What book are you reading?

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  • HoldTheDoor13
    HoldTheDoor13 Posts: 172 Member
    Big book fan here! I'm doing my PhD in English so I pretty much get to read all day, which is great. I'm reading four books at the moment:

    Rushing to Paradise by JG Ballard
    The Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Tsing
    The Hollow Place by T. Kingfisher
    Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

    (Can you tell I like spooky nature things?)
  • HoldTheDoor13
    HoldTheDoor13 Posts: 172 Member
    Motorsheen wrote: »
    Brain Candy, however...... waaaay better than I thought it might be.
    It's a burner and a page-turner, and I believe it's on it's way to becoming a film.


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    Great book! Tremblay is excellent.
  • garganoj75
    garganoj75 Posts: 13 Member
    The Private Lives of the Impressionists by Sue Roe
  • blobby2021
    blobby2021 Posts: 6 Member
    Huge Peter James fan. Currently halfway through Dead Tomorrow. Not a fan of the Grace TV series though.
  • honey_honey_12
    honey_honey_12 Posts: 14,749 Member
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  • RainbowMage
    RainbowMage Posts: 5 Member
    Mistborn - Brandon Sanderson

    Rereading book 1 in the trilogy and have the rest on hand.
  • TwitchyMagee
    TwitchyMagee Posts: 4,579 Member
    One of my favorite things is to wander around the library & pull out a book I’ve heard nothing about
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  • herblovinmom
    herblovinmom Posts: 418 Member
    I just finished Thistlefoot
    by GennaRose Nethercott

    A good fast read, strange story and didn't end the way I imagined it would but all in all well written and kept me entertained.
  • Antiopelle
    Antiopelle Posts: 1,184 Member
    honey_honey_12 wrote: »
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    Oooow, I like him. The book is on (almost) on top of my pile - I hope to get to it soon.
  • jhurt1344
    jhurt1344 Posts: 3 Member
    Just restarted book one of the Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind (Wizards First Rule)p346mfb01p1b.jpg


  • Bry_Fitness70
    Bry_Fitness70 Posts: 2,480 Member
    edited April 2023
    https://amazon.com/Sandusky-Burning-Bryan-W-Conway/dp/B09M4R6NVY

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  • webstee
    webstee Posts: 8 Member
    I am on an Anne Rice bend for some reason. I had never read her before this year and have already worked through a few series.
  • tuddy315
    tuddy315 Posts: 11,619 Member
    The Drowning People by Richard Mason
  • emgracewrites
    emgracewrites Posts: 478 Member
    Recently finished “Imaginary Friend” by Stephen Chbosky. So good!!! Highly recommend.

    Now I’m halfway through “The Running Man” by Richard Bachman (aka Stephen King) even though I just started it two nights ago.

    Also re-reading “Wizard and Glass” (also by Stephen King).

    I’ll give you three guesses who my favorite author is 🤣
  • Darren225g
    Darren225g Posts: 214 Member
    emgracewrites wrote: »
    Recently finished “Imaginary Friend” by Stephen Chbosky. So good!!! Highly recommend.

    Now I’m halfway through “The Running Man” by Richard Bachman (aka Stephen King) even though I just started it two nights ago.

    Also re-reading “Wizard and Glass” (also by Stephen King).

    I’ll give you three guesses who my favorite author is 🤣

    lol, he's also my favorite author. I actually just finished reading 11.22.63, and that was a great book.
  • Zbounce94
    Zbounce94 Posts: 2 Member
    I'm almost through the new Grady Hendrix book, "How to Sell a Haunted House"

    Anything Hendrix releases is an automatic read from me. This one is good, but I still think The Southern Bookclub's Guide to Slaying Vampires is his masterpiece
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  • Mysticalbluebird
    Mysticalbluebird Posts: 4 Member
    I've been reading Atomic Habits
  • Motorsheen
    Motorsheen Posts: 20,508 Member
    back issues of National Lampoon.....

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  • 4legsRbetterthan2
    4legsRbetterthan2 Posts: 19,590 MFP Moderator
    edited May 2023
    Just finished Charlaine Harris' Lily Bard series. It was ok, not her best IMO. Good for light entertainment, but didnt evoke alot of emotional connection ot the characters and the mysteries were a little flat.

    Reading Verity by Colleen Hoover - its good if you like a stomach clencher type read, stay away if you don't want to experience a really really dark side to motherhood.
  • honey_honey_12
    honey_honey_12 Posts: 14,749 Member
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  • melaniedscott
    melaniedscott Posts: 1,455 Member
    edited May 2023
    4legsRbetterthan2 wrote: »
    Just finished Charlaine Harris' Lily Bard series. It was ok, not her best IMO. Good for light entertainment, but didnt evoke alot of emotional connection ot the characters and the mysteries were a little flat.

    Reading Verity by Colleen Hoover - its good if you like a stomach clencher type read, stay away if you don't want to experience a really really dark side to motherhood.

    I agree about Lily Bard. It was okay. I'm not huge fan of Harris, though I've read a lot of her books. My experience with her work is the only time her characters really evoke much emotional connection...is loathing. Most of her characters are very wooden. The ones that aren't are dumb. I did like the Midnight Texas and Gunny Rose series, but those characters are also pretty stiff. Mostly, I like some of the ideas/world building.
  • GlenStevens
    GlenStevens Posts: 16 Member
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    Just starting these
  • Sylebration
    Sylebration Posts: 22 Member
    Currently reading "Oona Out Of Order" So, far, so good. It's not like anything else I've read and I'm enjoying it.
  • tuddy315
    tuddy315 Posts: 11,619 Member
    Blind Side - Catherine Coulter
  • laurosaurusrex
    laurosaurusrex Posts: 66 Member
    Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
  • AdahGreen2022
    AdahGreen2022 Posts: 264 Member
    edited May 2023


    Leo Tolstoy On Life
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    Northwestern University Press, Nov 15, 2018 - Literary Collections - 264 pages
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    In the summer of 1886, shortly before his fifty-eighth birthday, Leo Tolstoy was seriously injured while working in the fields of his estate. Bedridden for over two months, Tolstoy began writing a meditation on death and dying that soon developed into a philosophical treatise on life, death, love, and the overcoming of pessimism. Although begun as an account of how one man encounters and laments his death and makes this death his own, the final work, On Life, describes the optimal life in which we can all be happy despite our mortality.

    After its completion, On Life was suppressed by the tsars, attacked by the hierarchs of the Russian Orthodox Church, and then censored by the Stalinist regime. This critical edition is the first accurate translation of this unsung classic of Russian thought into English, based on a study of manuscript pages of Tolstoy's drafts, and the first scholarly edition of this work in any language. It includes a detailed introduction and annotations, as well as historical material, such as early drafts, documents related to the presentation of an early version at the Moscow Psychological Society, and responses to the work by philosophers, religious leaders, journalists, and ordinary readers of Tolstoy's day
  • OhioDido
    OhioDido Posts: 47 Member
    The Bible. Reading front to back. On my bucket list.
  • angelicdoctor
    angelicdoctor Posts: 3 Member
    Merlin by Stephen R. Lawhead

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