i am on a voracious reading stint this year...averaging a book a week. i think that even blows away my college days....:D
i just started on monday 100 years of solitude ~ gabriel garcia marquez
finished up love in the time of cholera by him last week......really enjoyed it, his style.....and this new book, feeling the same.....
earlier i finished up all the works by paolo coelho and also anne tyler.
next on my horizon is the master and margarita.
i just started on monday 100 years of solitude ~ gabriel garcia marquez
A book and author mentioned numerous times in the book that I am currently reading. :twisted:
All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
i just started on monday 100 years of solitude ~ gabriel garcia marquez
A book and author mentioned numerous times in the book that I am currently reading. :twisted:
in this....
"Bananas: How the United Fruit Company Shaped the World" by Peter Chapman
:?:
interesting...i'd not necessarily see the connection there......
That's the one...from my book's listing of characters, "Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Nobel-Prize winning author, born in the company's (United Fruit) Colombian banana zone near the time of the 1928 Santa Marta Massacre."
All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
i am on a voracious reading stint this year...averaging a book a week. i think that even blows away my college days....:D
i just started on monday 100 years of solitude ~ gabriel garcia marquez
finished up love in the time of cholera by him last week......really enjoyed it, his style.....and this new book, feeling the same.....
earlier i finished up all the works by paolo coelho and also anne tyler.
next on my horizon is the master and margarita.
Marquez is incredible. Both of those books are excellent. I read Master and the Margarita years ago and really enjoyed it at the time, though I can't remember anything about it now, hehe.
I just finished what might be my new all-time fav book (displacing Catch-22). It's 'Brothers K' by David James Duncan. About family, baseball, Vietnam, religion, politics, the counterculture... it's got everything!
Now I'm on to something a bit lighter: Agatha Christie's 'And Then There Were None' (formerly Ten Little Indians, which I guess is a little un-pc now).
That's the one...from my book's listing of characters, "Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Nobel-Prize winning author, born in the company's (United Fruit) Colombian banana zone near the time of the 1928 Santa Marta Massacre."
Marquez is incredible. Both of those books are excellent. I read Master and the Margarita years ago and really enjoyed it at the time, though I can't remember anything about it now, hehe.
I just finished what might be my new all-time fav book (displacing Catch-22). It's 'Brothers K' by David James Duncan. About family, baseball, Vietnam, religion, politics, the counterculture... it's got everything!
Now I'm on to something a bit lighter: Agatha Christie's 'And Then There Were None' (formerly Ten Little Indians, which I guess is a little un-pc now).
i've always heard such....bought love in the time of cholera ages ago, and then i went and saw the movie with javier bardem before reading....bad idea. thus i held off reading until i could 'forget' the movie enough. glad i did. a colleague of mine has recommended his newest work, said it's a slim book but a great read.....but i cannot remember the title at the moment. :oops:
and it's funny, i used to only read the *classics* and such, only got into contemporary writers say in the past 10 years or so....and yet still there are sooooooooo MANY 'classics' i've yet to read too. so many books, so little time!
That's the one...from my book's listing of characters, "Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Nobel-Prize winning author, born in the company's (United Fruit) Colombian banana zone near the time of the 1928 Santa Marta Massacre."
Marquez is incredible. Both of those books are excellent. I read Master and the Margarita years ago and really enjoyed it at the time, though I can't remember anything about it now, hehe.
I just finished what might be my new all-time fav book (displacing Catch-22). It's 'Brothers K' by David James Duncan. About family, baseball, Vietnam, religion, politics, the counterculture... it's got everything!
Now I'm on to something a bit lighter: Agatha Christie's 'And Then There Were None' (formerly Ten Little Indians, which I guess is a little un-pc now).
i've always heard such....bought love in the time of cholera ages ago, and then i went and saw the movie with javier bardem before reading....bad idea. thus i held off reading until i could 'forget' the movie enough. glad i did. a colleague of mine has recommended his newest work, said it's a slim book but a great read.....but i cannot remember the title at the moment. :oops:
and it's funny, i used to only read the *classics* and such, only got into contemporary writers say in the past 10 years or so....and yet still there are sooooooooo MANY 'classics' i've yet to read too. so many books, so little time!
