I have just completed "Wrinkle in Time" by Madeleine L'Engle. Read it several times over the past 20-plus years - really enjoy this book! Now reading "The Accidential Billionaires" by Ben Mezrich (saw him on BookTV a couple of weeks ago.

I am currently reading The complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe. Anybody who has not had the pleasure of reading his work should definitely make a point of doing so. While it's tough going in places, it is well worth sticking with. And reading The Murders in the Rue Morgue is a stunning piece of writing.

Looking at posts for inspiration...something new...

At the moment, I'm doing again this terrible thing where I read about 5 books at once

- Stephen King, Bag of Bones --> Haven't really got my teeth into it yet, but enjoying the characters and I feel Mike is based on Stephen quite heavily
- Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar --> O.O AWESOME...
- Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth --> kind of reading this for study, but thought it would be a good one to read. Suprisingly .. easy? For a 600 odd page book -_-'
- Nathan Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter --> Reading this online, and haven't really started yet but I wanted to give it a go because it's something I've never really read. I'm also wearing a "Scarlet Letter" right now! It's a P, anyone who knows the sypnosis of the story, don't ruin it for me but it would be really nice to know some more about it

So that's what I'm reading at the moment!

Scarecrow13 wrote:I am currently reading The complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe. Anybody who has not had the pleasure of reading his work should definitely make a point of doing so. While it's tough going in places, it is well worth sticking with. And reading The Murders in the Rue Morgue is a stunning piece of writing.

^ I've been wanting to read that for a long time. Let me know what you think!

just read "The Eye of Euridice" By Ryan Talbot.

Good stuff.

Walk with the devil's emissary and lay waste to satan's enemies.

My review below.

http://www.booktalk.org/post99655.html

Night by Elie Wiesel... reading it for a paper along with a few other books on the holocaust. I hate it, I hate books that make me sad and make me want to cry while I'm reading on the tube. :|

Genocide wrote:Night by Elie Wiesel... reading it for a paper along with a few other books on the holocaust. I hate it, I hate books that make me sad and make me want to cry while I'm reading on the tube.

But it's such a great book! Although, it is terribly sad. I wonder if you're also reading The Diary of Anne Frank. It's an easier book to read since it contains an underlying sense of humor. Her narrative is quite different from Wiesel's. She creates a constant mood of claustrophobia and vividly describes her isolation from the world as well as from family members. Above all, she captures the inescapable fear of Jews in hiding. Wiesel struggles with reconciling his religious beliefs and that which he experiences in the camps. Like Frank, he was a only teenager and his youth was completely shattered. It's heartbreaking, that's true, but try and get something out of it. In my opinion, the power of his subjectivity is enough to appreciate the book.

What am I reading now?
At the moment I'm writing an essay on Tracks by Louise Erdrich. She's an American Indian author and very talented.
I've recently read The Fixer by Bernard Malamud. Possibly one of the greatest novels ever written.

I'm not! I didn't think about reading it since I think I hated it very much in middle school. The other books I'm looking at are Schindlers Ark/List The Black Hole of Auschwitz, The Policies of Genocide, A Train in Winter, and the film Life is Beautiful.

Night is terribly sad, but yes I agree- very very good. :'c

The Woman by Jack Ketchum and Lucky McKee.