| Sept.-Oct. 2010 What Are You Reading? [message #33628] |
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 Maren
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Here is where you can talk about what you're reading right now. If you particularly enjoyed a book and would like to recommend it to other readers, just say so and I will add it to our LibraryThing catalog.
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| Re: Sept.-Oct. 2010 What Are You Reading? [message #33805 is a reply to message #33628 ] |
Mon, 06 September 2010 11:01  |
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i am reading compass rose by gail dayton.
Bonnie Holmes the faster ahead I go, the more behind I get
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| Re: Sept.-Oct. 2010 What Are You Reading? [message #33898 is a reply to message #33628 ] |
Thu, 09 September 2010 12:16 |
Kim A
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I'm reading The Book Thief, finally, because our book club is doing it. It's a good story with great characters, but I find Zusak's style really annoying.
It was the only lullaby she would ever sing, and it was sung in Hell. --Laini Taylor
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| Re: Sept.-Oct. 2010 What Are You Reading? [message #33941 is a reply to message #33628 ] |
Fri, 10 September 2010 20:16 |
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Beauty/Anna
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I am reading Evelina by Fanny Burney, an author who greatly influenced Jane Austen in her writing.
As of yet I like it —I'm only 1/4 of the way through though.
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"You are your best resource for success"
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| Re: Sept.-Oct. 2010 What Are You Reading? [message #34119 is a reply to message #33628 ] |
Tue, 14 September 2010 15:58 |
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reading "Q&A" by Vikas Swarup. that's the book they made into "Slumdog Millionaire". it's been sitting on a shelf at my dad's for two years since it was given me as a present, lol.
I'm liking it so far.
"they say that absence makes the heart grow fungus".
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| Re: Sept.-Oct. 2010 What Are You Reading? [message #34303 is a reply to message #34299 ] |
Mon, 20 September 2010 00:21 |
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L.R.K.
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| Julia wrote on Mon, 20 September 2010 03:58 |
| L.R.K. wrote on Sat, 11 September 2010 00:30 |
I really love "Evelina" - I do need to re-read some time - it is definitely my favourite Fanny Burney. I think it's light and funny, and charming, even if it becomes a little melodramatic toward the end... but that didn't particularly bother me. (Oh, yes - rec.)
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Agreed! I read it last semester for my seminar on the novel. I liked it very much... wrote my research paper on it!
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Why, that's quite... cool.  So, what did you write? (Well, not the whole thing, obviously, but the gist of it - or the angle? I'm not sure quite how to phrase the question - hopefully you'll understand what I'm trying to ask. )
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: Sept.-Oct. 2010 What Are You Reading? [message #34314 is a reply to message #34303 ] |
Mon, 20 September 2010 08:43 |
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Julia
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The title of the paper was All the Ton’s A Stage, The World’s A [Printed] Page: Female Authority, Identity, and the Authoring of the Self by the Writing Woman of Frances Burney’s Evelina (or, What’s In A Name? Shadows, Substance, and Spilt Ink)
Rereading that title now, it seems kinda pretentious, not to mention lengthy... but I didn't notice at the time, and my professor liked it, so that's okay.
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I talked about the parallels between Burney's struggle for authority [gained, finally, through authorship] and those of her character Evelina... how the subtitle to Evelina: The History of a Young Lady’s Entrance into the World is so fitting, as Evelina is literally the story or history of two young ladies’ entrances into the world; that of the fictional Evelina, and that of her author, Frances Burney. (Then I talk a lot about identity and names, and the varying ways that Evelina signs her letters, which I thought was really interesting to look at.)
Except it gets complicated, because Burney published anonymously...
[the following is a quote from my paper]
It is highly significant that Burney’s first published work deals so heavily with identity and the paternal-filial relationship as pertaining to the definition of self, when the author herself was so much entangled in the same issues. For Frances Burney, in order to go through with the publication of her novel, was to lose herself. She published anonymously, and wrote her manuscript in secret, driven to put words on paper but unable to escape the feeling that she was somehow transgressing the permissible for a woman, and a woman of her position particularly.
Not only did she make herself nameless (and genderless, or not of her own gender, as she takes care to present herself as male in the prefaces and introductory materials ), the physical act of writing Evelina involved an extreme suppression of self: because she served as amanuensis to her father, taking dictation and writing out the fair copies of his manuscripts which were then sent on to the publishers and typesetters, Burney had to recopy her entire novel in a disguised hand in order to remain unrecognized. This undoubtedly arduous process would be a genius literary ploy, were it not true. Such subsumption, in suppressing herself and her ideas for sake of another, is enormously telling . “According to autobiographical sources, Burney felt that in order to write she had to conceal her words from her father as well as distance herself from him and his name.”(Greenfield, 303)
Etc. etc. etc.
This is probably way too much. Oops. Sorry. But I got excited that you were interested.
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| Re: Sept.-Oct. 2010 What Are You Reading? [message #34344 is a reply to message #34314 ] |
Tue, 21 September 2010 06:27 |
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L.R.K.
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No, it wasn't too much at all! I think you chose a fascinating approach, and I would love to read it in its entirety (so if you ever have it published, let me know!)
Have you read Kate Chisholm's biography of Frances Burney? It's a lovely book - I don't know if it's still in print, but if it is, I warmly recommend it. (And I recommend it for Pollyanna as well...)
The questions of authorship and gender make me think of a book I saw in The Good Book Guide, but haven't read - it sounded really interesting, though.
And I found it, it's "Dr Johnson's Women":
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dr-Johnsons-Women-Norma-Clarke/dp/18 52852542
It's definitely a book I want to read/own at some point.
EDIT: PS - And I really liked the title of your paper!
