What are you reading at the moment?

[untunedjoy]

I was kinda curious as to what kinds of books (or whatever else, I suppose) you all have been reading. So..

What are you reading right now?
How are you liking it?
What are your thoughts?

I'm about two-thirds through Circle the Soul Softly, by Davida Wills Hurwin. It's the third book of hers that I've read in two days, and I'm really liking it (fairly obviously, I suppose). It's really interesting--it's about a pretty 'normal' girl (whatever that means) named Katie whose father died in the recent past; her mom just got remarried, and the whole family moved, and now Katie is uncovering memories of having been molested as a child, and she has to come to terms with her past and her father's memory.. it's kind of about figuring out who you are, and what makes people who they are, whether an action can define a person.. anyway it's really good. Highly recommended :)

So what words have you been taking in?

[Ryan]

I want to start reading The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway if I can find a library around here that actually has a copy.

[Freakish Lemon]

I'm just in-between books at the moment. I just finished Nerds: Who They Are and Why We Need More of Them bu David Anderegg and I'm about to start Ender in Exile by Orson Scott Card.

[Team Unicorn]

Well, I gave up on Lock and Key because it was taking so long to read and went straight JTHM the Director's cut and then Paper Towns and then Looking for Alaska. Now, I'm trying to get through The Shack by WM. Paul Young which seems to be about a guy that meets God in a shack where his daughter was killed. This sounds really interesting, so I hope it's worth it.

[Jenny Lind]

mmmm the Shack
sobbed my way through that one

[Blaine Martin]

Right now, I'm juggling three books. "On the Low Side of the Road" a bio of Tom Waits, "Jesus for President" by Shane Claiborne, and "Neuromancer" by William Gibson. All three of them are great, but juggling three books while working full time and doing school full time puts it at a bit slow going.

[Dan Montagne]

I'm reading The Outsider by Albert Camus and Endgame by Samuell Beckett because i've chosen to study them in my second year of college. As a result i'm also reading a hell of a lot on existentialism, The Myth of Sisyphus is really interesting.

[Dana]

If you're into existentialism, I liked very much Andre Malraux - Human Condition (I read it in french, 'La Condition Humaine', so I'm not sure about the English title).

[sabelmouse]

gone tomorrow by lee child

[sabelmouse]

oh right. i read a good review and so checked it out. at first i found it very testorony, but then i started liking it.
it's quite masculine, a lot of talk about weapons and how to fight, everybody is ex armee or police. quite interresting though.
funnily enough the author is english, but the book feels very american to me.
the mainperson/hero is an ex armee policeman who has no home and no possesions, again very interessting.

[HypotheticalDystopia]

I'm reading The Kite Runner for my AP English summer assignment.

The English teachers of my school are so awesome.

[Dana]

Hi!
I'm reading Middlesex, written by Jefferey Euginides. The storyline is quite interesting: a hermaphrodite born a girl who, as a teenager, transforms into a man. The books focuses on the reversed history of Calliope/Cal' s, starting with the story of the grandparents, who were Greek refugees in USA.

But the prose is so boring, that at the moment I'm practically dragging the book.

But it won a Pulitzer for Fiction in 2003.

[sabelmouse]

another book i have had lying around for a while and haven't read yet.
i am reading the very first jack reacher novel by lee child; killing fields. yes i am an addict now and i really like crime novels lately. could not stand them when i was young.