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Finished the fourth Wheel of Time book. Loving the series now.

Time for some Bukowski because I'm not entirely depressed and cynical enough. Starting with "women".

Let me know how Immortal life...Henrietta is, I bought it months ago, but haven't read it yet.

 

You should read Les Mis, my god it's so good! I backed-out of my plans tonight so that I could sit and read it, lol

It's infuriating.

I've been reading a lot of books from the perspective of black narrators during segregation. But, I'm still so surprised when I read anything about it. The medical community failed this woman and should be ashamed. Not only did they take cells without her permission, they did not tell her the radiation therapy would leave her unable to have children, nor did they protect her medical information. She was treated like an animal by John Hopkins.

Reading the Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, the fourth Wheel of Time book (which is incidentally the longest. ugh), Blood Meridian, and maaaaybe one day I'll actual start reading Les Miserables.

Twelve Years a Slave - Solomon Northup

It is actually a hard book to read because of the content, it is fascinating but at the same time you have to take a breath and walk away for a bit because of the cruelty and injustice.

 

Not sure if I mentioned it in this thread but I love both " my dad says"and "I Suck at Girls" by Justin Halpern. When I'm down or just need a good laugh I grab the aforementioned titles and I end up in tears of laughter.

 

 

 

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I bought "12 Years a Slave" but I didn't get very far because it seemed really, really dry. Does it get better as it gets into the story? Because I was falling asleep in the beginning. I understand it's a true story but I figured watching the movie (and getting to stare at Fassbender) would suffice.

Just finished Doctor Sleep. It was worth it for the ending. It wrapped up Danny's story really well. I like Dan a lot as a character but I could do without the rest of the book. I wouldn't recommend as it's kind of a drag and not all that scary. I even do this thing where I only read scary books after dark (I have a kindle so I'll sit in a pitch black room) and it still was barely creepy. Unless you really, really loved the Shining...just read 11/22/63 and ignore everything else he's put out for the past 5 years..

Current read: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman/Terry Pratchett

Top ten favourite books of all time! Maybe even top 5. I couldn't stop laughing the entire book and was actually depressed that I couldn't read about Crowley and Aziraphale anymore. =(

As a side note, the second title is "The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch". "Nice" is used here in the archaic meaning of the word which means "stupid".

If you like it, check out "Discworld" by Terry Pratchett. While Gaiman coauthored "Good Omens", Pratchett was the man behind the wit. There are like a 50 Discworld books and while many of them have reoccuring characters and subplots and should ideally be read in order, you could really just pick any of them up as they are more episodic than anything. I recommend "Going Postal" and "Small Gods" but if you really want a good read, just go through the whole thing starting with "The Colour of Magic".

"Where'd Ya go, Bernadette?" Cute but shallow. I expected more. Would recommend to a friend's mom but not a friend.

"Never let me go". Sad, melancholic, and eerie. I liked it. The "twist", I always saw coming, was beautifully done. Like it was always there, visible yet unaddressed. It was a dread that I didn't want to face and that's exactly how the author planned it.

Halfway through "Doctor Sleep". Boring. There were some minorly creepy moments in the beginning with Danny but it's pretty lackluster. The true knot are not scary. This is my first Stephen King book and I'm pretty underwhelmed. I'm determined to finish what I started though.

Halfway through "Divergent". Meh. I understand why teens like it but it's also pretty shallow. My sister will want me to take her to the movie when it hits theaters so I thought I should just read it real quick.

Just started "Blood Meridian". I love Cormac Mccarthy. His detached, masculine style is so inventive and beautiful. Hopefully I can power through it by the end of the week.

On the third Wheel of Time book.

And Ender's Game.

Finished Stardust, the Book Thief, and the second wheel of time book last week.

Just finished both the Book Thief and Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls

I'm now reading the second wheel of time book. Better than the first.

Joined a book club on goodreads.

Reading The Book Thief and Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls.

I am getting a kindle for xmas. My reading will reach a whole new level.

I finally finished the first Wheel of Time book. Gah! I can't commit to 13 more of these books!

I'm moving on to Practical Magic, book #1 of the discworld series. There are 40 of those though @_@. At least Pratchett detests dullness.

I'm kind of half in love with Neil Gaiman's weirdness.

 

 

 

He writes fairy tales for adults. Check out "Good Omens". He co-authored it with Terry Pratchett. It has Gaiman's endearing characters and semi-science fiction/fantasy style with Pratchett's laugh out loud funny ironic twists, satire, and coincidences.

