August 3rd, 2008
I’ve been really lax on my reading this past year and I totally intend to change that. The other day, I finally went in and updated my Goodreads profile, then tooled around looking for book suggestions and quotes that I like. I’m always saying that I just don’t have the time to sit down and read, but that is a pile of horse shit, really. The problem is that I’ve not been able to properly shut off my head long enough to read something without my mind wandering to whichever beast I need to slay next. Somehow and some way, I have got to just sit down and let everything go, submerse myself into the story and just…breathe.
Yep, you guessed it! Time for…..
1. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE BOOK OF ALL TIME?
2. WHAT BOOK ARE YOU CURRENTLY READING?
My favorite book of all time? Really that’s a tie between Jane Eyre and Of Mice and Men. Yes, I like the classics. Jane Eyre touches every romantically adventurous bone in my body while Of Mice and Men speaks in quiet volumes that simply resonate months after reading it. So yeah, love those books.
What am I reading now? As I said before, I have been slowly making my way through my reading so I’ve been on the same book for about a month now (it usually takes only an afternoon). However, the book I am reading is so freaking good that I don’t mind cracking it open once a day to read a chapter and giggle my little heart out. “What book is that?”, you ask. Well it is a book called The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow The Bible as Literally as Possible by A.J. Jacobs. I can’t even begin to tell you how amazingly funny this book is. Besides all of the religious knowledge that I am gaining by reading it, the fact that I giggle at almost every other page impresses the hell out of me. Even if you are not a deeply religious or spiritual person, I think you will get a lot out of this book. Knowledge is power and A.J. manages to give you that knowledge without cramming any sort of religious view down your throat. Here’s an excerpt:
The Hebrew scriptures prescribe a tremendous amount of capital punishment. Think Saudi Arabia, multiply by Texas, then triple that. It wasn’t just for murder. You could also be executed for adultery, blasphemy, breaking the Sabbath, perjury, incest, bestiality and witchcraft, among others. A rebellious son could be sentenced to death. As could a gluttonous or a drunkardly son.
The most commonly mentioned punishment method in the Hebrew Bible is stoning. So I figure, at the very least, I should try to stone. But how?
I can’t tell you how many people have suggested I get adulterers and blasphemers stoned in the cannabis sense. Which is an interesting idea. But I haven’t smoked pot since I was at Brown University and I wrote a paper for my anthropology class on the hidden symbolism of bong hits. (Brown was the type of college where this paper actually earned a B+).
Instead, I figured my loophole would be this: the bible doesn’t specify the size of the stones. So…pebbles.
A few days ago, I gathered a handful of small white pebbles from Central Park, which I stuffed in my back pants pocket. Now all I needed were some victims. I decide to start with Sabbath breakers. That’s easy enough to find in this workaholic city. I noticed a pot-bellied guy at the Avis down our block had worked on both Saturday and Sunday. So no matter what, he’s a Sabbath-breaker.
Here’s the thing, though: Even with pebbles, it is surprisingly hard to stone people.
My plan had been to walk nonchalantly past him and chuck the pebbles at the small of his back. But after a couple of failed passes, I realized it was a bad idea. A chucked pebble, no matter how small, does not go unnoticed.
My revised plan: I would pretend to be clumsy and drop the pebble on his shoe. So I did.
Anyway, I highly reccomend that you check out ALL of the books I have mentioned here today. And I am also hoping that by you gracing me with your “Snackie Sunday” presence, I will learn of more amazing things to read as well!
Disco Funkstar Kisses,
Me
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August 3rd, 2008 at 11:10 am
Favorite book… Noble House by James Clavell.
What I’m reading now… Son of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
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August 3rd, 2008 at 11:31 am
I have waaaay too many favorites to name just one. You’re talking to a girl who can finish a 300 page novel in a couple hours.
I read. A LOT! Too many books in too many different genres that are close to my heart to be able to pick.
What am I reading now? Nothing…but, just finished re-reading a couple by Julia Quinn, cuz I wuv her.
And um….what SHOULD Hilly be reading?? *cough…whistles innocently…cough*
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August 3rd, 2008 at 11:36 am
Favorite book of all time:
Imajica by Clive Barker
Reading right now:
Reave the Just & Other Stories by Stephen Donaldson
The Alchemist: The Secret Life of Nicholas Flamel by Michael Scott
Definitely Dead b y Charlain Harris
(can’t read just one at a time)
August 3rd, 2008 at 11:38 am
I’m reading a graphic novel right now, “Watchmen”, because another blogger *ahem* told me I was missing out if I don’t.
This is in addition to the several other books I am ‘currently reading’. I suppose I should update my Goodreads, as well.
