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Tom:

--- Quote from: TMac91 on 03 Jan 2009, 18:58 ---Kitty and the Midnight House - Carrie Vaughn
I may get I Am The Messenger by.. I forgot..

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--- Quote from: The Voice on 03 Jan 2009, 18:23 ---The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks
Blindness by Jose Saramago
Three Case Histories by Freud
Ghosts/Aliens by Trey Hamburger

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Grrrr

ruyi:
I'm currently reading Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontė. To be honest, I've always confused it with Jane Eyre and Pride and Prejudice, and I never found any of them appealing enough to bother distinguishing them in my mind, much less read them. I only decided to read this because supposedly my dad named me Cathy/Catherine after the character in the book.

Now I'm less than halfway through. I am trying to do a 'blind' reading of it, in that I didn't read up anything about it beforehand, so my impressions are probably going to sound dumb. I find the narrator presumptuous and patronizing. The domestic setting is bleak and the relationships are painful to read about. I didn't expect it to be so intense and awful, actually, but it's a welcome surprise.

I'm very ambivalent about Catherine. She's so manipulative, and typically I can't help feeling a little envious in response to what I perceive as that girl, who is attractive and powerful because of it. But it might be a false othering on my part - I still haven't decided, because part of me still believes it's a true distinction. In any case her manipulation is motivated by a real desperation so I end up feeling sympathy for her despite my own petty hangups.

I'll see if I change my mind when I'm through.

I'm honestly so glad to be on break from being a student because I finally get to read. It's dumb, probably, but I'm reluctant to go into academia because I feel like I won't have time to read the books and watch the films I want to.

After this I'm probably going to read A Better Angel, short stories by Chris Adrian. Then I have some Truman Capote and Steinbeck. There's just so much I haven't read, and I feel so slow! I hope I can just get through this pile of books, small as it is, before class starts again.

E. Spaceman:
I just picked up In Search of Lost Time by Proust again. They are one of my favourite (maybe my favourite) series of novels. I will attempt to not read other books to not get distracted. I should have finished by August i hope.

Puki:
Olympos - Dan Simmons

Inlander:
Following discussions earlier in this thread, I'm reading No Fond Return of Love by Barbara Pym. I regret to say that about a hundred pages in, I'm not really enjoying it all that much. I find the characters rather irritating, and the plot rather overly reliant on coincidence. But I'll finish it, and I've got Excellent Women by her too so I'll give that a go, before I dismiss her entirely.

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