What Are You Reading Right Now?

[Phoebe]

Just thought we might be interested in what we are all reading! I am reading Greywalker by Kat Richardson as my "fun" book. I am reading Romeo and Juliet for school, and I am reading Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard with my mom.

[Vicky]

I am actively reading Anne of Green Gables again for the fist time since I was a kid. A book discussing spirituality in a atheist perspective by Rickard Holloway called Looking in the Distance: The Human Search for Meaning and a book by Leo Tolstoy, The Kindgom of God is Within Us. This last book was very controversial on its initial writing as it says Christians should be non-violent. I have a feeling GazeboGal would love the last two books. I am also reading Anne Cleves Shetland which shows the Islands through a year through her eyes and how they inspired her writing.

I also read lots of other oddments.

[Risasukka]

I am currently re-reading HP books and today I started the Chamber of Secrets. My non-fiction book right now is High Octane Women: How Superachievers Can Avoid Burnout which is resonating with me quite well right now.

I am also contemplating on starting Gail Carriger's Soulless as a third book since I've owned it forever but just haven't gotten to it. Should I or should I not start it yet?

[Sophia]

On Audio, I'm trying to get through The Count of Monte Cristo. I love Dumas, but if I were editing this book I would have cut 2/3 of what I've heard so far. *yawn*

My physical book is In the Shadow of Blackbirds, which I love. I discovered Cat Winters last year, and she is probably my favorite YA right now. Delightfully creepy.

And my ebook is Smoke and Mirrors. I'm not very far into this one, only about 3% according to my kindle.

[Sophia]

Risasukka wrote: "I am currently re-reading HP books and today I started the Chamber of Secrets. My non-fiction book right now is High Octane Women: How Superachievers Can Avoid Burnout which is resonating with me q..."

I love Gail Carrigers books! Definitely don't pass it up. :)

[Risasukka]

Sophia wrote: "Risasukka wrote: "I am currently re-reading HP books and today I started the Chamber of Secrets. My non-fiction book right now is High Octane Women: How Superachievers Can Avoid Burnout which is re..."

I won't, the only reason why I haven't started it yet is the fact that I own only the first book of that series (plus two other books of hers that are first of their series). I haven't yet had enough time to find out if any local online store would carry them, as I'll finish the first one in a couple of days after starting it will be a long time until my next Amazon order if none of the more local online bookstores carry that series (they aren't too great with Orbit books). For that reason I am desperately now trying to stick to HP books as by the end of that series I hopefully have the rest of Parasol Protectorate books.

[Sophia]

Risasukka wrote: "Sophia wrote: "Risasukka wrote: "I am currently re-reading HP books and today I started the Chamber of Secrets. My non-fiction book right now is High Octane Women: How Superachievers Can Avoid Burn..."

That makes sense. You could also try ThriftBooks.com, since Orbit hasn't been playing nice with a lot of distributors of late.

[Robyn]

My ebook is Emily Goes to Exeter. It is a fun light read, and is my "35. A book set in a hotel" Almost finished, not sure what to start next. My daughter suggested The Name of the Wind

And my audiobook is the 2nd Harry Potter book. I just finished the first one.

Physical book - either starting Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay or The Hammer of Thor

[Kelly]

Risasukka wrote: "I am currently re-reading HP books and today I started the Chamber of Secrets. My non-fiction book right now is High Octane Women: How Superachievers Can Avoid Burnout which is resonating with me q..."

Well, three books is a lot at once, but maybe CoS doesn't really count since it is a re-read!

[Kelly]

Robyn wrote: "My ebook is Emily Goes to Exeter. It is a fun light read, and is my "35. A book set in a hotel" Almost finished, not sure what to start next. My daughter suggested [book:The Name of t..."

Phoebe and I are reading The Hammer of Thor right now, and it is really good.

[Vicky]

I started reading Phillip Pullman' 'Jesus, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ'. It is a interesting take on the life of Jesus and the origin of the church.

[Xallanthia]

I'm currently reading two things actively, The Reptile Room and Fic: Why Fanfiction is Taking Over the World. The former is because I wanted to re-read the four Snicket books associated with the first season of the show on Netflix (which I found overall to be quite enjoyable); the latter is fun but a bit of a slog when the editor hands the reins over to other writers, which she does extensively in the Twilight section that I'm in now. The history of the Twilight fandom is actually kind of interesting; all of them going on about it less so.

