Current Reads

I am regressing to childhood and rereading the Emily series by L.M. Montgomery. I may know them virtually off by heart by now, but it's still lots of fun. The ultimate comfort read for me.

I haven't read those since I was in school. Maybe I should take me on a trip to ye olde bookshope and invest in my very own copies.

I'm reading The Keep right now. One of my friends swears that it is so good that it has made her top 5 books list. So far I'm not being sucked in, but that may change. Anyone else reading it?

I'm still working my way through the His Dark Materials series (not for lack of enjoyment but lack of energy)! I'm halfway through The Subtle Knife, which I'm enjoying a lot, and The Golden Compass totally rocked my face off.

I'm rereading Hotel Honolulu by Paul Theroux, which I love to pieces.

I'm about halfway through The Time Traveler's Wife and so far I like it. It's an easy book to pick up and read for half hour fragments and not lose the plot.

I've started Beneath the Skin by Nicci French. It's ok-ish so far.

I'm reading The Golden Compass right now and am really, really loving it. I can't wait to see how it all comes together in the series.

And I so want my own daemon! I want a lemur.

Rereading Gone with the Wind. I'd forgotten how much I love this book. Although I refuse to even go near the abysmal sequel, Scarlett. Yech.

I'm reading Special Topics in Calamity Physics on the recommendations in the old thread. I'm only about a hundred pages in, and I like it. I almost gave up after the first few chapters, though. Those were particularly dense with reference (both real and fictitious, I guess). It was taking me forever to get through a page.

Currently reading *gulp* five novels at once, and only one of them is for classes.

That novel is actually my favorite of the bunch-- Emile Zola's The Ladies' Paradise. French Department Stores at at the end of the 19th century? Who knew they were the stuff of DRAMA.

The others? 3 Julia Quinn ebooks I checked out of the library (I thought I was done with the Regency period, but this woman is fantastic!) and No Plot? No Problem by Chris Baty. Which I'm reading the day before Nanowrimo ends, mind you.

Finished Emily, so I'm reading Nick Hornby's The Complete Polysyllabic Spree, which is good, fun summer reading.

I just finished Citizen Girl by Emma McLaughlin and Nicole Kraus (I think). It was all right. Not as good as The Nanny Diaries, but it was an amusing read.

I'm reading the incredibly depressing The Bell Jar, the amusing Gulliver's Travels and Tale of Two Summers, a new book about two best friends separated in the summer and all the drama that happens.

I'm currently reading The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova. I'm a bit more than a quarter in, and so far I like it. It makes me want to reread some of the nonfiction books on Dracula and vampires/vampirism that I have. (I've been interested in vampires and any related topics ever since I read Angela Sommer-Bodenburg's Little Vampire series as a child.)

I remember that series! I was in love with everything Halloween-related when I was little, so I got into those books. I still remember parts of them here and there.

I just finished Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman. I thought it had an interesting plot, and I enjoyed reading it. Now I'm going to read either The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory or Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke.

Neverwhere is about the only book by Gaiman that I truly enjoyed. I'm struggling through Anansi Boys right now. It's good... but not great.

The Other Boleyn Girl was awesome. I couldn't put it down. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell was decent, but I had a hard time with the first half. Seemed to drag a bit to me.

I just bought Neverwhere. I wanted to start reading some Gaiman so I put my hands on the Sandman series and this book. I hope I like it, since I can't go near a discussion about fantasy books without people singing his praises.

But I'm not gonna read it right now. I just started The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman - I had it for months now - and I don't why it took me so long.

I loved, loved, loved The Other Boleyn Girl. Couldn't put it down, even though I knew how it was going to end. (One of those books where you spend half of it hoping against hope that it's not going to end the way you know logically it has to.) Gregory's other Tudor books are very good, as well, but I'd start with The Other Boleyn Girl.

I also adored Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, but I found the beginning third and ending third to be much better than the middle third -- it starts to drag a bit there, but it picks back up again.

The other Gaiman book that I've read is Stardust. It's a very quick read, and I finished it in one day. I can't remember much about it, but it was a cute story. I'm pretty sure it's being made into a movie.

I guess I'll start reading The Other Boleyn Girl because of everyone's comments. Then I'll move onto Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell.

It seems like a lot of people are reading His Dark Materials Trilogy. I finished reading the books not too long ago. My favorite was the first book, The Golden Compass. Overall, I enjoyed the trilogy, but I felt kind of disappointed by the end.

I'm wading through the Library of America collection of Lovecraft stories, but it's hard going due to that feeling of eldritch creeping lurking nightmare dread which passes through me upon each turning of a hideous alien necrotic unspeakable page.

Also, I keep giggling.

I'm reading Love in the time Cholera. A friend of mine sent it to me and the only thing I knew about it was that it was featured in the movie Serendipity. It's a bit of slow going though, since it took me awhile to get used to the language. And the fact that not a whole lot happens in the beginning.

I finished Chinua Achebe's No Longer at Ease in one day. It wasn't as fascinating as Things Fall Apart or Arrow of God, but I'd still recommend it. The main character, which I didn't figure out until late in the book, is actually Okonkwo's grandson - I just thought they happened to have the same last name.

I found this slow going, and in fact, kept putting it down and coming back to it, but it picks up. I like it.

I'm currently reading the Rincewind trilogy of books from the Discworld series. I had no idea where to start, and my library is teh suck, so that's where I've started. I really like it so far, Terry Pratchett is so funny.