What are you reading?

[Jared Miles Platt]

I'm not the biggest fan of reading, but I thought, since we have a "What are you listening to?" thread, that we should have a reading thread. By "reading" I mean books. =)

Soooo... Tell your fellow forum members what book you're reading right now + the author! Even give a little information about it (like what's on the back of the book) or tell how you're liking it, if you want.

[Jared Miles Platt]

Right now I am reading Love (and other uses for duct tape) by Carrie Jones.
Summary: (I'm copying this right off the back of the book.)

My Problem(s) with Love
1. Mom's new boyfriend makes her giggle.
2. It's totally obvious from the amount of tonsil hockey going on that my bestest best friend Em and her man Shawn are completely, utterly in truest love.
3. Even my newly-out gay ex is happy with his Bob.
4. So what's up with me and the most awesome, amazing, coolest straight boyfriend I could ever have dreamed of?
5. Nothing is what's up with Tom and me. Nothing's happening at all. No doing "it," no "I love you." Nada. That's my problem with love: the nothing problem.

Belle is closing in on her last few months of high school and things are much better than they were before. Well, almost. Belle's not too sure about all the sureness that other people seem to have about things like labels (popular, slut, jock), change (college, real adulthood, new friends, lost friends), and love (oh yeah, that). Not to mention, there's THE BIG PROBLEM with Tom and other--well, unexpected--surprises.

My Thoughts:[/u] This book is... interesting, so far. =) I just started it today. I'm not very far into it, but I like it.

[Ryuu James]

I'm reading Divine Madness by Robers Muchamore.

Back of the book - Cherub exists for the simplets of reasons: even a master criminal doesn't suspect that the kid next door is a spy.

When CHERUB uncovers a link between eco-terrorist group Help Earth and a wealthy religious cult known as The Survivors, James Adams i sent to Austrlia on an infiltration mission.

It's his toughest job so far. The Survivors' outback headquarters are completely isolated, and the cult's brainwashing techniques mean James is under massive pressure to comform.

This time he's not just fighting terrorists. He's got to battle to keep control of his own mind.


I LOVE THE CHERUB SERIES x]. If you like Alex rider, you'll LOOOOOVE these. They're a gazillion times more realistic, and it's much more fun and interesting =D. I love them <3 x]

[maxxie oliver;;]

alutalx4tayvaetiegacx Alex Rider (:

I've just finished reading Eclipse (: Well that was ages ago, but now I'm reading Wicked. The book that the musical is based on jtylk.

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire.

When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in L. Frank Baum's classic tale, we heard only her side of the story. But what about her arch-nemesis, the mysterious witch? Where did she come from? How did she become so wicked? And what is the true nature of evil? Gregory Maguire creates a fantasy world so rich and vivid that we will never look at Oz the same way again. Wicked is about a land where animals talk and strive to be treated like first-class citizens, Munchkinlanders seek the comfort of middle-class stability and the Tin Man becomes a victim of domestic violence. And then there is the little green-skinned girl named Elphaba, who will grow up to be the infamous Wicked Witch of the West, a smart, prickly and misunderstood creature who challenges all our preconceived notions about the nature of good and evil.

It's totally different to the musical (:
They miss out loads from the book; but its amazing.

[jones]

Oh oh oh! Slaughterhouse-5! kurt vonnegut. it's for english but I usually like the books we read in there.

I've made it through the first page and a half and have NO IDEA what's going on. There was something about scziophrenia and some made up planet in the intro part and I have a feeling it's gonna skip around a lot. Everyone says it's supposed to be a really good book so I'll just have to wait. Sorry I don't actually know what this is about, there wasn't really a descrpition on the cover or anything =\

[alyssa]

I am reading like a lot right now..

1. Triptych-Karin Slaughter: OKay so I'll just put whats on the back of the book. In the city of Atlanta, women are dying-at the hands of a killer who signs his work with a single, chilling act of mutilation. Leaving behind enough evidence to fuel a frenzied police hunt, this cunning madman is bringing together dozens of lives, crossing the boundaries of wealth and race. And the poeople who are chasing him must cross those boundaries too. Among them is michael Ormewood, a veteran detective whose marriage is hanging by a thread- and whose arrogance and explosive tmeper are threating his career. And Angie Polaski, a beautiful vice cop who was once Michael's lover before she became his enemy.

But another player has entered the game: a loser ex-con who has stumbled upon the killer's trail in the most coincidental of ways-someone who may be the key to breaking the case wide open..

I've read almost half of it and Michael's real name is woody and the ex-con happens to be his cousin. Well woody stole his cousin, John SHelley, identity. He was put in prision for rape and murder of a girl he real liked..He didn't know she was dead..He kissed her then woke up in her blood. I think Woody did it..well Angie, plays a hooker on the street and her name is ROBIN and John meet robin, and told her something bad was going to happen. Angie had a friend of hers, will trent, look up his info..and yeh..

2. Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austin: this is pretty self explanatory.

3.Picture of Dorian Gray- Oscar Wilde: DOrian gets his picture painted by a friend. He then meets the painters friend and he is a bad influence. Dorian then becomes obsessed with his looks and as he gets older, he still looks young, but the picture grows. The ruder he gets, the picture shows it. He then one day after living with killing the painter, rips the painting up and his servants find him upstairs, dead, on his floor..He is old and they look at the painting and its back like it was..when it was first done.

4. Natural selection-Dave Freedman: A new species of like sting ray, that is getting smarter by the minute..out smarting the marine biologist.

5. Killer dreams- Iris Johansen: A sleep therapist is trying to save her family, while joining forces with an ex-con to bring down a man who stole her invention and used it for brainwashing other people to kill others.

and that is all I am reading right now..

[Jared Miles Platt]

Wowwww that's a lot of books. o= How do you not get confused? xD
I think Natural Selection sounds like my kinda book. I will go hunting for it next time I get the chance!

[charity]

Emma; By: Jane Austen. xD The book that inspired that show Cluless.

And I think I might be reading Persuasion next, also by Jane Austen. (x

She's recently become my favorite author. -nods-

[shane]

well I kind of just read a little bit of each at a time..Im half way through three of them and on like chapter 6 of Pride and Prejudice and on chapter 3 of Dorian Gray, which I have to read for English 2..

[jones]

That dorian one sounds good! Anyone read Scarlet Letter? That was like the worst book ever!

[shane]

I havent yet but I will next year in mr.phillips class..the juniors read it this year and were telling us..

[Elana Polvitch]

Ophelia by Lisa Klein - This book is based off of a character from Shakespeare's Hamlet. It goes more in depth than Hamlet did, talking about what went on from when they were younger, till the day she kills herself (I am guessing). There are some twists to the book, but I don't want to say because it would ruin the book.

[Devyn Lang]

Hitler and Churchill; Secrets of Leadership
by Andrew Roberts

Taken from the back of the book;
For all that Adolf Hitler was committed to destroying Civilisation and Winston Churchill was determined t save it, astonishligly these two men had some leadership techniques in common. Award-winning historian Andrew Roberts analyses the leadership secrets of these two completely different personalitites as they both strove for the same objective - victory in the second world war.

I was given this book for my birthday and I only just started reading it. I'm only a couple pages into it, but it's soo interesting!

[robert]

<sup>Just finishing Checkmate - the last in the trilogy of books by Malorie Blackman (Fourth one out this year) the author of Noughts and Crosses

and about to read Twilight!</sup>

[Elana Polvitch]

Eclipse- by stephenie meyer (3rd book of the Twilight series)