I'm bouncing back and forth between a few different books (that's my usual style of reading)....I'm re-reading: "The Single Lady" by John Monk Saunders, "The Master and Margarita" by Mikhail Bulgakov, "Not So Quiet..." by Helen Zenna Smith (AKA Evadne Price), "Grey Is the Colour of Hope" by Irina Ratushinskaya, "The House of Arden" by E. Nesbit and some book called "Let It Snow"... :D
Like Alan, I've never read the Harry Potter series. I'm up to Goblet of Fire, which just arrived from Amazon today. (Finally, all the references in your songs are starting to make sense!!)
i love this book. i've always wanted to live in the middle of the woods, almost completely isolated from everyone, and this just makes me want to do so even more.
It's really dark but the books i'm reading are:
The Demon King by Cinda Williams Chima
The Magicians by Lev Grossman
Syren by Angie Sage
Revolting Youth by C.D. Payne
Bran Hambric as well!
The Know-It-All and The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs
Leven Thumps and the Ruins of Alder by Obert Skye.
yeah. I love books.
Just finished Wicked and I'm going to start "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" while doing some comfort reading in the form of the Inkheart Trilogy <3
After finishing Wicked, I had to read the sequel, Son of a Witch (@Rach_and_Elzorz, I am halfway through and it is just as good as Wicked). I also have 3 other books by Gregory Maguire that I need to read, and a butt load of classics I just bought (and by classics I mean old school, Persuasion, Oliver Twist, Jane Eyre, Dracula. . .those kinds of books)
A little parody in 'nightlight'. It is absolutely hilarious (for those who have read the book a lot more so than the ones who have not).
"About three things I was absolutely certain.
First, Edwart was most likely my soul mate, maybe.
Second, there was a vampire part of him - which I assumed was widly out of his control - that wanted me dead.
And third, I unconditionally, irrevocably, impenetrably, heterogeneously, gynecologically, and disreputably wished he had kissed me.
@Awed_Job It's non-fiction :) Haruki Murakami is probably my favourite author, and he usually writes surreal fiction set in Japan. He's slightly reclusive, and doesn't do interviews, so I'm reading it because it's probably the nearest thing to an autobiography he's ever going to write. It's kind of the story of his life through running, the different marathons he's attempted, how running has helped him at different points in his life etc. I'm half-way through, and so far it's probably been 50/50 running/life-story. I'd recommend it, he has a really beautiful prose style.
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, by T.S. Eliot. oh, and Paper Towns by John Green (i heard on the grapevine you know him?). i should probably finish that some time soon, seeing as my project for last semester's english was on it.. of course, i've already done the silly book talk, but..
@hushmush of course, used books Hum... guess I need to go bookhunting soon again! I stopped when it got cold - not walking downtown in rain and snow. I didn't know it was anywhere though, I've never seen it :S
I know it's a bit of a shameless plug, @hankgreen, but I would love it if you were to pimp a new project on DailyBooth called @LitBooth. We're trying to get young people to share their thoughts on books of all shapes and sizes, all in one place; get a bit of debate going.
It's brand spanking new, so we need a little help getting it off the ground.
wow! everyone is reading great stuff. no pic yet but i'm reading several books at once as i always do
-Olive Kitteridge (one the freaking Pulitzer Prize!) woo hoo by Elizabeth Strout
-Underlife (poems) by January ONeil
-Myths to Live By by Joseph Campbell
-Aya of Yop City (graphic novel)