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[Erani]

 Veronika Decide Morrer (Veronika Decides to Die) by Paulo Coelho...page 83 right now

[mousestalker]

Eurypterid wrote...

mousestalker wrote...

I'm about to start "Baker's Boy" by J V Jones.

I found that to be a quite enjoyable fantasy series.

Currently reading The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley as well as chowing down on a couple Arthur C. Clarke short stories each day from an omnibus of all his short fiction I picked up recently. After I finish the Bradley novel, I'm going to dive into some Dickens and Jane Austen (I've designated February as classics month).

Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Emma and Persuasion are all on my regular re-reading cycle. I like to pretend Northanger Abbey never happened. Jane Austen has an eye for character like no one else (except maybe Trollope).

[Creature 1]

mousestalker wrote...
Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Emma and Persuasion are all on my regular re-reading cycle. I like to pretend Northanger Abbey never happened. Jane Austen has an eye for character like no one else (except maybe Trollope).

I'm cheating on Jane Austen with Anthony Trollope. . . 

[Aimi]

Liz James - Empresses and Power in Early Byzantium



Fun stuff. Empress-as-institution is an intrinsically interesting way of looking at the position instead of the endless waves of biographies we usually get force-fed by resume-padding historians.

[LadyJaneGrey]

mousestalker wrote...
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Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Emma and Persuasion are all on my regular re-reading cycle. I like to pretend Northanger Abbey never happened. Jane Austen has an eye for character like no one else (except maybe Trollope).

What do you think about Mansfield Park?

On Topic: started Nikolai Gogol's short stories and am about to pick up Slavery by Another Name.  I'll reread an Austen novel afterward; I'll need a break from depressing books after Slavery.

[Noilly Prat]

I sometimes jump around a bit with my nonfiction reading choices, depending on the mood I'm in, but right now I'm mostly reading these:

Lincoln by Gore Vidal
The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould

[Ryoko]

Right now, Im reading City of Bones. Its sooooo good! According to the back of the book it has Vampires, Werewolves, and explosions!

[shnizzler93]

Things Fall Apart

...for school

Modifié par shnizzler93, 01 février 2011 - 04:25 .

[Piecake]

LadyJaneGrey wrote...

On Topic: started Nikolai Gogol's short stories and am about to pick up Slavery by Another Name.  I'll reread an Austen novel afterward; I'll need a break from depressing books after Slavery.

Ah, Gogol, perhaps I should give him another chance since he is pretty much the only big name 19th century Russian author that I didnt like.  It really kinda bothers me since I absolutely love the stuff by Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Lermontov, Pushkin, etc that ive read. 

[VivaLaWhatsername]

I'm reading Sister of the Dead by Barb & J.C. Hendee

[Dougy Fresh]

The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

[Swordfishtrombone]

Voodoo Histories - How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History by David Aaronovitch


*edit - typo

Modifié par Swordfishtrombone, 01 février 2011 - 04:29 .

[Rockworm503]

Narnia on Prince Caspian right now.

[moilami]

BioWare forums looooool. But it is interesting.



Edit: At times.

Modifié par moilami, 01 février 2011 - 03:44 .

[didiware]

Wandering of the Mage by Nick Perumov

[TheMufflon]

I'm reading a few books at the moment: Tissue Engineering edited by Clemens van Blitterswijk, Dubliners by James Joyce, and The Confusion by Neal Stephenson. All of which I heartily recommend to their respective audiences.

Modifié par TheMufflon, 01 février 2011 - 08:27 .

[Addai]

Damariel wrote...

"Silmarillion" J.R.R. Tolkien page 225 right now

Oooh! 

There are some books that I wish I could go back to the first time I read them because it was so much fun to discover them.

[The Potty 1]

I started several books on holiday, and now I'm half way through a few of them.



Guns, Germs, and Steel: Jared Diamond. It's pretty good, although Collapse is hugely better.



Transition: Iain Banks



The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox: Stephen Jay Gould's last book



Worth dying for: Lee Child. This is just a quick light read.



The 5th Elephant: Terry Pratchett. Just finished, this was a REALLY quick light read. Brilliant.



I'm clearly reading fluff books to avoid the denser holiday stuff. They are of course brilliant and well worth finishing, but I'm not managing to get around to them.



In fact, now I think about it, I also have about 50 pages left on The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: Oliver Sacks

[mousestalker]

Proof by Dick Francis.



I'm blessed/cursed with a poor memory for books. The upside to it is I can re-read mysteries when enough time has passed and it's like reading them for the first time.

[magelet]

Just finished Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman. It was very cool. I really need to read more of his stuff!

[Norskatt]

What Would Jane Austen Do? By Laurie Brown

i just finished reading

Rude Awakenings of A Jane Austen Addict by Laurie Viera Rigler

[Shaewaros]

Erani wrote...

 Veronika Decide Morrer (Veronika Decides to Die) by Paulo Coelho...page 83 right now

Was it any good? i read The Alchemist last summer and I kind of liked it. Currently I'm reading a bunch of books, for instance Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco, Candide by Voltaire and Either/Or by Sören Kierkegaard.

[Sa Seba]

Dust of Dreams by Steven Erikson. I am addicted to the Malazan world.

[Matto]

The Archer's Tale by Bernard Cornwell. Love his saxon novels as well.