What Are You Reading Now.

I was in Belfast on thursday sorting out things for my university and I ended up spending over £30 on books. I've been meaning to get them for a while though, so I was like an excited child at Christmas

I bought:

Breakfast of champions
Slaughterhouse 5 (Both by Vonnegut)
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The man in the high castle by Phillip K Dick

 

All really good novels.

I'm currently reading Paradiso. Book III of The Divine Comedy.

 

Finished both The Age of Odin and GIG, and both I enjoyed, although The Age of Odin was defiantly the better. Next is The Concrete Grove.

 

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.

 

My English class is going over One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey - since I came in late, the teacher let me borrow a copy to get caught up. He made me give it back yesterday so I didn't go ahead, and now I'm going through withdrawal.

Also Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson, when my mom isn't reading it. Hopefully we can both get through it before it has to go back to the library.

 

Currently reading Huckleberry Finn for the first time. It's fantastic

 

Currently reading As Good As Dead by Beverly Barton

 

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. I'm enjoying it so far.

 

For the first time in years, I'm reading a non-fiction book. "Inside of a Dog; What Dogs See, Smell, and Know" by Alexandra Horowitz. I'm loving this book. It's very informative while still managing to be light and entertaining; it's the perfect balance for readers who don't normally enjoy educational-type books.

 

Beyond Good and Evil - Friedrich Nietzche

The Trial - Franz Kafka

Ficciones - Jorge Luis Borges

 

I'm 2 chapters into A Long, Long Way by Sebastian Barry. It's done the amazing task of pulling me in right off the bat. It has all sorts of little breaks that are nice for reading during class. It's prose are amazingly beautiful and it is extremely memorable. I'm only 2 chapters in and I love this book.

 

I'm reading book seven in the Rachel Caine Morganville Vampire Series, it's taken me about 5 days to read the first six, I think I may have a problem, I just never know when to say enough is enough Just one more page, one more then I'll go to sleep seems to be my sentence of choice since I discovered how much I love to read once I left school 7 years ago, I think when I am done with these I will return to my old favourite Of Mice and Men

 

Just started All Quiet On The Western Front.

 

I really want to read that at some point.

 

^ Yeah, I've been meaning to read it for years. Finally getting round to it though.

 

Reading Memnoch, The Devil by Anne Rice for the hundredth time. Simply because I have nothing better to read right now. I'll probably read The Giver once I'm done with this one.

 

What's this one about? If it's either of the world wars then I'll jump on it. Historical fiction/none-fiction from that era is something I thoroughly enjoy reading.

 

Just started I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb. Pretty good so far. Especially loving the dialogue.

 

Emma-Jane Austen, plus a chic-lit novel: Dedication-Emma Mc Laughlin & Nicola Kraus (so far pretty boring for being chic-lit).

 

Aha I'm like that too with the world wars. It's about the First World War. You should definitely read it.

 

I'm reading the Art History Fourth Edition, written by Marilyn Stokstad and Michael W. Cothren. We have to read it and understand it for our class project and to progress in the semester.

 

The first world war is my favorite to read about. Depressing as shit, but still amazing.

 

The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi. The sequel to Old Man's War. Thus far, it's very good.

 

Agreed.

As well as AQOTWF, I've just started Doing It by Melvin Burgess. I've been curious about reading this for a while.

 

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien.