What are you reading? 2015 Edition

[Katie]

I feel that everyone should immediately stop what they're doing and pick up the nearest Terry Pratchett book and read it in honour of his passing. It /is/ very sad, even though we all knew it was coming...

[Joe]

I am very sad. I was reading "The fifth Elephant in one tab and i go over to facebook and out of the blue I see that Terry Prachett has died.
Quite a shock.

[M F]

I'm reading 'The Maze Runner' and I have three Skulduggery Pleasant books on hold at the library that I'm going to pick up tomorrow. Over the last couple of days I've been working my way through the Percy Jackson books.

[[deleted user]]

I've got books due at the library so I'm trying to work through some of these comic books before then... I'm also about halfway through a big book about coffee. I was told one of the best ways to climb the ranks at my job was to have a passion for coffee, and I took the advice very seriously, lol. I've developed a hobby of experimenting with coffee at home and am reading up on the industry and art of it all.

[M F]

I just finished "House Of Hades" and I'm crying about Nico di Angelo. I accidentally went to the library again so I have like seven books to read.

[[deleted user]]

"Accidentally went to the library..." Famous last words.

[M F]

I knooooow. I've only been home since Sunday and I've already been to the library three times. How did that happen? (And I've read five books over the last three days...)

[[deleted user]]

I've been reading Les Miserables. Now I'm currently reading Les Miserables. Unfortunately, I feel sure that for the next good while I shall be reading Les Miserables.

;)

[Hannah]

amy nicole wrote: "I've been reading Les Miserables. Now I'm currently reading Les Miserables. Unfortunately, I feel sure that for the next good while I shall be reading Les Miserables.

;)"
And yet it is totally worthwhile to be reading Les Miserables....and reading Les Miserables...and reading Les Miserables,
Seriously, it's one of my favorites! :)

[Hannah]

Read "Love Finds You in Pendleton, Oregon" last night. I loved the story (very little romance at all) but am going to have to deduct a star for careless editing. Not one but two characters can't get their names straight!

[M F]

Amy Nicole -- Haha, aww. I know that feeling!

[Elisabeth]

Since last check-in I read a few mysteries, of which the most enjoyable was The Man In the Queue by Josephine Tey. The other day I read I Murdered My Library by Linda Grant, a Kindle Single essay about the difficulties of collecting too many books and having to pare them down. I didn't care for every single thing she said, about books and otherwise, but it was amusing and relatable.

And I just finished re-reading The Turmoil, my second-favorite Booth Tarkington novel, and wrote up a review.

[M F]

I'm nearly at the end of "The Owl Who Liked Sitting On Caesar". I'm not wild about non fiction but I do like owls so I figured I'd give it a go; it's taken me a while, though.

Also, new Goodreads app -- exciting.

[Katie]

I'm reading steampunk anthologies, but I want to read time travel anthologies. But the steampunk ones are from the library so, y'know...

Meanwhile, if you haven't seen this yet, go check it out. I'm hosting a sprint in April and it's all about superheroes! Graphic novels count! https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[[deleted user]]

I finished reading one of my big coffee reference books. Huzzah! I have a whole stack of coffee and essential oil books here, but unfortunately I don't know that I'll read all of them cover-to-cover such that they would count...

[M F]

Oops, I accidentally went to the library again. I have so many books that need reading... yet currently I'm multi-tasking by watching 'Vikings' and learning Old Irish vocab at the same time.

[Hannah]

I love how you accidentally go the the library! I have a bad habit; on Sunday mornings, the well-stocked library is between the Sunday School room and the sanctuary. Very hard to resist!!

[[deleted user]]

I read a book on network marketing while I was on vacation in the sticks of TN. Sadly said book has nothing to do with either challenge this month, but at least I read a full-sized book!

[Katie]

I, um, forgot about this thread. I don't even remember what I've been reading. Some graphic novels, nothing earth-shattering. Some seriously good time travel, most notably "Snipers." Snipers was brilliant. Go read it. A lot of anthologies of dubious quality. Some Patricia A. McKillip which is always stunningly beautiful.

