Currently Reading (Take 2)

[EugLoven]

I am 50 pages from the end of The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and really would not recommend it. I have no idea why this won the 2007 Pultizer... I read such better Fiction that year.



Then I move on to New Moon and the other 2 remaining Twilight books. It is a guilty pleasure now that Harry Potter has come to an end. They are simple reads and somewhat entertaining so no harm in not reading them.



I got half-way through Audacity of Hope, then he became President and for some reason I wasnt motivated to finish it because it all felt so passe!



On my Yet-To-Read bookshelf, next in line is Life of Pi and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

[clever name]

I really liked Oscar Wao.

[EugLoven]

clevername: My best friend liked it too. As did the bookseller I nabbed it from at Strand. Can you tell me why you liked it? I am completely disinterested... Well, I am enjoying some parts of it (specifically the present-time narratives about Oscar in college and the older-womens stories of the past). And while I appreciate the brief-history of the DR, I didnt sign-up for it. I have read similar story lines before (aka Middlesex) that were far more engaging. I am grasping at straws for a succinct story-line, but I cant bite into anything. I dont really care about any of the characters nor the fuku. Makes me sad, because I wanted to like it.

[clever name]

well, I think I liked it because I was interested in them. Simply put. I loved the stories of his Mom. I was interesested in his sad loser life and the fuku. I liked his relationship with his sister. I wanted to hear what happened. It sounds like you just weren't interested, so why would you want to read any more about these people, right? That's how I felt about The Memory Keeper's Daughter. I wasn't interested in any of those people so I hated the book.

p.s I LOVED Middlesex. Great book!

[uncageg]

I realized I have 3 E. Lynn Harris books to read. I need to get the 1st two in the "trilogy" as I have the last one and the two in between the 2nd and 3rd.

Still reading "Tweaked". Still a bit out to lunch on it. Would really like to read Kurt Andersen's "Reset" next.

[sabrelady]

Finished Dant's Purgatorio (took 4evah!) Working on Mordden's "All That Glittered" and Larrsens "The Girl Who Played With Fire". Yeah, eclective in'it?

[justagirl2]

EugLoven, "Life of Pi" is one of the best books I've ever read. It's unbelievably creative and captivating, and Martel is a hell of a storyteller.

I'm currently reading "It," in a half-assed effort to scare myself.

[spiderdj82]

[Reginald Tresilian]

Just started Sarah Waters's THE LITTLE STRANGER and am loving it! It's like BRIDESHEAD REVISITED or ATONEMENT--only it's (apparently) a ghost story.

[sweetestsiren]

Well, I am enjoying some parts of it (specifically the present-time narratives about Oscar in college and the older-womens stories of the past). And while I appreciate the brief-history of the DR, I didnt sign-up for it. I have read similar story lines before (aka Middlesex) that were far more engaging.

I found Oscar Wao far more engaging than Middlesex, actually. Middlesex was dreadfully boring at certain points, and I kept waiting for there to be some sort of payoff where it would all come together, but there isn't at all. It just...ends, and I didn't feel like I gained anything out of the whole tortuous narrative. I think Diaz does a much better job than Euginides with integrating his plot threads and moving the story forward.

[colleen_lee]

Did my post get eaten?

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

[orangeskittles]

Currently- Mary Queen of Scotland & The Isles by Margaret George and Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident

Next- Lucia: A Venetian Life in the Age of Napoleon by Andrea di Robilant

[millie_dillmount]

Currently - The Devil Wears Prada (yes, I know, nothing intellectual, but I finally have some time to do some fun reading)

I might read the David Sedaris book, When You Are Engulfed in Flames, next.

[StockardFan]

I just finished At First Sight by Nicolas Sparks. It was sad.....

Getting ready to read the new Jennifer Weiner book who's title excapes me but it's the sequel to Good In Bed

[taylorPHENOMENON2]

It's called Certain Girls, I believe StockardFan. I read it after Good in Bed but didn't like it as much when it was told in Cannie's daughter's perspective. Still a fun read though.

I'm currently reading The Omnivore's DIlemma;

[spiderdj82]

[StockardFan]

Yep, that's it Taylor! I just started it a little while ago. It seems good so far, but I'm only on chapter 4.

[danmag]

Well, my last post disappeared. I'll try again..

I just started Richard Russo's new book "That Old Cape Magic"

I think he is brilliant.

[xxnewgirlxx]

I just started The Time Traveler's Wife..yes, I'm a little behind. And I'm ashamed because Audrey Niffenegger is a professor at my alma mater.

[Theatreboy49]

I just finished Everything was Possible: The Birth of the Musical Follies. It was extremly facinating. I just started World War Z by Max Brooks (a random recomendation from a friend) and once thats done I have a biography on David Merrick sitting in my room that needs to be read.

[colleen_lee]

Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger

[Plum]

Finished The Napoleon of New York: Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, which was informative but felt a bit lightweight, perhaps because it was written by a journalist and at this point my brain has been warped by years of getting most of my nonfiction from people with PhDs.

Then I read Neil Gaiman's Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?, which...well, the title story in the collection was very Gaiman, and I loved the Kubert art, but in some ways I felt like I'd seen the same ideas handled by the author before. He handled them gorgeously here, as well, but still.

Now I'm onto The Confusion, the second part of Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle. I read the first part, Quicksilver, last year, I think. My goodness that man writes long books. But I'll finish that trilogy one day, dammit!

The book sitting on my dresser waiting patiently for me is Teacher Man, the only Frank McCourt book I've never read.

[MotorTink]

In the past two weeks I have read:

Outliers: The Story of Success - Malcolm Gladwell - I like the overall message and theme the author puts out but it, in my opinion, got a little too repetative and boring. Plus, reading an entire chapter on plane crashes while on a plane...not usually a good thing, lol.

Inherit the Wind - Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee - Why it has taken me this long to read the play I have no idea, but I greatly enjoyed it. Quick read but I found it very moving.

New Moon & Eclipse - I finally gave in, and well now have become obsessed. It was hard to get through New Moon at first but by mid book it had me hooked, and then Eclipse I just ate up. Not really fond of the writing style per say, and honestly, Bella annoys the crap outta me, but I have been taken by the overall world.

and now I'm onto The Time Traveler's Wife like a lot of you.

[Ariella]

Colleen - I loved Franny and Zooey!

Currently reading Kafka on the Shore.

[Dollypop]

Just finished MAINLY ON DIRECTING by Arthur Laurents. Very engrossing.

Now reading SONG OF THE LARK by Willa Cather--another one of her sublimely written tales.