What are you Reading Now?

[Mythopoet]

Holy crap.

This book has swallowed me. It has a fishhook down my throat. So gooooood

I read that one not long ago and it really swallowed me up too. It's very good, in that it accomplishes its goal. Though I don't know if I could say it's good in the sense that it was an enjoyable read. It was a little too harrowing for comfort.

 

[Steerpike]

It's the only Atwood I've ever tried to read and not been able to get into. Maybe I'll give it another shot. I like her work a lot, generally.

 

[TheCrystallineEntity]

The Queen's Own, by Mercedes Lackey.

 

[DragonOfTheAerie]

Now I have to read Annihilation because there's a movie coming out...

 

[TheCrystallineEntity]

I finished reading The Forest House by Marion Zimmer Bradley. It had an ending that I did not anticipate at all, and left me with mixed feelings. I'm going to read Priestess of Avalon next, and then The Mists of Avalon again.

 

[Gurkhal]

I'm reading some non-fiction before I plunge into the fiction again.

This time its "Imperial Germany and the Great War, 1914-1918" and "The Madness on the Western Front - from Carl Belfrages diary 1915-1918"

 

[Mythopoet]

I picked up Uprooted by Naomi Novik today on kindle for 2.99! I've been wanting to read this for a long time but refused to pay 11.99 for an ebook.

 

[DragonOfTheAerie]

Yay I got Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer as a christmas gift and i started reading just earlier.

 

[Chessie2]

I'm reading 93 by Victor Hugo. So far its better than The Hunchback of Notre Dame, not sure if its as good as Les Miserables. Some really epic scenes, which are incredible, some seriously over the top characters, but not quite as tightly held together as Les Miserables.

Never read 93 but the Hunchback is one of my favorite novels of all time. Hugo is fantastic. It took me 3 months to read Les Miserables in French when I was living in Montreal. It was tough!

Since it's Christmas and Kindle is sure to be running specials, think I'll load up on some books. Not sure which ones yet though...

 

[TheCrystallineEntity]

New books from Christmas!!

 

[DragonOfTheAerie]

New books from Christmas!!

I'm officially out of shelf space. Tell my family I love them.

 

[TheCrystallineEntity]

So am I, and I still got more books.

 

[Dark Squiggle]

Never read 93 but the Hunchback is one of my favorite novels of all time. Hugo is fantastic. It took me 3 months to read Les Miserables in French when I was living in Montreal. It was tough!

Since it's Christmas and Kindle is sure to be running specials, think I'll load up on some books. Not sure which ones yet though...

Hugo is incredible. If you liked Notre Dame, you need to read Les Miserables. It is the most elaborate and balanced thing I have ever read. It is like Notre Dame +100.

I'm officially out of shelf space. Tell my family I love them.

I have been out of shelf space for a long time, too, and will not stop collecting books just because I no longer can put them on bookshelves. They do just fine piled up on their sides

 

[skip.knox]

Currently reading Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner. The writing there is brilliant and the characters are fascinating even though if you described them to me, or described the plot, I'd probably say it's not for me. Color me impressed.

 

[Gurkhal]

So am I, and I still got more books.

I hope I don't intrude if I ask what books you got?

 

[Mythopoet]

I don't get books for Christmas. I read mostly ebooks now and no one in my family understands my taste anyway. So I had to beg them to stop many years ago. lol

 

[TheCrystallineEntity]

I got two Order of the Stick volumes [I'll probably use my Christmas money to get the rest], a Darkover novel, a book called Winnowing from my aunt, a book of cat poetry, and the second volume of a trilogy about witches [I have neither the first nor the third...]

 

[skip.knox]

I have a list of books I want. Made it years ago, probably a hundred or more. I told my kids: you can buy from this list, or you can buy me a book that has impressed you. Either way, inscribe it (always a physical book) with at least your name and the year. Do this for birthday or Christmas.

The result is that I have a whole shelf of books from my kids. It's pretty eclectic. Some of the books that impressed them didn't impress me, but at least for every occasion, if they can't think of a gift, they can go to Dad's list.

 

[DragonOfTheAerie]

I finished Annihilation today. What a mind screw. Was fantastic though. I loved the slow, creeping horror wending through it.

 

[Steerpike]

I’m reading, among other things, The Fifth Season, by NK Jemisin. Quite good so far, and nice to see yet another author destroy the myth that one can’t do second person POV well.