[M F]

I finished all the Skulduggery Pleasant books. About to head back to uni where I will attempt to find time to read but will probably fail.

[M F]

I finally got around to reading 'Clariel' by Garth Nix, which I was given for Christmas and have been meaning to read ever since. It was good, although I wouldn't say it blew me away. There were lots of cool elements to it, though. :)

Next I have to write an essay. Which I should have done about a month ago. Because I have been procrastinating like a pro.

[Katie]

I read Blue Lily, Lily Blue yesterday. It was beautiful, as always. I don't know how I'm supposed to wait for the next book in the series when it's not even written yet!!!

[[deleted user]]

I got stuck out on the job with hubby all day yesterday and read until my Kindle battery died. I read 2.75 books. All business books again... I signed up for a trial of Kindle Unlimited so I could read a bunch of short business books for free.

[Hannah]

Go Aubrey!
I'm reading Tamera Alexander's "A Lasting Impression".

[[deleted user]]

Aww, I have my own personal cheerleader! ^_^ ;)

[[deleted user]]

I'm reading lots of poetry right now 'cause I procrastinated so awesomely on this April poetry sprint. ;P

[Annie]

Just finished another Agatha Christie (N or M?) and Steelheart (loved it!). Now I'm reading The Unmapped Sea (The Incorrigible Children, #5) and Golden Daughter (Tales of Goldstone Wood, #7).

[(Jen)]

Edit: The real reason I was going to post --Anyone know of any Steampunk or Victorian fantasy novels they'd recommend with a human/robot romance? Automaton, android, whatever you want to call it falling in love with a human? #LibrarianReferenceQuestions

Heading into finals pretty soon, so I haven't read a lot of fun stuff recently --though I went through the first three of Susan May Warren's Christiansen Family novels. I don't usually read contemporaries, but I think I've been missing out!

Latest reviews are here (I'm super behind): http://theartistlibrarian.blogspot.co...

[Katie]

I'm working through Neil Stephenson's Cyrptonomicon. It is awesome and weird and weirdly awesome. I also keep working my way through that Ultimate Dynamic Heroes bundle from Story Bundle, most of which is pretty good. (Especially Legenderry. Legenderry was good.)

[M F]

I forgot about the poetry sprint until now... maybe I should try doing some of that. I've been rubbish about reading recently, haven't been able to get into anything much. I tried the beginning of AS Byatt's 'Ragnarok' but I think I was too sleepy for it at the time, because I couldn't focus. I also tried the start of 'Chimpanzee' by Darrin Bradley but again found it hard to focus. I see it's one of those weeks.

[Elisabeth]

I've been so busy working on my novel this past month (I did a CampNaNo challenge) that my reading has been a little patchy. I did read Chesterton's The Ballad of the White Horse and enjoyed that quite a lot. Read a couple of lightweight old mysteries and Partners of Chance by Henry Herbert Knibbs (a favorite Western author—and now I've read all his books that are in the public domain!).

Currently reading Aspects of the Novel by E.M. Forster, and wishing I could highlight and dog-ear—but I can't, because it's a library copy. And I picked up a copy of The Western Writings of Stephen Crane, which I'm looking forward to reading soon.

[M F]

Still failing at reading. Slowly working my way through Land of Women which is (possibly unintentionally) hilarious at times. It keeps giving me all of the worldbuilding ideas for a book that I'm not even currently working on, though.

[Katie]

I am STILL working on Cryptonomicon. I'm really enjoying it, it's a good book, but I've had it out for two weeks and I just hit 50%. It's due back in two days and I'm like...yeah...that's not going to happen...

[[deleted user]]

Miriam wrote: "Still failing at reading. Slowly working my way through Land of Women which is (possibly unintentionally) hilarious at times. It keeps giving me all of the worldbuilding ideas for a ..."

That always happens.

