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What are you currently reading?
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Nov 19, 2013 04:16AM
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I'm currently reading Howl's Moving Castle, to catch up with the book club picks. I'm also reading Babylon Steel by Gaie Sebold; I've decided I need to start reading the mountain of books I own instead of going to the library, at least for awhile. Lizzie, I just finished Eleanor & Park and LOVED it! I'm thinking maybe we should read Fangirl?
In addition to reading Love in the Time of Cholera for the 3rd time, I'm also reading Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey, which is great so far.
Is anyone interested in the Artemis Fowl series? I just finished the last book and OH THE FEELS!
Otherwise, I'm reading Dead in Dallas (the second Sookie Stackhouse book) and I think they're totally trashy but for whatever reason I am entertained. Up next is Drop Dead Healthy by A.J. Jacobs (he writes incredible "year in the life" social experiment books). I just finished Silver Linings Playbook and Friends with Boys.
Love In The Time of Cholera is one of my favourite ever books! I'm about to start The Fallen by Charlie Higson, the 5th in his YA zombie series.
Badschnoodles wrote: "Love In The Time of Cholera is one of my favourite ever books! I'm about to start The Fallen by Charlie Higson, the 5th in his YA zombie series."Same here!
How are the Charlie Higson books? Except for a few movies, I can't seem to take zombies seriously, and I'm thinking maybe I haven't experienced any good lit about them yet.
They are good. I started reading them after hearing him interviewed on the radio talking about them. The first one was incredibly harrowing! I learned after that not to get too attached to anyone ;) I definitely recommend the first three. The fourth was good, but the plot has started heading in an odd direction and I'm not sure where it's going. I guess I'll see with this next one if I can get on board or not.The adults are not technically zombies, but everyone over about 14 or so has got sick and is losing brain function/hunting and eating the children. The kids are all living in London holed up in various supermarkets, museums and castles. Each book focusses on a different group, sometimes returning to them in other books as the kids move around, split up and join together etc. They are really fast-paced, pretty gory and the characters are really well-constructed and real, which is why it's so upsetting when one gets killed.
I really want to read Love in the Time of Cholera, and I think I might need to check into that series by Charlie Higson. I remember watching the trailer for the first book and being thoroughly creeped out. Currently, I'm reading Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, our series pick of the month, Stormdancer, and Pride & Prejudice, which are all excellent so far.
Oooo, I shall add them to my list! I recommend Love in the Time of Cholera to whomever I meet, really, hehe. Marquez is my one and only true hero.
I love me some Austen as well, and I do want to read the Miss Peregrine ones this year. If I remember correctly, 2 in the series are out?
Yes, there are two in the series out currently...not sure how many more there will be. And it's the first Austen book I've ever read.
Snapshot by Angie Stanton!
I am currently re-reading Brandon Sanderson's The Way of Kings as part of a read-along that I'm participating on my blog. I'm also reading Antonio Munoz Molina's In the Night of Time and Aquaman, Vol. 2: The Others :)Simay wrote: "I recommend Love in the Time of Cholera to whomever I meet, really, hehe. Marquez is my one and only true hero."
I've been meaning to re-read Love in the Time of Cholera (I <3 One Hundred Years of Solitude); maybe this year :)
Genny wrote: "Insurgent by Veronica Roth"These books have been on my list for a while as well. Hope I will get around to them this year.
I just read Insurgent - love that series and really looking forwards to reading the next one!
I just finished reading Perdition by Ann Aguirre (finally) and Black Arts (the 7th Jane Yellowrock book) by Faith Hunter. Black Arts just came out and Tuesday and I tore threw it. There was a lot going on there!I'm about to pick up the seriously heavy tome of Dangerous Women. Anyone read that yet?
Annie wrote: "I am currently reading To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. This is my first time reading it and I am only pages away from finishing the book. This story is incredible."That is one of my all-time favorites! I'm glad to hear you think its pretty amazing too.
