What are you reading?

[umgaynow]

Just picked up The Cleft by Doris Lessing at the library today

Good luck with that, I had no patience with that book, I barely read 50 pages, got all WTF??!, and that was it. I guess I had a problem with the initial vision, but that may change later.

You were right...definitely a bit too outre

[writerfreak]

The book I'm writing, reading and editing it. Yay.

writerfreak

[satinpaper]

umgaynow wrote

a bit too outre

But you're still reading it, right? You could say afterwords that I was quick to judge, abandoning a Nobel winner like that...

I just couldn't stand that whole myth of the original woman she creates. As opposed to the original man. But maybe it's just a false myth or I didn't get it right. Eh, I'll probably return to it sooner or later, it's still bugging me.

[writerfreak]

The online magazine I write for.

writerfreak

[Sandman78]

Sign Language for Babies

[Leaf]

The Invention of Hugo Cabret.
Technically a kid's book, but so very very cool. It reads like watching an old film. It's the most creative thing I've seen someone do with the concept of what a book is in a while.

[writerfreak]

I'm about to read my Steinbeck- Exit to Eden again.

writerfreak

[Guest]

Junichiro Tanizaki's "Journal d'un vieux fou"

As my very first piece of insight into Japanese literature, I have to admit it was the controversial nature of the book that attracted me in the first place. There's a lot of emphasis on the sexual fascination he develops for sucking his daughter-in-law's toes. Maybe such issues would have been better tolerated in contemporary culture...but then maybe not.

The Key and Diary of a Mad Old Man

[thiswomanswork]

'Winds of Darkover' by Marion Zimmer Bradley. Not too bad, so far.

[chewy 19]

I Found My Heart in San Francisco Series By S X Meagher. I am in the process of re-reading the series and am on book 2 of 16. The series is supposed to have a book for every letter of the alphabet. It is long but one of my favs. Below is the link to all of her fiction. Great stuff.

http://www.academyofbards.org/authors/sx_meagher.html

[umgaynow]

umgaynow wrote

a bit too outre

But you're still reading it, right? You could say afterwords that I was quick to judge, abandoning a Nobel winner like that...

I just couldn't stand that whole myth of the original woman she creates. As opposed to the original man. But maybe it's just a false myth or I didn't get it right. Eh, I'll probably return to it sooner or later, it's still bugging me.

I may try reading it some other time...I went through the same thing with Jeanette Winterson's Art & Lies...never did finish it...just too weird...but I am having a hard time reading anything more than graphic novels just now...I am way to preoccupied with my fast-approaching SSDI hearing

At the moment still working on Bell, Book & Dyke and The Autobiography of God with occasional pit stops in The Fran Leibowitz Reader...cuz she always makes me laugh...hard to tell I'm rather scattered right now, huh?

[satinpaper]

Good luck with your hearing, umgaynow!

Well, ok, I think I'll wait until it gets translated in Romanian, in a few months.

Yep, I couldn't finish Art&Lies either. BTW, has anyone read The Stone Gods yet? Is it good? I'm still waiting for my copy.

[thiswomanswork]

'Cambodia: report from a stricken land' by Henry Kamm.

[littlewicca]

Harry Potter 7

[Zooeys_Bridge]

'Colour: A Natural History of the Palette' by Victoria Finlay(which I'm almost done, and have been reading since last May) and [/i]'A History of Reading'[/i] by Alberto Manguel. Both of which I highly recommend if you're into that sort of thing. I need a good novel, I haven't had one in a few months.

[umgaynow]

I just started The Golden Compass a few days ago...I am loving it! But I have to be careful what time of day I read it, because so far every time I pick it up I end up reading about 50 - 90 pages...rather time consuming...definitely a can't put it down...already got the 2 sequels and they are waiting patiently on my bedside table
<dancing in lit-geeker bookjoy>

[Guest]

Paulo Coelho's ''The Alchemist''

Never thought I would take an interest in his writings but now that I've finally taken a peek, it's gotten me hooked!

[the hero factor]

The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield.

[glokenpop baby]

The Fall - Albert Camus

Ah Camus, you funny fellow.

[LesbianJedi87]

"The IHOP Papers" by ali liebegott

[thiswomanswork]

'Sting of the Zygons' by Stephen Cole.

I'm all about sophisticated literature.

[Guest]

Currently indulging in Robert A.F. Thurman's interpretation of The Tibetan Book of the Dead

It leaves a vivid impression on the voyager interested in Thanatology.

[umgaynow]

The Subtle Knife...sequel to The Golden Compass

[JustSkipIt]

Awesome chapter sent by a friend and here when I woke up

[woahnellie]

Child Of My Right Hand by Eric Goodman

[JustSkipIt]

To Say Nothing of the Dog. Again. Just as funny.

[the hero factor]

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy.

[CrazyTaraWitch]

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien, Rosemary and Juliet by Judy Maclean, Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut.

[morningstar]

textbooks

and The Bad Seed by William March.... very creepy.

[thiswomanswork]

Let's see... currently I'm reading

Listening to the Land, by Derreck Jensen

and in less serious notes,
Fruits Basket # 3
Neon Genesis Evangelion #2
and Ultimate X-Men #3