The Book Nook

Well, more or less simultaneously, Kahlil Gibran's _The PRophet_ Robert Silverberg's _The Morning of MAnkind_ (I know, a sort of juvie and way outdated but there's no one other book that covers the subject the wAY IT DOES) Stephen King's _Thinner_ and a book about mummies from CentraL ASIA.

At moment I am reading a book I bought ages ago but never got around to reading till now it is bt Mercedes Lacky & Ru Emerson called Fortess of Frost and Fire its not too bad.

Right now I'm trying to reread Spoon River Anthologies by Edgar Lee Masters. It's not working out too well, though. College does not leave that much free time to read. Sad

hmmmm....I'm covering a few books

recently read:

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which was pretty good in keeping the tension up, and giving us more glimpses into everday life in the Soviet Union. not so good at avoiding character and stereotypical clichés.

some treks, with the last one being less than an overnight read

[image][image][image] first two were all right, strong points for an interesting society. last one was a quick read as mentionned and meh, alright. more something to be enjoyed on the series as a whole

currently reading:

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Another of those scary alternate universe stories about the every day horrors of living as a secret jewish family in a modern day facist/nazi world. disquieting so far.

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Just started reading it so I'll have to come back to comments later

and of course some requisite trek Razz

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Anthology with many fine stories so far.

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Alrighty-ish trek mystery so far

Don't have much time for reading what I actually want to read...friggin' course textbooks...BUT...the last awesome book I read was 'The Da Vinci Code'.

Everyone MUST read it!

Im reading Tim Sale's SOLO...a very well done funny book/

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from the Supergirl in love tale

Before that I ploughed through "Tales of the Bizarro World' -- yeah, I know very erudite but that's where I am right now. Wink

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not really reading n e thing atm. i got "Bridget Jones's Diary" for my birthday that i'm gonna start on the plane to japan.

but can i recommend to absolutly everyone "the Tomorrow Series" by John Marsden. don't be daunted cuz they are young adult books, they are by far the best books ever written, all my aunts and uncles and parents and their friends have read them and fallen in love with these 7 books. Go and read them, even if your not into the whole war scene (like me) they are BRILLIANT!

Not read much interesting stuff. i have to read alot for my Eng Lit course. Just finished the Color Purple which is good, but now we're reading the Canterbury Tales.
Eugghhh!!!!! Evil or Very Mad

During the two weeks that I was home sick, I had nothing better to do during the time my mom made me stay in bed, than read. So I read random books I found around the house:
The Right Stuff by Tom Wolf: I had already read it fifth grade, just to prove I could. I read the first couple chapters, then got bored.
Artemis Fowl by Eion Colfer: Okay, I guess, it got kind of boring.
The Lovely Bones by a person whos name I do not recall: Fairly morbid but either way, pretty cool.
I started to read The Divinci Code but lost interest around the first couple pages (attention span of a five year old)
The entire Daughters of the Moon series: that took me a week, 12 books.

I'm currently reading a book called "Food Court Druids and Cherohonkies" its really funny and characterizes the various odd people in the world.

Danny reads way too much. Wink

I've discovered that the author of the book my mom lent me (Code to Zero, by Ken Follett) seems to write a lot of novels about WWII and Nazi Germany. If they're conspiracy novels as good as the one I just read, I'll have to stock up...

Ken Follet did "Eye of the Needle" I believe.

Otts: when stocked up, it's an inexpensive source of entertainment Wink
And you still have Jackdaws left I believe

Danny - yes I do. However, I must also finish my book on the Hundred Year War... and my roommate has to lend me the Da Vinci code.

Also on my waiting list:

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I bought this latest Umberto Eco this summer, plan on starting it sometime after the Da Vinci Code. Umberto Eco is a tough read - he's an erudite and he likes to make a show of his vast knowledge - but if you like the Middle Ages, he's a good one.