NVR - What are you reading right now? (Fiction or non-fiction)
Posted by Beans and Greens on May 12, 2007 · Member since Apr 2007 · 169 posts
I'm reading 'Raising Vegan Children in a Non-vegan World' by Erin Pavlina.
I'm curious what everyone else has their nose in at the moment! :)
oh I'm reading Twighlight, which I loved....until the main male character liked a vampire not consuming humans to a human who only conumes tofu and soy milk >:(
*whines* Has no one else read The Boy With the Striped Pyjamas? I kept hoping someone would respond to my post....sigh.
Right now I am actually reading Laurence Sterne's "Tristram Shandy." I was too absent minded to read it when I tried about 20 years ago, I think. He digresses every other sentence so you do have to keep your wits about you. Strangely, it was on the sale table in the uni bookstore. I don't know if that means they're no longer teaching it (and it would be a hella row to hoe for most non-native English students, let alone most natives I know here) or if they simply had one left over and the next batch is going to be more expensive. Marked down from 15 Euros to 5? I grabbed it!
I'm sitting here with my copy of Ultimate Hitchiker's Guide (to the galaxy) - Douglas Adams specifically reading Life, the Universe and Everything
However since I rarely read one book at a time I am also reading:
Origin of Species by Charles Darwin as well as The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins
Origin of Species by Charles Darwin as well as The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins
Ooooo Dawkins! I haven't read this one yet. I found the God Delusion to be fascinating but a bit boring in parts. Do you recommend the Blind Watchmaker?
I finished The Five People You Meet In Heaven last night. Yeah, I know...about time. This book, I would recommend to anyone. ;)b
*whines* Has no one else read The Boy With the Striped Pyjamas? I kept hoping someone would respond to my post....sigh.
I gotta get a copy of this book.
Ooooo Dawkins! I haven't read this one yet. I found the God Delusion to be fascinating but a bit boring in parts. Do you recommend the Blind Watchmaker?
I preferred the God Delusion overall. They serve different purposes really, the Blind Watchmaker is more a layman's explanation of how evolution can create the appearance of design. He uses a lot of simple devices to explain relatively complex science. So, its very interesting, the prose and intent is very different overall than God Delusion, far less exciting as well. Still a good read.
I am reading, with my children, a book called "Sketches From The Life Of Paul". Wow. In todays chapter he was with his friend Barnabas in the city of Lystra. After he healed a crippled man the people wanted to worship them both as gods and showed up where he was staying with a cow to offer in sacrifice!!! And a buch of gifts. When Paul disappointed them by telling him he was just a man like them they were not too happy and shortly afterward after being influenced by some of Paul's former brethren from the Jewish church which he had left, they stoned Paul and dragged him to the gates where they threw him out of the city as dead. But he revived and continued on his journey. We know that at the end of his life he is beheaded in Rome! And we think we have a tough life. :(
I'm sitting here with my copy of Ultimate Hitchiker's Guide (to the galaxy) - Douglas Adams specifically reading Life, the Universe and Everything
I just read that last week too!
Currently on page 3 of
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - by Haruki Murakami
I bought it for a recent long distance trip but have been a little too preoccupied to read past page 3.
I'm reading Wind-Up Bird Chronicle now too! I've had so many friends recommend it, and now I understand why. I absolutely love Murakami's writing style. I'm completely engrossed in this book right now, and I've only just begun Book 2.
I too actually read more than one book at a time, since I choose books for the moods they induce, for nighttime reading. So that's Tristram Shandy, Scott Thurow's Presumed Innocent, and for night time, Charlotte Bronte's masterpiece Villette.
I'm reading What is the What by Dave Eggars. It's the novelized autobiography of Sudanese "Lost Boy" Valentino Achak Deng. It is great--really compelling. It seems weird to say that I'm enjoying a book full of such horrible events, but I can hardly put it down.
http://www.valentinoachakdeng.org/preface.php
The Mummy, or Ramses the Damned, by Anne Rice
I'm reading Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy, it's cool!
Kilmeney of the Orchard by L.M. Montgomery
Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott
Anne of Green Gables for the millionth time as well.
I like to read a mixture of happy books at bedtime.
I am also reading Sarah Dunant's Transgressions, but it is too disturbing for someone like me to read at nighttime. So far I vastly prefer her novel The Birth of Venus which is just great.
The Long Goodbye, by Raymond Chandler, and The Time Travelers Wife
I like to read a mixture of happy books at bedtime.
This. I just finished Eight Cousins (did you find Rose in Bloom to be a bit too sententious and "moral", Wass?) and am re-reading The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald.
My bookstore just called to tell me the book I had special-ordered a month ago is in. "Conseils et Souvenirs". It's been out of print forever. DH offered to go pick it up for me, love him.
I must see about ordering a copy of "The Princess and Curdie." MacDonald's fantasy is an acquired taste but I like it. Especially Photogen and Nicteris.
I'm reading the Mental Floss History of the World. Wicked Plants, Fahrenheit 451, and a book on wild edibles are next on the list.
Irecently finished Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Haruki Murakami) and The Road (Cormac McCarthy). Both were excellent.
Just started another Murakami novel, Kafka on the Shore. Wind-up Bird Chornicle was my first Murakami read. There is no question he's a truly profound writer and storyteller, and I have a feeling I'm going to be reading a lot more of his stuff over the next few months.
I'm also re-reading Joseph Campbell's Hero with a Thousand Faces. I like to read one fiction and one non-fiction stimultaneously, and I think I could use a bit of a refresher on Campebell's inspring perspective on humanity.
I'm on a Shirley Jackson kick at the moment. Just finished 'The Haunting of Hill House' and I'm now reading 'We Have Always Lived In The Castle'.
I love how her prose - which is normally very light and breezy - can go from a nice description to an almost screaming insight into a characters darker inener thoughts. Every so often you just go, "Whoa! Let's read this page again to find out exactly where it went off the rails..."
Good stuff.
I'm on a Shirley Jackson kick at the moment. Just finished 'The Haunting of Hill House' and I'm now reading 'We Have Always Lived In The Castle'.
Good stuff.
Oh man, I loved "We Have Always Lived in the Castle." If you like SJ you might enjoy Charlotte Armstrong. Start with "The Chocolate Cobweb."
I finished reading a book called "The girl" it was really interesting (I'm going through a female phase in my life)
Right now I'm reading The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston. Its really fun and interesting! They are autobiographical in a sense but still fictional.
The girl was nice because it was set in the early 1900s and came about from a women's group where they each told their story and the author combined them into one novel in a really good way.
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