What book are you reading?

myra

One Song Glory wrote:

"They Shall Inherit the Earth" by Morley Callaghan and "Player One" by Douglas Coupland. I'm frantically trying to finish "Player One" before the Massey Lecture on Monday...but I doubt it will happen. Stupid schoolwork getting in the way of my own geekiness and "research"!!

Also, props to the other Coupland lovers! I've kind of been obsessed with him since high school...it's truly unhealthy...and his work is going to be a big part of my dissertation.

I believe his writing can be pretty addictive indeed. It's simple yet deep, accurate and very much distinctive. I don't even consider it should be taught in school around here, in France, firstly because I believe his writing would lose so much with the translation. But I imagine it would be pretty relevant to teach him in Lit' classes in any English speaking country.

chime

This All Encompassing Trip - Jason Leung

smarchee

Victory at Vimy: Canada Comes Of Age, April 9-12, 1917 by Ted Barris

number1PJfan

Under the Dome--Stephen King

justam

I'm still plowing through my pile of books about happiness research.

It's going pretty well too...they all have more books listed as source material so my pile is growing as I go along.

loadedgun

I'll be starting 'The Power of Half' tonight. It's a story about how a family started giving back. I think I heard about it on here on the Oceans page.

RKCNDY

Animals Make Us Human:Creating the Best Life for Animals by Dr. Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson
(the movie about Dr. Grandin will make you cry)

the cover of this book reminds me of the Brad-Best Friends? cover artwork....

Jeanwah

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

BLACK35

Rogue Warrior: Echo Platoon by Richard Marcinko

catefrances

i must be feeling restless. this morning i wandered around looking for a book to buy. this is despite me having a pile of bukowski and assorted beat degenerates to read. so anyways i bought and am now reading(cause i started it on the busride home. :roll: hopeless):

how to make gravy - paul kelly.

One Song Glory

Taking a second run at Ulysses. It's more sensical this time around...but I'm a bit apprehensive about writing a paper on it. Gulp.

catefrances

One Song Glory wrote:

Taking a second run at Ulysses. It's more sensical this time around...but I'm a bit apprehensive about writing a paper on it. Gulp.

nope nope nope cant do it. tried it twice. ive given up. but im sure youll do fine. :thumbup:

One Song Glory

catefrances wrote:

One Song Glory wrote:

Taking a second run at Ulysses. It's more sensical this time around...but I'm a bit apprehensive about writing a paper on it. Gulp.

nope nope nope cant do it. tried it twice. ive given up. but im sure youll do fine. :thumbup:

The scary thing is...I'm VOLUNTARILY writing a paper on it. Because I'm one of two people in the class who have read it before, I think I must use that to my advantage. I feel like I need to write on it at least once in my academic career...and once I start my dissertation, James Joyce will NOT be on my mind.

catefrances

One Song Glory wrote:

catefrances wrote:

One Song Glory wrote:

Taking a second run at Ulysses. It's more sensical this time around...but I'm a bit apprehensive about writing a paper on it. Gulp.

nope nope nope cant do it. tried it twice. ive given up. but im sure youll do fine. :thumbup:

The scary thing is...I'm VOLUNTARILY writing a paper on it. Because I'm one of two people in the class who have read it before, I think I must use that to my advantage. I feel like I need to write on it at least once in my academic career...and once I start my dissertation, James Joyce will NOT be on my mind.

ugh you volunteered??? psycho. :P

do you know what the papers gonna be on?

i remember reading dostoyevsky and having to wrote a paper on crime and punishment and i hated reading it, cause i had to. and i didnt have enough time to absorb it. but afterwards i went back and read it(without the pressure you know) and i was more appreciative of it. in fact i may well read it again.

Light of Stars

I adapted Crime and Punishment recently for the stage. I also read it more for fun than for school (though I think I got credit for it somehow anyway). I just remembered the idea of a guilty man that couldn't leave his room and that was what I tried to convey in my adaptation. I had one actor play Raskolnikov, as well as the three other main characters - the police detective, etc - but I filmed those other characters, then had him act with projections of "himself" as those characters. I think it turned out well as an expression of his maddening guilt.

And, it was only an HOUR long!

As for book I'm reading now - reading a bit of The Art of Happiness by the Dahli Lama each night, also Grunge is Dead for another project I'm working on and then a novel about a Welsh hero who may have discovered America in the 1100s....

dottles

This All Encompassing Trip - Chasing Pearl Jam Around the World by Jason Leung

Up to page 141 at the minute and I am loving it so far. It is very well written, I wasn't sure what to expect but it's great and I am really enjoying it.

One Song Glory

catefrances wrote:

ugh you volunteered??? psycho. :P

do you know what the papers gonna be on?

i remember reading dostoyevsky and having to wrote a paper on crime and punishment and i hated reading it, cause i had to. and i didnt have enough time to absorb it. but afterwards i went back and read it(without the pressure you know) and i was more appreciative of it. in fact i may well read it again.

Well the class is Time and Literary Modernism (can you guess what the subject of my prof's latest book is?? )....so it's going to be on time. Which means lots and lots of Bergson.

chime

dottles wrote:

This All Encompassing Trip - Chasing Pearl Jam Around the World by Jason Leung

Up to page 141 at the minute and I am loving it so far. It is very well written, I wasn't sure what to expect but it's great and I am really enjoying it.

You're doing better than me ... must catch up :shock: ... although I'm trying to finish Dean Koontz - Breathless first so I can concentrate on This All Encompassing Trip.

catefrances

One Song Glory wrote:

catefrances wrote:

ugh you volunteered??? psycho. :P

do you know what the papers gonna be on?

i remember reading dostoyevsky and having to wrote a paper on crime and punishment and i hated reading it, cause i had to. and i didnt have enough time to absorb it. but afterwards i went back and read it(without the pressure you know) and i was more appreciative of it. in fact i may well read it again.

Well the class is Time and Literary Modernism (can you guess what the subject of my prof's latest book is?? )....so it's going to be on time. Which means lots and lots of Bergson.

bloody french... did they do nothing but sit around thinking deep thoughts.

Digital Twilight

Brave New World - Aldous Huxley