Currently reading?

[ellarella]

^norwegian wood is awesome.. i still need to pick up wind/pinball at some point since they actually re-released those...

film is really good as well but i'm not a too big fan of rinko kikuchi there tbh

i feel like she did pretty well, but i think the character is kinda hard to translate to a movie, unlike midori, which kiko mizuhara nailed pretty well. it's an alright adaptation, but not a movie to get excited about, sadly. the soundtrack was killer though! there's also tony takitana, which i haven't seen yet

 

[Alienfish]

i feel like she did pretty well, but i think the character is kinda hard to translate to a movie, unlike midori, which kiko mizuhara nailed pretty well. it's an alright adaptation, but not a movie to get excited about, sadly. the soundtrack was killer though! there's also tony takitana, which i haven't seen yet

yes the doors and all those other songs... i love haroumi hosono as the record store guy as well though he's hot there lol

yeah i think she did it a bit too much i mean she tried too look too much cute and fragile, at least in some parts.

they made a film of that too? noice.

 

[Alienfish]

Started reading Message/Mensagem, a poetry book with 44 of Fernando Pessoa's poems arranged in three parts. Really enjoying and it's cool that I got a bilingual edition too, I'm such a language nerd.

 

[Chris]

Until this week I hadn't actually read anything since the end of March because I'm a bad person.

Borrowed The Crown by Kiera Cass from Meg-Mog on Tuesday and read it in an afternoon. I feel like the author must be a fan of fanfic because she's the one author who basically has nailed down everything I wanted to happen instead of following the more obvious route.

Infected: Holiday Special by Andrea Speed came out on May 17th. Started it that evening and finished it this afternoon. A little disappointing, but sweet and an enjoyable read none the less. It's enough to tide me over until Infected: Holden comes out in autumn.

Bitten by the reading bug again now and I think I'm going on to Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard next. Or finish up SJD Peterson's Pony, but I'm kind of in the mood to read YA right now.

 

[RainbowCherry]

I've just started it and some knob took it from our school's library and hasn't put it back, but I love the Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse. It's the most surreal, hilarious book I've ever read. Also reading Candyfloss, Tracy Beaker and Lolita (I don't enjoy it that much, honestly, but I haven't given it much of a chance.)

 

[MayorBilbo]

Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein. Good read, classic as well. Very different to the movie.

 

[raeyoung]

I am currently reading The Wrap-Up List.

It's about a girl named Gabriela who is scheduled to depart. According to the book, departure is when a Death, a tall skinny gray old thingie like the Grim Reaper almost, gives you a certain amount of time left to live before you depart, which pretty much means die but not really. I mean you are dead after you depart, but it's not like normal death. Everyone knows about departure and Gabriela's friend Iris is obsessed with it. Anyway, so Gabriela has a week left to live and she has to finish up her Wrap-Up list which is pretty much a Bucket List. You have to send it to your death, blah blah blah. She has to try and get a pardon as well, which is you get excused from departure and you'll get to live and die naturally like everyone else who doesn't get chosen for departure, by finding out her Death's secret weakness. So yeah, it's a good book.

 

[jiny]

a wrinkle in time by madeleine l'engle

 

[Tensu]

The 5th Wave

 

[SansAnimalCrossing]

Warriors: Omen of the stars #4 Sign of the moon

 

[Chris]

Started reading Victoria Aveyard's Red Queen on Thursday evening and finished it up yesterday afternoon. Surprised at how much I enjoyed it. I even ended up having a dream about it on Friday night (well, the world, not the characters). It makes for a fantastic light read.

 

[mogyay]

Started reading Victoria Aveyard's Red Queen on Thursday evening and finished it up yesterday afternoon. Surprised at how much I enjoyed it. I even ended up having a dream about it on Friday night (well, the world, not the characters). It makes for a fantastic light read.

tina you are literal reading goals you're making me feel like i should read more
so i've seen a lot of people on this forum mention haruki murakami and i was so so surprised to find it on the family book shelf, this one is called ' blind willow, sleeping women', looking forward to seeing what the hype is about

i finished louis theroux's book about returning to see people from weird weekends (totally forgot the name how bad is that) really enjoyed it, such an easy read

 

[SlipStitch626]

I'm in the middle of reading Lev Grossman's The magician's land. It is the third book in a trilogy and I will probably finish it after I graduate from college next month. The series is a cross between Harry Potter and Narnia for those interested.

 

[Brad]

I just finished reading Masters of Doom.

If you're at all interested in gaming in a more serious capactiy, and would like to know some important history read this.

It's about the founding of id Software, and they influence their games had on the industry. It's extremely riveting.

If you like this, you could also check out Console Wars, about the rivalry between Sega and Nintendo in the 90's. Great stuff!

 

[Alienfish]

Started re-reading Cain some time ago. Probably one of the funniest books I've ever read and I really hope I can find more things by Jos? Saramago here(well I think there are but I don't think I could read a whole book in Portuguese sadly enough).

 

[Araie]

I started reading The Book Thief a couple weeks ago. So far, it's really amazing like I've heard it was, but also partially confusing, just in terms of wording and such.

 

[Chris]

tina you are literal reading goals you're making me feel like i should read more
so i've seen a lot of people on this forum mention haruki murakami and i was so so surprised to find it on the family book shelf, this one is called ' blind willow, sleeping women', looking forward to seeing what the hype is about

i finished louis theroux's book about returning to see people from weird weekends (totally forgot the name how bad is that) really enjoyed it, such an easy read

Oh wow! That's sweet.

Murakami is an amazing writer. I've 8-9 of his books (although about half are unread, oops). Don't own/haven't read that one though.

Read Death Note: Another Note by Nisio Isin and Revelator: The Hate Culture by William Control this afternoon. Both relatively short pieces. Then finally picked up where I left off in SJD Peterson's Pony back in March.

 

[LunarMako]

Currently reading Homecoming (The 100#3) by Kass Morgan and The Heir (The Selection #4) by Kiera Cass. I started reading the second book, because I forgot the first one in my bag in a friends car. I wanted to read a book though, so I started another. Now I have both back.

 

[Alienfish]

Looking forward to start on Blindness by Jos? Saramago. I love his writing style and so glad I found stuff translated here :3

 

[Chris]

Currently reading Homecoming (The 100#3) by Kass Morgan and The Heir (The Selection #4) by Kiera Cass. I started reading the second book, because I forgot the first one in my bag in a friends car. I wanted to read a book though, so I started another. Now I have both back.

I loved The Heir. I think I preferred reading about the selection process from the POV of the person doing the choosing, rather than one of the competitors. There's more mystery to it. Even though I'm not exactly Eadlyn's biggest fan.

Finished reading Pony last night and with it accomplished my reading goal for the year:

Spoiler

Guess it's time to double that, given it's only May.