What are u reading right now?

[Kiwi Shelf]

Last night I just finished a fabulous novel called "Lovely Bones" by Alice Sebold. A really long time ago, when the book was only available in hard cover, a random person told me to read this particular book. So, when it became available in soft cover I picked it up. I was not disappointed. It's about this little girl that is murdered back in the 1970's, and she goes to heaven and watches the earth. You see all the people that she has touched in her short life, as she was 13 when she died, and the great obstacles that they go through to get on with their lives.

[Capnplank]

1. author + title
Leo Tolstoy -- "The Cossacks and The Raid"

2. why u desided to read the book
His other shorter works I've read were excellent.

3. first sentence in the book
Moscow has grown quiet.

4. page u are on
50

5. what u think of the book till now
It's pretty good, though it is still just starting.

[Lothwen]

1. Marcel Proust "Jean Santeuil"

2. I enjoyed reading "In Search of Lost Time", and when I "Jean..." in library I couldn't leave it

3. I don't want to spoil this book by my translation, so I don't rewrite first sentence ")

4. 35

5. Not bad, I like it, I see some similarities with the greates Proust's book, but here it's (for me) advantage, especially that "Jean Santeuil" was (never ended) precursor of "In Search of the Lost Time"

[Kiwi Shelf]

1. "Happenstance" by Carol Shields
2. I love her as an author, but I try to read her books slow because she passed away recently...
3 and 4 - will return to
5. This book is really quite interesting, see it is two books in one. First you read the book from the front, and then you flip it around and read the exact same story but from a different standing point. It a husband and wife story about a marriage in transition.
3. Wife perspective: Every morning Brenda wakes up, slips into her belted robe, and glides- glides- down the wide oak stairs to make breakfast for her husband and children."
Husband perspective: At the restaurant Jack wanted to tell Bernie about Harriet Post, a girl he had once been in love with.
4. Reading the wives perspective first, page 159 of 197.

[snapplepeaches]

Well, I was reading a Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf. I was about to finish with it when I had to return it to the library. The books was very fascinating, and I love Woolf's style of writing and how she explains her question on why there are not any women writers.

Now, I am reading _Will You Always Love Me? And Other Stories_ by Joyce Carol Oates. Last night, I read the first story called, "Act of Solitude". Wow, I thought that the story was amazing. It was about this man who drives to a meeting for the company that he works for. While he is driving, he goes on the Interstate. A homeless black male appears and wants to wash the driver's windshield. Yet, the driver does not want the black homeless man anywhere near him. The homeless man starts asking aggressively and spits on the driver's window. The driver becomes enraged, and he drives away while the homeless man is hanging on the car. The homeless man falls off from the car on the Interstate, and he is laying there not moving.

While the driver is going to his meeting or back home, he keeps thinking about what he has done. He keeps trying to reassure himself that the homeless man was all in your his personal space and property, and he was a threat. He said that him hurting the homeless man had nothing to do with that the man was black. He keeps justifying what he did until he arrives home.

The rest of the story talks about and shows the man and his own life. Anyway, I would like to break down the entire story, but the thread only asks what we were reading. I can't wait to start on the next story.

~Sophia

[MeDuSa]

hi,

im new here and i thought by replyin here it would be a good start

1. author + title

Judith Gould ... Time To Say Good-Bye

2. why u desided to read the book

i got cought by the title , and i read the preaf bout it

3. first sentence in the book

i guess u mean the first line of the story , coz it has the adedcation an stuff
The weather was peculiar for this time of year.

4. page u are on

119

5. what u think of the book till now

it is great, kinda realistic story

[Raven]

Last night I just finished a fabulous novel called "Lovely Bones" by Alice Sebold. A really long time ago, when the book was only available in hard cover, a random person told me to read this particular book. So, when it became available in soft cover I picked it up. I was not disappointed. It's about this little girl that is murdered back in the 1970's, and she goes to heaven and watches the earth. You see all the people that she has touched in her short life, as she was 13 when she died, and the great obstacles that they go through to get on with their lives.

I love that book! Have you read any other of her novels? 'Lucky' is really moving, its her memoir of her rape ordeal

[Kiwi Shelf]

I intend to read that, but I need to get through some books I already own before buying more.

[emily655321]

hi,

im new here and i thought by replyin here it would be a good start

Welcome, Medusa! Your avatar is beautiful.

[Koa]

Welcome, Medusa! Your avatar is beautiful.

I second the appreciation of the avatar. (well and the welcome too! )

[jesse sutton]

1. John Steinbeck - Cup Of Gold
2. I first decided to read it because i loved other Steinbeck, so i figured it would be the same with this book
3. 'All afternoon the wind sifted out of the black Welsh glens, crying notice that winter was come sliding down over the world from the Pole; and riverward there was the faint moaning of new ice.
4. 109 (although i've finished it many a time)
5. Well i loved it the first dozen times i've read it so i still like it i guess.

[imthefoolonthehill]

Stephen kings the shining

[Miranda]

RE Steinbeck, I had a book of short stories that I borrowed from the library by John Steinbeck's son - but I can't remember his name or the title of the book - but it had only been published just recently. The writing was great and I loved the first few stories in the book but then it seemed to get really boring. One of the stories was very long and I discovered that Steinbeck Jr had a penchant for including descriptions and explanations and details to a minute degree. This is fine if you are interested in how a ship's engine works, but not if you arn't. The obsession with detail kind of cluttered up the stories too much for me and spoilt them. But the writing itself was great. If only I could remember the title..and Jr's name!!!

[Jessika]

I'm reading two books right now, one in English and one in Spanish.

I

- El círculo mágico (The Magic Circle)
by Katherine Neville.

- The reason was that recently i've become interested in this kind of literature, historical and adventureous.. it's like Indiana Jones or so.
And, it came that I was at the book section of a commercial centre (¿?) and I could'nt resist buying a book..

- First sentence: (sorry, in spanish)
"Cumas, Italia: Otoño, 1870 d.C
Era antes del anochecer."

- page: 26

- The first chapter is like a movie, I liked it. It takes you to a volcan.. a woman leadering 2 men, trying to find secrets of thousand years ago.. I like it.
The second one is more historical and it begins with Poncio Pilatos!! But I've read too little to say anything about it, sorry.



II

- Animal Farm, by George Orwell

- I'm reading it online on this site (at work, so shhh don't tell my boss)
I wanted to read 1984 but I thought I would read Animal Farm first because it's shorter (better to read it online than 1984)
I prefer buying 1984, because i like having the books i read, at least , the ones i think i'll like

- page: .. hm.. don't know (chapter 5)

- It's interesting. The problem i have is the time to read at work, you know, your boss passing around you and you have to change or close this window, but anyway, it's ok.

[Kiwi Shelf]

Hehe, I was going to read "Wuthering Heights" but just wasn't in the mood, so I am reading Witchlight instead, it's by Marion Zimmer Bradley. I decided to read this one because I started it back during school times, and got so boogled that I never got the chance to finish it. "The house was called Grayangels." Page 132 I really like the book, but then I really like the author and so far haven't had any reason not to.

(In other news, Happenstance, the last book I was reading, turned out to be very disappointing)