What are you reading II

I just finished Terry Pratchett's Wee Free Men, part of the Discworld series. An amazing book. I'm now starting on a bit of a project, rereading the entire Chronicles of Narnia. I'm reading them in the order of publication, not the order the boxed set has them in.

just curious about why you started a new thread.

The old one was getting long and unweildy for those of us on dial-up

ah.

Alton Brown's new book, "I'm Just Here For More Food" (food x mixing + heat = baking)

i'm reading Walter Miller's Canticle for Leibowitz.

Jennifer Government.� Thought I'd actually read the book of the game I've been playing for the last year.. stupid�f***in game..

There's a game???

I loved the book!

Well..� Sort of.� Use Pauley's link.

Or, you could actually spell the URL correctly.

*innocent look*

-- Pauley. ;)

Oh shoot! lol.� I really should check my links.. *goes back to edit link*

ok, so then there are two links to the same thing. :-P whatever. :)

-- Pauley

No, I edited it to "use Pauley's link" because I kept effin' it up. heh

Sex With Kings, a book on my dirty little historical fascination: the mistresses of European royalty.

Island of the Blessed: The Secrets of Egypts's Everlasting Oasis - part travelogue, part scientific detective story and part evironmental and archeological study. Fascinating read so far.

Alice Walker: A Life

A book of short stories by Lu Hsun (or Xun). Then probably Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Joyce) or maybe Light in August (Faulkner).

I finished Prince Caspian, two down five to go.

Oh the Chronicles of Narnia is positiely one of the best book series ever. I just reread it myself over the summer. And I agree, I like them in order of publication, mostly because of the whole... surprise about The Magician's Nephew you don't realize if you read them in the new order.

Apparently, C.S. Lewis wanted them in that order originally, but I don't believe that. ;o)

And as for what *I'M* reading... you know college students don't read. :oP

Can't wait to have time to myself, dammit.

I've been wondering about Lewis's wanting them to be in that order. Perhaps he said that once, it wasn't done that way in his lifetime so I'm guessing he might have changed his mind.

There are lines in the book that make no sense if you read them in a different order. In The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, it says "None of the children knew who Aslan was, any more than you do." but if you read The Magician's Nephew first, you would know who he is. There are so many references like that.

A series aof kids books based on the life and writings of Henry David Thoureu. I'm seeing if they have any educational value to them for Nature programs. Also the 2003 collection of the Onion

Just finished Eats, Shoots, And Leaves� and am now partway through The Love Wife

by Gish Jen.

is eats, shoots, and leaves any good? all i've heard is that it's one big grammatical error.

Wow then maybe theirs a market for my writing.

*It is really hard to deliberately make mistakes. The one I made is really a spelling not a grammar error)

**it would be funny if I made the grammar error in the second sentance, or this one.

well, you left out a comma or two, and a period. and left out the first parenthesis. and spelled "sentence" wrong. :)

to be fair, my source on eats, shoots, & leaves was the new yorker diatribe review, and the new yorker tends to hate everyone and everything. so. yeah.

�Perhaps The New Yorker resented Lynne Truss' mockery of Harold Ross'� obsession with commas.� Who knows?

� I thought it was excellent.� I mean,� I tend to rely far too much on blind instinct when it comes to punctuation,� so it was really good to be able to find something that would explain clearly and succinctly the difference between a hyphen and a dash and other similar matters.

�I also really enjoyed reading the history of printers' marks:� like the first noted use of a semicolon,� the purpose it originally served, how its evolved, etc.� She writes up the history of just about all the major marks.�

�All that plus Lynne Truss = funny.� I mean, regard this sentence from the preface to the American edition (which I am going to have to paraphrase as I have misplaced my book):�

����� "Well-read, well-educated people have been hiding in caves, crying out for someone- anyone- to write a book about punctuation with a panda on its cover."

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I enjoyed it very much.

Gah! I was going to pick >Eats, Shoots. and Leaves up when I was in TO and totally forgot. I got sidetracked by Kyan Douglas' book. ;)

How To Be Canadian by�Will and Ian Ferguson

A funny book - not serious.���

lesson one: Live north of the the United States

There is no lesson two.

o/~ But Alaska's norther curse them, we're surrounded by Americans ~/o

I am re-reading my Jane Austen collection, starting with Sense and Sensibility, because I have a morbid fascination with Colonel Brandon. Also starting "Jonathan Strange", A book on St. Francis, a book on the Stigmata, and a book called "Revenge" about a guy in the IRA. ...

I don't see how a fascination with Colonel Brandon could be morbid!! :)

there really isn't, come to think of it... especially when portrayed by Alan Rickman.� I'd take Colonel Brandon over Willoughby ANY day.

Word.
I *heart* Alan Rickman. :)

Decided to pick up a copy of "HP and the Goblet of Fire" and do woner why I didn't pick it up before.

A book I got for christmas on the history of piracy. (I so cannot remember the title and am so too lazy right now to go downstairs to get it and look). It's either failing to be too dry and like a history class's notes, or failing to be too exciting. And yet somehow I keep reading it in idle moments. Oddly interesting, although I keep thinking there will be a quizz on all these names and dates and shipnames and battlenames and political alliances and stuffies.

After that, it'll be on to (finally) read the last Dark Tower book. Unless I reread HP. Or reread the Women of the Otherworld series (to date - can't wait for the next one omg and the one after that will be back to Elena as narrator omgyaye!) Or unless I read Insomnia before DT7. Hmm... choices choices.

Or I could just go watch more CSI on DVD.

No, you have to read the last Dark Tower book. It's just not right that I finished the series before you.
Seeing as I wouldn't've read them at all if not for you, thankee-sai

*whistles "Hey Jude"*

Hmm. You're probably right about that. And given the speed with which I originally devoured the previous two, I somehow imagine the reading will go nice and quickly.

Don't you think I might try to read Insomnia first, though?
You were the one who told me the Crimson King becomes more important...
*thinks* Decisions decisions...

You? Pirates?

Neeeever.

No, of course not. I'm obviously being untruthful. :-)

Now, off to log into a game that of course has absolutely nothing to do with Pirates...


*wishes she had her Pirate LJ Icon over here suddenly, so as to use it for this post*

i knew i wasnt the only one that continually re-read HP :P

:-) O'course not. I'm continually finding new things to use in various fanfic projects.

That... Er...

Shoot, I should know better than to mention fanfic to you - now you're going to tell me to get back to work on my HP/Labyrinth crossover.

*hides*
;-)

oh, pshht - while i would love to see it finished (or even re-read what you had because i'll be darned if i still have it), i dont want to harp ;)

Whoot! Lack of harping! (How about fiddling? Or even noodling on a guitar?)

Naw, you can harp. I have other people to harp on me about my more... er... current ff projects. (Which I don't generally discuss with any of the friends I have outside that particular sub-fandom.)

And I can try to dig up another copy of the existing version for you. Mind, I have to find it myself. *L* Paper and Computer both, my writing stuff is usually so sadly disorganized. Maybe that should be my resolution - to organize my writing stuff better.

Just finished today the Complete Saga of Corination Street (all 1025 pages of it).

Hopfully by tomorrow i'll have finished Wicked by Gregory Maguire. It's a great story, but jeez! did they take liberties with it when they wrote the musical...so far all i can see is that the characters' names are the same...that's it....both are good tho.