While She Knits

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

anachred is "busy" today so I agreed to post.  By popular demand (okay, from two people) the question is:

What are you reading right now?

*points to icon*
(and so sad over the news about Terry Prachett)

Comments

[peggy-2.livejournal.com]

Autumn Term by Antonia Forest, graciously loaned to me by Leslie.

Very good book about kids in a UK boarding school. Lots of fun Brit-isms.

[aged-crone.livejournal.com]

Autumn Term is good, but they get even better!

[avian-xj.livejournal.com]

I'm still reading the first Lymond book "The Game of Kings," but it's really good! and I'll be able to finish over the holidays!

GoK

[peggy-2.livejournal.com]

Yay! Not a quick read, but definitely one to be savored. I'm re-reading it*, and it is even MORE fun the second time around :D

*well, I took a break for some G Heyer, and now I'm reading the A. Forest books so I can give them back to Leslie, but then I'll finish GoK and go right on to Pawn. That's the plan, anyway.

[cleo]

I've been reading The golden Compass. I've seen the movie twice now, once having only read a couple of pages of the book and and having read over half of it the second time.

I enjoyed the film for Daniel Craig and Nicole Kidman. Horrible reasons, but they are both just so lovely. And they work well in their respective parts. But I'm liking the book a lot better because the themes are more adult than as presented in the film. And picturing Asriel as Daniel Craig just makes me love him more.

[willow-41z.livejournal.com]

... for a moment I was really, really confused. I knew Daniel Craig was in the film, but I was confusing him with Daniel Radcliffe, so when I read that he played Lord Asriel, I went "???" And now I don't have to ask who your icon is! (It's a nice one, by the way.)

[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

oh yes. Daniel Craig and especially Nicole Kidman are fantastic. Even if they could not, biologically speaking, have produced Dakota Richards-or-whichever-Dakota-she-is.

Yes. I'm really quite sad they felt a need to "dumb down" the movie, especially as TGC has very little religion in it AT ALL. Only like two pages in the last chapter, which they cut from the movie anyway.

[willow-41z.livejournal.com]

Heir to the Empire, by Timothy Zahn. It's one of the Star Wars books, and one of the absolute best.

Mmmm... my TBR list for the break is nice and long. If I may be excused for diverging onto the topic here: Walden by Thoreau, Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, other things by the Brownings, possibly some Dickinson and Whitman, the Thief books (yay! :D) the Lymond chronicles, Moral Animal by Wright, the Lords of Discipline (lent to me by a friend-- not sure at all that I'm going to like it, but he took one in return, so I'll try it), and possibly some Kai Lung and some more Hornblower.

^_^

[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

Dude, I'm totally rereading that over break. You have infected me with The Bug.

let's see, my TBR includes Looking for Alaska, at least one of the classics I got this summer, whatever I get for Christmas, hopefully more of the new SW books...KoA...maybe a AOK reread...*hums happily*

Plus I'm taking The 19th-Century Novel next semester, so I'll be griping about Jane Eyre and Middlemarch and Lord Only Knows What Else. XD

[philia-fan.livejournal.com]

"Wolf Tower" by Tanith Lee. It was given to me by someone, and it intimidates me a bit because it's three books in one massive hardcover, and I hate committing to a trilogy. So far (page 50) I like it okay but am not sure what I'm supposed to think of the world. There are lots of details and yet it is all extremely vague -- which is maybe the point, because Claidi doesn't know anything about the world she lives in? Maybe.

Just finished Diana Wynne Jones's "The Game."

[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

Wolf Tower--I read the first one and liked it a lot, and didn't find out about the sequels until much later, at which point the library only had books 2 and 4 or something like that. I seem to recall the reading being not-to-difficult, though.

[rowana.livejournal.com]

Oh, I remember loving Wolf Tower when I read it years and years and years ago, but I found the sequels far too confusing and far-fetched and packed with unneccesary details and scenes, (perhaps because I read about one of the books from the series each year for a few years, so I was getting older but the reading level wasn't changing?)

I did enjoy the basic premise, and I remember enjoying the first book a lot. What bugged me about the sequels was just what you said - things were so vague in the first book that you latch onto eventual bits of information as being facts. And then in the fourth book they all turn out to be false. You can't really trust anything or anyone, (not even Claidi).

[puppeteergirl.livejournal.com]

I'm reading the Artemis Fowl series to my brother.

[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

brilliant!

[empmai.livejournal.com]

I'm just about to start the Sharon Shinn The Twelve Houses series "Mystic and Rider".

