[Gwen]

Thought I'd start another one of these.
I'm slowly but surely getting through my Shakespeare.
And today I restarted Great Expectations-Charles Dickens, with the full intent of finishing it. I got pretty far last time but never got to the finish line...

[bare24601!]

Three Cups of Tea, for my summer reading assignment.

[LaurelDP]

I just started the last Harry Potter book. I know, I'm way behind. I finished the 6th book a couple weeks ago and just saw the 6th movie today.

I've also just started Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk, but it isn't drawing me in like his other books.

[jackissensational]

The last few chapters of "Audition" and the first few chapters of "The Diary of a Young Girl".

And I'm basically reading my favorites of David Sedaris on a loop.

[lovesinging]

The Places in Between--Rory Stewart for school.

As soon as I finish that, it's time to start the Brick.

[ActingDude17]

Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by JK Rowling - RE-READ

[jfmillet]

Star Wars: Destiny's Way - Walter Jon Williams

[beccaxoxo]

Boy Meets Girl - Meg Cabot

[Orestes Fasting]

Mademoiselle de Maupin by Théophile Gautier (in French)
The Confusion by Neal Stephenson

Should probably start Victory of Eagles by Naomi Novik soon unless I want to completely lose the thread of the Temeraire series and have to go back and reread the second half of the previous book.

[Micaela?]

The Dramatic Imagination-Robert Edmund Jones
The Ties That Bind-Kent Haurf

[pennypingleton1994]

[Damask and Dark]

Human Goodness by Yi-Fu Tuan (for school)
The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera (for myself)

And I must say that for the latter (which I'm almost finished with), this may be the one instance I can ever think of where I've preferred the adapted film version of a story to its original novel form. This may be partially because Keisha Castle-Hughes was so good in the role, but I just think the film version is more cohesive.

*waits for gods of literature to rain down fire and brimstone upon her*

[ilovebway]

A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen

[Damask and Dark]

[LaurelDP]

[Amber]

I'll also recommend Hedda Gabler. It's probably one of my favorite plays EVER. There's a good film version out there with Diana Rigg that's worth watching.

Currently I'm reading two related books: Julie and Julia by Julie Powell, coupled with My Life In France by Julia Child.

[fjays]

Both Emma and Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen.


I don't like either. Shame!

[wtfchuck]

I've just finished The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, I totally can't wait for the film.

And I've just started Life: a User's Manual by Georges Perec. It's alright so far (4 chapters) but hasnt really got going and has alot of description compared to action or emotion.

I'm partway through Pride and Prejudice aswell. I found Austen's characters very interesting and some of the conversation very witty. But generally the story lacked at points so i lost the motivation to keep reading.

[Felix Felicis]

Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith
before moving onto
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

[SianZena]

Othello - William Shakespeare.

I'm enjoying it

[random_person]

Paradise Lost - John Milton

Yes, I'm being perfectly serious...I like a good challenge every now and then

[Disney-Bway27]

Dante's Inferno.

I really like it.

[ilovebway]

[lovesinging]

[Patch]

Something Rotten

This is the fourth book in the Thursday Next series by Jasper Fford and they've all been hilarious and brilliant!

[Alabesque]

Stiff for summer reading. I can't recall who wrote it, but it's very good.

[Adie]

Othello for English
Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure- Fanny Hill by Cleland for English
Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo for French literature
Tree shaker: The story of Nelson Mandela by Bill Kellerfor modern history

If it isn't obvious, Adie doesn't have time to read books for the sheer pleasure of reading at the moment

[Mungojerrie_rt]

I just finished "The Wee Free Men" by Terry Pratchet. Again.

[Felix Felicis]

[MunkustrapQC]

La part de l'autre - Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

It has been translated in english and called The Alternative Hypothesis

It's the story of what would have happen if Adolf Hitler would have been accepted at the art school he wanted to go in Vienna!
(I feel this last sentence is full of mistakes...sorry guys)

[STRWBRRY]

Rebecca - Daphne Dumaurier

I told myself that I had to read this book for almost a year. Now I finally started reading it.

[wicked_diva]

Sovereign by CJ Sansom. It's pretty good so far (I'm nearly halfway through) but not quite as good as the last two books I read - Portrait of an Unknown Woman and Curse of the Blue Tattoo.

[Hans]

[Patch]

I love Pratchitt, but I couldn't get into Wee Free Men.

Now the Discworld books and Good Omens...brilliance!

[wtfchuck]

I think the Tiffany Aching series (of which the Wee Free Men is the first of) is generally aimed at a younger audience, and therefore loses some of Pratchett's humour.

I have read the series though and have found it very entertaining. Even though it is also aimed at a female audience.

[Alexia Dark]

The Meaning of Night by Michael Cox, about a man out for vengeance after he is unfairly kicked out of school by a friend-turned-rival from a noble family, whom the protagonist later finds out is actually not born into the family; HE was, and he makes it his life mission to reclaim his inheritance, and when that fails, to kill his rival. I admit, I bought it because of my obsession with Victorian England, and I didn't enjoy it that much. It was predictable, not very stylistically descriptive, and I hated the ending.