Meghan wrote: "I'm about to pick up the seriously heavy tome of Dangerous Women. Anyone read that yet? "Not yet but I really want to! :)
I can't seem to settle on one book right now so I'm reading several: I'm still re-read Brandon Sanderson's The Way of Kings as part of a read-along but I'm also reading Helene Wecker's The Golem and the Jinni, Vivien Shotwell's Vienna Nocturne: A Novel and Who is the Doctor: The Unofficial Guide to Doctor Who: The New Series (on and off; sort of reading this as I revisit the Tennant era :) on DVD)
I just finished The Passage, and I'm going to start Daughter of the Empire because somebody at work leant it to me a while ago so I better read and return it at some point! It's not normally my kind of thing, but I'll give it a go.
I'm currently reading A Storm of Swords (#3 in A Song if Ice and Fire series)
I'm currently reading Velveteen vs. The Multiverse by Seanan McGuire, gotta love a sweary superhero in bunny ears!
Alice wrote: "I just finished The Passage, and I'm going to start Daughter of the Empire because somebody at work leant it to me a while ago so I better read and return it at some po..."How was The Passage? I really want to check it out! And I also feel like A Game of Thrones should be one of our monthly reads....or series? The books are just huge, I don't know how quickly I could read them.
I’m still re-reading Brandon Sanderson’s The Way of Kings but I’ve also been reading Ivan Turgenev’s The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories, Garth Nix’s Across the Wall: A Tale Of The Abhorsen And Other Stories and Beowulf :)
I have just started warm bodies. I watched the film for the first time the other day and thought it was hilarious and then my friend told me about the book. I haven't got far into it yet as I started it around midnight last night after reading fangirl. On here it says I'm currently reading guilty wives which is a part truth. It has a book mark in where I left off but I needed a change in genre for a bit as I had read quite a few thrillers just before that one. :)
Just finished reading "Fangirl". Now I have no idea what to do with myself. I've grown attached to meeting the characters every morning on my frozen train ride to work. Now I feel confused and alone lol I'll probably read "Eleanor and Park" next but I have a feeling it wont top the last one I read. Ugh :) Happy ugh.I have the Diviners by Libba Bray sitting on my shelf. Maybe I'll start that now :)
I've started reading Susan Wyler's Solsbury Hill: A Novel of Wuthering Heights for a change of pace before I start tackling some of the larger books on my shelf :)Tatiana wrote: "Just finished reading "Fangirl". Now I have no idea what to do with myself. I've grown attached to meeting the characters every morning on my frozen train ride to work. Now I feel confused and alon..."
I know, eh? Sort of read it in one day (power was out on my end due to the ice storm weeks ago) and didn't quite know what to do after I had finished reading it. Heart it so much xD Have yet to read Eleanor and Park though.
Lianne wrote: "I've started reading Susan Wyler's Solsbury Hill: A Novel of Wuthering Heights for a change of pace before I start tackling some of the larger books on my shelf :)Tatiana wrote: "..."
No, I haven't read it yet! I'm hoping when I do that it holds me the way Fangirl did. Cath was so real. It's hard to find characters within an older (YA) audience who are that so relatable and loveable (Levi<3)
Tatiana wrote: "Just finished reading "Fangirl". Now I have no idea what to do with myself. I've grown attached to meeting the characters every morning on my frozen train ride to work. Now I feel confused and alon..."Love Fangirl, but I loved Eleanor & Park more. I think maybe it's because I read that one first. Still, both gave me book hangover. I was so sad when they were over!
Right now I'm reading Night Film by Marisha Pessl, God-Shaped Hole by Tiffanie Debartolo, All I Want Is Everything by Cecily von Ziegesar, Someday, Someday, Maybe by Lauren Graham, The Spectacular Now by Tim Tharp and Tiger Lily by Jodi Lynn Anderson. I'm pretty much loving them all. Night Film isn't what I expected at all and that's the one I seem to gravitate too more than the others right now, but I'm nearly finished with all of them.
I'm currently reading Nothing but the Truth(and a few white lies) by Justina Chen and Pride and Prejudice. :)
Kari wrote: "Right now I'm reading Night Film by Marisha Pessl, God-Shaped Hole by Tiffanie Debartolo, All I Want Is Everything by Cecily von Ziegesar, Someday, Someday, Maybe by Lauren Graham, The Spectacular ..."I loved Night Film. I'd be interested to know what you think when you finish it.
