lovenmercy Posted December 31, 2005 Share Posted December 31, 2005 I love Hemmingway, and I last finished The Sun Also Rises.Next up, A Moveable Feast Link to post Share on other sites
M. (hristine Posted December 31, 2005 Share Posted December 31, 2005 Another Christmas present.I may have to start on some comics or graphic novels soon. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest gsteinb Posted December 31, 2005 Share Posted December 31, 2005 here you go now reading: Link to post Share on other sites
M. (hristine Posted December 31, 2005 Share Posted December 31, 2005 here you go That's great!Well played. Link to post Share on other sites
SarahC Posted December 31, 2005 Share Posted December 31, 2005 Goethe- The Sorrows of Young Werther Link to post Share on other sites
ajarwithaheavylid Posted December 31, 2005 Share Posted December 31, 2005 I got this for Christmas, and I'm enjoying it so far. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest gsteinb Posted December 31, 2005 Share Posted December 31, 2005 That's great!Well played. Santa dropped off Buddha #7 for Spawn Link to post Share on other sites
Blue and Green Posted January 3, 2006 Share Posted January 3, 2006 I have to get a copy. It's on my to do list. Link to post Share on other sites
Reni Posted January 3, 2006 Share Posted January 3, 2006 I finished Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking and am still processing it...... I am back to The Kite Runner, and absolutely love it. I look forward to my reading time every day. Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Stewart Posted January 3, 2006 Share Posted January 3, 2006 So far, this is as exciting as Guralnick's first Elvis book, Last Train To Memphis, which happens to be one of my favorite stories. Link to post Share on other sites
nalafej Posted January 3, 2006 Share Posted January 3, 2006 I'm reading "Conversations with Tom Petty" right now. So far so good. The guy wrote some good songs. Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Stewart Posted January 3, 2006 Share Posted January 3, 2006 I'm reading "Conversations with Tom Petty" right now. So far so good. The guy wrote some good songs. I had a conversation with Tom Petty once, on a Beverly Hills street corner. It went like this: Me: "Hey! Charlie T. Junior!"Tom Petty: (putting his hand up to his face) "Egh." Link to post Share on other sites
jimmyjimmy Posted January 3, 2006 Share Posted January 3, 2006 just finishedEncyclopedia of an ordinary life by Amy Krouse Rosenthal.I can't really recommend this book. I can see where people can connect to it on some level but it's getting lots of acclaim that I just don't understand. NR:X-mas gift. Yea! Link to post Share on other sites
nurfherder Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 One of my favorite books of all time: Link to post Share on other sites
Queen Amaranthine Posted January 7, 2006 Share Posted January 7, 2006 Barnes & Noble online has a "university" with some good free online reading discussion groups and informal courses--fiction and nonfiction, recent and classics. I did one of the reading groups last summer and I signed up for one on this novel that starts next week. I'm going to start it tonight. I read it in college and look forward to reading it again. Link to post Share on other sites
anodyne Posted January 7, 2006 Share Posted January 7, 2006 i loved DORIAN GRAY. i assigned it to my world history class two years ago. when they found out the author was gay, it sparked a GREAT class discussion. i'm reading i'm 1/3 through it and so far it is a very good read. the statistical methods are a little suspect and the prose a bit repetitive, but an insightful book nonetheless. Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Stewart Posted January 7, 2006 Share Posted January 7, 2006 I'm interweaving Peter Guralnick's Same Cooke bio Dream Boogie and David Sedaris' Naked. Good times. Link to post Share on other sites
Welsh Rich Posted January 7, 2006 Share Posted January 7, 2006 Just starting this that my sister bought me for christmas Link to post Share on other sites
WildMercurySound Posted January 7, 2006 Share Posted January 7, 2006 (edited) Paul Auster - The Brooklyn Follies next up: two authors i definately want to read exhaustively. Aftet this though, I think I'm going to get back to working my way through American literature classics of the 20th Century for a while. Edited January 7, 2006 by WildMercurySound Link to post Share on other sites
Welsh Rich Posted January 8, 2006 Share Posted January 8, 2006 Paul Auster - The Brooklyn Follies Is that any good? Read some good reviews and enjoyed the NY Trilogy. The Peel biography is excellent so far as well, has made me laugh out loud on numerous occassions! Link to post Share on other sites
WildMercurySound Posted January 8, 2006 Share Posted January 8, 2006 Is that any good? Read some good reviews and enjoyed the NY Trilogy. I'm enjoying it so far. I love Auster's prose style and his first-person narrative is compelling even when nothing much is happening. It's a novel that doesn't reveal itself quickly either, which I liked. It's half-price in Waterstones in hardback right now Rich. I'd recommend it. Have you read much Auster? I've only read the NY Trilogy, The Book of Illusions, this one and the NPR collection True Tales of American Life he curated, but I think he's an author I will return to frequently. Link to post Share on other sites
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