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

[ReadingManiac]

I finally found a copy of The Dinosaur Lords used on Amazon for a price I was willing to pay. Looking forward to trying this one.

[kansaskyle]

Since Halloween is coming up, I am finally reading Brom Stoker's Dracula. It is also a book I've had in my to-be-read (TBR) collection for years.

I also decided to quit checking the deals section and focus on the ~150 TBR books I collected over the years. I've bought or picked up freebies to include Biographies, Classics, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, History non-fiction, Historical Fiction, Mysteries, Thrillers, a Western, and a few Christian non-fiction and fiction books.

[astrangerhere]

I started Richard Lloyd Parry's Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan’s Disaster Zone. I found myself devouring it. Last year, Where the Dead Pause, and the Japanese Say Goodbye: A Journey was in my top ten of the year, and I think this will be as well. Mockett's book focused more on Shinto and Zen priests and their work, but both are stunning accounts of how the Japanese people grieve.

From the description:

Richard Lloyd Parry, an award-winning foreign correspondent, lived through the earthquake in Tokyo, and spent six years reporting from the disaster zone. There he encountered stories of ghosts and hauntings. He met a priest who performed exorcisms on people possessed by the spirits of the dead. And he found himself drawn back again and again to a village which had suffered the greatest loss of all, a community tormented by unbearable mysteries of its own.

What really happened to the local children as they waited in the school playground in the moments before the tsunami? Why did their teachers not evacuate them to safety? And why was the unbearable truth being so stubbornly covered up?

Ghosts of the Tsunami is a classic of literary non-fiction, a heart-breaking and intimate account of an epic tragedy, told through the personal accounts of those who lived through it. It tells the story of how a nation faced a catastrophe, and the bleak struggle to find consolation in the ruins.

[Dngrsone]

Finished listening to A Closed and Common Orbit; and while I am waiting for the next HP audiobook to show at the library, I am listening to Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn.

Oh, and Fellowship of the Ring just showed up at the library for me to listen to, so that will likely be queued up next.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Next up: The Third Pig Detective Agency by Bob Burke. I bought this one back in 2009. Time to read it at last!

Well, it was OK. But not well enough thought out for my liking. Not a series I'll be getting any more in.

Then I read The Hermit of Eyton Forest by Ellis Peters. Another enjoyable and quick read in her Brother Cadfael series.

And now: The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi. Just bought, as it's on offer for just £1.19 in the Amazon UK November sale.

[MickeyC]

Just finished John Sandford’s latest, Deep Freeze and it was a typically great Sandford read. Next up the new Michael Connelly book, Two Kinds of Truth.

[Fbone]

Finished Kings of Clonmel by John Flanagan. I'm really enjoying this YA series. There are only a couple left and that makes me sad. Rated C+ [3 stars].

Now I'm reading Rebellion's Message by Michael Jecks available on Hoopla.

[astrangerhere]

Originally Posted by astrangerhere

...I have embarked on all 50+ hours of the Rob Inglis version of The Lord of the Rings...

Last day of frantic packing, but I just finished this!

[Dngrsone]

Finished Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil by Tom Mueller. very interesting and kind of depressing...

Anyway, I am now reading The Dragons of Nova by Elise Kova.

[CRussel]

Originally Posted by astrangerhere

Last day of frantic packing, but I just finished this!

I would think this would be good for listening to while packing. Certainly packing is the sort of mindless activity I can't do without _something_ to listen to. Though actually, I think my days of packing are done. If we ever leave this house, it will likely be to an assisted living apartment. And I'll simply pay someone to pack what matters, and throw out the rest. (Well, actually, take most of it to the Share Shed. We're frugal up here -- why pay dumping fees when someone else might actually have a use for it.)

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by Dngrsone

Finished Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil by Tom Mueller. very interesting and kind of depressing...

Anyway, I am now reading The Dragons of Nova by Elise Kova.

Did he name names? I've seen several lists online of virgins that aren't.

[Rumpelteazer]

I'm currently reading the latest Department Q novel, The Scarred Woman, by Jussi Adler-Olsen. I'm almost halfway through and I'm really enjoying it. Due to a busy week and a bit of a reading funk I'm not going fast, but I should be able to finish it on Sunday.

[mlewis78]

Recently read: Hillary Clinton What Happened, Katy Tur Unbelievable and Kurt Andersen Fantasyland.

Currently reading: Colson Whitehead The Underground Railroad.

[kansaskyle]

Originally Posted by mlewis78

Currently reading: Colson Whitehead The Underground Railroad.

I'm curious what you think about this book and the author's liberties with history.

[Dngrsone]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

Did he name names? I've seen several lists online of virgins that aren't.

He did, and there is an appendix of sorts for finding quality oil. It still seems like the only way to be sure is to find a grower and cozy up to them and/or grow and press your own.


Finished listening to Sharp Objects, just in time for the next HP audiobook to show at the library. Buut... I'm ready to hit the road now and don't want to spend ten-fifteen minute getting the book onto the USB drive in the car, so I will either listen to music on the drive or start The Girl With all the Gifts by M. R. Carey.