What are you reading?

[Neane]

Reading the Lattimore translation of Homer's Iliad. {Who knew something written over 2k years ago could be so darn exciting? I mean, seriously, the book is bloodier and more violent than a Tarantino flick}.

[rocklobster]

Reading Book 1 of Brandon Mull's Beyonders Trilogy.

[Shao Feng-Li]

Found a copy of Champions of the Force by Kevin J. Anderson. Read the first two Jedi Academy books ages ago now. The third one came out in 1994. I feel old right now.

[KnightOfFive]

A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire Part 5) by George R. R. Martin.

[the_wolfs_howl]

The Breathing Method by Stephen King - A chilling, intriguing tale, and one that reminded me oddly of Durarara!!

[Maokun]

Finished The Time Traveller's Wife. I enjoyed greatly the disjointed narrative and believe the very premise is a work of genius. However, the ending greatly disappointed, not because the events that transpired (which had been heavily [s]fore[/s] [s]retro[/s] [s]moebius-reach-around[/s] something-shadowed) but because a rather clumsy mishandling of the emotional moments that followed and a depressing resolution to undo much of the character growth with dismissive, rushed and impersonal accounts.

I now got started on the first half of the third book of A song o Ice and Fire (a.k.a Game of Thrones): A Clash of Swords.

[mysngoeshere56]

Currently reading "Dark Reunion" (one of the Vampire Diaries books) by L.J. Smith and "Thr3e" by Ted Dekker.

[Neane]

Reading Against All Things Ending from The Last Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant by Stephen R. Donaldson.

****ing brilliant author.

[Kaori]

Kaffir Boy is an autobiography in which the author, Mark Mathabane recounts his childhood in the ghetto Alexandra in apartheid South Africa. He writes with great candor both about the brutal conditions that he grew up in and about his own blameworthy thoughts and actions. Heartbreaking, riveting, not for the faint of heart.

In short, the suffering of black people continued to increase, and I continued getting the feeling that we, blacks of Alexandra, were like animals, quarantined inside a cage—by the white man—fomenting ignorance and death—and that there was nothing we could do about it but await, each, our violent end.

[Atria35]

Been blazing through the Chanters of Tremaris trilogy over the last three days. I've owned it for a while but bought them after I read the first book, and never finished them. I'm doing so now! It's really pretty well-written. I'm surprised, but I'm very taken with the story.

[Neane]

I finished The Shack. The ending was worse than the beginning.

[FllMtl Novelist]

I just inhaled Writing Magic: Creating Stories That Fly, by Gail Carson Levine.

It was as if Yotsuba grew up, built herself a successful writing career, and then wrote a book about writing. Every aspect of the craft is a beautiful marvel, and everything is fun. Levine is so enthusiastic, warm, and encouraging, that every time I went to read it during the school-day it drove me crazy that I couldn't ignore my homework to write right then.

It's definitely aimed towards kids, but like Spilling Ink (another kids' writing book), it does this in a good way. If you have any interest in writing and enjoy the voice of children's books, this is definitely worth a read.

[Vilo159]

Lord of the Flies, for english. This book is amazing.

[Neane]

Lord of the Flies, for english. This book is amazing.

After you have read Lord of the Flies, you should check out Battle Royale.

[seaglass27]

The Pursuit of Holiness by Jerry Bridges. Nice little book.

[Atria35]

The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, by John Milton.

[Banana Lobster]

I'll start reading Partials by Dan Wells either today or tomorrow.

[SierraLea]

So I'm a sucker for fantasy. I'm reading Dragons of Ordinary Farm, which is as strange as its title.

[TheMewster]

Well I had always wanted to read "The Case For Christ." However, I was too cheap to buy it. And I don't regret it, because I found a copy in a thrift store for 25 cents! So now, I'm reading that.

[bigsleepj]

I'm reading an Afrikaans language novel by Deon Meyer called Onsigbaar, which is published in English in the US and UK under the more pulpy title Blood Safari. Pretty good so far.

[Druxcian]

Currently rereading Percy Jackson and the Olympians since I've run out of new books.

[Neane]

I have been reading the The Summer Of The Ubume book because I loved the anime series Mouryou no Hako.

The prose is rendered nicely into English, while retaining some of the stylistics tics of the original (no sentence broken between pages); there are a few translators notes where allusions are made to various folk-tales. The most obtrusive translation quirks are where dates are concerned

The book he was reading was something from the Edo Period [1603-1868]...

So far, most of the matter has been Kyogokudo's musings on mind, body, religion and consciousness, interspersed with Sekiguchi, the narrator, being impressed or considered slow in following the argument

There are those who merely dabble in withering looks, but Kyogokudo was a widely recognised master of the art. He favoured me with one now.

Even thus far into the 300+ pages of the earlier work, it seems like Mouryou no Hako was a good transposition of the author's style into a different medium.

[Neane]

About halfway through Summer of the Ubume; and a lot of the cast of Mouryou no Hako have appeared -- many more than I had expected. And Kyogokudo seems to have a thing about bizarre hospitals.

[Neane]

Finished Otsuichi's Summer, Fireworks, and My Corpse . The Corpse was a decent read for a short story. I then had a mind-screw reading Yuko. I liked the whole 40's romance/fantasy tone in it. And then there was Black Fairy Tale, which seems that it was a blend of a tale out of Grimm's Fairy Tales and a modern day horror story. Despite the fact that it was the longest read, it did not feel so long.

[Kaori]

The Kojiki. Japan's oldest historical record, which famously traces the lineage of Japan's emperors all the way back to the sun goddess Amaterasu. Needless to say, there's quite a bit of mythology mixed in, and those are the most interesting parts--the creation of Japan, Izanami and Izanagi, Susanoo, Orochi, and other such famous legends. However, much of the rest of the book is extremely dry genealogies and such, so I am pretty glad to be finished reading it.

[Atria35]

got through a whole lot on m reading list:
Incarceron
The Oracle Prophesies series
Leviathan trilogy (finished it up with Goliath)
Stardust (Gaiman really knows how to get the heartstrings! that ending- so tragic!)

[rocklobster]

Finished Two For the Dough and will probably start a book on Mormonism tomorrow.

[ich1990]

“Early Retirement Extremeâ€

[Maokun]

Thanks for sharing this stuff. I've just read a bit, but I'm already challenging the way I think about retirement.

[Twister980]

Been trying to read War and Peace...

Finished reading the scans of Chobits also.