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[EBWonder]

To Kill a Mockingbird is a great book and movie.

Currrently reading Lost Symbol by Dan brown. So far, it's pretty interesting...looking for clues is fun...but it requires taking notes.

Personally, I tend to read (aside from my textbooks) Fantasy (just reread The Princess Bride for the tenth time!) and, sometimes, drama and/or mystery. Aside from that, I tend to read books on Education Theory and, ocassionally, a nice, good children's book.

Favorite Children's book: Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary tale by Mo Willems.

[Christopher]

I haven't really had the time to read as much as I used to lately.
Most of the time I've been cleaning house, doing laundry, or other household tasks.
But one book I've really been wanting to read lately has been Witch and Wizard by James Patterson.
Some books I really enjoyed reading in high school were probably the Pen Dragon books and all of the Dean Koontz stuff.

[Celia]

The last children's book I remember reading was The Great Good Thing. I'm sure there were a few others, but that one's easier to remember, because I snatched it from my sister.

[Rebecca]

I read whenever I find the time.

Not counting manga, I'd say the most recent book I read was Winnie the Pooh and House at Pooh Corner. It's not one of those two page Disney sponsored things, but the original book that the series was based off of, with a British Christopher Robin and all the other guys too.

If you want a real book reccomendation, I think it was Dracula that I read last semester. It was a good book, but I got bored of it because I was thinking too much on writing my own stories at the time.

[EBWonder]

I found Dracula boring. Reading diary entries isn't all that interesting to me and I found them .....biased. wierd because now all I read are analyses about schools and education policy. Reading is something I am passionate about, even if it isn't in English. As long as you learn something new in a book, it is never a waste of time.

[Hasfusel]

I reread my favourite passage from Silence of the Lambs again yesterday :3

Mostly I'm reading stuff about psychology and genetics at the moment.

[Saffy]

Which passages would those be?

[Hasfusel]

Spoiler:
The bit where he escapes from prison while listening to the Goldberg Variations, cutting off the guard's face and sticking it on his own so he gets taken into the ambulance. Also the little monologue from when he first encounters Clarice. It's a lovely trilogy and I think Hannibal resolved it perfectly. The last two chapters of Hannibal are amongst my favourites ever.

Calliope, don't you dare read this until you've finished it. You totally should, it really picks up the pace after a little while.

[Calliope]

Ah, darn. I was just about to highlight it... :P

I read a lot but sometimes I have the habit of reading books only halfway through and not finishing them. I'm currently alternating between What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell (he has a pretty interesting insight on things) and The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, which I have read at least three times now.

[EBWonder]

Finish them! you must! It's like eating half of your dinner!

[Calliope]

I'll eventually finish them! Eventually.

Seriously, though, I do eventually reread the books I never finished. What the Dog Saw, for example. I started reading it before the holidays and right before finals so I had to stop for awhile but now I've got plenty of time to finish it. It's quite a good read, by the way.

[Hasfusel]

I haven't really had the time to read as much as I used to lately.
Most of the time I've been cleaning house, doing laundry, or other household tasks.
But one book I've really been wanting to read lately has been Witch and Wizard by James Patterson.
Some books I really enjoyed reading in high school were probably the Pen Dragon books and all of the Dean Koontz stuff.

DUDE.

Wheel of Time. Go. GO.

[Chicken]

I read a lot. I'll spend like 4 hours reading every night when I have a book. I've been reading two at once, actually.

I re-read a story about Mary Tudor's (aka Bloody Mary) childhood. And I'm re-reading The Secret Life of Bees for a third time. I want to get another book by Sue Monk Kidd called The Mermaid Chair. And I also want to read the novel Sybil.

In addition, I'm so tempted to read this parody of Twilight entitled Nightlight. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/lalasmile.gif)

Also, as far as frivolous things go, I usually get through a manga the night I buy it.

[EBWonder]

I read a lot. I'll spend like 4 hours reading every night when I have a book. I've been reading two at once, actually.

I re-read a story about Mary Tudor's (aka Bloody Mary) childhood. And I'm re-reading The Secret Life of Bees for a third time. I want to get another book by Sue Monk Kidd called The Mermaid Chair. And I also want to read the novel Sybil.

