What Are You Reading Now.

YES.

I love those books!!!!


Currently reading All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren.

 

To kill a mockingbird by Harper Lee. About 50 pages in and finding it most excellent! It reads like velvet, the hot summer of the southern states is almost palpable.

 

Atonement

 

Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon

 

Not reading anything at the moment, need to focus on uni work. But, I have just finished Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. It's been on my 'to read' list for years and I finally got round to borrowing it from the library and reading it. I quite liked it.

 

I just finished Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy - great book, but intense

Am now reading Stone of Tears by Terry Goodkind (Book 2 in Sword of Truth series)

 

How great are Cashores's books? I'm dying for Bitterblue to come out!

 

I just finished Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, and now I'm reading the sequel, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There. To be honest, I didn't really like Alice in Wonderland. Nothing happened really. It was just a collection of nonsense.

 

I liked that one.. The first was a bit slow.. and as I recall I know I felt the first 100 pages of Stone of Tears was slow pacing also.. but it gets better and I can tell you the third one is the best so far..
I'm as far as the fifth

 

1984 by George Orwell.

 

Atonement already finished? Or a multibookreader?

 

Interzone, issue 227 (March/April)

 

Usually multibook..... :redface:

My mom doesn't get how I can read more than 1 at a time, but I can, as I'm sure many also can.

 

I guess you need to be a multireader to understand it.
I suffer from the same condition.. mixing my main reads usually with short stories (at the moment Burning your Boats by Angela Carter)

 

Just read the graphic Novel Captain Trips The first one in The Stand series by Marvel and Stephen King.
Was readable

 

Wuthering Heights. It's surprisingly relevant considering the age, can't put it down.

 

I'm reading Milton's Paradise Lost at the moment. I'm actually quite surprised how much I enjoy it, since I'm really a post-Civil War American literature junkie.

I just finished a whole pile of Contemporary, Modernist, and Post-Modernist American poems and short stories. I'll list a few here:

Ernest Hemingway's The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Faulkner's Barn Burning
T. S. Eliot's The Wasteland (A beast to understand, lots of outside research involved)
Allen Ginsberg's Howl (Takes a bit of getting used to the beat poets)
Toni Morrison's Recitatif (Which was exceptional)
...and a whole pile of poems by authors such as Plath, Sexton, Rich, Lowell, Roethke, Frost, Robinson, Ginsberg, Brooks, Williams and Bishop

 

I know it's a classic.. but somehow just couldn't get into that one.

 

I'm not a huge reader to be honest, and I do have a policy of not reading while I'm writing a novel, because I always feel guilty while reading, thinking that I could be writing or at least thinking about the plot instead.

But I did pick up a copy of Stephen King's "The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon" at a cut-price shop, and it seems suitably small, so I'm tackling it.

 

Rabbit, Run. Updike.

 

Chicken Soup for the Sports Fan's Soul. Only a couple stories, though. Two are by Jerry Kramer and Bart Starr, (Packer players from back in the Lombardi Era) and those are the only ones I want to read. They're both about a personal hero of mine: Vince Lombardi.

 

The Idiot by Dostoevsky. Best book I've read in a long time.

 

I seem to be stuck on reading The World at War, the book of the famous documentary series covering the Second World War. For a 330-page concise history it seems to be taking me forever, which is odd, as it's actually quite an easy read.

After that, I'll be diving into Ringworld by Larry Niven. It's been a while since I indulged myself in some SF.

 

I'm currently (re)reading Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Before that, I read Moab is my Washpot by Stephen Fry

 

I post monthly updates as to what I'm currently reading and what I read in the preceding month. Since tomorrow is May 1, time for an update.

I'm currently reading two books:

American Liberalism: An interpretation for our time by John McGowan

and

The Regulators by Stephen King (writing as Richard Bachman)

I'm also listening to another Stephen King on audio book:

Lisey's Story.

These two books will bring me ever closer to my goal of having read (or listened to) all Stephen King's books. I'll only have a few left after those. After these, I still need to read Rose Madder, Just After Sunset, Under the Dome, and I think that's it, unless I missed something.

April was a busy month.
I finished reading 5 books and listening to 13 audio books.

Dates are the date I finished.

Here's what I listened to on audio book.

On the Origin of Species (abridged) Charles Darwin 4/1/10
The Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis 4/2/10
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut 4/3/10
A is for Alibi by Sue Grafton 4/6/10
Marx in 90 Minutes by Paul Strathern 4/6/10
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 4/7/10
Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham 4/10/10
Citizen Washington by William Martin 4/13/10
To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf 4/15/10
Bag of Bones by Stephen King 4/22/10 Audio
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman 4/26/10
I am America and So Can You by Stephen Colbert 4/28/10
Interworld by Neil Gaiman 4/29/10

Read in book format:
Ice Station by Matthew Reilly 4/11/10
Storm of the Century (screenplay) by Stephen King 4/18/10
Sally Hemings by Barbara Chase-Ribould 4/19/10
How to Write a Damn Good Novel by James Frey 4/24/10
Frankenstein Unbound by Brian W. Aldiss 4/29/10

Of these, I most enjoyed and recommend (in no particular order):
Bag of Bones
I am America and So Can You
Interworld
How to Write a Damn Good Novel
Sally Hemings
Citizen Washington
The Day of the Triffids