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Re: What I'm reading now. -
January 14th 2009, 05:21 PM
So I will find my fears and face them
I will cower like a dog
I will kick and scream
I will kneel and plead
I'll fight like hell to hide that I'm givin' up
Re: What I'm reading now. -
January 14th 2009, 05:45 PM
Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body by Armand Marie Leroi
It's not a textbook, it's a narrative on various genetic disorders, the genetic code, some history of discoveries, etc... .
Re: What I'm reading now. -
January 16th 2009, 10:16 AM
Les Miserables (woe is me that I've forgotten the shortcut for accents) by Victor Hugo
It reminds me a bit of A Tale of Two Cities.
I came across a copy of the Barnes & Noble Classics booklist. There are around 200 books on it, and I'm trying to read 50 in 2009. That's roughly a book a week, and I'm doing pretty good. So far, I've read Pride and Prejudice, The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories, and Les Miserables.
let me light up the sky, light it up for you
let me tell you why, i would die for you
When you whisper, you must be absolutely as sincere as when you scream.
9 out of every 10 problems in relationships can be solved by talking. So why are we so damn quiet?
Re: What I'm reading now. -
January 19th 2009, 04:45 PM
I just finished Invitation Only, from the Private series. I absolutely love it!
"This is how it works
You're young until you're not
You love until you don't
You try until you can't
You laugh until you cry
You cry until you laugh
And everyone must breathe
Until their dying breath"
Re: What I'm reading now. -
January 20th 2009, 05:36 PM
omg you people are after my heart. i love:
Lolita
Prozac Nation
Tiger Child
Pride and Prejudice
Murder of Bindy Mackenzie (i also bought the OTHER edition called Becoming Bindy Mackenzie cuz i didnt know it was the same one!)
and tahts just on this page!
im reading:
A Storm of Swords (EPIC fantasy novel, book 3 of Song of Ice and Fire, George R R Martin)
Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
Waltzing the Cat
and
New Moon.
Re: What I'm reading now. -
January 21st 2009, 11:30 AM
Chicken soup for the Soul: A fourth helping
And I'm crying all the time... it's just so moving *sobs*
"Life is pain, anybody that says different is selling something" ~ Fezzik's Mother, The Princess Bride. ♥
"To die, would be an awfully big adventure."~ Peter Pan
"Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumoured by many.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books.
Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.
Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations.
But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it."
~ The Buddha
Re: What I'm reading now. -
January 21st 2009, 11:59 PM
Mein Kampf- Adolf Hitler. Pretty hard to get in to, although it is amazing when people go "Who?".
Also- Eclipse again, and still reading The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, and Rereading Speak.
She whispered to her own reflection "I will be strong."
"I am not what has happened to me.I am what I have chosen to become."- Carl Jung
Re: What I'm reading now. -
January 23rd 2009, 11:25 PM
I liked Romeo an Juliet! Not the characters, though, I can agree with you there. You have to look at them in a different way though. Imagine they were being acted out. You miss a lot when all you can do is read their lines. I imagine it's much better live.
Anyway:
Johnathan Strange and Mr. Norrel by Sunan Clark and
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe for school.
--EV--
Congrats Canada's Juniors! 5 in a row!
Last Sunday morning, the sunshine felt like rain.
Week before, they all seemed the same.
And oh, I ain't wastin' time no more
Cause time goes by like hurricanes, and faster things.
--The Allman Brothers Band
Things seem impossible until you start to do them.
Re: What I'm reading now. -
January 24th 2009, 05:43 PM
I'm currently reading a number of books at the same time, which I dont usually do but i got some new books that were too interesting to leave untill i'd finished my original book
The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides
The Bell Jar - Sylva Plath
Cutting It Out; A Journey Through Psychotherapy and Self Harm - Carolyn Smith
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- I'm not strong enough to stay away -
- and I wanna leave -
- and I wanna stay -
- And I'm so confused -
- So hard to choose between the pleasure and the pain -
Re: What I'm reading now. -
January 25th 2009, 08:45 AM
I'm in the middle of "Go Ask Alice". It is a true story, apparently. Some people don't think it is. I think it is very good! Very gripping and shocking.
I don't read many books but I have a few I would like to read.