What Are You reading in July 2010

[Frankenoise]

Currently reading This Crowded Earth by Robert Bloch. So far it's awesome and he's painted a pretty scary future in this story. Love it.

[John]

im reading altered carbon at the moment,not feeling it yet though its early days. next is "by schism rent asunder". then blood of the mantis.i,ve always got 3 or 4 books waiting to be picked up

[John]

Just started reading Percy Jackson and the Olympians

John Cicero

[stormhawk]

Earth Is Not Alone - John Knapp II

[Ruby]

Been catching up on my Andre Norton - read The Jargoon Pard and , now I'm reading by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

[Jeannie]

I'm currently reading the third book in the Ender's Game series and Fahrenheit 451... Both really good books...

[Jon]

Finished (a couple of days ago) Fugitive Prince (my review) ahead of an in-depth online discussion next month. It doesn't look like I'm going to finish The Rainbow before this evening's real-life book club discussion. I'll continue re-reading The Curse of the Mistwraith and start The Gaslight Dogs this week.

[Anu]

Just started Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris - since I started watching True Blood season 3. Alan Ball and some of the cast mentioned that the show is starting to take a shape of its own, so I was curious to find out how much of the book the show is still true to.

[Ana]

Finished Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell. It's a truly original and inspired piece of work. Some parts were a bit harder to digest, but overall a very satifsying read. The book stretches from the 19th century to a post-apocalyptic distant future, and what I loved especially about it is the linguistic variations across the different time periods. 4 stars in my book.

[Vicky]

I've just finished/am reading a few throwaway romances because they're great for giving the brain a break. Then I'm going to start in on Eternity by Greg Bear. I read Eon and liked it so I'm looking forward to the sequel.

[stormhawk]

Fahrenheit 451

[Stuart]

Just started reading Archangel bySharon Shinn

[Snail in Danger (Sid)]

I flipped through it extensively in bookstores, but now the library has finally delivered Tongues of Serpents to me. Also, someone recommend The Napoleon of Crime: The Life and Times of Adam Worth, Master Thief to me, and it looks quite interesting.

[Benjamin]

I just finished Wolfsangel by M.D. Lachlan. The book was a little uneven in places, but it really comes together at the end when it merges the two story lines into something like one of the old Northern or Medieval sagas. I will definitely be picking up the next book.

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Sandi wrote: "Ala wrote: "About to start on The Terror"

You'll need a jacket reading that one. I felt cold in the middle of summer reading that one."

I still haven't finished this book. I just can't seem to get into the flow of it for some reason. Does it get easier the further you get into it at all?

[Jim]

Just finished John Cicero Rainbow's Shadow And The Covenant Of Wisdom.

What a great sequel to Rainbow's Shadow and the tablets of fate.

Covenant of Wisdom picks up where Tablets of Fate left off. Same great characters with an awesome new journey. Can't wait until Other Side of Paradise comes out."

[Arthur]

Finished Breaking Dawn.
It was not as bad as I thought it would be.
It was OK. Good ending. A couple of nice twists. Probably on par with Twilight, while New Moon and Eclipse were bad.
All in all, the series is ...weak. Twilight film was better than the book. Although it was a good easy reading when I needed one.

Today and probably tomorrow I read a few chapters from , then I am going to read maybe...:)

[Ruby]

rereading Vol. 1 of the Complete Sherlock Holmes - the paperback edition I have now is a "Barnes & Noble Classics" with intro and footnoting by one Kyle Freeman who is a right retard. Excessive footnoting is a gross understatement, the intro is stupid, and some of the footnotes are glaring mistakes that even I can see. Jeez, it made me so mad. Footnoting terms like "toff" and furrin wurds like "metier" is sheer condescension to the masses below Kyle, of which I am not one.

[Snail in Danger (Sid)]

Eh, I can see how some readers would need explanations for those. That said, the readers who need them are probably in the "I hate footnotes!" camp.

Introductions ... I find that at least 90% of the time they're not only skippable, but should be skipped.

[Ruby]

For an example of a complete mistake, in one story Holmes makes a reference to a convincing "metallic argument". Kyle in his nonexistent wisdom, footnotes it as meaning a gun or knife, when it clearly means money. The response from the character in the very next line is something like "Oh yes, so-and-so has always been very free-handed and generous!" So much for the self-proclaimed "Sherlock Holmes scholar"

[colleen the convivial curmudgeon]

I'm glad the Holmes collection I got wasn't from B&N - mine is free of both an introduction and footnotes!

[Bernard]

Just finished Thirteen by Richard K Morgan. Before that The Strain by Guillermo Del Toro & Chuck Hogan. Thirteen was pretty cool, but nothing can match the freshness of Altered Carbon when I first read it. The Strain was great for a 1st book but I have no idea how they are gonna maintain the momentum for a whole trilogy