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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: Sept.-Oct. 2010 What Are You Reading? [message #34430 is a reply to message #34406 ] |
Fri, 24 September 2010 15:01 |
Kim A
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| bookgal71 wrote on Thu, 23 September 2010 17:53 |
Just finished I Shall Wear Midnight by Terry Pratchett which was great
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Oh, oh, oh! I knew there was something new coming out that I was waiting for (other than Pegasus, I mean). But drat, neither local bookstore nor library have a copy yet. Shall have to order.
But I did a good thing: I went to the library looking for Dealing With Dragons (after you guys reminded me of Patricia C. Wrede). There were two copies in the catalog, but the librarian and I couldn't find either on the shelves. So a search was initiated, and they found both copies! (And then I read it, of course. I was sure I had read the Enchanted Forest books ages ago, but I hadn't. Great fun!) Now I'm reading Mairelon the Magician. Reminds me of Lloyd Alexander, actually. I'm really liking Kim (not just 'cause of her name!)
It was the only lullaby she would ever sing, and it was sung in Hell. --Laini Taylor
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| Re: Sept.-Oct. 2010 What Are You Reading? [message #34631 is a reply to message #33628 ] |
Thu, 30 September 2010 22:03 |
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sarahkp
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"Howl's Moving Castle" by Diana Wynne Jones
One of my favorites!
Also "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins.
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| Re: Sept.-Oct. 2010 What Are You Reading? [message #34638 is a reply to message #33628 ] |
Fri, 01 October 2010 07:01 |
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just got mercedes lackey's new book intrigues[collegium chronicles] in time for my birthday.it is very good so far.
Bonnie Holmes the faster ahead I go, the more behind I get
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| Re: Sept.-Oct. 2010 What Are You Reading? [message #34644 is a reply to message #33628 ] |
Fri, 01 October 2010 09:37 |
mohawkguy28
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I am currently reading the Valdemar series written by Mercedes Lackey for the last few months. I really enjoyed it and I am on the last three books of the series.
I will be reading Fire by Robin McKinley next week. As I have enjoyed her Damar series and Sunshine I have no doubt that I will enjoy this one as well.
Don't Let Life Pass You By. Embrace It
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| Re: Sept.-Oct. 2010 What Are You Reading? [message #34794 is a reply to message #33628 ] |
Tue, 05 October 2010 13:05 |
Kim A
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I read Finnikin of the Rock, by Melina Marchetta, which was ambitious, complex, intense, original, and mostly satisfying. Great characters. I think it would have worked better as a trilogy (heaven forbid!), because she has so much world and plot and character packed into this one book.
Now I'm reading Margaret Mahy's The Magician of Hoad. Her writing is beautiful, but her books are all so weird. I like them, but I'm never sure I really get them. (I felt that way about Diana Wynne Jones Fire and Hemlock, too, like I was missing something essential.)
Oh, and I discovered another Australian writer: John Marsden, the Tomorrow series. Post-apocolyptic tale of teens hiding out when their country gets taken over by an unnamed (not alien: it's not sci-fi) enemy. Very realistic, good character building and exciting action.
It was the only lullaby she would ever sing, and it was sung in Hell. --Laini Taylor
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| Re: Sept.-Oct. 2010 What Are You Reading? [message #34795 is a reply to message #34740 ] |
Tue, 05 October 2010 13:09 |
Kim A
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I've read a couple of Sharon Shin's archangel books--interesting, original concept, good stories and characters. (I was disappointed when the second book had different characters than the first--can't remember their names but I really liked them.)
It was the only lullaby she would ever sing, and it was sung in Hell. --Laini Taylor
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| Re: Sept.-Oct. 2010 What Are You Reading? [message #34796 is a reply to message #33628 ] |
Tue, 05 October 2010 14:30 |
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finished mercedes lackey's intrigue and it was excellent.now i have to wait a whole year for the third one.waaa.
Bonnie Holmes the faster ahead I go, the more behind I get
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| Re: Sept.-Oct. 2010 What Are You Reading? [message #34797 is a reply to message #34796 ] |
Tue, 05 October 2010 15:10 |
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| holmes44 wrote on Tue, 05 October 2010 14:30 |
finished mercedes lackey's intrigue and it was excellent.now i have to wait a whole year for the third one.waaa.
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It's out??? *squeeeee~*
I finished Sanderson's The Way of Kings, which was phenomenal (also, one of the most gorgeous hardcover printings I've seen in years), and looking forward to Bujold's new Vorkosigan book coming out. That's one I'm getting in hardcover, in part for the bundled CD, which'll have most of the rest of the series as e-books on it. ^_^
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| Re: Sept.-Oct. 2010 What Are You Reading? [message #34978 is a reply to message #33628 ] |
Fri, 08 October 2010 20:53 |
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rereading Jane Austen's "Persuasion" at the moment. loving it a lot.
"they say that absence makes the heart grow fungus".
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| Re: Sept.-Oct. 2010 What Are You Reading? [message #35031 is a reply to message #33628 ] |
Sun, 10 October 2010 21:32 |
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L.R.K.
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Just finished reading "The Secret Adversary" by Agatha Christie. Anyone here read it? I wonder if I'm particularly dense, but I never understood why
Toggle Spoilerthe villains kept Jane Finn's photo in Mrs Vandermeyer's safe?
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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: Sept.-Oct. 2010 What Are You Reading? [message #35301 is a reply to message #33628 ] |
Tue, 19 October 2010 11:38 |
mohawkguy28
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I just finished Spindles End which I enjoyed more than the original Sleeping Beauty (which was my favorite fairy tale). Now I am reading Dissolution from Richard Lee Byers. This is my first book from him so I am not sure what to expect.
Don't Let Life Pass You By. Embrace It
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