So I was looking at Goodreads and thinking about anticipation, and how a new book that comes out gets read immediately in front of the long long queue of existing books I want to get to. Here are books I am looking forward to:

This YearMockingjay, Suzanne Collins - August 24th ( Read more... )

1) I am really behind on my flist, but I had a great weekend:
a) Geeky Friday night of BSG and World of Warcraft with Jeremy and my brother ( Read more... )

Good Omens

I've been meaning to read Pratchett and Gaiman so I figured reading Good Omens would give me a head start on both, also people seemed to really like it. I was not disappointed at all. It was a really good book, well constructed and executed. It was funny, sweet, and ultimately humanist ( Read more... )

List a book I have read and I will come up with a paper I could write about it.

incomplete but fairly extensive list of books I have read located here

ETA - Handwriting meme (tagged by
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First I have sort of an awkward question/request to make. I'm writing a story right now that is contains a number non-white characters (African American, some of whom are of mixed parentage) and I'm finding myself terrified of putting my foot in my mouth and saying something stupid, stereotypical, or just generally offensive, in relation to their ( Read more... )

I have long been hesitant to read this book. I'd known Catch-22 had a sequel even since I read it during the summer of 2000. Heller mentioned it in the preface to the edition I had, spoiling me (Yossarian lives!) and I even knew that my beloved Chaplain Tappman was in it. But I loved Catch-22 so and was afraid of being disappointed... after all if ( Read more... )

1) Monday of this week, I finished Junot Diaz's The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which did not disappoint. Diaz goes from large scale description to the intimately personal with such grace and incorporates diverse elements and genres in a way that is incredibly calculated but at the same time impossibly fluid. If you are going to read ( Read more... )

This Weekend's Reading:

Lady Friday by Garth Nix (Book 5 of the Keys to the Kingdom Series)
Darkangel by Meredith Ann Pierce (Book 1 of the Darkangel Trilogy)

Apparently I can only read fantasy books these days and even then only if they are aimed at children or teenagers.

Joseph Heller's Catch-22 is definitely on my Top Ten as far as great books go. Having read it the summer before my Junior Year of High School (I took turns reading out loud with my dad which is a wonderful way to go), hobviously and I were pretty much obsessed with it for the rest of High School. I knew, from the preface of my edition, that there was a ( Read more... )

These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users. As usual, bold what you have read, italicise what you started but couldn't finish, and strike through what you couldn't stand. Add an asterisk [*] to those you've read more than once. Underline those on your to-read list.

( The List )