I read "Summers at Castle Auburn" on the recoomendation of someone on the site and loved it. I couldn't stop laughing when some character called another a "reprobate".



Completly sad over the Prachett news. I know he said we shouldn't be sad because he's not dead yet... but still sad. I'm so donating to every Alzeimer's (sp?) cure charity that comes to my way.

[suryla.livejournal.com]

Ooh, i just finished "Summers at Castle Auburn" and liked it a lot!

[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

The Fellowship of the Ring. Because it's probably been at least four years since I've read the trilogy. I'd forgotten how...wonderful the hobbits were. In a very different way from in the movie. I just really love how Tolkien writes his hobbits. ♥

[willow-41z.livejournal.com]

*should reread that too*

*so she can write fanfic* :P

[rowana.livejournal.com]

Hornblower and the Atropos, which is pretty good so far. Perhaps partly because I will now always picture Hornblower as Ioan Gruffudd.

Speaking of Terry Pratchett, (who isn't dead yet, yay!) what do you think of Monstroud Regiment so far? You may ignore the fact that it's one of my favourite Discworld books whilst telling me. I want an honest opinion.

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

Ok, honesty. I know you didn't care as much for The Color of Magic because of Rincewind, but I really liked him. And I loved Twoflower. The luggage, the camera (can't remember the word they use for it) and EVERYTHING. It was delightful.

I'm liking The Monsterous Regiment. The role reversals and descriptions of the countries and the Abominations are great fun. Polly is awesome. But for some reason I keep getting sidetracked from it, and forgetting what has happened, and it's taking me forever to read. I think it's me rather than the book, though. As I told emmaco the other day, I'm in the throes of my Annual Pre-Holiday Meltdown, and I'm sort of in the middle of that right now. I haven't seen enough of Sam Vines to get to know him yet, but I'm looking forward to lots more of him.

I'm bowled over by the humor in the Discworld books. So very clever. No topic escapes the biting satire--politics, gender roles, organized religion, military service--and I get the feeling Pratchett is skewering the fantasy genre, too. Brilliant.

[estarria.livejournal.com]

I just finished reading "The Name of the Wind", which I believe was recommended by more than one person on here. I'm glad it was; it was a fascinating book. Too bad the next one in the trilogy is set to come out April '09. :(

Wow, that's really awful about Terry Pratchett. Alzheimer's, especially early onset, is at the top of my list of diseases I never want to get.

[bluestalking.livejournal.com]

It's in my family. This worries me sometimes. :(

[dawnbluewings.livejournal.com]

I'm about a quarter of the way through Alison Croggon's The Riddle. I must say that I love these books, for all they sport almost everything in the Tough Guide to Fantasyland (another great read if you like fantasy and like to see it made fun of).

I've read the first one (The Gift or The Naming, depending on where you are geographically) and then got the second (this one), and my mum held it hostage for a year without reading it, and then finally the third one (The Crow where I am, I'm not sure about where you are) came out, and we were in the bookstore on my birthday so I bullied her into getting it for me. So then I bugged her into finding and returning this, and now I finally have time to read without a guilty conscience (kinda), so I'm READING again.

And yeah. It's good. Take the basic "Tall dark stranger who is much older than he appears finds a youth in the hinterlands who is probably The One (she actually uses the term "The One" in here...), prophisied to bring about the fall of the Dark Lord (Here Nameless One), and there you've got the premise. Now take that and shake well. Add bards and actually not having everyone they meet automatically on the side of The One.

[bluestalking.livejournal.com]

I read about half of the first one of those and had to stop. I was pausing every five pages to find someone to whine at about how much I hated it.

Conversely, I love how much people's taste can differ. :P

[aged-crone.livejournal.com]

The Angel of the Covenant, a novel which features Montrose and also discusses his sister, Katherine, who, according to contemporary records, was bewitched by her sister's husband, Colquhon (sp?) of Luss, with help from his Italian servant and so ran of with said husband to the continent and was never heard from again, though the brother-in-law some years later went back to Scotland and was welcomed with open arms by the Covenanters because siding with them meant that all was forgiven. Published around 1898.

Also The Complete Works of Josephus. Also a bunch of Jack and Jill magazines from 1943. Also My Grandfather's Son, by Clarence Thomas. Also I've started re-reading the Nancy Drew books for the first time in years (a process slowed down by my decision to read both the old and the revised versions) and will be starting #4, Mystery at Lilac Inn, shortly. Also The Blairs Papers, 1603-1660. Also a German book of people from the Pfalz reminiscing about their grandparents.

