What are you reading?

Menecairiel
Menecairiel Posts: 164 Member
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Sums it up. What book is everyone currently reading?

For me it is Jo Nesbo's latest Harry Hole book, Phantom. Halfway through and loving it!

What I just finished: rereading George RR Martin's Game of Thrones (first book in A Song of Ice and Fire).
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  • BinaryPulsar
    BinaryPulsar Posts: 8,927 Member
    The girl with the dragon tattoo, the girl who played with fire, the girl who kicked the hornets nest. (and also the new rules of lifting for life).
  • yodapooper
    yodapooper Posts: 62
    :drinker: Just finished reading These is my words by Nancy Turner. Loved that book and the way it was written. Now I've gone on to read Sarah's Quilt because I didn't want the story to end......Highly recommend these books
  • EvaB93
    EvaB93 Posts: 101
    What im reading now: City of lost souls !

    I just finished reading: The golden Lily
  • AmyFett
    AmyFett Posts: 1,607 Member
    I'm reading the 3rd book in the Dexter series.
  • MSimm62385
    MSimm62385 Posts: 227
    A Game of Thrones
  • nmwhitney12
    nmwhitney12 Posts: 239 Member
    I usually read Y.A since this is the age group I teach but right now I am reading The Shopaholic Series by Sophie Kinsella. I know...totally brain mush-er but I need something relaxing after the long days! :)
  • megsmom2
    megsmom2 Posts: 2,362 Member
    Just finished Some Kind of Fairy Story by Graham Joyce...excellent. now reading When Darkness Falls by Lackey and Molloy. ..and rereading Darkover Landfall in one of the omnibus editions.
  • lynheff
    lynheff Posts: 393 Member
    Willpower. Fascinating reading. Not really a book on weight loss but it explains a lot. I have a new perspective on why some days I have more willpower than others and some great suggestions on how to increase power to say no.
  • Mr_Bad_Example
    Mr_Bad_Example Posts: 2,403 Member
    Just finished three books - Kathy Hepinstal's "Blue Asylum" (a major disappointment - so much promise, so little delivery), Tom Rachman's "The Imperfectionists" (not a very good read, sadly) and Stephen King's "Bag of Bones" (quite a good read, if not a bit meandering in the first few chapters).
  • deadgirl81
    deadgirl81 Posts: 412 Member
    Currently reading "Dead Tomorrow" by Peter James - my boss lent me it, and it seems to be pretty good so far :smile:

    Recently finished "I am legend" by Richad Matheson - Don't think i've ever seen the film version, but the book is very good
  • Sheirai
    Sheirai Posts: 79 Member
    Herman Hesse's "Narcissus and Goldmund", along with my reading group. I've read several of his others, and I'm a big fan.
  • soontobesam
    soontobesam Posts: 714 Member
    I'm finishing up Bag of Bones by Stephen King (for the umpteenth time) and just started reading The New Rules of Lifting for Women.
  • Ang_Quark
    Ang_Quark Posts: 28
    Muscling my way through the (sometimes flowery) complexity of Consider Phlebas, by Iain Banks. Already really loving his ability to world build, authorial jealousy aside.
  • Chigger56
    Chigger56 Posts: 105
    11/22/63 by Stephen King.
  • med2017
    med2017 Posts: 192 Member
    i am reading. the clinical anatomy by keith l moore.
  • Caged_Heat
    Caged_Heat Posts: 1,031 Member
    Outlaw Platoon by Sean Parnell and The Lions of Lucerne by Brad Thor
  • soontobesam
    soontobesam Posts: 714 Member
    Just finished three books - Kathy Hepinstal's "Blue Asylum" (a major disappointment - so much promise, so little delivery), Tom Rachman's "The Imperfectionists" (not a very good read, sadly) and Stephen King's "Bag of Bones" (quite a good read, if not a bit meandering in the first few chapters).

