What Are You Reading?

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I'm reading a few books:

Daughters of Eve - Lois Duncan
Son of a Witch - Gregory Maguire
The Time-Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
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I'm not too far into it, but it is definitley different from "Wicked." I actually think it's a bit more darker, and it's all about her son, Liir. Hardly any characters from Wicked are in it, save for short appearences by Dorothy and Glinda. Nor is in it, though. Sorry I can't really give much of an opinion, but from reviews I've read, most people prefer Wicked. :/
 
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Blondie Bear
How is Son of a Witch? I haven't read it yet.
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The Time Traveller's Wife karma!
I'm rereading Stardust by Neil Gaiman for my British Lit class, and having to make a quiz at the same time. Kind of takes away from the joy. 😛
 
The Perks of Being a Wallflower-by Stephen Chbosky

Buy it,its GREAT. [ame="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Perks-Being-Wallflower-Stephen-Chbosky/dp/1847394078/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1236700941&sr=8-1"]The Perks of Being a Wallflower: Stephen Chbosky: Amazon.co.uk: Books[/ame]

Now i really want to read:

The Virgin Suicides-by Jeffrey Eugenides
 
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins.
I actually thought it wouldn't be that good, but it's amazing. It shot right into the storyline, rather than dragging out a really boring opening; and where as normally I like some kind of opening, I really like how the plot is unfolding.

I'm also in the middle of one of my many Buffy books; Portal Through Time.
 
Modern Politics and Government, by two random people. I haven't had time to read a proper novel in ages. The last one I read was The Castle of Otranto, by Horace Walpole, but that was before Christmas. And a couple of weeks ago, I read Shakespeare's As You Like It a couple of weeks ago, though. But like, really quickly, and superficially, just because I was bored and sitting in Cangel's room, and it just happened to be around.

But, about my politics and government book, I need to rant a bit about it. It's the most horribly written book I've read, ever. Spelling switches from British to American and back again on the same page, it's full of typos, weird sentences, and paragraphs just start randomly, and where you'd expect they would want to start a new parapgraph, they continue. Also, references aren't updated or missing (most notably, there was this one bot where they talked about some number or percentage of voters, or participation or whatever like 'nowadays, about....% of the people are...' and they refered to a source from the 1980s. That's not nowadays, that's over 20 years ago!). Sometimes, it's so silly it's funny again, for example when talking about the UN, they said it had some 191 members. Like, it could also be 190, or even (shock, horror!) 192. Blech. And I have to read another 80 pages today 🙁
 
Reading two things,

Firstly is Martin Luther King Jr's autobiography...i love that man 🙂 (reading it for history class)
Secondly is Dawn French's Autobiography...Dear Fatty...it's a really good read 😀
 
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wehappyfew
MLK's autobiography is moving.
At the moment I am reading the third and last part of the inkheart triology by cornelia funke. But I had to stop for about a week because I was too ill to read...
 
I'm reading two books (well, 4 really, but I'm not counting my government textbook or my art history text book)
American Holocaust by David E. Stannard (REALLY sad and upsetting)
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Songs from This Earth on Turtle's Back: Various Native American Poets
 
Grave Peril by Jim Butcher. It's #3 in the Dresden Files.
 
I'm reading The Red Fox, by.......I can't remember who.....Something Hyde, I think? It's decent, kind of a Cold War/Spy/Thriller type of thing. I got it from the book exchange rack here at work.
 
I don't think I've actually finished a book since the beginning of the school year! Much too much school reading etc. going on. However, recently I started Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen. I was loving it, but then I had too much work... and now I'm on spring break, and I'm reading (the English translation of) Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist (I probably spelled that wrong, sorry). After seeing the film, which was phenomonal, I really wanted to read the book. Unfortunately I'm not very far and now I'm sick, so reading will likely put me to sleep.
 
Rereading the Helliconia Trilogy by Brian Aldiss for, I think, the third time. If you like good, intelligent, Science Fiction you'll love this.

Just finished The Drawing Of The Dark and The Anubis Gates, both by Tim Powers; Fantasy for adults.
 
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Bluebird
The Anubis Gates is one of my favourite books. :D
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