What Are You Reading?

[Tuti*Fruiti]

lecture notes

 

[Honey]

I'm finally reading the last chapters of "Pledged". I took a 4 month break from the book It's about US sororities.

 

[purplelucrezia]

Originally posted by purplelucrezia@Oct 13 2004, 10:08 PM
Cereus Blooms at Night, by Shani Mootoo

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It's only been about two days, maybe, and I'm nearly done it!
For some reason, I'm hugely enjoying this very, very strange and faintly disturbing book...

 

[ignitioned32]

High Fidelity by Nick Hornby

 

[jennifer~]

Shadow and Substance (me and my plays...) by Paul Vincent Carroll

 

[As You Like It]

Unequal Childhoods by Annette Lareau.

It is a socioeconomic study of the parenting differences and outcomes between working-class and middle-class families.

 

[jennifer~]

As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)

I have a sudden interest in the so-called 'Southern gothic'.

 

[faust]

Originally posted by alwaysandnever@Oct 17 2004, 12:24 AM
As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)

I have a sudden interest in the so-called 'Southern gothic'.

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I'll be reading The Sound and the Fury in a few weeks.

 

[Mettchen]

tonight I'm going to start reading philosopher Søren Kirkegårds Even/Or again. I read it the first time when I was ten and since then I've read it three times. I still don't quite get it. But I'm not giving up ...

 

[Nemova]

I've been trying to read Dubliners but I have so much going on in my life right now that I just don't have the time or patience to go through with it.

 

[PrinceOfCats]

Originally posted by As You Like It@Oct 15 2004, 05:54 PM
Unequal Childhoods by Annette Lareau.

It is a socioeconomic study of the parenting differences and outcomes between working-class and middle-class families.

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Hmmm...sounds interesting - wouldn't normally associate economics with anything vaguely moralistic! There was a great program on British telly a while back where (ex-Tory-shadow-minister) Michael Portillo looked after the children of a single mother from the sticks for a week.

I'm reading a dictionary...what fun...

 

[jennifer~]

Originally posted by faust@Oct 17 2004, 08:21 AM
I'll be reading The Sound and the Fury in a few weeks.

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Yes, indeed I'll have to read that one as well...

Do tell me if you know of / come across similar authors that are worth reading!...

 

[slinky_vagabond]

Anna Karenina- Leo Tolstoy

I have some serious doubts about getting to the end on this baby, I accidently dropped it yesterday, and it left a little dent in my floor.

 

[covergal]

I just finish reading Shopaholic and sister by Sophie Kinsella...The shopaholics series are AWESOME !

 

[faust]

Originally posted by alwaysandnever@Oct 17 2004, 01:03 PM
Yes, indeed I'll have to read that one as well...

Do tell me if you know of / come across similar authors that are worth reading!...

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Sure. It's a part of the course on the late period of modernism in literature, but I'll wait until I read Faulkner to see if the other authors are similar.

 

[faust]

Originally posted by slinky_vagabond@Oct 17 2004, 01:09 PM
Anna Karenina- Leo Tolstoy

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voluntery self-torture

 

[macchiom]

James L. Bowditch & Anthony F. Buono – A Primer on Organizational Behavior

 

[jennifer~]

Originally posted by faust@Oct 18 2004, 12:19 PM
Sure. It's a part of the course on the late period of modernism in literature, but I'll wait until I read Faulkner to see if the other authors are similar.

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Why, thanks!

 

[purechris]

Alwaysandnever--Flannery O'Connor is a very dark Southern Gothic writer. Check her short stories out. I thought they were wickedly funny.

Invisible Monsters is my fave from Chuck Palahniuk

Faust--I just picked up Four by Pelevin, will let you know what I think of it.

MulletP-I've always had the desire to read Naked Lunch, but have been intimidated....enjoy.

Nonfiction book on the nightstand-The Substance of Style--it's about the rise of aesthetics in modern culture and I'm finding it very interesting

 

[jennifer~]

Originally posted by purechris@Oct 18 2004, 04:56 PM
Alwaysandnever--Flannery O'Connor is a very dark Southern Gothic writer. Check her short stories out. I thought they were wickedly funny.

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Thanks - I will!!!