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laurainlimbo) wrote2008-04-01 10:30 pm
laurainlimbo) wrote2008-04-01 10:30 pm
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Books and a Reading Poll
I was asked by ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
pnksaph to write about the latest book I read and what I'm reading now. Luckily I happened to recently read something fabulous, and am in the process of reading a really fascinating book (and I can't wait to get back to it).
The last complete novel I read was The Golden Compass (or in the UK, Northern Lights), by Phillip Pullman. I read it around mid January when I went to visit my family. It was really quite interesting, and intriguing, especially considering all of the controversy that surrounded it and the release of the movie. I would like to read the other two books in the series, but haven't gotten around to it yet.
The latest thing that I read was a novella by Thomas Wolfe called The Lost Boy , which is actually an extension of some of the characters in his famous novel Look Homeward, Angel . Not to be confused with the contemporary journalist and author Tom Wolfe, Thomas Wolfe wrote in the 20s and 30s, and was considered by William Faulkner to be his generation's best writer. I concur. I was swept up by Wolfe's beautifully descriptive prose, and his memories of a brother who he never really knew, and his search for the childhood home where his brother died. In fact, the entire first chapter (the novella is written in four parts, or chapters), which is told from the point of view of the author's brother (the lost boy), would make a fantastic teaching tool for a writing course in a college or university. Anyone who appreciates the English language should read Wolfe.
Currently I have about four books by my bed, but haven't been able to get into any of them. Then I picked up a book on a whim the other day by a Japanese author named Haruki Murakami . The book is called Kafka on the Shore , and was written in 2002. I couldn't really begin to sum it up for you, but can only tell you that it's really engrossing, and fascinating, a bit surreal and deep and somewhat dark and mysterious. The characters include a runaway teen, talking cats, and a "mentally defective sexagenarian" as John Updike calls him, who lost his mental functions as a child during WWII. I can't wait to see where it goes,as right now it's just kind of floating in this unknown, which I love!
So if you're still reading this, I'd love for you to take
[Poll #1164480]
why thank you!!
I hope everyone is having a good week. Life update is coming soon, along with the answer todawnie1970's question about life and death.
pnksaph to write about the latest book I read and what I'm reading now. Luckily I happened to recently read something fabulous, and am in the process of reading a really fascinating book (and I can't wait to get back to it). The last complete novel I read was The Golden Compass (or in the UK, Northern Lights), by Phillip Pullman. I read it around mid January when I went to visit my family. It was really quite interesting, and intriguing, especially considering all of the controversy that surrounded it and the release of the movie. I would like to read the other two books in the series, but haven't gotten around to it yet.
The latest thing that I read was a novella by Thomas Wolfe called The Lost Boy , which is actually an extension of some of the characters in his famous novel Look Homeward, Angel . Not to be confused with the contemporary journalist and author Tom Wolfe, Thomas Wolfe wrote in the 20s and 30s, and was considered by William Faulkner to be his generation's best writer. I concur. I was swept up by Wolfe's beautifully descriptive prose, and his memories of a brother who he never really knew, and his search for the childhood home where his brother died. In fact, the entire first chapter (the novella is written in four parts, or chapters), which is told from the point of view of the author's brother (the lost boy), would make a fantastic teaching tool for a writing course in a college or university. Anyone who appreciates the English language should read Wolfe.
Currently I have about four books by my bed, but haven't been able to get into any of them. Then I picked up a book on a whim the other day by a Japanese author named Haruki Murakami . The book is called Kafka on the Shore , and was written in 2002. I couldn't really begin to sum it up for you, but can only tell you that it's really engrossing, and fascinating, a bit surreal and deep and somewhat dark and mysterious. The characters include a runaway teen, talking cats, and a "mentally defective sexagenarian" as John Updike calls him, who lost his mental functions as a child during WWII. I can't wait to see where it goes,as right now it's just kind of floating in this unknown, which I love!
So if you're still reading this, I'd love for you to take
[Poll #1164480]
why thank you!!
I hope everyone is having a good week. Life update is coming soon, along with the answer to
dawnie1970's question about life and death.
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Favourite authors - I don't really know, i randomly pick books and read them, don't really follow an author.
but my grade 12 reading list was awesome - i loved it. i read some great books in high school, which is really odd, because most of the times, those books are not student friendly.. :P
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thanks for your answers though:)
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We read alot (grrr IB) Tempest, Odyssey, Hamlet, The House of Spirits, Like Water for Chocolate, Jane Eyre, Swann, in the Skin of a Lion, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, One Hundred Years of Solitude and Fifth Business. On top of all this, we had poetry *yay* (Sylvia Plath, William Butler Yeats and Robert Frost)
From all these books, i would totally rec One day.. and House of Spirits
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that's some great literature there!
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I actually liked The house of spirits - a lot of students didnt - because its different - it has magic realism - and it was the first book we read like it, so it was like 'well this book makes no sense' ~ but i like all the crazy stuff that happend, so its a good read, you should give it a try!
Its a very well written book to bring in historical events, family, relationships, politics and romance ~ together with magic realism - it was really good.
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Other kind of books read: I also read a lot of Mum's crime novels, not necessarily my favourite genre but some sure get you on the edge of your seat!
As for reading habits: I read either Empire or Q magazine while eating breakfast and then a book at lunch during work. Occasionally finish a book in a weekend, especially The Dresden Files, totally unputdownable!
Oh, and Northern Lights I was given as a gift not long after it went into paperback, took me ages to get into it, but by the time I'd finished the 2nd book I could not wait for the third!!
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oh crime novels can be fun- and mystery or detective fiction too!
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great post :)
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*hugs*
thanks!!