next »

I'm currently halfway through that giant book of stories by Isaac Babel I mentioned above! Holy moly, I think Babel is becoming one of my favorite authors... both his images and metaphors are endlessly surprising. I highly recommend his Odessa Stories to anyone who hasn't read him before.

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin.  It's complicated but cool.
Also a whole bunch of graphic novels if that counts.

I am reading Roverandom Again.

Yeah I know its a childrens book. But I love it dearly. 

I am reading Roverandom Again.

Yeah I know its a childrens book. But I love it dearly. 

My friend is reading that 

I am reading Roverandom Again.

Yeah I know its a childrens book. But I love it dearly. 

My friend is reading that 

Its really good. It's my favorite book ^_^

I highly recomend it.

It a cute adventure of a puppy name Rover. One day he insults a wizard. And for his punishment, is turned into a small toy dog! Seeking to be turned back, he is lead on a host of strange adventures. Its great.

I'm about 231 pages into The Lord of Chaos. I love me some Robert Jordan. I've been reading this series ever since my freshman year of high school, and it never fails to interest me. Oh! I'm also reading Lord of the Flies for my English course. I've read it before, but I'm able to understand it better now that we're actually discussing it within class. Very good books, indeed.

[Pet's name:]

The Book of Useless Information,By The Uselesss Information Society.

Sweeney Todd-The String of Pearls: A Romance

The unabridged penny dreadful as written in 1846 mind you, not the new musical version 

"my life and other animals"

i'm very very very slowly reading it, but i'm really enjoying it at the same time... tis an autobiographical thing about a ten year old living in greece and sharing his life with insects... the descriptions and observations of insect life are fantastic

I'm reading The Monster Makers Mask Makers Handbook to learn how to make latex costume masks, I'm half way through,.  

Finished String of Pearls, now reading (appropriate for Halloween):

The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories by H.P. Lovecraft 

Finished String of Pearls, now reading (appropriate for Halloween):

The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories by H.P. Lovecraft 

Good read! You should get the complete collection of his stories that Barnes & Noble are selling. It has pretty much everything released by him and is awesome.

Personally I am finishing Count Of Monte Cristo right now...

Finished String of Pearls, now reading (appropriate for Halloween):

The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories by H.P. Lovecraft 

Good read! You should get the complete collection of his stories that Barnes & Noble are selling. It has pretty much everything released by him and is awesome.

Personally I am finishing Count Of Monte Cristo right now...

Well, I do also have At the Mountains of Madness and The Dunwich Horror collections as well, so I have a fair amount of his works

I'm currently in the process of reading, The Lovely Bones. It's an absolutely fantastic book, but a rather hard book to read in the sense that's it's very intense and sad. I'm enjoying it alot and I recommend it to you all. excited for the movie coming out in December!

I am currently reading " The Affected Provincial's Companion Vol.1 ". This book is authored by a famouse fasion designer in Britain. It explains the philisophical meaning of dandyism . And the need for refinement in todays culture. I enjoy the fact that he teaches fasion in this book. And all while aserting Naughty Absurdities. ^_^

So addicted to the Southern Vampire novels by Charlaine Harris... and the series True Blood is nearly as good as the books

Read the first two Dexter morgan novels.I  love'em. Right now reading Dexter In The Dark.

I'm reading two new books at the moment:

-The Eighties: America in the Age of Reagan by John Ehrman. I felt like I needed to know more about the Reagan years, so I went to the library and got out the most crazy conservative and the most crazy liberal book I could find about his tenure, and I am now reading them back to back. WHO WILL WIN??!?
-A Theory of the Leisure Class, by Thorstein Veblen. A classic economics book, so sarcastic that it borders on satire, which argues that education and the consumption of goods both basically evolved as ways for the upper class to show off about the fact that they didn't have to work.

The Eighties

Read Bonfire of the Vanities and you will understand the essence of the eighties.

While I wait for my next Master and Commander book to arrive (yeesh, Border's shipping suddenly got a lot longer than it used to be), I picked up And Another Thing, which I didn't realize was out yet. Being another entry into the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy after Adams has died leaves me a bit nervous about it being able to live up to the rest of the series. But I'm liking what I'm reading so far. Seems a good style like what Adams had, and has already made me laugh a couple times. Good sign.

I'm reading two new books at the moment:

-The Eighties: America in the Age of Reagan by John Ehrman. I felt like I needed to know more about the Reagan years, so I went to the library and got out the most crazy conservative and the most crazy liberal book I could find about his tenure, and I am now reading them back to back. WHO WILL WIN??!?
-A Theory of the Leisure Class, by Thorstein Veblen. A classic economics book, so sarcastic that it borders on satire, which argues that education and the consumption of goods both basically evolved as ways for the upper class to show off about the fact that they didn't have to work.

My father and his family practically worshipped Reagan.

Finished Count Of Monte Cristo a few days ago, now into Middlemarch by George Elliot.
Also textbooks.
BLECH.
 

Well, I just got finished reading Jack Kerouac's Dharma Bums, so I'm just now starting on Barry Lopez's Light Action in the Caribbean.  Yay for ecocriticism reading! 

The Human Brain by Richard Gilling and Robin Brightwell.
It's a pretty decent read, although it's considerably outdated (Published 1985). I also wish it would review more the anatomy of the brain, rather than focus on disabilities, diseases, or causes for dysfunction. :I

Dark Force Rising, by Timothy Zahn.  I'm technically re-reading it, but I had forgotten how good he is, and how much I liked Thrawn as a Star Wars baddie.