[Mistress]

[thewordisno]

Currently I'm reading Sarah Waters' The Little Stranger. It's a pretty gripping ghostish story set in postWW2 England. Longlisted for the ManBooker. It's also good for the crowd who likes Brideshead Revisited.

[Far Off Broadway]

On the plane to and from Florida, I finished Eddie Guerrero's "Cheating Death, Stealing Life", which was especially saddening as he got his life back on track only to lose it a few years later.

On the way back I started The Boys of Winter (about the 1980 US Men's Olympic hockey team), by Wayne Coffey. I finished it on the flight to Texas. On the way back, I'm going to start a book about the Rat Pack (titled Rat Pack, I believe)

I'm a major biography (autobiography)-phile (or books about specific, interesting to me, events in history). I'm much more into reading that's light/fun than anything else. (Hence my not posting in the BBC 100 thread. Haha)

[wtfchuck]

[The Very Angry Woman]

I'm still trying to get through Marlee Matlin's "I'll Scream Later." I'm about 30 pages until the end and got so fed up with her tendency to tell and not show, and to jump around chronologically that I haven't even opened the book in about a month.

[Felix Felicis]

I've started A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by Joyce, but I haven't really gotten into it yet.

I'll probably read The History Boys again and spot some more similarities between myself and Posner.

[wicked_diva]

Sovereign turned out to be a real page-turner! Very good. It had its slower moments in the beginning, but by the end, I definitely liked it better than Portrait of an Unknown Woman. I highly recommend it!

[sephyr]

Stella Adler- The Art of Acting Good book

[jfmillet]

I'm in the middle of two books right now.

Art Isn't Easy: The Theater of Stephen Sondheim - Joanne Gordon

&

Mainly on Directing - Arthur Laurents

[ilovebway]

Just finished Brighton Beach Memoirs by Neil Simon, which is one of my favorites.

Now I'm reading Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller.

[Gwen]

I've added another book to my reading, so this is how it goes:
--King Henry the Sixth part 1: 19 pages left.
--Great Expectations: I'm on chapter 9.
--The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: About 1/4 of the way through.

[Buff Daddy]

One of the Jason Bourne novels by Eric Van Lustbader "The Bourne Bretrayal"

Buff

[wicked_diva]

Right now I'm about 2/3 through Some Brief Folly by Patricia Veryan. It's sooo good! She rights in a way that I can visualize absolutely everything. I think it should be made into a movie. Its set during the Napoleonic Wars in the English countryside. And apparently it's the first of a series of books, so I think I'm going to have to look into reading the rest of them.

[Patch]

I'm about to begin Dragon of the HourGlass Mage by Margaret Wiess and Tracy Hickman. It's the third book in the Dragonlance Lost Chronicles saga. I've read every Dragonlance book and have never been let down! Great characters...great world!

[le_moofin]

I just finished Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. It was a very fun read that was "blasphemous" (lol) but definitely worth the money!

[nycbound]

Twenties Girl by Sophie Kinsella-Total escapist reading.

[Dax]

The Magicians by Lev Grossman...but I stopped halfway through this incredible yawner.

The book billed as some sort of adult Hogwarts theme is contrived, dull, full of filler, boring, and depressing. One key note in writing fiction of this kind (yes, I'm arrogant enough to presume here) is to create some sort of sympathy with either the protaganists or the events happening. Our alleged "hero" really isn't. He's some sort of self-absorbed/self-involved jerk who whines incessantly about how dull the world is, then when he realizes he's been accepted in a school of magic, (Brakebills) whines incessantly at how dull the school is.

The author tries to invest the reader into the characters but plods on and on about how miserable they are...and you realize you really don't care. The characters themselves are just as unlikable as they behave pretentiously, drinking and drug-using and whining about the fallout from their behaviour.

And as for the supposed school of magic, there was rather little magic than the Hogwarts theme suggests. (And that's not going into how much that was ripped from the Chronicles of Narnia). There are none of the moments filled with wonder that there are in JK Rowlings books.

Pretty much a waste of money and time.
.

[RainbowJude]

I'm busy reading two books on musicals at the same time: Show Boat: the Story of a Classic American Musical and Everything Was Possible: the Birth of the Musical Follies.

Both are brilliant and I hope that everyone on this forum makes the effort to read them at some point.

Later days
David

[Euphi]

Vanity Fair

I'm 200 pages in and still unsure if I like it or not. Quality writing, but long and a little slow.

[Euphi]

[jfmillet]

[Yakko]

Well I'm gonna get started with reading The Vampire Lestat this weekend.

[thewordisno]

I'm reading The Echo Maker, It won the National Book Award a couple years back, but it's mostly something to pass the time until next Tuesday, when Homer and Langley by E.L. Doctorow comes out. It's based on this really interesting true story (The Collyer Brothers). It kinda sounds like the male version of Grey Gardens.

Here's a link to the true story it's based on:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collyer_brothers

[ilovebway]

Picnic by William Inge

Yay for reading plays!

