What Else Are You Reading in 2018? Showing 351-400 of 3,893

[Anna]

I've been in the holds queue for the Exit West audiobook for quite some time, and today it finally came in. I wasn't expecting it at all, but decided to start it anyway. I didn't know it's narrated by the author, and I must say I'm quite liking how he reads it! I just finished chapter 2 so not much to say about the book itself so far, except that I'm enjoying it.

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

Anna wrote: "I've been in the holds queue for the Exit West audiobook for quite some time, and today it finally came in. I wasn't expecting it at all, but decided to start it anyway. I didn't kn..."

Ooh I really want to read that too!

[Eric]

I'm about 3/4 of the way through Kings of the Wyld. What a hoot! Gotta love Moog, the wizard.

[Beth]

Michele wrote: "Beth wrote: "Finished listening to Radio Dramatization of Tales from the Perilous Realm by J.R.R. Tolkien" Oh wow, how neat! Who did the reading?

It's a full cast adaptation of 4 stories for BBC Radio, with Michael Hordern as narrator.

[Tad]

Eric wrote: "I'm about 3/4 of the way through Kings of the Wyld. What a hoot! Gotta love Moog, the wizard."

That was one of my favorite reads of last year. Who doesn't love a pajamas wearing wizard like Moog? He's awesome!

[B.K.]

I'm reading Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson. I had to read the first two again, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Sanderson is a genius in worldbuilding and intricate plots and magic systems. I love the Stormlight Archives series, and I can't wait to see what Oathbring brings. Anyone else a Sanderson fan?

[Eric]

B.K. wrote: " I love the Stormlight Archives series, and I can't wait to see what Oathbring brings. Anyone else a Sanderson fan
"
I read "Oathbringer" this past year having read the first two Stormlights. I've also read Sanderson's Elantris, Warbreaker, the Mist Born series and a Steelheart. I'm afraid I've pretty much exhausted what Sanderson has published for now. He is an amazing author of fantasy!

[Phrynne]

B.K. wrote: "I'm reading Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson. I had to read the first two again, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Sanderson is a genius in worldbuilding and intricate plots and magic systems. I love th..."

Definitely a fan. I love the Stormlight Archives but also very much enjoy the Mistborn series. I'm hanging out for The Lost Metal

[Karen]

Tad wrote: "Eric wrote: "I'm about 3/4 of the way through Kings of the Wyld. What a hoot! Gotta love Moog, the wizard."

That was one of my favorite reads..."

Oooohhh, I won this book in a Goodreads giveaway. Looks like I’ll be bumping it forward in line!

[B.K.]

Phrynne wrote: "B.K. wrote: "I'm reading Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson. I had to read the first two again, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Sanderson is a genius in worldbuilding and intricate plots and magic syste..."

Ooooo. I hadn't heard of that yet. I'm so busy I need this group in my life to keep me updated. Lol.

[Wolf_Maiden]

Work has made it difficult to find sufficient time to read. But, I am currently working on a physical copy of To Green Angel Tower, Part 2 and the Kindle version of The Unremembered

[Eric]

I finished Kings of the Wyld and thought I'd give Promise of Blood a try. The first in the Powder Mage series.

"Kings" was fun!

[Kateb]

I have been following a series by John Conroe , the demons accord, love it, but the last two books of the series can only be bought as ebooks or audio. the new book has just came out, and dam yet again it is ebook or audio.

I do read a lot of ebooks, and bought his last two ebooks, but come on , if I love a series I want to buy a paper version of it.

so hopefully this comment gets through to all of those authors out there only producing ebooks

[CBRetriever]

Kateb wrote: "I have been following a series by John Conroe , the demons accord, love it, but the last two books of the series can only be bought as ebooks or audio. the new book has just came out, and dam yet a..."

it most likely won't - I'd suggest contacting the publisher and/or the author

[CBRetriever]

Finished:

Eye of Cat by Roger Zelazny = OK, but not spectacular
and
Indemnity Only by Sara Paretsky = good read
and
Vicious Circle by C.J. Box = another good read
and
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier = excellent book and much better than I remembered it
and
Never Call It Loving: The Immortal Love Story of Kitty O'Shea and Charles Parnell by Dorothy Eden = I wasn't too fond of this one
and
Lady of Mallow by Dorothy Eden - too much of a gothic

and currently working on

Cast in Deception by Michelle Sagera
and
Sprig Muslin by Georgette Heyer
and
others

[Don]

Reading "Station Eleven" and loving it. All apocalypses don't have to be reimaginings of MadMax.

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

Maggie Lynn, please see the rules on self promotion.

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

Tad wrote: "Eric wrote: "I'm about 3/4 of the way through Kings of the Wyld. What a hoot! Gotta love Moog, the wizard."

That was one of my favorite reads..."

I thought that book would make a great Netflix series.

