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salaam | 26-07-2004 15:22

I'm reading some book by Stephen King.

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Schatzi | 07-05-2015 03:09

I bought this for a friend's birthday recently, along with 'Collected Poems' (the complete - I think - collection of her work). Given the person in question, I can imagine the journals being a heavy ready (the poetry too, probably).

Oh, yes, definitely is. But with all journals/diaries there are also so many entries that are just so mundane & average that I just struggle through them. I end up putting the book down & not going back to it for ages.

pikagirl | 07-05-2015 07:33

The Hunger Games

kalsonberry | 10-05-2015 22:36

Messenger by Lois Lowry

pikagirl | 11-05-2015 02:37

The Girl On The Train - by Paula Hawkins

Schatzi | 12-05-2015 03:59

Fresh Off the Boat by Eddie Huang because I maybe am obsessed with the show.

IsThisMyFate | 12-05-2015 23:53

The Road - Cormac McCarthy

Schatzi | 21-05-2015 02:15

Just finished reading the first volume of Criminal . & while I wait for the next volumes in the mail I started reading Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune by Bill Dedman & Paul Clark Newell Jr.

kalsonberry | 03-06-2015 22:11

The Girl On The Train by Paula Hawkins

kalsonberry | 19-06-2015 19:40

pika, what did you think of The Girl On The Train?

Schatzi | 19-06-2015 21:15

LAPD '53 by James Ellroy. It's eh so far. I love the way Ellroy writes but overall it's a bit lacking.

fishmunky | 20-06-2015 11:18

just finished BossyPants by Tina Fey and halfway through the Psychopath test by Jon Ronson, Ronson is a pretty engaging writer and I'm enjying a writer who expresses his own self doubt about his material

Fey's book was fantastic, she's the best

kalsonberry | 20-06-2015 20:05

Legend by Marie Lu

Schatzi | 21-06-2015 06:49

Just started Sick in the Head by Judd Apatow.

Schatzi | 21-07-2015 08:13

Just finished the last volume of Criminal & was slightly disappointed. It was a bit anti-climatic compared to the other volumes & a very different style from the rest of them so it was just a bit unexpected. Also finished reading The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins. A decent quick read.

fishmunky | 21-07-2015 10:37

Currently working my way through Stephen Kings's Mr. MErsedes and the last volume of Duggan and Posehn's run on Deadpool

Schatzi | 24-07-2015 03:00

Just started Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood by William J. Mann because it was $2 & recommended to me.

fishmunky | 24-07-2015 03:37

What if? by Randall Munroe. Love xkcd, and this book is pretty much right along those lines

Joeyy | 24-07-2015 03:40

I'm slowly making my way through Simone de Beauvoir's 'The Mandarins'.

Schatzi | 24-07-2015 03:58

I read a Woman Destroyed by Simone de Beauvoir ages ago & I was so excited to read it but I just couldn't get into it at all. I honestly found most of the stories frustrating. And everyone gave me such rave reviews about her. I don't know if I just picked the wrong book or if she's not for me.

Joeyy | 24-07-2015 04:00

I know the feeling. I don't hate this, but I feel like I must not comprehend its importance or something, because it doesn't seem special at all to me. :s

Schatzi | 24-07-2015 04:40

Yesssss. Someone told me about how she's such a feminist icon after I read the book. & one of the stories was about a woman staying with her husband while she knows he's cheating on her & it was just so frustrating to read. It didn't read as a feminist icon or even all that good to me. I felt like I wasn't able to find the importance in the story either that clearly everyone else saw.

Joeyy | 24-07-2015 05:02

I've heard that about her, too. So far this book has been about a marriage where the woman rarely leaves the house and doesn't want to do anything but love her husband (a frustrated writer/publisher who she knows cheats on her - very similar themes...?), and another couple who...I can't even remember. The woman's a psychiatrist and has a grumpy daughter who likes sex. The men talk a lot about politics and often seem pretentious. I really feel like I'm missing the point. :p

Schatzi | 24-07-2015 05:10

Okay what you're reading makes me definitely think that she's just not for me then. I couldn't read another book like that.

Joeyy | 24-07-2015 17:51

I'd read The Second Sex, because I think that's meant to be the big one, but probably none of her others.

Juliet86 | 25-07-2015 18:40

I'm reading 'Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore'. I just started it, but I already feel I'm gonna love it. It has that sort of undefined magic.

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