the spectacle of the scaffold- Michel Foucault

foucault is amazingly interesting. i've only studied a little but i really liked it.

i'm not reading anything. i should be. i am so lazy, i just buy books & let them sit on my shelves so i can pretend to look clever when people come round.

yeah foucault is quite good, some of it is hard to read but its good to read.

Second Glance - Jodi Picoult

I cried at both of those books.

Waiting again... why can't books come out when i want them too! The Shadow Queen by Anne Bishop. Comes out today but I have to wait till either friday or mondya to get it! *sulks*

Death at intervals- Jose Saramago

Can't seem to get into fiction at the moment so I'm reading alot of autobiographies.
Just finished 'Slash' by Slash, am dipping into Obama's book and have just started Bob Dylan's Chronicles, Volume 1.

I was looking at a needlework book so I could refresh my skills at macrame so i can make a choker for someone.

Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro

I'm reading Tricks of the Mind by Derren Brown, it's a good but slow read. I like the way he treats the reader as mildly intelligent. I hate being spoon fed. Also, it's a complicated read as he goes through tricks and you have to imagine him doing them which I'm sure uses a different bit of the brain than putting a novel's story together, I can feel them ache after a few chapters!
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angela carter's the bloody chamber.

I just read The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath), great book x

I gave up on Never Let Me Go. I'm now reading A Life in Pieces - Richard Baer.

I just finished Anthem by Ayn Rand, read it in one sitting. To describe it in one word: amazing, I highly reccomend it.

The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga. Easy to get into and read, really liked it.

Lyndsey Harris? I didn't like that book at all.

I'm reading For One More Day - Mitch Albom

Middlesex. Still.
It's brilliant... It's just so time-consuming!

i dont think id have it in me to finish that.

i really want to read house of leaves, but thats one big arse book

I've read both Middlesex and House of Leaves and can tell you they're both totally worth the time :)
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Watchmen ;) For the third time round.

Nightmares and Dreamscapes - Stephen King

I'm working my way through Middlesex. As I say, it's a fantastic book... It's just taking so much time! I bought Virgin Suicides today in Oxfam, in the hope that it'll speed me up. I've still got another three Seb Falkes books I want to read, plus I bought two other books. And I want to re-read "If nobody speaks of remarkable things" by Jon McGregory (possibly?) and Lord of the Flies again. And I've got a Wittgenstein and somebody elses book to read at some point. And I need to consider uni work at some point!

I'm reading Killers Of The Dawn by Darren Shan. Just decided to read 'The Saga' all over again. The series has twelve books and I've just started this one... it's the ninth book! I've read the rest of them in less than three days.

I'm also attempting to read a William Shakespeare play (my dad has the complete collection in a big leather-bound book), Macbeth, but I'm finding it really hard. My brain and old English do NOT mix well!

Yeah, I love books. Can you tell?
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impulse by ellen hopkins

then after that one a manga novel called "GunGrave" simailar to Trigun

its the first volume

A trashy romance novel, light reading. Junk food for my brain. I'm waiting for a couple of books on loan between libraries though.

I just finished "To Kill A Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, and I"m about to get started on "Helen of Troy" by... I can't remember the author, and I don't want to go get the book, but "To Kill a Mockingbird" was amazing, powerful, emotional, and stunning. I'd recomend it to anyone. Perhaps with a PG13 rating... due to violence and subject matter.

Ah, once you get past the language barrier, the story is amazing. I know how it is. I had to try it like four times before I could get past the language bit.
Have you read Romeo and Juliet? The story is really so lovely; horribly grusome and tragic, but lovely. If you haven't read it, try reading it from the end (if you already know the story, which I'm guessing you do), the very last few scenes, because they help you to understand a little of where the story goes, so you can focus more on figuring out what the words mean. Haha.
Anyway... I goes now... :-)

just read the twilight series which...frustrated me. hmm
reading 'he's just not that into you'. thought it was time for some light hearted humour.
im about to read 'sense and sensibility'. can't get enough of jane austin!

wowee, youve certainly got enough.

i think i'll read lolita next.

also as a sidenote: did anyone ever read the virginia woolf book for the ryl book club? i only remembered as i returned the book last week to the library.. unread.

Ordered Marley & Me yesterday and it's on it's way to me now so I'll be reading that soon! =D

Nope, I didn't think i'd enjoy that book.

ive read like 5 pages, i will read it, ive just been busy

Tales of Beadle the Bard - J. K. Rowling

Beat Depression and Reclaim Your Life - Marjorie Wallace and Alexandra Massey

Pandora's Box - Giselle Green

reading...

1984 again, i love it!!
and a jodi picoult one... can't remember which 1!

i just finished the secret life of bees by sue monk kidd, and i'm looking to borrow a copy of a beautiful mind by sylvia nasar from my library to read.

the secret life of bees was just wonderful. i watched the movie right after i finished the book, they were both so beautiful. i'd recommend it to anyone.

im reading watchmen

and

Risk: the science and politics of fear- Dan Gardner

both for fun

I'm reading Anna Karenina (by Tolstoy) at the moment.... It's so good once you get into it! This is like the 4th or 5th time I started it, but the only time I've got beyond the first 100 pages... I'm like 2/3 of the way through now.

Then I've got One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (Ken Kesey) lined up for my next one.

I'm reading a book called Be Intolerant by Ryan Dobson

^ I really enjoyed OFOTCN, and the film, but the two are so completely different.

I finally finished Middlesex (wooh!), and am now reading A Quiet Belief in Angels.

im gunna read watchmen too.

I'm reading The Lake Of Souls by Darren Shan (again) and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy by Carolyn Boyes (it's part of the Collins need to know? series of books).

Just read "Stop Pretending" by Sonya Sones

Its a younger sisters series of poems about when her older sister when crazy. I really enjoyed it, its short and an easy read. lol finished it in 3 hours.

I'm reading The Heroin Diaries by Nikki Sixx for the millionth time, haha.
It's a really good book.

I remember that! Nice wee short read! I plan to have a look at ther other book/s cause I remember seeing it/them on amazon ages ago!

Im reading " Can't get there from here" by Todd Strasser
and "Fakie" by Tony Varrato

Reading ; The Gypsy Madonna.

I would highly recommend pretty much anything by matthew reilly if you're into a bit of fiction