The Kitten, the Witches and the Bad Wardrobe - Willow & Tara Forever

General Chat  || Kitten  || WaV  || Pens  || Mi2  || GMP  || TiE  || FAQ  || Feed - The Kitten, the Witches and the Bad Wardrobe

All times are UTC - 8 hours [ DST ]



Post new topic Reply to topic  [ 917 posts ]  Go to page Previous  1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 ... 31  Next
Author Message
 Post subject: Re: What are you reading?
PostPosted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 6:21 pm 
Offline
32. Kisses and Gay Love
User avatar

Joined: Sun Apr 24, 2005 12:35 pm
Posts: 9572
Topics: 7
Location: Texas, Y'all
I just started Ultra-Marathon Man. The first chapter was very good and easy reading.

_________________
Menorah Tales | Working It Out | Random Bits


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: What are you reading?
PostPosted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 6:25 pm 
Offline
14. Lesbo Street Cred

Joined: Mon Apr 25, 2005 10:00 am
Posts: 2065
Location: Middle 'o the middle, U.S.A.
The Living by Annie Dillard.

Swapping off reading it aloud at bed time if we both have the energy. Busy time right now, so it's slow going, but am really enjoying it.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: What are you reading?
PostPosted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 1:17 pm 
Offline
1. Blessed Wannabe

Joined: Wed May 04, 2005 10:50 am
Posts: 18
Location: Birmingham, UK
Actually this book is what I'm NOT reading at the moment as I'm busy finishing another. I realise that's against the spirit of the thread but I couldn't think of where else to put this.

I just came across an absolute bargain in the bookshop today. (Maybe I should have started a thread on bargain buys instead. :hmm I'm looking for a good coffee bean grinder if anyone can point me in the way of a good deal.)

It's a book called Calendar Girl by Stella Duffy. It was in the crime fiction section and is about a stand up comic called Maggie who has fallen for 'the girl with the Kelly McGillis body', a mysterious woman who can't commit herself.

So sayeth the cover, which is as far as I've got so far. The cover also indicates drug smuggling, gambling and prostitution are also involved which would explain why it was in the crime fiction section.

If all of this sounds right up your street, and you're a British Kitten, then you can buy the book in Waterstone's for the princely sum of 99 pence. You can't say fairer than that. If it's rubbish you can always use it for kindling on bonfire night. (Again a British thing but if you wish to join our nation in celebrating the foiling of a plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament then you're more than welcome. We celebrate by setting fire to things, which I think has a nice irony to it.)


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: What are you reading?
PostPosted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 4:52 am 
Offline
7. Teeny Tinkerbell Light
User avatar

Joined: Mon May 02, 2005 11:54 am
Posts: 617
Topics: 1
Location: HappyOaks Institute for the Dangerously Cheerful
I've started Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky. I'm trying to read lots of classics this year, rather than the rubbish I usually read.


Ooooh, Bonfire Night! I love bonfire night. Last year there was a huge effigy of Guy Fawkes hanging onto Big Ben a la King Kong.

We also sing songs! Rememeber remember the fifth of November, gunpowder, treason and plot!

_________________
"And beyond the Wild Wood?" asked the Mole.
"The Wide World," said the Rat. "And that doesn't matter."


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: What are you reading?
PostPosted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 5:50 am 
Offline
7. Teeny Tinkerbell Light
User avatar

Joined: Mon May 01, 2006 11:34 am
Posts: 546
i am reading a fanfiction ;) and another book called the storm


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: What are you reading?
PostPosted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 5:03 pm 
Offline
5. Willowhand
User avatar

Joined: Thu Jun 01, 2006 5:29 pm
Posts: 268
Topics: 3
"The Complete Idiot's Guide to Learning French"...because my professor makes fun of me and I have an exam coming up next Wednesday...*sobs*

Jenny


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: What are you reading?
PostPosted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 7:31 am 
Offline
4. Extra Flamey

Joined: Fri Nov 18, 2005 2:32 pm
Posts: 185
Location: Sweden
I'm reading Go ask Alice by Anonymous.
I've read it before but since I gave my pupil it for homework
I kind of have to reread it in order to bug them with questions
about it. I'm sure it's a book you've all read in school since here it's
a must if you want to pass English A.

