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?).

[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.

[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

Checkers

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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.

[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

both! I've never read him at all.

*hugs*

also I replying to your meme! THANK YOU FOR GIVING ME SOMETHING NON-LIFE-RELATED TO POST ABOUT /needed the excuse <3

[styromgalleries.livejournal.com]

Yes, do!

After I finish it, I plan to read The Professor. As I understand it, it's much the same story. Of course, that might prove to be too much Bronte in one short period. After I read Anne's Tenant of Wildfell Hall a few months back, I had to take a break. XD

[styromgalleries.livejournal.com]

Yay!

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:D :D :D

[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)]

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

[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!

[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]

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.

[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]

Any Chesterton in particular you're thinking of getting? I haven't read Orthodoxy, but I like his Father Brown mysteries, as well as The Man Who Was Thursday (about an infiltrator in a society of anarchists) and The Club of Queer Trades (kind of a set of connected short stories about people with odd but profitable occupations). (Actually, both those books are far more interesting than what they sound like from my comments...)

Also, hurrah for rereading Percy Jackson and catching up on the Lost Hero series! :D I managed to catch up on those (and the Kane Chronicles) over the semester (so much more interesting than projects), and have started a reread of PJ. The last three will have to wait for break, though.

Hope the research papers go well! :)

[pigrescuer.livejournal.com]

I've read Clouds of Witness and Gaudy Night (my mum's copies) but Whose Body? is the only one on Kindle! It was $0.99 though, so that is good.

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[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.

[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.

Re: Books!

[drashizu.livejournal.com]

DWJ of course. Also I particularly like The Dispossessed.