What Else Are You Reading in 2019? Showing 1,551-1,600 of 3,237

[Brick]

Judy wrote: "Hi, I'm new to the group but have been reading sci fi and fantasy for years-since I was 13 and I'm 63, almost 64, now. I started a classic sci fi book today and am loving it so far. It is Nightwing..."

I'll need to add Silverberg's book to my TBR list. That sounds like one great read, Judy. I dearly love vintage sci-fi stories.

[Anna]

Raucous wrote: "I recently finished Bryony and Roses and am near the end of Jackalope Wives and Other Stories (thanks Anna). I've enjoyed both and can highly recommend T. Kingfisher for all your somewhat dark and twisted fairy tale retelling needs."

You're very welcome! I am very happy to spread the T. Kingfisher love! ^_^ Does everyone know she's coming out with a horror book this fall? It's called The Twisted Ones, and it's supposed to be real horror, not cute horror. I'm still going to read it, hoping that maaaybe there's some cutesy stuff to keep me going? :D

[Sarah]

Anna wrote: "Raucous wrote: "I recently finished Bryony and Roses and am near the end of Jackalope Wives and Other Stories (thanks Anna). I've enjoyed both and can highly recommend T. Kingfisher for all your so..."

I'm super excited for The Twisted Ones.

[Jess]

I'm currently reading The Passage and its becoming a new favourite!

[Kateb]

Jacqueline wrote: "I always end up close to the weight when I fly so my iPad is brilliant. Last time I flew it was from Sydney to Rome with a stop in Hong Kong and I didn’t watch any movies the whole way. I read book..."

I gave up ……. my tablet is great for movies, internet and so on but for reading ,,,,, nope!!!. so I carry my Kindle as well. even though I also have books on the tablet. I am set if the battery runs out on one or the other

the extra weight is worth it as I can read outside with the kindle.

[Jacqueline]

See that’s just it...I don’t have a kindle. Maybe one day but today is not that day. My daughter gave me her old iPad mini when she upgraded to a new iPad Pro a couple of Christmases ago and I use it heaps. It’s great when we go away because I can do everything I need to on it and it’s nice and small. But not as small as my phone. It’s fits perfectly in my bag (currently a red Valentino Shopper knockoff I got for €20 in Rome last year and I love it and I really should have got Hubby to get me the little Gucci one too but he was out of cash at the corner stall but that’s a whole other story) and I have it with me most of the time in lieu of a real book. He can’t see the sense in getting a kindle that can do everything that the iPad can do. Except maybe the reading in the sun bit. Also I can download all sorts of ePub books on the net and chuck them on without worrying. As long as I remember to not upgrade iTunes on my computer because the new versions won’t let you put books onto it. You can email them to yourself and open them in iBooks but that can get tedious especially since two days ago I transferred 110 over.

I’m still reading my Fever book. Watched Best Exotic Marigold Hotel last night instead of reading. Such an amazing ensemble cast. The Brits do those sorts of movies brilliantly.

[CBRetriever]

I travel with two as well and have a nice Moku envelope/sleeve that fits both my Fire HD 8 and my new Paperwhite.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07...

the Paperwhite fits perfectly in the smaller compartment. And not, it won't fit a cover. I read my Kindles/Fires nude (the Kindles, not me)

[Jacqueline]

I used to always travel with two tablets. I originally only travelled with one but one trip my daughter nicked it and read the whole way around America and I didn’t see it at all. That’s when I changed to two lol And for ages I was travelling with a cheap tablet and the iPad but now I just take the iPad. And since we always have SIM cards from whatever country we visit she can play on her phone and find anything she wants so she doesn’t nick my stuff anymore. Also she’s 25 and she can bring her own entertainment (even though she was 19 when she nicked it) A lot of planes now have USB ports in their entertainment systems and if the battery runs low I can easily charge it. Airport security used to look at me funny with the two tablets lol

[Lowell]

Heh. I used to travel with a kindle, at least 2 phones, a tablet, and 2 laptops. Airport security gave me the absolute stink eye for holding up the line with all the electronics.

Having to double up stuff for work was a real pain.

Nowadays I just iPad and single phone unless I am absolutely forced to take a work laptop.

I’ve seriously been considering picking up a paperwhite, but I really don’t mind the kindle app on my iPad at ALL - I use white text on a black background and turn the brightness way down, and it lasts for a long long time.

[Kirsten]

Anyone been reading Aftershocks by Marko Kloos? OMG! I read 25% just during dinner! I can tell it's going to be a fun ride!!

