It’s Monday, What Are You Reading? (06/25/12)

This Week I’m Reading:
EDIT:

Of course, this afternoon Ready Player One by Ernest Cline became available for check out from the GPDL. I’ll be reading that this week as well.

Three-Ten to Yuma and Other Stories by Elmore Leonard

From America’s premier storyteller comes this collection of seven classic western tales of destiny and fatal decision, featuring the story that became the basis for the 1957 western film classic, “3:10 to Yuma,” which starred Glenn Ford. (Goodreads)

I need a litte break from fantasy. I requested it from the Greater Phoenix Digital Library and it became available this morning.

Dark Waters by Shannon Mayer

The bonds of family are stretched to the breaking point as legendary monsters, a deadly prophecy, and soul swallowing fears threaten to destroy them. Magic, secrets, sensuality and mind numbing terror all rolled into one to keep the pages flying.(Goodreads)

Won this over the weekend from a read-a-thon drawing. Not usually my thing, but it sounds a bit interesting.

Short Story of the Week:

“21st-Century Girl” by Adrian Tchaikovsky (via Nature) and/or

“Odd Jobs” by Matthew S. Rotundo (via Buzzy Mag)

The Usual:

Already caught up with this week’s Poetic Edda and Minorities. And two chapters of…well, I decided that I wanted to watch the second season of  A Game of Thrones and finished A Clash of Kings. This puts me months ahead of the read-through. The funny thing is that I’ve kind of gotten used to reading a couple chapters a week and will probably move on to A Storm of Swords.

What I Read Last Week:

Took part in the Wicked Wildfire Read-a-thon from Wednesday through Sunday. In addition to finishing A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin, I finished Modern Fairies, Dwarves, Goblins, and Other Nasties by Lesley M. M. Blume, From the Dust Returned by Ray Bradbury, and read through roughly 25 issues of Marvel’s Ultimate Comics series. Reviews of all those will be posted in the next couple weeks.

What I Gave Up On:

Ted Dekker just didn’t work out for me. The book I checked out from the library was a 2-in-1. I read the first few pages of both Thr3e and Obsessed and neither really caught my interest.

Also, as quickly as it set in, my fairy tale obsession passed.  I returned My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales last night after only reading three stories from it. Also, it was the only one of my recently checked out library books that was in Adobe format. I seem to have firmly moved to the Kindle cloud app.