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  • whooRAWRowlbear
    whooRAWRowlbear Posts: 47 Member
    I'm close to finishing up O Pioneers! for my reading challenge. I expect to finish it this week, then start up Gone With The Wind as the next book on my challenge list.
  • Watson_20
    Watson_20 Posts: 50 Member
    I'm reading Double Feature by Owen King. The books is okay, but for me it's somewhat hard to read and follow. Double Feature is my first read by Owen King. Maybe the more I read it the better in following the book for me. I think I'm passed the halfway mark of the book.
  • iLeela75
    iLeela75 Posts: 21 Member
    Water for Elephants and then To Kill a Mockingbird. I finished the Popsugar Ultimate Reading Challenge last year and have set my goal at 50 books for this year. 3 in.
    Friends on here and on goodreads always welcome. :)
    https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/3584284-lia
  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 11,616 Member
    I just finished reading "The Martian", and can easily classify that book as one of my all-time favorites. During my masters degree in space systems engineering, we studied the steps required to survive on Mars, so to read all those same steps and more in a novel was extremely gratifying. I can't wait to watch the movie.
  • WranglerMichelle
    WranglerMichelle Posts: 529 Member
    Recently started The Curious Incident of the Dog in Night-time by Mark Haddon. Basic plot: an autistic boy investigates the murder of his neighbor's dog. It's written first person from his POV, which is really interesting.
  • guinevere96
    guinevere96 Posts: 1,445 Member
    I just got the 5th game of thrones book in the mail and I am SUPER EXCITED
  • PaytraB
    PaytraB Posts: 2,360 Member
    WranglerMichelle, if you enjoy that book, check out Marcelo in the Real World by Franscisco X Stork. It's also told from the POV of an autistic person. I enjoyed both these books.

    Nossmf, I hope to read The Martian soon. The queue at the library is still long.
    I recently discovered the books of Nancy Kress. Her sci-fi seems based on futuristic human experiences.

    I just started The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin.
  • WranglerMichelle
    WranglerMichelle Posts: 529 Member
    PaytraB wrote: »
    WranglerMichelle, if you enjoy that book, check out Marcelo in the Real World by Franscisco X Stork. It's also told from the POV of an autistic person. I enjoyed both these books.

    Thanks for the recommendation, @PaytraB! I'll have to add it to my list. It might be on there already . . . I can't keep 'em all straight. :) But I'll definitely check it out!

  • PaytraB
    PaytraB Posts: 2,360 Member
    WranglerMichelle wrote: »
    It might be on there already . . . I can't keep 'em all straight. :)

    LOL! .....I can relate....
  • SabrinaJL
    SabrinaJL Posts: 1,579 Member
    I am currently reading The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski.
  • fergie1203
    fergie1203 Posts: 6 Member
    Hi I always have 2 on the go. In the car I have the Cuckoos calling which apparently is JK Rowling but I didn't realise when I got it. I am reading The Short Drop by Matthew Fitzsimmons too
  • KETOGENICGURL
    KETOGENICGURL Posts: 687 Member
    edited February 2016
    NOSSMF-I just finished reading "The Martian"

    Read this last year, loved it! was on the edge of my seat the entire time..too bad I loathe what's his face, the actor, in the role..

    the 24/7 blogging by Matt of his entire life and thoughts is trendy… the joke is that Matt Damon has been rescued like 8 times in several movies..including Interstellar, which came out last year.

    so yes. the book is better

    http://iaf.tv/2016/01/06/honest-trailer-the-martian/?_ga=1.27984500.992764230.1407047559