[Jesse]

I'm reading a lot of stuff (I can't read one thing at a time...). A few of the things I'm reading:
Confessions of St. Augustine
Foundation and Earth by Isaac Asimov
Taliesin by Stephen R. Lawhead

[M F]

Jesse -- How are you finding the Lawhead? I've read some of his other books but could never get into the Arthurian ones.

I picked up "The Iron Daughter" from the library yesterday thinking I'd only read the first one in the series but it seems I've read this one as well, so I'll take that back tomorrow. Whoops. I read "Morbius: The Living Vampire" (a Marvel graphic novel) and a book called "Alex As Well" about an intersex teenager yesterday. Might finally be getting back into the reading vibe but it's hard to tell.

[Jesse]

Miriam, my brother bought them on Audible.

[Katie]

Jesse wrote: "Miriam, my brother bought them on Audible."

She meant finding in the meaning of "Are you finding them to your liking?" not "Did you find the car keys yet." It's either an archaic thing or a British thing, I'm not sure which. :)

I personally couldn't get into his Authurian ones either, which was disappointing since I spent years and years waiting to get a hold of a copy.

[Jesse]

Ah, my mistake. I'm finding them very well written, but a bit short on plot. They are interesting but not captivating. Though, I'm only about halfway through the first book, so that may change as i get further into the series.

[M F]

Probably a British thing... about 90% of what I say turns out to be something people on the internet don't understand. Or they just find it amusing. Apparently I say "rubbish" a lot. Heh. Mind you, half the time my friends from other parts of the country don't know what I'm saying either, because I use a lot of slang that seems to be London-specific. I had no idea until I moved to university.

[[deleted user]]

*is proud because she knows how to use "sorted" in the British sense, when apparently most people don't, even though most of those people supposedly watched the new Chronicles of Narnia movie, in which said phrase was used*

[M F]

Is "sorted" used differently this side of the pond? huh. Odd.

I'm reading "Duanaire Finn" volume 1, translated by Eoin MacNeill. It's kinda hard going, but I'm enjoying bits of it anyway.

[[deleted user]]

Most Americans I meet do not seem to realize that you can use it to mean "I had everything under control," lol, which is a perfectly awesome way of using it.

[Morgan]

I know it can be used that way. I have large portions of the Narnia movies memorized, and I've been watching lots of BBC shows this past year.

[M F]

Fair enough. Well, now that's all sorted then... ;)

Just finished Duanaire Finn part 1. Parts 2 and 3 aren't on Goodreads, which means I need to add them... effort. I'll get around to it eventually; it's not like I'm going to start reading them instantly. My brain needs some time to recover.

[Katie]

Still working on Cryptonomicon. It's beginning to venture out of the realm of military historical fiction and into the realm of "OMG, something really awesome is about to happen here!" Which is weird. And also really cool.

I also started in on a non-fiction book which I might finish up rather rapidly. If I do ever finish with Cryptonomicon I'd like to read some more print books off my shelf to free up that space...

[Faith]

I finally had time to update my reading list. Yay! Unfortunately most of the books weren't worth reading. *sigh* But there were a few excellent books such as:

Gaining a Hopeful Spirit by Joni Eareckson Tada
Fool's Gold?: Discerning Truth by John MacArthur

[M F]

Finished Duanaire Finn part 2. I read Tyger Tyger the other day, which also used Fianaigecht mythology, so I'm on a Fionn Mac Cumhaill high at the moment. You should see how many more Finn-related books I have on my shelf...

[Katie]

I FINISHED CYRPTONOMICON!I feel like this deserves a massive celebration. Turns out the thing is over 1100 pages long in print version. I haven't read a book that long since Brothers Karamazov. I probably wouldn't have had the guts to get involved with it had I known...ah, the deceptiveness of ebooks. Especially library ebooks with a deadline. I'm kind of impressed with myself for finishing it. I feel like it's a major accomplishment of some kind. :D

[M F]

Anything that long is a major accomplishment! The last time I read something even nearly that length would be 2013 when I re-read 'Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell' (1006 pages) or 2012 when I was working my way through A Song Of Ice and Fire. Mostly I stick to shorter books these days.