 

It's probably in my top 5 favourite books of all time. The ending is a bit off (I can't explain it or what they were trying to go for. I felt like they just wanted to end the book). But, finishing that book made me genuinely sad that I didn't get to hang out and see what Crowley (The demon with a heart of gold main character) was doing anymore. I had to mourn the characters because there was nothing left for me to read about them.

It was very good. Thank you, I will add that to my (already gigantic!) list.

 

Current read: Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

AHHHH, that book is great too.

Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card

 

If you like Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow is a must read.

Finished the Help. Better than I thought it would be. I actually cried a few times. Movie was great too (rented that a few days later). Easy to read but hard to stomach.

Read about 80 pages of Cloud Atlas while in Barnes and Nobles yesterday. Unfortunately I promised myself I wouldn't buy another book until I finished the ones I already owned. It was stupidly hard not to buy it.

It was soooooo gooooood.

Oh, cool! Gaiman is one of my top four all-time favorite authors, and Anansi Boys is one of my fave books of his.

 

I'm finishing up the final book in Stephen King's Dark Tower series. As a huge King fan, I'm not sure why it took me until now to read this - but I love it! Actually, I'm sitting here at work wearing a Dark Tower t-shirt that my boyfriend got me.

After wheel of time, I probably will move onto the Dark Tower series. I had heard about it for a long time and had no idea it was Stephen King until I checking out Gunslinger in the bookstore the other day.

I've started the first Wheel of Time book because I clearly hate myself. Only a dozen or so more to go and I hear there is a big slump between books 6 and 11. Yay?

What do you love about it? I saw it at Goodwill one day and almost bought it.

 

Most recently, I re-read The Hunger Games series. As for books I have not finished reading for the first time, there's "White Fang" by Jack London. I loved "The Call of the Wild" back in high school.

I read "white fang" when I was in 5th grade. It was probably my first adult novel. I need to reread it because I'm sure I missed like everything of importance and literary merit.

I felt like the Hunger Games could have been vastly improved by one change. I don't want to spoil though.

Curious/Nighttime was an interesting book. I found it too pandering to the autistic perspective though. Trying too hard.

I've heard a lot about it but I haven't read it.

If you love Gaiman, you should check out "Good Omens". He co-authored it with Terry Pratchett and I think it's his best work (I haven't read Sandman, to be fair). "Good Omens" is laugh out loud funny. I've only ever actually belly laughed because of four authors and those books were "When you are Engulfed in Flames" by Sedaris, The Hitchhikers Guide series, Catch-22, and Good Omens.

"Neverwhere" and "American Gods" are also good. I gave up on American Gods about 3/4ths the way through because I got bored but a lot of people love it and it's going to be an HBO series. I give up on books more easily than most people as I have a massive reading list and get easily distracted if I feel a book isn't getting somewhere or at least being entertaining.

I thought this one was very interesting, and it gave me a new perspective on behavior in relationships.

 

I'm re-reading the Dragonriders of Pern trilogy right now. Just finished "Subliminal" by Leonard Mlodinow - that was very interesting! Highly recommend it.

I read Dragonsong a long time ago (an english teacher gave it to me). It takes place hundreds of years after the events of Pern in the original series. I liked it a lot. It was one of the first books with a female lead that wasn't about men (either wanting to or wanting not to get married to them). That blew me away in 7th grade.

Hocus Pocus - Vonnegut

Almost finished "The Pope Who Quit: A True Medieval Tale of Mystery, Death, and Salvation".

Very dry read but part of my literary vegetables. It's sort of an eye opener. I never realized so many popes were murdered or involved in scandals.

David Sedaris just wrote a new book. Too bad my current reading list is 10+ books long.

I might bump it up a few spaces.

I just finished "Breakfast of Champions".

Next on my To Read List is "Into the Wild" followed by the second book in "The Once and Future King". I'm nearing the end of books I own that I haven't finished or given up on yet. I guess I could give "Life of Pi" and "Middlesex" another chance. My friend assured me that after the first 200 pages, Life of Pi gets really good. That's kind of like saying "Over half of this book is just dreadful".

I have a lot of friends trying to get me into "Wheel of Time" since the series finally finished. I keep reminding them how much they used to complain about it and how they felt that they were only reading because they had to see through a series they'd invested this much time into. And one actually said "Well, books 5 through 11 were pretty terrible. But, the rest was great!". That's more than half. Why...why would I read this >>>