[Jacqueline]

Yeah I use white on dark grey which is then set to white on black for when there’s no light. I can’t stand black writing on light backgrounds except for a proper book.

Hubby is the opposite to you. When he travels for work yeah he’s got his work iPhone and iPad but when we travel for pleasure he doesn’t have anything. People look at him funny when he says he doesn’t own a phone. Nobody believes him. He doesn’t have a private phone and he leaves his work one at work when he’s on holidays. So he gets the same stink eye for not having anything. He only takes a backpack on long haul flights as carry on because there’s a good chance that our daughter (or me for that matter) is going to need extra luggage space on the way home.

[MadProfessah]

I thought THE PASSAGE was brilliant!

I am looking forward to reading THE OUTSIDER.

[Lowell]

Kristen - I haven’t yet. I like Kloos stuff for those “I just need a popcorn and stuff blows up like an action movie” kind of book. I probably should set an alert for that one for when it goes on sale.

[CBRetriever]

Lowell wrote: "Heh. I used to travel with a kindle, at least 2 phones, a tablet, and 2 laptops. Airport security gave me the absolute stink eye for holding up the line with all the electronics.

Having to double..."

should have seen the initial looks I got when i took the final flight back from France to the US with two laptops, one Fire, two cell phones and 8 Kindles in my carry on luggage. I charged them all the night before just to make sure they could turn them on and check them and then all they did was look and say go ahead, so I had to pack them all back in their carry case. Rather anticlimactic

and then I found out two days before I flew back that i was llowed two carry-ons, so I just had to go on a shopping spree to create and fill a carry on bag.Fortunately, the hotel my company was putting me up at was right next to Galleries Lafayette and Printemps....

back on topic, I'm almost finished with Sebastien de Castell's Greatcoats series. It's coming to an interesting conclusion so far.

[Anna]

CBRetriever wrote: "I read my Kindles/Fires nude (the Kindles, not me)"

I just got out of bed, so I'm still a little sleepy, but this woke me up by making me almost choke on my coffee :D

And yes, I also like my Kindles nude. I can't imagine having to hold it with a cover.

[Jacqueline]

I have a thing from IKEA that you can prop your tablet/Kindle up on. It’s really good. Obviously I can’t take it away with me when I’m not travelling in my car but I love it.

My iPad is in one of those book type covers. It’s not too bad when I don’t have my stand. My other tablet is “nude” though. It’s in a pouch thing that can hold two tablets. Well it’s only supposed to have one but it came with a piece of foam to pad out the pouch when it was on display and that’s brilliant for putting between two tablets so they don’t break each other.

[Trike]

I finished A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe and it really makes me wonder what’s wrong with the people who are giving it 5 stars. Have you not heard these exact sentences before? Do you not see that it’s just a big Mary Sue convention? Guh.

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

[Melanie, the neutral party]

I’m halfway through Aftershocks. I’m enjoying it thus far. It’s more philosophical than I was expecting, not as action heavy as other works by the author.

[Anna]

I wanted a comfy MG audiobook for bedtime. I have trouble falling asleep, so I always listen to something nice and easy. Today I picked The Glass Children, because it was available on Storytel, and I like the (Finnish edition) narrator. Turns out this children’s mystery is way too scary for me XD On the plus side the kids visit the library a lot and talk about books, but something creepy is going on and how am I supposed to sleep?!

[Kateb]

Jacqueline wrote: "I have a thing from IKEA that you can prop your tablet/Kindle up on. It’s really good. Obviously I can’t take it away with me when I’m not travelling in my car but I love it.

My iPad is in one of..."

I have a padded pouch for my kindle and phone. MY grandson calls it the condom. He is after all 28 and thinks he is funny

[Jacqueline]

Yeah they do think they’re hilarious don’t they 😂

[Lowell]

I think I'm going to make this a tradition - a semi-annual post with some statistical details of what I've read so far in the year.

Totals:
Novels - 31, Novellas - 4, Short Stories - 1

Format:
Kindle - 22, Audible - 14

Genres: Sci-Fi 19, Fantasy - 15, Crime/Mystery - 2

Author diversity breakdown:
Gender: Female - 56%, Male - 44%
Racial: Native American - 1, Asian American - 1, Arab American - 1, Chinese - 2, Black - 2, Jewish - 3, Caucasian - 26

Notes:

Best surprise: The Stars My Destination
Worst disappointment: (tie) - The Wall of Storms, Red Rising

Link to my annual challenge, for links to all the books: https://www.goodreads.com/user_challe...

