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[Latinandgreek]

I'm currently reading MaddAddam, the newest book by Margaret Atwood. I wish I'd reread the other two books in the series before beginning, there is a lot that I've forgotten. I'm looking to read something light and funny for my next read, I'm open to any suggestions

[Apache]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Next up: Under a Graveyard Sky by John Ringo. The Zombie Apolcalypse arrives....

I've really been enjoying it so far.

I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
Apache

[orlok]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Next up: Under a Graveyard Sky by John Ringo. The Zombie Apolcalypse arrives....

I've really been enjoying it so far.

Added to my TBR. Haven't read a zombie story for, oh, at least a couple of months...

[Mivo]

Originally Posted by Mivo

For the next novel, I'm a little torn between tackling Steve Berry's Cotton Malone series (starting with The Templar Legacy) or diving into Daniel Abraham's The Dagger and the Coin fantasy series, starting with The Dragon's Path. I picked up the first book of each series, so maybe I'll sample-read a couple chapters in each.

Test-read the first couple chapters of The Templar Legacy and couldn't put it down, so, the Cotton Malone series it is.

[Dr. Drib]

I finished Elizabeth Kostova's "The Historian," a novel involving Dracula, but really a novel that searches for those secret identities that most of us keep hidden.

I thoroughly enjoyed it, but I can see where restless and impatient readers who like quick action 'shoot-em-ups, kill-em-dead, drink-the blood' types of readers would shun this as too learned, too esoteric, too mucho in the historia, if you know what I mean.

Well, that's why we have blood-soaked zombies and literature, and rarely the twain shall meet - if ever.

I happen to like both, by the way.

If you enjoy reading literature, then I can heartily recommend this exquisite and beautiful novel that touches upon the realms of horror. This is a slow read, but a rewarding one.







Don

[Latinandgreek]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

I finished Elizabeth Kostova's "The Historian," a novel involving Dracula, but really a novel that searches for those secret identities that most of us keep hidden.

I thoroughly enjoyed it, but I can see where restless and impatient readers who like quick action 'shoot-em-ups, kill-em-dead, drink-the blood' types of readers would shun this as too learned, too esoteric, too mucho in the historia, if you know what I mean.

Well, that's why we have blood-soaked zombies and literature, and rarely the twain shall meet - if ever.

I happen to like both, by the way.

If you enjoy reading literature, then I can heartily recommend this exquisite and beautiful novel that touches upon the realms of horror. This is a slow read, but a rewarding one.







Don

I really enjoyed it, having read it around the time it was published, and would love to reread it.

p.s. I like both, too, by the way

[caleb72]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

I finished Elizabeth Kostova's "The Historian," a novel involving Dracula, but really a novel that searches for those secret identities that most of us keep hidden.

I thoroughly enjoyed it, but I can see where restless and impatient readers who like quick action 'shoot-em-ups, kill-em-dead, drink-the blood' types of readers would shun this as too learned, too esoteric, too mucho in the historia, if you know what I mean.

Well, that's why we have blood-soaked zombies and literature, and rarely the twain shall meet - if ever.

I happen to like both, by the way.

If you enjoy reading literature, then I can heartily recommend this exquisite and beautiful novel that touches upon the realms of horror. This is a slow read, but a rewarding one.







Don

Thanks for that. Sounds great. Now I just have to find time to read the thing.

[caleb72]

Originally Posted by caleb72

Now, I'm dipping a toe in the water with Stephen King's The Gunslinger. I've actually had the whole Dark Tower series on my shelf for a couple of years but have never made the move to start it. Now is as good a time as any to see whether the purchase was worthwhile.

Well that was pretty good actually. The setting was interesting and the story was, although a little surreal at times, still enjoyable. I'm not sure if the metaphysical nature of the "quest" in this particular series is going to start to grate after a while, but I think I'm interested enough to find out.

Now, my next book needs a drum roll.................

For the first time this year I'm actually reading a non-fiction book! Yep, it happened. I've picked up Sybil Exposed by Debbie Nathan from my library. It's a book looking at the story behind the famous Multiple Personality case which became the book Sybil and later, a movie of the same name.

[JoelArnold]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

I finished Elizabeth Kostova's "The Historian," a novel involving Dracula, but really a novel that searches for those secret identities that most of us keep hidden.

I thoroughly enjoyed it, but I can see where restless and impatient readers who like quick action 'shoot-em-ups, kill-em-dead, drink-the blood' types of readers would shun this as too learned, too esoteric, too mucho in the historia, if you know what I mean.

Well, that's why we have blood-soaked zombies and literature, and rarely the twain shall meet - if ever.

I happen to like both, by the way.

If you enjoy reading literature, then I can heartily recommend this exquisite and beautiful novel that touches upon the realms of horror. This is a slow read, but a rewarding one.


Don

Totally agree with you. I thoroughly enjoyed "The Historian."

[emonti8384]

I've been reading a lot of YA novels, those by Richelle Mead, Jennifer Estep, Cassandra Clare, and many others. Current I'm reading Jennifer Weiner's Then Came You, but find I have been wanting to get into the classics.

[fantasyfan]

The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester may not sound like the most exciting book ever written. In fact, it is much more enjoyable than one would expect. The OED is one of the greatest academic works ever compiled and by common consent the greatest English Dictionary of all. It took seventy years to complete and it's first four editors did not live to see that completion.

Winchester is not an academic and he presents the story mainly through interesting anecdotes, and by focussing on the various personalities and their often bitter clashes and varied motivations throughout the enormous project--the progress of which was by no means smooth. In fact there were several times when the possibility of ever finishing the work seemed very bleak indeed.

Most of the book is about James Murray the third principal editor whose vision informed the entire idea--and indeed which continues to this day in the second edition and the concept of a third electronic version. This breathtakingly brilliant Scotsman who could speak and/or read over thirty languages and whose formal education ended at the age of 14 is considered the greatest lexicographer since Samuel Johnson.

His story alone is worth knowing and it is bound up intimately with the great Oxford English Dictionary.

[Yapyap]

"Invitation to Die" by Helen Smith, picked up relatively cheaply on Amazon recently, but... well, at least I didn't pay a fortune for it, because not only do I have a hard time getting into it, I just don't feel it's particularly well written.

I'm over 50% and still feel a vague curiosity about the "whodunnit" part, so I expect I'll struggle onwards with it and finish it, but it's feeling a lot like a chore - especially as I picked up the hardback of Jonathan Stroud's latest book, Lockwood & Co: The Screaming Staircase, at the post office yesterday and now it's sitting here, taunting me.

[cortman]

Currently reading Emil Ludwig's eponymous biography of Napoleon Bonaparte; also various selections from ancient Greek literature (translated), and finishing up Purgatorio, by Dante Alighieri.

[covingtoncat73]

I'm reading The City in the Autumn Stars by Michael Moorcock and really enjoying it so far.

[HomeInMyShoes]

Reading Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett to finish up my year challenge and make a little progress on getting through Discworld at some point.