While She Knits

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

As booksrgood4u just said YES TOO QUIET AROUND HERE.

What are you reading right now?

Right now.  Not last week. NOW.  What book, or books?

I do feel sorry for you college students, because now you have to list all those dusty tomes some evil professor is forcing you to read.

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[earthstar-moon.livejournal.com]

I'm currently reading Men At Arms by Terry Pratchett. With that said, I got a list a mile long of books I want to read. XD Why can't we have an extra day in the week set aside for just reading?

[brandy-painter.livejournal.com]

I am currently between books having finished Let it Snow (yes, I was in the mood for sappy Christmas romance) last night. The next book I'll be starting is Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes by Jonathan Auxier(?think that's right?).

[chachic.wordpress.com (from livejournal.com)]

Oooh looking forward to seeing your review of that! I was thinking of picking that up this month for Christmas.

[chubbyleng.livejournal.com]

Well, I always like to sneak in some escape books in between studying, so it's not all textbooks that I shall list.

I'm currently reading "The Shifter" by Janice Hardy. I like the concept a lot, and I've just started today. =D

You really want to know about the textbooks? Well, there's the Probability and Stochastic Modelling book, which is slim and not so evil; then there's the Mathematical Proofs textbook which is REALLY evil.

[ninedaysaqueen.livejournal.com]

First Truth by Dawn Cook and RTD's The Writer's Tale. Black as Night by Regina Doman is eyeing me from a shelf.

[booksrgood4u.livejournal.com]

Have you read anymore of "First Truth" yet?

[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

Checkers

checkers

checkers

i am not reading anything

actually I am down to the last 15 of 120 research papers. I have been reading those for a month. I have read more of them in the last month than I have of Animal Farm, and I spent the last month TEACHING that.

Goals for Christmas break: more grading, rereading Percy Jackson, and catching up on the Lost Hero series. Also contemplating buying myself some Chesterton and catching up there too.

[styromgalleries.livejournal.com]

Chesterton mysteries? I've never read any of those, but I want to marry his Orthodoxy. That book. That book.

*grading sympathy* :/

[styromgalleries.livejournal.com]

I'm currently rereading Villette by Charlotte Bronte. It's somewhat slow going because I'm having a tough, tiring time with all my working and grading, so sometimes when Lucy Snowe (the main character) gets down, I have to set the book aside because it doesn't do anything to cheer me up.

[willow-41z.livejournal.com]

Quoting you from above... that book. That book.

I need to reread when I'm in the mood for bittersweet.

[coyul.livejournal.com]

I am happily reading nothing after that semester from hell. I think I'll figure out which book-for-pleasure I'll read after Japanese final.

[crazededdisian.livejournal.com]

Ranger's Apprentice, book seven. Except that I also have several textbooks to read, and I really should be working on that....

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

I am reading Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater because there's been so much good press about it, and also Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick because ditto. I picked up advance copies of both at a conference this summer and promptly forgot about both of them.

I'm not far enough in to know how I feel yet. Intrigued, but not blown away.

Ok, I'll fess up--the entire reason I'm feeling ambivalent about both is because I'm so darned tired of books where the main character's mother is dead. Yeah, I know the reasons authors do that, I know, you don't have to tell me. It's just that so many of them in a row has left me feeling grumpy and manipulated.

[chachic.wordpress.com (from livejournal.com)]

Aww I hope you don't get frustrated with The Scorpio Races! It's one of my favorite reads this year and the best Maggie Stiefvater book that I've read. I love how quiet the romance is in the novel.

[chachic.wordpress.com (from livejournal.com)]

I'm currently reading Silent in the Grave by Deanna Raybourn, the first book in the Lady Julia series. I've been hearing good things about the whole series so I finally decided to pick it up. I've heard that the second book has a Christmas setting so I'm looking forward to getting to that part!

[elvenjaneite.livejournal.com]

Ooh! I was iffy on the FIRST (not second) book but loved the rest of the series. Can't wait to hear what you think.

[pigrescuer.livejournal.com]

I'm reading Whose Body?, the first Peter Wimsey book. Also the first book I paid for on my new Kindle. :D

I'm also flipping through 'How to win the Nobel Prize' by a Nobel laureate at my hospital. My supervisor gave it to me. Is he trying to hint something?

