Just starting Farewell To Manzanar.

The guy who gave the talk "There's Plenty Of Room At The Bottom" and came up with nanotechnology? Cool.

Still reading Great Expectations. On page 12. I need to read up to page 100-something by Friday.

I'm going back to Life of Pi by Yann Martel. I've been reading a bit each day while in the subway. I can't seem to find time to read any of the books on my list. =(

Cause Celeb by Helen Fielding.

AWW. That book was so sad. I read that in tenth grade. It was funny because I picked the book merely because it was the shortest out of most of them, but it turned out to be a great book.

Anywho, to get back on topic.. I'm almost done with Uglies, but my AP English teacher decided to give us Beowulf yesterday (due Monday).

Indeed.

I have a sign on my wall. I look at it every time I get stuck on some complicated math problem or proof. It says, "Would Richard Feynman have given up in frustration?"

It's right next to the sign that says, "You can always sleep on Saturday!"

Richard Feynman is a sort of personal hero, right up there with Sir Isaac Newton.

Currently reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenence

Also Don Juan

gENERALLY (eek, cap locks) agreed, but Catch-22 is pretty funny. I'm attempting (yet again) to read it volunteerily. However, I have to read All Quiet On the Western Front for class, which is the sort of war lit I really can't stand. Doesn't help that we're reading it on top of Macbeth (which is only tolerable because Weeks is funny as hell).

QUOTE(Statues/Shadows @ Sep 16 2006, 5:09 PM)

gENERALLY (eek, cap locks) agreed, but Catch-22 is pretty funny. I'm attempting (yet again) to read it volunteerily. However, I have to read All Quiet On the Western Front for class, which is the sort of war lit I really can't stand. Doesn't help that we're reading it on top of Macbeth (which is only tolerable because Weeks is funny as hell).

Macbeth</3

In retrospect, I kind of liked All Quiet on the Western Front, spoilers on both counts here, highlight if you want: other than the fact that Katczinsky dying really upset me, and (almost) everybody dies; but yeah, it wasn't that bad.
< read it twice (freshman & sophomore year).

Finished 3, 4, &5 of Narnia today.

^ I liked All Quiet on the Western Front, too! I finished Uglies and am now reading Snow Crash as well as Beowulf.

I tried catch-22, got about 10 pages in, and found it a pain.

I just finished reading A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby which I really enjoyed. I'm reading Kitchen God's Wife again for school, and planning on reading Tuesdays With Morrie next.

I started it last fall, got about 50 pages in, found it amusing but then never had time to read it. I'm now on page 2, because I've found more productive ways to pass my DEAR time in place of reading like I'm supposed to (and of course, by productive, I mean blatantly breaking rules and doing practically nothing).

^ yea, but i had to concentrate when i tried to rerad it.

id rather read Birdsong, which still qualifies as war lit, although rachel tells me it is essentially 600 pages of softcore porn.

finished goblet of fire last night and about to start the order of the phoenix. and then it's onto the half-blood prince. :)

I finished Mr. Maybe today && started on Everyone Worth Knowing by Lauren Weisberger (author of The Devil Wears Prada).

War of the Worlds for a school book report.

Re-reading Wolf Fang by Jack London for English class.

The Picture of Dorian Gray for school...
not liking it really at all so far.

The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan.

About a hundred pages into Snow Crash. It's reaaaalllly good.

i recently finished Everyone Worth Knowing and now i`m reading The Truth About Diamonds by Nicole Richie.

Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff

Goethe's Faust.

The Awakening by Kate Chopin.

Hmmm...have yet to make an opinion.

A Farewell To Arms by like... Ernest Hemmingway? something like that.

More monologues for teenage girls.

Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs.
Almost finished too. Whee?

just finished Looking for Alaska and Twilight

I am a terrible person, I always start books and never finish them. Why? I dont know.
And they are all so good, but I just end up looking in barnes&noble and starting a new book.
It pretty much sucks.
I really need to finish these books.

Anyways, I got my book that I pre-ordered at purple door in the mail.
"Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but nobody wants to die" By David crowder and Mike hogan.
I got it last thursday, then while I was in barnes&noble I found a book that was very interesting. I cant remember the name, but I know the exact spot it is in.
Heh.

Sooo, lets add those two to my list.
- Dawn treader (Chronicles of Narnia)
- Praise Habit
- Captivating
- Body piercings saved my life
- All the hits so far
- Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but nobody wants to die
- The unknown title (about the black dahlia, but it isnt the movie book)

I am such a terrible person.

QUOTE(kayceeisms @ Oct 5 2006, 6:10 PM)

The Awakening by Kate Chopin.

Hmmm...have yet to make an opinion.

The ending SUCKS; ruined the book for me. :(

QUOTE(electric shock @ Oct 5 2006, 8:58 PM)

Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs.
Almost finished too. Whee?

Burroughs<333 He's one of my favorite writers of all time.

Just finished the seventh book of the Princess Diaries series. Guess it's back to finishing Life of Pi.

f**k This Book by Bodhi Oser. Very entertaining book.

starting to read A Yellow Raft in Blue Water in about a week. damn, honors english sophomore year is so hard...we're never not reading a book. i heard junior year is hard, i can't imagine what it's like..hahah.

I'm currently reading Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard Stallman. It covers Stallman's essays regarding free software and its place in a free, open society. I don't agree with everything Stallman says, but he has a lot of good things to say about free software. I'm sort of reading through it in an attempt to help with an idea I have regarding software development by non-profit organizations.

More monologues for teenage girls.

A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemmingway


bleh i think that's how you spell his name lol

She Said Yes - Misty Bernall

I haven't exactly started, but I'm getting to reading Blink.
It's about your unconcious mind and such.

Aww. I think I cried when I read that book.

Finished Life of Pi by Yann Martel. Next is The Mapmaker's Opera by Bea Gonzalez.

I'm reading Prep by Curtis Sittenfield. I'm kinda lagging it, though.

The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World, a memoir/autobiography by A.J. Jacobs. It's about his journey through reading all the volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Hilarious.

Also reading A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews, and the latest Gossip Girl novel.

Kind of an eclectic selection of books, I know.

Ehh, it was an O.K. ending, but I was kind of happy when she did what she did. It didn't feel heroic to me, just desperate.

It's such an easy out, though. Laaaaameee.

Dostoevsky's Crime & Punishment for me, sir!

school wants me to read Huck Finn. D=

^ Yuck. Same. :(

But, whenever I have some spare time, I'm reading Persuasion by Jane Austen. I absolutely love her books.

I just finished Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk. Disturbing....but wonderful. In fact that pretty much sums up all of his books. I'll now probably move on to either Choke, Lullaby, or re-read Invisible Monsters. All by Chuck. I'm on a Chuck spree.

im in the middle of soo many books right now =\
still have to finish:
a great and terrible beauty
running with scissors
both are coming out as movies soon!
fear and loathing in las vegas
portrait of darien grey
perks of being a wallflower
everything is illuminated
incredibly close exteremly loud
curious incident of a dog in the nightime
lolita
hundred yrs of solitude
brave new world

wayy too many books =\

Rebel, by Willo Davis Roberts