What's on yer current reading list?

scarhand · Post by **scarhand** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 1:41 am

thanks!

i'm reading . . . order of the phoenix because i can't remember the details my husband will be getting 6 on cd and my two older daughters will be out of town when book 6 comes in the mail on the 16th so i get to read 6 first!!!!!

one of life's little victories!

beowulf573 · Post by **beowulf573** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 6:45 am

I usually have a couple things going on at the same time....

<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de ... 7846">Make Room Make Room </a>
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de ... s&n=507846">
The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Vol. I</a>
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de ... s&n=507846">
The Design of Everyday Things</a>

I swore that this year I would cut back on buying new books and start clearing out my huge stack of unread books. So far I'm 50/50 new books and books I already have.

moxy · Post by **moxy** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 9:23 am

avanutria wrote:Ah, is that the one with the three-lettered block on the front?

Yep, that's the one.

I think that was his first book, wasn't it? And there's another one that follows it. I'm quite excited about reading it. I'm travelling at the moment, and wish I had brought THAT book with me (although the one I ended up bringing is quite good too but not in the same way!!)

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 5:40 pm

I'm reading Joni Eareckson Tada's second book (I get the titles mixed up, it's the one she wrote with Steve Estes).

For those who don't know, she is a quadraplegic (paralyzed from the neck down) who paints and draws with her mouth. I really like her books.

I'm also reading The Message Version of the New Testament. I really like it. It's so different from any other Bible translation/paraphrase/whatever out there. It doesn't have chapter and verse numbers, so it's harder to remember individual verses but that's that point: it reads like a novel, in paragraphs.

I've also been reading through some old encylopedias I found from the 1950s. It's interesting to read some of what's in there...

jbarter · Post by **jbarter** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 5:12 am

Just finished The Death And Life Of Charlie St Cloud.
Just started In The Heart Of The Sea.
In the pipeline are Mrs Dalloway and a book about the Indian Mutiny.

Post by **Dale** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 6:14 am

I'm reading Faulkner this summer and so, it turns out, as Oprah's Book Club!

I was inspired to try reading Faulkner again (I haven't tried since high school) when I heard a talk by a colleague of mine who has become a publishe Faulkner scholar. I've made my was through As I Lay Dying and am now half-way through The Sound and the Fury.

beowulf573 · Post by **beowulf573** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 6:29 am

Dad-gummit Dale, I almost spewed coffee all over my laptop keyboard after seeing your new avatar.

Just started <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de ... 07846">The Demolished Man</a> by Alfred Bester. A few years ago I made a list of Hugo Award winners and started going though them. Pretty much every won has been at least good, usually great.

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 6:49 am

DaleWisely wrote: I've made my was through As I Lay Dying and am now half-way through The Sound and the Fury.

Gads. The very two I had to read in HS AP English. Hope you like them this time. I can still quote an entire chapter from the first book mentioned. It goes like this: "My mother is a fish."

mikk · Post by **mikk** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 6:52 am

This week I have been mostly reading

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emmline · Post by **emmline** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 7:03 am

But sometimes don't you want to rough Grey Larsen up a little for his tedious attention to detail?

mikk · Post by **mikk** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 7:16 am

Yes most definitely very detailed, which is exactly why I'm alternating it with Tony Hawks. I'll pass on roughing him up though 'cause I'm not a violent man

Jeff Stallard · Post by **Jeff Stallard** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 8:11 am

Currently I'm reading "Ethics 101." I don't read much at all, however, since getting out of college. Studying English really killed my interest in books.

Sunnywindo · Post by **Sunnywindo** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 5:07 pm

Like some other folks, I've been reading Harry Potter in anticipation of the new book coming out. Read them all recently (for the first time and within the past six months) but my son likes Harry Potter (having seen the movies) so we decided to read the books together (well, me reading, him listening). We are almost through book two, reading several chapters on most days. Won't be through before the new book comes out, but that's okay as I'm getting it though the library, long waiting list there, also wanted to read it first by myself and by the time all that happens we will probably be done reading the first five books.

And wonderful fluff it is....

Sara

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 5:32 pm

CAKE OR DEATH!!!!!

I loved that show. I watched it a long time ago on HBO.

susnfx · Post by **susnfx** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 5:32 pm

My favorite Faulkner: The Reivers (made into a movie with Steve McQueen, who was terribly miscast as Boon, the not-quite-all-there "hero").

I'm reading (for the nth time) "Genius" by Patrick Dennis (the same guy who wrote "Auntie Mame"). It's probably the funniest book I've ever read and I never tire of it. I read it again whenever I'm going through really hard or stressful times. Out of print and nearly impossible to find, so I guard my little paperback copy with my life - cover now gone and looking pretty yellowed (I think I've had it since about 1974).

Susan