wildviolet Posted March 4, 2012 Author Share Posted March 4, 2012 I'm probably going to start the first book of the Hunger Games series soon. Aaaaaaaaand I think that's it so far. Yes, I have reading ADD. Me, too! Glad to know I'm not the only one with "reading ADD." Currently in the middle of A Place of My Own: The Architecture of Daydreams by Michael Pollan. Got Hunger Games and Moby Dick waiting on the shelf. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaywalker Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 Right now I'm reading the Mistborn trilogy by Brandon Sanderson...currently on the 2nd book, The Well of Ascension. It's a nice sci-fi/fantasy trilogy that deals a lot with political theory, class and power structure, religion, etc. I highly recommend it if you're into that kind of stuff! mop 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
far_to_go Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 My friends have been telling me to read the Game of Thrones series and the Hunger Games series... so I'll probably succumb to temptation at some point. The last novel I read purely for my own interest was Lolita, but that was back in January. Alas, I just don't have much time for pleasure-reading during the semester. Summer is coming... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockhopper Posted March 16, 2012 Share Posted March 16, 2012 Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and The Hunger Games. I can't see either movie until I've read the books! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cup of Tea Posted March 16, 2012 Share Posted March 16, 2012 CT Suite: The Work of Diagnosis in the Age of Noninvasive Cutting by B. Saunders and Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death by M. Lock. I swear this is for fun! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psychgurl Posted March 16, 2012 Share Posted March 16, 2012 Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger ... oh, how I love mindless reading when I have time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth.Vegan Posted March 17, 2012 Share Posted March 17, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
echolikebells Posted March 18, 2012 Share Posted March 18, 2012 (edited) Reading Clash of Kings (from the Song of Ice and Fire series) and re-reading Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking. Also reading From Hinton to Hamlet for fun, although it is from the suggested reading list of an education course I took last term. Edited March 18, 2012 by echolikebells Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
contretemps Posted March 18, 2012 Share Posted March 18, 2012 Hunger Games, Divergent, and Matched. I love me some young adult fiction with dystopian themes. psychgurl and Mandalpaca 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hillary Emick Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 Bury me Standing by Isabella Fonseca That is a great book. I just finished Barnheart by Jenna Woginrich. Backyard agriculture is one of my hobbies. I am working on The World According to Monsanto by Marie-Monique Robin, and Mr. Fox by Helen Oyeyemi. The former is depressing and the latter is a strange novel but I kind of like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cici Beanz Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 I just finished In the Woods by Tana French, and I loved it. Now I'm working my way through the Rizzoli and Isles series by Tess Gerritsen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duxfeminafacti Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 I'm reading Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure The World by Tracy Kidder. I loved that book. It was probably the best thing I read last year. I'm reading Rules of Civility by Amor Towles right now. I'm enjoying the writing well enough, but I don't feel connected to any of the characters. wildviolet 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faythren Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 Oh heavens, I can't recommend Patrick Rothfuss's (as yet incomplete) Kingkiller trilogy enough- The Name of the Wind made me fall in love with the fantasy genre all over again. It succeeds at being both funny and compelling, and it can be so difficult to find an author who can write such a story. mop 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
go3187 Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 Love this thread! I'm reading A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, in dead-tree format. On my Kindle I'm half-way through The Best American Short Stories 2011. And I'm listening to the Librivox recording of Anna Karenina before going to bed or when doing chores around the house (most Librivox recording are bad, bad, bad -- you get what you pay for, I suppose -- but this one is quite okay... although not Audible quality). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psychgurl Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 I just finished In the Woods by Tana French, and I loved it. Now I'm working my way through the Rizzoli and Isles series by Tess Gerritsen. Just started this..! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cici Beanz Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 Let me know what you think of it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mirandaw Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 I'm on the last book of the Wrinkle in Time series (never read them as a child), and I'm also working on Parable of the Talents (the second and, incidentally, the final in Octavia Butler's intended trilogy). Currently waiting for Margaret Atwood to write the third book in the MaddAddam trilogy (Oryx and Crake, Year of the Flood). Apparently I love speculative fiction these days. I also throw in some Ursula LeGuin for good measure, and whatever the feminist bookclub I attend is reading that month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puddle Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 For long-term personal enhancement, I am reading a textbook on Cost-Benefit Analysis (good times...). Because this textbook is soul-sucking, I am reading graphic novels for fun. Just finished Garth Ennis' super-intense, post-appocalyptic, zombie/infection, ultra-violence/horror book "Crossed" (not recommended for anyone with a weak stomach) and am moving on to Guy Davis' The Marquis. Literature wise, I am plodding my way through 1Q84 (Murakami) but I haven't been able to set aside more than a few hours each week to make significant inroads to this monster of a book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildviolet Posted March 27, 2012 Author Share Posted March 27, 2012 I'm on the last book of the Wrinkle in Time series (never read them as a child), and I'm also working on Parable of the Talents (the second and, incidentally, the final in Octavia Butler's intended trilogy). Currently waiting for Margaret Atwood to write the third book in the MaddAddam trilogy (Oryx and Crake, Year of the Flood). Apparently I love speculative fiction these days. I also throw in some Ursula LeGuin for good measure, and whatever the feminist bookclub I attend is reading that month. Love the Wrinkle in Time series and Ursula LeGuin--I spent my middle school years in the public library reading all those fantasy novels! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildviolet Posted March 27, 2012 Author Share Posted March 27, 2012 Finally got around to reading Hunger Games last night. Literally could not put it down! Now I'm ready for the movie. psychgurl 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenePony Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 Finally got around to reading Hunger Games last night. Literally could not put it down! Now I'm ready for the movie. My husband read it Thursday after work and I read it Friday after class so we could watch it Saturday. I was pleasantly surprised with the movie and the book- reminded me a bit of The Giver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildviolet Posted March 28, 2012 Author Share Posted March 28, 2012 I love this thread. Unfortunately, it's feeding my habit of buying books, setting them on my bookshelf, and not getting around to reading them. Anyone else have this problem? Cici Beanz and avicus 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildviolet Posted March 28, 2012 Author Share Posted March 28, 2012 (edited) Now reading The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan. Also have the movie "Food, Inc." waiting on iTunes. Edited March 28, 2012 by wildviolet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psychgurl Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 I love this thread. Unfortunately, it's feeding my habit of buying books, setting them on my bookshelf, and not getting around to reading them. Anyone else have this problem? I have a whole bookshelf full of this problem....hahaha. At least now I can say that I am reading one of those books that's been on my shelf for over a year! As an aside, has anyone here read Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger? What a strange and disturbing book...just finished it over the weekend, and I was left feeling like I wanted to talk to people about it. wildviolet 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superbygk Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 (edited) Now reading The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan. Also have the movie "Food, Inc." waiting on iTunes. Ah, Omnivore's Dilemma is a great book! I would also recommend In Defense of Food if you have not yet read that one (also by Pollan). If I were not perpetually a graduate student I could be a bit more mindful about the types of groceries I buy and food that I eat. Sadly, it's more expensive to eat healthy these days, a point Pollan made in the book as you know =) I'm almost through with 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. I started a book called Eats, Shoots, and Leaves by Lynne Truss. It's basically a fun book for punctuation sticklers to indulge in. I teach a few courses at a local community college, and the shock that I get from the poor writing is matched by the twisted pleasure I derive from correcting students' writing. I also have the problem of buying books faster than I can read them. I had a conversation with a friend about this: he likes books, I like the idea of books. That's why I can't borrow a book from the library if I think I'm going to like it; I have to own a copy of it. Edited March 28, 2012 by superbygk wildviolet 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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