What Are You Reading Right Now?

[George70]

How's your book going?

So far, pretty interesting, as the 1983 Season is about to start.  I'm looking forward to seeing how the season turns out, as Utica was a rarity - an independent minor-league ballclub.

[flaccopoe]

So far, pretty interesting, as the 1983 Season is about to start.  I'm looking forward to seeing how the season turns out, as Utica was a rarity - an independent minor-league ballclub.

 

What?  You're writing about a baseball team?

[Malkavian Raven]

Patiently awaiting "Doomed" coming out in October.

[T3hRaven]

Haven't read Catcher in the Rye yet. I've heard really mixed reviews on it, so I'm giving it a read soon.

 

Anyone here have thoughts on it?

 

I don't remember much about it, but I remember I enjoyed reading it in high school.  My favorite book we had to read is still A Tale of Two Cities, but Catcher was fairly enjoyable.  Maybe it was the whole thing where it was better by comparison though.

[The Oakland Cathedral]

Leonard Susskind did a phenomenal job with "The Black Hole War" in keeping it simple enough to be followed by people with a basic understanding of physics while also delving into some of the complexities of the universe around us. Highly recommend if you have any interest in physics.

[flaccopoe]

Patiently awaiting "Doomed" coming out in October.

 

To coincide with the red panda invasion?

[MsMarvel73]

Douglas Brinkley's The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America

 

for the third time. :)

[George70]

What?  You're writing about a baseball team?

Actually, I'm reading of author Roger Kahn's year as president of the Utica Blue Sox baseball club in the New York-Penn League - in 1983.  His book about that season is titled, "Good Enough to Dream".  It is a very good book, which should be read by anyone who dreams of baseball in its purest form.

[JEEPercreepermd]

Reading The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brook..great read!

[Malkavian Raven]

To coincide with the red panda invasion?

 

No, that's not until Christmas... Oops.

[sliceanddic3]

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. Interesting so far, I've only just begun reading however.

[SecretAgentMan]

I'm about to start the whole "Alex Cross" series by Patterson

[darklight1216]

Now that Harry Potter is done, I've moved on to the Magician's Nephew. I'm also still reading La Chambre.

[The Oakland Cathedral]

Anyone know the major concepts from the Lowood part of Jane Eyre lol?

[flaccopoe]

Anyone know the major concepts from the Lowood part of Jane Eyre lol?

 

IB report? ;)

[The Oakland Cathedral]

IB report? ;)

No lol, just class discussion but I don't know what the difference between themes/motifs/symbols and concepts is...

[theblackdog]

Just finished The Hangman's Daughter by Oliver Potzsch and started in the second book of the series, The Dark Monk

[radicals]

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

[flaccopoe]

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

 

I've also read that.  You should read his essays on drug use.

[George70]

I've concluded reading "Good Enough to Dream", by Roger Kahn - it is a fine book about baseball, and in particular in the lower minor leagues - specifically the New York-Penn League during the 1983 Season.

 

As for who won the NY-PL pennant that season, all I'll say is you'll have to find out by reading of this in "Good Enough to Dream".

[flaccopoe]

What's the best site to sell books, eBay or Amazon?

[The Raven]

What's the best site to sell books, eBay or Amazon?

 

I typically use Amazon when I order online.

[MsMarvel73]

Max Hastings' Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945.

[The Raven]

Reading Lanval by Marie De France for my British Literature class. In the likely case you don't know what that is, it is erotic literature from the middle ages. I have to read smut for homework. Fantastic, right?

[TheRavenouseD2008]

Tom Clancy RIP

[Samantha33]

Carrie by Stephen King

I really enjoy it

[The Raven]

Taking two literature classes at once, so I've been reading a ton this semester. Recently, I've read Gulliver's Travels by Swift, The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain, and a few of the Canterbury Tales. Also have to read Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix for my Brit Lit class. Pretty cool.

 

Also, if anyone here is planning on being an English major or is already majoring in English, do yourself a favor and don't take two literature classes at once. Torture!

[Samantha33]

I've started reading Shantaram, it is amazing

[T3hRaven]

Finished Mockingjay.  What a decidedly dark turn that takes in the last part.  Catching Fire is the best of the trilogy, but I enjoyed all of the books.  Didn't like the Deathly Hallows-esque cheesy epilogue though.

[flaccopoe]

Reading Lanval by Marie De France for my British Literature class. In the likely case you don't know what that is, it is erotic literature from the middle ages. I have to read smut for homework. Fantastic, right?

 

One-handed reader, I see.