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IX. Currently Reading?
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What are you currently reading (or just finished)?
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Aug 17, 2018 12:41PM
I loved the lunar chronicles
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Read the second in the Vows and Honor series by Mercedes Lackey Oathbreakers - and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2489520299.
Getting near the end of The Blood, third in the Jem Flockhart series, by E. S. Thomson and just over 200 pages into Stephen King's The Outsider.Highly recommend the Flockhart series, if you haven't read them.
Kami Garcia wrote a series, first book is called Unbreakable, I think? I'm sorry, I'm awful with titles and names of characters and...I'm sorry!But it wasn't bad! The only catch is that she never published a 3rd book, because of course the publisher wanted a trilogy instead of a duo but then decided not to keep going, because it didn't sell well....
And there's definitely a cliffhanger.
I'm currently reading The Ethics of Ambiguity by Simone de Beauvoir. Bit of light bedtime reading! ;)
Read Werehunter a collection of short stories by Mercedes Lackey and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2498547334.
I'm taking a break from The Paper Magician series after reading The Master Magician. I cannot wait to read Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine!
Read Robert O'Brien's The Silver Crown and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2507174991.
Read The Clay Girl by Heather Tucker. I gave it 3 stars. My reviewhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
If you enjoy my book reviews, you can read more of them on my website at www.tamaraaghajaffar.com where I now have posted over 150 reviews.
A re-read of the tense post apocalypse novel by Robert O'Brien, Z For Zachariah - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1391795001.
Finished listening to The China Pandemic. Excellent first installment to a post apocalyptic series.My next listen is Followed by Frost, a fantasy novel that I think may have too much romance for my taste. Hope I'm wrong about that.
Currently reading Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" by Zora Neale Hurston. Sad story of theife of a man who was brought to America on the last slave ship.
My August 2018 book reviews post is up on my blog. If you'd like to see what I read last month - and find out what I thought of the books I read - you can do so here: http://ziglernews.blogspot.com/2018/0...
I have just discovered, very late I know, Harlan Coben. They are not great works but they are great for pure escapism and he is a genius at making you read just one more page before you turn the light off and go to sleep.
I finished Eowyn Ivey's To The Bright Edge of the World inspired by the real life journey of Lieutenant Colonel Allen Forrester through Alaska’s unchartered territory in the 1880s. The narrative unfolds through journal entries, diaries, artifacts, newspaper clippings, etc. It is unique in many ways. I ended up loving it.My review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Just finished Noir by Christopher Moore. Excellent. Much good fun. Five Stars.Here's my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Read book 1 of Robin Hobb's Soldier Son trilogy, Shaman's Crossing and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1405973336,
I finished https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... last night. Stella Knightley runs two stories in parallel - a modern-day historian researching a famous courtesan for a film and the courtesan's life, which is a sad love story. Now I'm going to the library to look for the sequel!
Forgot to mention this collection, read between Z for Zachariah and Shaman's Crossing, by Charles Beaumont - Best of Beaumont - reviewed https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2514502770.
Finished Till we have Faces by C.S. Lewis. Lewis uses the myth of Cupid and Psyche as a vehicle to explore human love and love for the divine. Can be read as an allegory.My review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Finished The Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Kay Penman. Loved it! 4.5 stars!My review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I'm reading Sashenka by Simon Sebag Montefiore. Finished Part One. Liking it so far.
Just finished Capturing the Last Welsh Witch . It was pretty good, I gave it 4 stars. I've started Ties of Blood and Bone: The Second Book of Binding. I'm enjoying it so far.
Read volume 2 of Robin Hobb's Soldier Son trilogy, Forest Mage, and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1405972881.
Read Dianne Wynne Jones' The Game and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2521969348.
Read the third in Robin Hobb's Soldier's Son trilogy, Renegade's Magic, and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1405972939.
Read a cosy crime by Simon Brett, but wasn't keen - Bones Under the Beach Hut - review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2525692907.
Read Foundation book 1 of Mercedes Lackey's Collegium series and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2527138898
The Metamorphosis
by Franz KafkaOriginally published in German - 1915 by Kurt Wolff publishing house, Leipzig.
Most recently published in English - 2018 by Vitalis.
I'll be reading the last book (hopefully) of the Paper Magician series, The Plastic Magician. Didn't start reading it yet, but I will soon. I already miss reading Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine. I just finished it yesterday. I even gave a well-thought-out review on it.
I finished Lost in the Beehive a few days ago and posted a review. Now I'm reading The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah. As I usually have both fiction and non-fiction going at the same time, I'm also reading First Founders: American Puritans and Puritanism in an Atlantic World by Francis J. Bremer.
Finished The Enchanted by Roberta Murphy and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1773841929.
Finished Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2534211918.
Here is a belated review of Secret of NIMH as my edition has it - a film tie-in - usually known as Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1367357351 read around 24 August but which I forgot to review.
Just finished
Sashenka by Simon Sebag Montefiore. An entertaining read, if a bit lacking in depth.https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Just finished Joyce Carol Oates' Expensive People and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2536952581.
Just finished Tanya Huff's Blood Price and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2539524209.
Read "Beartown" for my book club, and almost finished with Peter Carey's "Jack Maggs" an early Victorian era thriller - has sort of the same vibe as the series "Taboo."
For the next book on the list, I'll be reading The Sisters Mederos by Patrice Sarath. I haven't read it, but I hope it's be a great read. ^^
I have just finished The Boy on the Beach by Andrew Blair.I thought it was excellent. I like characters that are not black and white and in this book no one is completely good and even the bad guys have a back story to explain why they are bad.
I like moral dilemmas too and this book asks questions about revenge and obsession.
I really liked it and hope there is a follow up.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/b07hnfjrk8
Just finished Beneath the Earth by R.S. Stone. It is a fast-paced thriller with a cute romance towards the end. Nothing makes me more excited than a main character who is brave and intelligent! Towards the middle part of the book, it was impossible to put down. You feel the thrill and the anxiety of what is beneath the earth.You can read more about it here! http://skavansieur.blogspot.com/2018/...
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