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Post by sammybluejay on Jan 17, 2012 10:32:25 GMT -5
I finally started The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. My mom's been on me to read it for ages so I figured I need something to distract me from my school readings now and I have a copy of it, might as well. I'm having a bit of a hard time getting into it but I've heard that's pretty normal, so I'm really hoping it starts to pick up.
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Post by Kori on Jan 20, 2012 14:57:29 GMT -5
Ink by Hal Duncan, which is the sequal to Vellum , which is all about the interplay of archetypes and memes and mythology and whatnot, set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. It's slow going, because Duncan is into using incredibly poetic language which forces me to read certain lines over and over again and still not fully understand, but I'm enjoying it.
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Post by Dodger Thirteen on Jan 20, 2012 16:52:25 GMT -5
Ink by Hal Duncan, which is the sequal to Vellum , which is all about the interplay of archetypes and memes and mythology and whatnot, set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. It's slow going, because Duncan is into using incredibly poetic language which forces me to read certain lines over and over again and still not fully understand, but I'm enjoying it. These sound absolutely fascinating. I'll have to check them out. |
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Post by sammybluejay on Jan 21, 2012 16:50:01 GMT -5
Ink by Hal Duncan, which is the sequal to Vellum , which is all about the interplay of archetypes and memes and mythology and whatnot, set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. It's slow going, because Duncan is into using incredibly poetic language which forces me to read certain lines over and over again and still not fully understand, but I'm enjoying it. These sound absolutely fascinating. I'll have to check them out. I completely second this. Running off to goodreads right now to take a gander. |
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Post by andreaisabbbw on Jan 30, 2012 0:35:51 GMT -5
I'm currently reading Game of Thrones. It's interesting and I'm hooked, but most of what I'm reading right now I already saw on the HBO show (though some things are shocking me, like the fact that Danaerys is THIRTEEN and married to a thirty year old man, which is not how she's portrayed at all IMO on the show) so reading isn't going as quickly as it out to be.
Also, a somewhat related note: I just found out that Mr. Martin lives in SANTA FE, NM (A MERE HOUR DRIVE AWAY) and I AM GOING TO HAVE TO STALK HIM NOW AND ASK HIM QUESTIONS I want to ask him for an autograph and stuff.
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Post by KatjevanLoon on Jan 30, 2012 4:37:48 GMT -5
Currently reading Thirteen Reasons Why and hating it. It's contrived and manipulative and annoying. So, finished that a while ago and wrote a scathing blog post about it. Since then have read The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman and The Amber Spyglass by Phillip Pullman (which I cried through). Have a lot of time to read currently, as I'm bedridden with three bulging discs in my spine. (Yes, that sucks A LOT but I'm not going to go into details here as some sort of ploy for sympathy, or something, so if you're curious as to the gory details I have a series of blog posts on the subject here at my writerly blogspot blog Gossip Diet.) Now working on Ravensong by Lee Maracle, My Name is Memory by Ann Brashares, A Lion Among Men by Gregory Maguire, and The Girls from Alcyone by Cary Caffery. |
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Post by Dodger Thirteen on Jan 30, 2012 9:45:58 GMT -5
I'm currently reading Game of Thrones. It's interesting and I'm hooked, but most of what I'm reading right now I already saw on the HBO show (though some things are shocking me, like the fact that Danaerys is THIRTEEN and married to a thirty year old man, which is not how she's portrayed at all IMO on the show) so reading isn't going as quickly as it out to be. You're quite right, but they do mention in the show that she's had her first blood (menstruation), so she is younger than she appears. It's a medieval-esque setting - women married older men on a fairly regular basis, so it's not uncommon or truly surprising from a historical standpoint. From a solely modern standpoint, it is, because we expect people who get married to be at least eighteen. |
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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on Jan 31, 2012 1:12:45 GMT -5
I'm currently reading Game of Thrones. It's interesting and I'm hooked, but most of what I'm reading right now I already saw on the HBO show (though some things are shocking me, like the fact that Danaerys is THIRTEEN and married to a thirty year old man, which is not how she's portrayed at all IMO on the show) so reading isn't going as quickly as it out to be. You're quite right, but they do mention in the show that she's had her first blood (menstruation), so she is younger than she appears. It's a medieval-esque setting - women married older men on a fairly regular basis, so it's not uncommon or truly surprising from a historical standpoint. From a solely modern standpoint, it is, because we expect people who get married to be at least eighteen. Also there's that one character who got married in her swaddling. So yeah, that happened... |
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Post by sammybluejay on Feb 6, 2012 11:42:35 GMT -5
I just finished Mrs. Dalloway and am now onto Vixen by Jillian Larkin. It's one of those books that I picked up because the cover was pretty and it sounds like fun - it's the first of a trilogy called "The Flappers". I needed a break after all the modernist ridiculousness of Woolf and I'm really enjoying it so far, just for a light, fun break.
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Post by Dodger Thirteen on Feb 6, 2012 13:31:55 GMT -5
and am now onto Vixen by Jillian Larkin. It's one of those books that I picked up because the cover was pretty and it sounds like fun - it's the first of a trilogy called "The Flappers". Mmm...I loved that book. I'm still in the beginning stages of reading the sequel Ingenue, but I did enjoy the book. It's a light, fun read, as you said, but there are a good many details that I enjoyed. If you like that one, try Bright Young Things. It's similar, but takes place in New York. Same time period, though. |
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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on Feb 8, 2012 12:35:51 GMT -5
Since last posting here, I've finished Mists of Avalon (4 stars -- great story, but a bit goddess-worship-preachy at times), The Hobbit (3.5 stars -- fun, but dragging), and Castle in the Air (3.5 stars -- plot was okay, but the driving romance was so extravagantly unbelievable that I couldn't get into it; also, the story only really grabbed me when Sophie and Howl made their appearances, which is the last, like, quarter of the book). Really annoyed that Goodreads doesn't allow half stars.
I'll probably get back to Island at the Center of the World next -- first nonfiction I've read in a while. Excited to have my currently-reading list down to three!
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Post by rawansomar on Feb 12, 2012 15:08:06 GMT -5
Right now, I'm alternating between Brave New World and The Catcher in the Rye. Both are re-reads, and both are absolutely magnificent.
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Post by fifi on Feb 29, 2012 16:16:03 GMT -5
I feel like the only reading I am doing currently is reading for my classes. For my Lit. for Adolescents class, we're reading Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich. My senior year, I had to read an excerpt from it. I didn't care for it then and I really don't care for it now. Especially, as one of my friends pointed out, it was written over ten years ago and so much has changed in the American economy that it is almost irrelevant.
For my Early American lit class, we are about to start The Scarlet Letter, which I read my junior year. I hope I will enjoy it more this time around.
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Post by Dodger Thirteen on Mar 4, 2012 23:56:55 GMT -5
Finished A Clash of Kings. Now reading A Storm of Swords.
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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on Mar 5, 2012 1:04:07 GMT -5
Finally done with The Once and Future King! I'm on A Dance with Dragons now. Wheee.
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