What book are you reading?

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  • bookmusebookmuse Posts: 277
    I'm reading Jacquelyn Mitchard's "Cage of Stars." I'm enthralled, and at the same time, I'm contemplating the theme of child murder in recent novels. I read "The Lovely Bones" and enjoyed it, but somehow I feel badly that this kind of tragedy creates a compelling story for me. It's not the only theme I read about by any means, but I feel wrong "enjoying" these books. What do you think?

    By the way, I love Barbara Kingsolver, especially "Prodigal Summer." I would also recommend "The Secret Life of Bees."

    Happy New Year everyone! I hope it is filled with happiness for all of you.


    I read "The Lovely Bones" a fews back-quite compelling - got a little strange but made an impression. The sick thing is...I've read about a true incident where a sicko had a den in the ground like in the book.

    I'm reading "Scar Tissue" by Anthony Kiedis - I'm about 1/2 through and it's like a tragic scene you pass in a car - leaves you a little sick but need to look.

    I'm also reading "Mary Called Magdalene" by Margaret George and "Raising your Spirited Child" by Mary Sheedy Kurcinka because I have a very spirited 4-1/2 year old.

    Happy New Year! Peace!
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  • Obi OnceObi Once Posts: 918
    Torture the Artist - Goebel
    your light's reflected now
  • elmerelmer Posts: 1,683
    Steinbeck: East of Eden
  • Gunter Grass: The Flounder
  • Book of Lost Tales pt.I by Tolkien
  • Jeremy1012Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs. its a hell of a ride so far.

    also have, but havent yet read, Big Sur by Jack Kerouac.
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • at the moment.. A Man with out a Country
  • ZiggyStarZiggyStar Posts: 14,328
    Just finished my Xmas present - Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris about Hannibal Lecter as a boy.

    I give it a 3/5 rating.
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  • taratara Posts: 293
    the bell jar; sylvia plath, never read it as a kid, thought i'd try it out, bought it during an 'i feel like killing myself' week, and thought somehow that she'd be the one to understand, pretty fast read, like it so far
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  • prljamgirlprljamgirl Edmonton, AB Posts: 602
    Right now I'm rereading 'Girlfriend in a Coma' by Douglas Coupland. I'll probably finish it sometime tomorrow.......it'll give me a clean outlook on things going into the new year, that's for sure!!! :) I really love that book. I've probably read it 4 or 5 times and get something new out of it everytime.
  • StereotypeStereotype Maribor, Slovenia Posts: 885
    by Donna J. Haraway
    Monkeys, cyborgs and women: The reinvention of nature (That's my translation from Slovenian title)..
    It's well writen but with a feminism flavour...
    The worst enemies of music? Money and Mathematics. Combined with music, they both do the exact opposite of what they're supposed to do. Money makes music cheap, mathematics makes it stupid and predictable.

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    Hold me, and make it the truth,...
    That when all is lost there will be you,...
    Cause to the universe I don't mean a thing
    And there's just one word I stil believe
    And it's Love

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  • JulienJulien Posts: 2,457
    I'm reading the fourth book of "Malhorne" from a french autor, Jerome Camut. Great story...
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  • Odd Thomas, by Dean Koontz
  • I just finished Operation Bullpen for Xmas,about the endless forgeries in sports and celebrity memorabilia. A very interesting read.
  • seagoat2seagoat2 Posts: 241
    Just finished reading PostSecrets & My Secret by Frank Warren - fascinating reads. His new book comes out in Jan. & I've already pre-ordered it....

    Check it out if you're interested in art projects/mental health/counseling therapies - I know there's a few on this board who are in that field.
  • Hell House - Richard Matheson. really good so far
  • Player Piano - Vonegutt
    "Underneath this smile lies everything - all my hopes, anger, pride and shame."
  • mdigenakismdigenakis Posts: 1,337
    haven't started Walden yet; i bought it last month.
    "Don't let the darkness eat you up..."

    -Greg Dulli

  • beachdwellerbeachdweller Posts: 1,532
    The Shia Revival by Vali Nasr is what I'm starting next
    "Music, for me, was fucking heroin." eV (nothing Ed has said is more true for me personally than this quote)

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  • 'The Richest Man in Babylon'
    -George S. Clarson
  • cuyler41cuyler41 Posts: 383
    The power of One - Brice Courtney
  • thres so much reading i want to get through, both for my degree and for pleasure. im currently reading 'growing up poor' by Anna Davin about childhood poverty in Britain and Roddy Doyle's new one, 'Paula Spencer' which is a sequal to 'the woman who walked into doors' I loved that book, killed a train journey in one go with it, so now i feel obligated to see how the character develops.

    I read tc Boyle's 'talk talk' recently and thought it was just superb. I am looking to read all of his novels...ambitious? so far i read the tortilla curtain, drop city and started worlds end. anyone else like his books? Also read most of 'stories' the short story collection.

    whoever said 'scar tissue' is like a car accident I agree, you feel as if you are intruding, Kiedis has certainly lived a colourful life...

    By the way, i love this thread, almost no one i know bothers to read...
  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    prljamgirl wrote:
    Right now I'm rereading 'Girlfriend in a Coma' by Douglas Coupland. I'll probably finish it sometime tomorrow.......it'll give me a clean outlook on things going into the new year, that's for sure!!! :) I really love that book. I've probably read it 4 or 5 times and get something new out of it everytime.

    i just finished, 'all families are psychotic'.

    i was on this site sometime recently and this person said they couldn't read generation x cause it had a pink cover and they couldn't deal with the colour pink.
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  • aoifeaoife Posts: 126
    Dracula by Bram Stoker
    "If you remove the English army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin castle, unless you set about the organisation of the socialist republic then all of your efforts would have been in vain. England will still rule you through her capitalists ,landlords and commercial institutions"
  • soulsingingsoulsinging Posts: 13,208
    ive been doing a lot of catch up over break now that i can read for fun again. since finals ended i've read:

    a long way down- nick hornby, disgrace- jm coetzee, maybe a miracle- brian strouse (i LOVED this book), white noise- don delillo, the stranger- albert camus

    right now im reading:

    the big over easy- jasper fforde

    i also have copies of the following for reading over the rest of this break, next break, or summer:

    handmaid's tale- margaret atwood, straight man- richard russo, la confidential- james ellroy, brothers karamazov- fyodor dostoyevsky, love in the time of cholera- gabriel garcia marquez

    whew. i also need to buy another book shelf... the 2 i have are full ;)
  • aoife wrote:
    Dracula by Bram Stoker

    awesome book. one of the few ive read more than once. do you like it so far?
  • chipboychipboy Posts: 137
    Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis. It's sort of an odd auto-biographical sequal to Less Than Zero and Rules of Attraction. Worth checking out if you liked those two.
  • aoifeaoife Posts: 126
    awesome book. one of the few ive read more than once. do you like it so far?
    ya its excellent but i keep having bad dreams, did you know bram stoker is Irish?
    "If you remove the English army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin castle, unless you set about the organisation of the socialist republic then all of your efforts would have been in vain. England will still rule you through her capitalists ,landlords and commercial institutions"
  • Lisa81Lisa81 Posts: 132
    'Rommel?' 'Gunner Who?' by Spike Milligan
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