I'm reading Brisingr by Christopher Paolini, John Lennon: In His Own Write, and The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells.
Finished Looking For Alaska by John Green yesterday. I really enjoyed it. And I'm also now reading Zoli by Colum McCann. I just love his writing style.
Just finished a volley of YA novels: Endless Love, The Duff, Shut Out, Speak, Love Lessons and Doing It. Of those only Burgess' Doing It was excellent, Speak was okay, and all others pretty horrible and preachy, or horrible and boring. Keplinger's books were in my opinion so negative they are dangerous if teens happen to use them as a role-model (on a line with Twilight). I'm currently reading through Val McDermid's and so far enjoying it immensely.
I finished Adam Nevill's Apartment 16 at the weekend, and now I'm reading Joseph D'Lacey's Meat. It's good to be reading powerful modern horror novels again
I've just started "Learn Thai With Me" by RJ Huddy. I have to admit I'm pretty virginal with Huddy, and so it doesn't help that I'm reading this book while listening to Ok Go's "This Too Shall Pass" on an endless repeat loop, but, hey, it's okay. Because by the time I get to the lines, "One man is a hunchback; the other as gay as your Uncle Harry," I am already sold.
I'm currently reading The Shallows by Nicholas Carr, and the fact that I hyperlinked the title of his book to another page where you can read about it is ironic. This is a book about the instantaneous culture of the internet--and what it's doing to our brains. I'm only about halfway through the book, but already highly recommend it. Carr presents a thoughtful, well-researched and soulful look at what the human brain is capable of, and how our recent forays into connectedness are changing it at an unprecedented pace.
The book kind of reminds me of one I had picked up a little while ago- What Technology Wants by... Kevin Kelly, that's it. I never got through it- simply too much to do, too little time (story of my life, it seems), but it's basically Kelly's analasis of how technology has evolved, how we use it and how it uses us. He basically describes technology as a living organism, always changing and evolving to what it, and we, need(s). It's definately a bit scary to think about it that way, but he makes a lot of solid points. It's definately worth picking up; it brings a whole new perspective on technology as we know it.
two books on the go at the moment "Scream for me" by Karen Rose; a pretty decent murder mystery, wiht a fast moving plot, where a serial killers crimes and a kidnapping seems linked to a crime commited 13 years ago, and re reading, after picking up a copy in a car boot sale for 50p, " The Stand" by Stephen King..in my and a lot of others opinion a true classic
I finished "Scarecrow and the Army of Thieves" by Matthew Reilly a couple of days ago, and since then I haven't had time to start anything new. But I think I'm going to give "When the Lion Feeds" by Wilbur Smith a go, and see what that's like. It was recommended to me by my dad, but has anyone else read it and think it's good?
Just finished 1984, now on to Trainspotting, then it'll be Hunchback of Notre Dam ! Should keep me busy for a while!
I just finished Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. That was one intense book. I'm so glad I read it, it's definately a book that makes you think.
Having finished Meat by Joseph D'Lacey, I can say that it was one of the most disturbing, unsettling and brilliant books I've read. Everyone should read it. I'm now tackling Gareth L. Powell's latest novel The Recollection. I'm loving getting back into reading fiction. It's taken me a while after finishing uni, but my Kindle really helps matters.
I am have just finished "Legon Ascension" which is the second book in the "Legon Series" by Nicholas Taylor, and I am waiting for the third book to be released. I have found that I am enjoying his novels a lot.
Proven Guilty, by Jim Butcher. Very, very enjoyable so far, as is the whole Dresden Files series of what I've read as of yet [I've read all the ones before Proven Guilty].
I just got The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje for my Kindle. I need to know what's up with this guy. I'll start reading it tonight.
Catcher in the Rye and DH lawrence Aarons Rod which was very revelational, hate is love in revulsion, the wanderings of a writers mind on marriage, the giving of the soul and ending eventually in a satisfying answer I think hmm.
