What are you reading in 2016?

[Paul]

Half way through The Secret Lives of Colour and will be starting Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life tomorrow

[Jan]

2/3 through "The Three Musketeers. Like it, but don't love it.

[Paul]

At least you don't hate it Jan

[Joy]

I've been reading The Shipping News, but it's not engaging me. I don't think I'll finish it.

[Jan]

Paul wrote: "At least you don't hate it Jan"

No, something like that that has stood the test of time...I wonder if the problem is the reader, not the book!

[Paul]

Probably not. From what I can make out it is 50 / 50 as some books are much worse than people think that they are

[Catherine]

Joy wrote: "I've been reading The Shipping News, but it's not engaging me. I don't think I'll finish it."

That's interesting Joy, what is it that you don't like? I read that this year and gave it 5 stars!

[Catherine]

Jan wrote: "Paul wrote: "At least you don't hate it Jan"

No, something like that that has stood the test of time...I wonder if the problem is the reader, not the book!"

Could it be that The Three Musketeers has been done to death in film, television and even cartoon? I must admit I feel sick of it even though I haven't read it yet.

[Jan]

Well, I just finished the section where Milady spiritually seduces the Puritan jailer, and I'd give 5 stars to that part. Then, being an ex-actor, dialogue is my thing.

[Jo]

I am about to start Everything I Never Told You.

[JoJo]

Currently half way through Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. Nice different read and flying through it. Very very geeky though and some of the 80s references are totally lost on me! However was a fan of D&D so enjoying the flashback :)

[Paul]

Welcome to Book Viper Joanne. I really enjoyed that one, and it was book of the month back in July:

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Half way through The Exiled Blade. Not bad so far.

[JoJo]

Paul wrote: "Welcome to Book Viper Joanne. I really enjoyed that one, and it was book of the month back in July:

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...-..."

Ah great thanks Paul I'll have a perusal through the reviews. :)

[Joy]

Catherine wrote: "Joy wrote: "I've been reading The Shipping News, but it's not engaging me. I don't think I'll finish it."

That's interesting Joy, what is it that you don't like? I read that this year ..."

I'll have a proper think about this and see if I can pinpoint what it is, but my immediate reaction is that I don't care about the characters - they feel remote / unreal.

[Paul]

As it is the Winter equinox I am just starting Winter: An Anthology for the Changing Seasons

[Paul]

Just started The Making of the British Landscape: From the Ice Age to the Present. Not bad so far, but think his travel books are better

[Jan]

Slogging through Ludwig Von Mises. Needed a better background in economics and philosophy. But sticking with it, I'm getting more and more of it.

[Jon]

Started Camus' The Plague and so far, I'm liking it. The book is about a bubonic plague outbreak in the French Algerian town of Oran

[Jo]

I am reading (and really enjoying) Everything I Never Told You and listening to Holding.

[Joy]

I'm reading Wool, a post-apocalyptic sci-fi which is really compelling.

[Paul]

Almost finished Kaleidoscope City: A Year in Varanasi, Counting Sheep: A Celebration of the Pastoral Heritage of Britain and Billy Connolly's Tracks Across America, and will be starting Children of God properly today

[Jo]

Joy wrote: "I'm reading Wool, a post-apocalyptic sci-fi which is really compelling."

I know a lot of people who have read that series and loved it.

[Jo]

New thread for your 2017 reads is right here:

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...