What 📔book are you reading right now?

[Firawyn]

I am currently reading (for the billionth time!) The Harry Potter books.

 

[Ghorim]

The Count... of Monte Cristo!

I believe it's an abridged version... a scant 752 pages of slow-simmering revenge. Very much enjoying the journey... about 100 pages to go at this point. It's one of those universally hailed classics that I never got around to reading.

 

[YayGollum]

Someone informed me that the last book of that The Wheel Of Time (or is it formally as well as merely Wheel Of Time?) series is out, so I am finally starting that series. Many have recommended it to me. I grabbed the first the from the library and just finished the first. Not too bad, so far. *grumbles about reading things that are so sickeningly popular*

 

[HLGStrider]

My husband read that a week ago .,. . and it isn't the "last book." There will be two more. The writer who Jordan's wife picked out to finish his series decided that Jordan's notes and plot lines were too expansive to wrap up in a single volume . . . or the publisher decided that. I'm half tempted to believe the writer wouldn't agree to carry on the "legacy" without at least a three book contract, though as someone who stopped reading about book six because things were just getting ridiculously convoluted, I can understand how it might take a lot of writing to tie up every single character's loose ends.

 

[Firawyn]

The Count... of Monte Cristo!

I believe it's an abridged version... a scant 752 pages of slow-simmering revenge. Very much enjoying the journey... about 100 pages to go at this point. It's one of those universally hailed classics that I never got around to reading.

That is a fantastic book! It ranks up there as one of my personal favorites, pretty close to 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

I haven't read those Wheel of Time books, nor have I dared even flip through the darn Twilight books. I already have too many obsessions.

 

[EdBurke]

Currently nearing the end of the Fellowship. (My third reading in full)

Why else would I be at a Tolkien website?!

 

[Ithrynluin]

Rereading His Dark Materials, which is one of my favourites (notably the first book).

 

[Uminya]

I am dual-reading Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond and a translation of A History of Wales by John Davies, presently.

 

[Firawyn]

Ten Stupid Things Women to Mess Up Their Lives, by Dr. Laura Schlessinger has just been moved to the top of my reading pile.

 

[Súliah]

The Iron Tree, by Cecilia Dart-Thornton. I loved the Bitterbynde-trilogy, so I hope this book will be as good as that!

 

[Starbrow]

The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown. My husband got an e-book last month and I wanted to try it. This was the only book I was interested in reading. The beginning is pretty slow, but I keep hoping I'll get into it.

 

[Ithrynluin]

The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown. My husband got an e-book last month and I wanted to try it. This was the only book I was interested in reading. The beginning is pretty slow, but I keep hoping I'll get into it.

Oh I have forgotten about the release of this book. Should be another page turner!

 

[Dain]

I'm reading the Discworld novel: "Soul Magic" by Terry Pratchett and I'm also reading "Monty:the Battles of Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery" by Nigel Hamilton on and off and Shelby Foot's American Civil War Narrative in passing and, now and again, re-reading through the Hobbit. I really should just pick one and finish it...

 

[Elbereth]

Don't bite my head off....I know some of you will....but after resisting for so long...I finally gave into the pleas of friends and family to read the Twilight books

....so far so good....I won't judge it until I am done reading the entire series.

 

[Elbereth]

The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown. My husband got an e-book last month and I wanted to try it. This was the only book I was interested in reading. The beginning is pretty slow, but I keep hoping I'll get into it.

I started reading this book too during my lunch breaks too...not bad...although I will have to come back to it once I finished reading the twilight books.

 

[Turgon]

I read Maus yesterday, a graphic novel by Art Spiegelman. It wasn't quite what I expected it to be when I picked it up, what with the Jewish mice and Nazi cats and all. One thing I wasn't expecting was a full on Biography of the writer's parents as they struggled, being Polish Jews, to get through the Nazi Occupation alive. Very good book though, the most moving tale of this kind I've read, and that wasn't because of the animal metaphors, but rather because the voice of Vladek, the writer's father, which really shone through the narrative. Of course I can't say I enjoyed the book, it's pretty harrowing after all. But I'm glad I read it.

 

[Môrroch]

I just finished "Flyboys" by James Bradley. He also wrote "Flags Of Our Fathers" (which I haven't read- yet). Very good, and highly recommended if you're into WWII history.
I also keep a copy of "Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai" in the bathroom for quick reads while I'm in there.
Those samurai were hardcore!

 

[Firawyn]

Don't bite my head off....I know some of you will....but after resisting for so long...I finally gave into the pleas of friends and family to read the Twilight books

....so far so good....I won't judge it until I am done reading the entire series.

OH BROTHER!


Still resisting.

 

[EdBurke]

Started Wolf Hall by Hillary Mantal.

 

[Prince of Cats]

Still resisting.

Haha, keep on

. Tolkien lore is luckily just barely esoteric enough for my tastes

Check out my attached picture to see what I'm reading YEAHHH deluxe/collectors editions!! I now have four prized possessions, my two cars and my two Tolkiens in hardcover