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  • midsummer174627
    midsummer174627 Posts: 386 Member
    midsummer174627 wrote: »
    I'm reading Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab

    Update: I super enjoyed it, now working on the second one in that series.
  • VonicaFlear
    VonicaFlear Posts: 148 Member
    The Oryx and Crake series by Margaret Atwood, which I haven't been able to finish yet cuz I'm so busy. These books are AMAZING, they really make you think. It's sort of a post apocalyptic Sci first type of series, only 3 books long and the books are pretty cheap paperbacks afaik
  • KosmosKitten
    KosmosKitten Posts: 10,476 Member
    Warriors - Power of Three: Long Shadows
    Adventure Time #11 (I have all the comics produced up to the present)

    I know the "cat" books are really intended for young teens, but a lot of the subject matter, while handled in an age appropriate manner, is much deeper than many of the "adult" books I've had the misfortune of reading.
  • renku
    renku Posts: 182 Member
    Just finished Dragonlance: Sellsword, now I have to find the next two at book sales.
    Started Dark Tower IV Wizard and Glass, I'm looking forward to some hot weathered some deck time for reading.
  • strifechick
    strifechick Posts: 129 Member
    Am I the only one who read about serial killers, unsolved missing persons, famous unsolved murders, and general criminal profiling? I can't get enough of it!

    I bring my kindle to the gym and ready 3-7 books a week (when I'm not sick that is)!
  • lilithsrose
    lilithsrose Posts: 752 Member
    I just finished up Windwith by Susan Dennard.

    I'm now reading American Gods by Neil Gaiman (for the 2nd time). I wanted to re-read it before the tv show starts.
  • PinUpGirlAtHeart
    PinUpGirlAtHeart Posts: 138 Member
    The Dresden Files: Grave Peril (book #3). Almost done with it, so book #4: Summer Knight is next.
  • Dinklc
    Dinklc Posts: 20 Member
    strifechick wrote: »
    Am I the only one who read about serial killers, unsolved missing persons, famous unsolved murders, and general criminal profiling? I can't get enough of it!

    I bring my kindle to the gym and ready 3-7 books a week (when I'm not sick that is)!

    I love those too!! I listen to True Crime Garage also they are amazing!!
  • Gallowmere1984
    Gallowmere1984 Posts: 6,626 Member
    Currently bouncing between The Waste Lands (Dark Tower III) and The Last Days of Archopalasia. I’m sure that most know what the former is, but the latter is a tie-in book for the Torment: Tides of Numenera game, which is the new(-ish) spiritual successor to Planescape: Torment.
  • PaulaKro
    PaulaKro Posts: 5,773 Member
    edited May 2018
    I just started re-reading Andre Norton and was so excited to find so many available online. But what I desired most was a single book cover. Her prolific career spanning seventy years, 130 novels, 100 short stories and anthologies didn't help my search. And I couldn't remember the title, just a vague image of a tall slender doglike creature and its traveling companion, then...
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    Oddly, my memory was of them pointed the other direction, with the "dog" standing on the cart, not in the forefront. But close enough. :)
  • TheDevastator
    TheDevastator Posts: 1,626 Member
    I have a book on blues guitar and another on how to make electric guitars sound great. I'm learning how to do my own guitar maintenance.
  • PaulaKro
    PaulaKro Posts: 5,773 Member
    TheDevastator wrote: »
    I have a book on blues guitar and another on how to make electric guitars sound great. I'm learning how to do my own guitar maintenance.
    Hi there Devestator, We seem to have a couple of similar interests, having just seen your comments in another group on my recent conversion from rice cakes to avocado. Nice sense of humor (yes?) :naughty:
  • TheDevastator
    TheDevastator Posts: 1,626 Member
    PaulaKro wrote: »
    TheDevastator wrote: »
    I have a book on blues guitar and another on how to make electric guitars sound great. I'm learning how to do my own guitar maintenance.
    Hi there Devestator, We seem to have a couple of similar interests, having just seen your comments in another group on my recent conversion from rice cakes to avocado. Nice sense of humor (yes?) :naughty:
    Well I play guitar really badly (the neighbors love me), I'm learning Johnny B Goode by Chuck Berry which I always thought was a great tune, and I am doing low carb because I'm so fat but I'm losing weight again. :) The sense of humor is a work in progress, I'm actually reading a comedy writing book on my kindle that I received as a gift.

