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What are you currently reading?
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I'm currently reading 1.4, the second book to Human 0.4 by Mike Lancaster. This book is about a link that does everything for the human brain such as creating memories, thoughts, music, etc. But suddenly the link starts creating it's own thoughts and messing with people's memories.
The second book I'm reading is called Pulse written by Patrick Carman. I'm not too far into this book, but so far it's about this girl who lives in a country that is slowly dying and becoming the lesser of two countries. The schools are being abandoned and every object is belittled and worse. That's all that they've talked about and I'm on page 117 so it takes a while to get to the real plot.
The last book I'm currently reading is A Crack in the Sky. I just got this book yesterday but I've found out that their city lives in a dome because their outside air was polluted so bad. A crack appeared in the sky and suddenly their dome starts getting hotter and they have to fix it somehow.
Can't wait to finish all of these books because so far they're really good!
Oh the last two sound really interesting! I am going to check them out now.How do you find reading multiple books at once?
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It was difficult to do it at first, but now I have a lot of free time so most of the time I'm finishing a book and then going to the library and finishing another one.
Ⓙüηε wrote: "It was difficult to do it at first, but now I have a lot of free time so most of the time I'm finishing a book and then going to the library and finishing another one."I love libraries, my local one closed down recently.
I think I would get confused & lost and end up moving characters from one book into the other!
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Sadly, that's happened to me before when I was reading two books that were sort of alike. I wrote a review about one of the books which was really about the other one... confusing! I'm sorry about your library. I have 3 libraries around me that are all connected so I sometimes switch it up.
Ⓙüηε wrote: " Sadly, that's happened to me before when I was reading two books that were sort of alike. I wrote a review about one of the books which was really about the other one... confusing!"Oh that is funny! I wonder how many people have done that. What do you think is going to be your next read?
Anna wrote: "Hello,I would love to know what people are currently reading!
I am currently reading The Bookman's Tale by Charlie Lovett.
The book is about a young antiquarian bookseller. After the death of h..."
Anna wrote: "Hello,
I would love to know what people are currently reading!
I am currently reading The Bookman's Tale by Charlie Lovett.
The book is about a young antiquarian bookseller. After the death of h..."
Have you finished The Bookman's Tale? Is it good?
Danielle wrote: "Anna wrote: "Hello,I would love to know what people are currently reading!
I am currently reading The Bookman's Tale by Charlie Lovett.
The book is about a young antiquarian bookseller. After t..."
Hi Danielle,
Welcome to the group.
Yes I have finished The Bookman’s Tale, I couldn't put it down! The ending was just perfect. I was actual sad it ended.
I would defiantly give it a read.
Thanks! I love books about books and recently finished The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry Hope you are well.Danielle
First Impressions: A Novel of Old Books, Unexpected Love, and Jane Austen is another good novel about books, focused around Jane Austin. It is by the same author as The Bookman's Tale.
London wrote: "Finally getting around to reading Unbroken (Laura Hillenbrand) and excited to finish it so that I can watch the movie. I'm also reading Happy Isles of Oceania by Paul Theroux and, coincidentally, t..."What is Unbroken about?
I love reading books then watching the movie. It nice to see your story coming to life (When they do a good job that this!).
What is everyone reading now?I'm readying Anything for Her, Which I won in the giveaways.
It is about a strong bond between a Mother and her daughter. They have a secrete which happened That Night, which is pulling the family apart. I can't go into too much detail without spoiling the book for those potential readers.
I'm currently reading Laini Taylor's Days of Blood & Starlight. ^-^
Kate Ashley wrote: "I'm currently reading Laini Taylor's Days of Blood & Starlight. ^-^"What is that about?
It's a YA paranormal romance about this blue-haired girl who finds herself in between an otherworldly war between angels and monsters (though they have different names there). It's the second book in a trilogy. And if I'm not mistaken, it had this huge hype back in 2011. But I've only read it now because I'm kind of a hype-avoider. :3
Kate Ashley wrote: "It's a YA paranormal romance about this blue-haired girl who finds herself in between an otherworldly war between angels and monsters (though they have different names there). It's the second book ..."Same here, I'm not really interested in reading books with all the hype. It sounds interesting. I may have to read it.
Currently, I'm reading Death with Interruptions by Jose Saramago. It is about the concept of immortality and how society would respond to the absence of death. I recently finished Blindness (by the same author), which I very much enjoyed. That is why I began reading the book I am currently reading.
I think Death with Interruptions is on my wishlist. I going to check out blindness now!
I would recommend Blindness, especially if you like dystopian literature in general. It is quite bleak at times. So far, I'm enjoying Death with Interruptions. About halfway through, now.
