Read Club Dead by Charlaine Harris the other day. She's no mastermind I know, but I love an easy, girly read sometimes. Plus Trueblood is awesome. Right now I'm reading Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult, and I'm enjoying it; this is the first novel I've read by her.
Thats such an amazing book. I finished the book a couple weeks back and simply fell in love with it. Anyways. I finished reading X-Files: Whirlwind by Charles Grant. Not the best book, probably wouldn't make for a good X-Files episode either. However I did enjoy it. So whats to complain about? I am going to start reading The Pact by Jodi Picoult later tonight. Looking forward to it too.
Completely on board with that. During my first year of university I eventually got so sick of reading Hegel and Kant that I blew off everything for two weeks to read the Shopaholic series. Still disgusted with myself, but sometimes you just need to stop your brain from melting. Just finished The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing. Ended up really enjoying it. Now catching up on back issues of Maclean's before Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Caged Virgin comes in at the library!
As much as I'd like to give Kant a nice kick in the shin, Hegel is my arch-enemy. Ever so clever on the word-play, though.
I had to read excerpts from Hegel in a few of my classes. He is without a doubt the most difficult person I have ever read. Even my professors had a hard time deciphering what he was saying. Hegel is an interesting read to say the least.
I just started Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell. I'm also reading Writers on Writing, which is a collection of essays. Also my usual stack of magazines.
Currently reading Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers, for a book group. Very well constructed and paced story, but I find the religious side overdone -- the hero is Better Than Jesus, and the language in a brothel is more like a Sunday-school outing (while they think the minister is listening). And I couldn't help laughing when the heroine was being chased barefoot through a wood and tripped over a root -- my cliché detector went into overdrive!
Layamon's Brut, for the alliterative Arthurian bounciness, and Peter Ackroyd's London: a Biography, because it's so damned interesting.
Just finished Wizards First Rule (first book in The Sword of Truth series), by Terry Goodkind. Though some of the dialogue was off-putting, I stuck with it and have reserved the next book in the series at my library. Also reading The Autobiography of Malcolm X. Again.
I have read the sword of truth series. It just seems like a shameless rip off of the wheel of time to me.
I liked both. The Wheel of Time series is my all-time favorite fantasy series (I actually bought the whole set in hard-cover), and I never get tired of it. But The Sword of Truth series is alright enough. I enjoyed the half of it that I've read.
I'm a few chapters in to JV Jones's A Cavern of Black Ice (Sword of Shadows series) and love it so far, particularly the Ash March storyline. This is the first book I've read by her and I'm really impressed. Have heard that her Baker's Boy series, written before Sword of Shadows, isn't as good though. After that I'll probably read either the next in that series, or China Miéville's Iron Council which has been sitting on my shelf all folorn since Christmas. Not sure if it will live up to The Scar though, which I adored.
Although I dont normally like Fantasy novels I read the first three books of the Sword of Truth series while abroad and really liked them. I just finished The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay and have started One Flew Over the Cuckoo Nest.
I'm reading the collected poems of Allen Ginsberg, Live Fast, Die Young (a James Dean biography), Saint Morrissey (a Morrissey biography), and collected short stories by Jay McInerney. I'm in a reading mood haha.
I'm going to be practicing short stories for the next few weeks, so I'm reading short stories. Hemingway, Chekov, Maugham. I also have some old issues of The Paris Review I'm looking at. I suppose I should read some Raymond Carver and Alice Munro too.
Moved on to the second book of The First Law trilogy by Joe Abercrombie. I'm finding this series really enjoyable. I like that every different character's viewpoint has a different writing style.
