What are you reading currently?
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@FitMary202 -enjoy!
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I am going to finish up The Armor of Light by Ken Follett tonight I think. I have 5 hours to go.
Next up is the Murderbot novel, it is book 5 in the series (of the 7 that are currently written it is the only novel length one). I really like that series better the second time through, all the stories connect better than waiting a year between each and forgetting what went on in the previous storyline.
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I finished the Murderbot series, read a dime western, and now reading Witches of East End by Melissa de la Cruz. It is pretty good so far. I guess there is a tv show made from the series (two seasons available on Hulu)?
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Started Greek Lessons by Han Kang last night as a break from Solenoid…
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Greek Lessons is interesting, but a little goes a long way… I also started a very interesting nonfiction book by Salmaan Keshavjee called Blind Spot: How Neoliberalism Infiltrated Global Health. It's based on some fascinating work he did in post-Soviet Tajikistan.
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Currently reading: Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by JK Rowling *****
Also reads:
Collateral by Ellen Hopkins **
Imperfect Sword (The Lost Stars book 3) by Jack Campbell ****
Everything Happens for a Reason **** & No Cure for Being Human ***, both by Kate Bowler
The Witches of East End trilogy by Melissa de la Cruz ****
To the River's End (Jake Ransom, Man of the Mountains #1) by William W. and JA Johnstone ***
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Finished Greek Lessons. Oh, my goodness. What inspires someone to start—let alone finish!—a story like that? I'm going to have to head off in a completely different direction after that one!
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Reading Owls of the Eastern Ice by Jonathan Slaught. Interesting scientific "adventure" story about the author's work in Russia's Far East.
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Three Californias Triptych by Kim Stanley Robinson is really good. These are three independent novels written about Orange County in the future. The first is dystopic, and was good. The second is modern/futuristic, very good, and it is very character-centric. I'm finishing that one up tonight. I am looking forward to finding out what the third novel is about.
The Wild Shore
The Gold Coast
Pacific Edge
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@Catfish_Fan I started his Ministry for the Future but got distracted. I need to revisit Peak Not-yet-finished on Mount TBR…
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Hiya all! I am currently reading We Were Illegal by Jessica Goudeau and The Passion of Cleopatra by Anne Rice and Christopher Rice.
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I read The Passion of Cleopatra (and all the Anne Rice books excepting the religious or erotica ones) and I recall that I liked it and the sequel, The Reign of Osiris. They weren't the best Rice books I read (I loved The Vampire Lestat the best of all) but I was happy with them.
I just finished Sycamore Row by John Grisham, book 2 in his Jake Brigance series that started back at the beginning of his novels with A Time to Kill. This one took place a couple years after the first book, in the 1980s. I rated it 5 stars because of the entertainment value given the genre. It wasn't necessarily a stellar, knock a home run out of the park book, but I read all 21 hours of it in three days (immersion read with audiobook companion) and I rarely put that kind of time into a novel. For the genre, for Grisham (some of which I didn't really like and rated a 2 or 3), I thought this was a better one. I have read all of his novels from A Time to Kill in 1989 to Sycamore Row in 2013 (28 novels) pretty much in sequence. Someday I may actually catch up to the author.
I'm trying to do the same with Stephen King but I'm bogged down and haven't read a S.K. in two years, I have read all of King in order from Carrie in 1974 to Joyland in 2013. These are very long term projects!
I like to read a lot of different genres and I'm currently having a book hangover from Sycamore Row which is going to take the evening to digest, so I will stop for now. What is next?
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