Yeah, I work harder on breaks and vacations than I did in school to "catch up" on books I bought but hadn't read yet I have ambitious syllabi. I read enough of the classics in school to not feel much interest in them anymore. Truth be told, most of my reading anymore is pretty light... lots of hard-boiled detective novels and a healthy dose of fantasy. I read for escape mostly now. After the uber-reality of legal reading, I want something as undemanding escapist as possible!
There is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
Just finished "When the Air Hits Your Brain" by Frank Vertosick. It's a really interesting and moving memoir about the author's residency in neurosurgery.
Next on the list is "The Hot Zone"
Yes. I am a total dork.
PJ: St. Paul 6.16.2003, St. Paul 6.26.2006, St. Paul 6.27.2006, Hartford 6.27.2008, Mansfield 6.28.2008, Mansfield 6.30.2008, Beacon Theater 7.1.2008, Toronto 8.21.2009, Chicago 8.23.2009, Chicago 8.24.2009, Philly 10.30.2009, Philly 10.31.2009, Columbus 5.6.2010, Noblesville 5.7.2010
EV: Los Angeles 4.12.2008, Los Angeles 4.13.2008, Nashville 6.17.2009, Nashville 6.18.2009, Memphis 6.20.2009
Just finished "When the Air Hits Your Brain" by Frank Vertosick. It's a really interesting and moving memoir about the author's residency in neurosurgery.
Next on the list is "The Hot Zone"
Yes. I am a total dork.
By Preston? The one about ebola? It scared the crap out of me as a kid!
I finished my Agath Christie, great, classic little whodunit on an isolated island. Fun way to spend the afternoon. Now I'm reading 'Already Dead' by Charlie Huston. It's supposed to be a kind of vampire/detective noir novel. I've heard good things.
Just finished "When the Air Hits Your Brain" by Frank Vertosick. It's a really interesting and moving memoir about the author's residency in neurosurgery.
Next on the list is "The Hot Zone"
Yes. I am a total dork.
By Preston? The one about ebola? It scared the crap out of me as a kid!
Yep! I had to read "Six Modern Plagues and How We Are Causing Them" for my infectious disease ecology class last semester.
:shock:
So..um.. yeah it'll still probably give me nightmares.
I had to read excerpts for other classes... the guy on the plane...OMG.
PJ: St. Paul 6.16.2003, St. Paul 6.26.2006, St. Paul 6.27.2006, Hartford 6.27.2008, Mansfield 6.28.2008, Mansfield 6.30.2008, Beacon Theater 7.1.2008, Toronto 8.21.2009, Chicago 8.23.2009, Chicago 8.24.2009, Philly 10.30.2009, Philly 10.31.2009, Columbus 5.6.2010, Noblesville 5.7.2010
EV: Los Angeles 4.12.2008, Los Angeles 4.13.2008, Nashville 6.17.2009, Nashville 6.18.2009, Memphis 6.20.2009
"Bran Mak Morn, The Last King" by Robert E. Howard....like Soulsinging, I am mixing in a bunch of fun reading with the hard stuff....and hitting the classics.
All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
i still have kept up with, overall, my book a week this year. incredible. i just finished up the master and margarita today...amazing! i also managed to start and finish, today, the year of magical thinking ~ joan didion.....sooo poignant and touching, well written!
There was a thread on here about non-fiction books to read... Tybird recommended (among others) "King Leopold's Ghost" and "The Scramble for Africa." They are both amazing, not exactly easy reading, but really really good.
There was a thread on here about non-fiction books to read... Tybird recommended (among others) "King Leopold's Ghost" and "The Scramble for Africa." They are both amazing, not exactly easy reading, but really really good.
I've had my eye on that King Leopolds Ghost book. I may get myself a copy soon.
Just finished "Rebecca" and "The Film Club", a fast read about a guy who let's his son drop out of high school as long as he watches 3 movies a week with him.
Now working on "Gone with the Wind" and "Strangers on a Train".
