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Zingoleb:
Your astonishment matches your avatar well.


I just read Good Omens.


Holy shit! That was SO GOOD.

Buttfranklin:
Just how good are we talking!

muffy:
I've just finished:

Perfume - Patrick Susskind: This got a lot of recommendations in another thread and I think they are well deserved - it's disturbingly sensory and every character placed in the story is monstrous in their own way. It's a lot of fun to read.

if nobody speaks of remarkable things - Jon McGregor: Some people find this book frustrating - the pace is slow and the time frames are haphazard, and the author is irreverent of things such as conventional grammar. It's also gorgeously evocative and every description is appropriately detailed without wasting any words. I really loved it.

Eats, Shoots and Leaves - Lynn Truss: She's surprisingly funny but my god is she uptight.

I'm now reading:

Skating to Antarctica - Jenny Diski: Technically, this is travel writing. It's caustic and upsetting and carefully written. The author is remarkably pragmatic about the sorts of things that would have most writers spewing realms of self pity. I'm about a third of the way through it and it is quite brilliant.

Fugitive Pieces - Anne Michaels: Thematically dark (holocaust survivor coming to terms with the horrors of the past) but written with disjointed floral prose which is hard to engage with and jars against the points the author is trying to make. Not sure about this one.

I'm about to read:

Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home - Erna Brodbery
Selected Stories - Katherine Mansfield
Words from a Glass Bubble - Vanessa Gebbie

And a bunch of tests about 'reading like a writer' and so on. Being a student is strangely fun.

nekowafer:
I am reading the Animorphs series on my Nook. I'm on book 19. No, I am not currently in middle school..

Tom:
I'm reading the Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. I can tell that when I'm done this'll be one of my favourite books ever.

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