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

great update, I really like this tradition!

[CBRetriever]

all scifi/fantasy? Or a mix of genres? I think i could do that for SF&F thanks to the Time Travel challenge, but across all my books, would be a lot of work as I have read a lot more books ((retirement and a health issue earlier this year)

[Kateb]

I agree about counting my books.Too hard

My , since retirement and a few other reasons, I have read about one book every 2 days. At the moment we are minding the son's dog as son is on vacation, the stupid ( but lovely) dog is distraught , it is so used to having someone around all day.

Winter here , so have taken to sitting in the sun, patting the dog and reading my kindle. Reading Rachel Caine Weather wardens at the moment , Just finished ALex Archer's Rogue Angel

next will have to be a sc fi of some kind

[Lowell]

CBRetriever wrote: "all scifi/fantasy? Or a mix of genres? I think i could do that for SF&F thanks to the Time Travel challenge, but across all my books, would be a lot of work as I have read a lot more books ((retire..."

wow, I see that I somehow managed to copy/paste everything except the genre line. I've updated it to be correct.

Really, the vast majority of my reading is usually SF/F. I generally hit around 50 books read per year, as I do have things like "parenting" and "work" and "other hobbies" that I pursue (board games, rpgs, video games, art, etc...). For the most part, I really don't enjoy the "literary fiction" work that I've come across, and while I do enjoy some nonfiction (preferably well written pop fiction or pop science), I find it to take more mental "work" energy than I have available all the time.

[CBRetriever]

I probably read as many books in the Mystery category as the SF&F genres. i can go through some short Mysteries (200-300 pages) in a day or less. I recently went through 15 Peter Bowen's Gabriel Dupre mysteries in 10 days. These were very short (140 pages in one case) books that kept me racing through them.

And I add in a few history, biography and esay type books

[Anna]

Anna wrote: "I wanted a comfy MG audiobook for bedtime. I have trouble falling asleep, so I always listen to something nice and easy. Today I picked The Glass Children, because it was available on Storytel, and I like the (Finnish edition) narrator. Turns out this children’s mystery is way too scary for me XD On the plus side the kids visit the library a lot and talk about books, but something creepy is going on and how am I supposed to sleep?!"

Oh my goodness. Why is all Nordic children's fiction so terrifying? Or am I just completely out of touch with what kids can handle? Suicide by hanging, a woman's face burned off, another woman dies in a fire, sick children drown in the sea, a man pulls a kid under the waves to scare her. What the heck Nordic publishers? I've read a lot of MG fiction lately, and I feel like the English stuff is usually sweet and lovely, and the Nordic MG/YA fiction gives me all the creeps.

But I really liked that the kids solved the mystery by doing research at two libraries and a museum, and by interviewing several people. There was a even a part where a librarian explained how a microfilm reader works!

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

I...am so confused, I thought the US were supposed to be the violent ones. Y'all Finns seem so nice and cuddly and yet all your literature seems about mutilating people. I'm onto you.

I liked Lowell's post so here goes:

I've read 57 books so far this year, which is far and away the most I've ever read and I don't know if this is sustainable!

34 fantasy, 16 scifi, 1 romance, 6 misc

37 by not men, 20 by men (4 books from having the "not men" authors equal the books I've read by authors who are men).

10 featured LGBTQIA people. 13 have been by people of color.

Best surprises were Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo, and The Mere Wife.

[Anna]

Allison wrote: "I...am so confused, I thought the US were supposed to be the violent ones. Y'all Finns seem so nice and cuddly and yet all your literature seems about mutilating people. I'm onto you."

This one's by a Swede :P

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

oh god, it's spreading!

[Anna]

Yes, Finland is spreading its evil tentacles out to contaminate all of Europe (and then the entire world) with freaky YA!

[Sarah]

I like stats so I'm going to share too:

37 novels or novellas, 6 graphic novels, 6 short stories, 3 short story collections

16 SF, 20 F, 3 Thrillers, 2 Historical Fiction, 6 Science Fantasy graphic novels, 3 Classics, 1 Western, 1 Horror

25 "not men" (as Allison put it- lol), 27 men (6 of these are Brian K. Vaughan from reading the Saga series, so I'm not doing too bad here).

12 featuring LGBT+ characters, 9 authors of color

32 New-to-me authors

Favorites: The Wolf in the Whale and The Mere Wife

[Lost Planet Airman]

Allison wrote:
"...37 by not men, 20 by men (4 books from having the "not men" authors equal the books I've read by authors who are men)..."

