Currently Reading as of January 1st, 2013

Happy New Year Everyone!

Here's my currently reading list as of the first day of 2013:

Click below to read my thoughts about my current reads!

• Offbeat Volume 2 by Jen Lee Quick - Manga

This was a re-read. Just finished it so that's why it remains in my nightstand pile.

• The Sonnets: Poems of Love by William Shakespeare - Poetry Collection

Love this! It's been sitting on my nightstand table for a while. I don't actively read it per say. However, whenever I'm in the mood for Shakespearean sonnets, I can easily reach over, read a poem or two before bed, then have sweet dreams of fair maidens more lovely and more temperate than a summer's day. =)

• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins - Fiction Novel

Arg! The Hunger Games. After all of the hype from friends who LOVE this series, I decided to give it a try. However 50 pages in and 6 months later, it remains in my nightstand pile. I feel no compulsion to read it. The reading level felt like a 3rd grade level. That's not to say that children's books aren't amazing, but I just couldn't quite get hooked into it. However, I do plan on starting it over and giving it another try. We'll see.

• Grimms Collection of Fairy Tales - Barnes and Nobles

This is so amazing. Another one that I don't actively read. I treat this like the Sonnet collection. Whenever I'm in the mood for a Grimm fairytale, I grab this collection and read. What I love best about this Barnes and Nobles collection are the illustrations. It's a beautifully crafted, bound book with stunning illustrations and gold trimmed pages. I simply love holding it in my hands as I read. Maybe, I'll put up pictures of the inside pages and illustrations for everyone to see. 

• Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? by Raymond Carver - Short Story Anthology

Receive this from one of Creative Writing professor. She just randomly brought a couple of short story anthologies to class and told us to decide amongst ourselves who wants what. I hear the words books and free in the same sentence and I lose a bit (okay, a lot) of my usual self control! lol Anyway, I managed to grab this. I really liked the title. It was 9am and nearing finals' week, so the title suited my mood. I was wishing the entire world could just please be quiet, please. I've read the first 4 or 5 stories and I really enjoy them. They're not really exciting or awe-inspiring tales. That's part of what makes them enjoyable, though. Carver manages to take ordinary stories about ordinary people living their ordinary lives and gives them a hint of the extraordinary.  


What are you guys currently reading? I'm always looking to add more to my "To-Read" list! =) Leave your list in the comments below.


Bookishly yours,
Fatuma
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