_________________
----


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: What are you reading?
PostPosted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 6:51 pm 
Offline
14. Lesbo Street Cred
User avatar

Joined: Thu Jul 21, 2005 2:26 am
Posts: 1971
Topics: 1
Location: New Zealand
Armageddon's Children by Terry Brooks, I'm normally more of a Tad Williams, Ian Irvine girl but I read the Word and the Void series and they were alright, and given that this is a sort of sequel it seemed like a good idea to read it!!
Great book, my only gripe was that it's not long enough! I like my books with some meat on them, if it's big enough to be a doorstop, then that's about right!

_________________
Willow Van Helsing...saving the world since 1777Van Rosenberg II - Lord of Ice and Shadow


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: What are you reading?
PostPosted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 3:43 pm 
Offline
3. Flaming O
User avatar

Joined: Wed Oct 11, 2006 1:40 pm
Posts: 105
Location: The Land o Neeps and Tatties
Currently reading the graphic novel 30 Days of Night by Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith. It's a story about a small town in Alaska that finds itself under siege by vampires during a month long period of winter darkness.

So far it's zipping along brilliantly, there's some great characters and Templesmith's Impressionistic sketchy style, although at first a bit off putting, has kinda grown on me.

Overall, '30 Days of Night' is a great survival horror story which delivers more than just the gratuitous guts 'n' gore. I can see why such a compelling plotline might be made into a movie. I really hope they do! And if they do, my money's on Julianne Moore for the part of the kick ass female sheriff 'Stella'. oh please...please...pretty please...:pray

_________________
A doodle. I do doodle. You, too. You do doodle, too.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: What are you reading?
PostPosted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 5:18 pm 
Offline
3. Flaming O
User avatar

Joined: Tue Apr 26, 2005 7:01 am
Posts: 128
Location: North Carolina, USA
Well, I've always had a taste for post-apocalyptic fiction, or anything with a generally dystopic view of the future (not sure why, it might be the strict Italian-Catholic upbringing, I don't know). So I just went through this really weird phase where I read three books that really screwed with my head, one worse than the next. I started with The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier, which was amazing. I followed that up with Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguru. Again, freaking brilliant (he's the same author who wrote The Remains of the Day).

But the absolute number one all time mind job was when I read The Road by Cormac McCarthy. I have never, in my entire life, read anything so utterly horrible and utterly gorgeous, ever. This was about a week ago, and I can't stop thinking about it. I can't read anything else. I can't bring myself to pick up another book until the taste of that one leaves my mind. Which I'm not sure it'll ever do entirely.

I'm going to take a break soon from all that angst, and read Artemis Fowl, because my 12-year old nephew says it's quite entertaining. I could use something like that. When I'm ready.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: What are you reading?
PostPosted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 6:03 pm 
Offline
32. Kisses and Gay Love
User avatar

Joined: Sun Apr 24, 2005 12:35 pm
Posts: 9572
Topics: 7
Location: Texas, Y'all
The King of Torts by John Grisham. So far it sucks but I picked it up at a sale for 50 cents and wanted something brainless. That it is...

_________________
Menorah Tales | Working It Out | Random Bits


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: What are you reading?
PostPosted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 2:50 am 
Offline
5. Willowhand
User avatar

Joined: Fri Sep 01, 2006 7:14 am
Posts: 253
Location: in her heavenly dreams
I've started reading homelan by R:A Salvatore. Is the first part of a triology

_________________
Do I act like the big knowledge woman?

Brianna: I will never regret!


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: What are you reading?
PostPosted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 12:12 pm 
Offline
32. Kisses and Gay Love
User avatar

Joined: Sun Apr 24, 2005 12:35 pm
Posts: 9572
Topics: 7
Location: Texas, Y'all
I just started Practicing Peace in Times of War by Pema Chodron.

_________________
Menorah Tales | Working It Out | Random Bits


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: What are you reading?
PostPosted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 12:52 pm 
Offline
5. Willowhand
User avatar

Joined: Fri Sep 01, 2006 7:14 am
Posts: 253
Location: in her heavenly dreams
I've started reading homeland folowing book Exile I love this books and Drizzt Do'Urden character!!

_________________
Do I act like the big knowledge woman?

Brianna: I will never regret!


