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

[WT Sharpe]

The last two books I read have titles I don't feel comfortable posting. This morning I just finished the one mentioned in this post. It wasn't as funny as I'd hoped. Seems it really is a how-to book.

[maianhvk]

Originally Posted by siraks

I knew it was short, i actually was holding the pbook in my hand the other day and kept wondering about it so i grabbed the ebook and loaded it. it's up next as i mentioned. i'm pretty much done MHI, 100 pages left. i just hope it's as good as everyone says, plenty of reviews on amazon that love it so i think it'll be just fine.

I'm curious about MHI but have to finish Catching fire and Mocking jay and Wise man's fear before adding anything else to the burden. So many books, too little time...

I'm reading Catching fire now and it's alright but not impressive as its prequel. Perhaps things will pick up pace later, I just read the first fifth of it.

Originally Posted by richvalle

75 books! Wow. (Goes and counts the books he's been listing as read since he bought the Color Nook....) Looks like I'm up to about 40 since Jan.

Me too! I'm done with about 35 books and I think my pace is moderate... Do you read books all day long, pdurrant?

[siraks]

Originally Posted by maianhvk

I'm curious about MHI but have to finish Catching fire and Mocking jay and Wise man's fear before adding anything else to the burden. So many books, too little time...

i know what you mean about so many books, too little time.
when you are in the middle of one good book several others pop up that you want to read, this site does me no favours. everyday i come on here i see something new i want to read.

as for MHI, it's awesome. got a recommendation from here actually. wouldn't have known about the book otherwise. am glad i got into it. kept me reading constantly, there aren't any real slow parts and (imo) every part of the book progresses the story in some way.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by maianhvk

Do you read books all day long, pdurrant?

Perhaps work has been a little slow in the first third of this year...

But no, not all day long. But perhaps three hours a day — half an hour over breakfast, another half hour at lunch, and hour or two in the evening, and some more before dropping off to sleep in bed.

I don't watch much TV.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by siraks

as for MHI, it's awesome. got a recommendation from here actually. wouldn't have known about the book otherwise. am glad i got into it. kept me reading constantly, there aren't any real slow parts and (imo) every part of the book progresses the story in some way.

There's a sequel that's just as good (IMO), Monster Hunter Vendetta, and we're promised another sequel, Monster Hunter Alpha in August. (Well, mid-July for the ebook.)

[Lucid_Dreamer]

I'm reading the Necronomicon, a collection of stories by H.P. Lovecraft

[dreams]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

The last two books I read have titles I don't feel comfortable posting. <snip>

One of those you mentioned; I just finished. It was OK, not as cute/funny as I thought it would be. I checked out the author's site and his blog and well, I'm not interested in trying any others by him.

I am still reading Anna Karenina, but looking for something for in between. I have a stack of pbooks that have been on the shelf for a while and may grab one of those. Alex Kershaw's "The Few" sounds interesting. It's about "the American 'Knights of the Air' who risked everything to fight in the Battle of Britain." I also have a few of Baantjer's (Dutch author) DeKok and the... mysteries to read. I like Detective-Inspector DeKok and his sidekick Vledder. Just can't decide.

[pilotbob]

Originally Posted by dreams

I have a stack of pbooks that have been on the shelf for a while and may grab one of those.

Sunday I donated about 10 boxes of books to the library, most of my pbooks. It felt so liberating. Long live ebooks!

BOb

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by dreams

One of those you mentioned; I just finished. It was OK, not as cute/funny as I thought it would be. I checked out the author's site and his blog and well, I'm not interested in trying any others by him.

The Princess or the other one? The Princess I liked.

Originally Posted by dreams

I am still reading Anna Karenina, but looking for something for in between. I have a stack of pbooks that have been on the shelf for a while and may grab one of those. Alex Kershaw's "The Few" sounds interesting. It's about "the American 'Knights of the Air' who risked everything to fight in the Battle of Britain." I also have a few of Baantjer's (Dutch author) DeKok and the... mysteries to read. I like Detective-Inspector DeKok and his sidekick Vledder. Just can't decide.

Yes, despite what I said in the Book Club thread, I'm reading Anna Karenina also. That, Hal Spacejock: the Second Course, my bi-weekly Kindle Science News subscription, the Cliff Notes to A.K., and a few other things.

[Crusader]

Busy with Salem's Lot by Stephen King. Almost in the middle of the book and so far it hasn't been very scary. It is interesting to see the parallels between it and Dracula though, since King was inspired by Dracula to write it.

[ATDrake]

Read The Crocodile on the Sandbank, 1st in Elizabeth Peters's Amelia Peabody, Plucky Victorian Egyptologist mystery series, which I rather liked.

But then I was expecting to like it, as I generally enjoy books with Plucky Victorian Egyptologists anyway. Although it was very surprising that about halfway through the book, I not only knew whodunnit, but also the most likely reason why (and I turned out not to be wrong about that, which is a first); the only thing I was lacking was exactly howdunnit. But it's an early book and I expect the later ones get more sophisticated with the misdirection and the clue-leaving-motivation-hiding.