Thanks! I will do that =).It sounds really interesting. How did you find out about them?
I can normally read like a book a day when it's the holidays, today's read is The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender but I'm struggling to get into it
I'm taking some summer courses so mostly I'm reading academic literature about Judaism as well as The Gods of Olympus and ancient Greece, but inbetween these I try to squeeze in some "fun reads" :)On stand by I have the complete Grimm Fairy Tales (re-visting my childhood), I'm trying to finish Le Morte D'arthur (the Winchester Manuscript) and I'm about to start Virgina Woolf's "To the Lighthouse"
Cathy wrote: "I can normally read like a book a day when it's the holidays, today's read is The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender but I'm struggling to get into it "A book a day, that is crazy! You must be a fast reader. What is your book about?
Teresa wrote: "I'm taking some summer courses so mostly I'm reading academic literature about Judaism as well as The Gods of Olympus and ancient Greece, but inbetween these I try to squeeze in some "fun reads" :)..."I love fairy tales. Which one if your favourite? I haven't read any of the other books you have posted.
Annabella wrote: "Teresa wrote: "I'm taking some summer courses so mostly I'm reading academic literature about Judaism as well as The Gods of Olympus and ancient Greece, but inbetween these I try to squeeze in some..."My favorite I think is Hans Christian Andersen's "Little Mermaid", I'm a fan of most fairy tales though (there's only one I dislike and that one I hate with a fiery vengeance... it's called Patient Griselda)
So many books, so little time... don't we wish we had time to read it all? :)
Patient Griselda? I haven't heard of that one.Yes I love that quote. I think it applies to most of us.
Annabella wrote: "Patient Griselda? I haven't heard of that one.Yes I love that quote. I think it applies to most of us."
I would avoid it if I were you. Though if you're interested it's in Perrault's fairy tales as well as Boccachio's "Decameron"
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I love anything that has to do with The Grimm Brothers! I like to do research on them and read there stories. o;
Yes! A lot of interesting points come from researching their stories and the origins around them. I love the different versions aswell.
Am struggling with Jo Nesbo's The Bat.The reason for the struggle is that I have read several of Jo Nesbo's other books in his Harry Hole series. In the wrong order. This was not out of choice; someone with a sense of humour did this to me. And so I know the plot outlines for a number of the thrillers before I have read them. Doh. Half way through this particular book. I already know who the killer is.
The struggle goes on...
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Ouch! That's what my librarian did to me, giving me a book that was third into the series. I still went back and read the other books though. Are you still going to finish the series?
Yes. I hope to finish them, except this one is a bit stodgy, in the way that first novels can appear to be when read in the wrong order. (Though often first novels have gestated longest so are the best.)
Who would do that? Make you read the series in the wrong order? I bet they are laughing.....
Hi, I am new to this group :) I have goodreads than forget to update. I am so excited to have people to talk about books with. My four year old doesn't appreciate my babbling about fictional characters unless its hobbits, knights and dragons. I read 3-8 books at a time. Truly I read based on my mood and I savor books with characters I love and adore as I don't want the story to end. Currently I am reading Book of LIfe by Deborah Harkness. Highly recommend her series if you are a fan of historical fiction and a solid love story that is about family and the love of oneself and others. It is her third book in the series I waited nearly 2 years for it to come out and I have read it slowly taking it all in.
A lost Witch by Debora Geary its the last in the Modern Witch series, I find this and the previous 2 some of my favorites as the characters have overcome serious loss, mental illness and and now with this a powerful gift and how to manage it. Her stories pull me in and read with ease yet leave footprints. I work awake overnights and they keep me going.
Women who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, PhD....man as a woman I want all my friends and family to read this. As a psychologist I love her work that is in each page. I have just started it and I am touched by her ability to communicate being honored and valued as a woman in a society that has in many ways taken the power of all that we are and shifted it around, where our histories once held the life cycles and our wisdom as a great gift its now a great burden on many. She is also a senior Jungian psychoanalyst and it shows in how the material is gathered, presented add that she is also a story teller in her community and I read this book feeling recharged and reconnected to me as a woman, me as a mother, me as a daughter me as a person that is important in the universe and want to add more positives too it.
This has become long.... I am sorry but that is my "what I am reading" the top three at the moment. I also add Rumi, The Hobbit, Steve Berry (I want a Cotton Malone in real life please) and endless children's books with my son.
Teresa wrote: "Annabella wrote: "Teresa wrote: "I'm taking some summer courses so mostly I'm reading academic literature about Judaism as well as The Gods of Olympus and ancient Greece, but inbetween these I try ..."I have several books of mythos and lore of several cultures it is truly a fascinating area to read within. I enjoy Norse and Celtic mythos as I am introducing it to my son as well as the more standard Greek and Roman mythologies. We've branched out to star gazing (I live in coastal Maine we have very light disturbance) and it allows for stories for him of Hercules and we make up stories about Draco.
