NVR - What are you reading right now? (Fiction or non-fiction)
Posted by Beans and Greens on May 12, 2007 · Member since Apr 2007 · 169 posts
I'm reading 'Raising Vegan Children in a Non-vegan World' by Erin Pavlina.
I'm curious what everyone else has their nose in at the moment! :)
1984
I love this book! Huge fan of George Orwell.
Wish I was reading something other than textbooks right now, but unfortunately my main reading material right now is Canadian Tax Principals and Finance. Whoo hoo! :(
1984
I love this book! Huge fan of George Orwell.
Wish I was reading something other than textbooks right now, but unfortunately my main reading material right now is Canadian Tax Principals and Finance. Whoo hoo! :(
Tax is kinda like 1984,,,
Have you read Homage to Catalonia?
LOL! ;D You are sooo right. Tax is the class that we meet for drinks at the campus pub after!!
I have not, who is the author?
Really? I have never heard of it. I very much enjoyed Pans Labyrinth, it wasn't at all what I was expecting when I first watched it. Very cool movie.
I'll have to check out Homage to Catalonia, almost the end of the semester so I cram as much non accounting related books into my breaks as possible!! Is that one of his earlier works?
Does reading a cookbook count? ;D
I just went through my Simply Vegan cookbook.
I just finished Twilight. The first book in the series. I guess now I have to follow up with the rest. In the meantime, I'm continuing to read "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor. I just read the first short story. I wish I could read more, but I think I have an attention span of a two year old when it comes to reading a book. :)
Works of Edgar Allen Poe ;)b
I just finished The Gum Thief, which is the most recent novel by my favoritest author in the world, Douglas Coupland. ("Most Recent" is relative; it's been out for years but I finally found it in paperback). LOVED IT.
If anyone else have tastes that fall under the slightly-snarky, heavily pop-culture laden realm, recommend me an author.
I just started reading a book on the philosophy of learning by the guy who was the subject of the movie Searching for Bobby Fischer. Interesting stuff...
can anyone tell me if "Freakonomics" is a worth-while read?
i'm sorry if someone has said something about it in the threat before, i just don't have the patience to browse thru 20 pages of replies.... im gonna be needing something to read in a day or two and can't find any fiction to read right now (i guess i could always go look at all the unread stuff on my bookshelf)
oh! i would recommend "I am not Esther" to anyone. it's short but it is soooo good. its about a girl who gets dumped by her mother with some relatives who turn out to be super religious (almost like polygamist religious) and she spends her time between trying to teach the other kids its okay to be "normal" and trying to find the real reason her mother took off
You should all discuss these books in The Official Book Club. http://vegweb.com/index.php?topic=23969.0
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Who died and left AC hall monitor? :-D
Bloody Bones (Anita Blake Vampire Hunter Series Book 5), Laurell K. Hamilton
I dunno if this counts, because I'm actuallly *listening* to an audiobook of "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency." Is it just me, or is this book unimpressive? I get the feeling it's kind of a patchwork of leftover ideas wrapped loosely in Mr Adams' interest in then-new forms of software and tied up with his term paper on the mathematics of music. So far I am underwhelmed.
can anyone tell me if "Freakonomics" is a worth-while read?
Yes, it's fascinating and and a quick read.
I've really been in a reading mode the past few weeks. I just finished reading "Infinite Jest" for the third time (DFW :'(). Finishing "Gravity's Rainbow" by Thomas Pynchon, which has forced me to finally recognize the fact that for one reason or another I have a lot of difficulty reading his novels, they're not bad, just laborous. And I have just started reading Roberto Bolano's "2666", which thus far is as good as all the reviews praised it to be.
Just finished The Happiest Baby on the Block. It's a wonderful method of calming newborns when they're fussy.
I'm currently reading Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. It was written in the 14th century, pretty neat.....
I'm currently reading Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. It was written in the 14th century, pretty neat.....
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Good story. I remember those days. I had to read it and Chaucer and then I also had to learn how to read and speak Middle English. Tolkien's translation is supposed to be one of the best and most interesting.
I'm currently reading Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. It was written in the 14th century, pretty neat.....
Good story. I remember those days. I had to read it and Chaucer and then I also had to learn how to read and speak Middle English. Tolkien's translation is supposed to be one of the best and most interesting.
Yeah we had to do the whole Chaucer thing in high school and learn the first 18 verses of Canterbury Tales....Whan that Aprill with its shores sote... something like that.
Yeah we had to do the whole Chaucer thing in high school and learn the first 18 verses of Canterbury Tales....Whan that Aprill with its shores sote... something like that.
We had to do that too in like 11th or 12th grade, and my husband still remembers ALL of it (about 7 years later..). :o
Yeah it's wierd how that stuff sticks, i had to learn it about 5 or 6 years ago myself. Thanks a lot Mrs. Sargent at THS. :>
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