Currently Reading?

[Tom]

What are you currently reading?

Me:
The World to Come by Dara Horn
Wicked by Gregory Maguire

[Cefaclor]

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (Love the imagery! But theres too much at times. The first scene is taking freakin hours! aaa!! )

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (lots of dialogue and no imagery at all. No mention of trees, etc. whatsoever. Isn't that intriguing.)

Slowness by Milan Kundera (The narrator keeps talking about hedonism so far bwahha XD. Here's the thing so far:

The novel opens with Vera and Milan Kundera driving out from Paris to a chateau in the country to spend the night. A motorcyclist, bent on over taking them, prompts a banal observation by Vera that people are utterly without fear when they get behind the wheel. At this, the novel's central subject is announced, in a lyrical meditation on speed and time, technology and the body, escape and engagement, memory and forgetting: ''The man hunched over his motorcycle can focus only on the present instant of his flight; he is caught in a fragment of time cut off from both the past and the future; he is wrenched from the continuity of time . . . in other words, he is in a state of ecstasy; in that state he is unaware of his age, his wife, his children, his worries, and so he has no fear, because the source of fear is in the future, and a person freed of the future has nothing to fear.'' Speed is the form of ecstasy technology has given us, the novel proposes. It then asks, ''Why has the pleasure of slowness disappeared?'' )

[Taryn]

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf for class. Very much enjoying it.

I ADORE Pride and Prejudice. I think it's just about the greatest love story of all time. (Can't say I harbor the same affection for Heart of Darkness, though.)

[Zangya]

Shakespear's Secret; Wlise Broche

And The DaVinci Code

[Edwyn]

Macromedia Studio 8 - Training from the Source

.... It counts!

[Azure]

I just finished Flyte the secound Septimus Heap book, which is better than the first. It's kinda Potter-ish and a good read if you like that sorta thing.

[Tamashii]

I'm reading Interview with a Vampire by Anne Rice and now that the holidays are hear I've finally got round to starting the 2nd book in the Ancient Chronicles of Darkness series

[Nanuri]

Rereading the majority of Laurie King's Mary Russell detective novels, as well as Lloyd Alexander's Prydain Chronicles and Patricia McKillop's Riddlemaster trilogy.

Nothing really new, but lots of oldies/goodies.

[Josh Miller]

What Einstein Told His Cook By Robert C. Wolke - Yes this is basically a book on the science of food, but I am a nerd like that and someday when I go to culinary school I can go all "Alton" up in there face when they ask me mah questions.

and...

Never Let Go - About the private school for the children of the damned...or at least that's how I see it, must never...let...go...

[fruitfly]

Rereading the majority of Laurie King's Mary Russell detective novels, as well as Lloyd Alexander's Prydain Chronicles and Patricia McKillop's Riddlemaster trilogy.

Nothing really new, but lots of oldies/goodies.

Prydain Chronicles are awesome!

The Legacy of the Drow - by R.A. Salvatore

Rather a generic bit of schlock fantasy, but what can I say? I love me some Drizzt Do'Urden.