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: What are you reading?
PostPosted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 1:53 pm 
Offline
28. Com...plete
User avatar

Joined: Fri Apr 29, 2005 6:41 am
Posts: 4730
Location: H-Town
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
by: Christopher Moore

Absolutely fricken hilarious and very smart and really more about spirituality than sacriligeous although it certainly has a wicked sense of humor in the process...I haven't been able to put it down

Animals in Translation by Temple Grandin

Ms. Grandin is an autistic woman with a doctorate in animal studies and is an expert in animal communication...this is a truly fascinating book, not just about how animals perceive the world but also the differences between and functioning of the "normal" human brain, the autistic brain and the animal brain...it really makes you think about the assumptions society as a whole makes about people whose brains don't necessarily function the same way as those of the general populus...I definitely reccomend this one


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: What are you reading?
PostPosted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 10:37 am 
Offline
14. Lesbo Street Cred

Joined: Mon Apr 25, 2005 10:00 am
Posts: 2065
Location: Middle 'o the middle, U.S.A.
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

Fiction. Good so far.

Also just finished listening to Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver on tape. It's like nature geek soft porn. If you get a little excited thinking about scrotum shaped orchids, pheromones and moth abdomen extrusions then read away!


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: What are you reading?
PostPosted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 4:48 pm 
Offline
9. Gay Now
User avatar

Joined: Tue Jun 13, 2006 8:48 am
Posts: 1074
Location: UK
Boschi wrote:
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

I enjoyed that a lot - I thought it was a good exploration of immigrants and their children.

I recently read The Bermudez Triangle by Maureen Johnson. Clearly not aimed at my age group (I wish books like this had been around when I was a teen) - very funny and insightful with great dialogue.


Last edited by Knock yourself out on Sun Jul 15, 2012 8:12 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: What are you reading?
PostPosted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 8:23 pm 
Offline
9. Gay Now
User avatar

Joined: Sun Jan 22, 2006 3:19 am
Posts: 969
Location: Rochester, NY
A short story, actually. Why I Live At The PO by Eudora Welty. It's hillarious.

_________________
I am, you know.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: What are you reading?
PostPosted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 7:22 pm 
Offline
32. Kisses and Gay Love
User avatar

Joined: Sun Apr 24, 2005 12:35 pm
Posts: 9572
Topics: 7
Location: Texas, Y'all
I traveled this week and read most of Practicing Peace in Times of War by Pema Chodron and all of Where the Heart is and HP #1 (again). Now I'm rereading To Say nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis.

_________________
Menorah Tales | Working It Out | Random Bits


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: What are you reading?
PostPosted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 4:27 pm 
:'( :'(
I don't have the time for read
i mean i read a lot in the moment but it's for college books like
Element de linguistique générale: André Martinet
Initiation à la phonétique
suff like that !
I'm a student in science of language and i'm french :)


Top
  
 
 Post subject: Re: What are you reading?
PostPosted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 3:20 am 
Offline
3. Flaming O
User avatar

Joined: Fri Oct 27, 2006 4:29 am
Posts: 90
This is probably the wrong thread for this but I was listening to the start of Women's Hour on BBC Radio 4 and they're about to have a discussion on Ian Rankin's comments about women writers and lesbians in particular including more violence towards women in their books than male writers. Ian Rankin was too scared ...uh busy to appear on the show.

Unfortunately I just arrived at the office and can't listen to it. It might also be available on the BBC website.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: What are you reading?
PostPosted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 3:58 am 
Offline
Ms. Moderator Fantastico
Ms. Moderator Fantastico
User avatar

Joined: Mon Apr 11, 2005 9:16 pm
Posts: 727
Location: 91% Dixie
Hey, erith. Welcome to the Kitten!

I hadn't heard about what Ian Rankin said before now, but I found Danuta Kean's blog and the article in The Independent.

There's also the Great books by women, or with great female characters thread, which has been a little dead the last few months and could use a nice interesting discussion about this, if you'd like to continue over there.

_________________
a queer girl always leads to more


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: What are you reading?
PostPosted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 1:01 pm 
Offline
5. Willowhand

Joined: Mon Apr 25, 2005 7:34 am
Posts: 291
Location: Herts, UK
Uzu - they are making a film of 30 days of Night, and alas the sheriff is not being played by Julianne Moore. Instead it's Melissa George, who was Lauren in Alias and also starred in Mulholland Drive. More details here:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0389722/


Topic: My friend has lent me the entire Calvin and Hobbes collection which I am working my way through. Funny stuff! :)

~Lou

_________________
Snowy, I can see the pub from here!


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: What are you reading?
PostPosted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 1:08 pm 
Offline
3. Flaming O
User avatar

Joined: Fri Oct 27, 2006 4:29 am
Posts: 90
maudmac wrote:
Hey, erith. Welcome to the Kitten!


Thanks, Maudmac.

