What Are You Reading Now.

Yeah, that part was weird. It seemed a little out of character.

 

I think it all depends. Some migrant workers are very adept at building their assets because of their willingness to save as much as humanly possible.

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During my commute home I've been listening to The Help by Kathryn Stockett. The narrator is fantastic, which only adds to this interesting story.

 

I'm off to pick up a copy of "The Truth About Forever" by Sarah Dessen, suggested by a fantastic WF-member.

 

Yay!

 

I just finished reading Harry Potter: Deathly Hallows and I'm utterly depressed. I started book 1 in October and end up reading one after the other.

Thought I pick up a simple "rebound" book and chose The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks. It's hard for me to make the transition though. My mind's still at Hogwarts.

 

Reading Brisingr for the second time by Christopher Paolini. Kinda want to read the whole thing backwards a second time instead of forwards the first time. Have rekindled my love for hard-core fantasy.

 

I liked Brisingr better than the other two. I can't wait to see what happens next.

 

I'm reading 3 books right now:

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Brave New World
Crime and Punishment

I don't usually read more than one book at a time but, since the books are so different, it really helps when I'm in different moods.

 

Someone handed me Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell and told me to read it. I am up to chapter 4, but I do not feel like finishing it, seems a bit repetitive.

 

Finished the Seamus Heaney translation of Beowulf...meh...there are better translations.

Reading Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman now. It's fairly annoying because I really dislike self-aggrandizing work. So that mean I'll probably try to finish it today to get it over with.

I'll be moving to Good Wives by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich right afterward.

 

Finished Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass. It has a few stellar lines, but mostly I was annoyed with it. I couldn't stand the poem Song of Myself in it, which basically makes up most of the poems. The poem Crossing Brooklyn Bridge was really good though.

Now on to Good Wives by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, not that excited about it though. I'm more excited for Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, which I'll be reading right afterward.

 

I love Sir Gawain and the Green Knight!

I'm reading Stolen Innocence right now, which is a book about a young woman who was brought up in the FLDS religion and forced to marry her first cousin at the age of 14. It's...quite a horrific story.

 

Currently

I am reading the Gaunts Ghosts omnibus by Dan Abnett, it is an exemplary read and to this day is the best bit of books I've ever personally read! If anyone has read them and know of any other books that are similar, please shoot me a PM and let me know of them!!! Thanks everyone!!!

 

I wonder about that book, I've read his 'Horus Heresy' contributions and honestly, I don't rate him that highly as a writer.

 

Still reading Tom Barry: IRA Freedom Fighter. Good book.

 

I just finished reading the silmarillion like yesterday and I found it be an awesome book, I'm going to start reading there and back again soon, maybe tomorrow idk.

 

I highly agree. Those are some of favorite fantasy novels. I especially like how The Silmarillion by Tolkien is set up. Little vignettes on the history of Middle-Earth...brilliant. I need to read that again, it's been years.

 

Finished Autofiction by Hitomi Kanehara (it was great, but not quite as mind-blowingly amazing as Snakes & Earrings), about halfway through a short story collection called Nobody Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July (of You, Me and Everyone We Know fame), and sorta starting Forbidden Colours by Yukio Mishima.

 

I'm reading The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan. I'll be reading I Am The Messenger by Markus Zusak next!

 

Reading DOPE THIEF by Dennis Tafoya. Brilliant debut crime novel.

 

Lord of the Flies. Beautiful descriptions, loveable characters (some of them, not Jack LOL) and great plot. I love that the language used is so formal, because it contrasts so much with the language used and the things said by the kids, it reminds us of how young they are. It also got me thinking... I think if some one were to go through something like this, it'd actually be better to do so at that age, being about 12. I figured the older you are, the more aware you are of how terrible and serious what you're going through is. Anyways, as you can see it really got me thinking, so it's definitely good. Has any of you read it?

 

The White Queen by Phillipa Gregory. She writes such gorgeous history fiction.

The Tudor series is great too.

 

The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett.

Yes, I am a little kid.

 

I read it over 20 years ago, but reading your post makes me want to pick it up again!

 

The Sound and the Fury by Faulkner. One of the best.

The Silmarillion is my favorite Tolkien book- I used it for my senior project back in HS. It is indeed awesome!
Morgoth's my fav. character.