What 📔book are you reading right now?

[Eliot]

Finished Turtledove's Blood and Iron, and moved on to The Center Cannot Hold. Also reading The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler by William L. Shirer. It's pretty old. Copyright '61.

 

[Rhiannon]

I had switched, and was reading Emma out of my bag and The Well of Lost Plots in bed (because it was looking a little the worse for wear), but now I'm completely sucked in to an ARC of Robin McKinley's Sunshine.

Oooh, it's a good 'un. It takes place in a post-modern America- a post-modern America where half-blood demons are relatively normal and the vampires are taking over the economy. It rocks.

 

[Aglarthalion]

Right now I'm onto reading Tom Clancy's Net Force: State Of War. I'm about 40 pages into it, and so far it's pretty good.

 

[Wolfshead]

I've just finished Lord And Ladies by Terry Pratchett, which was unbelievably funny. Today I plan to start on Ghost King by David Gemmell.

 

[Rhiannon]

Lords and Ladies is great fun! It's no my favorite Discworld, though.

And I'm a zombie, but the play is over and I'm 1/3 of the way from the end of Sunshine.

Oh yes, and I have to finish- for that matter, start- Seabiscuit by Thursday.

Excuse me, I have to go register as one of the un-dead.

 

[Jesse]

I am currently reading Peace With God. Next up in line: Tigers of the Snow

 

[Arebeth]

I'm reading "memoirs of a geisha" (well, it must be something like that in English) - since I've come back from Japan I'm very interested in Japanese literature (I confess I knew nothing about it before). I should learn the language. What a shame I don't have time.
I'm also going to start with "Antéchrista", which is the brand-new Amélie Nothomb's book. She's Belgian and she's really mad. I'm sure some of her books have been translated in English...

 

[Manveru]

"The Riddle of the Great Pyramid"... I'm kinda interested with Egipt nowadays. How did they build those pyramids? Were they really Anscient Egiptians that built them? Very interesting...

 

[Froggum]

I'm reading "The Shore of Women" by Pamela Sargent. Anyone heard of it? Its out of print right now.

 

[Rhiannon]

I finished Sunshine a few days ago. It was absolutely awesome.

Now I'm catching up with the rest of the nation and reading Seabiscuit for my reading group.

Arebeth, a good book about feudal Japan is Shogun by James Clavell.

 

[Eliot]

I finished Turtledove's American Empire: The Center Cannot Hold and I'm waiting for the newest one in the series, The Victorious Opposition, to come out. I have it reserved at the library.

In the meantime, I'm reading that tiny little book I've already talked about, The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler. It's very good.

I'm also reading America's Wars. Very long, and interesting.

 

[Gandalf White]

I just finished A Tale of Two Cities, and am working my way through Fellowship of the Ring. I'm also somewhere in the middle of The Pelican Brief, and loving it.

 

[Finduilas]

I'm reading many books at the moment...
Umberto Eco's Baudolino , Faust , Henry Kissinger's Dimplomacy and soon to start Jack London's Martin Eden . I guess I'll read them quite a lot of time...

 

[Wolfshead]

I've finished Ghost King by David Gemmell, which was stunning. Now I'm reading Votan, but the author's name temporarily escapes me. I think it's John James, or something similar...

 

[Lantarion]

Right now I'm re-reading Lord of the Flies by WIlliam Golding.. I had forgotten how frightening it is.. VERY grim and awful..
But it's a truly amazing and excellent book, I recommend it to anyone who hasn't read it. many people don't like Golding's pessimistic view of human nature, but I for one am on the verge of agreeing with him at this point!

 

[Anamatar IV]

I just finished the Princess Bride by William Goldman....*shudders*

It WOULD have been good if I hadn't seen the movie first (the movie totally saved the name of the book)

 

[Rhiannon]

Bah.

I love the book and the movie! So there! They're both hysterical, just in entirely different ways.

 

[Talierin]

I'm hopping down the rabbit path and reading Watership Down

 

[Rhiannon]

I just finally read that this year, after being traumatized all my young life by the movie. Fortunately, I still loved the book.

 

[Talierin]

Yeah, the movie's pretty trippy.... I think I read the book before the movie though, so I was saved... this is my second read-through, had to dig it out of the basement, heh