August 3rd, 2008 at 11:41 am
Favorite book of all time: Weaveworld by Clive Barker (Although JuanaBee reminded me of Imajica which was also excellent!)
I am currently reading Peach Blossom Pavilion by Mingmei Yip.
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August 3rd, 2008 at 11:46 am
My favorite book is The Gunslinger by Stephen King. It’s the first part in a series. I also love The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy too.
Right now I’m reading IT by King and The Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis. But like you I’ve been reading them for awhile but I’ve been getting distracted, it’s almost time for fall semester to start. Darn.
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August 3rd, 2008 at 11:47 am
My favorite book of all time is Velvet Highlands by Jude Devereaux. Yeah, I know it’s a mushy historical romance. Ask me if I care…
What I’m reading now:
The Lost Art of Compassion: Discovering the Practice of Happiness in the Meeting of Buddhism and Psychology by Lorne Ladner.
I’ve been reading it off and on for months. I need to sit down and like you said, shut my brain off, to finish reading it.
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August 3rd, 2008 at 12:01 pm
Can´t name one favorite but The Secret History by Donna Tartt made a huge impact on me. I was listening to Siamese Dream by Smashing Pumpkins while I read it and I still get into that “emotion” when I hear that album. America by Franz Kafka was great (he had a great sense of humour). Neil Gaiman tells a good story, so do Douglas Coupland, Haruki Murakami, Michael Connolly and of course, If on a winter´s night a traveler by Italo Calvino. Sophie Calle although being an artist more than a writer is still intriguing to read. Dammit, I can go on and on.
Right now I´m reading Making Money by Terry Pratchett but haven´t gotten into it just yet.
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August 3rd, 2008 at 12:19 pm
Favorite book: Slapstick by Kurt Vonnegut
Book I’m reading now: This I Believe from NPR.
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August 3rd, 2008 at 12:30 pm
I don’t think I can pick a favorite book. I read far too much to pick just one. “Winter’s Tale” is an excellent book, and immediately comes to mind. I loved both your choices, too. And i just finished reading, “Magical Thinking” by Augusten Burroughs. Before that was, “The Poisonwood Bible”, which was a lot better than I thought it would be.
But I really want to read, “The Year of Living Biblically”, too! I read some excerpts from that quite a while ago, but always forget to get it when I’m looking for a book.
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August 3rd, 2008 at 12:32 pm
I will have to check that out. A similar book is Skipping Towards Gomorrah by Dan Savage. He sets out to commit the seven deadly sins and… well it’s an awesome, funny and intelligent read. I learned quite a bit from and and sent out four copies for friends to share with their friends, everyone loved it.
August 3rd, 2008 at 1:12 pm
Hmmm. Favorite book? There are so many. Today I will say that it is “Atlas Shrugged” by Ayn Rand. Or maybe “The Book of Laughter and Forgetting” by Milan Kundera.
I am currently working my way through the Stephanie Plum series and am on the eighth one at this time.
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August 3rd, 2008 at 3:41 pm
MIDSUMMER READING, at PRACTICALLY AT HOME
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August 3rd, 2008 at 3:52 pm
I tooooootally wanna read that book now. Except I just bought Infoquake (sci-fi) by David Louis Edelman and The Missing Girls (true crime) by Linda O’Neal et all today so I’ll have to wait on this one. I have a sick enjoyment of gory punishment in relation to religion.
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August 3rd, 2008 at 3:52 pm
ahem, et al
not et all
je suis smartE.
Poppys last blog post..Apparently the "no touching the Poppy" rule is null and void in Queens
August 3rd, 2008 at 3:59 pm
I don’t have a favorite book of all time - I read too much to pick an all-time favorite.
August 3rd, 2008 at 3:59 pm
Oh, and I’m currently reading Stephenie Meyer’s new book that came out Saturday - her Twilight series is awesome!
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August 3rd, 2008 at 4:03 pm
Avi, you have her book already? Well, aren’t you the envy of everyone who cares! Fortunately, I am not one of those people. The girl at Borders said that a few of her coworkers had read it and said Voldemorte kills everyone in the end. heeeeeheeeeheeee!
Poppys last blog post..Apparently the "no touching the Poppy" rule is null and void in Queens
August 3rd, 2008 at 4:04 pm
Great, great, great questions! This may get my rump in gear to start reading again. My answers are here.
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August 3rd, 2008 at 4:06 pm
Yeah, Amazon delivered it on Saturday!
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August 3rd, 2008 at 4:08 pm
In all seriousness, there is no way I could pick a favorite book of all time. I have read literally tens of thousands of books and have loved too many of them.
I am currently reading Send: The Essential Guide to Email for Office and Home. (I’m only reading it because it’s my friends’ book club selection; our book club meeting is next Saturday.)
