What Book Are You Currently Reading?

#701 lhaena

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Posted 25 May 2006 - 01:35 PM

Night by Elie Wiesel. find this book through the Oprah show

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Posted 25 May 2006 - 05:04 PM

Just finished "The Bonehunters" by Steven Erikson. It's book 6 of a lengthy series that's still being written. If you like epic, gritty fantasy, this is the series for you.

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Posted 26 May 2006 - 05:19 PM

hmmm...just wondering, is there a book review thread for some in depth reviews?

I just finished reading the History of Love - Nicole Krauss, it's sad, haunting, and beautifully written. Thumbs up and highly recommended.

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Posted 26 May 2006 - 06:51 PM

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Night by Elie Wiesel. find this book through the Oprah show

Currently Reading: Korean Vs. Japanese Make*over Madness Love Love Recipe Suicide Note

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Posted 26 May 2006 - 08:14 PM

QUOTE(bebexchaotic @ May 13 2006, 04:15 PM)

The Kite Runner

I'm halfway through it. Amazing book.

Also bought The Tipping Point

My first post in this thread!

The Kite Runner has got to be one of the best books I've read in months. A powerful, unique story told in a simplistic and yet emotional voice without intricate sentences or big words.

I've also read Elie Wiesel's Night before--along with the other 2 stories, Dawn and Accident, that make up The Night Trilogy. Night is the most poweful story among the 3. Dawn is one of the most heart-breaking stories I've ever read, and Accident is just down right depressing.

I'm currently half-way through VS Naipaul's A Free State (3 stories)--loved his writing, and the first story really strikes a cord in me. It's my first VS Naipaul read-- had tried before but never managed to get into his stories. Yet this time the first story really drew me in, although now I'm sort of losing the reading momentum. ...

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Posted 26 May 2006 - 08:30 PM

Finished Dark Blood by James M Thompson.

Reading Memoirs of a Geisha - Arther Golden, Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown, Awaiting the Moon - Donna Lea Simpson.

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Posted 27 May 2006 - 04:58 AM

The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
read it a couple of times
reading it again because i think it's a very good sleeping pill
joke..
gotta appreciate it in the future.

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Posted 27 May 2006 - 05:58 AM

The Darren Shan myserties besides all the manga i read.

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Posted 27 May 2006 - 07:47 AM

QUOTE(lhaena @ May 25 2006, 03:35 PM)

Night by Elie Wiesel. find this book through the Oprah show

^oohhh...i just finished that yesterday..for school..it was so sad..

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Posted 27 May 2006 - 07:50 AM

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

bought this a long time ago, but too busy to read then

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Posted 27 May 2006 - 10:37 AM

Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

really sad

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Posted 27 May 2006 - 04:31 PM

currently reading *fox girl* by nora okja keller...

pretty good book...

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Posted 27 May 2006 - 04:56 PM

Hamlet from Shakespeare.. >_> yurk. loll i have to memorize 25 lines for monday ><!!!

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Posted 27 May 2006 - 05:07 PM

Bet Me - Jennifer ?

Really good book.

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Posted 27 May 2006 - 07:05 PM

QUOTE(moesin @ May 27 2006, 12:14 AM)

welcome then! kite runner's great. i don't think i would've picked it up if i hadn't read about it here.

i just finished the time traveler's wife by audrey niffenegger. it sounds like science fiction (i mean, it does have elements of science fiction in it, b/c it's about a guy who travels through time), but mostly it's a love story. it's very sweet and sad.

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Posted 27 May 2006 - 11:35 PM

Im reading two books at the moment.
Women of the pleasure quarters: The secret history of the Geisha.
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Buffalo Calf Road woman

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Posted 28 May 2006 - 09:35 AM

QUOTE(lhaena @ May 25 2006, 02:35 PM)

Night by Elie Wiesel. find this book through the Oprah show

yes! very good book...

the only book (besides fallen angels) that i actually enjoyed reading back in high school...

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Posted 28 May 2006 - 11:29 AM

Re-reading "Catcher In The Rye" by JD Salinger...read it back it high school but didnt remember anything about it.

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Posted 28 May 2006 - 08:34 PM

A Million Little Pieces...verrry descriptive so far..

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Posted 29 May 2006 - 11:16 AM

I'm starting on Marcel Proust's "Remembrance of Things Past", heard it from My Lovely SamSoon and got it interested (and also Daniel Henney said it was good

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But I have to say "The Kite Runner"s the most poignant book I've read. Its interesting how the main character's the protagonist and villain at the same time (proves you are your worst enemy). I give it FOUR thumbs up, that's inclucing my toes lolz.

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