What are you reading currently?
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Nolyn (The Rise and Fall, #1)
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Fall; or, Dodge in Hell
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Catfish_Fan wrote: »Fall; or, Dodge in Hell
by Neal Stephenson
This one was a bit disappointing, having enjoyed Neal Stephenson in the past this one just didn't come up to par.
Now reading Farilane (The Rise and Fall #2) by Michael J. Sullivan. Book 3 just came out this week and I want to read it soon, then I will be almost all the way caught up with this author.2 -
City of Bones - Cassandra Clare
Had the 1st 3 books in the series in my TBR pile for awhile. Think it's time to start reading them.2 -
I started The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese, and I'll finish it, but darned if I can see what all the fanfare is about....2
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I read Deception Point by Dan Brown and it was ok, not super. Maybe I wasn't in the mood for the genre, and the book is getting dated.
Now reading Esrahaddon (The Rise and Fall book 3) by Michael J. Sullivan as I wait patiently for the electric company to get our wires fixed after Thursday night's tornadic activity. Thankfully we have generator power but it isn't a perfect situation, much underpowered. Lights, freezer, toilets, basics work... no air conditioning.1 -
Catfish_Fan wrote: »I read Deception Point by Dan Brown and it was ok, not super. Maybe I wasn't in the mood for the genre, and the book is getting dated.
Now reading Esrahaddon (The Rise and Fall book 3) by Michael J. Sullivan as I wait patiently for the electric company to get our wires fixed after Thursday night's tornadic activity. Thankfully we have generator power but it isn't a perfect situation, much underpowered. Lights, freezer, toilets, basics work... no air conditioning.
I read Deception Point years ago - after reading Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons - not nearly on par with those 2. 3.5 Stars at best.
@FitMary202 sorry to hear that about Covenant of Water - hope it gets better. I have an earlier book of his - Cutting for Stone queued up for my V in the challenge.2 -
I missed a rather large book in between my last two, I also read The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen. It was great, I will be reading more by this author.
Electricity just finally came back on so I might not be so distracted from my current book. It was out from 8:45pm Thursday to 5pm Monday.2 -
Catfish_Fan wrote: »I missed a rather large book in between my last two, I also read The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen. It was great, I will be reading more by this author.
Electricity just finally came back on so I might not be so distracted from my current book. It was out from 8:45pm Thursday to 5pm Monday.
Glad your electricity is back - that's a long time to be without it even with a generator. Hope your storm clean up is going smoothly and everyone is ok.
Currently reading - Ishmael - Daniel Quinn
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Hooray for electricity!!!
We're blessed to be living in the 21st century for the most part.2 -
Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley was a good follow up to her earlier book Firekeeper's Daughter. It centers around an Ojibwe girl living on Sugar Island (which is a huge island in the St. Mary's River near the Soo Locks in Northern Michigan) in a non-historical fiction setting, 2014.
I followed that with a horror novella, Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw, it won a bunch of awards but I don't know why. It wasn't for me. Thankfully it was short.
I'm now reading Is This Anything? by Jerry Seinfeld, which is mostly standup jokes but with bits of memoir by the author. It is an audiobook read by the author, much more entertaining than that horror novella.
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Finished The Devil Rides Out by Dennis Wheatley. I've been trying to read some of the old time pioneers of horror. I thought it was a hoot; Wheatley threw about every occult practice he could think of into that tale in a rush of lovely 1930's melodrama. Then I read Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie. At the request of a young woman, whose late mother was convicted of killing her father, Poirot re-opens a case that was closed 16 years earlier. He goes over and over every detail about the five other people who were at the scene of the crime until his little gray cells zero in on the real killer. One of the more meticulous Christies but rather sad.3
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I've gotten stalled out on Covenant of Water and falling asleep over it every night. You're inspiring me to pick up the pace!2
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I'm struggling with my book as well. Watched more TV than I read this past week. Time to get back on track and finish the challenge. If I do it will be a first for me. I have been inspired by all you avid readers.2
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I read A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas for the Kindle Summer Challenge (Series badge). It is a YA fantasy romance. I would rate it 2.5 stars except Goodreads doesn't have decimal points, so I rounded it up to 3. I was generous! This is book 1 of 5, I have to decide whether to attempt book #2.
Right now I am reading 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami, which is over 1300 pages and clocks in at 47 hours in audiobook format. It's an immersion read, I will probably be reading this one for at least a week. So far it is good.2 -
Catfish_Fan wrote: »I read A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas for the Kindle Summer Challenge (Series badge). It is a YA fantasy romance. I would rate it 2.5 stars except Goodreads doesn't have decimal points, so I rounded it up to 3. I was generous! This is book 1 of 5, I have to decide whether to attempt book #2.
Right now I am reading 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami, which is over 1300 pages and clocks in at 47 hours in audiobook format. It's an immersion read, I will probably be reading this one for at least a week. So far it is good.
I'll be interested to hear your opinion of 1Q84. So many have recommended it...2 -
FitMary202 wrote: »Catfish_Fan wrote: »I read A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas for the Kindle Summer Challenge (Series badge). It is a YA fantasy romance. I would rate it 2.5 stars except Goodreads doesn't have decimal points, so I rounded it up to 3. I was generous! This is book 1 of 5, I have to decide whether to attempt book #2.
