What are you reading at the moment?

"Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. 500+ pages, but it's pretty good, with lots of nice passages.

Madame Bovary--Gustave Flaubert. Classic french scandalous literature. Beautiful. Read it.

I'm pawing through the Transmetropolitan comic series right now. Gritty and awesome.

Sumi H. Inkblot wrote:Meep --Oh my gosh. By Diana Wynne Jones? XD It took me three months to read that. Only 200 some pages.

Glad I'm not the only one that takes forever to read it. I dunno what's with it ... it's good, and yet I still take a million years to finish it.

Just started Uncle Tom's Cabin for the first time ever. Feel stupid admitting I haven't read a classic like that. I'm also studying the Bible for the first time in my life as well.

Last night I finished "The Grass is Always Greener over the Septic Tank" by Erma Bombeck, today I'm reading "I Shouldn't Even Be Doing This! ... And Other Things I Find Funny" by Bob Newhart. (I got a "book guide" and put 28 books on hold. They came in. XD)

Finished Atonement - and, generally, I thought it was pretty good. Naturally, there were some bits that didn't really motivate me, and McEwan has a tendency, I feel, to ramble - a lot - to the point where it gets info-dumpy. But it's not essentially bad info-dump, if you get my drift. And I know other members weren't too keen on the ending (Suz ), but I found it alright. Though maybe that had something to do with the fact I'd seen the film first... (I should really stop doing that!).

Anywho, on to The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. Thus far (and that's a very short thus far - I'm not very far at all yet) it's quite good. I think I prefer it to Of Mice and Men, but haven't read enough to judge properly yet. Stupid exams - blocking reading time.

I just finished I am the Messanger, by Markus Zusak. (It's only The Messanger in Australia.)

It was amazing. He has a completly different writing style, which I'm currently experimenting with. SO much fun!

~JFW1415

Currently reading "Family Resemblance" by Tanya Maria Barrientos. I recommend it to anyone who likes deep family issues

hamlet by billy :] One of my three favorite billy plays.

The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

...something else I don't recall. Ah--some Russian short stories, in Russian and oy, 'tis harder going than it ought to be. -_-;











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Currently, I'm rereading the entire Harry Potter series. I'm about to finish the Prisoner of Azkaban and go on to the Goblet of Fire (my favorite!).

Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind by V.S. Ramachandran [and Sandra Blakeslee, but she is not as amazing as Rama].


It makes me so outrageously happy.

I am about a fifth or sixth of the way through Dune by Frank Herbert. It's high time I read this, considering I'm named after Lady Jessica and understand most Dune references anyway. I must say, Lady Jessica is an awesome namesake. And I love Frank Herbert's style.

The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini.

I've really been wanting to read this for a couple years, so I'm excited.