*What book are you reading ?

[Relahni]

Brian Clough - walking on water

very good.

 

[foo]

I suspect it may have summat to do with why she's not taken terribly seriously, plus she's funny.

met her once here in Cambridge - she was lovely!

i'm reading Broken Biscuits by someoneorother who one some prizeorother for writing it.

it's a bit shit - and after 3 chapters i think i've had enough.

 

[sojourner]

it just made me a bit angry that it was simplified into being 'lesbian' relationship because they are both women. it seemed to me more maternal or than barbara needed a dependant more like a child substitute. have you seen the film? i havent and am curious now.

Spot on - this is evidenced when B's need for a dependent got just that bit more desperate and twisted when the Portia bit happened (without giving away too much!)

No haven't seen the film, but I'm also curious now

The media did a very similar thing with Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson, calling it a lesbian love story, and the book itself a 'lesbian love ode' If they'd bothered to read the fucking thing they'd have realised that it's impossible to assign gender to the narrator, so if you can't do that, you can't blather on about what sexuality s/he is can you?!

 

[madamv]

Just finished 'The Tuesday Erotica Club' - Lisa Beth Kovetz.

I enjoyed it, chick lit but with a bit of sauce

Dunno whether to start 'Dry' - Augusten Burroughs, or 'Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close' - Jonathan Safran Foer.

Will start one of those tomorrow, tonight its pretty frocks Oscar stylee

 

[I'm at work]

Spot on - this is evidenced when B's need for a dependent got just that bit more desperate and twisted when the Portia bit happened (without giving away too much!)

No haven't seen the film, but I'm also curious now

The media did a very similar thing with Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson, calling it a lesbian love story, and the book itself a 'lesbian love ode' If they'd bothered to read the fucking thing they'd have realised that it's impossible to assign gender to the narrator, so if you can't do that, you can't blather on about what sexuality s/he is can you?!

They haven't bothered to read the book ( which is superb) . When they did Wintersons "oranges ae not the only fruit" on the BBC they angled it to the lesbian part of the story yet it was about fundamentalist religious belief - the lesbian aspect was a side line, that _was_ the story - it didn't matter who or what she did/was as long as she bashed the bible!!

Having finished the watery ""Waterworld" by Graham Swift I've moved onto the 1985 Booker Winner The Bone people by Keri Hulme.

 

[foamy]

The media did a very similar thing with Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson, calling it a lesbian love story, and the book itself a 'lesbian love ode' If they'd bothered to read the fucking thing they'd have realised that it's impossible to assign gender to the narrator, so if you can't do that, you can't blather on about what sexuality s/he is can you?!

would i enjoy this since i loved notes on a scandal?

 

[sojourner]

would i enjoy this since i loved notes on a scandal?

Two different books (obvious statement of the year there!), but I would recommend that book to anyone anyway cos I love it

 

[sojourner]

They haven't bothered to read the book ( which is superb) . When they did Wintersons "oranges ae not the only fruit" on the BBC they angled it to the lesbian part of the story yet it was about fundamentalist religious belief - the lesbian aspect was a side line, that _was_ the story - it didn't matter who or what she did/was as long as she bashed the bible!!

Hmm, well, I'd have to say that it was Jess's sexuality that caused her split with the religious community she was part of, and caused all the rest of the uproar, so i'd say with Oranges it was very definitely centred around her lesbianism. I thought the TV adaptation was excellent btw - Charlotte Coleman was just brilliant (RIP)

 

[Nina]

Khaled Hosseini

The Kite Runner

Just finished it and shed my fair share of tears. Beautiful story, beautifully written.

 

[maya]

Trying to read some philosophy, but my brain just isn't up to the task... In fact, it never is.

 

[quimcunx]

I enjoyed the kite runner. I like how the main character was in no way heroic.

I'm reading Unspeak Stephen Poole about weasel words. Why politicians use particular words, what they want us to think etc.

AC Grayling is about as much philosophy as my little brain can handle. I'm a beginner. I can say Occam's Razor, though I probably can't spell it...

 

[tastebud]

i read it on coaches in turkey & couldn't read for more than about twenty seconds at a time, before having to look out of the window, away from the book & blink back the tears
i really enjoyed reading it, though it has to be said that it's pretty cheesy & far fetched in parts.
(the kite runner i mean).

 

[chazegee]

In cold blood - Truman Capote

I know have 5 books on, and getting no closer to finishing any of them, a bit like my bittorrent then

 

[jodal]

Story - Robert McKee for something like the 5th time.

