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emiliah17

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The past week i've been a bookworm like never before and have completed so far:
Sleepwalking in Daylight
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/Alice Through the Looking Glass
Party
Cracked up to Be
and am currently reading Requiem for a Dream

the next books i plan on reading are:
Crank
Sing me to Sleep
Identical
A Long Way Gone


Any suggestions for books i should buy/borrow when I'm done?
What books have you read lately? Do you recommend them or not?


I love books you can totally throw yourself into and you feel like emotionally connected to the characters with. And with Requiem for a Dream, the way that Hubert Selby Jr. writes is beautiful. I've never read a book so blunt. It's insanely vivid with descriptions, i love his diction. And the way he just throws the dialogue into it all is very interesting to me. I also love poetic books that are written in verse, like how Ellen Hopkins writes.
 
I just finished Neil Gaiman's collection of short stories - Smoke & Mirrors. It was quite satisfying. I'm in the middle of Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson.

I just went to the library & started looking for cyberpunk :)
 
Smoke & Mirrors is great.

Two of my favorite cyberpunk novels are The Diamond Age and Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. William Gibson's contemporary cyberpunk novel, Spook Country, is pretty good as well.
 
What are you reading now?

Most things you bought from online are still books. Now I put this topic to let all of you tell others what you are reading now. Simply, you can just tell the name of the book or the review. Focus on the book you are reading or just finish.
I come first.
"China's Cultural Relics" Start reading today. I read it on my way to work or back home on bus. Expecting to finish this week.
If I have time, I will spend time reading.
"Dear John" finished yesterday.
"Health Care at Home a Family Massage Manual" finished this morning.
"Insights into Chinese Culture" will be purchased.
"China's Cultural Relics" will be finished as soon as possible.
This was bought from book-wholesale. I like Chinese culture. So these books I always prefer to buy them. About 40 percent discount can be accepted. If you guys found the book that with 40 percent discount, please tell me. (Refer to the recent books, 05 years ago, many were bought.).These two books I recommend to all of you. The very detailed introduced. With rich pictures. Featuring the distinctive heights of Chinese culture. I like chapter 3 about Bronze Ware and chapter 8 about Gold and Silver Artifacts.
I had read "The Help" a few weeks earlier. These stories of the black maids working for white women in the state of Mississippi of the 60s have an insiders' view of child-rearing, Junior League benefits, town gossip, and race relations. Miss Skeeter she became my favorite character.
Be stimulated by lower prices for “The Help” on book-wholesale. I decide to look electronic edition of the books that I want to buy. Lucky to find half of them. It saves $10
I will update from time to time later, tell us what you are reading now, thank you.
 
The Quiet American-read at coffee shop
61 Hours-read at home
Mahjongg Spies-read at my massage shop
Formosa Straits-read in parlor
The Secret Agent-read at library
Brief History of Thailand-read in car
 
A Widow for One Year by John Irving

I've had the book in my stack for a few years, finally getting to it after we watched The Door in the Floor the other night. TDITF is the first 1/3rd of Widow. Good stuff.
 
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
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Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
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Eugenides has his voice (clearly), but as I read his passages his words remind me of Rushdie (a lite version of Rushdie), with a dash of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I am reading Blink on my Nook...great book!

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Non-Fiction
War Between The Generals - David Irving

Fiction
The Face of Deception - Iris Johansen
 
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