What are you reading? (repeat thread)

[vashti]

Something happened to the last thread, and I can't find it, so here is a new one.

I read "Choke" while on my vacation. It was a male-centric book, but I liked it anyway, especially the part where the main character "rapes" a sex addict to fulfill her sex fantasy. It was REALLY funny.

I am re-reading "Life of Pi", mostly because that was all that was available to me when I finished "Choke" on my vacation. It's really a great story, especially the last 2/3 of the book. If you aren't really interested in this character's spiritual journey, you can skip ahead to chapter 29 without losing much of the story, I think.

[bluesummer]

I just finished reading a couple of books by Phillipa Gregory......The White Queen, and The Other Queen. I like them because I get to learn a little history while I read.

I also just finished A Thousand Splendid Suns by....the guy who wrote The Kite Runner (name escapes me right now). Awesome book. It's from the perspective of two women growing up in Afghanistan through Soviet control, and then through the coups and the Mujahadeen and finally the Americans. It's sad and beautiful. Those Afghanis have suffered so much, their lifestyles have changed so much even barely over the course of one generation....you really feel sympathetic as you read.

[vashti]

I just finished reading a couple of books by Phillipa Gregory......The White Queen, and The Other Queen. I like them because I get to learn a little history while I read.

I also just finished A Thousand Splendid Suns by....the guy who wrote The Kite Runner (name escapes me right now). Awesome book. It's from the perspective of two women growing up in Afghanistan through Soviet control, and then through the coups and the Mujahadeen and finally the Americans. It's sad and beautiful. Those Afghanis have suffered so much, their lifestyles have changed so much even barely over the course of one generation....you really feel sympathetic as you read.

I read A Thousand Splendid Suns, too. :-)

[lovesjoyajm]

I just read a book called "The Upside of Irrationality" by Dan Arieli, after hearing an interview with him on NPR. The book was a quick read focusing on some studies the author did on various behavioral economics topics - for example, how people's performance changes when their motivation is increased (ie through large bonuses), how basic recognition of their work can make people much more motivated and inclined to work, and a bunch of other things. Some of it was very intuitive and unsurprising, but I found a lot of it very interesting.

I had been keeping a list of what I had read in my journal because I always forget - I have about 5 things to add.

[Illusional]

wow... yes, i actually read books.. hahaha is anyone surprised?? however, i read all that fantasy shit that hopefully contains a lot of gore.

i just read "warrior" and "witch" by marie brennan... it's so so. there is a third part to the book that hasn't come out yet, but we'll see if i get that one.

raverboy

[lahnnabell]

I loved Life of Pi.

I should be reading Epitaph of a Small Winner by Machado de Assis. My boyfriend's mom and I traded. I gave her The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy.

[vashti]

I also read The God of Small Things....

[Gribble]

Life of Pi was great.

Currently I'm rereading 1984.

[QueenofCorona]

$hit My Dad Says by Justin Halpern.

Hilarious. Some of the jems:

"Don't start a story with This is SO funny. Be like saying My dick's huge before you screw. Even if you're right you sound like an asshole."

"Stop trying so hard. He doesn't like you. Jesus, don't kiss an ass if it's in the process of shitting on you."

"No. Humans will die out. We're weak. Dinosaurs survived on rotten flesh. You got diarrhea last week from a Wendy's."

"Waking up when you got a baby, you feel like you drank a bottle of whiskey the night before, except the shit's in someone else's pants."

[iamingridale]

am currrently reading, Blue Moon by Alyson Noel