I'm reading Coming Through Slaughter by Michael Ondaatje, because Sarah recommends it and Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden, I was also thinking of reading the Narnia books over again because of the movies, and for those elementary school memories. So what are you reading?

The Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants Accounting and Assurance Handbook. I'll be SOOOOOooooooooooooo glad to be done school!!!

(that being said, i like the idea of this thread... once I have time to pleasure read again I'll share my exciting finds)

haha sounds interesting, tell me how it is, but no spoilers please :wink:

I loved Memoirs of a Geisha ... I also read Life of Pi and Self by Yann Martel around the time I read Arthur Golden's book. I heard all the hype of Life of Pi, but I picked it up on a whim a year after it came out. I loved both books.

Secret Life of Bees is also a great read.

Currently, I'm reading 'Good in Bed' by Jennifer Weiner. I also bought 'Coming Through Slaughter,' along with 'The Time Traveler's Wife,' 'Haunted: A Novel,' 'Genie: A Scientific Tragedy,' 'Confessions of an Ex-Girlfriend,' 'Milkrun,' 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,' and 'The Historian.'

I have a really bad habit of buying books ... I think I need to start frequencing the used book store circuit!

-K

This thread is awesome! I'm taking notes for Christmas! I also really like Memoirs of a Geisha.

[quote:c9ff71b33f="Sweet One"]The Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants Accounting and Assurance Handbook. I'll be SOOOOOooooooooooooo glad to be done school!!!

(that being said, i like the idea of this thread... once I have time to pleasure read again I'll share my exciting finds)[/quote:c9ff71b33f] :lol: agreed!! I've still got three more finals, so I'm just reading textbooks for Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Development, and History of Jazz...

*sigh*

I loved my Psych books ... I took about 3 or 4 psych classes and loved them all!

I read another chick-lit book the other day, 'The Funeral Planner' - it was a really good book as well! For some reason I really like the 'Red Dress Ink' books.

-K

[quote:af0fa35529="Kristilyn"]I loved Memoirs of a Geisha ... I also read Life of Pi and Self by Yann Martel around the time I read Arthur Golden's book. I heard all the hype of Life of Pi, but I picked it up on a whim a year after it came out. I loved both books.

Secret Life of Bees is also a great read.

Currently, I'm reading 'Good in Bed' by Jennifer Weiner. I also bought 'Coming Through Slaughter,' along with 'The Time Traveler's Wife,' 'Haunted: A Novel,' 'Genie: A Scientific Tragedy,' 'Confessions of an Ex-Girlfriend,' 'Milkrun,' 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,' and 'The Historian.'

I have a really bad habit of buying books ... I think I need to start frequencing the used book store circuit!

-K[/quote:af0fa35529]

Haha, thats alot of books. I always find about 5 books I want to buy when I go to Chapters but I don't have enough money for that many books on every trip, so i'm always stuck standing in chapters forever trying to decide which books to buy ops:

[quote:3ced27f930="Valenzuela"][quote:3ced27f930="Kristilyn"]I loved Memoirs of a Geisha ... I also read Life of Pi and Self by Yann Martel around the time I read Arthur Golden's book. I heard all the hype of Life of Pi, but I picked it up on a whim a year after it came out. I loved both books.

Secret Life of Bees is also a great read.

Currently, I'm reading 'Good in Bed' by Jennifer Weiner. I also bought 'Coming Through Slaughter,' along with 'The Time Traveler's Wife,' 'Haunted: A Novel,' 'Genie: A Scientific Tragedy,' 'Confessions of an Ex-Girlfriend,' 'Milkrun,' 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,' and 'The Historian.'

I have a really bad habit of buying books ... I think I need to start frequencing the used book store circuit!

-K[/quote:3ced27f930]

Haha, thats alot of books. I always find about 5 books I want to buy when I go to Chapters but I don't have enough money for that many books on every trip, so i'm always stuck standing in chapters forever trying to decide which books to buy ops:[/quote:3ced27f930]

The used bookstore idea sounds good (in her tourblog Sarah picked up three books for eleven dollars!). The library is your friend too

Ah yes..I don't know of any used book stores around me but..I don't know why I never thought of the library. ops:

For some reason I've always hated the library. I'll always take out books and then they have to be back so soon that I can never get through them! But when I actually own a book I can read it more at my leisure.

-K

Friday Night Lights

next on deck
Ravens
Shapes in Charge
True Candian Ghost storries

Cameron

I read Memoirs of Geisha few years ago and it's an excellent book. I'm looking forward to getting the book "Long Way Round" by Ewan McGregor. It's about a trip around the world that he took with his friend on motorbikes.

For School:
White Noise- Don DeLillo (no correlation with the movie)
Interpreter of Maladies- Jhumpa Lahiri

For Fun:
Tropic of Cancer- Henry Miller
Siddhartha- Herman Hesse

Revisiting:
Born in the Year of the Butterfly Knife- Derrick Brown
Some They Can't Contain- Buddy Wakefield
Jeffrey McDaniel

Up Next:
Demian- Herman Hesse

Just from the titles, those look like pretty thick books!

Someone mentioned ghost stories earlier ... I love reading ghost stories! I guess the university I went to was haunted. I love reading about that stuff.

-K

I recently finished reading Gregory Maguire's 'Son of a Witch' which is the follow up to Wicked. His writing style is amazing, it's like reading a painting. Highly highly reccomended.

I'm now giving my brain a rest and reading a book by Iris Johansen called The Killing Game. Her stuff is kinda fun if you like darker mysteries. Sort of C.S.I ish.

Love, Janis
A Lester Bangs Reader
The Hours

I'm currently reading a book about Henry VIII of England and his six wives. I just finished a book about Mary Queen of Scots.

I'm interested in reading the Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood. I just attended a book reading last Friday. She's quite charming, funny and intelligent.

Among my favourites: Shake Hands with the Devil (Romeo Dallaire), Les Dieux Ont Soif (Anatole France), Blind Assassin (Margaret Atwood), The Lord of the Rings (JRR Tolkien).

[quote:e67c49bcde="Valenzuela"]haha sounds interesting, tell me how it is, but no spoilers please :wink:[/quote:e67c49bcde]

haha. It's ENTHRALLING!!! the section on application of specified audit procedures to information other than financial statements is SO deep and it really makes you think about life!

Other than what i'm reading for the kids in my class - The Little Prince, and Jonathan Livingston Seagull, for myself i'm reading The Simpsons and Philosophy - The D'Oh of Homer. Its a collection of essays about different things relating to the Simpsons. Lots of essays defending the genius of the show, which i appreciate highly, given that a lot of my collaegues think the show is garbage.