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Currently, I'm reading Under the Net by Iris Murdoch. It's on the list of the 100 Top Novels of the 20th Century, and is number 95, though so far they have been progressively getting worse as the list goes up. To my delight, this one is shorter than most of the books I've read so far on there, not to mention it is an interesting read. Yay, things are getting better like they're supposed to! :D
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I am finishing up a light read, The Undomestic Goddess by Sophie Kinsella. Also just finished the Black Jewels Trilogy by Anne Bishop today.

Started reading The Delta of Venus by Anais Nin again. I heart her oh-so-much.

Erm, Vonnegut is one of my heros, the man breaks the rules with style - Slaughterhouse-Five has to be my favorite of his so far.
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I just finished A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth about two days ago, which I thought was amazing (despite its 1500 pages). I just started Jane Eyre today, which I like quite a lot so far (far better than Wuthering Heights in my opinion, though I know that was her sister).
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I just finished the book Uglies by Scott Westerfeld. The book is about a world where when you turn 16 you have an operation to make you "pretty." It is a really good book. I am going to be starting the second one in the trilogy.
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Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton

Don Quixote by Cervantes

...finished the first two, honestly. I'd forgotten...couldn't put Dostoyevsky down (I will still maintain - the master of Russian literature ^_~); Cervantes takes a bit more time.
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I found a book called Princess Academy (Shannon Hale) in a Barnes and Noble in Ft. Worth on Thursday, and finished it up Friday night. It was really cute; I'm glad my dad bought it for us because I want my younger sisters to read it. :)

Then I started on The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton) because I remember adoring it in seventh grade, and it was just as great on the second reading.

On the drive home from Plano (got family there), I read How to Be Popular by Meg Cabot. It was pretty grood as well; her books are always a lot of fun to read.

Now I have to go find a new book... *ponders*
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Another short story collection (Dostoyevsky) and Notes From the Underground.

Now I've forgotten something that I read...was reading, maybe. It must be the time...
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Jane Austen's Emma and The Virgin Suicides. Possibly a handful of others, but I can't think of them at the moment.
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Anne Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Bobok Dostoyevsky

Glory of Christendom Warren Carrol


...and Kierkagaard... Fear and Trembling, I think?
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Finished Gone with the Wind-but juggling so many books including Iliad for school. So busy, so little time! I want to read Crime and Punishment reeeally badly though!
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Eragon -- Christopher Paolini

Very boring in my opinion but I have to read it for a library assignment.
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Just finished Frankenstein (Mary Shelley) and Jurassic Park (Michael Chrichton), in preparation for a piece of English coursework I'll be starting soon.

I'll be starting on the The Odyssey (Homer) soon, as well as the Rover (Aphra Behn), both also for school.

I'm also currently re-reading The Saga of Darren Shan (Darren Shan).
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Just finished The Red Tent by Anita Diamant and Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury in the last two days...trying to get the last of these library books finished up before schools starts!
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well for school i'm reading Caesar
but for my own reading pleasure i'm reading A Tale of Two Cities..again
i can't help it i love that book!!!
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