what... are... you... READING

[Lucifer]

Finished "Amsterdam". Terrific read. No wonder he won the Booker prize for it.

oh dear.  i suppose this means i'll have to read it now...  /sigh...

It's very quick read. His books are usually short, in addition to being superbly written.

that's a major advantage - i couldn't stand much of his literary wanking for long. 

It's very seductive, though.

just started "saturday" (julie leant it to me), and wanted to stab him halfway down page two. 

yes, the writing is superb, but he still irritates the fuck out of me.  four pages of surgical detail, just to fucking well show off - if i'd been his editor, i'd have taken a red pen through the whole boiling.

[Tristeza]

i didn't read much at all last year
i think i read 2 books
i'm trying to read more now though, in the hope that it will help me stop being depressed
maybe i should stop reading depressing books

Depressing books actually cheer me up!   

I'm reading By the River Piedra I Sat Down & Wept, by Paulo Coelho

[Sophgay]

They make me feel better in some ways
But they make me think too much
And the more I think, the more depressed I get

[Persona]

Paolo Coelho is good.

Although I think I'm like the only person who does not like The Alchemist 

My favourites are The Zahir and Eleven Minutes.

[Tristeza]

Paolo Coelho is good.

Although I think I'm like the only person who does not like The Alchemist 

Probably because there's been so much hype over it.  I haven't even read it yet because of this.  I loved Veronika Decides to Die.

[DirtDawg]

I picked up this really cool book at the library, yesterday. I'm am almost done with it after last night.

It's about teaching a dyslexic child to read better.

I am married to a dyslexic woman who wants better for her children than she had. We are up against a bureaucracy trying to make the school board understand that we DO KNOW WTF we are talking about. Our daughter IS dyslexic.

But her scores are so high that they see no reason to address this. She IS WELL ABOVE THE AVERAGE (FFS!!) and this fact is hindering her educastion


We are constasntly put off with our requests for some assistance in this area.
She is a genius, but dyslexic as hell. why can't they accept this. Why won't they try to help her?Average is good enough for them. FUCKKING Bastards!!

[Sophgay]

Things like that piss me off
As if as long as the kid isn't failing, it's ok
It doesn't matter to them that, even though she's doing average, she's still not fulfilling her potential
It's fucked up

[Tristeza]

DD, what are your daughter's symptoms - what does she have trouble with when she's reading?  I sometimes wonder if I have some mild form of dyslexia, but everything I read about it doesn't seem to fit.

[Sophgay]

DD, what are your daughter's symptoms - what does she have trouble with when she's reading?  I sometimes wonder if I have some mild form of dyslexia, but everything I read about it doesn't seem to fit.

I used to think that too
About me I mean, not you

[Persona]

Still reading Maus.

[ozymandias]

My 1st college's Alumni magazine 

[odeon]

Finished "Amsterdam". Terrific read. No wonder he won the Booker prize for it.

oh dear.  i suppose this means i'll have to read it now...  /sigh...

It's very quick read. His books are usually short, in addition to being superbly written.

that's a major advantage - i couldn't stand much of his literary wanking for long. 

It's very seductive, though.

just started "saturday" (julie leant it to me), and wanted to stab him halfway down page two. 

yes, the writing is superb, but he still irritates the fuck out of me.  four pages of surgical detail, just to fucking well show off - if i'd been his editor, i'd have taken a red pen through the whole boiling.

Yes, it's a show-off but it's also brilliant. It's literary wanking to a degree most of us can only dream of. Imagine Ian McEwan with an actual plot.

[Lucifer]

Finished "Amsterdam". Terrific read. No wonder he won the Booker prize for it.

oh dear.  i suppose this means i'll have to read it now...  /sigh...

It's very quick read. His books are usually short, in addition to being superbly written.

that's a major advantage - i couldn't stand much of his literary wanking for long. 

It's very seductive, though.

just started "saturday" (julie leant it to me), and wanted to stab him halfway down page two. 

yes, the writing is superb, but he still irritates the fuck out of me.  four pages of surgical detail, just to fucking well show off - if i'd been his editor, i'd have taken a red pen through the whole boiling.

Yes, it's a show-off but it's also brilliant. It's literary wanking to a degree most of us can only dream of. Imagine Ian McEwan with an actual plot

[odeon]

Finished "Amsterdam". Terrific read. No wonder he won the Booker prize for it.

oh dear.  i suppose this means i'll have to read it now...  /sigh...

It's very quick read. His books are usually short, in addition to being superbly written.

that's a major advantage - i couldn't stand much of his literary wanking for long. 

It's very seductive, though.

just started "saturday" (julie leant it to me), and wanted to stab him halfway down page two. 

yes, the writing is superb, but he still irritates the fuck out of me.  four pages of surgical detail, just to fucking well show off - if i'd been his editor, i'd have taken a red pen through the whole boiling.

Yes, it's a show-off but it's also brilliant. It's literary wanking to a degree most of us can only dream of. Imagine Ian McEwan with an actual plot

Yes, I know. And yet I finished "Saturday" with pleasure.

[Lucifer]

Finished "Amsterdam". Terrific read. No wonder he won the Booker prize for it.

oh dear.  i suppose this means i'll have to read it now...  /sigh...

It's very quick read. His books are usually short, in addition to being superbly written.

that's a major advantage - i couldn't stand much of his literary wanking for long. 

It's very seductive, though.

just started "saturday" (julie leant it to me), and wanted to stab him halfway down page two. 

yes, the writing is superb, but he still irritates the fuck out of me.  four pages of surgical detail, just to fucking well show off - if i'd been his editor, i'd have taken a red pen through the whole boiling.

Yes, it's a show-off but it's also brilliant. It's literary wanking to a degree most of us can only dream of. Imagine Ian McEwan with an actual plot

Yes, I know. And yet I finished "Saturday" with pleasure.

i can imagine: the pleasure at not having to read it any more.





i'm persevering, just for you.