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[One Witchy Woman]

I love love love ANYTHING by Laurell K Hamilton and Kim Harrison. They are awesome. Kelley Armstrong and Lynsay Sands are great too.  

[xena91388]

Sadly (much to the embarrassment of my family) I do not know Spanish emo but I'll try to look for translations. Which demograph/genre are his works?

XHoshi_no_HikariX

Avyzak

If someone know spanish I'll recommend you to read Gabriel Garcia Marquez, any book, he is really good, is one of my favorites... 3nodding

Yes! He's an amazing Nobel-prize winner Colombian writer. Many of his works have been translated to English too (I'm a Spanish "native-speaker" but the guy's important worldwide so check for tranlsations in libraries or shops).
I'd recomend A hundred years of solitude (Cien años de soledad), Love at the times of cholerae (El amor en los tiempos del cólera), and Peregrin Stories (Cuentos peregrinos). The first 2 are novels, the last one is a compendium of stories.

 

[Aisling_Fey]

Painted Molly

&&In my humble opinion, the best book ever written is Catch-22 by Joseph Heller.

I completely agree. I also love The Fall by Albert Camus.  

[XHoshi_no_HikariX]

xena91388

Sadly (much to the embarrassment of my family) I do not know Spanish emo but I'll try to look for translations. Which demograph/genre are his works?

XHoshi_no_HikariX

Avyzak

If someone know spanish I'll recommend you to read Gabriel Garcia Marquez, any book, he is really good, is one of my favorites... 3nodding

Yes! He's an amazing Nobel-prize winner Colombian writer. Many of his works have been translated to English too (I'm a Spanish "native-speaker" but the guy's important worldwide so check for tranlsations in libraries or shops).
I'd recomend A hundred years of solitude (Cien años de soledad), Love at the times of cholerae (El amor en los tiempos del cólera), and Peregrin Stories (Cuentos peregrinos). The first 2 are novels, the last one is a compendium of stories.

He's one of the main representatives of a genre called "Magical Realism" (realismo mágico), some even say that he's the one who created the genre. It adds magical images to realistic settings; a very beautiful short story of his is "Light is like water" ("La luz es como el agua")  

[AquaticPisces]

I'm curently reading Dark Flame by Alyson Noel.

 

[xena91388]

Adams: I tell you Franklin, it's positively indecent!

Franklin: John, they're young and they're in love-

Adams: Not them, Franklin! Us! Standing down here, waiting for them to. . . *gestures* What will people think!

Franklin: Don't worry John, the history books will clean it up!

The above lines are from one of my favorite plays/movie, 1776. What Franklin's character says is very, very true!

This semester, included in my textbooks was one little supplemental book titled Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen.

This book is just wow. WOW! It covers everything from the truth about the first Thanksgiving to the devastating repercussions of the September 11th attacks.

Of course much of the information in the books is not that new to me seeing as I have a great love for history and watch the History Channel and PBS often.

People love Heros. Hero influence our behaviors and ideals. So in essence, he who sets the Hero standard controls the influence on society.

I'm sure you've all heard the inspirational story of Hellen Keller. The blind/deaf girl who was able to graduate from college, publish famous books, and rally women's rights, all despite her handicaps. How many of you know she was a radical socialist? That she praised Russia's new Communist nation after it's revolution and even went as far as hanging a red flag outside her office? She was a true radical in her time. Her accomplishments and causes are still epic to us but history books have always portrayed her as a quiet conformer to society.

What about our President Woodrow Wilson? Oh the great Wilson, our great leader who reluctantly led our nation into WWI. . . 'k, truth time! What we don't learn is about his racial segregation of the federal government and constant military interventions in foreign countries. He even started what known to historians as "The Unknown War With Russia" the after effects of which directly influenced the hostilities of the Cold War. One of his greatest character blemishes that history books try their hardest to hide, is the fact he was an outspoken White Supremacist and his administration was one of the harshest times in Black History.