And I've realized that Peters now has the classic triad of Blonde, Brunette, Redhead for her major series heroines. Too bad you'd never get them all in the same book at once, unless she wrote one of those theme novella collections with linked stories where Peabody uncovers some artifact, decades later it gets lost/stolen and Bliss goes off on its trail, and one day it ends up in an exhibit near some sort of event that Kirby visits in her librarian capacity and makes snarky remarks about while foiling an attempted murder over it.

Recommended as an enjoyable start to a promising-looking series, especially if you, too, happen to like Plucky Victorian Egyptologist adventures.

Now currently onto a different period historical sleuth series, fellow Canadian Dave Duncan's Alchemist books with Zeno, apprentice to the prophetic visionary Nostradamus (but not the Nostradamus, merely his also-prophetic great-nephew also-named Nostradamus), solving murders and intrigue in Renaissance Italy.

Quite enjoyable so far, and nice background detail on the culture of Venice at that time and the thoroughly backstabbing scheming one can expect from meddling in the affairs of a major city-state.

[covingtoncat73]

Originally Posted by ATDrake

Now currently onto a different period historical sleuth series, fellow Canadian Dave Duncan's Alchemist books with Zeno, apprentice to the prophetic visionary Nostradamus (but not the Nostradamus, merely his also-prophetic great-nephew also-named Nostradamus), solving murders and intrigue in Renaissance Italy.

Quite enjoyable so far, and nice background detail on the culture of Venice at that time and the thoroughly backstabbing scheming one can expect from meddling in the affairs of a major city-state.

That sounds like something I should check out. My to-read list is getting pretty overpopulated lately but oh, well.

After trying to start several other books and failing to continue, I started Anatomy of Ghosts by Andrew Taylor(a library checkout). It is set in 1786 England and involves a Cambridge debauchery club and a London bookseller with a tragic past. And ghosts. I hope it sticks. Got it from the library, so no harm if it doesn't.

On audio (I have a long commute so I am always listening to an audiobook as well as reading), I had a false start with The Emerald Atlas. I couldn't get past feeling like it was a rip-off of Lemony Snickett, so I didn't get far. However, I picked up Stephen King's Full Dark, No Stars on CDs from the library and I am riveted by the first story and will continue it, though some might put it in the "too distrubing to continue" thread.

I wanted to continue The Dark Tower on audio from the library but they don't have Wolves of the Calla on audio.
I just finished Wizard and Glass on audio and it is my favorite of the series so far. I have the series in used pBacks, so I'll read rather than listen to "Wolves" after I finish Anatomy of Ghosts.

I need to take a two-week vacation so I can whittle down my to-read list. I really have to read Soon I Will Be Invincible so I can return it to my cousin's husband (a book-buddy of mine) and I need to read Vanilla: Travels in Search of the Ice Cream Orchid Tim Ecott so I can return it to my mom. I also need to read The King and the Corpse: Tales of the Soul's Conquest of Evil by Heinrich Zimmer and Joseph Campbell so I can return it. I have had it for so long that I forgot whether I need to return it to my mother or to a friend of hers. I also have two Guy Gavriel Kay books I checked out from the library because cousin's husband has been bugging me to read Kay.

All this and I have two more Dark Tower books AFTER Wolves of the Calla to read. I also want to re-read American Gods and Good Omens AND discovered Kathrynne Valente, who seems right up my alley and is a prolific author, apparently. *Sigh*

[dreams]

Originally Posted by pilotbob

Sunday I donated about 10 boxes of books to the library, most of my pbooks. It felt so liberating. Long live ebooks!

BOb

I gave away about 400 before we moved here and a few years later we had a garage sale and sold off a few hundred then donated the others. We had a library room in our old home and there just wasn't room for it here. I hated that I had to pay the moving company to bring them, then we got rid of them. It does create a much more open feel in the house (once you get use to the feeling that something is missing. )

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

The Princess or the other one? The Princess I liked.

It was The Princess one. It was just an OK read even though it was funny in places. Maybe, it was the mix of reading it at the same time as AK?

Yes, despite what I said in the Book Club thread, I'm reading Anna Karenina also. That, Hal Spacejock: the Second Course, my bi-weekly Kindle Science News subscription, the Cliff Notes to A.K., and a few other things.

I'll have to find some Cliff Notes.

Originally Posted by Crusader

Busy with Salem's Lot by Stephen King. Almost in the middle of the book and so far it hasn't been very scary. It is interesting to see the parallels between it and Dracula though, since King was inspired by Dracula to write it.

I remember reading that when I was first away from home and in my own apartment (age 20). I was on the couch at night and next to the window. I read all night with all the lights on, as I was too afraid to go to bed. I went to work very early the next day.

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by dreams

...I'll have to find some Cliff Notes....

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[Latinandgreek]

I've got the Charterhouse of Parma on my reader. So far, so good.