In addition, I'm so tempted to read this parody of Twilight entitled Nightlight. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/lalasmile.gif)

Also, as far as frivolous things go, I usually get through a manga the night I buy it.

I saw nightlight at the bookstore and I was tempted, but then I remembered that I'd want to read twilight for a comparisonand that killed it for me. Vampires should not glitter.

[Katie]

I don't read much any more, besides the reading I'm obligated to do for English & the mandatory 10-minute reading for pleasure wee have at the beginning of class. But then again, I'm literate as it is and have finished around seven-eight books this year.

Currently for school I'm nearly done with The Great Gatsby, which I dislike greatly. Too much symbolism for me, and really not that entertaining for me. I'm also not a fan of the 20s, which may have an effect. It's a short read, for the most part, and I've heard it's one of those books you either love or hate.

I'm in the middle of Agatha Christie's Hallowe'en Party for my other reading. I've read Murder on the Orient Express very recently and would highly recommend it to anyone, but so far this one just doesn't really have that masculine simplicity of her other Poirot novels. I can't decide if I like it or not yet, because it's pretty slow paced.

One book I also read this year was The Lovely Bones. Carp. Too much shmex and freakish stuff. The movie is like, the children's version of that book. It was good at points, but dragged on near the end. Bitterly disappointing however.

Scarlet Pimpernel was quite good, as expected. For those who enjoy reading plays, I'd recommend Threepenny Opera by Brecht or The Crucible by Arthur Miller. Both are fantastic. Huck Finn can go live in a hole it was so dull and pointless. Catherine Delors's Mistress of the Revolution was a great read, though lengthy. But a great historical fiction novel if you like that stuff.

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[EBWonder]

Katie,

I know that you're the only one Jason really likes, but he's going to have to fight me for you. And I fight dirty!
Let the war begin.

EBWonder

P.S. If I'm summarily banned from the server, Jason did it.

[Chicken]

I liked The Lovely Bones. Of course then again, I've always been interested in abnormal psychology and stuff like that. Getting really mad at Mr. Harvey was fun in a weird kind of way.

[ZBoy]

So I finished To Kill a Mockingbird today. It was phenomenal, and truly something that I highly request everyone takes the time to at least try reading it!

[Noviwan]

I should get on to reading more often. I used to read all the time in school. I have books all throughout the house that I can pick and read at any given time; however I am never given the peace and time I need to get my read on. The last book I finished was Fantasy: A Collection It contained many short stories that I thoroughly enjoyed.

I love collections or anthologies. I am not sure what the correct term is however I like them because it gives me a hodgepodge of different Authors that all have different writing styles there for I am seeing different stories come to life in new ways I would have never imagined. Reading is a wonderful thankfully I was blessed with perfect eyesight at the loss of some ability to hear words.

So with all of that said I like to read I need to get on reading more often. Even if it means leaving the house maybe walking to the park and sitting on the bench for a spell. Oh my goodness it just struck me that I have to full boxes of books I have yet to read and the Fourth of July Book Sale is on the way! I must make room so that I can have three boxes of new books.

By the way my favorite genres are: fiction, sci-fi, adventure, mystery, and horror.

[IdlersDream]

I think I made a topic similar to this but I can't remember now.

I try to read everyday, and have always loved reading. I always kept it a secret because when you're younger, you're a complete loser if you like to read.

The book I'm reading right now is Dexter by Design by Jess Lindsey. It's the fourth book in the series {which is what the tv show is based off of}. I got to the end of the second chapter and had to stop reading it for a few days because it freaked the utter sh-t out of me.
After the first book in the series it becomes nothing like the show, which is why I kept reading them.

I have waay to many favourite books to choose a few but like most people, I loved Harry Potter.
Some books I've read recently that I liked a lot have been Shutter Island {which was soo great but sooo sad}, The Rule of Four {very amazing! take the Da Vinci Code and multiply it's awesomeness by 50}, and the Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters {which I read over a year ago but I still love it} The Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters, is written all in letter form, but only the letters from the main character, you never see the returning letters yet somehow you get to know the other characters very well. It's about a woman who finds out her sister has leukemia and she's trying to produce Don Quixote... Anyways, I HIGHlY reccomend all three of those books.


Edit - I loved To Kill a Mockingbird! I'm glad to hear other people enjoy it when all you ever hear of it books that get ruined by having to read them in class.