    Watch this review…droll and snarky!
  • MsTK
    MsTK Posts: 10 Member
    Finished the martian - now reading the opposite of loneliness which is a great book: short stories!
  • PaytraB
    PaytraB Posts: 2,360 Member
    I just finished The Lower River by Paul Theroux, which was really good. I've now started Saint Mazie by Janni Attenberg. It's too early to tell about this one yet.
  • wdnisbet
    wdnisbet Posts: 518 Member
    Hi. My name is Dawn. I've never read this thread before but I'm excited to see it. Always looking for newtitles and authors. Right now I'm reading The Millionaire an the Bard by Andrea Mays. Nonfiction. About an collector of Shakespeariana named Henry Folger. I usually enjoy biographies and memiors but this is off to a slow start. Withholding opinion for now.
  • diabeticdiva130
    diabeticdiva130 Posts: 12 Member
    Currently reading my life with Jacqueline Kennedy by Mary Gallagher
  • jonward85
    jonward85 Posts: 534 Member
    I am currently reading "Alloy of Law" by Brandon Sanderson.
  • wdnisbet
    wdnisbet Posts: 518 Member
    I'm so happy to see new posts on this thread. I do love books.

    Recently read The Millionaire and the Bard. It has a slow first chapter or two but then it picked up and I really enjoyed it. It was an introduction to people I previously knew nothing about. I have requests into my library for a couple of Paul Theroux's travel memiors. And I will soon be reading Herman Wouk's The Lawgiver. I have high hopes for that one.

  • Aedon2
    Aedon2 Posts: 11 Member
    I am currently reading The Night Circus by Erin Morganstern
  • wdnisbet
    wdnisbet Posts: 518 Member
    I am currently reading The Night Circus by Erin Morganster

    I read this a couple of years ago. It was certainly engaging. Kept me thinking. I enjoyed it. But I must confess to being a little confused at the end. It must have been a little over my head
  • ravenzwart
    ravenzwart Posts: 108 Member
    I am currently reading the sword of truth series, just started it.
    And i just read cecile en elsa (by Elisabeth Leijnse), it is a dutch history novel.

    I seem to switch between fantasy, biography/history and romantic novels (guilty pleasure). It depends on my mood and energy i guess
  • wdnisbet
    wdnisbet Posts: 518 Member
    Currently reading The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency book 1 by Alexander McCall Smith.
    Very light reading. Set in Gaborone, Botswana. Enjoying it so far
  • aliceocean2
    aliceocean2 Posts: 35 Member
    I'm just about to dive back in A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess. Read it 3 times already, but I love going back to it once in a while.
  • kellibee2000
    kellibee2000 Posts: 87 Member
    The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin, and Tortuga by Rudolpho Anaya. Both very good so far. I'm starting my own kind of happiness project & its been very good for me. Tortuga, I love magical realism in Latin lit & this does not disappoint!
  • PaytraB
    PaytraB Posts: 2,360 Member
    Kellibee, Tortuga is a book I'd like to read soon. Glad to hear that it's good.

    I'm currently reading The Third Reich by Roberto Bolano. It's mysterious but I'm not sure yet where the story is going.
  • kellibee2000
    kellibee2000 Posts: 87 Member
    @PaytraB It was on BookBub recently so I got it for a steal! I loved Bless Me, Ultima, & I'm glad I picked it up. ;)
  • wdnisbet
    wdnisbet Posts: 518 Member
    Currently reading The Time Keeper by Mitch Albom. Pretty good writing and an interesting philosphy. Not that I agree one bit :D but an interesting perspective nontheless,
  • KETOGENICGURL
    KETOGENICGURL Posts: 687 Member
    Bindi… more amazing science fiction with so much heart you want to hug the protagonist. Can having the world's thickest dreadlocks brings two totally alien cultures together?

    An African tribal girl whose people coat their bodies and hair with red clay goes off to space adventures because she is a math brainiac…and thru her compassion may save two planets from more war…so beautifully detailed culturally it could be 500BC, instead of 3900 AD/galactic period. LOVE LOVE LOVE the tenderness and warmth this character shows to another alien culture, looking like jellyfish…I am now reading another book of hers, she's an English professor in NY, Nnedi Okorafor American born, of Nigerian heritage. won many awards, Bindi is more YA, but I loved it as an adult reader.
  • wdnisbet
    wdnisbet Posts: 518 Member
    Bindi sounds interesting. I'm going to check it out. I often enjoy books classed as YA. They have gratuitous violence messing up a good story.
  • BelladonnaWinter
    BelladonnaWinter Posts: 7 Member
    Currently working my way through Writing 21st century fiction by Donald Maass

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