^ That's awesome! I tried doing something like for my uni language class. It was "The House on Mango Street", and I think I got thirty pages in before I got tired of switching from the book to the spanish dictionary every two seconds.

RIght now I'm reading "The Gumshoe, the witch, and the virtual corpse". It's weird, like a fantasy-mystery/social critique all put into one book, and the author has a crapload of point-of-view characters, but they're all so unique (like a gay detective, a wiccan family, a psychotic artist, and an old cherokee drag queen) that it's fun to read.

Bitch! I was gonna make this thread a week ago, and then decided to open it tomorrow!
Kidding. The reading threads expire quickly so I'll get the next one.

I haven't been a reader in a few years, but I think I'm returning to being one!

I read A Raisin in the Sun, really quick read, surprised that something that simple was the required book to read for incoming Junior's English Honors. I thought it was really good, flied through it so quickly I didn't take notes, but won't mind reading it again before school starts.

Currently reading Maurice. Started yesterday and stopped reading by early in the afternoon. Surprised at how quickly it read too. Almost done, so good! It's the first gay book I've read. It's beautiful. Really interesting to read as a period peace, as it gives an insight into what it was to be gay in early 20th century England. Surprised. Don't know what I was expecting though.

These two books (and 1984, the last book I had to read for school) just made me realize what I've been missing out on.

Next book I'm reading is The Bell Jar, already by my bed for when I decide to finish Maurice up.

Yesterday decided to finish Maurice (had a third left) and start The Perks of Being a Wallflower. I haven't slept in so long.

I read yesterday like 4 AM to 10 AM and today 4 to about 6:30 AM.

'Perks' (yes, I'm being one of those annoying people who shortens the title, although this is longer than typing it and I could have just copy and pasted... ) was just chilling. So good, so wow. Just wow. Making other people read it so I can talk about it with people. All the refrences were cute, had to find like the soundtrack to the book and probably going to read the books mentioned in it that I haven't yet.
Anyway, just wow amazing. You care and fly through the letters like nothing, emotional. Laugh, cry, cringe, walk away from the book for a bit. Ect. Ect. Swoon. Love.

Let someone borrow The Bell Jar, so won't be reading that next or soon. Slow ass bitches read slow. But there's still quite a few books I own and have yet to read. Including Water For Elephants, which I got when I got Perks () a week ago, so maybe that'll be next.

But I'll take a break from reading for a bit... Watch me have finished Elephants ( annoyingly abbreviating titles is addicting) by tomorrow. Unlikely since I have to sleep eventually, although short naps have been getting me by for a while.

I have to read Deathly Hollows already! I have been starting that book and getting half way through it repeatedly since it came out. I can't bring myself to finish it.

Torment is awful compared to Fallen, but it has an interesting ending. I'm still deciding on whether or not I'm going to read Passion.
I also read the first House of the Night and didn't like it. However, a lot of other people loved it, so you might too.
Gahh I want to read A Walk To Remember!! How was it?

WELCOME TO THE FANDOM (assuming you want to join the mockingjays...I mean...fans...)
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anyone can recommend me a fantasy book to read? ala lotr, eragon, narnia? xD

WHAT!?




People who think this way just sadden my heart.

I finished reading Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen two weeks ago and I loved it. Decided to read something else by Austen, so picked up Sense and Sensibility. I'm halfway through and I'm enjoying it as well

I have to start reading Antigone by sophicles soon for school.

Is it any good?

Hopefully I can finish up Voltaire's Candide today, seeing it is short. Then I could start ****: A Declaration of Independence sometime this weekend. I've heard so much about **** from my Sociology courses but never got the chance to actually check out the book.

As far as I read some of the reviews, they didn't like Torment and Passion. Maybe because the story is kind of slow.
I prefer House of Night over Twilight though. It's more exciting to read. You might as well read the other books, maybe you'll like it.

A Walk To Remember is great! Well, to be honest, I got bored on the first half of the book, but when you're already in the middle, I'm sure you won't stop. If you have watched the movie and you cried, you'll cry more when you read it. You can actually finish reading it in just one day.

I'm trying to finish Eldest you know from the Eragon series but I stopped reading ever since I left highschool and havent gotten around to finishing that great story. I started reading the series in middle school

YES!! Eragon is a great trilogy (so far at least)

The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials)
The Bartimaeus Trilogy
Tales of Earthsea
Inkheart
The Dark Tower


I'm currently reading The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath.

Seems like "respect" and "you" cannot be in the same thread either

I'm a big fan of Jonathan Stroud's "The Bartimaeus Trilogy" ,and I'm currently reading "The Ring Of Solomon" which is not part of the trilogy but it has the same background theme.

I had to read that for school, I loved it but everyone else in my class hated it so I had to pretend to hate it as well

Done with the first book in just one day.