bzrunner2009 Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 So...I saw a thread like this happening in the history forum and I thought it would be interesting to start one here, especially since we are all applying to library science schools. What is everyone reading? Lately, I have been sort of ADD in reading but here is my big list When Parents Text: So Much Said...So Little Understood The Night Circus Carry the One The Snow Child All That I Am: A Novel Courtesans: Money, Sex and Fame in the Nineteenth Century The Big Book of Pain and Torture: Torture and Punishment Through History Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lolita Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 Right now? The Hunger Games. lol. I can't wait to see the movie on Friday. I guess I should pick up something related to the field though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bzrunner2009 Posted March 22, 2012 Author Share Posted March 22, 2012 I convinced my fiance to take me next week to see it. I'm so excited!!!! I wouldn't worry about reading anything in the field until you get to the school. I tried that with my first masters and it didn't help me with squat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duxfeminafacti Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 I'm going to see The Hunger Games tomorrow night. Can't wait! Currently reading Rules of Civility by Amor Towles. That is, if I ever get back to it. I'm finishing up a Poli Sci class, so I'm also slogging through International Relations: Brief Sixth Edition and Introduction to International Relations: Theories and Approaches. Fun! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marebear Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 I'm reading 1Q84 by Murukami, The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol, Second Space by Czeslaw Milosz right now, and assorted reading for my thesis. bzrunner-- what do you think about The Night Circus? I read it earlier this year and continue have incredibly mixed feelings about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swils Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 (edited) I think the stress of applications has me reverting to a ten year old. This morning I started reading "The Tale of Despereaux." ; ) I'm also hankering for something good in the fantasy genre, if anyone has recommendations... Edited March 25, 2012 by swils FinaleFile 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bzrunner2009 Posted March 26, 2012 Author Share Posted March 26, 2012 I'm reading 1Q84 by Murukami, The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol, Second Space by Czeslaw Milosz right now, and assorted reading for my thesis. bzrunner-- what do you think about The Night Circus? I read it earlier this year and continue have incredibly mixed feelings about it. So far I am enjoying it. I have heard great things about it, however I have not been blown away by it. I think it is more of a quiet novel. What are your thoughts on 1Q84 by Murukami? I might have to dump all of my books back at the library soon. My thesis has been neglected for too long and I want to graduate this program so I can enter into the next one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marebear Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 So far I am enjoying it. I have heard great things about it, however I have not been blown away by it. I think it is more of a quiet novel. What are your thoughts on 1Q84 by Murukami? I might have to dump all of my books back at the library soon. My thesis has been neglected for too long and I want to graduate this program so I can enter into the next one. I completely agree with you about The Night Circus being a quiet novel. I expected more Harry Potter and had the wrong kind of expectations for it, I think. 1Q84 is not a quiet book, haha. I've been really loving it. I only allow myself to read it when I'm at the gym both so that I'll go to the gym more and so that I won't let it take over my life. Have you read any Murakami before? Apparently it's just as awesome as his other stuff, but this is the first I've read by him. I highly recommend it though! Good luck with the thesis (mine is currently that-which-must-not-be-named) (sorry for being the least timely responder of all time) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
annieca Posted May 6, 2012 Share Posted May 6, 2012 ^^ I read Kafka on the Shore by Murakami earlier this summer. Hated it. It was a little too trippy for me. Right now, working on Hunchback of Notre Dame which is on my list of 1,001 books to read before you die. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psych2.7 Posted May 11, 2012 Share Posted May 11, 2012 The Progress of Love by Alice Munro. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
postapocalypso Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 I've been feeling a little stir-crazy in terms of MLIS prep, so I'm trying to feel productive by reading up on libraries. So far I've checked out Library: An Unquiet History by Matthew Battles, This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All by Marilyn Johnson, and Straight from the Stacks by Laura Townsend Kane. I also nabbed a copy of The Hollywood Librarian: A Look at Librarians through Film (DVD) :Db Non-library-related reading has mostly been comics (just finished the penultimate collection of Garth Ennis's The Boys, aaaa!), and I had to force myself to put down Alan Bradley's A Red Herring Without Mustard last night so I could grab a few hours of sleep before work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
annieca Posted July 8, 2012 Share Posted July 8, 2012 An Unquiet History is interesting. A little pompous but a good read. I've been doing senior thesis research lately so my metro book has been Roman David's Lustration and Transitional Justice: Personnel Systems in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DHPhD4Me Posted July 10, 2012 Share Posted July 10, 2012 Waiting to hear if I am accepted to UWO, so I sat down and read War and Peace. I enjoyed it! Might have another go at Russian literature, but for now I am starting my first Margaret Atwood- The Handmaid's Tale, while listening to Mockingjay on audiobook in the evening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissMoneyJenny Posted July 19, 2012 Share Posted July 19, 2012 I'm currently reading Quiet by Susan Cain, although it's taking me a while because I am really disappointed and not into it at all like I was expecting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grover3000 Posted December 18, 2012 Share Posted December 18, 2012 Reading a biography of Robert F Kennedy & attempting to slug it through The Sound and The Fury again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karent Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 _Memories of the Future_ by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cefran Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 The House of Velvet and Glass by Katherine Howe Only a few pages in at the moment, but I enjoyed The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane. I also picked up The Painted Girls from the library. Has anyone read it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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