Also I'm reading 'Parkinson's Disease', mostly written by my supervisor. It is weird to read a book written by someone you know, even if it's a textbook.

[valiantarcher.livejournal.com]

Ooh, Whose Body? is good! It was the second Whimsey book I read (well, third if you consider the first was Lord Peter, the entire short story collection), but it was the one that really got me interested in the character and series (the short stories got me interested, to be sure, but they didn't quite hook me the same way). :) Is it a reread for you, or your first time through?

[valiantarcher.livejournal.com]

Since I'm right up to Finals Week, I'm not really supposed to be reading anything besides textbooks (which, except for my Regional World Geography textbook, I'm not really currently reading...). However, I am somehow in the middle of three books---Ultraviolet by R. J. Anderson, The Crystal Snowstorm by Meriol Trevor, and Factotum by D. M. Cornish. The last is a frantic race to finish it before the ILL due-date is up, smack-dab in the middle of finals. :P I also kind of accidentally checked out three Greek plays (The Women of Trachis was a reread, but Electra and Medea will be new for me) that I've sort of managed to avoid starting and so will have to wait for break, along with all the other books I'm dreaming of.

Books!

[star-aesh.livejournal.com]

I am currently reading "How I Fell in Love and Learned to Shoot Free Throws" by Jon Ripslinger, "All About Colour" by Janice Lindsay and "The Annotated Alice" by Lewis Carroll and some academic guy, it's on the floor and I don't feel like looking. I'm currently listening to "So You Want to Be a Wizard" by Diane Duane and "Fragile Things" by Neil Gaiman. I love listening to audiobooks at work :D

I finished my dusty tomes for Victorian Lit last month. Oh "East Lynne", why couldn't you be Gothic instead of melodrama? Melodrama is less fun D:

On the break, I will be rereading "Charmed Life" by Diana Wynne Jones, "The Dispossessed" by Ursula K. LeGuin and probably another ton that I don't know about yet. Oh, and most likely "Titus Andronicus" as pre-reading for next semester.

Re: Books!

[drashizu.livejournal.com]

DWJ of course. Also I particularly like The Dispossessed.

[agh-4.livejournal.com]

I'm rereading Drowned Ammet, by Diana Wynne Jones. It's been awhile, so I'm enjoying being surprised by everything I didn't quite remember.

[beth-shulman.livejournal.com]

I haven't read this one in a while, too! I vaguely remember it being one of my least favorites; I wonder if it will surprise me upon reread.

[drashizu.livejournal.com]

I'm reading a book I found in a free pile at a co-op about six months ago, and only just got around to. It's called Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. I understand there's a movie made from it with Kiera Knightley, but I haven't seen it. So far the book's good--and I'm still not entirely clear what it's about, because the author keeps his characters' secrets really well, but I'm still fascinated.

But oh, finals....

[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

I loved Remains of the Day (haven't seen the film but want to)--he's really good at staying specifically in the character's POV and not revealing all the secrets. Let me know how this one goes!

[keestone.livejournal.com]

The Wikipedia articles for "The Masque of the Red Death" and "The Minister's Black Veil" mostly (and enotes and Sparknotes etc. but most of the "wait . . . that sounds familiar again" from the essays I'm marking is in fact Wikipedia again).

For fun, Blindsight by Peter Watts.

[drashizu.livejournal.com]

Those rascally students! Don't they know how to paraphrase correctly? You have to use a thesaurus, and switch up the word order, at the same time.

[chocolate-smash.livejournal.com]

I finally got the next lost hero book and have read a third of it allready...
I am also reading tons of manga,such as fruits basket 2 and 3, Yotsuba 5, kitchen princess 5 and 6 (the evil ones), and tsubasa 2-4.

[valiantarcher.livejournal.com]

How're you enjoying The Son of Neptune? I'm not sure I'm completely sold on the Romans, but Frank and Hazel are great. :D I was also happy to be reading about Percy again.

Ooh, fun! What do you think of Fruits Basket? And isn't Yotsuba cute? :) I've only read the first four volumes of it, but I like it and it seems kind of underrated, at least in that it doesn't appear to be very popular.