[jfmillet]

[ilovebway]

Nice, nice... I'm trying to read as many plays as I can this year partly for monologue hunting and partly for personal pleasure. There so many great plays out there! I'm still looking for The History Boys, though. Hmm.

[thewordisno]

[NoOneMournsTheWicked]

Apocalypse 2012: An Investigation Into Civilization's End by Lawrence Joseph.

I like happy books. It's actually incredibly interesting. Not sure if I believe in this stuff, but it's interesting to read about.

[pennypingleton1994]

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. And Harry Potter 7 (again).

[lovesinging]

I'm planning on getting Nine Minutes and Twenty Seconds and Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life out of the library tomorrow. Both reccomended by John Green, so I might as well check them out.

[BwayJuvinile]

Just finished the first series of Percy Jackson & the Olympians by Rick Riordan. Now I'm reading the Demigod Files.

[jackissensational]

^I embarrassed to like those books, but I admit it.

[BwayJuvinile]

[liza]

Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts

[3dfan]

Right now it is Cell by Stephen King )

[random_person]

Continuing to work through Paradise Lost (great poem, that is) and have shot through several graphic novels over the holidays, including Superman: Red Son, Kingdom Come and V for Vendetta.

[aworthyboyishe]

Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince.

For about the 283746928374908273492874th time. XD

[Patch]

I'm heading to the library in about an hour to find something new to read. I'll update as soon as I know what I find!

[Buff Daddy]

The Bourne Sanction

Buff

[RED15]

I'm starting Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins soon! =)

[Alexia Dark]

The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber.

[Brock07]

The Killer Angels by Micheal Shaara

[Tumnus1031]

[Gwen]

Reading update:

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn...still halfway through. I'll need to check it back out to finish it.

Great Expectations: Uh....1/5 of the way through? I'm working on it.

Heir to Sevenwaters- I'm on chapter 5 or 6. Also working on it.

[Patch]

Monster by A. Lee Martinez.

Martinez (Too Many Curses) pokes at big-picture questions, like the nature of the universe and the meaning of life, with abundant, zany humor in this charming tale. Monster, who works in cryptobiological containment, first encounters Judy when he rescues her from a yeti that's trashing the frozen foods aisle of the Food Plus Mart. They meet again when trolls infest her apartment. As an incognizant—someone whose mind can't acknowledge magic—Judy soon forgets the bizarre events, but Monster suspects she's somehow involved with the recent uptick in dangerous cryptobiological happenings. When Lotus, keeper of a stone mysteriously linked to Judy, spirits Judy away, Monster attempts to come to her rescue, only to discover that he's in way over his head. Scary monsters and hilarious scenarios embellish a convoluted plot that suggests even night-shift workers might have a destiny

Meet Monster. Meet Judy. Two humans who don't like each other much, but together must fight dragons, fire-breathing felines, trolls, Inuit walrus dogs, and a crazy cat lady - for the future of the universe.

Monster runs a pest control agency. He's overworked and has domestic troubles - like having the girlfriend from hell.

Judy works the night shift at the local Food Plus Mart. Not the most glamorous life, but Judy is happy. No one bothers her and if she has to spell things out for the night-manager every now and again, so be it.

But when Judy finds a Yeti in the freezer aisle eating all the Rocky Road, her life collides with Monster's in a rather alarming fashion. Because Monster doesn't catch raccoons; he catches the things that go bump in the night. Things like ogres, trolls, and dragons.

Oh, and his girlfriend from Hell? She actually is from Hell.


Crazy funny so far!

[Orestes Fasting]

Aaaalmost done with Mademoiselle de Maupin by Théophile Gautier. Fifty or so pages into Suite française by Irène Némirovsky. A few pages into Les Mystères de Paris by Eugène Sue.

If I really really get the itch to read something in English, I'll start The System of the World by Neal Stephenson, but I suspect I'll have enough on my plate in the coming weeks.

[CayleeJo]

Just Listen by Sarah Dessen
Great read:)

[lilmissbroadway]

I just finished Oedipus Rex and am starting Julius Caesar tomorrow.

[LadyOfTheLake]

Just finished reading 'Candide.'
Loved it.

[christinadaae]

Just finished THe Reader, and started Persepolis
Read Persepolis! Right now!

[Borb]

Just finished "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?". Amazing play, I am now watching the film version.

[shakalakababy]

I'm reading The Lovely Bones since it's going to be a movie soon and i've always meant to read it.

[STRWBRRY]

I'm not reading anything and I want to read something.

Suggetions?

[Patch]

[aworthyboyishe]

[Patch]

[aworthyboyishe]

My copy is on its last legs. Its been borrowed and abused so much.. XD

So... Discworld.

Its a freakin party man.

[Patch]

[Salome]

"hello Darlin'" Larry Hagman's autobiography.

[STRWBRRY]

[Patch]

[teapot]

[lilmissbroadway]

My friends have all read Good Omens recently and loved it. They told me that it'd be right up my alley so I may just have to read it....

[Patch]