What are you reading right now?

valencia
the red tent
and
autobiography of a blue eyed devil; my life and times in a racist imperialist society.
i love reading

 

I just finished, and am re-reading a book called Will by Maria Boyd. It's basically about this troubled year 11 boy who gets in trouble at his school for mooning the girls' school bus and as punishment, he is being forced to help out in his school musical.
Basically your reading it from Will's POV, about what he's thinking throughout the whole experience and how he is developing and growing as a person. At first he absolutely hates being around all of the trombone-playing geeks - He doesn't want anyone to think he was one - That'd just be the worst fate in the world to him. He wants to fit in.

Throughout the book you see Will develop further and futher dealing with serious subjects in his life from fitting in, finding love to dealing with grief he had been trying to ignore for six months. And realising that sterio-types dont matter, the kids in the band aren't geeks, they are all individual kids.

The character is realistic, comical and really makes you wish that you knew him.

I think it's a book that allot of young adults can relate to. I know that I absolutely loved it!

 

well i am going around reading peoples long posts and not really responding to them

here and some other forum

peoples different opinions and others about politics and stuff

out loud with a deep voice once and a while

 

^ Might do that myself.

 

well obviously I knew that. he didn't learn to speak English until he was 6.

 

It's been mostly journals for me lately, like Medical Anthropology Quarterly or Annual Reviews of Anthropology, but at the moment I'm also reading Simone de Beavouir's Second Sex, Michel Foucault's History of Sexuality and a huuuuuge bible on international human rights in context.

 

^ when do you think your head will explode?

 

It already did, at the sight of Foucault being on every single page of all the reading lists I have for this term.

Also, I've got a question... Are you Matthew?

 

Should I take that as a yes or as a no? :toetap05:

 

Edit: Sorry, no.

 

You're strange.

 

And grumpy.

 

Tired. Sorry. *takes nap*.

 

fear and loathing on capaign trail 72 is ok. it doesnt suck, and i think its a decent read.

but 1984 is WAY better:cheers2:

 

Terry Pratchett - De Dief van Tijd (in English it may be called Thief of Time).

 

i've only read good omens, which he wrote with neil gaiman. one of my favorite books when it comes to light strictly-entertainment reading.

it has made me want to look into some of his solo work, though, for sure.

 

I never read that one, but I like the humor and imagination of Pratchett.
It may not be the heaviest and most intellectual reading literature, but it sure makes for some good, fast reading.

 

thats how i feel about good omens. its a joy to read, even if its not all that "deep"