Mockingjay by Suzzanne Collins. The third book in the Hunger Games series. I think this is a popular enough series that I don't have to say much more other than I love it. The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death by John Kelly. Historical nonfiction. It details the spread of the Black Plague from the Far East to Europe and the factors that made it possible. Also, it provides accounts of several key European cities and some of the people in them that were most affected. Very interesting read.
"The Drowned World" was very good. I'm going to have to read more of Ballard. I've now started China Mieville's "Kraken". I'm expecting big things from this one- I've heard it's a Kraken good book!
Currently reading The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson. I don't really read romance, but this is like a mix of history and romance. Very well written too!
Hey, right on! I'm also reading Wheel of Time right now. I read the first few when I was younger, but never got around to finishing it. Started over a while ago and I'm into The Fires of Heaven right now. Other than that, I'm also reading Neutrino, by Frank Close, and Ramachandran's The Tell-Tale Brain.
I'm close to finishing "The Historian" by Elizabeth Kostova. Not loving it. To be honest, it's a stuggle for me to get through this. So many "side trips" from the plot that I'm having a tough time distinguishing the plot at all. But, I'm trying to read 50 books before the first week of August when I begin law school, so I'm toughing it out.
In a fit of brilliance, I've left "Kraken" at home, so I started on a PDF advance review copy of "Osama" by Lavie Tidhar, on my Kindle.
Just finished Evolutionary Psychiatry by Stevens and Price. Very stimulating if not always persuasive. Just started Ellmann's James Joyce. It is artfully written but very long and since I suspect it assumes a knowledge of Joyce's output that I do not possess,it might very well be put to one side, unfinished, at some point.
Finally got a copy of "The definite annotated Alice", aka collection of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", "Through the looking glass" and "A wasp in a wig", a long lost chapter from "Through the looking glass".
I'm in the process of rereading the LoTR series (first time in a few years) and I'm on "The Two Towers" currently.
I'm reading The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy. Having read his memoir, My Reading Life, I can now easily understand the basis of the characters and themes he writes about. This novel is about a man whose dysfunctional childhood has left him (and his sister) psychologically damaged, and his struggle to overcome it.
Finished Shadow's Edge by Brent Weeks. Got A Game of Thrones by George RR Martin next, and after that - Deception Point by Dan Brown. After that, it's when I delve into such unlreased novels as Path of the Seer by Gav Thorpe.
Speaking of Dan Brown (Actually, no, Merlin just mentioned him once ) I've finished Angels and Demons. A pretty un-rewarding book, tbh. Is the Da Vinci Code any better? I'm now going to read a Doctor Who novel, The Dead of Winter.
I never read Angels and Demons. I did read the Da Vinci Code. I thought it was an entertaining read, something I might read while traveling, or between heavier works. I also read The Symbol, which I didn't think was nearly as good. Maybe because by then I thought the whole symbology thing had been worked to death.