I'm almost never reading just one thing at a time. I'm betting most of the rest of you are the same way!

And, hey! I just realized that you can do all the HTML tags but they have to be in < instead of [ brackets! (And I wonder what some of them do; maybe I'll experiment one of these days).

[emmaco.livejournal.com]

I've had a so-so reading time these last few days. I have just finished a mystery novel that was completely lame. The main character was unbelievable and also STUPID, the plot ridiculous...I have no idea why I finished it. Maybe because it was set in London.

I'm stuck towards the end Robin Hobb's enormous Renegade's magic. I'm stuck because it's very heavy to hold up and also because I'm just not that into the story, I think.

But I've just started a Salley Vickers book, Instances of the number three, that I bought at the library for 10p. Vickers is one of the few modern "literary" authors whose books I keep an eye out for. She has a lovely clear writing style and writes about serious themes in a lighthanded and often humourous way. So here's hoping it breaks the drought!

[estarria.livejournal.com]

I finally got Renegade's Magic on reserve at my library yesterday (it came out later in the U.S than in the U.K...I'm not really sure why that happened). I want to finish the trilogy because I am curious about what happens, but I don't like this new trilogy nearly as well as her others. That second book was so depressing, I'm hoping the 3rd book alleviates some of that.

[emerald-happy.livejournal.com]

Started reading The Thief yesterday in preparation for the Megan meet up. Got to the "Hey Philonikes!" bit. I knooow that's not far. *needs to read the other too*

[bluestalking.livejournal.com]

Magus: NO NO NO!

Gen: *plays stupid* Whaaaat? Hey, stop breaking my shirt!

[bluestalking.livejournal.com]

Evelina by Frances Burney - c.1778, concerning a young lady's introduction to society; inheritance; romance; parentage; leisure; tribulation; foppery; fashion; friendship; family; foolishness; and other diversions of a novel life.

(It is wonderful.)

Also reading Jonathan Strange aloud to Roommate.

[(Anonymous)]

Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees and Firebirds edited by Sharyn November.
~Feir Dearig

Very Belated, so probably not many people will read this...

[rosaleeluann.livejournal.com]

Been doing finals and stuff, so I've been limiting my computer and reading time, so this is a bit late, but... last night I finished Twilight. I place it on the same shelf as The Da Vinci Code and Eragon--not so bad that you have to stop reading them (its the principle of the thing ;) but not good enough that you'd spend any time re-reading or reading sequels (its the principle of the thing ;)

I dunno. I know some people really like the books, and I guess I can understand that, but they just weren't for me. I just wanted to take Bella by the shoulders and SHAKE her and say, "PLEASE be interesting! PLEASE! I really want to like you (I think)... so could you be likable? Just a bit? Please???" And I wanted Edward to Stop being Gary Stu for just a few seconds, please. (No, I don't think that being a vampire is a major character flaw.)

Sorry to people who love the book. It just really wasn't for me.

Re: Very Belated, so probably not many people will read this...

[bluestalking.livejournal.com]

I've never gotten past the title page of Twilight.

...incidentally, I've never been compelled to even pick up The Da Vinci Code, and every time I pick up Eragon, I read about two pages, burst into hysterics, and fling it to the nearest available hard surface.

[traboule.livejournal.com]

Oh, so many things!

On vacation now, so I can afford to lie around reading things like Lady Audley's Secret, all the bits of East Lynne I missed, and Georgette Heyer. So, mostly These Old Shades and Devil's Cub. I'm a wee bit in love with the Duke of Avon now - very charming man he is too.

Read Dragon Haven last week; was not impressed, but that's probably because I don't need to be coaxed into dragon books by a Normal Guy Who Plays Video Games. And - when did Robin McKinley get this sappy? Bah.

Making Money - also not impressed. But since I'm prepared to fight on that Going Postal is Pratchett's best book (Ever.) it was a going to be a tall order for me to really like MM anyway.

I think I'm going to read The Monk next - maybe it will get this sensation craving out of my system for good. Hmm. Or I could read Checkmate again.

[bluestalking.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I didn't like Sunshine either. She's changed her style a lot.

[bluestalking.livejournal.com]

Super Check! Your icon is Me As A T-Shirt now! o.o

I still need to get that shirt...and catch up on reading QC, whence it comes.

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

I stole the icon from you, didn't I? What is Me As A T-shirt? And what is QC?