Finished Callahan's Crosstime Saloon by Spider Robinson. Currently reading The Surgeon by Tess Gerritsen (the novel that introduced Jane Rizzoli).
That's a pretty good description of the book to be honest. I'm really enjoying it though, started it this morning and am now half way through it.
ken macleod's Star Fraction. Its quite a hard read actually. But i'll stick with it. I have the 'American version' although it seems very British. i wonder what the difference is?
I am now inspired to take on Crime and Punishment now i know its got some Nietzschean philosophy in it. Had it in my hand the other day. But my to read list is steadily growing and taking up shelf space.
Ernest Hemmingway's For Whom The Bell Tolls now. I loved To Have and Have Not. I don't know why but I just feel in love with that book, and if there was one world I wish i could live in it would be that one. And again, I'm not sure why.
^Nice. I've just started reading Hemingway. I read "In Our Time" first and now I'm about halfway through "The Sun Also Rises". Both are good. "The Battler" is one of the best short stories I've ever read. I have "For Whom The Bell Tolls" and I think I'll read that one next. Based on what I've heard, it seems a lot darker than his stories that I've read so far. I like that.
I'm going through something of a Hemingway phase myself. Read Across the River and Into the Trees last month, read To Have and Have Not yesterday and now taking this on. I've read only some of his short stories and Old Man and the Sea too which was amazing. I remember 'The Battler' well too, really great story that is. I'll be reading one of his large short story collections of his next.
I just finished reading the final book of Maximum Ride: Never More. The ending is okay. I almost thought the main character was going to die. It took my breath away.
I forgot Rushdie's memoir came out last month. I'll have to check it out. I read from a review a while back that the first half or so deals with his early years, when he was just beginning to write. That part of the book should be similar to King's On Writing.
Most of my time goes to The Thief by Fuminori Nakamura at the moment. Reading Lolita by Nabokov besides that. When I'm short on time some of Aesop's Fables by, uh, Aesop, mostly. Finally, due to you guys discussing the Nietzschean philosophy in Crime And Punishment, I might just attempt to continue reading Beyond Good And Evil by the man himself.
The Icarus Girl by Helen Oyeyemi. I read half of it a couple of years ago during my shifts at a charity shop but then someone bought it. So I'm reading it from the start again. Enjoying it so far.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Quite an amazing book so far. Done with the first sixteen chapters, which is where Coleridge stopped writing the book for nearly seven years before writing again. I hear it takes a turn for the worst and that the ending is horrible. We shall see.
I'm about halfway through Fatelessness by Imre Kertesz. It's a neglected Holocaust memoir and is just as good as Primo Levi's Survival in Auschwitz and Elie Wiesel's Night.
I'm sorry, I meant Clemens. Coleridge was on my mind, as I was working on my poetry unit for class. Both of their first names are Sam, though, so I must of just gotten that mixed up along the way. My bad.
Just finished Emotionally Weird by Kate Atkinson. Very funny and plays around with structure. I laughed til I cried at some of this stuff (though you have to be up on British trivia to get some of the jokes)
A Casual Vacancy, JKR wow still shocked, A disfunctional picture of all levels of society in a British village, it left a very bitter after taste.
Currently reading Nexus by Ramez Naam, to review in the next issue of Interzone. It's not out in shops until January. I am a lucky boy
Currently reading The demon Trappers series of books by Jana Oliver. I am enjoying it it's a nice fun light read nothing to heavy but enough to keep me interested so far. Just started the second book of the series
