What are you reading? (February '07)

[Crystal Meth]

I win!

I just read a short liitle book called The Middle Stories, it was very good, very CanLit.

Now, I'm reading Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood and still working on Anna Karenina - that one will take a while.

[Spudd]

I finally finished that damn Alien Chronicles trilogy, and now I'm reading a John Grisham - The Testament. I'm only one chapter in, so it's too early to say whether it's good.

Listening to Discworld, by Terry Pratchett, on my commute. I'm not a huge fan, to be honest. The whole absurd fantasy thing isn't really my bag.

[Lady Bug]

I win!

You beat me to it!

I am still reading Be Happy at Work. I am also reading Making ADD Work, which is a guidebook for how to function with ADD in the workplace.

(Now that I'm in "transition" I'm going to be reading far more self-help books than usual.)

[Crystal Meth]

Speaking of self-help LB, please don't call me a meanie or your sister or whatever LOL, but I found the "Quarterlife Crisis" in a drawer and as I was flipping through and rereading old passages, I was quite literally going: "Hey, that's LB!" "LB says that!" "She says that too!"

Anyway, yeah... it closely echos things you say. I have no further point.

[Lady Bug]

Speaking of self-help LB, please don't call me a meanie or your sister or whatever LOL, but I found the "Quarterlife Crisis" in a drawer and as I was flipping through and rereading old passages, I was quite literally going: "Hey, that's LB!" "LB says that!" "She says that too!"

Anyway, yeah... it closely echos things you say. I have no further point.

I am literally ROFL overhere. That's so funny! I will definitely have to check that out. And, no, you're not being a meanie -- that's helpful!

[Sílvia]

I'm reading The Dante Club. It started off a little slow, but it's definitely picking up!

[Sílvia]

Ok, "tried to read it" doesn't sound so good It's set in Boston in 1865. It's a group of poets who are translating and trying to get Dante Alighieris' Divine Comedy published in the US while murders are being committed apparently based on Dante's Inferno. But so far no one except the poets knows that the murders are inspired on Dante. It's a good idea, but a little slow for my taste.

[Crystal Meth]

No computer at home means Crystal is reading a lot more! I blew through:

Citizen Girl - Ummm...wtf? This book was bad, bad, bad
The War of Art - Really good. Reminds me of "Writing Down the Bones"
The Continuity Girl - I'm halfway through and I might stop reading it. Blahblahblahbabyfeverblah... which isn't necessarily bad, but I was misled, I thought the book would be about life on a film set.

Also? Everybody read Anna Karenina. It's really good.

[Sílvia]

Crystal, I'll never forgive whoever told me what happens in Anna Karenina. And I'll obviously never forget it either I think it was someone on chicklit, actually. Ok, it's a classic, but that doesn't mean the rest of the universe knows how it ends!

Anna, yeah, the descriptions are gruesome, but they don't bother me. It's fiction

[Crystal Meth]

I know, the ending was spoiled for me too, so I went and read it first...

[Sílvia]

Lol, yeah, the beginning is quite boring. It does get better, though.

[Spudd]

Blush, I'm reading Whitethorn Woods too! So far, I'm kind of annoyed by it, though. Is the whole entire book just little vignettes about different characters? I want to get to know the characters and have things happen, not just start to like them and then have to get to know another character.