Also, great icon! :)

[beth-shulman.livejournal.com]

I read a lot of YA recently! Divergent, which wasn't bad - and considering my dislike of dystopia, that's quite something; Daughter of Smoke and Bone - well-written, if paranormal is your thing; Shatter Me, which was entertaining, if unoriginal, and Blood Red Road, so far the best of the YA hardcover lot I checked out.

Also, I read The Lost Conspiracy lately. That is THE BEST. WHY did I take so long to pick it up?

[elvenjaneite.livejournal.com]

Lost Conspiracy, YES! And it took me a long to read it too. I'm so glad I did eventually pick it up.

[(Anonymous)]

Just finished--I mean literally within the past couple hours--Summers at Castle Auburn, by Sharon Shinn and really liked it. It is the first book of hers that I have read.

Current active reads include The End of Sparta, by Victor Davis Hanson (a classics and military historian)--straight historical fiction set in ancient Greece; and Sacred Friendships: Celebrating the Legacy of Women Heroes of the Faith, by Robert Kellemen and Susan Ellis--about women throughout church history.

--Handmaiden

[drashizu.livejournal.com]

I've had Summers at Castle Auburn recced to me a couple times. How is it?

[booksrgood4u.livejournal.com]

I'm reading Inheritance by Christopher Paolini *ducks behind nearest piece of furniture* I know he's not real popular around here!

[(Anonymous)]

Ooh, I'm reading that too. I refuse to call it by it's real name because inheretance it a bad name for a book. I call it by it's other name, the vault of souls.*is ranting*

[emerald-happy.livejournal.com]

*GLEE* I AM NOT A STUDENT ANYMORE!

I'm rereading the Sam Vimes Terry Pratchett books. I read Snuff some weeks ago which prompted the reread. Currently on The Fifth Elephant.

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[elvenjaneite.livejournal.com]

*GLEE* I AM NOT A STUDENT ANYMORE!

I kept thinking that too!


OTOH, I have loans. So, boo.

[philia-fan.livejournal.com]

RIGHT NOW I am reading Octavian Nothing, Vol. II. Page 120ish.

[1221bookworm.livejournal.com]

Textbooks? What textbooks? (Actually, I was supposed to read over 100 pages for a take-home test - I skipped the reading *whistles innocently*)

Anyway, when I'm not studing, I'm reading Mastiff by Tamora Pierce (hate to say it, but this is the last Tamora Pierce book I'm ever reading - I just want to find out what happens to Beka.)

Also picking up Michael Vey, the Prisoner of Cell 25 (Sorry forgot the authors name) Not paticularly my style, 1st person narrator is a little bit scattered and long-winded for my taste. (He starts talking about being in the principals office, tells you why he doesn't like the principal,and then goes on to tell you about one of the teacher's who has a crush on the principal, then tells you what he looks like, goes on to explain what happened that got him into the principals office, and then finally gets around to telling you what happened while he was in the principals office)
*apologizes for the rant*

Whenever I'm bored with these I pick up either Forging the Sword by Hilari Bell, or Crown Duel by sherwood Smith.

[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

I never picked up the Beka books--I realized around sophomore year of college at the latest that Tamora Pierce is awesome for thirteen-year-olds, but her prose doesn't quite hold up over the years. (Also, I was ultimately creeped out by Alanna's daughter's love interest--he was a BIRD, people.)

[tiegirl.livejournal.com]

I am struggling, a bit, through Unwind by Neil Shusterman. It's not my favorite style. I just finished First Truth, which I liked, although the ebook I read had a number of spelling and even grammar errors in it. And today, at our new Books-A-Million store, I picked up a book that was truly intriguing, although I didn't buy it, yet. Has anyone heard of a book about a pirate girl who is cursed to live the lives of 100 dogs before she can come back to life as a girl with all her memories intact? I added it (I THOUGHT) to my ebook wish list in my Nook, but now when I look it's not there! It sounded like a lot of fun.

[booksrgood4u.livejournal.com]

The printed version had alot of typos too....Do you think you'll read the next one?

[elvenjaneite.livejournal.com]

Two mysteries, actually: The Thirteen Problems by Agatha Christie (reread) and An Impartial Witness, the second Bess Crawford mystery by Charles Todd.

[ninedaysaqueen.livejournal.com]

Oww... Agatha! I was just reading And Then There Were None, and am planning on going to a production of The Mouse Trap next month.