What are you reading currently?
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Amazon and Audible had a Tolkien sale so I picked up a couple. The Hobbit has a new audio recording and the ebook is in the Kindle Unlimited plan (75th anniversary edition, with extra audio and pictures). The ebook is fantastic, with sections read by the master fantasy author JRR Tolkien himself. The entire chapter where Bilbo finds the ring and has a riddle contest with Golum was read by Tolkien. The new audiobook from Audible synced up nicely with the Kindle Unlimited checkout on my Fire tablet too, for immersion reading. Ninety minutes to go, the Battle of the Five Armies is all I have left. It has been a while since I reread this classic.2
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I just finished The Replacement Wife. Before a great WWII novel The Nightingale
I just got a copy of The Nightingale - glad to hear you liked it. Looking forward to starting it.
@Catfish_Fan - Love the Mount TBR - I'm going to have to start charging mine rent - its about to take over an entire room.1 -
I have a library room! It has 7 full bookshelves in it (after culling books I have already read and don't plan to read again, about 8 bankers boxes full now). I also have about 1,000 books on my kindle, I don't know how many unread?
I'm reading Ruin and Rising (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy #3) by Leigh Bardugo.1 -
Currently reading The Falls - Joyce Carol Oates
My TBR pile grew by 2 yesterday. I treated myself to a couple of 75% off books. 🤦♀️2 -
Started Parable of the Sower on y'all's recommendation.1
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FitMary202 wrote: »Started Parable of the Sower on y'all's recommendation.
I'm reading the sequel, Parable of the Talents (Earthseed, #2) by Octavia E. Butler. So far I like it.1 -
Catfish_Fan wrote: »FitMary202 wrote: »Started Parable of the Sower on y'all's recommendation.
I'm reading the sequel, Parable of the Talents (Earthseed, #2) by Octavia E. Butler. So far I like it.
I'd never heard of Octavia Butler or the books so this is really exciting for me!1 -
I also started Fortunata and Jacinta by Benito Perez Galdos. It's long so I'll be here for a while...1
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Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. It won the Goodreads award for best Sci-Fi in 2021 so I expect greatness.0
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Catfish_Fan wrote: »Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. It won the Goodreads award for best Sci-Fi in 2021 so I expect greatness.
I was completely blown away by this one. I've read all three of Weir's books so far, and his first/third are so completely stellar (pun intended) that I pledge to buy whatever he puts out in the future, sight unseen, I've become that huge a fan.
Currently working on GoT Book 4, with 5 waiting in the wings. At some 1200 pages per, it's taking longer to get through than normal books, lol.2 -
I'm currently reading Black and Blue: Inside the Divide Between Police and Black America.2
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Still reading Parable of the Sower, but it's taking much longer than I expected (?) so I'm swapping in The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas just for a chance of pace.1
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Game of Thrones Book 5
Unlike some members who prefer to leap from one series to another to keep variety in their reading, I prefer to stick with a single series for as long as possible. Especially one which includes about a billion names, trying to remember who is related to whom or said/did what...2 -
I read The Last Juror by John Grisham and it was a solid book, 4 stars. Now I am reading Lake Silence (The Others book 6, and The World of the Others book 1, as it starts a new chapter) by Anne Bishop. This one is fantasy, Grisham was well, Grisham, legal thriller.0
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The Midnight Line (Jack Reacher, #22)
by Lee Child
the last one narrated by Dick Hill, then the narrator for the audio switches to Scott Brick (who is not bad either, but different).0 -
Ship Breaker (Ship Breaker, #1)
by Paolo Bacigalupi0 -
Finally finished Parable of the Sower. It took sooo long to get going, though picked up once they got on the road. And Kindle immediately offered the sequel for free (?) so I started that and like it better already.
And I finished The Hate U Give so I'm looking for something new.1 -
Finished The Falls - started off well enough - but I wasn't crazy about the second half of the book.
Now reading The Death Factory - Greg Ilse - a novella while I decide what I want to dive into next.1 -
The Drowned Cities (Ship Breaker, #2)
by Paolo Bacigalupi
Same world (fantasy/scifi) as Ship Breaker, but different story and characters.0 -
Lightning Down: A World War II Story of Survival
by Tom Clavin
I needed a non-fiction book for a kindle challenge and this story of a downed airman who was sent to Buchenwald death camp fits the criteria.0 -
Started Hamid Ismailov, The Dead Lake.1
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The Silent Patient - Alex Michaelides1
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Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein2
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I read and enjoyed Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein, and found it to be a lot different than I expected. This was my first Heinlein book and was written in 1959. I had in mind the (bad) movie I saw but I was surprised that it wasn't like that at all. A lot of philosophical discussion in the book for a sci-fi, some of it fairly controversial, especially for the time.
Then I finished up The Spearwielder's Tale trilogy with book three, Dragonslayer's Return by R.A. Salvatore. It was an immersion read and was narrated rather poorly by Paul Boehmer. The storyline wasn't super either but I finished it.
Now I am starting a novella, Made Things by Adrian Tchaikovsky, narrated by the author. I don't know what to expect, I have read some of his before and liked them a lot, but they are strange. This one is fantasy and should not take me very long, it is pretty short.
And next up is Wolfskin (Saga of the Light Isles #1) by Juliet Marillier. It is a 23 hour fantasy narrated by Saskia Maarleveld (another immersion read). Not sure if I will get that one finished in April.2 -
Ismailov's The Dead Lake was amazing! Now I've started Fine Boys by Eghosa Imasuen. It's billed as a coming-of-age story set in Nigeria and it's also starting out very well.2
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Finished The Silent Patient - Alex Michaelides - 5 stars on Good Reads. Had a great gothic feel to it. I used to read a lot of Victoria Holt as a teenager, and it reminded me of her. Funny to see he mentioned her in the credits at the end.
Next up The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club by Laurie Notaro.1 -
Wolfskin was a 5 star read, I have liked everything by Juliet Marillier that I have read. More mythology than fantasy.
I read Riding Shotgun (Red Ryan #1) by William W. Johnstone with J.A. Johnstone, it was ok for a cheesy western.
Now I am reading Hawk, which continues James Patterson's Maximum Ride series with a new generation. It is #10 in the series.0 -
Three Hearts and Three Lions by Poul Anderson0
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Past Tense (Jack Reacher book 23) by Lee Child0
