Now I'm reading "The Battle for Gullywith" by Susan Hill AND the first volume of L.M.Montgomery's published journals.

"The Sound on the Page," by Ben Yagoda, and rereading "The Shipping News," by Annie Proulx.

I plan on reading Road to Nowhere this week, a very *VERY* long fanfic set in Strangetown. It sounds soooooo rad.

"An echo to the bone" by Diana Gabaldon & Online I'm reading the first Pollyanna novel by Eleanor H. Porter



L.M Montgomery is absolutely brilliant =)

Re-reading The Diary of Anne Frank

L.M Montgomery is absolutely brilliant =)

She is, isn't she. And her journals have a much more frank realness to them than her books, which I found often a bit chintzy :/

"The Echo," by Minette Walters, just for a little bit of light reading when I can spare a few minutes of distraction, and "Brideshead Revisited," by Evelyn Waugh.

'To Kill A Mockingbird' by Harper Lee for English. I actually quite like it, which is a surprise. I usually don't like school assignments.

"The World to Come," by Dara Horn and "The Night of the Gun," by David Carr. I'm also itching to get my hands on Dave Eggers' "Zeitoun."

PixCii, are you loving Brideshead? One of my favorite novels.

I am currently reading a children's book. It is The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan. Pretty interesting, I must say. It's about the Egyptian Gods.
I only have fifteen pages!

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Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck.

Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion by David Hume, Iron Council by China Mieville, and a rather tedious anthology on the nonidentity problem that I need to read for a paper. And soon I'll be reading Reasons and Persons by Derek Parfit, for that same paper.

Oh, how I love that book!
I'm rereading Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome and Primavera by Lilli Promet.

"Darkness", by Elena P. Melodia

The Horse Whisperer, by Nicholas Evans :]

Do mangas count? If so I'm reading Dance in the Vampire Bund by Nozomu Tamaki. If not I'm like, two chapters from finishing Salem's Lot by Stephen King.

I finished the Outlander series again....so have to wait for the 8th book in the series to come out in a year or two *sigh* ... So i picked up a random book at the library last night while talking to my Stepdad and got it out, It's called Metropolis by Elizabeth Gaffney. From what I've read thus far, it's pretty good. Unfortunatley I've told myself not to pick the book up again until I finish my dang Uni assignment. Better get back to it then. Lol

Look, a thread for me! :P

I'm currently reading The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi. It's a sci-fi, based on a futuristic vision of our world. It's very good so far, although I haven't gotten much through it yet. The setting so far is in Asia: one character in Bangkok and another character elsewhere, it isn't made clear yet.

It has a lot of environmental themes - food has been contaminated by bio-terrorist genetic defects and the oil ran out long ago. Apparently there's going to be more dealing with this as I get further into the book.

I think I have book-related ADD. I can't seem to stick to one. Still am halfway through The Shining yet I've started one on greek mythology, Russell Brand's My Booky Wook and The Hobbit. Aargh I need to ration myself I think!! I did finish Ozzy Osbourne's autobiography, which was hilarious in some points and horribly sad in others.

Jack Jovil - Genevieve Undead

re-reading because it's an awesome book.

Just started "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", by Douglas Adams. Been wanting to read it for ages (and can't believe I haven't read it already!), so I'm pretty excited. :D

"Cloud Atlas," by David Mitchell and "The Same Sea," by Amos Oz.

Velocity.

"The Sound of Waves", by Yukio Mishima.

Harry Potter et le Prisonnier d'Azkaban. I find it the most enjoyable way to practice my French.

Ballistics, by Billy Collins, A Tale of Love and Darkness, by Amos Oz, and The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009, anthologized by Dave Eggers. I can't wait for the 2010 edition to be released in October, even more so because David Sedaris is prefacing it.

... Twilight...

I swore never to read it. Then I saw the film. It is actually quite good. A lot of my friends will think I have been placed by an impostor... Reading Twilight! Liking it! SHOCK!
I am sorry for being a traitor but, like I said, it is ACTUALLY quite good.

The Mortal Instruments Book One - City Of Bones by Cassandra Clare.

The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien

Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
I've read so many of Austen's books and just found this amoungst the clutter i call my room :]

If you know what's good for you, you'll skip the chapter about The Council of Elrond. That's an hour of my life filled with utter confusion and futility that I can't get back . I love Tolkien dearly and have read all of his work, but oh, God... the council of Elrond is the absolute worst. The film version distills all of the necessary material quite nicely and eliminates Gandalf's thirty-page speech.

I watched The fellowship of the ring a week ago and loved it but I don't think I will be able to read the book. The film seems to simplify a lot but still having depth and I like it that way.

