What are you reading?

[little.hesperides]

Cheers to Harry Potter as well as Rebecca.

I'm reading:
Slammerkin
by Emma Donoghue.

[JustSkipIt]

Run by Dean Karnazes

[CrazyTaraWitch]

Finished Rebecca a couple days ago and now reading The House of Mirth, as well as the three I was reading before.

[wolfiegoddess]

Currently reading Killing Time by Caleb Carr. Highly Interesting

[Ariel]

Old favorites - The Thendara House trilogy from Marian Zimmer Bradley. Starting City of Sorcery now, finished othe other two.

Ariel
How I Met Your Mother

[JustSkipIt]

The graveyard book by neil gaiman

[brave-little-toaster]

Atonement
The Book Thief
Methods of Pre-Calculus
Chemistry: A Science
And as always, Julie Ann Peter's Keeping You a Secret

[Finey_McFine]

Tina Fey ~ Bossypants

HILARIOUS!

[CrazyTaraWitch]

Curious Wine by Katherine V Forrest, for about the 6th or 7th time

[Finey_McFine]

Curious Wine by Katherine V Forrest, for about the 6th or 7th time

Great book! I've read it several times as well.

[JustSkipIt]

The Book of Fires

[BeMyDeputy]

Ender's Game.
For somewhere upwards of the twentieth time. My first copy of the book literally fell apart.

Deb: How's The Graveyard Book? I haven't gotten my hands on it yet, but I love Neil Gaiman.

[JustSkipIt]

I reread enders game every few months.

I loved the graveyard book. My favorite gaiman yet.

[BeMyDeputy]

I reread enders game every few months.

Good to know at least one person will get it when I make my "The enemy's gate is down" joke in Queen of Hearts.

I loved the graveyard book. My favorite gaiman yet.

Excellent. Once I've moved, I'll have to get it from the library. Before then . . . probably a dumb idea.

[JustSkipIt]

I'm also reading a lot of forbidden here fanfic...

[Rachel]

Just dug out my own personal manuscript of a book called Visions by our own Cin (aka Firesign). Read it in one sitting and thought it was great (again). I need to dig out some money and go get a real copy.

[Ariel]

Totally jumping on the "Ender's Game" bandwagon and just read "Speaker of the Dead" also got a lot out of reading O.S.C.'s intros for both books. Fascinating guy! Can't identify with his religion, but love some of his stuff!

Anyone read his book, "The Lost Boys"?

Ariel
How I Met Your Mother

[CrazyTaraWitch]

On Thursday I finished reading Song for Night by Chris Abani. It's a little dark, but beautifully well written and really gets inside the heart and mind of a culture very foreign to most of us. I'd definitely recommend it to anyone looking for something to really suck them in, and it's a novella so there's not a big time commitment.

Today I started reading Tomorrow Will Be Better by Betty Smith, and re-reading Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. So far Tomorrow Will Be Better is very slow, but I loved Betty Smith's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, so I'm hoping this one will pick up.

[brave-little-toaster]

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo- I'm about halfway through it, it's actually better than I expected it to be.

[Ariel]

Hey, I ran into brave-little-toaster again! Nice! So I'm re-reading something I read for the first time in highschool, The Changeling by Zilpha Keatley Snyder. Plan to use it in my fic! And I love it anyway!

Ariel
How I Met Your Mother

[CrazyTaraWitch]

Old Possom's Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Elliot
Harry Potter 3 by J.K. Rowling
Heir to the Shadows by Anne Bishop
Mark My Words: Mark Twain on Writing edited by Mark Dawidziak
Scout, Atticus, and Boo: A Celebration of Fifty Years of To Kill A Mockingbird by Mary McDonagh Murphy
The Year of Magical Thought by Joan Didion
Sleeping Dogs Don't Lay by Richard Lederer and Richard Dowis
The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights by John Steinbeck
Questionable Content by Jeph Jacques (a webcomic)

I also just finished reading Euripides' Hippolytus, which I found a bit disappointing.

[JustSkipIt]

My name is Asher Lev for the umpteenth time.

[JustSkipIt]

To say nothing of the dog.

I is one of thefunniest books ever.

[brave-little-toaster]

Well... I think this is the best place for this. If not, please let me know where it should be, and I will put it there.
Does anyone else read TIME magazine every week? This week's had a fish on the front, and the main article was about fish farming for human consumption vs. catching wild fish for human consumption, and I found the numbers/statistics very interesting and somewhat surprising. But that's not my purpose in posting here.
One of the "secondary articles" was a four or five page feature about fanfiction, beginning with talking about Harry Potter fanfiction and then discussing the legal/moral/ethical dilemmas about fanfiction, going into tracing the history of fanficiton and stories in general, ending with talking about how it's really all about the author's/creator's personal preferance.
Not gonna lie, I thought that the entire first page and a half of the article was laughable, because (in my eyes, anyway) it seemed to have been written by someone who had spent minimal time in any fanficiton universe, nevermind one that's as active (although often not as well rounded as others) as Harry Potter.
I was wondering what anyone else who read or skimmed the article thought of it.

[wayland]

The Sharing Knife by Lois McMaster Bujold.

I love her Miles Vorkosigan books, but I'm not usually a great fan of fantasy genre, so this one sat on my shelf for ages before I gave it a try.

It's terrific - an interesting world, great characters and the most appealing heroine I've read in a long time.


I emailed the author to say how much I'd enjoyed the series, and got a reply two hours later. Impressive.

[HalfCamel]

News of a Kidnapping by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, very interesting read.

[little.hesperides]

Re-reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows so that I can be all refreshed and ready for the movie. (nerd alert)

[Ariel]

Disc World series by Terry Pratchett, just starting Men at Arms.

Hilarious, wonderful stuff! Thanks Kate BmyD for the recommendation!

Ariel

[JustSkipIt]

The last half of HP7 because... well, think about it.

[BeMyDeputy]

Dammit, people! I'm not even going to the movie, and now I wanna reread Deathly Hallows. And Discworld.

Curse you all.