What are you reading?

[Alcy]

Reading Band of Brothers by Stephen Ambrose, felt like watching the Mini-Series again and thought I would read the book first. I've just finished reading some of Ambrose's other books D-Day and Citizen Soldiers and they're all excellent.

I found Band of Brothers on trademe(a Kiwi site that's kinda like ebay although a lot smaller so ordinary people can sell their stuff easily) for 7 bucks so I'm pleased with my purchase!

[JustSkipIt]

ChiRunning by Danny Dreyer

[writerfreak]

I'm just starting Innocent In Death by JD Robb.

writerfreak

[Lifty]

Reading Frankenstein for school. I think i like my picture book version better.

[Boschi]

Operating Instructions by Anne LaMott.

[summer fairy]

I'm reading a few books at the moment, Harry Potter, I always re-read them, there fantasitic.

[JustSkipIt]

The Secret. It shouldn't take long and it's very positive.

[Willow Watcher]

Tears of the Goddess by Lisa Contryman. Its one of my favorite fics.

[summer fairy]

Chat Magazine

[littlewicca]

Im readin a stephen king book, called Dark Tower I

I also have hp books and more

[Bound2Her]

Re-reading this book I happened upon at Barnes and Nobles (in the GLBT section) called "Punk and Zen" by JD Glass. I love it.

[JustSkipIt]

A lesbian novel called Crush that I got at the store today.

[kisstheviolets]

i just started "quirkyalone" after a friend who identifies as QA recommended it to me. i think i've found my tribe. http://www.quirkyalone.net/qa/

[Alcy]

Have just finished reading 'Hood' by Emma Donoghue, an excellent but exceptionally sad book about Pen, an Irish lesbian whose partner is killed in a car crash, story partially told in flashbacks.
I loved it so much I'm currently reading her book 'Life Mask' - set in 18th century England - although am finding it to be not as good, I've ordered her latest book "Landing" which is contemporary so I hope amazon ships it out to me post haste!

[summer fairy]

I'm reading 'Beautiful Child' by Torey Hayden. I am only quarter a way through it and its about a experince of a teacher working with special need children, I have read some of her other books and she is a superb writter.

[Boschi]

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Still reading, but it is definitely turning the little cogs of my brain. Points out pretty brutally how much I relate to the characters because of their comfortable middle class existence (and now I'm wondering if this would even occur to me so clearly if the characters were white Americans....).

At anyrate: it follows a group of characters in Nigeria in the late fifties and sixties. I am not well informed on the history of the country, which the book is helping with a little. It covers the coups that led to the splitting off of Biafra and the subsequent war/conflicts.

Some plots are remarkable because you catch a string of meaning in the events the book presents. Things hang together.
This one is remarkable because although the interactions of the characters are interesting in their own right, the world they live in becomes progressively less sensical and meaningful. You begin to wonder if their lives were ever relevant to the world around them, and what ways of living would truly tie in to the realities of politics and war.

a little bleak, but good.

[gorn]

I was part way through my wife's Japanese version of "Memoirs of a Geisha" (curious, because the original was actually in English - it had to be translated into Japanese), but ...

Someone bumped the "Neverland" thread a few days back. It wasn't an update, but just for the hell of it I thought I'd go back and read the first chapter or two, kind of remind myself how much I loved that fic, you know? Well, as some of you have probably already experienced, once I started reading it - again - I was sucked right in. Again. I'm on Chapter 8 or so, reading a little bit every night, and I have no intention of reading anything else until I'm done.

[JustSkipIt]

Nothing but some magazines which is very strange for me. I may start Eldest.

[JustSkipIt]

I continued to give my brain a break by rereading Making up for Lost Time and Daughters of a Coral Dawn. Now I'm reading The Audacity (sp) of Hope by Barak Obama. So far, it's quite good.

[Lifty]

"Drawn from Life" by John Olsen! any budding artists or generally enthusiastic people read it!!

[CrazyTaraWitch]

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
need to finish it, though, so I can start The Age of Innocence for english.

[writerfreak]

The Chosen by Celia Thomson. Didn't know when I started the series, but as I've reached the 3rd book I've found that it has lots of Buffy references.

writerfreak

[umgaynow]

I am finally reading Ghosts of Albion:Accursed...the chick that wrote it is totally hot! Pretty good, although you can totally tell who wrote which bits...Amber's just have that Amberness to them...and to quote Martha...It's a Good Thing

Also reading Weird New England...funny thing is, most of the really weird stuff seems to be in Connecticut

Sandi

[Leaf]

Just finished Leslie Feinberg's new (or new to the library at least) book - Drag King Dreams.
Gotta say I didn't love it as much as Stone Butch Blues. Oh well.

[dlline]

The Bobby Gold Stories by Anthony Bourdain

[littlewicca]

The Rosenberg Files

[dlline]

[Justified12]

Smut Bunnies lol

[writerfreak]

Annie On My Mind by Nancy Garden, again, for like the zillionth time. Did I mention its my favorite book in the world?

writerfreak

[willowfan7]

Atonement, by Ian McEwan. I find I really enjoy his books.