Reading List
Recently I finished a nearly two-year endeavor of reading the Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien. I’m eager to finish the trilogy but not foolish enough to dive right into the third book, so I’m taking a break from Middle Earth for a bit.
This is a stack of recommendations from Chris. I started the Brandon Sanderson book about a week ago, but haven’t gotten sucked in just yet. I read the prologue and had a heck of a time keeping up with all the terminology and jargon that you’re supposed to just get right off the bat (don’t you hate it when books do that?). But, it was exciting and clever, so I’m sure I’ll continue on with it.
I have some holds on a couple of cheesemaking books at the library (!) and I picked up The Instant Physicist, also at Chris’s recommendation, and it’s full of mindblowing little tidbits (with comics for easier understanding :).
What was the last good book you read?
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Farenheit 451, I didn’t read it in high school and just recently did and it’s awesome. Also I’ve been reading Franny and Zooey, I’m hoping this time I will finish it. Good luck.
I really, really loved "Half Broke Horses" by Jeanette Walls. I love the narration! I’d been avoiding "The Glass Castle" because I hear it’s incredibly depressing but I have to read more by her. "Room" by Emma Donaghue was the talk of 2010 and it IS good but I’m not a fan of feeling emotionally molested after reading a book!
@Common Hoodlum: I read Franny and Zooey a few weeks ago – it hooked me in easily but halfway through it started to lose me. I finished it but felt a little let down.
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/29884246@N07] Franny & Zooey is how we arrived at the name of our latest household addition. :) I always had a knee jerk reaction to it because it’s so popular, but once I actually read it I realized why: it rules! Love that book. I’ve always wanted to read Farenheight 451, too.
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/princessinboots] hah! For someone married to a book dweeb I’m surprised I never heard about Room. It sounds interesting, I’ll be sure to keep my guard up. :)
This Place Called Absence, by Lydia Kwa
it was pretty good, but as i recall i was kinda not digging how it ended.
i need to finish Big Stone Gap, by Adriana Trigiani … it’s good and funny to me, but when i put it down i don’t pick it back up for awhile.
In Search of Captain Zero. Allan Weisbecker
Heart of Darkness with a surfboard.
I have a goodreads account to keep track of books, I’m terrible with remembering titles. You should get one and we should be friends! ha It’s been so long since I’ve been able to really sit down and enjoy a book, I can’t even remember the last book I read. I can’t wait to be done with school so I can get back on the book wagon. A few favorites though… Fall On Your Knees, Norwegian Wood, and China Men.
Recent books I’ve like are "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks", "The Lonely Polygamist", "The Devotion of Suspect X" and "A Drink Before the War". I read "Room" but didn’t love it. Tried to read "Cutting for Stone" but couldn’t get into it. In-between "real" books I like to read romance mysteries :)
i am reading keith richards autobiography which is interesting to say the least. i read "end game" a book about bobby fischer. i read "room," and thought it was clever, but not my favorite. i also read "housekeeping" which was haunting and beautiful.
The last book I read was The Catcher in the Rye but I read that all the time so I guess it doesn’t count. The last book I read that was “new” was The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton back in September.
I am so turds at reading, but I still haven’t gotten over how much I laughed at Mishna Wolff’s I’m Down: A Memoir, like, two or three years ago when I read it. SO GOOD, BOO.
I just finished ‘The Yiddish Policemen’s Union’ by Michael Chabon. I first read his book, ‘The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay,’ which was fantastic and decided to read some more of his books. Have you read ‘Kavalier & Clay’? It is about two boys who go into the comic book industry, but so much more than just that. You should check it out if you haven’t!
I just finished "The portrait of Dorian Grey". I liked chapter 11, when Dorian gets bored and starts looking for hobbies.
I’m trying to get through the first chapter of "The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" after failing to enjoy "Ulysses"
Finished Cotzee’s "Summertime" a little bit ago, found it good.
Usually I’m a Francophile, and would recommend Flaubert, Hugo, and Voltaire… and Proust if you have the stamina.
Blood Meridian is very good, but very long and pretty much the same things are going on the entire time…the last good book I read…..hrm…
Blood Meridian is very good. For some it is hard to get into at first but once you do it is very good. Ben Nichols of Lucero did a solo album called Last Pale Light inspired from the book.
I recently read Room by Emma Donoghue on iBooks.. I didn’t like it as much as the people who wrote reviews did, but it was an inTENSE book.