I'm enjoying reading a bit more actual books. Is anyone else on Good Reads? I am teatotaller there as well and would like to see what else people are reading.
Are you participating in the reading challenge over there. I've had a lot of fun with it. I've read 38 out of 75 books so far. Some are re-reads because I can't seem to stop reading my favorites over again but most of them have been new books to me.
I set myself a goal of 50 books for 2011 which I might just make. I'd set the same goal last July and only managed 29 but am starting to get back into the swing of reading more.
And I saw that you just finished Three Day Passes. I should re-read those as well!
I love the Jarhead series. I'm going to re-read Chris Owen's Deviation series too. Right now I'm reading a Anthology from Total-E-Bound called Saddle up and Ride. J.P. Bowie is a local author here in Vegas, Jan Irving has a story in it also.
I usually don't read Anthologies because I'm very fussy about the authors that I read. But so far all the stories have been pretty good. I've read 3 of them so far. I think there are 5 altogether.
I re-discovered books a while ago, after a very fanfiction-oriented period. I remember being shocked with how good the writing was, and how unpredictable the plots, lol. But outside of fandom I'm a pretentious literary fiction only girl, so it's very different.
I'd very much gotten out of the book reading habit when I discovered online fanfiction. But I'm trying to read more in a variety of genres.
Some books that I've recently read and enjoyed: To Kill a Mockingbird, Rebecca, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, and Brokeback Mountain. I'm currently reading On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan as my short book and am almost finished with Notes on a Small Island by Bill Bryson. I seem to be on an all things British kick lately.
I don't know that I've read much literary fiction. What would you recommend as being good?
I read Brokeback Mountain this month! It's because I've been reading everything by Annie Proulx - she is definitely one of my favourite authors.
Others are Margaret Atwood - definitely recommend her Blind Assassin, Oryx and Crake, and just about everything else (well, Penelopiad was kinda boring ;).
If you're on a British kick do check out Rose Tremain - amazing storyteller. Perhaps The Way I Found Her, a coming of age story, or just about any of her volumes of short stories. They are great. She's one of those authors where it's hard to point out the best book, it's the whole of her work that impresses, even if not all books are equally engaging. But I know of no other author who included themes of sex change, incest, homosexuality, pedophilia.
I like dystopic themes, so I loved Cormac McCarthy's The Road, though that's super depressing, and Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go.
If you want gay themes then definitely Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin, which blew me to pieces, and Alan Hollinghurst, maybe his The Swimming-Pool Library
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It's good to have another good reads friend! I've only put in the books that I've read since I started keeping track since last summer.
I do want to try Kindred Hearts. But I get my online books at fictionwise and it hasn't shown up there yet. When it does I'm going to give it a read.
We have other books in common but I don't have them listed. I've read The Ghost Wore Yellow Socks by Josh Lanyon and The Lovely Bones. Just not since I started keeping track!
I read Lovely Bones a while back. The book was so much better than the film. I also read anything by Josh Lanyon, Greg Herren to name just a couple. I started using Goodreads because I was looking at reviews before buying books.
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And I saw that you just finished Three Day Passes. I should re-read those as well!
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I usually don't read Anthologies because I'm very fussy about the authors that I read. But so far all the stories have been pretty good. I've read 3 of them so far. I think there are 5 altogether.
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What do you like to read?
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Some books that I've recently read and enjoyed: To Kill a Mockingbird, Rebecca, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, and Brokeback Mountain. I'm currently reading On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan as my short book and am almost finished with Notes on a Small Island by Bill Bryson. I seem to be on an all things British kick lately.
I don't know that I've read much literary fiction. What would you recommend as being good?
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Others are Margaret Atwood - definitely recommend her Blind Assassin, Oryx and Crake, and just about everything else (well, Penelopiad was kinda boring ;).
If you're on a British kick do check out Rose Tremain - amazing storyteller. Perhaps The Way I Found Her, a coming of age story, or just about any of her volumes of short stories. They are great. She's one of those authors where it's hard to point out the best book, it's the whole of her work that impresses, even if not all books are equally engaging. But I know of no other author who included themes of sex change, incest, homosexuality, pedophilia.
I like dystopic themes, so I loved Cormac McCarthy's The Road, though that's super depressing, and Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go.
If you want gay themes then definitely Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin, which blew me to pieces, and Alan Hollinghurst, maybe his The Swimming-Pool Library ( ... )
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GAY PORN :D
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About to start Wicked!
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I do want to try Kindred Hearts. But I get my online books at fictionwise and it hasn't shown up there yet. When it does I'm going to give it a read.
We have other books in common but I don't have them listed. I've read The Ghost Wore Yellow Socks by Josh Lanyon and The Lovely Bones. Just not since I started keeping track!
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I started using Goodreads because I was looking at reviews before buying books.
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