What Else Are You Reading in 2019? Showing 451-500 of 3,237

[Pam]

Had a break from fantasy and SF to read Jeanette Winterson's Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2707642291.

[Pam]

Also read a biography but didn't find it as interesting as I'd hoped - Bryan Magee's Growing Up in a War - and reviewed it -https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2707641176.

[Karen]

Finished Bird Box yesterday. Loved it, one of those rare books that I had to force myself to put down.

I started All the Ugly and Wonderful Things and have discovered a second book that I just don't want to put down. While the subject matter is touchy, the writing and the NEED to know what is going to happen, even though it's an emotional train wreck in the making, keeps me reading.

[Kiki]

I enjoyed so much, I am now reading book 2 in the series, . This one is seeming to be just as captivating as the first so far :)

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

That's a shame, Pam! Hope your next book is more to your liking. Karen! What a gift to have two back to back great books! And Kiki, finding a new series that grabs you is also one of the best feelings. I hope you enjoy the second just as much!

[Marie]

Karen wrote: "Finished Bird Box yesterday. Loved it, one of those rare books that I had to force myself to put down.

I started All the Ugly and Wonderful Things and have discover..."

I read All the Ugly and Wonderful Things in 2017 or 2018. It was well written. The main character found love in a very fractured family setting. I enjoyed it, but I had a problem dealing with the obvious issue of the book. Most people loved it - members of the Book of the Month Club voted it the book of the year.

[Phrynne]

Sanderson is back in business - loved this one.
My review of Skyward by Brandon Sanderson

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

[MadProfessah]

@Gary I think you’ll like THE BROKEN EYE. It’s a great epic fantasy and Weeks really know his playing and characterization. It’s a fun magic system put in an interesting political setting.

[Beth]

A Wizard of Earthsea: finally finished this after a couple of false starts over the years, and loved it. I'm looking forward to reading the rest of these, and seeing how Earthsea changes as Le Guin goes from her 30s into her 60s. (tiny review)

[Michele]

Read two unusual and very good ones recently: Outside the Gates and Scribe, both sort of dystopic/post-apocalypse. Also Michelle Obama's Becoming, which was fabulous. Currently working on Cornell Woolrich's Night Has a Thousand Eyes for a group read which I'm very behind on.

[Anna]

I had my eye on Outside the Gates, because of the rerelease. Good to know it's good!

[Michele]

Anna wrote: "I had my eye on Outside the Gates, because of the rerelease. Good to know it's good!"

It wasn't just good, it was *excellent*. Written in a very spare but powerful style. I read it on a train trip with my mom and immediately upon finishing handed it to her and said "You must read this!" She loved it too :)

[MadProfessah]

I’m nearing the end of SALVATION, book
1 in Peter Hamilton’s latest SF space opera opus.

[CBRetriever]

I'm reading Gulliver's Travels from Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift which has two versions in it: one from 1726 and one from 1935. The differences between the two are interesting:

1726 makes no mention of bodily functions while 1735 mentions it takes two people to remove his solid out put and he relieves himself in the open in front of everyone

1726 states that he puts out a fire in the queen's quarters, but 1735 says he does so by peeing on the fire (I snickered at this bit)

and the two versions hit the Time Travel challenge quite nicely with two different decades

[CBRetriever]

oops 1735

GULLIVER’S TRAVELS is illustrated with contemporary illustrations
* Provides both the adapted 1726 and the authoritative 1735 versions of GULLIVER’S TRAVELS

only the 1726 one is profusely illustrated. I did keep wanting the type 19 instead of 17....

[CBRetriever]

I think it's more that the 1726 version was changed by the publisher (parts were removed) and the 1735 version is more of a restored version

[Alondra]

Just finished Kings of the Wyld and loved it. 5 Stars.

Starting U is for Undertow

also, Ninefox Gambit. So far, this is so far out for me, but I am trying not to get lost.

[CBRetriever]

Alondra wrote: "Just finished Kings of the Wyld and loved it. 5 Stars.

Starting U is for Undertow

also, Ninefox Gambit. So far, this is so far out for me, but I am ..."

I just read all of the Sue Grafton alphabet mysteries and totally enjoyed them

[Joon]

Just finished All the Birds in the Sky. Currently reading Six Months, Three Days, Five Others. After that I may take a run at The City in the Middle of the Night.

I appear to have more or less abandoned Black Leopard, Red Wolf, though I will definitely get back to it eventually. It's just too heavy for me right now.

[Rob]

I took a break from SFF to listen to Bruce Lee: A Life. I liked it, but it dragged a bit in places. Overall a pretty interesting book though. - ★★★★☆ - (My Review)

Next I listed to Ship of Smoke and Steel and after a bit of a slow start Django Wexler showed why he's become one of my favorite fantasy writers. It's not quite as good as the last few Shadow Campaign books, but it's awfully close. - ★★★★½ - (My Review)

[Rachel]

Currently working on The Consuming Fire (Scalzi) and Severance by Ling Ma. They balance each other well

[Alondra]

CBRetriever wrote: "I just read all of the Sue Grafton alphabet mysteries and totally enjoyed them ..."

