it :)

[Lauren]

I was supposed to read Copperfield in Honours. I got through about 3 chapters and then decided I didn't have time for it and cursed my lecturer for assigning such a thick book when we already had stacks to read. I think most of my class felt the same way - only about 5 people pitched up for the Copperfield lectures.

[[deleted user]]

I think the thing with most of these classic books are that they are so lenghthy... I'm currently reading Wuthering Heights, and its not even that thick, but because the writing isnt done in paragraphs like authors do today it makes it more difficult. Then of course you might have noticed that I'm still reading Women In White, its becoming a good story, but it is very long, and again not so easy to read because the writing style is more complicated... I think I would read David Copperfield, but NOT if someone told me to read it in a certain ammount of time, no way!

[Lauren]

Yeah, these days if I read a classic I pick a short one. Although, it doesn't always work - it took me about 3 months to get through Orlando by Virginia Woolf, and that wasn't even 200 pages long! Didn't know what was going on sometimes either...

On the other hand, there were some short classics I enjoyed and finished fairly quickly - the two Alice in Wonderland books, and Despair by Vladimir Nabokov. I also finished First Love by Ivan Turgenev and Quiet Days in Clichy by Henry Miller, each in one day. Both were pretty good.

[[deleted user]]

Great! Now you gave me some more classics to look forward to :)
You know when i Read The Importance of Being Earnest it also took me a while to read it and it was really not a long book... sometimes its just difficult to understand what on earth the author is trying to say

[Lauren]

Oh, I loved the Importance of Being Earnest! It was really funny - I love English humour. I listened to the audio book though. It takes a bit more concentration than modern lit, as you're not used to the style, but that one's pretty easy. Perhaps you should try the audio book or the movie?

Virginia Woolf on the other hand is pretty tough - her books are short, and what I've read was good, but I have to read them in half-hour bursts of intense concentration. Only when I'm feeling very patient.

[[deleted user]]

haha.
I've watched the movie of Importance of Being Earnest and I really liked it. I just think that sometimes when I dont understand the book at the beginning it makes it harder for me to read the rest

[Bella]

Im busy reading numerous books at a time... I bet the ladies at the library know me by now. Busy with Lord of the Shadows

[Lauren]

Just finished The City & The City and read and reviewed Quiet Days in Clichy yesterday.

Now reading .

[[deleted user]]

Ok so started and I think I'm going to like it :) (Recomended by Lauren of course :))

Put The Visitor on my list to :)

[Lauren]

Hehe, cool, I'm feeling veyr influential this morning :)

The Visitor is a bit depressing, but it's very short. It was a random choice at the library the other day - I thought I should try something new, and it looked interesting. The manuscript was only found and published after the author's death, and there was so much critical acclaim for the story and the writing written on the back and inside the book, that I had to try it.

[[deleted user]]

It seems like a good read, I read the writing about it on the site and it seems like something I would like.

You dont perhaps have any good references for books from Russia?

[Lauren]

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov is brilliant - a great satire, where the Devil visits the Soviet Union. Also, the devil (known as 'Woland') and his walking, talking cat Behemoth are really cool characters. There are also flashbacks to Jesus's trial and the crucifixion, which tell Pontius Pilot's story and gives a very different, more human perspective of Jesus than the one in the Bible. Highly recommended.

First Love by Ivan Turgenev wasn't bad - a story about a boy's first, tragic love.

Nabokov counts as Russian I guess, although he mostly wrote in English. Lolita is good (and I like books about obsession), but I got bored during the second half. Also, it's an intense, modernist literary novel, so it's full of literary references and if you really want to appreciate it you should get the Annotated Lolita or read up it. You could still just enjoy the story though. I enjoyed Nabokov's Despair a lot more, it was very good. However it's also a novel about novels, writing and the writer - I love that kind of thing, but it's not for everyone.

Unfortunately, that's about all I can recommend, I haven't read much Russian lit. Other suggestions... there's Dostoevsky of course. My boyfriend loves Crime and Punishment, but I think it's one of those 'endurance' novels.

