What book are you reading?

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  • MiNinaLisa
    MiNinaLisa Posts: 648 Member
    Mithridites wrote: »
    Where the Crowdads Sing by Delia Owens. Interesting so far.

    i loved that book - i hope you enjoy it! one of my favorites....


  • MiNinaLisa
    MiNinaLisa Posts: 648 Member
    edited August 2020
    midlomel1971 wrote: »
    Waiting by Ha Jin, the story about a man in China in the 60s and 70s who wants to divorce his wife (arranged marriage) and marry the woman he loves, but it takes, like, 18 years. So yeah...a lot of waiting.

    I also just finished the memoir Educated by Tara Westover which was fascinating, heartbreaking, infuriating (I swear to god my blood pressure spiked) and frustrating. Crazytown.

    i agree on Educated - it was a very difficult book to read - i had to read another book at the same time! my daughter read it also and said the same thing. but an important read - for sure
  • MiNinaLisa
    MiNinaLisa Posts: 648 Member
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    Farewell to the sea by the Cuban dissident writer Reinaldo Arenas. i'm struggling through this as it's stream of consciousness writing, which is not my preference. i'm not a quitter when it comes to reading so i'll attempt to continue it...
  • melaniedscott
    melaniedscott Posts: 1,454 Member
    When Gravity Fails by George Alec Effinger (1986!!)

    Not too far in...reminds me sort of a cross between Emma Bull's Bone Dance, Stephan Barnes' Firedance and Richard Morgan's Altered Carbon (brain modification bits)...
  • genetix71
    genetix71 Posts: 44 Member
    William Gibson - Neuromancer (again)
  • melaniedscott
    melaniedscott Posts: 1,454 Member
    northviewvintage wrote: »
    Always reading this book P.E.T. Parent Effectiveness Training to try to communicate better with family..
    https://youtu.be/9iwN6d3rRaI

    You might check out Crucial Conversations and Crucial Accountability published by Vital Smarts (there are four or five authors)--they're not about parenting so much as communication skills (important for parenting, coparenting, adulting & generally humaning. . .
  • slessofme
    slessofme Posts: 7,740 Member
    The Library Book by Susan Orlean
  • melaniedscott
    melaniedscott Posts: 1,454 Member
    edited September 2020
    Streetlethal by Stephan Barnes (the book I was actually thinking of in my last post...Firedance is the third book...there are three!)

    AND

    Diamond Fire by Ilona Andrews

    I realized today that somewhere, in my head, I have decided it is apocolypse reading season. The last book I read (When Gravity Fails]) is post-apocalypse. Streetlethal and its two sequels are post apocalypse...A while back, I read A Few Good Men by Sarah A Hoyt, a terrible book...and post-apocalypse. Ilona Andrews' Kate Daniels series is post-apocalypse and the Hidden Legacy is a warding off apocalypse story line. And I'm likely to pick up Bone Dance (also post-apocalypse!) when I'm done with what I'm on now...Who knew I was so into apocalypse books!?!

    It's apocalypse season, guys!
  • JessBbody
    JessBbody Posts: 523 Member
    The How of Happiness by Sonja Lyubomirsky.

    It's about how to become a happier person using techniques that have been researched and proven to work by Positive Psychology. I'm working through the exercises.
  • bearzzly
    bearzzly Posts: 3 Member
    Currently reading Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson. I only regret that I didn't read it earlier, what an amazing book!
  • melaniedscott
    melaniedscott Posts: 1,454 Member
    bearzzly wrote: »
    Currently reading Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson. I only regret that I didn't read it earlier, what an amazing book!

    That series is pretty good. Someone gave it to me and I enjoyed it.
  • Joy_stick79
    Joy_stick79 Posts: 71 Member
    1984
  • genetix71
    genetix71 Posts: 44 Member
    https://youtu.be/icLfrvMRZGw
  • genetix71
    genetix71 Posts: 44 Member
    https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.qOuFrEEl4BED9vD2sCjGGQHaK5?w=200&h=294&c=7&o=5&pid=1.7
  • beagletracks
    beagletracks Posts: 6,034 Member
    The Florentine Codex
  • Reckoner69_lmao
    Reckoner69_lmao Posts: 1,000 Member
    Dirk McAwesome and the Giant Fire Breathing Space Ants
  • CarbsAndCoffee41
    CarbsAndCoffee41 Posts: 264 Member
    Sea Glass Castle. So far it's funny yet sad.
  • HeathieM
    HeathieM Posts: 173 Member
    Intentional Parenting.

    Trying to raise a tween over here lol
  • Diatonic12
    Diatonic12 Posts: 32,344 Member
    Wild at Heart
    Alice Outwater
  • beagletracks
    beagletracks Posts: 6,034 Member
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  • PKM0515
    PKM0515 Posts: 3,089 Member
    Derpes wrote: »
    Salem’s Lot by Stephen King

    My favorite Stephen King book!

    I'm reading "Final Girls" by Riley Sager. (Really enjoyed his novel "Lock Every Door.")
  • beagletracks
    beagletracks Posts: 6,034 Member
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  • 4legsRbetterthan2
    4legsRbetterthan2 Posts: 19,590 MFP Moderator
    bearzzly wrote: »
    Currently reading Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson. I only regret that I didn't read it earlier, what an amazing book!

    his reckoners series ( I think it was a trilogy) is fun too

    will add this to my list :)
  • slessofme
    slessofme Posts: 7,740 Member
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  • ReenieHJ
    ReenieHJ Posts: 9,724 Member
    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32522527-the-reason-you-re-alive

    One of the most interesting, funny, different books I've read in a long time. Usually I'm a James Patterson/Jodi Picoult/Harlan Coben kind of reader but this book was excellent. Very blunt and honest character.
  • seltzermint555
    seltzermint555 Posts: 10,740 Member
    Michael Ian Black's "A Better Man"...disappointing only because he's my favorite comedian and it wasn't comedic. As a meditation on fatherhood and masculinity, it was a good read.



  • honeybee__12
    honeybee__12 Posts: 15,688 Member
    I keep buying books, they just stack up.
    I have been unable to barely start a book much less finish it but I miss reading so much!
    I’ll just keep at it until one grabs me long enough to break the cycle. :)

    I read the first novel, The Rook and it was a fun, quirky, fast read.
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  • stevehenderson776
    stevehenderson776 Posts: 324 Member
    edited October 2020
    Stonehenge by Bernard Cornwell. Meh.

    A better book I read recently is Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky. If you like books about genetically engineered super-intelligent spiders who convey complex information and memories through the exchange of sperm then this is the book for you.
  • Bluetail6
    Bluetail6 Posts: 2,984 Member
    Fast. Feast. Repeat, by Gin Stephens. I'm curious about IF, so I thought this would be an ok place to start.
  • KosmosKitten
    KosmosKitten Posts: 10,476 Member
    Oh, Ranger! - stories from park rangers across the NPS. Not just stories of dumb tourists being dumb, but more about their self discoveries working for the Parks, some of the ins and outs of acquiring pieces for museums and sites across the country as well as some humorous stories of encounters they've had over the years.

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