Quote:
I hadn't heard about what Ian Rankin said before now, but I found Danuta Kean's blog and the article in The Independent.


Interesting links. I'm not sure what to think of him now.

I'll now pop up to the Introduction thread which is where I should have started.


Last edited by erith on Sun Jul 15, 2012 8:12 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: What are you reading?
PostPosted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 6:15 am 
Offline
7. Teeny Tinkerbell Light
User avatar

Joined: Mon May 01, 2006 11:34 am
Posts: 546
i am reading Eragon. its the book to the movie. very great stuff!


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: What are you reading?
PostPosted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 11:12 am 
Offline
7. Teeny Tinkerbell Light
User avatar

Joined: Sun Apr 24, 2005 11:33 pm
Posts: 551
Location: Austin, Texas
Venus Envy by Rita Mae Brown

It's a quick read and it's funny and a little insightful... but I have to say that this book is giving me issues I hadn't thought about and it's making me a bit uncomfortable. Which, I guess, is what a good book should do.

_________________
"Supposedly the summer is "over." The people that say that are either children or work in the education field. We are neither of those things. The summer is over when it stops being 300 degrees outside. Which won't be until December. That said, we will continue to have summer fun!"


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: What are you reading?
PostPosted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 12:50 pm 
Offline
3. Flaming O
User avatar

Joined: Wed Oct 11, 2006 1:40 pm
Posts: 105
Location: The Land o Neeps and Tatties
boomstick79 wrote:
Uzu - they are making a film of 30 days of Night, and alas the sheriff is not being played by Julianne Moore. Instead it's Melissa George, who was Lauren in Alias and also starred in Mulholland Drive.


Cheers, boomstick79 for the heads up!^^ Pity about no J. Moore *sobs* but hmmm...that lassie who played Lauren, eh? Yeh, I could live with that.

Topic- Just finished Dust by Charles Pellegrino. Not a bad wee read full of scary and plausible science. It's basically about dust mites going apocalyptic on everyone else's collective ass. Apparently if you screw up the delicate eco-balance of Mother Nature, dust mites will start devouring all the bigger life forms on the planet. Which I think is a great way to get your kids to tidy their room... "Hoover that carpet or the dust will EAT you!"

Highlights include a maverick palaeobiologist floating in an airborne science lab and the *real* reason why the dinosaurs died out.

_________________
A doodle. I do doodle. You, too. You do doodle, too.


Last edited by Uzu on Sun Jul 15, 2012 8:12 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: What are you reading?
PostPosted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 3:46 pm 
Offline
2. Floating Rose
User avatar

Joined: Mon Jul 11, 2005 4:44 pm
Posts: 47
Location: Brighton, England
im reading The Sandman graphic novels by Neil Gaiman at the moment.

they really are amazing, if you can get hold of any i definitely recommend it. good mix of fantasy/horror/myths/drama. plus, lesbians :D


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: What are you reading?
PostPosted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 5:08 pm 
Offline
5. Willowhand

Joined: Mon Apr 25, 2005 7:34 am
Posts: 291
Location: Herts, UK
Somehow I've ended up with about 5 books on the go through recommendations and people chucking them at me at work so the sequel to 30 Days of Night,'Dark Days' is currently on my shelf (thanks for the tip Uzu!) as is the complete Calvin and Hobbes that I'm still trying to work my way through, a compendium of lesbian vampire stories, PJ Tracy's 'Want to Play' and Martina Cole's Close. I think I know what I'll be doing on my days off next week....
~Lou

_________________
Snowy, I can see the pub from here!


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: What are you reading?
PostPosted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 6:20 pm 
Offline
2. Floating Rose

Joined: Sat Dec 02, 2006 10:48 pm
Posts: 31
Location: the land of daydreams
Right now I'm reading Killer Bears, which is a collection of essays on bear attacks in the US and Canada, and X Stands for the Unknown by Isaac Asimov. I'm also struggling through Plains of Passage by Jean Auel, but I've been reading it since April and it just doesn't interest me as much as the other Earth's Children books.


Top
 Profile  
 
Display posts from previous:  Sort by  
Post new topic Reply to topic  [ 917 posts ]  Go to page Previous  1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 ... 31  Next

All times are UTC - 8 hours [ DST ]


Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 4 guests


You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot post attachments in this forum

Search for:
Jump to:  

W/T Love 24/7 since July 2000
Powered by phpBB © 2000, 2002, 2005, 2007 phpBB Group