I enjoyed The Angel's Game. I was going to read The Shadow of the Wind first, but it wasn't in the library so I read this instead.
Ah my sister recommended it to me, and she said I should read Angel's Game first so hopefully I will get on to it by the weekend!
I was reading Unfinished Desires by Gail Godwin...half way through it and still it couldn't grasp me so I abandoned it, still coping with guilt but time is more important. Picked up a new book called Let me in.
I'm very into Game Change. Highly juicy book about the inside of elections and politics and the minds of those that were there, as well as the goals and challenges of political campaigns. I love it.
I'm finishing up Cutting For Stone by Verghese. I just recently finished Scribbler of Dreams by Pearson. It's a bit of a modernized version of Romeo & Juliet with a twist. Pretty good book, and a fast read. I just downloaded the audio of Unbroken by Hillenbrand. It's very long, and if the amazon reviews are accurate, it'll be a really good one.
I've heard many great things about The Shadow of the Wind, and have been trying to find it at a used book store/been wanting to read it for a while; glad to know it actually is that good. Anyway, I'm currently reading Pursuit of Honor, by Vince Flynn.
I finished the Hunger Games trilogy not that long ago, I thought it was absolutely fantastic and am now working my way through the Wheel of Time series. It's a good fantasy story, but I find some of it... odd, to say the least. I'm rereading book five because I left it half-finished for a year.
Currently reading Adam Nevill's "Apartment 16". A back-to-basics haunted house novel, written extremely well, and with a twist of surrealist art mixed in for good measure. The atmosphere is delightfully creepy. Basically, I love it.
I'm working through the archives of "Paradise." It's a multi-author project where every year, a certain amount of the population change into furries. It's not exactly high art, but it brings up a bunch of interesting social issues.
I'm currently reading "That They May Face the Rising Sun" by John McGahern. Generally, the book focuses a lot more on the characters than plot than your average writer would. Not that that is a bad thing. If fact, I've rarely read a book where the characters are as true to life. The reason why I picked up this book in the first place was because I want to make my way through a collection of "Great Irish Writers". So far, the Irish have proved they can write particularly well.
Thanks to the Game of Thrones series debut, I've decided to end my vow of not reading the rest of A Song of Ice and Fire until the last book is finally released. Come the end of July I suspect I will strongly regret this decision. Given how long it's been since Storm of Swords came out, I'm a little surprised I've been able to follow A Feast for Crows.
Now reading Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov, The Blade Itself, by Joe Abercrombie, Fire, by Kristin Cashore The Well of Shiuan, by CJ Cherryh
I recently discovered and am enjoying Wilkie Collins' "The Woman in White." I came across it at my college's library and it's a very interesting piece of work from the 1800s. Plus, I get a kick out of the look/smell of really old books, and the first hundred-or-so pages of this book are falling out, and its spine is held together with a lovely strip of blue tape. You don't find that kind of classic online!
Finished reading Coin Locker Babies by Ryu Murakami yesterday afternoon. It's the sixth book I've read by him but it's not his best. However, it's one of his earlier works so I think it only makes sense that it's not as eloquent as his other novels. Started reading an anthology, Necking edited by Julianne Bentley, last night and I plan to make a start on My Name Is Sei Shonagon by Jan Blensdorf either today or tomorrow.
Sure you do, just without the old book smell and feel. Check out Project Gutenberg. Wonderful people take old books (with expired copyrights and no reprintings) type all the words in, doing their best to preserve spelling, grammar, and punctuation just as it appears. At your recommendation I downloaded "The Woman in White" for my eReader. I'm already impressed that it's divided into First, Second, and Third Epoch. With 247,000 words, it looks like a good choice by the publisher. So now, I'm reading that.
Reading Bonk: the curious coupling of science and sex, by Mary Roach (who wrote Stiff: the curious life of human cadavers, which is a favorite of mine). A third in, and it's pretty funny and very interesting (and sometimes grody).
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes I'm not too far into it yet, but I'm loving how absurd it all is. It has this really odd mood running through it that blends humor and sadness. I find myself laughing a lot while I'm reading it, but it's also very depressing that this man believes everything that comes out of his mouth.
The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls (on a side note, find it very amusing that I have several of the recently listed books in my kindle, waiting, lol)
What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures--by Malcolm Gladwell It's a collection of his writings from The New Yorker. Most are fascinating. There are only 2 or 3 that failed to grab my interest (out of about 20).
I like to read multiple books at the same time - it helps to break up the monotony and I tend to have a renewed interest when I switch from one to other. Sometimes You Get So Alone It Just Makes Sense by Charles Bukowski Love is a Dog from Hell by Charles Bukowski Palo Alto by James Franco Looking for Alaska by John Green Feeling Good by David Burns Napoleon: A Political Life by Steven Englund