Yeah, Kinsey is a hoot. I will miss this series. It was pretty consistent, to be such a long series.

[Jacqueline]

I’m only up to C.....

Just finished The Rules of Backyard Croquet by Sunni Overend (I think that’s her name...something like that). Saw it in the shops last year and wanted to buy it but there were so many others and I never did get around to getting it. Saw it on the library ebook list a couple of days ago and downloaded it. Really enjoyed it.

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

After my Halfway to the Grave debacle, I took a break from genre books and read three contemporary/literary pieces. (Listen, I hate that there's a genre that gets to call itself that, but I don't know what else to call a choreopoem about the plight of the urban and migrating rural Black woman in the 60s and 70s, or a story about a man who becomes a ghost and hears children as ants, okay? I don't know what that genre is, I read about 95% SFF).

Ntozake Shange has me tripping all over myself. She's a rockstar. I loved both For colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf and Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo. I will definitely be reading more by her. They're both short and there's some magical realism in Sassafrass etc. in case y'all wanted to check it out!

Faces in the Crowd by Valeria Luiselli (must be under the translator's name? I'll have to look) was also sort of magical realism, but ultimately too weird for me.

Running through Reaper Man quickly for noms and finishing Deadhouse Gates. Pratchett is charming as ever, and DG...is certainly both very epic and very unique. I'm just not sure I'd say it's very good, which is sort of critical when you're reading something for weeks at a time.

[Esther]

I am reading Dalí.
I started a little slow and wordy. I was surprised by the explicit sex scenes though a the narrative centres round a character of the third-gender it is integral to the story.
About a third of the way in the pace picked up and it has become really exciting.

[Jaco]

I've finished UNJU - The Jump and am busy with Fallen Blade

[Dj]

CBRetriever wrote: "I finally finished Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none but I refuse to read the Appendixes (not written by Friedrich Nietzsche) which seem to be some sort o..."

Might have been by his Sister, If I recall she did some editing after his death on his work

[Dj]

Jacqueline wrote: "I haven’t read any of the Aurora Teagarden books but I love the movies. In fact I love most of those Hallmark mystery movies based on cozy mystery books."

Movies? They have movies. I found I enjoyed those books better than the Dead Until books.

[Jacqueline]

Yes DJ there are movies. They’re Hallmark Mystery movies. There’s Aurora Teagarden (maybe 8 or 9 so far with the girl who played the eldest daughter in Full/Fuller House as Aurora), Murder She Baked (Hanna Svenson books by Joanna? Fluke with Sammy Brady from Days of our Drearies as Hanna), Garage Sale Mysteries (Lori Whatshername), Flower Shop Mysteries (Brooke Shields), Morning Show Mysteries, Emma Fielding Mysteries (got one of the Melrose Place birds in it..name escapes me), Fixer Upper Mysteries (with Jewel the singer and I quite like her in this), and Darrow & Darrow so far. I don’t think I’ve missed any. Oh and Signed Sealed Delivered which is lovely but I don’t know if it’s from a book. The others all are. And there are more coming from different book series this year. I watch them a lot. They’re on my go to list when I feel like I don’t want to watch something new when I’m feeling off. Hallmark...the home of the cosy mystery.

[Dj]

Jacqueline wrote: "Yes DJ there are movies. They’re Hallmark Mystery movies. There’s Aurora Teagarden (maybe 8 or 9 so far with the girl who played the eldest daughter in Full/Fuller House as Aurora), Murder She Bake..."

Man almost makes me think that I should get cable so I can watch. Almost. I will have to see if Netflix as any of these.

[Eric]

Finished the The Lyra Novels. Fun, easy reading. Onto The Glass Gargoyle.

[Jacqueline]

They don’t..... I got mine in the usual Australian method. Arrrrr me hearties 😂 We never get anything over here and we refuse to miss out lol

[Jacqueline]

Oh and Dj....because I commented about Emma Fielding on here Facebook saw it and tells me that you can get them on video....don’t you just love FB and the spying on everything you do? Yeahhhhh

[Darshan]

For all your days prepare
And meet them ever alike
When you are the anvil, bear
When you are the hammer, strike

Found this quote today by T.S Elliot

[Jonas]

Oh I'm so for the first time in my life reading Wheel of Time. It's very long, and at times it's a bit boring. But as a whole, it's a good story. I've only finished book 3 though, so I'm not very far into the series. I'm also reading Blood Song, this one I like lot. It kinda (kinda) reminds me of The Name of the Wind :)

[Karen]

Dj wrote: "Jacqueline wrote: "I haven’t read any of the Aurora Teagarden books but I love the movies. In fact I love most of those Hallmark mystery movies based on cozy mystery books."

Movies? They have movi..."

The movies are most definitely of the "based upon the book" angle. Fun to watch but easy to say "hey, that didn't happen that way!"