I have enjoyed watching his wonder grow with lore, he likes a dragon story as much as I with knights and pricesses and he has made some great stories up for me. Imagination is a great gift and history is much more fun, when its wrapped in the stories and the facts.
I would read different subject matters that took my mind of course work too when I had my classwork.
I am currently reading The Sagas of Icelanders but will probably chuck in A Brief History of Ancient Greece: Politics, Society, and Culture and The Odyssey of Homer soon so I can be ahead of my next module in October (still have so many books I want to be ahead on for this).
Annabella; I literally cannot get into this book but it's about his girl (Ava) and she was born with wings but no one knows why and she goes back and discusses her grandparents and their parents and her mother and I'm only half way through mad not much has happened, I'll have finished it in a few hours though hopefully (if I can put my phone down) so I'll let you know what I think of it
Annabella wrote: "Who would do that? Make you read the series in the wrong order? I bet they are laughing....."I'm not sure if it was because of a sense of humour [though I said it was] and I know it wasn't to be mean. I think they just didn't get that it would be a serial spoiler - the gift that just keeps on giving; but yeah, they are laughing.
I've finished TSABSOAL and I'm now reading Undone, I'm currently regretting my choice of holiday reads because they've all been sad of irrelevant and I should have brought something better
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Is she some kind of angel, or do you think that will be revealed somewhere later in the story?
Hayley wrote: "I am currently reading The Sagas of Icelanders but will probably chuck in A Brief History of Ancient Greece: Politics, Society, and Culture and [book:The Odyssey of Ho..."Oh I've loved The Sagas of the Icelanders! Though it was years ago since I read them... The history on Greece sounds interesting. I'm not a big fan of the Odyssey, I'm more of an Iliad kind of girl, but it's definitely worth reading :)
megan donaldson wrote: "Teresa wrote: "Annabella wrote: "Teresa wrote: "I'm taking some summer courses so mostly I'm reading academic literature about Judaism as well as The Gods of Olympus and ancient Greece, but inbetwe..."That's lovely that you're getting you son into it! I've always wanted to visit Maine, it seems like a beautiful place. I have such great memories of being a kid myself and being introduced to thoses stories (and recalling how vivid they were back then... when one had that kind of imagination :D )
Annabella wrote: "Oh ok. What is it about?"Patient Griselda? It's basically about a woman who is repeatedly "tested" by her husband... demanding her to kill her children, sending her into poverty because he wants a new wife, making her a maid to the new bride to be... but lo and behold, it's a "happy" story because in the end he only pretended to kill her kids, the 'bride' is actually their 12 year old daughter and because Griselda was patient through all those years, her husband takes her back and they live happily ever after... For me the whole 'testing' period and the moral kind of makes the tale a bit bitter...
ϟα❡ε wrote: "Teresa wrote: "I'm taking some summer courses so mostly I'm reading academic literature about Judaism as well as The Gods of Olympus and ancient Greece, but inbetween these I try to squeeze in some..."
I love the Grimm's too! I've never researched them though. Only read them many, many times as a child :)
I don't know if my comment posted, my app is dodgy but In the Ava Lavender you Nathaniel believes she's an angel but as an audience we never actually find out why she has wings
I have just finished Zone Defence by Petros Markaris.
This is my review.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
This is part of a plan. I am looking for Greek novels I like in English translation. At the same time I am reading stories in simplified Greek. Hopefully my Greek will entually improve enough for me to read them in Greek.
I think it's a long term plan.
This is my review.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
This is part of a plan. I am looking for Greek novels I like in English translation. At the same time I am reading stories in simplified Greek. Hopefully my Greek will entually improve enough for me to read them in Greek.
I think it's a long term plan.
Cathy wrote: "Annabella; I literally cannot get into this book but it's about his girl (Ava) and she was born with wings but no one knows why and she goes back and discusses her grandparents and their parents an..."It does sound interesting. I hate it when there is a good story but it isn't delivered to its best potential. That is what happened to me and The Book of Speculation.
I am going on holiday in September and have already started choosing my books. I cannot get it wrong!
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I would love to know what people are currently reading!
I am currently reading The Bookman's Tale by Charlie Lovett.
The book is about a young antiquarian bookseller. After the death of his wife he relocated from the States to the English's countryside, with the hope to rediscover his passion for collecting and restoring rare books. When he opens an antique book he is shocked to see a Victorian portrait that is very similar to his wife! I am guessing that the rest of the book will be trying to figure out the mystery of the portrait.
So what are you all reading at the moment?