I'm currently making my way through the Dresden Files...again. I can't seem to get enough of Harry Dresden. Light reads with great stories packed with action and imagination.
Memories of Ice! I'm starting to have mixed feelings about the Malazan series; the writing seems pretentious and everyone sounds the same. The plot has pretty much got me hooked, though.
I'm halfway through ready player one by Ernest Cline. A dystopian future where the majority of life occurs inside a virtual reality game. The owner of the game has died and left clues to follow so only the most worthy can inherit control. It's quite good, not groundbreaking but a nice nostalgia trip
Sophoclese's Antigone. (Burial at Thebes.) Free-form poetry, but reads like a short novelette. Thoroughly enjoyed it.
The Seamus Heaney version? That's not a bad translation at all. Few beat Sophocles's genius for making complex character motivations, and Antigoni is second only to Oedipus Tyrannus.
Heaney, yes. Bought as a set book for commencing OU studies. Although arts and culture, useful for philosophical implications in our lives as well.
Come As You Are by Emily Nagoski. It's a really great book about women's sexuality. I've had a vagina for 30 years, and I've learned a ton of stuff I had no idea about. I strongly recommend it (whether or not you have a vagina).
Currently reading a book called How to be Facetious with What you're Currently Reading. It's got some great tips.
Reading Robin Hobb's Farseer trilogy. Wasnt too sure about it at first since the plot is a little too slow for me, but I've started to really like it by the second book. Think that may have something to do with me reading The Black Company for the last 6 months and it took a while to adjust to a new style of writing.
The Long Utopia by Terry Pratchett and Steven Baxter. I don't think it will be quite as good as the first in the series but Pratchett has been a part of my reading life for 20 years. I feel like listening to an old, wise, very clever friend when I read his words. He is a terrible loss, Also my husband is reading our copy of The Liars Key by Mark Lawrence so I can't get my hands on it yet. Anything and everything this man writes I will read. I just read a few short stories he released online https://www.wattpad.com/user/MarkLawrenceAuthor
I'm currently reading The Girl With All The Gifts by M.R.Carey. I attended an book reading by the author a few months ago which you can read about here: https://www.writingforums.org/threads/author-readings-and-book-signings.140034/ Here's also a link to the book on amazon. I find it quite intriguing and the reviews on it are really great
DAMNED by Chuck Palahniuk. First 30 pages I was like "why do I like this author again?" then at page 33 or so I was like "oh yeah, because he's a genius." Now it's really good.
No way! With 189 pages of this thread I just came here now to reply, and somehow the last post is the exact same book I'm reading! Although, then again, it is an extremely popular story, but even so the probability is still rather low! Also, has anyone else noticed that J. R. R. Tolkien seems to massively overuse the exclamation mark?! I first noticed it when I reread the Hobbit, and I assumed that it was simply due to it being for younger audiences, but while reading LoTR I've noticed that this habit seems to persist! Is this just an idiosyncrasy or is it to do with the time period?! Either way, it seems rather strange and even slightly distracting when I keep on noticing that so many lines of dialogue end with an exclamation mark regardless of whether they should or not! I've also noticed that many of the chapters seem to be riddled with scene breaks that seem like they shouldn't even be there!
Modernism: A Guide to European Literature 1890-1930 and Robert Frost and Feminine Literary Tradition by Karen L. Kilcup. Research - haha. *starts crying*
I literally just purchased the young adult novel Paper Towns by John Green. After reading the first few pages online, I was hooked and decided to buy the book. I have a feeling I'm going to want to see the movie now as well when I'm done reading it, which I believe comes out later this month.
A series of lectures on the ancient Maya (audio book), currently dealing with astronony, use of mathematics/proportion in architecture, and decoding their glyph system and dates.
Treasure Island - never read it before so excited to dig in. Son of a witch - the sequel to Wicked which is impressing me even less than the first book did... I have a feeling it's going to take me a while to finish
I am currently reading. The Mask of God Series by Joseph Campbell, Linguistics for Dummies Every Lovecraftian story over and over.