Doing a Neal Stephenson marathon. Half way through Quicksilver now, will finish the Baroque cycle, then gonna try The Mongoliad, which he did with the Bears and Mark Teppo. Anathem is still my favorite of all his books.
Doing a Neal Stephenson marathon. Half way through Quicksilver now, will finish the Baroque cycle, then gonna try The Mongoliad, which he did with the Bears and Mark Teppo. Anathem is still my favorite of all his books.
Anathem is my favorite Stephenson book, too. It is amazing. Though I've only also read Snow Crash and Cryptonomicon. The rest of his stuff is on my list of books.
Quicksilver has good moments; there's a lot to like about it. But I still have no freaking clue where the hell it's headed and I'm halfway through the book. Stuff happens and science science science then some more stuff happens. I do love how he manages to bring a sci-fi feel to 17th century history.
As I have now finished Moll Flanders and the other novels I have ordered for college have yet to come in, I have decided to read books I got last Christmas or birthday for fun. I have started off with Water for Elephants which I find an interesting read. I can appreciate all of the research Sara Gruen would have had to do for the book, but I am not enjoying it quite as much as I believed I would based on the praise for the book several of my friends gave. That could simply be because I have felt more in the mood to read fantasy lately, though.
Water for Elephants was a very interesting book, but ultimately it was a bit hokey/cheesy.
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For some weird reason I find the history behind Mental Health back then very interesting (also the stories of the people who were patients as well as nurses/doctors). Lately i have read: My Lobotomy (a sad story), The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic, And Asylum : Inside The Closed World of State Mental Hospitals.
I am about to read Bedlam: A Year in the life of a mental hospital.
I finished Life of Pi the other day and I loved it! Which is so surprising because I actually tried listening to the audio version of the book several times and always got bored. But I thought I would give the actual book a try and I ended up loving this wild story about a boy, a lifeboat, and a bengal tiger. And I'm usually super picky about endings but I LOVED the ending to this book. Just loved it. It made me cry.
Now I've started Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt which by all accounts will make me cry as well. Yay!
Originally Posted by Miriel
I've only read this book once. I've tried reading it again, but I just can't. When I read it...I was just so shocked and sad. And you don't find out literally until the very end. To me, there wasn't any clue or anything. I thought it was wonderful.
Right now, I decided to have some fun, and am re-reading the Percy Jackson series.
My dad gave me this book to read and I've heard it's amazing. Can't wait to start it.
I'm about halfway through Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman and I adore it. I love his style of writing and even though it appears to be written for a little bit younger crowd, he writes in a way that can appeal to everyone. I have American Gods and Anansi Boys lined up next to read.
neverwhere was great
read good omens once you're done with those too
Good Omens is also on my Gaiman list! I'm glad to know it's worth recommending, though.
A Storm of Swords.
Just started reading "1776" by David McCullough. As you may have guessed, it's about the American revolutionary war, and is shaping up to be an interesting read thus far!
I finished Tell the Wolves I'm Home and started Daughter of Smoke and Bone which is fabulous so far. I don't usually like urban fantasy and a lot of the really horrifically bad paranormal romance stuff that's been so popular lately made me disinterested in the book at first. But people whose opinion I trust recommended it and I'm really loving it so far. A book with angels and devils that's still well-written? A kick ass heroine? Yeeeah!
I finished The Poisonwood Bible about two weeks ago and I highly recommend it. Through the voice of each daughter Kingsolver explores the history of white colonialism in the Congo, Western ignorance, American interference and the legacy. What's always so wonderful about reading Kingsolver is the fact that you learn so much about the topic. She is relentless in her detail.
After that I didn't read for a few days but then I read The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson; the second of his Millennium trilogy. I was pretty unimpressed with the first book but I don't like to leave things unfinished so I picked up the second in the series and was surprised that it was enjoyable. Lisbeth's foibles were exposed in this, her self-centeredness was put into a context in which it was not a redeeming factor and she experienced guilt, shame, all sorts of human emotions. In short she was much more likeable since she was no longer a brilliant, faultless self-described freak. And Mikael was much less of a pig. He didn't bang every woman he spoke to! It was amazing!
Now I'm reading The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck. I think I'm close to half-way finished and while I think the book is a bit over-simplistic in it's descriptions I appreciate that she didn't cast the rural Chinese as stupid and dense. Wang Lung is a smart person, O-lan even more so, and when they encounter new things their reactions seem natural: curiosity and reservation replace baser reactions of bemusement and panic.
After this I might end up reading the next in the Game of Thrones series. Ooooor maybe it's time for a trip to the used book store.
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