What are you reading today?

[KarenDee]

Actually I have never read anything on alien abduction but I might find it interesting because of the locality. My wife might actually have a book on the Franconia one; she grew up not to far from where it allegedly happened and has mentioned it before, once even pointing out the spot where is was to have occured.

Thanks

Wooo hoooo...I found it. Pat me on the back, I'm still a newbie but I was able to research something and actually come up with it! God I feel like such a computer geek now! LMAO!

I know, you asked for short stories and this really doesn't qualify, but I'm so proud of myself, I can't help blowing my horn!

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1567311342/103-5679554-7593409?v=glance

 

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[Eilan]

I just started Terry Pratchett's Wyrd Sisters. It's my first foray into the Discworld books, and I have to admit that I'm reading it for my book group. A member selected it because of Shakespearean parallels.

I just finished Wicked:The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (with mixed feelings) and Gone with the Wind (just felt like picking that up after more than a decade).

I've been working on Sylvia Plath's Journals for some time, but I've put this aside so I could read other things.

I intend to start, for probably the eighth time, The Mists of Avalon.

 

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[Eilan]

My wife loves this book and has also read it several times.

I'd also like to read The Red Tent again; I've read it several times as well. I liked it so much that I bought a copy for my mom and she arranged for my grandma to get the tape through the Library of Congress for the Blind.

But I guess the topic was "What are you reading today?" not "What do you want to read for the next year?"

 

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[TBKahuna123]

OK begin wierd, eclectic mix of stuff...

The Mauritas Command, by Patrick O'Brian, The Art of War by Sun-Tzu, 1984 by Orwell and Brave New World(3rd read through this year) by Huxley. These are all research for other writing projects I'm doing, but I have to say I have gotten pulled into the naval world of the O'Brian novels(Master and Commander ring a bell?).

Brave New World is one of the best, eeriest novels I have ever read! How did I ever get through college without reading this?

 

[australwind]

Just finishedThe Piano Tuner by David Mason.........




(Love all Marion Zimmer Bradley's work.........the Avalon books are all good. Read just about everything that Anne McCaffrey has written and cowritten.....bit of a dragon lover here)


About to start Cafe Sherezerade by Arnold Zable....this is one for the book group I lead and is a very local story (for Melbourne, Aus)

Oh and have read part of today's paper!

 

[Quoll]

Will probably start on The Elvenbane by Andre Norton & Mercedes Lackey tonight, although I have a choice of Moreta by Ann McCaffrey or The great and secret show:The first book of the art by Clive Barker.
I also have the second book, does anybody know how many there were in the series and how good is his stuff?
Read a bit of New Scientist and several delivery dockets (riveting stuff).

In reference to off topic subjects and reading wishlist, well, as some one once said to me "Today is yesterday's tomorrow", deep huh, I have no idea how it relates to anything, but post whatever you like.

 

[jackfrost2112]

Calvin and Hobbes: Something Under the Bed is Drooling by Bill Watterson


My g/f is a school teacher and came across all the old Calvin and Hobbes books reprinted at her school book fair. She bought them for me in an effort to help me recapture my youth.

 

[blue112]

"Into The Wild" by Jon Krakauer

Not sure if its been mentioned, but read the other version of that story by the one guy who went back out to look for people The Climb by Anatoli Bourkerev

 

[LiquidFyre]

Re-reading Jo's Boys by L.M. Alcott

 

[jujee]

"Loves Me, Loves Me Not" By Libby Malin

Not usually one for romance novel. But have been going through a dry spell, so thought what they hay...

Not bad for her first novel. Very witty.

 

[EndCredits]

The answer for the next month will be Anna Karenina. Yay for almost 1000-page novels.

 

[Dallass_Drake]

I'm reading "The Crimes of Love" by De Sade, certainly not quite what I expected following from what I'd previously read but perhaps even more fascinating regardless, the 'Florville and Courval' segment was quite astoundingly well written and amongst the most poignant, endearing stories I've ever read.

Almost finished that, then I'll be reading 'Red Storm Rising' by Tom Clancy for the second time, god how I love reading about the mighty Soviet Union misbehaving

 

[australwind]

Today.........sleeve notes from some of my favourite old record albums.........


(gotta get myself primed for a trivia night soon!)

 

[Munachi]

nirgendwo in afrika (nowhere in africa) by stefanie zweig. have finally seen the movie this weekend so i decided to read the book now.