Hey!! Let's get some action going! What are we reading?

[Slite]

Originally Posted by ficbot

I'm still reading the Holmes omnibus from here. I have come to a story which for some reason is not clicking with me, and it is slowing me down. Do I have your permission to skip the rest of the Silver Blaze story and move onto the next one?

No!

[FlorenceArt]

Originally Posted by ficbot

I'm still reading the Holmes omnibus from here. I have come to a story which for some reason is not clicking with me, and it is slowing me down. Do I have your permission to skip the rest of the Silver Blaze story and move onto the next one?

Hey, you're the reader, you can do anything you want! Read them in order, in disorder, skip some pages, skip most pages, start at the end, stop reading, start reading again. You're the boss

[WT Sharpe]

One of the books I'm currently reading is Jew Boy by Alan Kaufman. It's an autobiographical work by a New York raised son of a holocaust survivor that shows how the suffering of the victims didn't end with the close of World War II, but instead was passed down to succeeding generations. Read in conjunction with his poem, "Who Are We?", it presents a vivid and disturbing portrait of how the Nazi horrors left indelible scars that still haunt families over 60 years later.

[Slite]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

One of the books I'm currently reading is Jew Boy by Alan Kaufman. It's an autobiographical work by a New York raised son of a holocaust survivor that shows how the suffering of the victims didn't end with the close of World War II, but instead were passed down to succeeding generations. Read in conjunction with his poem, "Who Are We?", it presents a vivid and disturbing portrait of how the Nazi horrors left indelible scars that still haunt families over 60 years later.

Are you reading it in e-book edition?

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by Slite

Are you reading it in e-book edition?

No, paperback.

[Slite]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

No, paperback.

Oh, well, my question wasn't serious really, was just a small poke towards the author and his well-known opinions about e-books and e-readers...

[kennyc]

I'm about 100 pages into "Half Broke Horses" -- wonderful read so far.

[Harry001]

i am reading right now

anna karenia from tolstoy
and
earth's children 4 from jean m auel

both on the readers

keep reading
harry

[FlorenceArt]

Enjoying "The Master and Margarita" very much. It's crazy, funny and not very kind to people. Just what I need right now, maybe

I was also reading "Lord of the Isles" by David Drake (a Tor freebie from a while ago), but it turns out the file is corrupted or something, and I'll never read the end. No big loss I'm afraid.

Also trying to finish "Tomorrow" by Graham Swift. it's a bit annoying but it has its moments. I probably should read it in one go, I tend to like it better after I've read it for a while and gotten used to the style, I guess.

[phenomshel]

Originally Posted by Slite

I don't know. I'm kind of going 2 ways about that movie. I really DO hope they manage to pull it off. Most Sherlock holmes adaptations for the big screen has been pretty horrid though.

I seem to have some memory about a REALLY bad adaptation starring Roger Moore.

Still reading the Dresden Files. Just started on Turn Coat. Now I have to wait until april for the next book *pout* Oh well, there are other books on my to read list

I want to see the Holmes movie also,I caught a preview last year when I took my son to see Harry Potter and it looked great (and yes, that is the last time I was in a movie theater...).

As for Dresden, I "gulped" Turn Coat the second it came out, and so have now have had to wait a WHOLE YEAR (by the time it comes out) for the next one. I suppose I should re read it in preparation. I still haven't read Codex Alera...

[pdurrant]

I'm reading "The Serial Garden" by Joan Aitken. A delightful set of (connected) children's fantasy stories I hadn't come across before.

[lilac_jive]

I'm reading "Last Writes" by Leslie Levine in paperback.

[pdurrant]

And now that I'm half way through I must say I'm very much enjoying the stories. A delightful quirkiness, mixed with good writing. A splendid 'falling asleep to dream sequence" sticks in my mind:

Mark sat in the train and wished that he could go to sleep. He had been to the dentist and had a local injection, and his cheek still felt most peculiar. He didn't like it at all. So he counted sheep earnestly, but the sheep were obstinate animals, and wouldn't do as they were told, and the train was an extremely rowdy one—he could hear it all the time saying to itself, “What-​did-​you-​say? Stick-​in-​the-​mud! That's-​what-​I-​said. Stick-​in-​the-​mud!” It was a slow little train, plodding along over the march from Cobchester to Tallant, and, try as Mark would, he could not make it go any faster. He urged it on under his breath and even tried reciting Horatius to it, but it only staggered along more sleepily, and stopped here and there at Oghan, and Naghan, and Liddle Halt, while Mark fumed and looked at his watch.
[...]
He wandered up and down the carriage, and hung out of the window, and read a magazine which he had already read twice before, and finally settled down and tried to go to sleep again.
This time the sheep were more obedient. They jumped over the stile, but Mark noticed that they found it harder and harder to get over, until they had to creep up one side, foot by foot, and then flock down the other. Were they very old sheep? Or what was it? Then he realized that it was the fault of the stile. It was getting higher and higher, like an elongated ladder, and each sheep had to climb almost out of sight before, with a gasp of relief, it began the descent. Finally the remaining sheep all sat down in a crowd on one side and looked at him reproachfully. The top of the stile was now invisible in the clouds, and it was no longer a stile, but a terribly thick, tangled, barbed-​wire fence.
“Well, you certainly can't get over that,” said Mark to the sheep. “I suppose I'll have to find another way in for you. Come along.”
And he set off, walking along the side of the fence, looking for some sort of gate. When he turned back to see if the sheep were following him, he saw that they were still sitting in a huddled group. Evidently they were waiting till he had found a gate before they took any more exercise. He decided that he did not blame them, and went on.
He was walking along the side of a flat, gray road which stretched away into the distance before and behind him, until both ends were lost in mist. Groundsel and ragwort grew along the edge and a cold wind was blowing. Mark shivered.
“I don't think much of this place,” he said to himself.
However, he pulled up his left sock and walked on, and the dust crept into his shoes. A very small tabby cat came walking towards him, and when it was near gave one plaintive:
“Prrrmp?”
“Well, what are you doing here?” he asked it.
The cat seemed rather doubtful itself, and he picked it up and carried it, quite glad of its warmth, for the wind was colder with every step.
The cat purred, and he talked to it and did not notice until he was nearly there a gate in the fence with a sentry-​box beside it.

Originally Posted by pdurrant

I'm reading "The Serial Garden" by Joan Aitken. A delightful set of (connected) children's fantasy stories I hadn't come across before.

[FlorenceArt]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

And now that I'm half way through I must say I'm very much enjoying the stories. A delightful quirkiness, mixed with good writing.

Thanks for the excerpt, it sounds delightful! I'll have to give it a try myself.

[peajayar]

Wolf Hall (Hilary Mantel) and The Museum of Innocence (Orhan Pamuk) my recent favourites. Currently halfway through The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Muriel Barbery) in English translation. All on paper. Last eread An Account of Egypt (Herodotus) off Gutenberg, on my ipod touch.