  • TheDevastator
    TheDevastator Posts: 1,626 Member
    HOW ARE YOU DOING? :naughty::devil:
  • PaulaKro
    PaulaKro Posts: 5,773 Member
    TheDevastator wrote: »
    HOW ARE YOU DOING? :naughty::devil:
    Sent you a PM o:)

  • hititskip
    hititskip Posts: 42 Member
    I just finished an advance copy of a book coming out in summer called I Am Still Alive. I loved it and would definitely recommend it for anyone enjoyed Hatchet.
  • MelmothWanders
    MelmothWanders Posts: 47 Member
    I am currently reading the short story collection The Starlit Wood. Very nice. There are plenty of books of reimagined fairy tales out there, but most of these take it a bit further and get a bit weirder with it. Like re-imagining Hansel and Gretel as a near-future sci-fi about the roommate of a drug manufacturer semi-adopting a pair of abused kids who wander into their apartment and start sampling the goods.
  • renku
    renku Posts: 182 Member
    I've just started William Gibson's The Peripheral, trying to get back into his writing style.
  • CSARdiver
    CSARdiver Posts: 6,252 Member
    Maps of Meaning - Jordan Peterson

    Blowing my mind good.
  • ChozoSpectre
    ChozoSpectre Posts: 19 Member
    Sleeping Beauties -Stephen King ;D
  • johngburton
    johngburton Posts: 22 Member
    The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World - Steve Brusatte
    Star Wars Last Shot - Daniel José Older
  • just_jess7
    just_jess7 Posts: 271 Member
    Turtles All The Way Down by John Green
    Weep No More, My Lady by Mary Higgins Clark
  • MelmothWanders
    MelmothWanders Posts: 47 Member
    The City of Stairs by Robert Jackson Bennett
  • iamunicoon
    iamunicoon Posts: 839 Member
    Currently reading Artemis by Andy Weir. I love it, though I'm not as hooked straight away as I was with The Martian.
  • Gallowmere1984
    Gallowmere1984 Posts: 6,626 Member
    Tearing my way through The Dark Tower; currently about 25% of the way through Wizard and Glass. I was inspired to finally pick it up after a hilarious rant from my girlfriend about how *kitten* the movie was. It’s been her favorite series of books since she was a young teenager.
  • renku
    renku Posts: 182 Member
    Gallowmere1984 wrote: »
    Tearing my way through The Dark Tower; currently about 25% of the way through Wizard and Glass. I was inspired to finally pick it up after a hilarious rant from my girlfriend about how *kitten* the movie was. It’s been her favorite series of books since she was a young teenager.

    Normally I can breeze through Stephen King books, and I enjoyed the Dark Tower books, but I had a really hard slog getting through this one.

  • pinuplove
    pinuplove Posts: 12,871 Member
    renku wrote: »
    Gallowmere1984 wrote: »
    Tearing my way through The Dark Tower; currently about 25% of the way through Wizard and Glass. I was inspired to finally pick it up after a hilarious rant from my girlfriend about how *kitten* the movie was. It’s been her favorite series of books since she was a young teenager.

    Normally I can breeze through Stephen King books, and I enjoyed the Dark Tower books, but I had a really hard slog getting through this one.

    Wizard and Glass was a long slog for me, too. I thought I was the only one who didn't love it. Most say it's their favorite of the series.
  • MelmothWanders
    MelmothWanders Posts: 47 Member
    Just read Passing Strange by Ellen Klages, now onto Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn.
  • MelmothWanders
    MelmothWanders Posts: 47 Member
    Obscura by Joe Hart
  • CSARdiver
    CSARdiver Posts: 6,252 Member
    A Troublesome Inheritance - Nicholas Wade

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