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[Padme]

Does listening to audio books count as reading?

 

I'm sure we'd love to know what you're listening to!

 

I'm currently reading textbooks which is thrilling. Art history so fascinating ;P

[Shane]

Lately I have listened to Paper Towns, Bossypants, Night, Lines of Departure, Gathering blue, America Again Re-Becoming The Greatness We Never Weren't(this one in physical form).

Edited by Megazord, 03 December 2014 - 02:14 PM.

[Nymh]

read book seven of The Wheel of Time, now working through book eight.

 

 

Just started book 11 of the Wheel of Time.  I read a couple different books in between 8, 9, and 10.

[Shannon]

Reading Gone Girl right now. Just hit the point that really makes things interesting in the story, though I do find some passages quite contrived. I can almost feel the author's ego shining through in some parts, like she's so proud of herself for having typed out this or that rant. Otherwise, a decent story so far, and I can't wait to finish it so I can see the movie and watch the perfection that is Rosamund Pike.

[Emily]

Reading Gone Girl right now. Just hit the point that really makes things interesting in the story, though I do find some passages quite contrived. I can almost feel the author's ego shining through in some parts, like she's so proud of herself for having typed out this or that rant. Otherwise, a decent story so far, and I can't wait to finish it so I can see the movie and watch the perfection that is Rosamund Pike.

 

I'll need your opinions once you've finished it. 

[Shannon]

I'll need your opinions once you've finished it.

Definitely! This is the first book I'll have finished in years (yay brain fog!) so I'd love to discuss. I'll let you know when I'm done!

[Alexiel]

Just finished Superman: Earth One vol 2. LOVED IT from start to finish.
Heart is still aching from one scene though. Dang good writing if you can get an emotional response over a fictional character.

Can't wait until the next volumes of it, Batman, and Teen Titans in the Earth One universe.

 

Up next:

 

Spoiler

 

"What if Superman had been raised in the Soviet Union?"

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[Rocket]

Nothing, although I really need to finish A Game of Thrones.

I mostly read Neocodex.us

[Shane]

Currently listening to All Quiet On The Western Front.

[DonValentino]

Currently listening to All Quiet On The Western Front.

 

Do you have to turn the volume up really loud?

[Shannon]

Do you have to turn the volume up really loud?

 

gg

[Ali]

Hemingway. An awful lot of Hemingway.

[Padme]

The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories by Marina Keegan

It is really really good. Its a collection of the authors writing that she wrote while she was attending Yale. She died and in her honour her family published her writings. This young woman's outlook on life is enchanting. 

 

"An affecting and hope-filled posthumous collection of essays and stories from the talented young Yale graduate whose title essay captured the world's attention in 2012 and turned her into an icon for her generation."

[Swar]

Human Remains by Elizabeth Haynes.

[Shane]

Do you have to turn the volume up really loud?

Hardy har har

[vay]

Alice in wonderland.

[Alexiel]

School  crap.
Okay, it's actually pretty interesting this semester. Thankfully.

 

Currently reading:

 

For my JRR Tolkien class. 

 

And:

 

Greek Drama

 

So far this feels more like a summer vacation reading list than grad school work. 

[pancakeface]

 I'm dying for Clariel. Garth Nix has been promising it for years and the snippet only makes it worse!

 

I was so mad at him with how Keys to the Kingdom turned out at the end. Still haven't forgiven him.

 

I spend most of my life dipping in and out of High Fidelity so my copy of that is always lying around.

 

I quite like what I've read of Nick Hornby but  have not read High Fidelity because he suddenly got super popular gave the book covers a revamp and is selling for three times the price I used to get it for from my local bookshop   Have you been enjoying it? I don't think I'll get it unless it's really good or goes on sale.

 

 

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

Lol good thing I'm starting now because that means that I can hopefully actually understand it by the time I die

 

I'm waiting for the day where I can actually read past the first page without zoning out and coming back to it after a mug of tea and just having to reread it again.

 

 

Recently finished (reading not eating): A Case of Exploding Mangos

[becauseIcan]

"Justine" by Marquise De Sade. I have heard that it is a super racy book but what one considers racy may be anothers norm. Well, De Sade is sick even against today's wild standards!! But at least now I can "argue" what the book is about, the premise, language, etc. I am looking for some lighter reading after this for sure!

Nothing, although I really need to finish A Game of Thrones.

I mostly read Neocodex.us

Same here in relation to GoT. It's bad when the TV series is catching up to where I left off. ><

[Emily]

Rhetoric in Popular Culture textbook... 

[NapisaurusRex]

Wahl's Protocol (again, diet, AI book), Intimate Enemies (trashy romance novel), and French Kids Eat Everything.

[Padme]

Wahl's Protocol (again, diet, AI book), Intimate Enemies (trashy romance novel), and French Kids Eat Everything.

 

French Kids Eat Everything is really good. Everyone I know has enjoyed it so I hope you think the same

[NapisaurusRex]

French Kids Eat Everything is really good. Everyone I know has enjoyed it so I hope you think the same

It's the second or third time I've read it. I love it.

[Emily]

I just bought The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. 

[Ali]

I quite like what I've read of Nick Hornby but have not read High Fidelity because he suddenly got super popular gave the book covers a revamp and is selling for three times the price I used to get it for from my local bookshop Have you been enjoying it? I don't think I'll get it unless it's really good or goes on sale.

@argonate - I love it, always have done. Read it so many times now, my favourite Nick Hornby by far. But it's about music, and has a lot of list making and is set in an area of London I know pretty well so it appeals on multiple counts.