[Rob]

This week's reviews:

A Wrinkle in Time - This was my first time reading it. I liked the first half more than the second - ★★½☆☆ - (My Review)

Iron Gold This book made me very angry. Yet I couldn't put it down. - ★★★★☆ - (My Review)

[YouKneeK]

Thomas wrote: "I have just finished The Briar King by Greg Keyes, a very enjoyable read and I cannot understand why more fantasy fans have not read it because it was so good."

I really enjoyed that whole series and I also think it deserves more attention. I was happy to see you mention it and review it. I rarely see anybody talk about it one way or another, even here where it’s on our group shelf.

[Kateb]

i am re reading John Conroe's demon accord so I can read the latest book, well ebook. great series

[Robert]

Last fall I read the first book in Patricia Wrede's "Enchanted Forest Chronicles," Dealing with Dragons. I enjoyed it quite a bit, so I got the other 3 books in the series. I read through the second two last month, and today I finished #4, Talking to Dragons. I liked it, and the series as a whole is a fun and breezy read. Now to figure out what next to read from the books I got over the holidays...

[Dj]

Jacqueline wrote: "Yeah I can't understand the Amazon thing. A couple of years ago I tried to open a new Facebook account using one of my other email accounts and got told it was already being used. They sent me the ..."

Five Shires? Sounds like a lot of Hobbits. Should be a pretty happy place than with really good food.

[Dj]

Allison wrote: "Hey, anyone wanna buddy read a Le Guin? I'd be up for The Left Hand of Darkness, The Dispossessed, or The Farthest Shore. Basically anything other than Wizard..."

I am working my way slowly through Dispossessed. I thought it was a read or maybe it is just my TBR clean up, One of those.

So far I am enjoying it.

[Dj]

I started reading Neverwhere and came to a somewhat disconcerting discovery.

No, it has nothing to do with the book itself or the writing, which is very good. It has to do with the fact that I have already read it, but don't remember much of anything about it. So it is like looking at old pictures and reading the captions and going, really, I don't recall any of that. You know all the people, but don't remember the events that led to the picture. Ah well, guess I get to enjoy the book all over again.

[Kateb]

Hi Jacqueline, I had so much hassle with Amazon and ebooks I bought from them and ebooks I bought from other places, that I ended up buying myself another kindle.

now one kindle is only for amazon ebooks. a bit expensive as a solution but since retired my hobby is reading , so I figure it is the best option, I was sick and tired of fighting about it

plus this idea of Amazon that if I want to re read my own ebook I have to re download it , drives me mad. Recently I was out of internet range, yep good old Aussie, and of course the book I wanted to read needed to be re downloaded, dam it

[Jacqueline]

Unfortunately we don't get really good food here in the Shire. We have a couple of pubs with okish food which can be a bit hit and miss. Nothing as good as the Green Dragon. And yes I've eaten at the Green Dragon 😜. And we have an RSL club with a Chinese restaurant. It's not that great but it's passable.

A Shire in Australia is the Council area out here in the bush/country. We have a Mayor and councillors but things like the police are run from the state. Some are small and others are hundreds of kilometres across. The 4 that surround us are big as or bigger than ours but there aren't that many people in them. Ours is approximately 200km x 150km roughly with around 3000 people in there. The town has 2200 of those. Which is why library services are shared.

[Jacqueline]

I've given up on Amazon at the moment. I've just been using my iPad and the iBooks app instead of worrying about it. And as long as I don't update my iTunes then I'm fine. Apparently the update makes you get all your books through iTunes and if you want to put your own books on you have to email them to yourself and open them in iBooks. When I really want to read about Bob I'm going to have to suck it up and work it all out I suppose. Or convince the librarian that we need a copy here.

Living in the middle of nowhere I understand the "no service" problem. And I've just changed to Optus and I get it even more often. There's a tiny town that I used to get service in when I had Telstra and I don't get it there anymore. At least where I'm living at the moment I get ok service in town. Not that 3 bars (out of 5) of 4G is great for the centre of town. Sometimes it drops to a couple of 3G. Which sucks when that's the only internet you have.

Oh well.....the trials of living in the lucky country. That and snakes, spiders and Drop Bears 😜

[Dj]

Jacqueline wrote: "Unfortunately we don't get really good food here in the Shire. We have a couple of pubs with okish food which can be a bit hit and miss. Nothing as good as the Green Dragon. And yes I've eaten at t..."

Wait! A Shire without good food? I am going to complain to the Aussie Tourist Bureau, Someone get me Chris Helmsworth's phone number.

[Jacqueline]

Maybe phone Prime Minister Jackman.....

[Trike]

All of my library holds became available at once, so I had to pause at the halfway point of The Black Lung Captain.

I read Black Panther & the Crew: We Are the Streets which was just terrible. The Black Panther is barely even in it.