1998 ~ Barrie
2003 ~ Toronto
2005 ~ London, Toronto
2006 ~ Toronto
2008 ~ Hartford, Mansfied I,
2009 ~ Toronto, Chicago I, Chicago II
2010 ~ Cleveland, Buffalo
2011 ~ Toronto I, Toronto II, Ottawa, Hamilton
2013 - London, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
I just finished "The Rule of Four". I have been on a reading frenzy. I have already read two books this week and I just finished a David Sedaris book on the weekend. This whole broken wrist and no tv or internet thing is certainly helping me catch up on my reading.
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i just started on monday 100 years of solitude ~ gabriel garcia marquez
finished up love in the time of cholera by him last week......really enjoyed it, his style.....and this new book, feeling the same.....
earlier i finished up all the works by paolo coelho and also anne tyler.
next on my horizon is the master and margarita.
Let's just breathe...
I am myself like you somehow
in this....
"Bananas: How the United Fruit Company Shaped the World" by Peter Chapman
:?:
interesting...i'd not necessarily see the connection there......
Let's just breathe...
I am myself like you somehow
Marquez is incredible. Both of those books are excellent. I read Master and the Margarita years ago and really enjoyed it at the time, though I can't remember anything about it now, hehe.
I just finished what might be my new all-time fav book (displacing Catch-22). It's 'Brothers K' by David James Duncan. About family, baseball, Vietnam, religion, politics, the counterculture... it's got everything!
Now I'm on to something a bit lighter: Agatha Christie's 'And Then There Were None' (formerly Ten Little Indians, which I guess is a little un-pc now).
hahahahaha...what a tie-in!
i've always heard such....bought love in the time of cholera ages ago, and then i went and saw the movie with javier bardem before reading....bad idea.
and it's funny, i used to only read the *classics* and such, only got into contemporary writers say in the past 10 years or so....and yet still there are sooooooooo MANY 'classics' i've yet to read too. so many books, so little time!
Let's just breathe...
I am myself like you somehow
Yeah, I work harder on breaks and vacations than I did in school to "catch up" on books I bought but hadn't read yet
The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
Next on the list is "The Hot Zone"
Yes. I am a total dork.
EV: Los Angeles 4.12.2008, Los Angeles 4.13.2008, Nashville 6.17.2009, Nashville 6.18.2009, Memphis 6.20.2009
By Preston? The one about ebola? It scared the crap out of me as a kid!
I finished my Agath Christie, great, classic little whodunit on an isolated island. Fun way to spend the afternoon. Now I'm reading 'Already Dead' by Charlie Huston. It's supposed to be a kind of vampire/detective noir novel. I've heard good things.
Yep! I had to read "Six Modern Plagues and How We Are Causing Them" for my infectious disease ecology class last semester.
:shock:
So..um.. yeah it'll still probably give me nightmares.
I had to read excerpts for other classes... the guy on the plane...OMG.
EV: Los Angeles 4.12.2008, Los Angeles 4.13.2008, Nashville 6.17.2009, Nashville 6.18.2009, Memphis 6.20.2009
Let's just breathe...
I am myself like you somehow
i haven't read these novelas in quite some time. good reading!
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also reading:
The barbri Multistate Testing Practice Questions, volume 1 :(
I've had my eye on that King Leopolds Ghost book. I may get myself a copy soon.
Now working on "Gone with the Wind" and "Strangers on a Train".
2003 ~ Toronto
2005 ~ London, Toronto
2006 ~ Toronto
2008 ~ Hartford, Mansfied I,
2009 ~ Toronto, Chicago I, Chicago II
2010 ~ Cleveland, Buffalo
2011 ~ Toronto I, Toronto II, Ottawa, Hamilton
2013 - London, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
I got it from a resident at the nursing home. Then I'm gonna get the movie and watch it with her.
"do gay midgets come out of the cupboard"
~CreedDisease~
10/27/06
pillars of the earth.
good book even thou it weighs a ton.
great book. You should check out the sequel.
Just started All the Pretty Horses (Cormac Mccarthy)
Los Angeles 10.7.2009
I've read that. Very good book.
'The Crossing' is also fucking great, as is 'Blood Meridian'.