What are you reading? (February '07)

Crystal Meth · Post by **Crystal Meth** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 8:43 am

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.

Blush · Post by **Blush** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 9:14 am

I gave up on The Twins of Tribeca and started A Tale of Two Sisters by Anna Maxted. So far I've chuckled a couple of times already. It's british chicklit, but not TOO light.

Still listening to Mindless Eating. Still highly recommend it.

Post by **Spudd** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 10:03 am

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 · Post by **Lady Bug** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 5:02 pm

Crystal Meth wrote: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 · Post by **Crystal Meth** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 5:20 pm

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 · Post by **Lady Bug** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 8:31 pm

Crystal Meth wrote: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 · Post by **Sílvia** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 7:25 am

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

Anna · Post by **Anna** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 8:45 pm

Silvia I think I've read that, or at least tried to read it.

When your'e done remind me what its about.

I'm reading a Jodi Picoult book right now

Sílvia · Post by **Sílvia** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 6:50 am

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.

Anna · Post by **Anna** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 7:11 pm

Oh yeah I had to quit reading that book. My friend tried to read it too but it was too gruesome for her.

Crystal Meth · Post by **Crystal Meth** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 10:53 am

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 · Post by **Sílvia** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 10:59 am

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 · Post by **Crystal Meth** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 11:35 am

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

Anna · Post by **Anna** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 1:30 pm

Sylvia, I quit reading b/c it was boring me to tears, my friend quite reading b/c of the content

Sílvia · Post by **Sílvia** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 6:28 am

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

Blush · Post by **Blush** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 7:21 pm

I just finished Whitethorn Woods by Maeve Binchy. I'm so glad she returned to setting a book in Ireland, it seems more natural for her.

I'm reading Size 12 is not fat by Meg Cabot, and although I'm only a couple of chapters in I am really annoyed by a mistake I caught. In the first few pages the main character remarks to herself that it's lovely to be shopping on a Saturday afternoon. Then an hour later she says it's not even noon yet. Grr. I'm annoyed enough that I might stop reading, actually.

Post by **Spudd** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 8:08 am

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.

Blush · Post by **Blush** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 1:39 pm

Spudd, it is all like that, and I was annoyed at first too. There's a reason I don't read short stories! But it all sort of gets tied up in the end, and in some of the vignettes you learn more about a previously mentioned character. It's all kind of intertwined. It's not my fave Maeve Binchy, but it's better than the last couple.

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