I’m partway through The Art of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, which has a lot of pretty pictures. Weirdly, there’s a ton of stuff from The Force Awakens early on, so much so that I actually flipped back to the cover to make sure I was reading the right book.

I’m on page 825 of 1,143 of The Core. It’s mostly quite good, but damn this thing is long.

Black Panther: World of Wakanda is told in snippets but it’s not really holding my interest. Why is it so hard to write a compelling Black Panther tale?

All Systems Red and The God Wave are waiting for me to get to them after The Core.

Did I say I read Waypoint Kangaroo? It’s an action spy-fi story set on a cruise spaceship heading to Mars. Fun, lightweight action featuring a character codenamed Kangaroo because he can store things in a pocket universe.

[Jacqueline]

I vaguely remember something about someone storing things in a pocket universe so I'm guessing yes you did.

Finished reading Why Mummy Drinks, Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore and started reading the Immortalists. All on my iPad. Making my eyes go funny so I put Armada on my iPod so I'm listening to it instead. I'll get back to The Immortalists tomorrow. Really enjoying it. Enjoying Armada at the moment too. I like Wil Weaton.

[Pam]

A catchup on three recent reads:

book 4 in Susan Cooper's 'The Dark is Rising' series, The Grey King - review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1398214675.

John Gordon's Skinners - reviewed: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2286677865.

Daphne DuMaurier's The King's General - review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2286690965.

[Dj]

Trike wrote: "All of my library holds became available at once, so I had to pause at the halfway point of The Black Lung Captain.

I read [book:Black Panther & the Crew: We Are the Streets|3438021..."

A Cruise Ship to Mars? It wasn't owned by Tesla was it?

[Anna]

I finally continued with Arbai by reading Raising the Stones in January, and now I'm reading Sideshow. It's so good! I'm forcing myself to take breaks, because I both want to gobble it up and save it. Anyone who liked Grass should definitely finish the series. I liked the middle book least, but it was still a solid 3.5 stars.

Curling starts almost exactly 24 hours from now, so most likely I'm not going to read anything for two weeks.

[Trike]

Curling! My favorite winter Olympic sport!

[Eric]

Curling and alcohol go hand in hand in Canada, I'm told. Why not? lol!

[Dj]

Trike wrote: "Curling! My favorite winter Olympic sport!"

Curling???? You mean the house cleaning sport with a broom and not nearly enough Jack Daniel's. Might be fun to try, but watching it makes me think that golf might be exciting.

[Trike]

Eric wrote: "Curling and alcohol go hand in hand in Canada, I'm told. Why not? lol!"

That could read “______ and alcohol go hand in hand in Canada.”

[Trike]

Dj wrote: "Trike wrote: "Curling! My favorite winter Olympic sport!"

Curling???? You mean the house cleaning sport with a broom and not nearly enough Jack Daniel's. Might be fun to try, but watching it makes..."

Whatever it is you like, no matter how popular, you can find 30 million people in America alone who think it’s the stupidest shit they’ve ever seen.

[Dj]

Trike wrote: "Eric wrote: "Curling and alcohol go hand in hand in Canada, I'm told. Why not? lol!"

That could read “______ and alcohol go hand in hand in Canada.”"

Well that would go far to explain on the fighting in Hockey.

[Eric]

Trike wrote: "That could read “______ and alcohol go hand in hand in Canada.”"

I can understand that. Once upon a business trip to Pinawa Manitoba, I saw the stands of vehicle plugs for block heaters everywhere, including the curling arena. It was October and it was below 0 C. I asked what they did in winter. There was one other activity, which I will not mention here.

For the record the curling stones weigh between 38 and 44 pounds. The sweeps beat the ice ahead of the stones to melt it and cause the stones to hopefully turn toward their targets. It is not an easy game.

[CBRetriever]

hockey?
bowling?

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

I think more like making new curling enthusiasts 😉

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

well, while everyone is curling or *ahem* not curling, I am trying to catch up. City and the City was a cool thought experiment and metaphor, but I wish I could have had that integrated into the story more.

[Dj]

Allison wrote: "well, while everyone is curling or *ahem* not curling, I am trying to catch up. City and the City was a cool thought experiment and metaphor, but I wish I could have had that integrated into the st..."

I think that I am trying to read that one as well. Is it by China Melville, Herman's daughters.

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

Lol. Yes China did write it, and it's very much what I expect of his work. I hope you enjoy!

[Dj]

Allison wrote: "Lol. Yes China did write it, and it's very much what I expect of his work. I hope you enjoy!"

Wait, what? China is a guy? Hmmm, man I will have to rethink that daughter quip.

[Esther]

Allison wrote: "well, while everyone is curling or *ahem* not curling, I am trying to catch up. City and the City was a cool thought experiment and metaphor, but I wish I could have had that integrated into the st..."

I loved that book. At one point my brain seemed to click and I began to not see things, just like everyone in the cities.

[Phrynne]

My review of Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde

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