What I'm reading now.

[Pianissimo]

Originally Posted by Ashes2493

The current series I'm reading. I just finished City of Bones, so I'm in the middle of City of Ashes. Really good series so far.

I'm reading this series too, only I'm still on City of Bones.

[forfrosne]

I'm working in a book shop at the moment for work experience, so I get a 35% discount now, so i took advantage of it and bought two books! I'm reading this one atm:

The Five People You Meet in Heaven is a novel by Mitch Albom. It recounts the life and death of an old maintenance man named Eddie. After dying in an accident, Eddie finds himself in the five heavens of the five people he will meet in heaven, where he encounters five people who have significantly affected his life, whether he realized at the time or not. Mitch Albom dedicates the book to his uncle Edward Beitchman. He says that he wants people like his uncle who felt unimportant during their lives to realize how much they mattered and how they were loved.

And then I'll start reading this:

Lightborn, better known as 'shine', is a mind-altering technology that has revolutionised the modern world. It is the ultimate in education, self-improvement and entertainment - beamed directly into the brain of anyone who can meet the asking price. But in the city of Los Sombres, renegade shine has attacked the adult population, resulting in social chaos and widespread insanity in everyone past the age of puberty. The only solution has been to turn off the Field and isolate the city. Trapped within the quarantine perimeter, fourteen-year-old Xavier just wants to find the drug that can keep his own physical maturity at bay until the army shuts down the shine. That's how he meets Roksana, mysteriously impervious to shine and devoted to helping the stricken. As the military invades street by street, Xavier and Roksana discover that there could be hope for Los Sombres - but only if Xavier will allow a lightborn cure to enter his mind. What he doesn't know is that the shine in question has a mind of its own ...

[Age of Ignorance]

Originally Posted by MonsterCosmonaut

I'm working in a book shop at the moment for work experience, so I get a 35% discount now, so i took advantage of it and bought two books! I'm reading this one atm:


[The Five People You Meet in Heaven]

Very entertaining read. Good choice.

I'm reading this at the moment:

A German Merchant Ship is attempting to return to Germany from Brazil at the end of August 1944 via a crossing of the Atlantic which is full of enemy shipping and warships. With a crew of twenty-two men and five nuns as passengers, the boat makes its remarkable journey, but after being severely battered by a storm, is wrecked off the coast of the British Isles.

Doesn't seem to really be going anywhere, but I'm about 50 pages in.

[forfrosne]

Originally Posted by Composure

Very entertaining read. Good choice.

I like how, while staying very interesting, it doesn't feel the need to use 20+ character words every two words! Too many authors think "I know, to sound clever I'll use the longest words I possibly can!" whereas this one manages to write a fascinating and very entertaining novel while keeping it nice and simple.

[Gingerbread Latte]

I've just started reading Lolita

[Troubled_Heart]

[forfrosne]

Originally Posted by Capt'n Cara

I've just started reading Lolita

ಠ_ಠ

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolita_complex

Lolicon (ロリコン?), also romanised as lolikon or rorikon,[1] is a Japanese portmanteau of the phrase "Lolita complex". In Japan, the term describes a sexual preference for prepubescent girls,[2] or an individual with such an attraction.[3][4] It is also commonly used when referring to lolicon manga or lolicon anime, a genre of manga and anime wherein childlike female characters are often depicted in an erotic manner, in an art style reminiscent of the shōjo manga (girls' comics) style. Outside Japan, "lolicon" is in less common usage and usually refers to the genre.

[BluEiis]

Currently doing some summer homework.. Look Homeward Angel, by Thomas Wolf, and Eaarth, by Bill McKibben...

[Age of Ignorance]

Originally Posted by MonsterCosmonaut

I like how, while staying very interesting, it doesn't feel the need to use 20+ character words every two words! Too many authors think "I know, to sound clever I'll use the longest words I possibly can!" whereas this one manages to write a fascinating and very entertaining novel while keeping it nice and simple.

I agree.
But I have read books that are like that and are very entertaining. The long words allows them to be more specific in details, I think.

Anyway, finished Storm Warning. Entertaining for a night, but overall pretty mind-numbingly boring.

Next on the agenda:


For my exam.

Afterwards:


Better be good.

[messed_up]

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hossein

[Spellbound]

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen.

[ChesterCheshire]

I just ordered Steven Tyler's autobiography, Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?: A Rock 'n' Roll Memoir. So, I'll be reading that. Looked pretty good when I looked it up on the Barnes and Noble site. I also just started getting into Aerosmith, a tad late, honestly. 'Dunno how it took so long.

I've also been meaning to reread The Hobbit again. I read it almost once a year, I just love it. And I finished reading Andrzej Sapkowski's Blood of Elves, one of the books the game The Witcher is based off of.

[ShesNotThere]

Originally Posted by zapparappa

I love you. This is literally my favorite book of all time, it's fantastic. ♥

I'm currently reading The Shining by Stephen King.

[Spellbound]

Originally Posted by ShadowDancing

I'm currently reading The Shining by Stephen King.

Good book!

Now I'm reading The Help by Kathryn Stockett.

