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| Re: Jan.-Feb. 2010 What Are You Reading? [message #24987 is a reply to message #24929 ] |
Mon, 04 January 2010 23:04   |
 librarykat
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I very recently read a very strange and fun, weird manga called Moyasimon, from Del Rey Manga. It's about a young man who has just started attending an agricultural college in Tokyo; he can see germs. To him, they look like small happy faces. For anyone who doesn't like gross stuff, don't read this. But if you're interested in a very unique kind of story and can handle seeing germs everywhere, you might want to try this.
I also very recently read the 7th volume of Yotsuba&! - which is so darned cute and funny! The stories are all about everyday happenings in a suburban Japanese neighborhood, but because everything is filtered through the viewpoint of a small child encountering so many things for the first time, they're fresh and fun. I stood in the kitchen, waiting for my sugar water to heat up to the right temperature to make my candied orange peel, giggling as I read the book. When Hubby asked what was so funny and I tried to explain what was going on, he asked "what's so funny about that?" Just telling what is happening makes it seem so mundane, it's all in the art, in Yotsuba's expressions and reactions.
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| Re: Jan.-Feb. 2010 What Are You Reading? [message #25257 is a reply to message #24929 ] |
Fri, 15 January 2010 13:34 |
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Beauty/Anna
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I am liking it very much
—I am listening to the audio book narrated by Jim Dale—narrator of the Harry Potter Series, he is Fantastic—
here is a link to audible, so you can hear what he sounds like, if you have not already heard of him.
Don't want to get off topic or anything though.
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"You are your best resource for success"
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| Re: Jan.-Feb. 2010 What Are You Reading? [message #25498 is a reply to message #24929 ] |
Mon, 25 January 2010 22:16 |
libby.gorman
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I just read Stitches by David Small, which was good and not as dark as I imagined it could have been (still dark, but has a pretty happy ending, and Small treated even the non-sympathetic characters pretty sympathetically).
Now reading Ghostwalk by Rebecca Stott--a historical mystery set in present day Cambridge with weird ties to seventeenth-century Cambridge. Only about 50 pages in so I will have to tell more when I finish it.
Also rereading the Alice series by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor--really liked those as a kid and they are still fun (and I can fly through them!) as an adult.
Libby
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| Re: Jan.-Feb. 2010 What Are You Reading? [message #25711 is a reply to message #24929 ] |
Sun, 31 January 2010 12:08 |
Kim A
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Just finished Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold. Great book. (and I mean that the way I would say "he was a great man.") I've liked everything of hers I've read so far, and this one was the best yet. Thanks for the recommendation, Pollyanna!
It was the only lullaby she would ever sing, and it was sung in Hell. --Laini Taylor
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| Re: Jan.-Feb. 2010 What Are You Reading? [message #25714 is a reply to message #24929 ] |
Sun, 31 January 2010 12:56 |
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L.R.K.
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Oh, I also read "The Curse of Chalion" recently, and I understand what you mean! That's a great way to describe it - and a good description of Cazaril, too, I think.
Isaac Asimov: "Foundation and Empire."
And now I'm reading an omnibus of children's books which I loved as a child - and still love. I gave them to my husband to read when he was learning Swedish and he loved them too. I'd warmly recommend them, except they haven't, as far as I can ascertain, been translated into English. They're about a cat, who, as a kitten, lost his tail - to a rat, who bit it off. He gets teased and taunted a lot about it - especially by mean cat Måns and his lackeys Bill and Bull. The books begin when Pelle Svanslös (Tailless) is a kitten - and end with him married and a father. There are eleven books in total.
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Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean, like butter that has been scraped over too much bread.
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| Re: Jan.-Feb. 2010 What Are You Reading? [message #25976 is a reply to message #24929 ] |
Sun, 07 February 2010 13:54 |
oldoakforest
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I've just finished Proust Was a Neuroscientist, by Jonah Leher (I think), which I loved! I'm currently a second year Genetics undergraduate student, which has practically nothing to do with either art or neuroscience, but I have broad tastes and I was fascinated by this book. He draws some intriguing parallels between the two topics, and describes some brilliant insights into the brain - particularly the senses. I particularly enjoyed the chapter on Escoffier (finally, an author who recognizes cooking as art!), and the chapter on Gertrude Stein. Somewhere on my reading list is now Tender Buttons, although I've a terrible feeling I'll give up halfway through.
A few weeks ago, I read Martin Millar's Lonely Werewolf Girl - a thoroughly enjoyable read and terribly funny. I've also been dipping out of some translations of Ranier Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies and Sonnets for Orpheus. I took four intensive years of Latin, and so am quite familiar with the tale of Orpheus. I love how Rilke weaves that tale into his poetry as recurrent theme.
Also recently read is Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash. I read it on a flight from the US to the UK - perfect for such a mind trip of a book.
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| Re: Jan.-Feb. 2010 What Are You Reading? [message #25977 is a reply to message #25976 ] |
Sun, 07 February 2010 14:08 |
ravenclawgirl
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Have you read his "How We Decide"? My roommate is a neuroscience major (I think she's crazy, but to each her own), and last semester she was assigned to read it. I picked it up solely because it had ice cream cones on the cover, and I really enjoyed it. It was easy enough to read that a non-science-major could understand most of it, and the parts I didn't understand, I just skimmed over. In that book he concentrated more on the emotional vs. the rational, and how both are necessary to make good decisions.
I am currently re-reading William Goldman's "The Princess Bride," various selections that I am assigned for my American Lit class (we're finally done with Puritans--Yay!), and am contemplating reading one or both of the books on Homer's Penelope that are sitting on my desk...
ETA: spelling...
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| Re: Jan.-Feb. 2010 What Are You Reading? [message #26179 is a reply to message #24929 ] |
Sun, 14 February 2010 21:12 |
libby.gorman
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I just finished Ghostwalk, and it was quite good. Combination of historical fiction about Isaac Newton (with author's note at the end to sort them out, thankfully) and supernatural murder mystery--actually less creepy than I expected, which is good for me. Much of the book was written in 2nd person, which I think would be hard to do, but it worked.
Libby
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