What are you reading?

[undeadpetals]

Now's my chance to share my annoying thinking thing!

I am currently reading "The Red Badge of Courage" by Stephen Crane.

To unkindly summarize, it is good read. But I am spending a longer time finishing it than with other books I read. I enjoy this subject matter and the author's analysis of a young soldier becoming a man amid his fears and troubles in a war. However, I cannot cull it as immensely readable: if I read too fast, I miss too much details. I find myself required to read it intensely, and for a short book (think a Signet Classic of 100 pages), it is straining my relationship with time. Plus a few words throw me out the pages, thus more time alotted for it. (But as always, it is good to read with a dictionary! <3)

[jjrrss10]

War and Peace - Tolstoy

'nuff said.

[ellie]

Just finished Dan Brown's 'Lost Symbol'....and really enjoyed it

[Mark H]

Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger

VG. Iffy ending.

[ellie]

Re-reading Eca De Queiros'  'Cousin Bazilio'......
I recommend this writer..

Also reading more of H.G.Wells short stories..what a mind that man had!

[thatollie]

I just finished The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks
I'm not sure what to read next, I have lots of books.

[thatollie]

Just finished Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by PKD
It was awesome.

Probably read some Robert Swindells next.

[mouselady]

Just finished 'Blueeyed Boy' by Joanne Harris.  Excellent, and very twisty turny (and somewhat timey-whiney).

Next up is 'Colony' by JA (Jan) Henderson.


Mouse

[Gyppo]

Currently reading Day Of Reckoning by Jack Higgins.  I'm enjoying it so far, but Jack/Harry ought to shoot his proofreader.  Seeing as it's a fairly old book perhaps he has...

But you want to know why, don't you.  Because one of the women is carrying a 25 mm Colt automatic with hollow point bullets.

Someone got lost in the conversion between metric and imperial.  .25 of an inch is fine, but 25 mm is near as damn it one whole inch.  The woman's carrying a small cannon ;-)

Still, it's not as funny as when someone has a poacher carrying a 'folding 4.10' instead of .410.

Gyppo   

[pencil]

Just finishing re-reading Justine by Lawrence Durrell. 
Wish I could post a photo of my bedside reading, or perhaps not - lol.  Margaret Atwood - re-reading Oryx and Crake as a precurser to reading The Year of The Flood.   can hardly wait.    Then there's The Magus, and  Poems of New York and, The Age of Reason and, The Year of Magical Thinking and, The Hobbit and,  Watership Down and,  The Shipping News and,  Bird by Bird and,  Sylvia Plath and,  Dorothy Porter.  They sit atop one another beside my bed awaiting my whim. I wish I was more sturdy.

[Royanmagic]

Good Day

I am reading  APULEIUS METAMORPHOSES OR GOLDEN ASS AND OTHER WORKS  Printed in London: George Bell and sons, York Street, Covent  Garden 1889

Just started reading, interesting read but slow as my mind is trying to give me the modern translations.

Look forward to reading and enjoy what is suppose to be an excellent story for all times.

This is totally different type of book than I have read before but am always willing to read outside my comfort zone.

If anyone has read it please let me know what you think.

A book is more when shared
Royan

[jjrrss10]

Currently on pg 525/1368 of War and Peace. Hoping to get to 1000 by Monday.

[thatollie]

The Shadow of The Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
It's not a book, it's a magic spell.

[Vienna]

Currently on pg 525/1368 of War and Peace. Hoping to get to 1000 by Monday.

is reading enjoyable when it's a race to get to page thousand? I read because I  enjoy it. Isn't war and peace a good read? Enjoyed it immensely. If it arrives tomorrow I will start Robert Musil - Mann ohne Eigenschaften

[A.J.B]

Currently reading 'Rynn's World' by Steve Parker and am about twenty pages from the finish so will be moving onto 'Helsreach' by Aaron Demski-Bowden, or Soulhunter by the same author.