There is almost a whole chapter on his intervention in Latin America and infringement of human rights and freedom of the press, but if I start trying to surmise, we may be here all day!

I only used two examples here from the beginning of the book, if you want to know more, go give it a read! :3

Lies My Teacher Told Me
Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
By: James W. Loewen.

 

[Polly In My Pixel]

I'm currently reading The Vampire Diaries By L.J.Smith, the delights of tween reading - my little sister leant me it.  

[Lady Aryana of the Seelie]

Right now I am currently re-read Aprilynne Pike series. I'm trying to decide what to read next though. Should finish the Dragonriders of Pern series or finish reading Terry Brooks's books? But I also want to read Mercedes Lackey's books! What should I do?!  

[Chaotic Feel]

I am reading The Wolves of Mercy Falls series by Maggie Stiefvater, I also love Chuck Palaniuk, Holly Black, Janet Fitch, Brett Easton Ellis, Anne Rice, J.K. Rowling, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, I like many more, but I think those Authors are my favorites.  

[Lady Aryana of the Seelie]

Dragonriders of Pern, World of Valdemar(and all subseries), Evernight, Vampire Academy, Seven Kingdoms, Shannara(and all subseries), Wicked Lovely, Vampire Diaries, Iron Fey, Gallagher Girls, Guardians Of Ga'Hoole, Lorien Legacies, Maximum Ride, Wictch and Wizard, The Inheritance, Wings, Immortal Beloved, Septimus Heap.

These are all the series I'm in the middled of reading. Alot huh?  

[One Witchy Woman]

I am chompin at the bit to get the newest Black Dagger Brotherhood book Lover Unleashed. If anyone has read it a review would be great.  

[setsunaeternal]

I've been on something of a reading tare this summer, I had this huge list of books I wanted to read and didn't even get through half of them. I started off with Robin Mckinley and read Pegasus, Chalice, and Dragonhaven, all of which were really amazing. They're not at all related story wise, though Pegasus looks like it has a sequel coming.

I went through 3 of the I think 5 Earthsea books since I've read some of Le Guin's books before and enjoyed them but I sort of got bored with these. It took effort to get into the second book but once I did it was really good, and the 3rd one was just something of a struggle the whole way through. Not that they weren't interesting or well written, they just...didn't appeal to me the way I thought they would.

Now I'm on a Mercedes Lackey kick, I read Gwenhwyfar: The White Spirit most recently and it was really good, I also read Firebird earlier this summer and while it was also really good, it kind of dragged on towards the end a bit. I'm about to dive into all of the books from the Valdemar series though, looking at the time line, I ended up getting the 2 trilogies which are chronologically last rather than first so I'm going to continue reading "backwards" as it were and see how it goes xD

I've read a lot of books and manga though so if anyone wants me to post more in depth reviews of anything I've mentioned here or are curios about anything I've read that I didn't mention, just ask :3  

[Your Creepy Neighbor]

I'm currently reading The Last Apprentice series, and I absolutely love it. It is one of my favorite series that I have read so far. I definitely recommend it so anyone that enjoys fantasy and occult stories.

 

[watasefan]

I just received a nook as a birthday gift at the end of July and learned you can get many classic books for free. Since I am a poor college student, my more recent reading choices have consisted of free classical literature, including: The Time Machine, Jane Eyre, War of the Worlds, Dr Jeckyl and Mr Hyde and currently I am tackling Freud's Interpretation of Dreams.  

[xena91388]

Oooh! I'm jelly! gonk

Do they have books by Ray Bradbury free?

watasefan

I just received a nook as a birthday gift at the end of July and learned you can get many classic books for free. Since I am a poor college student, my more recent reading choices have consisted of free classical literature, including: The Time Machine, Jane Eyre, War of the Worlds, Dr Jeckyl and Mr Hyde and currently I am tackling Freud's Interpretation of Dreams.