What book(s) are you currently reading?

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  • ntnunk
    ntnunk Posts: 936 Member
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    After watching the Tour de France in July and currently watching la Vuelta a Espana (like the Tour de France, but in Spain) I'm in full-on bicycle racing mode. Accordingly, I just finished "Etape: 20 Great Stages from the Modern Tour de France" by Richard Moore and I'm currently working on "Slaying the Badger: Greg LeMond, Bernard Hinault, and the Greatest Tour de France" (also by Moore) and "The Death of Marco Pantani: A Biography" by Matt Rendell. That's in addition to whatever Sci-Fi or whatever book I happen to pick up when I'm looking for something lighter.
  • Itskaleena
    Itskaleena Posts: 157 Member
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    For fun: The lovely bones

    for school: writing analytically , The meaning of difference and an algebra book
  • suzreen
    suzreen Posts: 2,455 Member
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    Wow, I love this thread! I was just going to post on FB to ask for recommendations, but have taken many from here. I'm currently listening to a book called 40 Acres, and it has been a lot of fun. A fantastical idea, and pretty good suspense. I also recently read Blue Latitudes, about Captain Cook and the places he visited, and the author is retracing the routes and considering the current state of those places. I just got my son a book called In a Sunburned Country, and just reading the back of the book made me want to move to Australia.

    Reply to several other posts here: I am waiting for an audio book of Outlander, but might have go ahead and get the book version, I see a few recommendations for that on here. Love Hollow City and Ms. Peregrine! I just recently came across house of leaves on Amazon good reads, and I went back and forth, and decided it might be too weird for me. Once I start reading a book, I have trouble stopping, even if it isn't good, I keep hoping it will get better, and then if it never does, I'm pissed! So I was a little worried House of Leaves might be like that for me. I want it to be good, not just weird!
  • cronly
    cronly Posts: 307 Member
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    1984
  • PriscillaLaine
    PriscillaLaine Posts: 124 Member
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    The Odyssey - Homer
    The Beautiful and The Damned - F. Scott Fitzgerald
    Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children - Ransom Riggs

    Felt like a bit of a lighter read for the moment, thus Miss Peregrine's, it's very good easy reading though! Soon to be turned in to a film, I think.
  • baneenerwiener
    baneenerwiener Posts: 26 Member
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    Going Buddhist by Peter j conradi as kind of an ongoing thing when I have time, The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman because I reread that one all the time since I love it, and Cry of the Beloved Country by Alan Paton for school
  • suzreen
    suzreen Posts: 2,455 Member
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    Just finishing Stephen King's Mr Mercedes then will be starting Peter James's Want You Dead (book 10 in the Roy Grace series)

    I'm a Stephen King fan, for the most part. Did you know that his son also writes pretty good stories? His name is Joe Hill, and if you like Stephen King, i bet you will also like Joe Hill.
  • 00Allie00
    00Allie00 Posts: 243 Member
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    The Thicket - Joe Lansdale

    Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
  • suzreen
    suzreen Posts: 2,455 Member
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    I'm about 3/4 of the way through Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman. I just started Galveston by Nic Pizzolatto.

    OMG me too. I'm about 1/4 through. Love me some Gaiman! Did you read "American Gods?"

    American Gods was great. Supposedly Starz has picked up the rights for a TV series.

    Finishing No Less Than Victory, 3rd WW2 novel by Jeff Shaara.

    Anansi Boys was a lot of fun! I know it's a kids book, but I also liked the Graveyard Book, by Gaiman as well.
  • kristinhowell
    kristinhowell Posts: 139 Member
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    The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan :drinker:
  • ZBuffBod
    ZBuffBod Posts: 297 Member
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    Just finished The Guestbook by Andrea Hurst. Starting Wings of Glass by Gina Holmes
  • Eaglesfanintn
    Eaglesfanintn Posts: 813 Member
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    I am, for about the fourth time, reading King's The Stand. One of my favorite books of all time. I'm also reading George R.R. Martin's A Dance With Dragons
  • jjscholar
    jjscholar Posts: 413 Member
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    I have to admit that most of my reading consist of reading online articles. However, I had been reading a book entitled Safety for the Forensic Identification Specialist by Nancy E. Masters and a book entitled Crime Scene Investigation (The Third Edition) by Jacqueline T. Fish, Larry S. Miller, Michael C Braswell, and Edward W. Wallace Jr...

    I have read these books because I am currently taking an advance crime scene investigation technology class, and a crime scene safety class at Eastern Florida State College. I do read some hard copy material for pleasure but they are Zumba Instructor Manuals.
  • art4fun69
    art4fun69 Posts: 151 Member
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    Mists of Avalon. Forgot how much I really like this story. It is a long long book but well worth it. :smile:
  • kelliotte86
    kelliotte86 Posts: 5
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    A Year in the Merde by Stephen Clarke because the cover looked interesting and the synopsis was funny and intriguing. Love it so far.
    Mystery by Jonathan Kellerman because I love the Alex Delaware series and I really need to catch up.
    Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips for the second time because it's hilarious and I love Greek gods.
  • biancad_1992
    biancad_1992 Posts: 30 Member
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    I'm finishing up Revolutionary Suicide by Huey P. Newton. I'll be making the rounds at Barnes and Noble later today!
  • kcl29
    kcl29 Posts: 79 Member
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    Just finished 2 books -

    The Fault in Our Stars - John Green
    Absolutely loved this one. Quick read, great characters. Follows a group of teens with cancer. Couldn't put it down.

    The Interestings - Meg Wolitzer
    Longer book, but again, really well developed characters. Follows a group of friends from a teenage summer camp through their adult years.
  • Primal_Warrior_
    Primal_Warrior_ Posts: 2,180 Member
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    It starts with food
  • Cookingcolavita
    Cookingcolavita Posts: 8 Member
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    Just finished The Giver by Lois Lowry. Have yet to see the film.

    Reading An Abundance of Katherines by John Green and it's really funny and poignantly written. John Green is a genius.

    Going to reread Shakespeare's Macbeth because it's my favourite play.
  • MonaLisaSmile717
    MonaLisaSmile717 Posts: 28 Member
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    Gone Girl

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