[Sophia]

I think I'm in a bit of a reading slump. Usually this time of year I'm plowing through books, but I'm having trouble finishing anything, even the stuff I'm enjoying. I just can't focus. :/

I am really enjoying Winter and Eterna and Omega, I just can't seem to listen/read for more than fifteen or twenty minutes at a time.

I miss binge reading and a really good book coma.

[Vicky]

Hugs Sophia. I think the overall stress of the world if effecting even our small pleasures right now.

I am reading Orphan X right now which is a fast and enjoyable read. It keeps you hanging on from page one.

[Sophia]

Vicky wrote: "Hugs Sophia. I think the overall stress of the world if effecting even our small pleasures right now.

I am reading Orphan X right now which is a fast and enjoyable read. It keeps you hanging on f..."

Thanks. I think that is probably part of it. I'm starting to feel a little better--for the moment. I'm listening to Winter and can't seem to get enough of it. I wish I could get my head together to do a really nice long eye-read marathon, but I'll take audiobooks in a pinch.

[Alethea]

I'm reading most actively at the moment The Tetris Effect: The Game that Hypnotized the World which my husband brought home and I promptly swiped. I'm also trying to claw through Shadow Unit 3: Refining Fire, which I've read before (so I *KNOW* how it ends) but I'm still finding almost too stressful to read. (It's a good but brutal story.)

Had to laugh at myself the other day, because I picked up a book based on cover/title, read blurb and decided it looked like fun, checked it out of the library, opened it to read, and realized I'd have picked it up based on the author's name alone if I'd actually noticed who the author was...! (Carrie Vaughn's Martians Abroad, which looks 20 pages in like it's going to be what it says on the tin - updated Heinlein-esque YA.)

[Kelly]

Carrie Vaughn is one of my all-time favorites--got her new book at the store, but haven't had a chance to start yet.

[Alethea]

I've since gotten distracted and haven't gotten any further in it, but I'm *SO* charmed by the premise.

Speaking of distracted, if anyone else forgot that http://www.rejectedprincesses.com/ finally had the book come out in October - it's out, it's the nicest book-as-object I've seen since Hamilton: The Revolution (It's going to be a Very Long Time before anything tops that - everything else on my bookshelf that's nicer lists at $100 and up...) and it is Utterly Delightful In Every Way. I had to plow though it in three days due to the aforementioned distractibility and the fact that someone else has it requested at the library - but it was awesome and it's high on my shopping list and enthusiastically recommended.

[Kelly]

Speaking of distracted, if anyone else forgot that http://www.rejectedprincesses.com/ finall..."

We saw this in the bookstore the other day, and it looks really cool!

[Sparrow]

Currently Dragon Champion and coming up just in from the library Uprooted.

Dear goodreads, I love you that you just made book links like that.

[Paige]

I just started Nineteen Seventy which is part of a larger series about witch families in New Orleans.

Other than that, I just reread Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl as my African American lit class is discussing it now and will be rereading The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn next week in prep for teaching it to the American Lit class.

[Paige]

Aaaaand, I just started a new book today (a REAL, physical book!) The Girl with All the Gifts, which I’ve had waiting for several months. Until I read the author’s interview at the end, I had not realized that the author also wrote Lucifer, Vol. 1: Devil in the Gateway comics!

This book is nothing like Lucifer, but it does flip the expectations for stereotyped characters as Lucifer does. Good so far.

[Sparrow]

Oooh, I'm very much enjoying Uprooted!!

So far, so good!!

[Paige]

Sparrow wrote: "Oooh, I'm very much enjoying Uprooted!!

So far, so good!!"

Glad to hear it. It’s in my bulging-at-the-seams Kindle library. I loved her Temeraire series, so I’m hoping that this will suck my in, too.

[Sparrow]

Paige wrote: I loved her Temeraire series, so I’m ho..."

putting Temeraire series on my to-read!

[Sparrow]

Loved, loved, loved Uprooted!

LOVED!!!

Now I have started The Battle of Hackham Heath. Yeah. When I grow up and become a real novelist, I wanna be John Flanagan. But he's already taken. But this is exactly how good I both want to be *and* think I have the skill to become.

[Paige]

Just finished rereading A Discovery of Witches since two of the prompts for this month are from it. I love it just as much as I did the first time I whipped through it!

[Sharon]

Just finished Vanishing Fleece: Adventures in American Wool by Clara Parkes. Really interesting look at the production of wool yarn in the US.