Right now I am reading 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami, which is over 1300 pages and clocks in at 47 hours in audiobook format. It's an immersion read, I will probably be reading this one for at least a week. So far it is good.
I'll be interested to hear your opinion of 1Q84. So many have recommended it...
Add me to the list of people curious to hear your opinion of this book and author. An author I follow just recommended another of his books - Norwegian Wood. His review was that he binged it in one sitting - it was so good. Then he stated he would right more, but he was off to find everything else Haruki Murakami had written. this definitely has my curiosity peaked.2 -
I just finished Fourth Wing and can't wait for the sequel later this year. Currently reading
Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall and the first book of the ACOTAR series a A Court of Thorns and Roses.
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Finished off August with None of This is True by Lisa Jewell, which I thought to be a skillfully built and clever thriller about a woman podcaster who gets sucked into a clingy subject's web of pretense and deceit. Then Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie, a carefully crafted but rather sad story of a cold case the daughter of the late convicted murderer wants Poirot to re-investigate. The telling piece of evidence is something only Poirot spots. I didn't.3
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I Begin September with a non-fiction, Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman by Lucy Worsley. I spent about three times longer than I should have getting through this book because I kept googling the various intriguing, cars, towns, houses, etc. mentioned. Ms. Worsley wrote a well-researched book that cuts through the muck often written, and believed, about Dame Agatha. As a reserved, distant, but highly successful woman of trail-blazing accomplishments, Dame Agatha was easily misunderstood and misjudged by a muckraking media. Ms. Worsley delivers a clear, thorough, and sympathetic portrait of the very human and often disparaged woman who is the world's best-selling author.3
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I just finished Fourth Wing and can't wait for the sequel later this year. Currently reading
Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall and the first book of the ACOTAR series a A Court of Thorns and Roses.
Hi, and welcome to the group! I would like to hear your opinions on the Sarah J. Maas book because I just read it. I was fairly unimpressed compared to the hype the book has gotten, but maybe the series gets better the further in you get. In my library I also have The Throne of Glass books and the first two Crescent City books, I have not gotten to them yet but I picked them all up on kindle sales. My "To Be Read" mountain is far too high.2 -
FitMary202 wrote: »
I'll be interested to hear your opinion of 1Q84. So many have recommended it...
I will have to say that the book was weird. I studied Japanese culture a little bit in college and actually took Japanese language 101 and a course on Japanese culture, and I realize that this book was written to a Japanese audience, but I did like it quite a bit. It was sooooo long. I would like to read more of Murakami someday but right now I am done and moving on to the next book. Some people (from reading Goodreads questions) hated the book and some absolutely adored it, I am leaning on the loving it side. It has a lot of sexuality in it, be prepared for that. I don't think that is uncommon in Japanese culture though, it is not as repressed.
I don't think I will begin another book tonight though, it is late and I finally finished 1Q84!!!3 -
Started two books for two challenges. Waste Tide by Chen Qiufan for my Q name, and for the Kindle Summer Challenge, Together We Burn by Isabel Ibañez.2
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I've read some Murakami short stories and started several of his books... I even tried to read the stories and then watch the movie Drive My Car. But I think I'm going to give up on Murakami in general. Life's too short to spend any more time trying to finish books that feel like thankless chores. And in that same spirit, I'm thinking of quitting Water for Covenant, though I'm really close. And I do need a V for the challenge. In the meantime, I've started The Spy and the Traitor by Ben Macintyre for a change of pace.2
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Breezing through The Spy and the Traitor. It's exaggerated, but I can handle that. I've got Qiu's Inspector Chen on deck and I splurged on The Ministry of Truth by Dorian Lynskey. Hope that will be a good read too.3
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Read two Debbie Tung graphic novels. The first, Quiet Girl in a Noisy World: An Introvert's Story is autobiographical and kind of sad until the end as she comes to accept that her introversion as how she was born and who she is and not something broken or pathological. This book would probably not appeal to everyone unless they've walked in her shoes and can relate personally. The second book, Book Love is a lovely series of warm humorous sketches about life with a serious book addiction, that would probably appeal to anyone in this group.3
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@FitMary202 - I agree - life's too short to read bad books.
@LadyCalico2 -I'm putting Book Love on my TBR list.2 -
Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy, #1) by Ken Follett
I had to pick another long book. I'm hoping this is a good series.3 -
Miracle Creek by Angie Kim--this is a court procedural and whodunnit about a deadly fire in a barometric chamber that has been sabotaged. It has a very original plot with well-done court scenes involving two very smart opposing attorneys. The talky/thinky chapters in between gradually tell the reader what really happened, but too gradually for my taste. I found it to be a great crime story that shone when there was action, but not so much when it involved verbose dialogue and introspection.
The Sittaford Mystery by Agatha Christie--During a blizzard a group of neighbors are entertaining themselves with a seance and the spirit says the landlord has been murdered, which indeed he has. This was well-plotted and engrossing mystery, but I was disappointed in the ending. I felt Dame Agatha was really reaching into implausibility when she came up with the hidden clue. Good mystery until the not-so-good ending.3 -
What I'm reading right now:
Over the Edge Alex Delaware book 3 by Jonathan Kellerman.
Psychologist murder mystery / thriller.
A pretty good series of books up to this point.4
