What book are you reading?

decides2dream

the zookeeper's wife ~ diane ackerman

bout half-way thru and it is fantastic.

rrivers

Island of the Blue Dolphins...my son is reading it in class so I am reading it with him.

oona left

decides2dream wrote:

the zookeeper's wife ~ diane ackerman

bout half-way thru and it is fantastic.

Just read this about a month ago, after stumbling across it.

It's an amazing story.

One Song Glory

Just finished Stevenson's "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" and am now about halfway through William Gibson's "Pattern Recognition". "Jekyll and Hyde" is a classic and I quite enjoyed reading the original. Not a fan of Gibson, as much as I usually love weird postmodernist shit. Not a terrible story, but his writing doesn't really impress me, a bit too Dan Brown "airport paperback" for me. Ah, the life of an English student.

tybird

"Sinner Take All...A Memoir of Love and Porn" by Tera Patrick :twisted:

decides2dream

just started yesterday:


the stranger ~ albert camus

blondieblue227

the new disability history by paul longmore

before that

the tale of egar sawtelle

Corso

One Song Glory

"Ripley Bogle" by Robert McLiam Wilson. I'm about a third of the way through and I'm adoring it so far...although I have a feeling that the protagonist is going to die at the end. It's about an extremely brilliant, young homeless guy living on the streets in London and his story of how he got there. It's also the very last novel of my undergrad degree!

One Song Glory

decides2dream wrote:

just started yesterday:


the stranger ~ albert camus

Are you reading Camus in the original French or the English translation? I remember struggling through that one for a high school French class. I THINK I enjoyed it but I'm sure I didn't get as much out of it as someone fluent in French. I've always meant to go back to the translation eventually.

Lost_Clay

i'm ripping thru Don Cherry's hockey stories & stuff & pickin away at The Acadians - a people's story of exile & triumph (by Dean Jobb)

theoceansmademe

Open by Andre Aggasi.

Must admit, I was a bit hesitant to check this one out, but 40 pages into I am glad I did.

Not sure how much help he got from his editor but the story telling is excellent so far.

smarchee

The Price Of The Marshes: And Other Occupational Hazards Of A Year In Iraq by Rory Stewart

tybird

"Peter & Max , A Fables Novel" by Bill Willingham

decides2dream

One Song Glory wrote:

decides2dream wrote:

just started yesterday:


the stranger ~ albert camus

Are you reading Camus in the original French or the English translation? I remember struggling through that one for a high school French class. I THINK I enjoyed it but I'm sure I didn't get as much out of it as someone fluent in French. I've always meant to go back to the translation eventually.

me reading in a language outside of english? hahahahahahahaha.

so yes, that's a no. i am reading the english translation. i can barely eek out a few phrases in foreign languages, forget reading in em. it's a short book, and interestingly, a very easy read when you read it in your first language. i'm enjoying it. probably finish it up tonight on the train or tomorrow at lunch. give it another go!

One Song Glory

decides2dream wrote:

One Song Glory wrote:

decides2dream wrote:

just started yesterday:


the stranger ~ albert camus

Are you reading Camus in the original French or the English translation? I remember struggling through that one for a high school French class. I THINK I enjoyed it but I'm sure I didn't get as much out of it as someone fluent in French. I've always meant to go back to the translation eventually.

me reading in a language outside of english? hahahahahahahaha.

so yes, that's a no. i am reading the english translation. i can barely eek out a few phrases in foreign languages, forget reading in em. it's a short book, and interestingly, a very easy read when you read it in your first language. i'm enjoying it. probably finish it up tonight on the train or tomorrow at lunch. give it another go!

I figured it would be an easy read in English, considering we 11th-graders were able to suss out most of it with our embarrassingly rudimentary French. I'd be curious to see how it differs in the translation...although I honestly wouldn't remember anything that specific to the French I'm sure. Grade 11 was six years ago for me!

Also, being Canadian, asking whether you're reading it in French or English is probably more of a valid question.

michelleelise

I was finally able to get "Under the Dome" from the library

I'd forgotten how much I love Stephen King - I'm only about a quarter of the way through and already feel connected to each of these characters.

rrivers

michelle822 wrote:

I was finally able to get "Under the Dome" from the library

I'd forgotten how much I love Stephen King - I'm only about a quarter of the way through and already feel connected to each of these characters.

He doesn't disappoint. I'm already looking forward to his next book.

oona left

rrivers wrote:

michelle822 wrote:

I was finally able to get "Under the Dome" from the library

I'd forgotten how much I love Stephen King - I'm only about a quarter of the way through and already feel connected to each of these characters.

He doesn't disappoint. I'm already looking forward to his next book.

That's exactly what I love most about his books - you can feel he himself loves the characters he creates.

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catefrances

are you somebody - nuala ofaolain.