The Maeve Chronicles II: The Passion of Mary Magdalen by Elizabeth Cunningham and loving every paragraph.

Nichole

Just finished Circus of the Damned by Laurel K. Hamilton. About to continue with In Over Our Heads: The Mental Demands of Modern Life by Dr. Robert Keegan.

I started Les Misérables (by Victor Hugo) on Tuesday. I started reading it last year, in November, I think, but I gave up after like 300 pages. It is the unabridged version, 1463 pages. Now, after three days, I'm on page 143. It seems easier this time, especially because I now know a lot of the words I didn't know the last time (I'm not a native speaker). It's really hard to read, and maybe I'm too young for it, but I want to finish it. And I will.  (If I continue reading 40 pages per day, I'll be done in like five weeks...)

I just finished The Difference Engine by Gibson and Sterling.

Quote from: Nero on March 20, 2009, 02:36:04 PM
just finished Julia Serano's Whipping Girl.
Julia Serano is my new trans hero (though there wasn't really an old one).

That's a fantastic book, normally can't stand trans stuff as it's all me, me , me, but that's an exception.

Currently reading "Girl from the Coast" by Pramoedya Ananta Toer. Great writer, one of my all time favourite authors.

I am reading True Selves by Mildred Brown & Chloe Ann Rounsley.

Am I the only one who reads fiction?

I read science all day and at night want to escape.
Not that I have any problems with what people read. I have to admit the movies I watch are the action thrillers; about as real as ?. Do you have similar tastes in movies to books?
Cindy James

Right now I'm reading Gloria Steinem's "Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions", a volume of essays. Gloria Steinem is a cool woman. She wrote an introduction to "Whipping Girl", a very cool act for a 2nd wave feminist. You wouldn't see Betty Friedan doing that!

Next on the reading list: trash! "Männer sind wie Schokolade" (Men are like chocolate). I need something that won't strain my brain.

Quote from: pong on March 27, 2009, 04:11:10 AM
I am reading True Selves by Mildred Brown & Chloe Ann Rounsley.

I'm reading the same book I picked it up yesterday at borders

Quote from: Brianna on March 27, 2009, 06:32:08 AM
I'm reading the same book I picked it up yesterday at borders

Actually, I just got mine yesterday. I ordered it from Amazon.

This is one of those strange times where I'm reading three books at once.

Transgender History by Susan Stryker
Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness by Shunryu Suzuki-roshi
Instructions to the Cook by Bernard Glassman & Rick Fields

recently finished Tales of Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Phillip K. Dick, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldrich, also by Phillip K. Dick, Ubik, also by Phillip K. Dick, and the short stories Think Blue, Count Two, and Scanners Live in Vain by Cordwainer Smith.

now reading The Man in the High Castle, by Phillip K. Dick, and also The Other Wind, by Ursula K. LeGuin

Quote from: emoboi on March 20, 2009, 02:25:10 PM
just finished The Perks of Being a Wallflower, great book

LOVED that book.

Quote from: CindyJames on March 27, 2009, 05:35:17 AM
Am I the only one who reads fiction?

I only read fiction!  (unless otherwise forced by a professor and even then, it's iffy).

Currently going through some post modern American poetry (loving O'Hara) and some Victorian British lit for classes.  In another class, I just finished The Bridge of San Luis Rey and The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder.  Those were all right.

For fun, I'm reading South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami (my FAVORITE!) and Silent in the Moor by Deanna Raybourn and I just finished the Moonlight series by Rob Thurman (I hope she writes more...they're so campy, but I can't help myself).

I'm waiting patiently for Patrick Rothfuss' new book in April. 

Well, it's my English teacher's fault that I'm currently suffering through The Grapes of Wrath.

But I'm also interspersing it with Lords and Ladies by Terry Pratchett, so that's okay.

I'm drowning myself in manga right now.  My brain hurts (3 papers and a novel response this week!!!). 

Mostly Harmless - Douglas Adams.

I read catch 22, I liked it lots

I'm reading 'Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Aspergers' by John Elder Robison and 'Mimus' by Lilli Thal (for the 2196th time).

Quote from: Unconditional Acceptance on April 09, 2009, 08:52:59 PM
But I'm also interspersing it with Lords and Ladies by Terry Pratchett, so that's okay.

Terry Pratchett is fun.

trying to read crimes of love by marqui de sade. its showing difficult. needing a dictionary near my side. so i'm gonna maybe try pandora by anne rice. i just finished animal farm by george orwell.