[anony mouse.]

Originally Posted by Capt'n Cara

I've just started reading Lolita

Good choice, it's a very interesting read. Gives quite a different take on the abuser/victim scenario.
As for meself, I'm reading 1984 by George Orwell and I'm just finishing I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb.

[Evanesco]

Love Lessons by Jacqueline Wilson.

I went through a phase where I was obsessed with her, when I was about ten/eleven. My mum wouldn't let me read the books aimed at older girls, though. Then I stopped being obsessed, but I found this one at the library recently and I wasn't feeling great, a bit down, so I got it out for some light reading.

The next book I read will be much more literaturtive... (Yeah, I made that word up on the spot...)

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

I LOVE the SH novels. They're absolutely brilliant, I have the whole set on my Kindle <3

Also just about started a book called Anno Dracula by Kim Newman. It was a birthday present but I haven't really gotten into it yet. It got some amazing reviews though - so if anyone else has read it, let me know!

[Age of Ignorance]

Originally Posted by ShadowDancing

[The Book Thief]

I love you. This is literally my favorite book of all time, it's fantastic. ♥

I have that book here, but could absolutely never get into it. I get to page 45 or so and drop it. :|

Half way through this:

[Spellbound]

I'm reading Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë.

[Pianissimo]

City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare
It's the second book of The Mortal Instruments series.

[Storyteller.]

[SiberianSunFlower]

Currently Reading:

"Where We Stand" by Roger Rosenblatt.
"Russia~A Short History (the New Edition)" by Abraham Ascher.
"A Concise Biography of Adolf Hitler" by Thomas Fuchs.



(Yeah, I'm going back and forth between Books like I usually do....I wish I could be the Type that can read one Book at a time, all the way through, without being Distracted by the Internet! )

[Gingerbread Latte]

As of tomorrow I'm going to be reading this :

Cassia has always trusted the Society to make the right choices for her: what to read, what to watch, what to believe. So when Xander's face appears on-screen at her Matching ceremony, Cassia knows with complete certainty that he is her ideal mate . . . until she sees Ky Markham's face flash for an instant before the screen fades to black.

The Society tells her it's a glitch, a rare malfunction, and that she should focus on the happy life she's destined to lead with Xander. But Cassia can't stop thinking about Ky, and as they slowly fall in love, Cassia begins to doubt the Society's infallibility and is faced with an impossible choice: between Xander and Ky, between the only life she's known and a path that no one else has dared to follow.

It seems so interesting

[forfrosne]

Originally Posted by Capt'n Cara

As of tomorrow I'm going to be reading this :





It seems so interesting

Might have to read that!

[anony mouse.]

Originally Posted by MonsterCosmonaut

Might have to read that!

I just finished it. It really wasn't as great as I thought it was going to be--a lot of it felt like it had been done before. However, I'm insanely critical of everything I read so don't let me ruin it for you.

I'm reading The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath and The Ha-Ha by Dave King as of right now.

[Everglow.]

Only started reading it today, but the way it's written it's quite gripping, if a bit confusing at times. I think it'll be pretty good!

[Chuuya]

I'm reading Born of Shadows by Sherrilyn Kenyon. I'm about halfway through and i'm loving it! I'm also reading What Happened to Goodbye by Sarah Dessen. xD

[ShesNotThere]

Deathly Hallows, so I can finish it before the movie. <3

[Snufkin]

I'll finish off the Amber Spyglass tonight by Phillip Pullman. Don't know whether to get into Game of Thrones after that, or read Deathly Hallows before Friday...

[Verità]

[Gingerbread Latte]

Before scientists found the cure, people thought love was a good thing. They didn’t understand that once love -- the deliria -- blooms in your blood, there is no escaping its hold. Things are different now. Scientists are able to eradicate love, and the governments demands that all citizens receive the cure upon turning eighteen. Lena Holoway has always looked forward to the day when she’ll be cured. A life without love is a life without pain: safe, measured, predictable, and happy.

But with ninety-five days left until her treatment, Lena does the unthinkable: She falls in love.

[Nightblood.]

So many good books in here!

I'm currently reading multiple books, but the one I'm working on now is:

Joyce Carol Oates's epic novel of an American family in the 1950's probes the tender division between the permissible and the forbidden, between ordinary life and the secret places of the heart. Set in an industrial, working-class town in upstate New York, this book chronicles the frustrating marriage of parents Lyle and Hannah; the idealistic political journey of son Warren, and the passionate, obsessive relationship that develops between 15-year-old Enid Maria and her uncle Felix, a professional boxer twice her age. While brilliantly re-creating a decade that worshipped conformity, You Must Remember This presents the lives of family members that break every convention in the search for meaning and fulfillment.

Sue Monk Kidd's The Mermaid Chair is the soulful tale of Jessie Sullivan, a middle-aged woman whose stifled dreams and desires take shape during an extended stay on Egret Island, where she is caring for her troubled mother, Nelle.

[Acheron]

Awww yeah.

[Troubled_Heart]

[Kumagoro]

The Anarchist's Angel

[ShesNotThere]

What Happened to Goodbye - Sarah Dessen