What 📔book are you reading right now?

[Turgon]

Oh cool! So Snuff is a Watch story? They are my favourite Pratchett books! Still not read the last three Pratchett books I bought... but I will make room for 'The Watch'.

 

[Starbrow]

I got sucked into the Hunger Games series. I have to read Mockingjay before the movie comes out.

 

[Prince of Cats]

Oh cool! So Snuff is a Watch story? They are my favourite Pratchett books! Still not read the last three Pratchett books I bought... but I will make room for 'The Watch'.

It sure is! And it's 100% Vimes :*D

 

[Daeorod]

Right now I am reading the return of the king and the silmarillion. i finished rereading the hobbit about two days ago

 

[Bucky]

'Mystical Union' by John Crowder

Radical stuff

 

[Sulimo]

I am reading Goodkind's The Pillars of Creation, and the Bible. I recently finished listening to Way of Kings on audio. I am about to start listening to The Chronicles of Narnia which I have already read twice, and I also plan on reading Dune before too long. I also recently picked up the Princess Bride. Wow! I got a lot of reading to do.

 

[Turgon]

Currently reading 'Fingersmith' by Sarah Waters, which is pretty damned good so far, and 'Coleridge: Early Visions' the first book in Richard Holmes' two part biography of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

 

[Sulimo]

I just waited weeks for the library to get the Audio version of The Lion the Witch, and the Wardrobe. When I went to check it out this evening I discovered that it was on cassette tapes. I didn't even know that technology still existed. Luckily I have a CD player old enough that sill plays cassettes. Unbelievably lame!!

 

[Turgon]

Hehe! I actually found 'The Hobbit' on cassette tape(s) when I was moving house a few weeks back. It was a radio play rather than an audiobook though. Ended up taking it to a charity shop as I just don't have anything with a tape-player on it anymore.

Finished reading 'Fingersmith' which I enjoyed no end, I highly recommend it, so many twists in it, brilliant writing, a real treat. Best book I've read since 'Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell'. About to start reading Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantell, not usually into reading Booker Prize winners, as they tend to disappoint, but Mantell's 'A Place of Greater Safety' about the French Revolution was top draw, so I'm hoping this will be a good 'un too.

 

[Meldon]

finished the silmarillion a few weeks ago, now reading the hobbit

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

Doing something different now

To Wake the Dead by John Dickson Carr

I found an old copy of it at my local St. Vincent De Paul Store and picked it up, it looks interesting.

 

[Prince of Cats]

The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett :*cool:

 

[HLGStrider]

For the last few years I've been lucky to finish a book a month, but since I had Claire there have been plenty of late night feeding sessions where I can read with my free hand.
So since her birth I've finished "Blessings of a Skinned Knee" which is a great parenting book about (mainly) not over protecting your children, "Wright Three" a fun young adult book about a mystery in architecture, "The Power of a Praying Wife" which was given to me by the head of Mothers of Preschoolers who I've been volunteering with for a little over a year now, "Dewey" a book about a library cat which I enjoyed because. . . because . . .it's a cat, and I'm now starting on "Killer Angels" which has been on my to read list since I watched "Gettysburg" in high school.

In between "Gettysburg" and the Ken Burns "Civil War" series, I developed a historical character crush on Col (at the time depicted in this book) Joshua Laurence Chamberlain. I guess it was Michael Shaara's portrayal of Chamberlain in "Killer Angels" that brought him sort of out of the background of history.

 

[Ghorim]

YES. "Killer Angels" is a brilliantly evocative portrait of a time and place, even though some historians will tell you that it plays a bit loose with the actual history.

While visiting Gettysburg a couple of years ago, I saw a book for sale that — while praising Shaara's writing in its foreword — went into a blow-for-blow refutation of some of the passages in "The Killer Angels."

Anyway, savor that book, HLGStrider.

Me? I'm wading into Dan Simmons' sci-fi epic "Hyperion," which is sort of like "The Canterbury Tales" set in a distant, surprisingly fleshed-out future. Simmons doesn't hold hands or stop the narrative to explain all of his invented language and speculative history. Rather, he trusts the readers to figure it out as they go. As bewildering as it all seems at first, it makes the act of discovery a joy as the pages turn.

Apparently it's got a fat sequel too, so I've got my reading schedule set for awhile.

 

[Bard the Bowman]

I've been reading about Nardor lately

 

[BeornTheBear]

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

I'm gonna start the fifth Percy Jackson book tomorrow, The Last Olympian.

 

[Meldon]

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

I'm gonna start the fifth Percy Jackson book tomorrow, The Last Olympian.

I've read the last book already(TLO), a very good book, and a stunning end. Enjoy it!;*)

 

[Starbrow]

I just finished reading Doomsday Book by Connie Willis. I would highly recommend it. It has to do with time travel back to the Middle Ages in England. I was very engrossed in it and it didn't turn out the way that I expected it to.

 

[Eledhwen]

Soulkeepers trilogy

Desperate for reading material, I downloaded a free book "The Soulkeepers" by G.P.Ching on iTunes. I then paid (not much) for the other two books in the trilogy (thankfully I didn't get tangled into a Wheel of Time or Game of Thrones epic!) It was quite good; a fantasy and safe for teenagers/pre-teens to read, should anyone need to know.

 

[Eledhwen]

The Songs of Power

This is a re-telling of the Finnish Kalevala by Aaron Shepard. I got it off iTunes again; but his website is here: http://www.aaronshep.com/stories/
I have read a different version of the Kalevala, so I'll be interested to see how this one compares.