What are you currently reading??

**buttmunch** · May 2nd, 2009, 06:51 AM

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larson. It's a good story but the translation from Swedish to English is very clumsy to the point of distraction.

I'm about to read the second one, right after I finish Breathe...which is kind of crap but a friend is dying for me to read it so I can tell her what I think. I'm not loving it...just sort of pushing through.

**A*O** · May 2nd, 2009, 06:56 AM

My book club ladies who've read it say they couldn't put it down. Can't say I agree. I will plod on through it and hopefully things will pick up but so far I'm not gagging to know what happens. You might get more from it if you read the original Swedish but for me the English translation ruins it. The translator uses the phrase "so to speak" all the time and I'm guessing it's a common phrase in Scandinavia because our own Crown Princess Mary of Tasmania who has acquired a very lilting Danish/English accent uses it constantly.

**Penny Lane** · May 2nd, 2009, 02:06 PM

"The Seventies" by Bruce J Schulman. You'd think I'd find it fascinating.. but so far, it's just really boring. Still chipping away at "Brothers Karamazov" too.... I wish I had more time for pleasure reading.

**calcifer** · May 4th, 2009, 09:03 AM

i'm reading :

- lessing's 'shikasta', at a slow pace. tough but fascinating read.
- c.s. lewis' 'the screwtape letters'. very dull. am a bit disappointed.
- susanna clarke's 'the ladies of grace adieu'. i have a weakness for clarke's writing ever since her 'jonathan strange and mr. norrell' got published. really good.

**LaFolie** · May 4th, 2009, 11:24 AM

Re-reading Mme Bovary

**cmmdee** · May 4th, 2009, 02:31 PM

Does she or doesn't she? by Alisa Kwitney.

It started good, lots of sexual tension but the end wasn't really my cup of tea.

**aabbcc** · May 4th, 2009, 10:07 PM

The China Study.

**witchcurlgirl** · May 4th, 2009, 10:13 PM

The Burn- James Kelman

**buttmunch** · May 4th, 2009, 10:50 PM

Re-reading Mme Bovary

I LOVE that book!

I've just finished a book called Breathe and it was...ok for 2/3 and then very odd for the last few chapters. The writer seemed to start throwing in everything but the kitchen sink in order to wrap things up quickly. Don't waste your time with it.

Now about to dive into some newly discovered Czech writers.

**sputnik** · May 5th, 2009, 10:53 AM

another roadside attraction - tom robbins

**witchcurlgirl** · May 5th, 2009, 12:41 PM

^^ loved that book in high school. I should re-read it.

**sputnik** · May 5th, 2009, 12:56 PM

^^^
i figured it was about time i read something of his besides 'even cowgirls get the blues'.

**witchcurlgirl** · May 5th, 2009, 01:05 PM

i've read a few, but I remember that I liked roadside best.

cowgirls, roadside, Still Life With Woodpecker, Jitterbug Perfume and Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas

I'm def going to pull it out to read again.

**buttmunch** · May 10th, 2009, 01:33 AM

The Seven Basic Plots. You'd never think it would take nearly a 1000 pages of small print to explain them but apparently it does. Not sure I'll make it through as it's pretty hard going just 10 or so pages into it.