What are you reading?

[chris.ph]

ive stated reading anubis gates by tim powers
and magic study my god i just cant remember this authors name maeve something i think, the first one poison study was a bloody good read

 

[Ponder Stibbons]

I knew someone once, who when drunk mistook a wardrobe for the loo, luckilly it was his own & not his wife's. I bet that happens a lot actually.

I thought you were talking about his loo for a moment. I thought "they have separate toilets? "
My dad once was about to pee on his bro's lamp when he was little. bzzzz. Luckily his bro was awake

I'm reading the Percy Jackson series now. Borrowing them from my school friends. I've just finished The Titan's Curse. THey're great but a little skimpy on the emotions.
I'm also at the same time reading my bro's book, The Tiger in the Well and i just finished The Mysterious Benedict Society i borrowed from Cohen (who hasnt logged in recently(or at all, for taht matter) cos his brothers hogging the computer for his comic site).
Also trying to find flyte. I might have to read the e-book version.

I only really get to get books on special occasions or when i have left over birthday money. Plus the septimus heap series was introduced to me by Cohen and my mum doesnt really trust his book sense, though i dont see wats wrong with them.

 

[bikkit]

neither do I. (I've finished the blade itself and fma)

 

[Ponder Stibbons]

Wha..? :

The Mysterious Benedict Society is by the same guy as His Dark Materials

 

[Bouncy Castle]

Didn't like The Anubis Gates.

If anyone wants it, PM me and I'll happily send it to you when my friend Mary has finished with it.

Just to let you know that my internet access at home (via a dongle) is inoperative until the end of April, due to maintenance being done on the transmiters local to my home, so I'll only be able to pop in here once in a while when I'm at work.


Monster, by A. Lee Martinez, was great.

 

[chris.ph]

fire study by maria v synder(i finally remembered her name)

 

[Tiffany]

All The Weyrs Of Pern, Anne MacCaffrey.

 

[ShadowNinjaCat]

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer.My sister told me too and it's via this sister that I got sucked into the Discworld,so I'll try it.I just really hope it's a case of good book/stupid movie

 

[cols]

my daughter loved these books, she said they were great escapism and much better than the movies but she did say the final book is a bit of a mess and could have been shortened a great deal

 

[Ponder Stibbons]

I agree on the last point. They are quite good but they are way too long. At least they have real emotions in it.

I just finished reading Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Book 4; The Battle of the Labyrinth. *goes and has coffea break after typing such an exhausting book title*
I'll have finished Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Book 5; The Last Olympian *has another coffea break*
by tomorrow.

Then i'll see if i can actually finish The Tiger in the Well

 

[Bouncy Castle]

Currently reading the fifth Harry Dresden book.

 

[manicmama]

Revisiting English Lit. circa 1977, just been re-reading the Mayor of Casterbridge. And for light relief, when it's sending me to sleep, Spider Robinson's Telempath.

 

[Ponder Stibbons]

What's Harry Dresden about?

 

[Willem]

He's a private detective who also happens to be a wizard, working in Chicago.

 

[chris.ph]

lost continent by aliester crowley :twisted:

 

[Catch-up]

Reading a collection of short stories called Must Love Hellhounds. Chose it because it has a story by Charlaine Harris. I have to say, I'm the 3 of 4 and I've been disappointed with every one so far.

The Douglas Preston/Lincoln Child book turned out to be a big disappointment too.

Also currently reading The God Delusion off and on. Excellent so far!

 

[Ponder Stibbons]

Did you pick up the book and realize too late it wasnt TP, chris?

He's a private detective who also happens to be a wizard, working in Chicago.

That sounds interesting. Who's it by?

 

[Catch-up]

Did you pick up the book and realize too late it wasnt TP, chris?

He's a private detective who also happens to be a wizard, working in Chicago.

That sounds interesting. Who's it by?

They're written by Jim Butcher and they're called The Dresden Files. Really entertaining! I think you'll enjoy them.

 

[chris.ph]

Did you pick up the book and realize too late it wasnt TP, chris?

He's a private detective who also happens to be a wizard, working in Chicago.

That sounds interesting. Who's it by?

its an ebook ponder

 

[swreader]

As one of the few women on this board (I think) who has lived through all of this, I strongly recommend the thought-provoking history of the ways the lives of women have changed since 1960. When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present by Gail Collins (available as this link shows also in the UK). She focuses on the changes in the life and consciousness of American women in the last 50 years--changes which have been enormous. However, I think that a great deal of this was going on, perhaps at a somewhat slower pace, across the world. As I read it and remembered those times when life was soooo different, I began to think it would be good for many of the younger women on this board to read this fascinating book. ( It's also something that lots of men need to read.) If, as Mary (of Peter, Paul and Mary) said on one of their last DVDs--she's now meeting people who find it hard to believe that in her life-time, many colleges would not accept anyone of Negro race, it is equally true that within my lifetime many degree programs and careers were simply closed to women. What a change there has been.

If Terry were beginning to write now, I think we'd see a rather different Discworld in many respects.