My apologies, but I'm not following this. Did you grow up on New Math? :-P

[Trike]

Someone should make a Book Stats thread. Hint hint.

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

Mike wrote: "Allison wrote:
"...37 by not men, 20 by men (4 books from having the "not men" authors equal the books I've read by authors who are men)..."

My apologies, but I'm not following this. Did you grow..."

Haha this is of all the books I've remembered to list on GR, Mike! As you can see, I've had to do quite a bit of work to even the score.

Lol Sarah, I say not-men because I've been including NB, gender fluid, genderqueer and others, which is...not as concise.

Okay, okay new thread up, let's all geek out about our stats in an orderly fashion please. No pushing!

[YouKneeK]

Mike wrote: "My apologies, but I'm not following this. Did you grow up on New Math? :-P"

I think the parenthetical part of her statement encompassed all books she’s recorded on Goodreads whereas the specific #’s were from the current year.

Trike wrote: "Someone should make a Book Stats thread. Hint hint."

I’d love a book stats thread where we number crunchers could congregate without overwhelming this thread. :) I’ll post my year-to-date stats after I finish my current book, which should be sometime today. My access database spits out stats for me automatically so I’m always prepared with stats. I love stats, including reading other people’s.

[YouKneeK]

Whoops, I was a minute late. :) Woohoo about the new thread!

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

I live to serve. ;-)

[Sarah]

Allison wrote: "Mike wrote: "Allison wrote:
"...37 by not men, 20 by men (4 books from having the "not men" authors equal the books I've read by authors who are men)..."

My apologies, but I'm not following this...."

I didn't get it until I was putting my list together- but yes that's also what I meant!

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

Sarah wrote: "Allison wrote: "Mike wrote: "Allison wrote:
"...37 by not men, 20 by men (4 books from having the "not men" authors equal the books I've read by authors who are men)..."

My apologies, but I'm not..."

High five! Go team "somebody gets me"!

[Lost Planet Airman]

YouKneeK wrote: "Mike wrote: "My apologies, but I'm not following this. Did you grow up on New Math? :-P"

I think the parenthetical part of her statement encompassed all books she’s recorded on Goodreads whereas t..."

Clear now. Please pardon my obtuseness. We now return to your original programming.

[Judy]

I am reading a remarkable travel book called Full Tilt by Dervla Murphy. It is a true story. When she was ten years old Murphy was given her first bike. She is so enamored with bike riding that she decides then to one day bike from Europe to India. When she is in her early twenties, in 1963, she does just that. She bikes from Dunkirk to India, traversing Europe, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan before reaching India. Murphy has a truly remarkable spirit and is one of the bravest women I have ever read about. She has made it to Afghanistan and is currently crossing country by bike that even the natives say they wouldn't cross. She is about to reach the Khyber Pass.

[YouKneeK]

I just finished The Once and Future King by T. H. White. Since this is one of this month’s group reads, I’m not going to post any thoughts about it here for the sake of people like me who were avoiding any posts about it until they read it themselves. I have my review up on my profile, and I’ll probably post some thoughts on the spoiler thread once I have time to catch up with the posts.

I plan to read our other July group read, All You Need Is Kill, next.

[Jacqueline]

Finished Darkfever by Karen Marie Moning last night. Really enjoyed it. Might start on number 2 in the series this morning. Lovely rainy day here. My drinking water tank was nearly empty and now it’s full so that’s a bonus. We don’t get much rain out here. It’s probably been 6 months since we got more than 1mm (or .03 of an inch). Other than cleaning up any muddy marks the dog may make I don’t have much planned for today.

[Gabi]

ANNA! Thank you so much for recommending Memory of Water by Emmi Itäranta to me. Even though I only read it in the translated version, this prose is one of the most beautiful I've ever had the good fortune to read. I'm crying.
All the stars and more.

[Anna]

Gabi wrote: "ANNA! Thank you so much for recommending Memory of Water by Emmi Itäranta to me. Even though I only read it in the translated version, this prose is one of the most..."

I know! <3

[Pam]

Didn't get time to post links to these reviews written over a week ago:

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1389245412.

Brilliance of the Moon by Lian Hearn - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1404851594.

[Esther]

I have got incredibly behind on my reviews but am finally catching up.

I enjoyed Wyntertide so much that even though I read it months ago I have to post my review.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[colleen the convivial curmudgeon]

I'm currently reading Who Killed Sherlock Holmes?, part of the Shadow Police series. Moving along slowly, but things are definitely getting interesting (and I'll be able to tick off another TBR challenge book).