What Are You Reading? February 2007
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Just finished which is so damn good I have to take a break before I start the 4th book b/c I don't want the series to end (since who knows when the 5th will come out).
So now I just started
So now I just started
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^ Let us know how The Terror is. I'm not sure I want to invest so much time reading it (it's quite long) without hearing some positive words about it first.
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Primarily reading:
World War Z by Max Brooks (I gave this to my brother for Christmas; he finished it and let me borrow it)
Bathroom reading:
The Modern Gentleman: A Guide to Essential Manners, Savvy & Vice by Phineas Mollod and Jason Tesauro
World War Z by Max Brooks (I gave this to my brother for Christmas; he finished it and let me borrow it)
Bathroom reading:
The Modern Gentleman: A Guide to Essential Manners, Savvy & Vice by Phineas Mollod and Jason Tesauro
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Just finished:
Death March on Mount Hakkoda
by Jiro Nitta
Currently reading:
The Italian Boy: A Tale of Murder and Body Snatching in 1830s London
by Sarah Wise
Death March on Mount Hakkoda
by Jiro Nitta
Currently reading:
The Italian Boy: A Tale of Murder and Body Snatching in 1830s London
by Sarah Wise
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Currently reading John Lescroart's The Motive.
Next is Elizabeth Kostova's The Historian.
Haven't really read a book for leisure in several years. While I was killing time at Borders last week, I found some bargain-priced hardcovers and got 'em.
Next is Elizabeth Kostova's The Historian.
Haven't really read a book for leisure in several years. While I was killing time at Borders last week, I found some bargain-priced hardcovers and got 'em.
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After several months of not being able to read a thing, I'm getting back on track this month. It took all of that time to get through Oscar Wilde's "Complete Short Fiction". Partly because some of it was dull, but mostly because of "life" things.
The book collects some of Wilde's earliest works and includes all the stories from "The Happy Prince & Other Tales", "Lord Arthur Savile's Crimes & Other Stories", and "A House Of Pomegranates" and also includes "The Portrait of Mr. W.H." and his "Poems In Prose".
Then:
"The Thirteenth Tale" by Diane Setterfield
I'm not a fast reader at all, but I went through this book in about 4 days. Finished it Sunday morning. I literally did nothing except read this with every free moment away from the job. I could not and did not want to put it down.
The book collects some of Wilde's earliest works and includes all the stories from "The Happy Prince & Other Tales", "Lord Arthur Savile's Crimes & Other Stories", and "A House Of Pomegranates" and also includes "The Portrait of Mr. W.H." and his "Poems In Prose".
Then:
"The Thirteenth Tale" by Diane Setterfield
Only five short chapters into Setterfield's deft, enthralling narrative, her readers too have been transported: they've inhaled the dusty scent of Lea's Antiquarian Bookshop, shared the sense of adventurous comfort Margaret absorbs from her late-night reading, and been seduced by the glamorous enigma of Vida Winter. Yet The Thirteenth Tale has just begun. Commissioned by Miss Winter to compose her unvarnished biography, Margaret is soon swept up in the tragic history she must unravel -- a story stranger and more haunting than any the celebrated author has ever penned, encompassing a grand house, a beautiful yet doomed family, passion, madness, ghosts, and a secret that holds readers spellbound until the very end. Richly atmospheric and deeply satisfying, Setterfield's debut revives in all their glory the traditions of gothic and romantic suspense exemplified by the works of Wilkie Collins, the Brontės, and Daphne du Maurier. Old-fashioned in the best sense, it's an urgently readable novel that's nearly impossible to put down.
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I'm about halfway through The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay and it's pretty amazing. It is my first Michael Chabon novel, but I definitely plan on reading his other books. Very strong recommendation thus far.
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Read:
and now started
And currently browsing Amazon's 4 for 3 sale. So far I have about 100 paperbacks in my cart and only through 1000 of 8900 or so. I won't end up getting them all of course lol.
and now started
And currently browsing Amazon's 4 for 3 sale. So far I have about 100 paperbacks in my cart and only through 1000 of 8900 or so. I won't end up getting them all of course lol.