What are you reading currently?
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Patrick McManus, The Night the Bear ate Goombaw
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The King of Torts by John Grisham1
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The Little Friend by Donna Tartt0
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Passing - Nella Larsen2
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Lost Among the Living - Simone St. James2
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What We Carry: A Memoir by Maya Shanhbag Lang. Thinner than I'd expected...1
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The Expert System's Brother by Adrian Tchaikovsky0
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When time stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains by Ariana Neumann1
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Etched in Bone (The Others #5) by Anne Bishop. This is an audiobook immersion read, I may not finish it in 2021 yet because it is 16 hours in length. I don't like to race when I read, if I get to it I do, if not it will start out 2022.0
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Winter in the Blood by James Welch. I'd never heard of this, but it was absorbing. So evocative of the American West...1
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I couldn't quite manage to finish the book I was reading in 2021, so it is added to 2022 stats, I finished it today. Now I am reading Dark Screams Volume 4 edited by Brian James Freeman. It's a book of short stories that isn't very long, should finish today. One of the stories was written by Clive Barker but it wasn't very impressive, some of the others are more interesting.1
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P.T. Deutermann, Pacific Glory. This is a historical fiction about the Pacific theater Navy in World War II.1
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After Midnight by Irmgard Keun. Fascinating!1
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Evershore (Skyward Flight novella #3) by Brandon Sanderson. Looks like another 5 star read so far.0
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I've started Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner, which I expected to love. Not sure yet though...0
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Pacific Glory and Evershore did not disappoint, 5 stars each. I'm now reading Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler and can tell (about 20% into it) that it will be a 5 star read too. 2022 is beginning with a streak!2
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Catfish_Fan wrote: »I'm trying a new fantasy author, R.A. Salvatore. Started The Spearwielder's Tale trilogy with book 1, The Woods Out Back. And my hold on Dune book 4 finally came in at the library, so that is up next.
For the record, Salvatore is new to you, but he's been writing for decades now. I've been reading his Drizzt books for almost 30 years now, and he just came out with book 1 of a new trilogy. Love them all! By contrast, I read his Spearwielder's Tale, never got quite as into it.1 -
Catfish_Fan wrote: »I'm trying a new fantasy author, R.A. Salvatore. Started The Spearwielder's Tale trilogy with book 1, The Woods Out Back. And my hold on Dune book 4 finally came in at the library, so that is up next.
For the record, Salvatore is new to you, but he's been writing for decades now. I've been reading his Drizzt books for almost 30 years now, and he just came out with book 1 of a new trilogy. Love them all! By contrast, I read his Spearwielder's Tale, never got quite as into it.
Oh yeah, I know. Drizzt is on my gigantic TBR pile. Salvatore is "new to me" (I should have clarified), meaning I have never read him before only, other than his Star Wars Attack of the Clones movie novelization. I found the first book of the Spearwielder's Tale to be kind of a parody book of Lord of the Rings, not to be taken super seriously, and I haven't read book two yet. They were available in Kindle Unlimited and I checked them out because of that but maybe that wasn't the best place to start reading him. Do you think his other series, "Chronicles of Ynis Aielle", "Crimson Shadow", or "Chronicles of the First King" are better? I own paperbacks of those as well as the Drizzt series, just haven't gotten to them.
I'm now reading Projekt 1065 by Alan Gratz. It's a YA book about the Hitler Youth and Messerschmitt 262 jet fighter in World War II. I don't know how it is going to turn out but it is a short read at least.1 -
I picked a couple more from Kindle Unlimited. Right now reading Wintersteel (Cradle book 8) by Will Wight.2
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Catfish_Fan wrote: »Pacific Glory and Evershore did not disappoint, 5 stars each. I'm now reading Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler and can tell (about 20% into it) that it will be a 5 star read too. 2022 is beginning with a streak!
I read Octavia E. Butler's Kindred not long ago. It's amazing how well the story held up even though she wrote it in the 70's. I've been looking forward to reading Parable of the Sower - just need to find a copy.
Currently reading The Misremembered Man - Christina McKenna1 -
Red Rising by Pierce Brown. I've read this one before but I can't remember it well enough to continue with the series. Apparently the last time I read it I liked it, but I don't remember much of it so far.0
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Gave up on Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner, at least for now. Interesting, but a bit overwrought.
Today I'm starting Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl. I was happy my library had it!1 -
Catfish_Fan wrote: »Red Rising by Pierce Brown. I've read this one before but I can't remember it well enough to continue with the series. Apparently the last time I read it I liked it, but I don't remember much of it so far.
I truly read this book before? I guess it was in early 2017... Well my take was a bit different this time. I agree wholeheartedly with the top review on Goodreads of this novel.
"When I first read the book I must have been on crack, because it went from 4 stars to 5 and my favorites list! It's bloodydamn awesome! Let me just say the second time around listening to it on audio was fanfreakingtastic! The narrator nails it and there is a song in the book and a woman sings it at the end and I got freaking chills people. Chills!"
I don't usually follow a book with it's sequel because of book hangover and burnout and all of that, but this one just has to be followed. Golden Son by Pierce Brown is my current next read.
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Catfish_Fan wrote: »I don't usually follow a book with it's sequel because of book hangover and burnout and all of that, but this one just has to be followed.
I find this statement amazing. I prefer my book series like I prefer my movie series...all of them in a row, maybe not binging in a single day but without another title in between. This makes for me the series seem less like a string of single books, and more like a single long, involved saga with commercial breaks throughout (time spent eating, working, sleeping, swapping one book/DVD for the next, etc.).1 -
I had to put Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl on hold. It's interesting, but requires more commitment than I can make right now. I've switched to Donna Leon, The Temptation of Forgiveness, and as usual it's the perfect antidote to stress and irritation. Love me some Guido Brunetti in Venice!1
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I am enjoying an audio lecture series from The Great Courses, How to Listen to and Understand Great Music by Professor Robert Greenberg. It is a series of college course lectures of 45 minutes each, and the total is 36.5 hours of learning. So far it is very good.1
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Catfish_Fan wrote: »I am enjoying an audio lecture series from The Great Courses, How to Listen to and Understand Great Music by Professor Robert Greenberg. It is a series of college course lectures of 45 minutes each, and the total is 36.5 hours of learning. So far it is very good.
While this is very long, I have also started a book of short stories based off Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back entitled From a Certain Point of View, edited by Elizabeth Schaefer. This provides a break from all the learning about Baroque Fugues and such, which while fascinating, gets a bit dry after several hours in a row.1 -
Ghosts of Bungo Suido (World War II Navy #2) by P.T. Deutermann0
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I've just started Home in the World by Amartya Sen. I've enjoyed some of his scholarly work so I'm excited to read this memoir.1
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Just started The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams for the first time.
Finished The Misremembered Man - 3.5 stars rounded to 4 on Good Reads.
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