What Are You Reading?

[Tinuviel]

hated that book, never again. why doesn't somebody brain heathcliff with the nearest poker iron, i wonder?
sorry, that isn't going to help. great book, you'll love the ending..

Me too. Don't see what all the fuss was about, I don't understand or sympathise with any of the characters. Oh and the names, so confusing.

Reading Seabiscuit by Lauren Hillenbrand

 

[MulletProof]

I'm reading 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

good luck.


amrita- banana yoshimoto.

 

[Manzaline]

I´m reading Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë.

oh, i've read it when i was younger...I LOVE!(the film too!)

 

[Manzaline]

the devil who wore prada

i've just finished it, do you like it?

 

[Tinuviel]

^ Ditto! I think I've watched the film with Timothy Dalton 4 times. My mom probably 15 times over the years. She's craaazy about it. Our ongoing obsession with period dramas.

 

[ChrissyM]

I have just finished reading Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon and I'm going to start reading The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco...

I've been intrigued about Shadow of the Wind since seeing ads for it in the tube stations but I have no idea what it's about--did you enjoy it/would you recommend it?

 

[fashion_victim]

I've been intrigued about Shadow of the Wind since seeing ads for it in the tube stations but I have no idea what it's about--did you enjoy it/would you recommend it?

Yeah, I liked it, it was an interesting read. So here's what it says in the back of the book:

Hidden in the heart of the old city of Barcelona is the 'Cemetery of Forgotten Books', a labyrinthine library of obscure and forgotten titles. To this library, a man brings his ten-year-old son, Daniel, one cold morning in 1945. Daniel is allowed to choose one book and from the dusty shelves pulls The Shadow of the Wind by Julian Carax. But as Daniel grows up, several people seem inordinately interested in his find. What begins as a case of literary curiosity turns into a race to find out the life and death of Julian Carax and to save those he left behind.

It's a good book, really. I' ve finished it in one day (well, I had nothing else to do, I was ill but anyway... )

 

[Libra Skye18]

The Heart Doesn't Lie ~ By Marcella Sanders

 

[Tinuviel]

On the Road - Jack Kerouac

 

[travolta]

the professor and the madman: a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the oxford english dictionary by simon winchester

i recommend this book. it's a surprisingly brisk, amusing read

 

[meme527]

I'm reading 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

one of my favorites. he is working on a three part autobiography - i read the first book.

i've been big on biographies/autobiographies lately, i just read sting's ("broken music") and one on coco chanel.

i also read "cold mountain" - wanted to read it before seeing the movie.....

 

[travis_nw8]

On the Road - Jack Kerouac

i'm reading the big sur also by kerouac - definatly read when the sun is out. also may i reccommend maggie cassisy- kerouac showing he's not only about spontaneous prowse- a simple first person narritive with some beautiful imagery.

 

[fashionbébé]

one of my favorites. he is working on a three part autobiography - i read the first book.

i've been big on biographies/autobiographies lately, i just read sting's ("broken music") and one on coco chanel.

i also read "cold mountain" - wanted to read it before seeing the movie.....

oh.
so. very. good.

right now i'm reading "travelling mercies" by anne lamott, and "last train to memphis"...about elvis

i just finished "what to keep" by rachel cline. fantastic!

 

[fashionbébé]

i've just finished it, do you like it?

i heard that they're making a movie of it soon/or have already and it is about to come out. i listened to the book on CD (before i got my ipod), so it was the abridged version. i got some smiles out of it, and worried about my sister, who is doing fashion design in london. it was solid junk food fiction. i got what i expected.

 

[Tinuviel]

i'm reading the big sur also by kerouac - definatly read when the sun is out. also may i reccommend maggie cassisy- kerouac showing he's not only about spontaneous prowse- a simple first person narritive with some beautiful imagery.

Thanks for the recommendations! I'll certainly get those after I finish.

 

[ignitioned32]

Crash by J.G. Ballard

 

[Words_on_Fire]

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
...I've never gotten around to it before

 

[CitraBenzoet]

well.. since the internet and cable were out all afternoon.. i went and bought Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness... it's interesting i like it

 

[Oria]

Drinking Coffee Elsewhere- Z.Z. Packer (2nd read).

 

[meowmix]

gilbert adair - innocents