What are you reading in June '15?

[Alissa]

Closing the month with Uprooted. The Complete Empire Trilogy: Daughter of the Empire, Mistress of the Empire, Servant of the Empire was extremely satisfying, all the promises of the first book fully bloomed. Highly recommend (even if, probably, I was in the minority who hadn't read it yet).

[Tnkw01]

Laura wrote: "Has anyone on here read "the long earth" by Pratchett and Baxter? Looking to start it and wondering what people thought."

Long Earth is mainly a Sci-Fi type story, It has some of the humor of Pratchett but not as much as many of his previous books. It has some interesting and original concepts and I really enjoyed it. I would recommend it if you want to read something a little different because it is actually a nice book.

[Mili]

Shari Kay wrote: "Mili wrote: "Just finished Before They Are Hanged, really loved it!

Reading something in between now, Written in Red. Don't expect anything deep with these kind of b..."


It can deff pass for entertainment so far, but again I'm bothered with some characters...the way they think/act. That might be tipical for YA I'm not so sure. I miss this spark of fantasy I had when I was younger around 16 or so. I think I wouldve loved it in that period, was totally into vampires. Haha!

[Heather]

Amy wrote: "I've just finished Leviathan Wakes, which was fun but darker than I'd expected. The title also kinda threw me, because I didn't notice a single reference to a leviathan anywhere in t..."

I've been told that the Leviathan Wakes series gets even better after the first book. The first one, to me, was too much investigation. It also felt a little disjointed. I finally understood why when I saw that it is co-written.

[Heather]

TS wrote: "Listening to Prince of Fools now. Tim Gerard Reynolds narration of Prince Jalan is perfection and absolutely cracks me up. Really having a lot of fun with this one.. really liked t..."

One of the best narrators! He also did my version of Red Rising.

[Mervi]

I loved Valente's In the Night Garden and just got the second book from the library: In the Cities of Coin and Spice. It's already darker than the previous book. I'm also listening Vicious on audio.

[Heather]

Written in Red - buddy reading with Ojo and Mili - seems to be one of those books that is kinda not good but still really pulls you into the story and you can't stop!

[Elise]

Finished off Wavesong. I may take a longer break from this series than usual.

Starting The Liar's Key now.

[Helen, I·ᴍ ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ ʟɪʙʀᴀʀʏ]

I ended up reading How to Build a Girl, Tracks, The Redemption of Alexander Seaton, Memories of Ice and House of Chains.

[Joseph]

Finished The Golden Age of Weird Fiction MEGAPACK TM, Vol. 4: Nictzin Dyalhis and started American Elsewhere by Robert Jackson Bennett.

[Shadowdenizen]

Finished Straight to Darkness, and moved on to The Dreaming God. (This is 4th of 4 volumes in the "Lair of the Hidden Gods" anthology series. Really compelling, and I loved nearly every story in the previous 3 volumes; it's Japanese horror fiction loosely based on the Cthulhu Mythos. I've really been slow in reading these to prolong the enjoyment.)

I just started The Seventh Magpie.

And, in non-fiction news, I'm reading The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil. It's heavy reading, but totally enthralling, even if I don't necessarily completely buy into the authors hypothesis that evil is almost entirely situational, and derives from external rather than internal modifiers.

And I just finished The Battle of Brazil: Terry Gilliam V. Universal Pictures in the Fight to the Final Cut, the fascinating story of Terry Gilliams fight to bring his unadulterated version of the film classic "Brazil" to movie screens, rahter than the truncated version that changes the entire tone and context of the film.

[Governor]

Hi readers, I moved this month so I couldn't finish all the books I would have liked. Therefore I am still at the first Nightangle book and aSoFaI Dance with Dragons.

Just wondering, how do you manage to read so many books in a a month? Stay-at-home-dad/moms?