I've finished the book I was reading in the loo (A Walk In The Woods, by Bill Bryson) and have moved on to my next loo book (Neither Here Nor There, by Bill Bryson). About half an hour ago I was having a read (while on the loo) and read something so funny I had probably a seven or eight minute giggling fit (while still sitting on the loo.) My husband thinks I'm weird
A Good and Happy Child, by Justin Evans. It's a psychological thriller about a man who fears his own child having to delve into his own childhood to find the source of his despair, as well as solving the mysteries surrounding his father's death. Ugh, run-on sentence, but I can't be assed to fix it;I'm much too sleep-deprived right now.
I'm reading The Escape from Furnace Series. I'm toward the end of the first book, Lockdown. My to-read pile right now includes: The Dead (Charlie Gibson), Monsters of Men (Patrick Ness), The Pendragon series, World War Z, Never Let Me Go, The Walking Dead series. And I have Jurassic Park checked out in French.
I love Anne McCaffrey. Queen of her genre, for sure. I am currently reading "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck. He's one of my most favorite authors. The book is incredible, of course. I really would like to read a book called "House of Leaves". Anyone heard of it? Any reviews?
I faintly remember snippets of an Anne McCaffey book when I was a child; this thread might force me to start that series off anew... House of Leaves is supposed to be really good. I haven't personally read it, but all of the reviews (by both general readers and critics) have been exceptional.
"The Immersion Book of SF", edited by Carmelo Rafala (who kindly sent me a free copy). It's pretty darn good, so far
- Dark Tower: Wizard and Glass by Stephen King - Oriental Mythology by Joseph Campbell I hop back and forth...
After finishing the first three books in the Inheritance Cycle(its a guilty pleasure I really enjoy) I am revisiting the Dark Elf Trilogy by R.A. Salvatore and about 100 pages from finishing Homeland.
I gave up on Closing Time. As Good as Gold and Something Happened are excellent, if you haven't tried them. Currently reading Tristram Shandy. Can get a little trying/tiresome. Can be wonderful. Might go get the newish Michael Lewis book about Wall Street etc to break things up a little.
I couldn't get into Tristram Shandy. I think I got to like page forty or something. I'm going to try reading it again sometime, but more a chapter a day or something since I think it was originally published that way so it may be more enjoyable. Currently reading 'When We Were Orphans' by Kazuo Ishiguro. I'm enjoying it so far.
I have "Good as Gold" too (they came as a set) which I will read next. "Closing Time" has been tiresome so far. In "Catch 22" the humor was laugh-out-loud funny, but in "Closing Time" I guess it seems forced.
I'm reading "The King of Ayodhya," which is book 6 in a novelization of the Ramayana, "Android Karenina," and "Breath and Bone." by Carol Berg.
Re-reading the Twelve Kingdom novels. Or at least those that have been translated and printed in the US.
I'm writing the first book of the Twilight saga, named Twilight (go figure). Why you ask? To understand what not to do when writing, and so far I am getting really annoyed and angry at the book. It's just so.. unrealistic and the revelations whcih are supposed to be a 'shock' (hence revealing) are either A) really predictable or B) doesn't make sense... at all.
Reading Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. This book had been sitting on my shelf for quite a while, but the width of mass paperbacks somehow manages to intimidate me... Anyways, yesterday I decided to read something lighter after reading Dracula, and so I decided to give it a shot. I'm just 50 pages in and I've enjoyed it to the last bit.
Oh I bought Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go the other day but haven't started it yet. Let me know what you think of When We Were Orphans.
Recently completed 'Ulrika the Vampire: Bloodborn'. First part of what is going to become an ongoing series of Vampire novels set in the Warhammer world. If you don't know much about Warhammer, it's totally fine - I play the games, but in reality know NOTHING of the story. The book is very friendly to outsiders, has compelling characters (though a sort of predictable double-fake plot twist) and bar some psuedo-lesbianism, is pretty decent vampire literature. If you're into fantasy or vampire stories, please DO pick this one up from Black Library publishing. Not expensive and it's a good read. I couldn't put it down, I read it walking to and from my job.
i have just started reading chicken soup for women souls... i really find it very encouraging and inspiring....
Paul Hoffman - The left Hand of God Quite decent, not usually a fantasy reader but needed something different after a rather boring story about a macho who's stuck with a pug (funny book but used the pages to make paper airplanes against the boredom). So yeah, quite like it but I'm still waiting for the angst and stuff. And I don't like the unimaginable setting (scablands near Memphis? What time is it?). Other than that, pleasurable read
I've finished quite a few books since I last visited.. on a reading streak you might say. Burning your boats by Angela Carter Wasn't too impressed, a little too vulgar for my taste. Fairy tales shouldn't be about orifices ALL THE TIME!! Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman Good read, nothing too mind blowing but I could dig it! The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy Not really my thing. Couldn't get into it. At the moment I'm beginning in The Divine Comedy by Dante I'm curious where it will take me and not in the least how long it will take until I'm finished with it.
Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee (Very graphic novel. I enjoy it though.) Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
