What are you reading? - Volume Two

Mumrik

Mumrik

The Unicorn Hunter
Joined
Dec 27, 2008
Messages
1,583
Age
36
Location
Germany
Since the old one's been buried in the cementary and I tend to get my ideas which books to read from these kind of threads, here's a new one.

I'm currently reading the Christmas tales by Charles Dickens. I never got around to them the last few years before Christmas and so I'm seizing the moment now. Right now I'm on "The Christmas Carol in Prose", one of my all time favourite stories. 🙂

Comics-wise, I've started to read the Ultimate Spider-Man TPB's. I don't know if it's the fact that I got them from the library in German but I'm not exactly blown away (yet).
 
I`m still reading charlaine harris`s books .I'm on the 4th one. I barely read these days.
 
I'm reading The Notebook. Again. I've started with reading yestarday, and now I've watched the movie, and I so love that book.

I've jusr finished with Madam Bovary, loved it.

And I have to finish Gossip Girl 🙂
 
I'm reading Shadows of the Workhouse by Jennifer Worth

Blurb:

Jennifer Worth, a midwife working in the docklands area of East London in the 1950s tells more stories about the people she encountered.

There's Jane, who cleaned and generally helped out at Nonnatus House - she was taken to the workhouse as a baby and was allegedly the illegitimate daughter of an aristocrat. Peggy and Frank's parents both died within 6 months of each other and the children were left destitute. At the time, there was no other option for them but the workhouse. The Reverend Thornton-Appleby-Thorton, a missionary in Africa, visits the Nonnatus nuns and Sister Julienne acts as matchmaker. And Sister Monica Joan, the eccentric ninety-year-old nun, is accused of shoplifting some small items from the local market. She is let off with a warning, but then Jennifer finds stolen jewels from Hatton Garden in the nun's room.

These stories give a fascinating insight into the lives of the poor in 1950s London, of the shadow of the workhouse that always hung over their lives but also of the resilience and spirit that enabled ordinary people to overcome their difficulties.

I'm enjoying it so far only 100 pages left to go 🙂.
 
I'm currently reading Clive Barker's Mister B. Gone, which I found for v cheap in a remaindered book shop. I've not got far into it yet but the central conceit of the book is that it's about a demon who is trapped within the book itself. Interesting stuff as ever from Mr Barker 🙂
 
Right now i'm currently re-reading the Twilight Saga New Moon.... basically due to the fact that I have no other books right now most of them are packed up due to moving soon, and I haven't made my way to the library.
 
I'm on the forth book of the Shadows Saga, Orson Scott Card. Until few months ago, I had no idea about them nor that were translated, so with headphones and reading a book that's a good half hour road to work.
 
They're books for school, but nonetheless I'm currently reading or am going to read:
Hard Times - Charles Dickens
The Shark Net - Robert Drewe
Enduring Love - Ian McEwan
A Streetcar Named Desire - Tennessee Williams

Hopefully I finish them over the Christmas break, better get cracking!
 
ItMustBeBunnies
ItMustBeBunnies
Love the banner:)
Scar Tissue - Anthony Kiedis

I've had this on my shelf for ages, and despite being a big Red Hot Chili Peppers fan, and everybody telling me how awesome it was, I never bothered to give it a go until now. Its really good, I'm just at the part where Kurt Cobain has died 🙁.
 
D
DayVBayB
Good Book :), thanks for the rep post.
I'm currently in the middle of two books...And I'm not even sure why I'm reading two at once.

The first is The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. I waited a very long time for the sequel to come out, and it's amazing.
The second is Spike and Dru: Pretty Maids all in a Row, which is one of the best Buffy books I've ever read, up there with Go Ask Malice and Dark Congress. 🙂
I plan to finish both by christmas, but I've got sloppy when it comes to reading lately, and I tend to read only a few chapters a week.
 
"The Sword Of Morning Star" by Richard Meade,which is one of almost a dozen pseudonyms of Richard Haas, a contract writer from the 60's who wrote everything from westerns and mysteries to soap opera romances and sword & sorcery. This book is, obviously, the latter, about a man who was raised in a hell dimension and has a spiked steel ball (called a morning star) in place of his right hand.

Day 14. 16 days to go.
 
Working on:
Star Trek Enterprise: The Romulan War
Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
Buffy Season 8 Volume 5
 
Dancing man said:
Going to re-read I am legend tonight its such a good book.
Click to expand...

I just finished my book and I was going to re-read 1984, but I might go pick up I Am Legend instead after reading this post. I kept meaning to read it, but I kept putting it off.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom