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Post by Marina on Oct 10, 2011 11:25:02 GMT -5
North and South! North and South! This makes me want to get my copy from off the shelf and starting reading it again. American Gods is good even if it is just, like you say, for the good modern adaption of mythology. Okay!! I'll start with that. Have you watched the BBC adaptation with Richard Armitage? Good grief, if that man gets any hotter the world will melt! |
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Post by rayyychul on Oct 10, 2011 15:56:32 GMT -5
I got books for my birthday! Woo!
Right now I'm reading "Magic Hour" by Kristin Hannah. She's not my favourite author, but I'm really enjoying this book.
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Post by Dodger Thirteen on Oct 10, 2011 17:28:45 GMT -5
Every article on the Occupy Wall Street movement that I can.
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Post by Dodger Thirteen on Oct 11, 2011 15:53:54 GMT -5
English department just released its course catalog. They're offering a class in Science Fiction this spring.
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Post by rayyychul on Oct 12, 2011 17:50:52 GMT -5
I finished "Magic Hour" and while I was really interested in the topic of the book, I ended up being kind of disappointed with it  I also finished "The Things We For Love" by Kristin Hannah annndd once again, I enjoyed the book, but I ended up being disappointed with the ending I have two more books to read by her, so here's hoping the endings don't fall short! (I know they're not meant to be amazing books... but she just lets her books kind of fizzle and die and I always have the sense of "I WANT MORE" when I finish.) |
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Post by embonpoint on Oct 13, 2011 6:37:02 GMT -5
Mythologies by Roland Barthes... Still. I cannot get through it. Forty pages to go and all I want to do is hide it away in a box so I never have to see it again. D:
Theeeen, also Beowulf.
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Post by tosney on Oct 14, 2011 8:13:37 GMT -5
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Not sure what to make of it yet.
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Post by Marina on Oct 21, 2011 21:12:44 GMT -5
I just finished The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.
I liked it overall, but I can pick on a few things. I kind of wanna watch the Swedish version of the film, but the woman who plays the girl is gonna be in the new Sherlock Holmes movie.... and I don't want the image of her in that movie to ruin Sherlock for me. I'll never forgive myself. Ever.
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Post by fifi on Oct 25, 2011 17:25:07 GMT -5
I'm reading The Son of Neptune by Rick Riordan. I'm liking it so far.
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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on Oct 25, 2011 23:17:47 GMT -5
Yeeeeees Feast for Crows just arrived! Gonna finish up the super-smutty (totally awful) romance novel I got for free from Goodreads ASAP, so I can start on some GRRM goodness.
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Post by Dodger Thirteen on Oct 26, 2011 14:11:12 GMT -5
Devil's Business, the latest book by my crack author. It is, sadly, not as bad as her previous works.
But I'm only on pg. 26. There's plenty of time for her to mess it up.
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Post by KatjevanLoon on Oct 29, 2011 5:09:22 GMT -5
The Twelve Wild Swans, by Starhawk.
Not a fiction book; a religious studies book.
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Post by Dodger Thirteen on Nov 3, 2011 14:02:13 GMT -5
The Twelve Wild Swans, by Starhawk. Not a fiction book; a religious studies book. Let me know how that is. I just picked up Drawing Down the Moon by Adler at the library yesterday. |
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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on Nov 3, 2011 21:20:28 GMT -5
Well, I was reading GRRM's A Feast for Crows, but then it went and FELL OUT OF MY CART at the Park Slope Food Co-op yesterday. For those who don't know, that's one of the biggest co-ops in the country in terms of memberships, and one of the smallest in terms of floorspace. Hundreds of people go through those aisles each day, and my book (and my bookmark souvenir from Venice) decided to get lost there. I've filed a complaint with the lost and found and checked it twice, but no luck; they say someone might have picked it up and kept it.
Suffice to say, I'm rather upset over it.
In the meantime, I'm trying very hard to enjoy Robin Hobb's Assassin's Apprentice -- I've heard good things, but it's taken over a hundred pages to pick up even a bit, and my opinion of it isn't the highest (though it is higher than my opinion of the co-op).
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Post by Marina on Nov 3, 2011 22:33:47 GMT -5
Well, I was reading GRRM's A Feast for Crows, but then it went and FELL OUT OF MY CART at the Park Slope Food Co-op yesterday. For those who don't know, that's one of the biggest co-ops in the country in terms of memberships, and one of the smallest in terms of floorspace. Hundreds of people go through those aisles each day, and my book (and my bookmark souvenir from Venice) decided to get lost there. I've filed a complaint with the lost and found and checked it twice, but no luck; they say someone might have picked it up and kept it. Suffice to say, I'm rather upset over it. In the meantime, I'm trying very hard to enjoy Robin Hobb's Assassin's Apprentice -- I've heard good things, but it's taken over a hundred pages to pick up even a bit, and my opinion of it isn't the highest (though it is higher than my opinion of the co-op). Sorry about that. I've read A'sA. Yeah, it's a rather dry read. I liked the first one a bit, but the second was a struggle and I didn't bother with the third. Hobb is nearly as sadistic as Martin, but only towards her main character, which is unfair because the poor guy never seems to catch a break. It's a bit annoying. |
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I also finished "The Things We For Love" by Kristin Hannah annndd once again, I enjoyed the book, but I ended up being disappointed with the ending 