 

[sojourner]

In cold blood - Truman Capote

How are you finding it? I read it recently (after watching the Philip SH film) and really liked it

I plan to start Coetzee's Disgrace on Sunday

 

[madamv]

Just finished 'Dry' - Augusten Burroughs. I love him. I feel sad when I finish his books because its like a friend who doesnt call you for months....

Started 'Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close' - Jonathan Safran Foer.

I think I have found my favourate paragraph in a book ever.

What about microphones? What if everyone swallowed them, and they played the sounds of our hearts through little speakers which could be in the pouches of our overalls? When you skateboarded down the street at night you could hear everyone's heartbeat, and they could hear yours, sort of like a sonar. One weird thing is, I wonder if everyone's hearts would start to beat at the same time, like how women who live together have their menstrual periods at the same time, which I know about, but don't really want to know about. That would be so weird, except that the place in the hospital where babies are born would sound like a crystal chandelier in a houseboat, because the babies wouldn't have had time to match up their heartbeats yet. And at the finish line at the end of the New York City Marathon it would sound like war.

Ahhhh. I love reading on Gin

 

[Julie]

The Last Godfather: The Rise and Fall of Joey Massino (by Simon Crittle)

Forward by Donnie Basco (aka Joseph D. Pistone)


Interesting, quick read. He reminds me of Tony Soprano

 

[trashpony]

PD James. I can only cope with stuff which isn't too taxing right now

 

[iguzza]

Khaled Hosseini

The Kite Runner

Just finished it and shed my fair share of tears. Beautiful story, beautifully written.

me, too

Very good book.

Starting My name is Red now by Orhan Pamuk.

 

[Dirty Martini]

Finished Q by Luther Blissett.

It's a lot of fun. It dips sometimes, there's some clunky writing and at points the plot creaks like a 16th century floorboard, but it's a cracking read. I think I'd like to read more about the peasant wars. I'd certainly like to read 54.

 

[maya]

It dips sometimes, there's some clunky writing and at points the plot creaks like a 16th century floorboard,

( )

I'm halfway into "The Art Of Loving" by Erich Fromm... Will start Joseph Conrad's "Lord Jim" in roughly two hours...
You won't excitedly await my reports, but I'll return later to let you know, anyway...

 

[foamy]

just finished 'The Girls' by Lori Lansen

and started 'Everything You Know' by Zoe Heller (after enjoying notes on a scandal so much )

 

[Dirty Martini]

Joseph Conrad's "Lord Jim" in roughly two hours...
You won't excitedly await my reports, but I'll return later to let you know, anyway...

That's one of the best novels ever written (imo)

 

[chooch]

Finished Q by Luther Blissett.
It's a lot of fun. It dips sometimes, there's some clunky writing and at points the plot creaks like a 16th century floorboard, but it's a cracking read. I think I'd like to read more about the peasant wars. I'd certainly like to read 54.

I loved q despite its join-the-dotsness. In 54, the writing´s clunkier still in parts, but a good deal of the entertainment´s still there. Worth reading.
I´m just finishing Allan Gurganus white people, a short-story collection. Very impressed overall. There´s some tenderness, some vitriol, some satire and the odd false step.

 

[Dirty Martini]

join-the-dotsness

That's it, especially in the last third. That said, the political vision behind the book is impressively consistent. I think they manage to make the 16th century speak pretty directly to the 21st ... (ugh)

 

[Boogie Boy]

Just finished:

'Brave New World' Aldous Huxley
'One Hundred Years Of Solitude' Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Now reading:

'The New Atlantis' Francis Bacon

BB

 

[YouSir]

Everything by P.G Wodehouse.

 

[purves grundy]

Fun Home, by Alison Bechdel

The first graphic novel I've ever bothered with (cos of the top reviews it got), and I tell ya it's fuckin awesome. What a work of art

 

[Vintage Paw]

Am still reading Auster's The Book of Illusions but had to put it to one side while I'm doing work.

Yesterday finished Day of the Locust by Nathaneal West. Very interesting book. Quite disturbing by the end ... in some ways it (sadly) reminded me of Elect Mr Robinson for a better world - and that book is one experience I never want to relive again!

Reading Ragtime by Doctorow next, looking forward to it, plus is has a picture on the front.

 

[ringo]

The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs by Irvine Welsh