Recently bought Catching Fire and Mockingjay to complete my Hunger Games trilogy. Also, at a visit to the library I picked up Terry Pratchett's Interesting Times and Michael Chrichton's Jurassic Park, which I've been trying to find for a long time.
. The Importance of Being Ernest - Oscar Wilde. (Jeeves and Wooster meet Blackadder meets Red Dwarf).
I recently bought Treasure island, Hatchet, Hunger games, catching fire. So i am going to start reading these books.
I just finished The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind by Gustave Le Bon, and I'm now reading Crowds and Power by Elias Canetti to see how the two books compare. Both books deal with crowd psychology, though the ideas in the Le Bon book are outdated.
The Wings of the Sphinx, by Andrea Camilleri The Hydrogen Sonata, by Iain M. Banks MP3 audio When You Are Engulfed in Flames, by David Sedaris on CD A Damsel in Distress, by P. G. Wodehouse on audio cassette
Right now I'm actually re-reading my own book, if that counts. Other than that I've just started on Insomnia by Stephen King.
I'm just starting Haruki Murakami's latest, 1Q84. At a thousand pages plus, it's twice as long as any other Murakami book I've read. I'm liking it so far, but time will tell.
Just finished Apt Pupil, which I thought was a great character study. I'm now on The Strain by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan.
An Education, by Lynn Barber Fault Line, by Barry Eisler Borkmann's Point, by Hakan Nesser MP3 Audio And just finishing up: The Wings of the Sphinx, by Andrea Camilleri When You Are Engulfed in Flames, by David Sedaris on CD
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. I'm going to finish it, but as per William Buckley I am having to flog myself to read it. Such a poorly written book! Such terrible characterization! Such juvenile philosophy! This book sucks! Also The Eclogues by Virgil, I'm also working (painfully slow) on my own translation of the first Eclogue.
Good luck finishing it. I gave up after 6 chapters. I really disliked all of the characters...and that's not necessarily a problem, but they were also just boring. Ditto story. It was all just too black and white. Characters always represent ideologues to some extent, but sheesh! Have some subtlety, please, some flesh. Felt like Rand was trying to shove her soapbox down my throat the entire time.
I've been spending my reading time catching up with a few issues of The Missouri Review (not a book, I know, but each issue is 200 pages!). Once I make it through the semester Truman Capote's Music for Chameleons is waiting for me.
Potboiler by Jesse Kellerman and Yamada Monogatari by Richard Parks. Unfortunately I don't think I'll have time to finish either before law school.
Momentum by Saci Lloyd and so far I've finding it good and engaging (It's really strange that this author used to teach at my college lol)
Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier Cleopatra, by Stacy Schiff. E-book Odalisque: Baroque Cycle Series, Book 3, by Neal Stephenson. MP3 Audio This Body of Death, by Elizabeth George. On CD
I saw her talk at Hay Festival last year. She is SO enthusiastic! I can imagine her being a great teacher. I bought Momentum too, but haven't got round to reading it yet.
I just started "Through the Door" by Jodi McIsaac. I was not sure how I would like this book. I am only a few chapters in but I am hooked.
"How to Be a Woman," by Caitlin Moran. I was a little nervous to start reading it because, to be perfectly honest, I'm a little scared of feminist literature, but so far it's a captivating read with a ton of insight. I hate over highlighting, but I'm highlighting quotes three to four times a page!
I am reading Marion Zimmer Bradley's Raven of Avalon by Diana L. Paxson. It's a nice book, but sometimes I need to make an effort to continue reading it and I really don't know since it reads very fluently. The only thing that annoys me sometimes are the jumps in time.
I'm reading a book called "Flight Behaviour" by Barbara Kingsolver, which is a story about a woman living a life of poverty in the Appalachians. I am used to books filled with twists, action and horror; this book is much slower than what I am used to, and I am loving it.
The Fifth Woman, by Henning Mankell Bones of Contention, by Jeanne Matthews on CD Prayers for Rain, by Dennis Lehane MP3 Among the Missing, by Morag Joss MP3 And, Socrates, by Professor Thomas C Brickhouse E-book