You should also check out the vampire fantasy series by Sergei Lukyanenko, startng with Night Watch. The author was described in one of the blurbs as 'the Russian JK Rowling', although it's a lot darker and more violent than Harry Potter. I haven't read the books, but I've seen the first two movies in the series. Not just vampires, but lots of other monsters, and interesting new angles on the genre. The movies are a bit weird, but the books could be very cool.

[[deleted user]]

Thanks Lauren!

[Lauren]

Thought I'd revist cyberpunk - reading

[Emma]

It seems that I have been reading The Book Thief forever. thoroughly enjoyed it but had to renew at the library twice, just been busy with other things lately and not had time to read.
So anyway I am reading Gypsy By Lesley Pearse, its my kind of book set in the 1800's Liverpool a rags to riches story.

[Emma]

Ok no one has posted since I last did so it looks like I finished Gypsy really quickly :-)

I have heard a lot about the Eve Dallas series By JD Robb so on perusing my local library I came across this one and thought Id give it a try. Enjoying it so far.

[Lauren]

I think I'm in a modern(ist) classic mood. Broken Angels isn't really doing it for me at the moment, so I'm reading Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov. Looking around for some essays on Nabokov now too.

And given how raunchy and well-written Quiet Days in Clichy by Henry Miller turned out to be, I'd like to read another of his books too :)

[Emma]

I am really getting into this book in fact I am nearly at the end and I must say that I love Eve Dallas. What I have found out is that this is the 24th book in this series! Trust me to start back to front. I have her other books so I am looking forward to reading the rest of this series...all 23 books ..should keep me going for quite awhile.

Referring to Nora Roberts (writing as JD Robb) Innocent in death -Eve Dallas series

[Lu]

Still reading , and reading in the bath :D

Things are going slowly :(
Moving in a week! So pack pack, thesis thesis thesis :P

[Emma]

Currently reading Nefertiti By Michelle Moran, loving it!!

[Lu]

*Jealous*

[Lauren]

Started reading The Club Dumas this weekend. A friend on GoodReads recommended it. Interesting so far - it's a historical mystery set in the present day, about a sort of 'mercenary book detective' who's investigating a supposedly original manuscript of the first chapter of The Three Musketeers, as well as an antique book that was believed to be able to summon the devil. Not sure how the two books are linked yet, but the story seems good.

Read Laughter in the Dark, which was by far the easiest Nabokov I've read, and still reading Invitation to a Beheading, which is more difficult and also the least interesting Nabokov so far.

[[deleted user]]

I'm reading Blue Bloods 1 and Wuthering Heights...

Lauren! Just finished the Penelopiad... really enjoyed it

[Lauren]

Cool, glad you liked it!

[Sonette]

I'm cheating at the moment. Am not in the mood to read after Wuthering Heights so I'm watching the Second Season of Mentalist! Love it! Hehe! But anyway still reading and and it's been going a bit slow. Also busy with and liking it!

[Lauren]

Oh, I just finished the first season of The Mentalist! It's kind of predictable, but at the same time I like guessing who the killer is in the first ten minutes or so, and waiting to see if I'm right.

[Sonette]

Hehehe! I love Patrick Jane. He has this irritating charm about him. Almost like House, which I watch religiously!

[Lauren]

House is awesome. He and Patrick Jane are always right though...
But I love House for being such a sarcastic misanthrope. Makes me laugh :)

[Sonette]

I agree. And I love the fact that he is not a goody goody, he is actually an !##%@hole, but he still does so much of good!

[Lauren]

Just finished The Club Dumas. Frickin' awesome. It was so good I completely ignored and then gave up on Invitation to a Beheading.

Reading Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (very useful and very funny). Just started Introducing Critical Theory: Graphic Guide, and I want to start A Wizard of Earthsea tonight.

[Emma]

Currently reading A Wizard of Earthsea By Ursula Le Guin, very good book.

[Lu]

Ok yay back from the move!
Telkom came today so i'm online again :D

I am still reading , and reading in the bath but i have added to my bath reading (I won this book through good reads and so far I'm really intrigued)

Reading is going slowly because i have to unpack mountains of boxes and books... :P
At least i got a new bookcase :D