Hey!! Let's get some action going! What are we reading?

[morituri]

Just finished Tomorrow When The War Began by John Marsden. As Australia gets invaded by an unknown force, a group of teenagers try to survive and fight back.

[Rakgi]

Just finished New Term at Malory Towers by Pamela Cox (continuing the Enid Blyton Malory Towers Books), Starting Summer Term at Malory Towers next.

[Iridal]

The Harry Potter pbooks have been standing on my shelve for a couple of months now, so I decided to (re)read them so I can finally put them away in one of my bookcases. Finished the Philosopher's Stone already, and started Chamber of Secrets this morning. I'm listening to the audiobooks (narrated by Stephen Fry) when I'm not reading, so I think it won't be long until I finish them all.

I think I was 12 when the first HP book came out, so I kind of grew up with them. This is the first reread, and I still enjoy them very much!

[kennyc]

Just purchased -- DRM FREE!

18 Lies and 3 Truths
STORIES AND ESSAYS

This popular anthology boasts a distinguished roster of authors, including Rick Bass, T. C. Boyle, Robert Olen Butler, Alice Hoffman, Jhumpa Lahiri, Lorrie Moore, Joyce Carol Oates, and some talented newcomers. The collection is assigned in many creative writing classes and is just plain good reading and entertainment too.

From:

http://www.narrativemagazine.com/sto...s-and-3-truths

(also available from Amazon and others)
Looks to be full of great stories. And these people - Narrative Magazine are doing wonderful work in keeping the short story, storytelling, literature alive! They deserve some eyes and some support!

[MickeyC]

Just finished The First Commandment by Brad Thor. Next: Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz

[SeaBookGuy]

I've started the latest in the Jane Lawless mystery series: The Cruel Ever After.

[ATDrake]

Read in paper Diana Gabaldon's The Exile, which is a graphic novel which tells part of the events from her time-travel romance novel Outlander from a slightly different perspective, rather than being a straight adaptation, according to the endnotes. It was okay, but neither the art or the presented storyline/dialogue were anything above average, imho.

Read on Kindle Morgan Llywelyn's Isles of the Blest, an adaptation of some classic Irish legend about a guy who goes to live among the fairies and learns that perfection may not be all it's cracked up to be.

I'm still not exactly sure how the story ends (a bit ambiguous what choice he makes to stay or go), but it was mildly interesting, though not up to her usual standard of work. But it was cheap and MultiFormat via Fictionwise and enjoyable enough. Don't think I'll be re-reading it much, though.

I think between the past week's worth of Celtic-inspired fantasy novels (about a half-dozen almost all at once), I've had a surfeit and need a break, so currently I'm flipping between two more paper books from the library:

Seth Grahame-Smith's Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, which purports to be a hidden history

Miranda Carter's George, Nicholas, and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I, which purports to reveal the personalities behind real history

So far Wilhelm reminds me of an insecure and power-mad Miles Vorkosigan gone horribly, terribly wrong (maybe Mark if he'd managed to achieve the Imperium) and I can't help flashing back to Sigmund Freud's assessment of his character in Nicholas Meyer's Sherlock Holmes continuation novel The Seven Per-Cent Solution.

Too bad there's probably no chance of a swordfight on a moving train in this one.

[thinkpad]

Started on Shantaram. I can already feel it's going to be a good read

[caleb72]

Originally Posted by jkeene

Just finished The Name Of The Wind, found it excellent. Good use of an interesting narrative structure.

I absolutely loved that book!

Regards
Caleb

[caleb72]

Currently reading Last Days of Jericho by Thomas Brookside. Will probably finish it tonight - it's one of the best ideas for a novel I've seen in a long time.

Also reading The Last Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko. After reading the trilogy some time last year, this was like saying hello again to an old friend. About 20% through I guess.

Regards
Caleb

[phenomshel]

Originally Posted by SeaBookGuy

I've started the latest in the Jane Lawless mystery series: The Cruel Ever After.

Hey, those sound good! Thanks for the pointer.

[maianhvk]

I've started re-reading "Records of three kingdoms", written by Chen Shou (a historian lived 800 years back then in China).

[lene1949]

I just read Damaged Goods by C. A. Hocking...

The story to me was very topical, as it including Queensland floods and pedophilia (which has been discussed in length on a thread here)

The book was horrific in the great details of the girls abuse... Regardless I found it hard to put down...

I'm glad I read it..

[GraceKrispy]

A modern parable, a workplace comedy.. "The Job: Based on a True Story" by Craig Davis. Review here.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

And now I'm reading the second part of the D'Artagnan romances, as prepared by HarryT. It's interesting to see that in nearly 400 years the French haven't changed: protests and near-riots about changes in the tax system were going on even in the mid 1600s!

And vol.2 "Twenty Years After" was also very good. I'll leave the next volume until later, but I'm looking forward to it.

Next up was Analog SFF, March 2011, The usual good collection of shorter works. I especially liked the short story "Julie is Three" and the novelette "Betty Knox and Dictionary Jones in the Mystery of the Missing Teenage Anachronisms"

And now I'm reading Asimov's SF, February 2011. And I must admit the first story hasn't really grabbed me. Hopefully the rest of the magazine will be more to my liking.