The last book of my choosing that I read was Such a Pretty fat by Jen Lancaster. . . or I should say, TRIED to read: I couldn’t get into it and quit trying after about 60 pages.
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August 3rd, 2008 at 4:10 pm
That’s awesome. Borders is only doing pre-orders now, totally sold out. I’ve apparently lived under a rock which has helped me resist her charm.
Poppys last blog post..Apparently the "no touching the Poppy" rule is null and void in Queens
August 3rd, 2008 at 4:12 pm
Poppy, did you read the first book yet?
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August 3rd, 2008 at 4:18 pm
Nope!
Poppys last blog post..Apparently the "no touching the Poppy" rule is null and void in Queens
August 3rd, 2008 at 4:19 pm
That will be something to do while you’re in Queens!
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August 3rd, 2008 at 4:24 pm
Can’t pick just one favorite book of all time, so I picked one of my favorites, first one to come to mind: A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving.
Reading now: The Hot Kid by Elmore Leonard.
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August 3rd, 2008 at 4:25 pm
*snort*
I do more in one day in Queens than I did in one week in VT. It’s insane. But, I’ll add it to the list even though a certain someone told me her writing isn’t that good.
Poppys last blog post..Apparently the "no touching the Poppy" rule is null and void in Queens
August 3rd, 2008 at 4:26 pm
Her writing isn’t genius-level. Neither is JK Rowling’s, although Meyer’s is definitely better.
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August 3rd, 2008 at 4:32 pm
I think the books are somewhere around here so I’ll give the first one a try.
Poppys last blog post..Apparently the "no touching the Poppy" rule is null and void in Queens
August 3rd, 2008 at 5:09 pm
One wonders if a certain someone is trying to be a big old whore again this month…
August 3rd, 2008 at 5:25 pm
Favorite book of all time: ‘Hilly, The Beast Slayer’
Currently reading ‘Advanced Tattoo Art, How-to Secrets Of The Masters.’
I’m really NOT a reader, but i think my favorite book of all time was probably ‘Joy Luck Club’ by Amy Tan, which i read in college 16 years ago.
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August 3rd, 2008 at 5:37 pm
Jane Eyre was my favorite book for a long time. Then A Prayer for Owen Meany. Now, I guess it is Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, or Saving Fish from Drowning. I have a hard time choosing. I love anything that Jodi Picoult writes…I have a hard time putting her books down. She is not a great writer but a good story teller.
Currently I am reading Water for Elephants. I like it. Next is the new David Sedaris.
I have nothing on my goodreads… and I read all of the time. I really need to update.
August 3rd, 2008 at 5:43 pm
Favourite book. Hmmm… though call. I love Ondaatje’s In the Skin of the Lion. Also a huge fan of Blindness by Jose Saramago disutopian and very dark. It’s so good I refuse to see the movie.
Presently reading, Elizabeth Hay’s Late Nights on Air — I loved Garbo Laugh (great read for film buffs). Lovely read. Some passages have left me going “damn I need to remember that. Of course now I can’t.
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August 3rd, 2008 at 5:56 pm
Favorite book: I can’t pick just one. Way up their on my list of favorites would be Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.
What I’m currently reading: I’m in between books at this moment. I’m waiting on a copy of Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer from the library. If you haven’t read the Twilight series you must. Like Avitable said, they are excellent.
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August 3rd, 2008 at 5:56 pm
Me? Never!
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August 3rd, 2008 at 6:20 pm
My favorite book of all time? The Awakening by Kate Chopin. It’s an amazing read that really speaks to the core of women trying to figure out what they want in life when the life they have been given is not enough or what they want.
I’m not reading anything right now. After graduate school my brain is fried and I don’t know if I could actually comprehend anything I might read. But I need to grab something and start reading.
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August 3rd, 2008 at 6:20 pm
Indeed you!
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August 3rd, 2008 at 6:21 pm
My favorite book of all time is The Heroin Diaries by Nikki Sixx. It was a hugely riveting book that was sickening, fascinating, horrifying, and completely amazing.
What I’m reading now is an ebook called The Elegant Corpse by A.M. Riley. It’s a rather risque story about gay cop with a leather lifestyle.
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August 3rd, 2008 at 7:14 pm
RE:”…and just…breathe.”
Yes Hillypoo. You can apply this while slaying the beasts too. : )
Gotta read that book; I’ve heard how incredibly funny it is. : )
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August 3rd, 2008 at 7:43 pm
I have too many favourite books to just choose one, but I would recommend the Twilight series if you haven’t read them (awesome - and it’s not at all disturbing that I have a huge crush on a 17-year-old fictional vampire now…). I would also recommend Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi. Don’t let the fact that Oprah picked it to be part of her book club turn you off. It’s a great book. As is Anne Marie MacDonald’s Fall on Your Knees (although that one is also very, very hard to read in places for emotional reasons).