I think that Peter Jackson did an exceptional job of pilfering what was necessary from the books while allowing a few less important characters and occurrences to fall by the wayside. After all, the fact that Frodo and Sam encounter a singing fool named Tom Bombadil on their way to Bree holds no significance whatsoever, in the grand thematic scheme. Jackson tightened up Tolkien's excesses (such as Gandalf's thirty-page speech) to make for a work that perhaps runs more smoothly than the novels, but loses none of the characters' spirits.

Jackson only made one big alteration, and despite having seen Return of the King numerous times, I still wonder why. When the hobbits return to the Shire after the destruction of the ring in the novel, they find that Galadriel's prophetic vision was ultimately accurate- the Shire was enslaved by Saruman. Frodo, too exhausted to fight another war, holes himself away in his hobbit hole while Sam leads the war to overthrow Saruman and ultimately becomes the mayor of the Shire. I think it lends a far more meaningful interpretation to Frodo giving Sam the book of his adventures and saying "The last pages are for you, Sam," because Frodo's story has come to a close- now it's Sam's turn to be the hero rather than the sidekick. Maybe, in cutting this out and going with the rosy, happy-go-lucky ending that he did, Jackson wants us to believe that evil will never return to Middle Earth because it was vanquished, but I never interpreted that to be Tolkien's perception. However, I digress. Despite his final omission (and the fact that he made Legolas and Gimli into bumbling idiots purely for comic relief), Jackson made wonderful movies out of wonderful books.

That's my favorite Jane Austen.

The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy.

Wicked by some Greggory Maguire or something.

Linger by Maggie Stiefvater

and

Blood Red Snow White by Marcus Sedgwick

The Sea, The Sea, by Iris Murdoch and Let the Great World Spin, by Colum McCann.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire in French, and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, by Douglas Adams.

Maps and Legends, by Michael Chabon, and The Crying of Lot 49, by Thomas Pynchon.

"Blueback" by Tim Winton.
Easiest book I've ever read - it's for English. -__-

^Winton's work may be easy to read, but when it comes to analysis, he's very deep in his work. Look out for a lot of religious undertones and links within the stories.

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith <3

Lol, I agree. Don't hate me people 0_0.
It is really fun making fun of it, and yeah it is pretty stupid in places - but it is quite enjoyable to read

'Looking good dead', by Peter James.

Im reading the mortal instruments #3 the city of glass by something Clare

Mrs. Dalloway, by Virgina Woolf.

Enduring Love, by Ian McEwan and The Periodic Table, by Primo Levi.

Crime And Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Soultaker by Bryan Smith

Linger
Host
Breaking Dawn
Airhead
Broken.

i like to read more then one book at a time

The Family Mashber, by Der Nister and The Museum of Innocence, by Orhan Pamuk.

I Just finished reading the Passage by Justin Cronin - It may just be the best book in the history of the world

Fallen,I got it yesterday

Don't talk to me about reading. I have to read Lord of the Flies for school. Eh.

^God, I hated that book. I have great reverence for the classics and enjoy many that others do not, but other than its use of allegory (and even that was rather heavy-handed and simplistic), Lord of the Flies was utterly unredeemable, for me.

I'm reading Bright Lights, Big City, by Jay McInerney, and The Ground Beneath Her Feet, by Salman Rushdie.

Alex & Me by Irene Pepperidge. Really fascinating. I of course knew of Alex, but I certainly didn't know the extent of his abilities. The fact that he clearly understood the concept and function of the word "no" is quite amazing.

I have just finished reading 'The secret dreamworld of a shopaholic', by Sophie Kinsella. I loved it <3.
I'm now reading 'Riders' by Jilly Cooper

I found a rather large collection of Julio Cortázar's short stories in the attic, so I'm reading those right now. The Pursuer left me speechless.

'What Happened To Lani Garver' by Carol Plum Ucci.

Crush, by Richard Siken and Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, by Annie Dillard. Holy shit, this woman can write.

Billiards at Half-past Nine, by Heinrich Böll. It's incredible.

1984, by George Orwell, and Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, both for a school project. And How I Live Now, by Meg Rosoff, just for fun.

Velocity by Dean Koontz. And before that I read False Memory by Dean Koontz. I love the the man's books and I'm not afraid to admit it. His best one in Watchers though.

Halflife, by Meghan O'Rourke and rereading the exquisite Le Petit Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupery. I'm also itching to get my hands on Nicole Krauss' Great House and David Sedaris' Squirrel Seeking Chipmunk.

Why I love David Sedaris:
"He took a sip of my father's weak coffee and spit it back into the mug.
'This shit's like making love in a canoe,' he said.
'Excuse me?' my father said.
'It's fucking near water!'"

