What 📔book are you reading right now?

[Prince of Cats]

I'm reading a 1881 copy of a Nathaniel Hawthorn collection containing A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys, Tanglewood Tales and Grandfather's Chair that I picked up many months or a year ago and have finally started reading. It's a lot of fun

 

[Starbrow]

The Hawthorn collection sounds cool. I'm currently rereading the Harry Potter series.

 

[Prince of Cats]

The Hawthorn collection sounds cool.

It is! A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys and Tanglewood Tales are simple re-tellings (with some changes) of old mythological stories from Greece made more available for children

 

[Eledhwen]

My daughter bought me the first Wheel of Time book "The Eye of the World" by Robert Jordan. When I read it, I was disappointed that it wasn't a self-contained story; but expecting a trilogy, I bought the next book, then the next .... then the next ... by the time I got to book five, I was wondering when it was going to end, but I'd invested so much of my time into the story that I wanted to reach the end. I've just finished reading book 13 today, and now find I'll have to wait until November 2012 for the concluding book - the author having died around mid-book-12 and another author took over. I now have new rules: check to see how many books the story goes on for BEFORE buying book one. Rule 2 is not to read anything by Elizabeth Haydon after she abandoned her characters to their various perils in book six of her fantasy epic and went off to write childrens books from the same fantasy world but in the distant past!

 

[Bard the Bowman]

When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler, by David M. Glantz and Jonathan House. A riveting read.

 

[Mike]

​A Dance with Dragons

 

[Firawyn]

I'm rereading the Harry Potter books, and THEN...lol...I'm going to start over with the Song of Ice and Fire series, so it's all fresh when I get to A Dance with Dragons.

Is it any good so far, Mike? Worth the VERY long wait?

 

[Eledhwen]

I found a prequel to the fourteen-book epic Wheel of Time series, which I'm reading while I wait for the final book to be published.

 

[Eledhwen]

​A Dance with Dragons

I saw a couple of books in this series yesterday, not having heard of it before; but neither was book 1. Is it good?

 

[gofica]

I just finished Mortal Engines by philip reeve. it's about post-apocalyptic world inhabited by moving cities.
it has three sequels but I haven't found them anywhere. at least not where I'm from.
now I should really read Proust, Faulkner,kafka, Camus and stuff like that,.... If only I could find the will.:*(

 

[panzer71]

Morgoths Ring and A View From the Booth,Gil Santos and Gino Capalletti. Im taking a second and third look at the Debate of Finrod and Andreth.Several times Finrod tries to get Andreth to tell him what sin Men committed to be Doomed to die but her answer is always the same.I seem to be stuck thinking about what the Wise amoung Men whisper when they talk about it. As for "View frm Booth",its about two radio announcers that broadcast all the New England Patriots games. " GO PATS " !

 

[Mike]

I'm rereading the Harry Potter books, and THEN...lol...I'm going to start over with the Song of Ice and Fire series, so it's all fresh when I get to A Dance with Dragons.

Is it any good so far, Mike? Worth the VERY long wait?

'Twas good. Far better than A Feast for Crows, but unfortunately still not up to the level of the first three. However, with this book out of the way, I can now confidently say that it appears Martin is back on track and stuff is finally happening again.

@Eledwhen: Unless you start from book one , you will be mighty confused. It's one of those series.

 

[ReadWryt]

Daniel 8 from the Old Testament as it relates to Eschatology in Revelation. I find the deeper I dig into the Bible the less time I have to read other writings, though I promise myself I will start making time soon...

 

[Thorin]

Daniel 8 from the Old Testament as it relates to Eschatology in Revelation. I find the deeper I dig into the Bible the less time I have to read other writings, though I promise myself I will start making time soon...

Hey RW, weren't you like a borderline atheist when you were on the forum long ago? Perhaps I am wrong and am thinking of someone else. I think RangerDave was. Maybe that is who I am thinking of. Time has a way of making things hazy!

Right now I'm reading PD Martin's series with FBI agent Sophie Anderson. Just some books I picked up this summer to read. I like to go back and read my Tom Clancy, Stephen King and Douglas Preston/Lincoln Child standards. I must have read many of my books at least a dozen times.

 

[Turgon]

I'm currently reading Andrew Motion's biography of John Keats, which I'm really getting a lot out of. Also Night's Master by Tanith Lee, the first book in her Flat Earth series, and the only one I hadn't read, couldn't get hold of for nearly twenty years, eventually found on Amazon much to my delight... and then promptly forgot about for six months; and finally Lud-In-The-Mist by Hope Mirrlees, which is just outstanding, and very much a case of 'where has this book been all my life!'.

 

[Starbrow]

I'm currently reading Cold Magic by Kate Elliot. I hope to get The Christmas Carol by Dickens in before Christmas. I've never read it, although I've seen a variety of shows based on it.

 

[HLGStrider]

The Christmas Carol is a really short book as Dickens goes. I'm not a fan of Dickens. I've never actually read any that wasn't required during high school, so maybe I just let myself get turned off by my "choices" or lack thereof (David Copperfield was required reading and I'm not a fan of first person writing generally. . .other than that I have Tale of Two Cities, which is nominally better, but still not my style and The Christmas Carol under my belt).

Anyway, I finished The Shack recently which was interesting from a theological point of view and also because it is based in Oregon which is where I grew up and I like reading about home while I'm over here in Japan (Also why I've kind of got into the TV series Grimm which is filmed in Portland and I like seeing the familiar locations). I am now simultaneously reading The Blessings of a Skinned Knee which is helping me mitigate my overly protective parenting instincts somewhat and a book called Grayson which the jacket says involves a lost baby whale, but I haven't been able to get past the first two chapters which as of yet have had no whales.

 

[Mike]

Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy.

Scalp, scalp, scalp, scalp, SCALP...

 

[Turgon]

Currently reading 'The Strange Affair of Spring-Heeled Jack' by Mark Hodder. I have to admit to having a fascination with the Spring-Heeled Jack legend, which is what attracted me to the book. The book surprised me by being a steampunk novel, but I'm loving it. About 250 pages in after 2 days of reading... so yeah... it's a good 'un. Really strange tale though with Richard Burton and Algernon Swinburne being the two leads. (That's Richard Burton the Victorian Explorer rather than the silver-tongued actor by the way) Burton was a bit of draw too as I think his translation of the One Thousand and One Nights is the best translation of that work I've ever read, and I used to have a least one volume of it on loan from Manchester Central Library at any given time, and he is just one of those really interesting people who pop up in history from time to time. Just got to the part where the villains are revealed and it was very much a WTF? LOL! Moment... but in a complete awesome way. I highly recommend it!

By the way Mike... I eventually got around to ordering a copy of Howard's Solomon Kane stories after a recommendation you made to me years ago. Not gotten around to reading them yet though. Currently collecting and reading the old 'Savage Sword of Conan' comics in trade paperback form...^^

 

[Prince of Cats]

I'm reading Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal by Tristram Stuart. Someone gave it to me as a gift almost two years ago and I'm finally cracking into it.

I just read Terry Pratchett's Snuff a few weeks ago and it was wonderful. It's the latest in the Watch series of Discworld novels. Great entertainment with some really inspirational parts too.