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What Are You Reading Now? Pt 2.
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May 21, 2019 05:19PM
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Finishing up the second Hunger Games book. My 11 year old was assigned the first one in school and she read all three and is now having me read them. I think they are very good!
I read the first hunger games and that was a goodread. I have the second on my tbr list.
Heather wrote: "Finishing up the second Hunger Games book. My 11 year old was assigned the first one in school and she read all three and is now having me read them. I think they are very good!"I enjoyed the trilogy.
Doreen wrote: "Just started 
Black House by Stephen King and I'm loving it. Wonder what others think of it?"I enjoyed that one.
Apt Pupil - Stephen King, from Different seasons collection.
Andrei wrote: "Apt Pupil - Stephen King, from Different seasons collection."That is my favorite collection of King's. There is something special about all of those stories.
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Just started The House of Broken Angels by one of my favorite authors, Luis Alberto Urrea.
I'm about 2/3 of the way through Last Days by Adam Nevill
Patrick wrote: "I'm about 2/3 of the way through Last Days by Adam Nevill"How do you like it so far?
Me and Hank by Sandy Tolan I story of young fan of Hank Arron and Hank beating Babe Ruth record. A Great Book.
reading Time is a killer by Michel Bussi enjoying it but not as gripping as After the crash and Black water Lillies
I'm currently reading Speak. After I finish it today, I will be purchasing Stay Sexy and Don't Get Murdered tonight and diving right in. Eeeee! I'm super excited!
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See.
The Passion According to Carmela
Just finished
Loved it. Fives stars definitely. I'll have a review up shortly.
Almost finished Shadows by Shaun Hutson
Nick wrote: "Just finished Loved it. Fives stars definitely. I'll have a review up shortly."Okay, here's the review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I am reading three stories at once... I do this a lot actually. Right now, I read the excellent Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse, NOS4A2 by Joe Hill, while listening to the audiobook Name of the Wind by Pat Rothfuss. I've already read NOTW but am about to read Wise Man's Fear, so I thought it would be fun to revisit it while I am coding in the wee hours of the night. These are all fantasy stories and pretty dark, but stylistically they are very different. I'm most excited about Trail of Lightning and have Storm of Locusts (book 2 of the series) on tap.Hill and Rothfuss tell long patient side stories in very different venues. Rothfuss is magical, musical, but unfamiliar, while Hill models his world on human connections with the contemporary and recent past. They are spinning a yarn and you are drawn to their artistry. So enthralled, you watch them paint a dangerous world around you.
Roanhorse, by contrast, shivs you with terse sensory prose. She makes you taste that desert dust without syrup. The horrors of Roanhorse's world are not mere monsters but the world beyond the wall along with commonplace nasties like Big Law. The curiosity is almost painful. I want to see these places beyond the story too. I have the same feeling with Tade Thompson's Rosewater world. America's gone dark, has it? Show me inside. ;-)
Roanhorse's characters are both flawed and endearing. Maggie reminds me of that line in Absolutely Sweet Marie, "but to live outside the law you must be honest." Of course the story setting is pure chaos, Malazan like, where Gods walk with humankind.
So many great stories! We are so fortunate!!!
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