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Read any good books lately?
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 (September 29, 2016 at 7:23 pm)Shell B Wrote: I've just finished up Buddha's Brain. It's by a doctor whose name I don't feel like Googling. I'm reading Harry Potter and the Cursed Child very slowly. It just hasn't grabbed me. I'm also reading a TIME magazine edition about mindfulness and Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg. I mean, what did you expect reading a play?  (October 3, 2016 at 1:11 am)Excited Penguin Wrote:(September 29, 2016 at 7:23 pm)Shell B Wrote: I've just finished up Buddha's Brain. It's by a doctor whose name I don't feel like Googling. I'm reading Harry Potter and the Cursed Child very slowly. It just hasn't grabbed me. I'm also reading a TIME magazine edition about mindfulness and Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg. I've read plenty of plays that I've enjoyed, stage and screen. It's not dreadful. It's just weird and stilted. 
Just finished reading Franzen's "The Corrections". Enjoyed it, didn't love.
Funny how certain characters become animated in my mind's eye when reading a novel. In this book when reading dialog by the oldest son Gary I always heard him as Hank from "King of the Hill" while the mom I heard as Edith Bunker. (October 4, 2016 at 11:58 am)Shell B Wrote:(October 3, 2016 at 1:11 am)Excited Penguin Wrote: I mean, what did you expect reading a play? I don't know why you'd do that, but hey. I mean novels are there for a reason, plays are for watching  /sorry for pointing out the obvious, lol I guess you must be a big HP fan, right? I'm currently rereading the books. I'm nearing the end of The Chamber of Secrets. (October 4, 2016 at 1:24 pm)Excited Penguin Wrote:(October 4, 2016 at 11:58 am)Shell B Wrote: I've read plenty of plays that I've enjoyed, stage and screen. It's not dreadful. It's just weird and stilted. It might be because I'm a writer, but I've never been bothered reading a play. I mean, someone has to read it at some point, right? Also, a lot of historic plays are read and studied. Love Harry Potter. Rereading them is such a blast, isn't it? I used to do it every time a new movie came out, but Fantastic Beasts isn't part of the main story line, so I'm going to pass this time. I've got to reread the Dark Tower series before the movie comes out. 
Just started my annual re-listen of "The Night Circus".
It's basically one of the most beautiful books I've ever had the pleasure of encountering. Jim Dale is shiver-inducing. ![[Image: Untitled2_zpswaosccbr.png]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=i1140.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fn569%2Fthesummerqueen%2FUntitled2_zpswaosccbr.png) (October 6, 2016 at 4:22 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: Just started my annual re-listen of "The Night Circus". I purchased that a few months ago. I haven't got around to reading it yet, but it's on my short list.
I'm also reading some non-fiction right now.
Bostrom's Superintelligence and Tegmark's Our Mathematical Universe.
All this talk about The Night Circus got me to find out about the National Novel Writing Month
So, cool. (October 7, 2016 at 2:53 pm)Excited Penguin Wrote: All this talk about The Night Circus got me to find out about the National Novel Writing Month Yeah, I'm still contemplating getting fired up for this month. I'm in the middle of a short story collection right now, so I won't be able to finish a book like I did my first year, but as long as you write 50,000 words, you're technically a winner. |
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