i just started into the Twilight series. Twilight was awesome; great plot, unexpected twists, romance and action. I must say that I was disappointed with New Moon though. For some reason I just didn't enjoy it as much. I'm looking forward to reading Eclipse!
Lord of the Flies, Fahrenheit 451, Mere Christianity (again), and The Silver Chair (again, but this time to my little sister). I think that's it...I just finished 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Lord of the Flies is okay, but I'm only a little over half-way through it; my dad asked me if it was disturbing yet, so now every other paragraph, I think someone is going to kill someone else. Fahrenheit 451 is scaring me because I can see America becoming like that after six or seven years of the Obama Administration. Honestly, I don't see a huge difference between him and Hitler. No one can think for themselves and everyone thinks they are happy, but no one really is. Mere Christianity is really good because C.S. Lewis has a way of taking the really complex doctrines and making them almost-but-not-quite-completely understandable. Of course, being human, it's impossible for us to completely understand most of it in this life, but it makes these Truth-stranger-than-fiction concepts believable, while reminding the reader that God is omnicient and we are not. And The Silver Chair is the second best book in The Chronicles of Narnia, after The Horse and His Boy. I love the whole part from where Rilian is tied up in the chair and for an hour he actually has his head screwed on straight to when they finally escape from the Underworld and Eustace gets hit in the face with a snowball! Talk about fun!
I just finished No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy and now I'm reading A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers.
Contemporary France: An introduction to French Politics and Society... Oh don't I wish I could be reading something more of my own choice....
Of Mice and Men for english literature. I'm finding it generally okay at the moment. Only just finished the first chapter though.
I just read 'The Wasps', 'The Poet and the Women' (Thesmophoriazusae) and 'The Frogs', all by the Father of Comedy: Aristophenes 446 - 386 BC. All in one go, one after the other, last night. Fantastic!
I always read two books at one time. Currently: Slaughterhouse-Five by Vonnegut Dry by Augusten Burroughs
I am currently reviewing a collection of Robert Frost poems and I am also re-reading Demon-Haunted World, by Carl Sagan.
I'm reading Madeleine L'Engle Herself. I've felt like reading autobiography's lately, I don't know why. Anyways, I love the book. It's not really an autobio, but more her thoughts on art. Sort of boring to read quickly, though, because each "chapter" is about a paragraph long, and is basically just random thoughts of hers. But it IS pretty amazing. I'm waiting to get Harpo Speaks, Harpo Marx's autobiography, though. I read the first 5 pages on Amazon and was hooked. He wrote it with another author, but you can still tell that it's Harpo, and it's one of the best 5 pages I have ever read.
I just started reading Ender's Game again last night, should be done this afternoon. Also American Gods by Neil Gaimon.
Invitation to a Beheading by Nabokov - Perhaps on the best things I've ever read. Witty, absurd and something I can completly relate to because like Cinncinatus I feel like I'm an opague man in a transluenct world. The Wanting Seed by Anthony Burgess - Not bad. Not bad. Original plot. Not as good as Clockwork though.
Finishing up Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox by Eion Colfer Not as good as the first ones, but still enjoyable. =] Then it's off to go read Night World.
British Government and the Constitution by Turpin and Tomkins The Law of Contract by Koffman and Mcdonald Tort Law by McBride and Bagshaw. Roll on Christmas, when I can read something interesting.
Heart of the World, by Linda Barnes. This offering in the Carlotta Carlyle mystery series takes a more spiritual turn than usual. It also takes the Boston P.I. out of her element as she follows the trail of kidnappers into the jungles of Colombia in a very personal case. I'm about 80% through it, and it has been difficult to put down.
Moon Deluxe by Frederick Bartheleme, and A Compact History of Infinity by David Foster Wallace. I try to dabble in extremes
White Shark by Peter Benchly and Flood Tide by Clive Cussler... I have a Janet Evanovich book up next, along with another Robin Cook and "A Brave New World" sitting in the wings
Last night I finished Heart of the World, by Linda Barnes, and started her newest novel, Lie Down With the Devil. It's very closely tied in with Heart of the World; the events at the end of that are the set-up for the current novel.
