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.