What are you reading?

[mitsuki lover]

finally:The Lion,The Witch & The Wardrobe.The best children's fantasy ever written.

[Maledicte]

Silver Birch, Blood Moon, an anthology of fairy tales, with some original ones thrown into the mix. There are several other similar anthologies, the first of which is Snow White, Blood Red. It's got a few duds, but on the whole they're quite good--I liked the remake of Rumplestiltskin the best.

[Scribs]

I re read some of the 6th harrry potter book last night

[c_hunter]

comics: Jughead's Double Digest, and Tin Tin Adventures (even if I'm a teen)

[TurkishMonky]

i'm going through Timothy Zahn's SW books in Chronological order for the fourth time!

[Scribs]

I just read a bit of teh MLA handbook last night, does that count?

[TurkishMonky]

if you can say that, then i can say the poetry of Keats, Blake, Rossetti, Yeats, and Milton as well

[Icarus]

Jim Butcher's Dresden Files, and the Codex Alera.

Out of curiosity, how often do most people that post here do so?

[Sennin]

I am reading I Am a Cat by Souseki Natsume, The Life and Glories of Saint Joseph by Edward Healy Thompson, and A Kingdom and a Cross by Helene Magaret.

[mitsuki lover]

for Narnia nuts this month's Christianity Today has an entire section devoted to
C.S.Lewis plus an interview with Ann Rice!

[uc pseudonym]

Out of curiosity, how often do most people that post here do so?

I post whenever I am reading new books or wish to engage in dialogue about someone else's book. Therefore, my posting rate is somewhat random and varys greatly depending on the circumstances.

This post, for example, would likely not have been made except for your question. However, since I am making this post, I will point out that I have been reading Fred Clark's acerbic review of the first Left Behind novel. It isn't actually a book, but over the past week it took me several hours to complete, so it was a considerable amount of reading.

[Locke]

Picked up Ender's Game and I, Robot yesterday. Gotta love the science fiction section.

[Mave]

I rarely participate in this thread since I'm not a diehard book reader. But every now and then, I drop by to prove that I have reading capabilities. Hehehe.

The Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

I don't know whether I'd like Sherlock Holmes in real life. He's a bit arrogant and there's no way I can catch up with his way of thinking. But at least, I'm not the only one. *highfives Dr. Watson* This book seems to have helped me to pick up British slang and references along the way as well.

[LostChild]

JRR Tolkien's The Lost Tales 1

[harina]

Actually, the only book I'm reading currently is The Bible.. I haven't paid my library descending so I can't borrow any new books.. ;___;

[Ashley]

Just finished The Chronicles of Narnia -- the big, one volume addition. *sniffles*

[LostChild]

i've read that like, a zillion and two times - CS Lewis never gets old!

i just finished reading Utopia tonight. talk about boring! who would want to live a country full of robots? two sets of clothes; everyone has the same job; families are constantly being moved to new homes; they can't fight their own wars; they all have different relgions but go to the same church; etc... DIE!!! sorry... i loathe it with a passion...

[Icarus]

Recently read Neverwhere and Startdust by Neil Gaiman.

[Maledicte]

Currently reading Jonathan Strange and Mr. Morrel by Susanna Clarke. This book is amazing. I haven't read so much in one sitting since....school started Seriously this is a very good book, lots of detail and she even writes those faux footnotes that are so fun to read, and make it look like an actual period book.

Recently read Neverwhere and Startdust by Neil Gaiman.

Awesome. Oh, and Mr. Gaiman gives Jonathan Strange a too.

[Link Antilles]

I finished Ender's Game a couple of days ago. -Very good read and one crazy ending. I'm completely hooked. So today, I picked up the next three books in the series; Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, and Children of the Mind.

[TurkishMonky]

this thread.

that and narnia again...

[Locke]

[quote="Link Antilles"]I finished Ender's Game a couple of days ago. -Very good read and one crazy ending. I'm completely hooked. So today, I picked up the next three books in the series]


Nice!

I picked up some of Scott's books the other day.. Past Watch: The Redemption Of Christopher Columbus and Shadow Of The Giant.

Oh and The Salmon Of Doubt by Douglas Adams (Kinda).

[Scribs]

I reread a bit of Dante's devine comedy last night.

[uc pseudonym]

Chapterhouse: Dune
I have at last reached the final book in this series. While I felt Heretics of Dune was written much better than the previous books in the series, it still took me some time to complete. Also, there was finally a character I liked: Miles Teg. Of course, they had to kill him off...

[mitsuki lover]

If God Is Love:Rediscovering Grace In An Ungracious World by Phillip Gulley and
James Mulholland.
It's a serious look at what the consequences are if we believe in Universal Salvation,especially how we should then act as Christians.

[Kaori]

Lillith, by George MacDonald. I didn't like this book as much as I did some of his short stories.

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh, by O'Brien. Excellent juvenile fiction.

The Rats of Hamelin, by Keith and Adam McCune.

The Columbia Book of Chinese Poetry, trans. & ed. Burton Watson. Interestingly, quite a bit of Chinese love poetry throughout the ages has been written by women. Being able to experience the female point of view is rather refreshing; until the past century or so, most Western poets have been male.

For a term paper, I have skimmed through several books of commentary on Spenser's Faerie Queene, as well as some works about symbolism in the medieval and renaissance eras.

Sir Phillip Sidney's A Defense of Poetry.

The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, as well as some of his short stories.

[Warrior 4 Jesus]

Wormwood by G.P Taylor (author of Shadowmancer). The book(s) aren't as bad as people say. They are pretty original and very atmospheric. Only downsides are some bad grammar (this one is much better written than Shadowmancer) and some thinly characterised characters. But the story is a great yarn and G.P Taylor is one of the few authors who can make you feel the dread of evil in the pages (being a pastor and encountaring demons etc).

Recommended

[Arnobius]

"All The Trouble in the World" by PJ O'Rourke

[uc pseudonym]

3001 The Final Odyssey by Arthur Clarke
I won it in a contest and I've already read the first book, so I have begun it. So far I have no extreme opinion.

But aside, "2001 A Space Odyssey" is one of the worst movies I've ever seen. Read the book (it might be faster, if you read quickly enough). The movie relies almost entirely on special effects so old that we don't even think of them that way anymore.

Wormwood by G.P Taylor (author of Shadowmancer). The book(s) aren't as bad as people say. They are pretty original and very atmospheric. Only downsides are some bad grammar (this one is much better written than Shadowmancer) and some thinly characterised characters. But the story is a great yarn and G.P Taylor is one of the few authors who can make you feel the dread of evil in the pages (being a pastor and encountaring demons etc).

We've already discussed this somewhat, but I feel it bears repeating that I felt the series had a lot of good ideas but was fairly poorly written (in terms of plot flow and especially characterization).

[Inferno]

Right now im reading fallen angels by this person who i can't remember. Umm yeah it's a Vietnam war story, very good book.