What Are You Reading?

[Social Suicide]

I just got done with a book called "The Toy Cemetery". It was boring beyond belief and I couldn't believe I actually forced myself to read the whole thing.

I am currently on book 3 of the Harry Potter series.
My friend brought them to school the last day and loaded my backpack up with them. She is making me read them because they are 'so good!'. As of yet, I fail to see what is so amazing, but they are good enough to hold my attention for more than one page.

[Tam Li Hua]

Insomnia by Stephen King.

Also discovered that I have not finished 'Salem's Lot [also SK] nor The Witching Hour by Anne Rice, but I feel I need to try and tackle one at a time.

[Underwater Ophelia]

A pop-up book about elephants.

[Tam Li Hua]

For some reason, Ophie, you just reminded me of the main character in Despicable Me. lol

[Saya]

I Am Legend by Richard Matheson. The only movie adaptation I've seen was The Last Man On Earth, which is one of my favourite Vincent Price films but I hear Matheson was really disappointed with it. After I finish I'll watch the recent flick and The Omega Man.

[Sinjob]

Currently the Great Gatsby, Wuthering Heights, and No-No Boy.

Though reading is a dear pastime of mine, all of these books were assigned over summer. Kill me. But through the torture they each have their moments.

[Fruitbat]

Originally Posted by Saya

I Am Legend by Richard Matheson. The only movie adaptation I've seen was The Last Man On Earth, which is one of my favourite Vincent Price films but I hear Matheson was really disappointed with it. After I finish I'll watch the recent flick and The Omega Man.

Let me know what the book I am legend is like. I'm still reading whatever it was I wrote a million pages ago. Almost finished Spells.

[allyssa]

white oleander by janet finch, it is shatteringly beautiful

[DarkestSunrise]

^ That was the first book I've ever read that made me cry. It really got to me.

[Serian]

Was reading Hannibal, and loving it, but I left it in my locker. Dx i'm now digging through my collection to find something worth reading. I began and finished the Host within 6 hours, though. It sounds like an accomplishment. ^-^

[Fruitbat]

Originally Posted by Serian

Was reading Hannibal, and loving it, but I left it in my locker. Dx i'm now digging through my collection to find something worth reading. I began and finished the Host within 6 hours, though. It sounds like an accomplishment. ^-^

I really tried to read The Host, but got really bored, really quickly. I read the twi books (all four of them) in four days though, which was pretty good considering I had a 4week old baby at the time.

I was a zombie bat!!

[Serian]

lolz I'd expect so. Twilight's an amazingly quick read. It was just something to pore through. I needed my mind occupied and I needed something thick. Unfortunately, I just wasn't in the mood for Eldest or Brisingr.

[Fruitbat]

Originally Posted by Serian

lolz I'd expect so. Twilight's an amazingly quick read. It was just something to pore through. I needed my mind occupied and I needed something thick. Unfortunately, I just wasn't in the mood for Eldest or Brisingr.

*nods in agreement*

For me, at the moment, its all about keeping the mind occupied, rather than the quality of the writing - but that's just the phase I'm going through at the moment.

it will change, maybe, when I get more sleep and less procrastination.

Speak has just arrived, so maybe I'll get time to read that this week.

[Serian]

Boo sleep. Yay procrastination! We shall celebrate! (later...)

I think someone, probably you, mentioned that earlier, but i've got no clue what it is.

And if you're looking for quantity rather than quality, then you've got alot to choose from in the YA sections. lol

[Fruitbat]

Originally Posted by Serian

Boo sleep. Yay procrastination! We shall celebrate! (later...)

I think someone, probably you, mentioned that earlier, but i've got no clue what it is.

And if you're looking for quantity rather than quality, then you've got alot to choose from in the YA sections. lol

I love sleep - that's my problem. I was a 12hr a night girl before I had a baby, now I'm lucky to get four-five hours of broken sleep a night.

Speak - was a book recommended by Saya.

Yeah, loads of crap in the YA field - but that's the field I'm writing in, so I'm stuck there for a bit longer.

More procrastination... holy mackeral!

[Serian]

xD I'm close. 10 seems to be my limit.

lolz Yes, that's right. :3

What're you writing?

Amazing, isn't it? : P

[Saya]

Originally Posted by Fruitbat

Let me know what the book I am legend is like. I'm still reading whatever it was I wrote a million pages ago. Almost finished Spells.

Its great! Its only really short though, I was kinda disappointed, I didn't want it to end so soon, it was 169 pages and the rest of the book is short stories, so I'm still reading those.

You're reading Speak? Awesome! I saw it in Chapters the other day, they had a back to school YA display at the entrance. I'm going to pick it up one of these days.

[FreeCharlie]

heavier than heaven...gotta say i highly reccomend it if your a big Kurt/Nirvana fan veryyyy indepth

[Fruitbat]

Originally Posted by Saya

Its great! Its only really short though, I was kinda disappointed, I didn't want it to end so soon, it was 169 pages and the rest of the book is short stories, so I'm still reading those.

You're reading Speak? Awesome! I saw it in Chapters the other day, they had a back to school YA display at the entrance. I'm going to pick it up one of these days.

Cool. I'm going to put it on my big person's reading list.

I've got speak. I'm hoping to get stuck into it this week. I cheated and watched the movie (with Kristen Stew) in it. As baby bat gets more active, its getting harder to sit and read a book.

Baby bat has just spilled is breakfast drink - gotta fly.

[Saya]

How was the movie? I haven't gotten the courage to watch it yet.

[Fruitbat]

Originally Posted by Saya

How was the movie? I haven't gotten the courage to watch it yet.

It was really good. I thought Kristen Stew did a good job, but then I liked her in Cake Eaters as well.

I've read the first page, and am enjoying the speed of the book already.

[Saya]

All the short stories left in the I Am Legend book remind me too much of Stephen King (he has a blurb on the back saying Matheson was a huge inspiration, and you can really, really tell), so I'm moving on to Moral Disorder by Margaret Atwood.

[JCC]

Naked Lunch.

[Serian]

City of Glass - Cassandra Clare, then finishing Hannibal. :3

[OnyxBat]

The Solitude to self:thinking of Elizabeth Cady Stanton by Vivian GoRnick