Help Me Choose My Next Read!
abeechu
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Intro: I'm relatively new to being consistently physically/mentally "fit" - I'm an ex-HS athlete who just graduated from college so it has been WAY too long since I've gotten to read for leisure 
While I get plenty of intellectual activity in by nature of my profession, I really miss reading the way I used to do in middle school and high school before forced annotating took the fun out of everything.
Turning Point: I've been getting back into fitness/proper nutrition (successfully losing 1lb/week!) and I just picked up the Ender's series again since I never got beyond Ender's Game. My next book in the series to read is Ender's Shadow, upon my bf's suggestion.
Antagonist: ATFL surgery 06/03
Protagonist Conflict: Anyone have any other good book series to read through/start while I'm bed-ridden for about a week? My fellow Fitocrats suggested His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman. Anything else?
While I get plenty of intellectual activity in by nature of my profession, I really miss reading the way I used to do in middle school and high school before forced annotating took the fun out of everything.Turning Point: I've been getting back into fitness/proper nutrition (successfully losing 1lb/week!) and I just picked up the Ender's series again since I never got beyond Ender's Game. My next book in the series to read is Ender's Shadow, upon my bf's suggestion.
Antagonist: ATFL surgery 06/03
Protagonist Conflict: Anyone have any other good book series to read through/start while I'm bed-ridden for about a week? My fellow Fitocrats suggested His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman. Anything else?
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Stephen Hunt's series that begins with The Court of the Air. Steam-punk adventure fiction.0
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I second the His Dark Materials suggestion. Wish i hadn't read them so I could read them again. If you like that kind of thing, you might also like the Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss. Only 2 books out so far and the first was better, but both are good.
Thanks for the suggestion GG!0 -
The Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon is really good!0
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I read primarily non-fiction.
Just read - "After Visiting Friends" - by Michael Hainey - GQ editor investigates the mysterious circumstances behind his father's death in 1970 (the author was 6 at that time). Very touching, moving story.
"Steve Jobs" - by Walter Isaacson - read it the day it came out, Oct 24, 2012 - fantastic indepth biography of one of the most influential and controversial men of our time by Walter Isaacson, the former managing editor of TIME magazine, former CEO of CNN and biographer of Kissinger, Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein.
I read biographies of resilient men and women
who have overcome seemingly insurmountable familial dysfunction:
"The Glass Castle" - by Jeannette Walls
"A Wolf at the Table-A Memoir of My Father",
"Running with Scissors", "Possible Side Effects"
"Dry" and "Magical Thinking" - all by Augusten Burroughs
"The Memory Palace" - by Mira Bartok
"You Don't Look Like Anyone I Know" - by Heather Sellers
(Heather Sellers has face blindness, prosopagnosia which has been in the media lately because apparently Brad Pitt also suffers from this rare neurological malady)
"The Three of Us-A Family Story" - by Julia Blackburn
"Liar's Club", "Cherry" and "Lit-A Memoir" - biographical trilogy by Mary Karr
"Angela's Ashes" - by Frank McCourt - this won the Pulitzer Prize in 1999 and is my favorite biography.0 -
Someone mentioned Kingkiller Chronicles and I second that. Was pretty awesome.
I'd add the following series:
A Song of Ice and Fire (known as Game of Thrones TV show)
Mistborn Trilogy
Night Angel Trilogy0