    I love Bag of Bones!! If those two other books you wrote about didn't have poor reviews from you I would check them out. Would love to hear another one of your favorites so I can check it out.
  • SherryTeach
    SherryTeach Posts: 2,836 Member
    I'm also a big reader of YA. I'm reading The City of Ashes (Mortal Instruments#2), The Dead (The Enemy#2), and I'll Be There. Oh, and The Loser List. I teach 7th grade.
  • wbgolden
    wbgolden Posts: 2,066 Member
    Day by Day Armageddon
  • skrakalaka
    skrakalaka Posts: 338 Member
    The Black Dagger Brotherhood series. Smutty goodness.
  • Jelaine56
    Jelaine56 Posts: 88 Member
    Pattern of Wounds by J. Mark Bertrand...
  • ilinx
    ilinx Posts: 34
    I just finished Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto.I really liked it because it was different from everything I've ever read before.
  • zealousmissjj_wechange
    zealousmissjj_wechange Posts: 445
    " The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harol Frey" by Rachel Joyce.

    It's about a man, Harold who lives a predictable life with a nagging wife. Then he receives a letter from his old colleague; Queeny. She's writing him that she has cancer and wants to say goodbye. He writes her a short message back and walks over to the mailbox to post it.

    But then, Harold has a chance encounter, one that convinces him that he absolutely must deliver his message to Queenie in person. And thus begins the unlikely pilgrimage. Harold Fry is determined to walk six hundred miles from Kingsbridge to the hospice in Berwick-upon-Tweed because, he believes, as long as he walks, Queenie Hennessey will live.

    I love it so far!! Beautiful!
  • NicoleisQuantized
    NicoleisQuantized Posts: 344 Member
    Just finished "Letters to a Young Contrarian" (Christopher Hitchens); I am in the middle of "Arguably" (Christopher Hitchens); just began "Mortality (Christopher Hitchens).

    I also have many books on the go, where I pick them up at random and read a few chapters before getting distracted by another book (this is a terrible habit of mine). Some of these include:

    "Demon Haunted World" (Carl Sagan)
    "The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood" (James Gleick)
    "Thinking Fast and Slow" (Daniel Kahneman)
    "This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking (edited by John Brockman)

    ... among others....
  • Mr_Bad_Example
    Mr_Bad_Example Posts: 2,403 Member
    Just finished three books - Kathy Hepinstal's "Blue Asylum" (a major disappointment - so much promise, so little delivery), Tom Rachman's "The Imperfectionists" (not a very good read, sadly) and Stephen King's "Bag of Bones" (quite a good read, if not a bit meandering in the first few chapters).

    I love Bag of Bones!! If those two other books you wrote about didn't have poor reviews from you I would check them out. Would love to hear another one of your favorites so I can check it out.

    I enjoyed "Bag of Bones" a lot - it's been a long time since I've read something from SK. As for some of my other favorites, I'll give you a few:

    "Wonder Boys" by Michael Chabon
    "The Journal of Best Practices" by David Finch
    "Riven Rock" by TC Boyle
    "Bloodsucking Fiends" by Christopher Moore (it's hilarious!)

    I'm always looking for something new and good to read - have any ideas/recommendations that I could use?
  • misskerouac
    misskerouac Posts: 2,242 Member
    The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff (I think this is my 4th time reading it)
  • verptwerp
    verptwerp Posts: 3,628 Member
    Right now into chick lit ...... finished "Heller" by J.D. Nixon (ok) ...... halfway through "Secrets" by Kristen Heitzman (ok) ...... also rereading "The South Beach Diet" ..... and considering Stephen King's "The Gunslinger" ...... never read any of the Dark Tower series.

    Happy reading !
  • babigirl2009
    babigirl2009 Posts: 6
    I am reading The Hunger Games. I know I am behind everyone on this lol
  • MySunshine76
    MySunshine76 Posts: 389
    Dantes Inferno, scares the crap out of me.
  • DesignGuy
    DesignGuy Posts: 457 Member
    I am reading The Hunger Games. I know I am behind everyone on this lol

    Loved the movie. I was told the book as some serious changes though, so I'm thinking of reading it.

    I'm mostly reading random fiction from the Kindle daily deals and some nonfiction stuff for a some short stories I'm working on.

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