I loved it. I didn't know what to expect when I started so I think that made it even more delicious. I did a rambling review on Goodreads. It was just so big. I'd like to go back and read it again someday for sure.
I'm amazed at seeing a few people reading more than one book at a time. I tried it once and I get too much into one of them and I forget about the others. I still have the take by Martina Cole on my bedside table where I got into something else and forgot about it and haven't gone back to it since. It's been that long now I will need to start it again. Just started the Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black. I might go back to the take afterwards while I'm looking for something else :)
Kate wrote: "...Just started the Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black..."That one's on my tbr list!
I find it easier to read more than one book. It builds up my anticipation. And helps me get through a book that might be dragging a bit. I split the books in thirds and rotate through. Every once in awhile I'll get too into a book and throw in the towel to just read that one all the way through though!
Kari, this is another one of the books I've been told to read and months later I now am. I'm really enjoying it so far. Started it around midnight last night and finally put it down to sleep around 4am... Oops!
I did that with Night Film last night. I couldn't put it down so I was up way too late. Everyone always asks when I find time to read so much and I guess mostly, I don't sleep! I'm going to start Coldtown as soon as I finish these other ones....or so I say now.
Alina wrote: "Just finished The Fault in Our Stars SO GOOD!!!"I REALLY liked this book. I just couldn't stop thinking about it for several days, if not weeks after finishing it. ::sigh:: Maybe I should read it again... o_O
Annie wrote: "I am currently reading To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. This is my first time reading it and I am only pages away from finishing the book. This story is incredible."I remember reading this back in Junior High but I honestly don't remember much about it now. I have made myself a list of books that I plan to read before I turn 30, and this is one of them. They are pretty much all classics that I should have read, but never really did. :/
Right now I am reading Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. Both classics that I'm ashamed to admit to have never read.
I started reading Ben Lerner's Leaving the Atocha Station last night. It looks like a slim volume but it's pretty jam-packed with things to think about inside =PAmanda wrote: "Annie wrote: "I am currently reading To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. This is my first time reading it and I am only pages away from finishing the book. This story is incredible."
I remember r..."
I only got around to reading Madame Bovary last year so that's okay! ;) Hope you enjoy it :)
I started reading Marina Fiorato's The Venetian Contract. It's been sitting on my shelf for a long time now and I was in the mood for a historical fiction :) Looking forward to venturing back into Italy with this book!
Finally picked up Divergent by Veronica Roth! On chapter 12 already :)Rosie @ Paper Town Book Reviews
I am reading City of Bones. Haven't made a judgement on it yet. Has anyone enjoyed the series?
Amber wrote: "I am reading City of Bones. Haven't made a judgement on it yet. Has anyone enjoyed the series?"I really liked the first three - and I think that you need to read those three to enjoy the story, but I was really annoyed with the 4th. I thought the series could have ended with a trilogy. I loved loved loved Simon.
I am currently reading Peter Ackroyd's Foundation and Patricia A. McKillip's The Bards of Bone Plain. I love McKillip's books, they're so magical and intriguing :D
Currently finishing Raymond Feist's epic Magician saga with "Magician's End" although I'd really rather not know how it ends up for Pug :(
I'm currently about 300 pages into A Game of Thrones and loving it- even though I've seen the TV show and all of these events play out, still interested in the plot. Martin is also a great writer. I get to see him in May, at an author signing/con in Charlotte, NC!! I'm also reading I Am Malala, and really enjoying it too- I've been anxiously waiting to read it.
I'm about 10 pages away from finishing The Silent Boy by Lois Lowry, so I have to pick a new book when I get home from work later today. So it is either going to be Tenth of December which I won on Goodreads quite a while back (just haven't gotten to it), or a biography of Albert Einstein that my sister got from the library for her term paper. But then again I have a whole pile of books that I want to read, so I can pick from any of those :)Has anybody read Tenth of December, by any chance?
Recently finished Fortunately, the Milk, and now I'm reading Too Much Happiness. I'm also planning on starting Divergent 'cos I wanna read it before the movie comes out.
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