Currently I’m reading fluff by way of “Emily’s Reasons Why Not” and “The Bourne Identity” to counter the philosophical deep of “The Power of Now” (No, I can’t just read one book at a time apparently…)
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August 3rd, 2008 at 7:55 pm
suze—Don’t think of him as 17, think of him as 102. Or does that not help?
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August 4th, 2008 at 6:33 am
Yes, hard to pick just one…
It was probably on a trip and it was probably Michael Crichton because his books are easy to digest.
I would say Kafka’s The Trial or Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky. Hey, I was an English major. Give me a break.
I cannot tell you the last time I read a book.
August 4th, 2008 at 7:47 am
hands down, my favorite book ever is the little prince. antoine de saint-exupéry. sure it is a children’s book and a fast read, but there is so much in there worth reading.
i’m also in the hitchhiker’s guide camp. great fun.
after seeing the play a kerjillion times, i fell in love with a midsummer night’s dream. gotta love a little willy shakespeare.
thanks for the heads up on the eyar of living biblically. i had heard good stuff, but your opinion obviously counts more than others!
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August 4th, 2008 at 7:57 am
p.s. the newer translated version of the little prince sucks. gotta get the older one. and i need to kick someone in the ass for feeling the need to re-translate the best book ever.
fuckers.
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August 4th, 2008 at 8:04 am
dammit, i forgot to mention the chronicles of narnia. MUCH better than the damn movies.
when i had to babysit my cousin’s 3 week old baby boy, i didn’t know what to do with him so i read him the lion, the witch and the wardrobe. he seemed to like it.
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August 4th, 2008 at 8:23 am
Of my many, many favorites one is Wuthering Heights. I love the darkness of it. Ibsen’s A Dollhouse is amazing. And of course The Night of the Mary Kay Commandos. Opus just kills me
Right now I’m working on JoAnne Harris’s Jigs and Reels. Short stories.
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August 4th, 2008 at 8:57 am
since you don’t remind religious overtones (and potential mockery), Lamb by Christopher Moore. it is Mexillent.
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August 4th, 2008 at 9:10 am
i totally meant “mind” not “remind”. and i can’t stand when ppl come back and correct their typos but honestly, they scandalize me. it’s like people are in the world reading this right now and they think i’m not bright or worse yet, that i walk around saying “since you don’t remind religious overtones”. there’s nothing worse
Cryss last blog post..Broken
August 4th, 2008 at 10:01 am
of the thousands and thousands of books I’ve read it’s still A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving - I tear up just thinking about it.
I’m currently reading Three Cups of Tea, which is about Greg Mortenson’s efforts to build schools in small villages in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Not written very well, but an excellent true story.
August 4th, 2008 at 7:08 pm
Like others, it’s hard to pick an all-time favorite. But I’ll try.
As a child, my favorite book was by Julie Edwards (Andrews, yes, Mary Poppins). It’s called “The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles.” Fantastic read. I also loved “The Phantom Tollbooth” by Norton Juster (illustrated by Jules Feiffer).
As an adult? It’s a toss-up between Wally Lamb’s “I Know This Much is True” (one of the only books to make me cry) and “Swan Song” by Robert S. MacCammon.
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August 4th, 2008 at 8:29 pm
I can’t resist answering this one– it’s a Bookworm Question! :-)
My oldest favorite book from childhood is Black Beauty. My Friend Flicka would be a close second place, and is perhaps better written…but there is something about Black Beauty that if I see one? I have to pick it up and at least look at it. You know, browse, what kind of illustrations, etc. :-)
Currently reading a really great book, “Old Songs in a New Cafe” by Robert James Waller. I just love this book of collected writings. It is the right book at the right time for me.
August 7th, 2008 at 10:26 am
Favorite Book of all time: It’s a toss-up between ANIMAL FARM and 1984 (yes, I like the George Orwell)
Currently reading (very slowly, I might add): The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins. It’s my second time through it.
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August 7th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
marty—I just read both of those Orwell books this year for the very first time.
August 7th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
My absolute favorite book of all time is Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. I know many woman who said this book changed their lives. It is pretty heavy for a summer read but well worth the investment of time.
One of my recent favorites is the Book Thief by Marcus Zusak, this guy has an amazing writing style. I’m reading Moose by Stephanie Klein right now. I will read just about anything although Tucker Max was a little too much for me. Check out my Shelfari bookshelf for my other favorites and reviews.
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