Young Writers Society

I just finished reading Mirror Mirror by Gregory Magurie. Not as good as Wicked, though, and the ending confused me. @_@

I'm also reading The Odyssey for school. We had to randomly chose book titles out of a hat, and that was the book that we had to read. I was so happy when I got this one!

"Noman is killing me by craft and not by main force!" XD

I just finished Juliet Marillier's Son of the Shadows, despite the incredible urge to crack it against a wall. Ugh.

Right now, I'm going to start They Came to Baghdad (Agatha Christie), The Autiobiography of Malcolm X, and finish the Lucifer comic book I'm in the middle of.

Well, I'm reading Dies the Fire by S. M. Stirling. It's a pretty good size novel, and after a week (of not so heavy reading) I'm approaching the halfway point. It's a very interesting idea and so far a well written story. The characters are unique and believable, which is a major plus. You should try it out some time. It gets you thinking.

i'm reading a story my friend wrote. it's untitled at the moment but it's really good and LONG it's like 178 pages. she has a lot of time on her hands.
i'm also reading Romeo and Juliet for school

I'm trying to read : Young Warriors - Stories of Strength edited by Tamora Pierce (whom I love) and Josepha Sherman if I could find time.

It's a collection of short stories about young warriors. Some of the stories are good but I've found I'm bored with most of them.

Jorge Luis Borges - a collection of all his short fiction, translated unfortunately - but my spanish isn't really up to the task of taking on his prose.

Lottery of Babylon is brilliant and hilarious.

(By the way, Clover - how are the short stories in that? My younger sister picked it up...but I've never liked Pierce, so...it rather put me off. ^_^'')

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy.

I think it's brilliant, but Anna Karenina's better.

Hooyah.

I'm also reading some barely grammatical story I just wrote that's supposed to be my creative writing final and doesn't seem to be working out that way.

And it's totally lousy that Tolstoy writes the dialogue in french. They're russian for crying out loud! How cool is that! So why are they all talking FRENCH!!??

(By the way, Clover - how are the short stories in that? My younger sister picked it up...but I've never liked Pierce, so...it rather put me off. ^_^'')

I haven't read them all but they're not really worth it. Some of them are good but other ones are really dull. They're all entertaining but none of them are really worth reading or buying the book unless you really like fantasy but since your not a Pierce fan I wouldn't read it.

The Firebirds short story (fantasy) anthology is a better read. (Edited by Sharyn November <-- I so wish that was my last name).

I'm reading Vanity Fair by W M Thackeray. Fluff can be fascinating at times. I'm enjoying it.

I just finished Never Give In, about Winston Churchill, and it was a pretty good read. The section about his humour made me laugh. He was a funny dude. I mean, besides being dang awesome in many other respects.

Not sure if I mentioned this or not, but I also finished To Kill A Mockingbird, and I loved it. It really was a sin that I hadn't read it until just now. It was just... amazing. I loved it.

Right now I'm starting Plutarch's Lives and I think I'm going to start The Great Divorce...

Oooh!

Oh, dear, looking at it now, I am indeed reading too many books at once...

Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson
Catch-22. by Joseph Heller
John Lennon: All I Want Is The Truth, by Elizabeth Partridge
The Sparrow, by Mary Doria Russel

And I just started Paradise Lost...

Ooh, I'm dying to read Paradise Lost. It's on my massive list of to-read books. Lemme know what you think of it when you get done, Sambo.

just finished romeo and juliet for school, unfortunately. it's so suicidal. i'm trying to start reading The Da Vinci Code, but so far haven't managed it...

Well about a week or so ago I finished 'The Dark Tide'(book one of the Iron Tower Trilogy) by Dennis McKiernan, and began reading Sir Thomas' King Arthur, well I just finished the chapter on Sir Lancelot and put the book down. Well here I am almost a week later and in front of me now is: The Balkans - Nationalism, War and the Great Powers, 1804-1999, by Misha Glenny (author of 'The Fall of Yugoslavia'). My heritage originating from the Balkan Peninsula, this book was an obvious target (actually, I was goign to get 'The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich', but I decided I'd get that after I'm done this). So far, and I'm 11 pages into the book, it is good. It is the dawn of the 19th century, and Ottoman rule in the Balkans is being undermined by nationalists and Turkish dissidents.

At the moment, I just started reading To Kill A Mockingbird for the second time (my favourite book of all time), and am about 1/3 of the way through Harry Potter 5, and 1/3 of the way through Larry's Party, by Carol Shields.