What are you currently Reading? (5 Viewers)

[dwarven]

you read any Tamora Pierce books??
they are awesome

 

[lisajf]

Currently reading the gossip girl series.
Im over it!!! im up to book 5 i think and i was over it by book 3! but i have to know what happens to the characters what i plan to read next is "The Host" by Stephenie Meyer i read the first few chapters on her website and it was very intriguing! anyone read it? whats your review without spoilers!!

 

[nicolerachford]

Twilight series - Stephenie Meyer (I know, not academic, but a damn good read)

 

[peregrinus]

Twilight series - Stephenie Meyer (I know, not academic, but a damn good read)

i completely agree about twilight
just finished "The Host" by Stephenie Meyer, excellent!!

 

[lisajf]

meh who cares if its not academic! as long as you enjoy it!!

peregrinus - you recommend the host?

 

[Tulipa]

I'm just finishing Wonderful Town, a collection of stories from The New Yorker.

Fabulous anthology.

 

[dwarven]

reading Deception Point by Dan Brown

its awesome so far :rofl:

 

[marchetta]

The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants by Ann Brashes.

 

[MysticalElement]

currently reading the "What are you currently Reading?" thread lolz

 

[sca]

1984, George Orwell

...for school, but it's hardly a chore - I've actually been meaning to read it for a couple years now.

 

[Hysterik]

1984, George Orwell

...for school, but it's hardly a chore - I've actually been meaning to read it for a couple years now.

I love that book. Read it twice in a row!

At the moment I'm reading 'If On a Winter's Night a Traveller' by Italo Calvino. I'm loving it but it's quite difficult. So many things happening at once!

 

[peregrinus]

meh who cares if its not academic! as long as you enjoy it!!

peregrinus - you recommend the host?

definitely!
by the looks of your pic, id say you're a fan of Stephenie Meyer, so i suggest you read it

 

[ZEROtheHERO]

'The book thief' by Markus Zusak.

Its for school. I like it so far.

 

[sca]

I love that book. Read it twice in a row!

At the moment I'm reading 'If On a Winter's Night a Traveller' by Italo Calvino. I'm loving it but it's quite difficult. So many things happening at once!

What's it about? (As simply as you can put it, lol).

(And dw, even if I wasn't studying 1984 for school I'd read it again just because of the depth and complexity of it all... and the need to understand a good book... you know? All those little details you miss on the first reading).

 

[Silver Persian]

Taking a break from war and peace to read We Need to Talk About Kevin while travelling. Heard v. good things about this book.

 

[lisajf]

Reading The Host by Stephenie Meyer. Veryy intriguing and i cant keep my nose out of it!!

 

[amystephens]

fight club by chuck palahniuk.

it's amazing.

not sure if i want to see the movie. hollywood wrecking things and all ...

 

[russianROULETTE]

aside from king lear for school, i decided i'd read the chronicles of narnia... didn't read them when i was younger but i wanted to. i don't really like lewis' style of storytelling, or the obvious religious symbolism, but the whole fantasy element and the ideas in the novels are enough to compensate for that.

yesterday i read the magicians' nephew, today i read the lion, the witch and the wardrobe, so tomorrow i'll read the horse and his boy if it's at the school library.

 

[bawd]

For Ext. 1 English I am reading Jane Austen's Emma and Deborah Tannen's You Just Don't Understand. I've finished Emma and found it horrendously boring compared to Pride & Prejudice. Tannen's work is quite interesting and entertaining.

Right now, for pure enjoyment I am reading Tim Winton's Cloudstreet and am about 50 pages from finishing. Cloudstreet will definitely be put onto Penguin's Modern Silver Classics in about 50 years time: it is excellent. I plan to start reading Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf once I finish.

 

[tetrisam]

Tess of the D'urbevilles - Thomas Hardy
quite interesting but a book revolving round feminism

Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
great book so far, pretty deep, intense

next book to tackle: Anna Karenina - Tolstoy; any thoughts?