What are you reading now?

• ShrodingersCat

  24 Jan 08, 07:43

  Originally posted by udontknowme:

  a lot of the eind blyton books talk about a lot of different types of food that's why i always like to read.
  
  for dahl...my fav is danny the champion of the world!!!! (they had toad in the hole and pie with lovely chunks of eggs. just like how i like it! etc)
  
  the other day i was at a friend's place and i read her Dr seuss books (my all time fav. green eggs and ham )

  hurhur have u read My Uncle Oswald? By Roald Dahl? It was hilarious...
• ShrodingersCat

  24 Jan 08, 07:45

  Originally posted by jetta:

  The Faraway Tree series has to be my fave.

  hahah yesss.. this series and the... flying chair one... goodness..
  
  Sigh they represent my awakening... like ... suddenly realising Santa was not real u know.
  
  I remember one day when I was 9 or 10, my parents found my sobbing in my room. And they were shocked and ask me why... and I cried and ask them why I can't go to all these places in the book, why am I just stuck here, why is there no magic.... why why why
  
  I'm glad...well that since then, I have found the real life can be just as fascinating.
  
  
• jetta

  24 Jan 08, 09:30

  Originally posted by ShrodingersCat:

  hahah yesss.. this series and the... flying chair one... goodness..
  
  Sigh they represent my awakening... like ... suddenly realising Santa was not real u know.
  
  I remember one day when I was 9 or 10, my parents found my sobbing in my room. And they were shocked and ask me why... and I cried and ask them why I can't go to all these places in the book, why am I just stuck here, why is there no magic.... why why why
  
  I'm glad...well that since then, I have found the real life can be just as fascinating.
  
  

  Aw... that was such a bittersweet moment for your parents.
• ShrodingersCat

  24 Jan 08, 09:42

  Originally posted by jetta:

  Aw... that was such a bittersweet moment for your parents.

  actually they were clueless and i remember, torn between concern and amusement. hahaha
  
  
• bluejuice

  24 Jan 08, 09:52

  Originally posted by soleachip:

  The Toy Engine and Amelia Jane Again!

  naughtiest gal in school series is not too bad too!
• viciouskitty74

  5 Mar 08, 00:25

  Was at the library.

   

  Someone's kid brought up to the adult reading section......Asterix!

   

  After the kids are done. I smuggled the Asterix books to a quieter corner and read them.

• rlsh07

  5 Mar 08, 00:26

  Piercing the darkness

• soleachip

  5 Mar 08, 00:27

  The Night Buffalo & Into the Wild are next on the list!
• monoslayer

  5 Mar 08, 01:57

  

• Ed11790

  5 Mar 08, 01:59

  im reading the joy luck club
• monoslayer

  5 Mar 08, 02:07

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  reading this now:
  
  
  
  after reading these:
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  i m very interested in these books!

  care for some reviews?

• udontknowme

  5 Mar 08, 02:11

  Originally posted by monoslayer:

  

  
  is this any good??? =P

  i've been seeing them quite a bit here and there, but im not sure if i should pick it up to read......
  [because yes i tend to judge a book by it's cover and this cover looks pretty damn boring]

• monoslayer

  5 Mar 08, 02:23

  Originally posted by udontknowme:

  
  is this any good??? =P

  i've been seeing them quite a bit here and there, but im not sure if i should pick it up to read......
  [because yes i tend to judge a book by it's cover and this cover looks pretty damn boring]

  go check it out! 

  quite a good n interesting read even though i have yet to finish it..

• jetta

  5 Mar 08, 02:30

  I'm reading fluff. Again. An Aussie novel called Wife for Hire. This is my first Aussie author and she uses lots of Aussie slang and words which I've never heard of. Words like doona (I'm thinking blanket? Comforter?) and many others. (Ooh!! Fodder for new thread!)

• SydneyLibrarian

  7 Mar 08, 10:39

  Originally posted by jetta:

  I'm reading fluff. Again. An Aussie novel called Wife for Hire. This is my first Aussie author and she uses lots of Aussie slang and words which I've never heard of. Words like doona (I'm thinking blanket? Comforter?) and many others. (Ooh!! Fodder for new thread!)

  By Dianne Blacklock, huh?   I came across that book of hers last year at the Uni library; she writes quite well!

   

  Doona = quilt.

• jetta

  26 Mar 08, 13:20

  So far so good.

  

• jetta

  26 Mar 08, 13:23

  When I'm done with Snow Flower.... I'm going to read this one which I've already bought.

  

• monoslayer

  26 Mar 08, 13:44

  

  

• jetta

  26 Mar 08, 13:51

  dp

• Fatum

  26 Mar 08, 13:51

  I'm reading

  "Till morining comes" by Han Suyin ...

  a love story between a chinese doctor and an american journalist in china's turbulent years, from the WWII years to the turmoil of the cultural revolution ....

  maybe some would be more familiar with her political writings in mandarin from the 50s and 60s ...

  she's one of the very rare breed of truly bilingual writers ... slightly ironic cos she's actually eurasian ..... 

  I love her books ... they are all classic

   

• the Bear

  26 Mar 08, 14:04

  i like reading fluff.. especially Banana Yoshimoto's books..

  btw.. go look up Book Buddies and add your reviews when you're done reading

• a_splash

  26 Mar 08, 14:17

  i am reading Beat Stress Together.....by Wayne and Mary

   

• Rhonda

  26 Mar 08, 14:58

  Newspapers, Time Magazines, and my textbooks.