[Jacqueline]

Yeah from what I have seen there are a few differences between them across the whole hallmark book to cosy mystery movie but they are just so easy to watch. I say forget the book version and just go with it.

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

Jonas, you made it further in WoT than I did! I hope you continue to enjoy it!

Darshan, that's a great quote!

[Leah]

I may have to check out these hallmark books, they sound fascinating.

Finally finished Oathbringer. It was awesome...but I had to take a few days off from reading due to the book hangover of such an epic and long series. All three Stormlight books in about a month is a lot. So I read a bunch of fanfiction and short stories online. Never know what you are going to find with that! Some truly awesome things and some truly disturbing things.

I also read the second installment in the Shades of Magic trilogy A Gathering of Shadows. I enjoyed it much more than the first book and it's got me itching to start the third soon so I'll probably get through that by the end of the month.

I also continue with my Sanderson obsession as I have started the Mistborn 2 Era books and am loving The Alloy of Law. I've decided I need a Wayne. :)

[Beth]

Finished A Darker Shade of Magic this morning. Fun and inconsequential. (short review)

[Jacqueline]

The books aren't Hallmark but the movies are. They're all cosy mystery book series by various authors that the Hallmark channel have deemed fit for its audience. I was watching a Hallmark series once and I was waiting for the over ice love interest to turn into a serial killer or something and the relationship just kept on being perfect. Sometimes there's a bit too much sap but these books they've adapted are just right.

I found one I hadn't seen on YouTube so that's an option too DJ.

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

Congrats, Leah! Yes, I know the joy/pain of reading Stormlight all at once. So good though!

Beth, sometimes light books are exactly what we need in between the more toothsome ones!

Case in point, the Hallmark selections! They're perfect for when you just need to see someone happy for one gorram second! (Or like way over the top ridiculous, that's something else they do. Have these women not heard of the police?!)

[Jacqueline]

Well of course they’ve heard of Police Allison. They end up being hot and become their love interest lol Even the Australian series Miss Fisher Murder Mysteries does that. And so does its new spin off Modern Miss Fisher about a niece in the 60s. It seems to be a thing. Hot detective and plucky girl/woman amateur detective, will they/won’t they...I for one do love them.

I got Allison Sweeney’s new series last night and was going to watch it today but I’m a bit worried I’ll not like her cheating on her Murder She Baked boyfriend. I want more Murder She Baked not some different plucky woman who’s always finds trouble. Or trouble always finds her. Or something like that. There’s also another new series called Mystery 101.

Yeah I know it’s all about feeling good for one minute in this stuffed up old world but this one series the guy was just too perfect and I was wishing for an axe murderer. But I did watch them one after the other. Maybe it’s better watching one a week.

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

Okay, but Miss Fisher's is excellent, and Jack can say anything he wants to me with that whiskey voice.

[Jacqueline]

Oh I’m not arguing with you about Miss Fisher Allison. I love Miss Fisher. In fact about 5 years ago there was a bushfire literally on my back fence. All very scary it was. The car was packed with all of my stuff because we’d already been evacuated once but we went home again. The first time we were evacuated it was all very fast and nasty but it had slowed down a bit by the Friday and was creeping past our place. Once it got past it whooshed along the rest of the hill which got even scarier but anyhoo....Hubby and the neighbours were out keeping an eye on it while I was inside watching Miss Fisher. There was no way I was missing it bushfire or no bushfire. And it was a new one. Might have been different if it was a repeat. But it was Friday night and that meant Miss Fisher. Or Doctor Blake depending on which one was on at the time.

And I must say even though I thought I’d hate the new version without Phryne I actually love it.

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

Haha! That's commitment!

Speaking of commitment, I want a cookie for still reading Deadhouse Gates. This is taking forever!

[Jacqueline]

Yep nothing gets between me and Miss Fisher.

Here have a virtual Tim Tam. You’ve got a choice of Dark chocolate and raspberry or choc malt and chewy caramel. Both equally yummy and you can do a Tim Tam Slam. How about I have one for you. Pick your poison.

[Jacqueline]

Don’t know if you’ve ever seen Doctor Blake. It’s great too. There’s a new series and the Doc isn’t there anymore but his new wife Jean (who had nothing to do with solving the murders on the original) now solves them. Another channel has taken Dr Blake and Miss Fisher over but they obviously couldn’t get the original stars. I think Dr Blake was accused of touching women and he’s persona non grata lately anyway.

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

I did one with the caramel, so do raspberry and tell me how it compares! Man, Now I want one. Instead I'll go out for American Southern food I think.

I was going to say I will check out Dr. Blake but maybe not if there's allegations. I doubt I'll have time to watch anything for awhile yet, I've still got 3 massive books to read!

[HeyT]

So I've finally picked up The Eyre Affair after taking a detour to read A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe and it's sequel. Then I managed to binge Volumes 1-8 of Saga, Vol. 1 but have to wait until next month when my Hoopla check outs reset to get current with Volume 9. I also have The Forgotten Beasts of Eld and A Crown of Swords waiting for me up next.