What are you reading right now?

[Moony]

I was just curious to see what my fellow bookworms were into right now.

I've just finished Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke. It's a very strange but interesting book about two English magicians in the last century. A very long read, but it was engaging and enjoyable.

I've also just finished Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh. Funniest book ever! If you've seen the movie, the novel is like everything x10. It's told in a Scottish accent written phonetically, with a lot of odd Scottish slang. Here's a little sample:
"Whoah. Likesay, gaunnae huv tae stoap ye thair, catboy. The O Grades wis bull****, ken? Thought ah'd use that tae git ma fit in the door. Showin initiative, likeseay. Ken?"
(that's one of the more understandable passages..)
There's even a glossary in the back of the book to translate the slang words.
It's radge. (radge = crazy)

As of now, I'm reading Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz. It's about a young man that can see ghosts. It seems pretty cool so far.

[Neal]

I just got Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell in the mail from Amazon yesterday! I'm going to start it tonight, since it'll probably take me 6 months to finish it...

Last week I finished Christpher Rice's The Snow Garden (which sat on my shelf for almost a year before I got around to it...)

[DrummerDeanna]

I just finished Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (second time reading it) - it was even better then second time around..I LOVE Harry Potter..

I just started reading The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks - I haven't seen the movie yet - and I was buying a journal at a Barnes and Noble when I saw TN at the checkout stand - it was an impluse buy

[Moony]

Originally Posted by Neal

I just got Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell in the mail from Amazon yesterday! I'm going to start it tonight, since it'll probably take me 6 months to finish it...

Just a word of advice - it starts out rather slow. If you feel like you want to just stop b/c it's too slow for you, don't! LOL. It gets more interesting by like the 6th chapter or so.

Originally Posted by DrummerDeana

I just finished Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (second time reading it) - it was even better then second time around..I LOVE Harry Potter..

I liked the book too, but damn if I didn't want to smack Harry around. The kid was such a whining bastard in this one!

[amber]

Just finished a book called Faerie Tale, by i can't remember. It was good, another real life/fantasy tale. (love those. If anyone else likes them, i recommend Jonathan Carroll, and Elisabeth Hand) But i haven't been able to get a new book, so before i go to bed i've been rereading my Calvin N Hobbes.

[SuzeQuze]

Originally Posted by DrummerDeanna

I just finished Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (second time reading it) - it was even better then second time around..I LOVE Harry Potter..

I just started reading The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks - I haven't seen the movie yet - and I was buying a journal at a Barnes and Noble when I saw TN at the checkout stand - it was an impluse buy

Ohh, The Notebook is a wonderful story, happy reading! I've read all of Sparks' books (sort of sappy but I like that ) I didn't see the movie either, but I'd like to. I LOVE HP too!

Right now I'm trying to get through Bill Clinton's autobiography. His childhood was very interesting. I am halfway through it and have stalled with my reading. Anyone get through this one?

[DrummerDeanna]

Originally Posted by SuzeQuze

Ohh, The Notebook is a wonderful story, happy reading! I've read all of Sparks' books (sort of sappy but I like that ) I didn't see the movie either, but I'd like to. I LOVE HP too!

Yep - I'm a big fan of the sap lol....I have enjoyed what I've read so far - and if I really like it then I can look forward to reading his other books...

Although next in line after the Notebook is The Las of Similars by Chris Bohjalian.

[heyjupiter678]

Originally Posted by Neal

Last week I finished Christpher Rice's The Snow Garden (which sat on my shelf for almost a year before I got around to it...)

Was it a good book?

I finally finished A Place of Execution by Val McDermid last week, and I haven't decided what's next -- In the Fall by Jeffrey Lent or a re-read of 1984 by George Orwell.

[chiliD]

What are you reading right now?

This thread.

[DrummerDeanna]

Originally Posted by Moony

I liked the book too, but damn if I didn't want to smack Harry around. The kid was such a whining bastard in this one!

aww..come on he just has all sorts of teenage angst to deal with

Seriously though - Harry is a little pain in the ass like in this one - refusing to listen to Hermione toward the end....that always gets me...

But the one I wanted to slap around in that book was Umbridge - ugh - I HATE that character...I don't think a book character has even inspired so much anger in me haha...

[Neal]

Originally Posted by heyjupiter678

Was it a good book?

I finally finished A Place of Execution by Val McDermid last week, and I haven't decided what's next -- In the Fall by Jeffrey Lent or a re-read of 1984 by George Orwell.

It was decent, but not as good as his first, A Density of Souls, Though no one else seems to agree with me

Never read In The Fall, but 1984 is great!

[DrummerDeanna]

Originally Posted by Moony

OMG YES! I loved the scene when she was "inspecting" Prof. McGonagall. Ole Minerva doesn't take crap from anyone I wanted to squash Umbridge like the little toad she was.

Me too....but I loved the fleeing of Fred and George and the fact that Peeves totally gave her hell....loved that - and I did like how Umbridge was finally handled...though Harry and Hermoine almost got it too...

Umbridge's quill punishment also got to me -that character is pure evil...I think I disliked her more than I do Voldemort lol

McGonagall kicks ass for sure - one of my absolute favorite Hogwarts profs

[hayley]

LOVE Order of the Phoenix- best HP yet. Each one just gets better and better. Harry's teenage angst drove me a little bit nuts in it as well, but I'm so excited at how dark and scary everything's finally getting. I've reread it a few times, and everytime I read Dumbledore's speech at the end, I get weepy. And Umbridge was such a well-written villain. Ugh, now I want to read it again!

I'm rereading "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" for the millionth time. I love Carson McCullers. Also rereading "Jude the Obscure." Just finished reading "Anna Karenina," which I'd always guilted myself about not reading. I've been trying to smart myself up lately. I'm watching too much TV and feeling like a drooling idiot.

[estranged4life]

Nothing. Didnt start back on Anne Rice's "Blood Canticle" because the print is so small it's hurting my eyes to read...But once I get glasses I will finish it.

Brian j.

[skcin]

Alice Hoffman Blackbird House I LOVE this author, I can actually FEEL her writing.

Some chick, can't remember her name PS - I Love You Kind of sappy for me, but not a bad read - this chick's husband dies when they're still young & he leaves her a list of things she must do every month after he's gone.

Paula