What are you reading right now...

[lady of shallot]

I just picked up a book at our town book swap yesterday called "Dead Girl" it is the story written by the friend of the girl who was murdered. It seems kind of poetic, but I am not too far along.

Just finished "The End of Faith" I love Sam Harris, think he writes in a very easy to understand fashion, is very readable and of course I agree with what he says and I also learned a lot from this book.

[That Book Nerd]

God Emperor of Dune and Kate Chopin's The Awakening.

One's a dark science fiction story, and the other is a 19th-century feminist tale. It's quite a fun/jarring switch.

[gdale]

Recently read The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf, Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, and The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad.

Currently reading Dickens' Bleak House and For Whom the Bell Tolls by Hemingway.

Next two on the list are The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky and Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy.

[lady of shallot]

The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad.
Conrad's story was based on a real person in the Congo. We heard this story listening to the tapes of a book called King Leopold's mines. Riveting and horrible at the same time.

[lady of shallot]

Sorry the name of the book is King Leopold's Ghost

[That Book Nerd]

Currently reading Dickens' Bleak House and For Whom the Bell Tolls by Hemingway.

Bleak House is a favorite of mine.

If you like Hemingway, and you haven't yet, check out The Sun Also Rises. It's another personal favorite.

[lalouche]

Just finished the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. Now reading the Physics of Star Trek. What can I say... I'm eclectic in my reading!

[That Book Nerd]

Just finished The Awakening. Now, I need something else to read alongside God Emperor of Dune. I'm giving serious consideration to Melmoth the Wanderer.

[Suzanne]

I'm giving serious consideration to Melmoth the Wanderer

The novel was cited by Karl Edward Wagner as one of the 13 best supernatural horror novels,[1] and by H. P. Lovecraft as "an enormous stride in the evolution of the horror-tale".[2] The novel also offers social commentary on early 19th century England and, throughout the novel, denounces Roman Catholicism while expounding the virtues of Protestantism.

Oscar Wilde, during his travels after release from prison, called himself Sebastian Melmoth, deriving this pseudonym from the title character in his great-uncle's novel and from Saint Sebastian.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melmoth_the_Wanderer

This looks really interesting.

[Peta31]

I work in a school and the kids have been talking about the John Marsden series starting with Tomorrow, when the war began and so i am reading it to see what all the hype is about so far so good!