"The book thief" by Markus Zusak.

The Waves, by Virginia Woolf.

I recently finished Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins, and now I'm flipping through Book of Longing, by Leonard Cohen.

An American Childhood, by Annie Dillard and Great House, by Nicole Krauss. I never thought that Krauss would be able to top herself after The History of Love, but was I ever wrong. I hope that Great House wins the National Book Award for which it was nominated.

OK! I read a half-dozen or so books a month so this one is EASY!!

Emissary of the Doomed by Ronald Florence

From So Simple A Beginning (The 4 major books of Darwin)
by Edward O Wilson

Himmler's Crusade by Christopher Hale

The Mind & The Brain (Neuroplasticity & The Power of Mental Force)
by Jeffry M. Schwartz, MD & Sharon Begley

I'm going to agree with your opinion of the man!!!! I own every one of his books but he just can't crank them out fast enough for me I just re-read "Taken" & the 4 "Odd Thomas" books which are my favorites!

The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum, by Heinrich Böll.

Jane Eyre By Charlotte Brontë, The other Boleyn girl by Philippa Gregory and The Medici seal by Theresa Breslin. I've got three other large Philippa Gregory novels waiting for me so I really gotta finish these books lol.

I just finished reading both, they are so trippy but with really abrupt endings in my opinion.

I'm re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-(exponent x 132901 here)-reading Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows. I'm on The Ghoul In Pajamas so far. For school I have to read - you guessed it - Deathly Hallows anyways because we're exploring good vs. evil, and my new class (I transferred cos my English teacher hates me and I wasn't passing because it was so loud in there) is full of Potterheads. Which I think is amazing. <3

The Gift, by Hafiz, and Dune, by Frank Herbert. Dune isn't my normal fare, but I and a friend of mine got in an argument about the greatest work of science fiction literature. I argued that it's The Martian Chronicles and he argued for Dune, but neither of us have read the other's choice, so we're going to do that and then have another argument :P.

^ Good idea!

I just started on the James Potter series by . . . hmm. I forgot. Crap.

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire

Impulse by Ellen Hopkins

Book of Longing by Leonard Cohen. If you want some amazing poetry, I strongly suggest you ladies check it out.

I just finished reading Smiles to Go by Jerry Spinelli. Good book, great author.

I'm going to attempt to read Catcher in the Rye for the second time, I tried to months ago but couldn't. Am I the only one that found that book a tad bit boring?

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K Rowling, so I can refresh my memory before the movie Wednesday night (Or, technically, Thursday morning.)

"Looking Good Dead", by Peter James.

Blood Meridian, by Cormac McCarthy, and The Latehomecomer, by Kao Kalia Yang.

Double post!

The Essential Rumi, as translated by Coleman Barks, and Crush, by Richard Siken. I've read what little of Siken's poetry can be found online, but the actual book has been too rare to acquire easily until recently. I'm so excited that I finally got my hands on it; his poems are like a simultaneous punch to both the heart and the gut.

Plato's Theaetetus.

Suttree, by Cormac McCarthy, Holy the Firm, by Annie Dillard, and Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro.

A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore.

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith.

The Plague, by Albert Camus.

I'm reading the Sammy Keyes series by Wendelin Van Draanen even though it is far below my reading level... Heck it was below my reading level when it started... But I like the series, it is very cute mystery series. So I shall continue to follow it as I have been since 1998.

About to start Jonathan Livingston Seagull, by Richard Bach.

Double posting, 'cause it's fun.

I'm reading The Tao of Pooh to cheer me up a bit.

The Famished Road, by Ben Okri, and Kalooki Nights, by Howard Jacobson.

The Symposium, by Plato, and Steppenwolf, by Hermann Hesse. I've still got a pretty big list of philosophical texts to work my way through, I think I'm going to take a break soon and find something lighter to read.

The Finkler Question, by Howard Jacobson, and In the Image, by Dara Horn.

One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez.

I think One Hundred Years of Solitude is one of the greatest novels of all time; I'm referencing it in a paper I'm writing about cross-cultural magical realism. The respective parts involving Amaranta, Pietro Crespi, and Remedios the Beauty are absolutely sublime. Garcia Marquez does mysticism like no other.

I'm reading The Adventures of Augie March, by Saul Bellow, and re-reading Swann's Way, by Marcel Proust.

Schweigeminute by Siegfried Lenz and Horrid Henry's Stinkbomb, which I am reading to my 3 and 4 year olds.

'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", by JK Rowling.

Resurrection, by Leo Tolstoy.