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What Book(s) are you currently reading?
The Drama/book post got me thinking.
I just read The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath and I am now reading Wintering by Kate Moses which is about Sylvia Plath's life right before her suicide. The Bell Jar is a classic I have always wanted to read - it was very good but depressing.
What is everyone else reading?
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Re: What Book(s) are you currently reading?
I'm trying to get through Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle (sorry, PGH). I wanted it and appreciate it, but I just want to slap Barbara Kingsolver all the time. She's such a douche. I think I now have an inkling of what conservatives mean when they say liberal elite. They don't really mean Obama, they mean BK.
I am looking forward to reading America's Hidden History: Untold Tales of the First Pilgrims, Fighting Women, and Forgotten Founders Who Shaped a Nation.
The Bell Jar was so very depressing to me. Really, I didn't enjoy it.
Have you read The Awakening by Kate Chopin? It also has a similar macabre feeling, but much more palatable, IMO.
I am currently slogging though Time Traveler's Wife. I have a terrible habit of starting books and never finishing them, so I am also meandering my way through The Other Boleyn Girl and Bel Canto. I am enjoying them both. But my ability to read for pleasure was greatly mutilated by law school and I am slowly trying to get it back.
I just read A Good Indian Wife by Anne Cherian, about a Indian man who comes to college in America, becomes a successful doctor, then gets tricked by his family into an arranged marriage while he's home on a visit. Loved it, would highly recommend.
I am starting a fantasy book that I won't say the name of because it's embarrassing... LOL. But if you like scifi/fantasy I definitely recommend Kate Forsyth.
Next, I think I will pick up God's Politics.
My taste in literature is eclectic to say the least.
I'm about half way done...I'll let you know when I finish!
We should totally start a book club after the election! I'm in.
LMW - I have read The Awakening - agree it's great. Bell Jar was ultra depressing I may have liked it more as a teen/young adult. I have the Time Traveler's Wife on my shelf to read.
Bunny - Sorry to hear Barbara Kingslover's new book is not good - I loved the Poisionwood Bible.
Thanks for the heads up. I can usually handle dry as long as I sandwich it with stuff that's more colorful... IE my dragon books, as DH calls them. I'll skip parts if they get too dull, as you suggest.
As for long, I read freakishly fast so not a problem.
It's really not bad. It's something like $2 ish per book, but it really depends on size.
When I first started I had to go to the post office every time to weigh the book and buy the postage. But now they estimate the postage for you and you can buy and print it out online. So it's super easy. It's like magic. Plus, the selection is huge! (FYI, you only pay postage to send a book, not to get one in return.)
Discrete Event Simulation
Operations Planning and Control
Gotta love school
Other people love it, it's just not for me. Every other sentence while I read it is an angry exclamation to DH about how unrealistic, crappy, and uninformed it is.
I am a runner, knitter, scientist, DE-IVF veteran, and stage III colon cancer survivor.
Gtown, that's in my pile. I have some book club obligations first, but I definitely want to read that. East of Eden is one of my favorite books all time. I think it's tied with Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie.
I am a runner, knitter, scientist, DE-IVF veteran, and stage III colon cancer survivor.
I am such a fiction lover and now I feel ashamed of my books after seeing what you gals read.
I forgot who is still working on Time Traveler's Wife, but I tried so hard to get into that book and I just couldn't. Two of my co-workers swore by it and I tried it three different times and kept falling asleep.
Now, bring on a good vampire book and we'll talk. lol.
ditto this! i probably only read 2-3 nonfiction books a year... and maybe like 15-20 fiction.
And you guys all beat me, because I maybe read 2-3 books a year. Definitely no more than 5.
Oh, I'm with you on the fiction thing. It's all I read. Although I have No Ordinary Time on my TBR pile.
It's me working through Time Traveler's Wife. I hated the first half. Now that I am close to the end, the plot is really picking up. The reason why I didn't really like it was because the two main characters were such navel gazing douche bags in the beginning and the husband (Harry) reminds me so much of a arty ex-bf I had. Grrr. Also, I'm just not a fan of love stories...ack. I need something more than love and sex to get me through a book. I get it. You two love each other. *yawn*.
/end TTW rant
I am always reading. I had to laugh at LMW comment about school destroying her love of reading. As I stated before I was an English major and I had to read like 5 books at a time during school so, it took years before I could sit down and really read something and just enjoy it again.
I have heard of the paperback swap. I am intrigued, maybe I should join. Is anyone on GoodReads?
reading is my 'thing'. DH makes fun of me for it. and, not all of those books are new books, i have my own library collection and i re-read my favorite series sometimes. also, although i am a full time student still, i only work part time... which leave me with time on my hands, lol.
I'm currently re-reading A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving. But I haven't picked it up in a few days - I usually read on the bus, and this week, I've been playing with my new iPhone instead. Must stop that!
I recently read American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld (the fictionalized version of Laura Bush's life). SO good.
I know I've plugged it before, but I will plug it anyway - Ghost Wars by Steve Coll is a must-read for you non-fiction readers.
On my list for immediate reading after I finish Owen Meany are The Bin Ladens by Coll and The Amateur Marriage by Anne Tyler. I have some random stuff on my shelf I want to read. Other than the ones I already own, I check all my books out from the library.
I just recently finished The Mommy Myth and The Price of Motherhood. I'm currently working my way through Parenting, Inc.
Oh, and btw, I meant to thank you all for those recs... TTT for P,I. and hrparker, maybe? for TMM.
I'd love to do that, but we don't have either the money or the space to do that. Plus, I've moved approximately 20 times in the last 8 years. I finally got tired of carting my books around everywhere. I saved my favorites and sold the rest. If I read a book I really want to read again, I figure I can buy it when it comes out in paperback.
I always have a few going at once.
Novel: On Beauty by Zadie Smith. Interesting. Not compelling, though.
http://www.amazon.com/Beauty-Zadie-Smith/dp/0143037749/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1224881711&sr=8-1
Just finished: Alternadad... fun, I feel kinda like I know these people (except the pot smoking!)
http://www.amazon.com/Alternadad-Story-Familys-Struggle-America/dp/1400095581/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1224881851&sr=1-1
Just started: an FLDS trash nonfiction, When Men Become Gods
http://www.amazon.com/When-Men-Become-Gods-Polygamist/dp/0312372485/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1224881912&sr=1-1
Just saw this author speak, bought the book, haven't started it yet... Connection Parenting
http://www.amazon.com/Connection-Parenting-Through-Instead-Coercion/dp/1932279768/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1224882013&sr=1-1
I am the 99%.
I just caved in yesterday at Target and bought the first 3 books of the southern vampire mysteries. If anyone watches True Blood on HBO it's the series behind the books. It's like my favorite show on TV right now.
I'm also reading the Book Thief right now.
PBS is an awesome site, I have received/mailed many books from that site.
And I loved the time travelers wife. I was engrossed in it, and I couldn't stop thinking about it after I was done with it.
We should totally start a book club, I am so in. I love to read.