What Are You Reading?

[AnaKhouri]

YOU GUYS.

The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro is SO GOOD.

That is all.

[greek_jester]

Just finished Mythos: the Greek Myths Retold by Stephen Fry. Just as with the late great PTerry, the best bits are the footnotes.

[Eireann]

Jo Nesbo. I don't care for The Snowman (the murderer's motive was ridiculous, and I hated one female character's explanation for her recent behavior), but the other books are addictive. I've just ordered three of them off a cheap book website.

[Mental_Mouse]

I am currently reading (as is usual for me 6 or 8 books right now). A few of them:

John C Wright

Larry Correia

Charles Stross

Are the books, um, shoving each other off the shelf or anything? (Stross, and the other two, were on opposite sides in the ugly Puppygate fight at the Hugos a few years back)

Stross is a regular "grab it" for me, especially his Laundry series. I also occasionally drop by his blog for a sip from the firehose. I read Wright's Orphans of Chaos trilogy and liked it at the time (I've still got an early PB of Book 3, with the misprinted spine), but... well, I don't want to get near the Fratching line, but some of his comments during Puppygate were actually relevant to its conceit, in a way that does not belong in the real world. Correia I never got into -- his Monster Hunter series was clearly not my thing at first glance, and then there was that mess....

[AnaKhouri]

I am reading NK Jemison's The Fifth Season and Ellis Peters' A Morbid Taste for Bones. I adored the Cadfael TV series with Derek Jacobi so it's high time I read the books. And while I am not seeing anything particularly innovative in The Fifth Season, it has a lot of my favorite fantasy tropes and I'm really enjoying it.

For anyone who likes funny stuff, I just finished Drew Melbourne's Percival Gynt and the Conspiracy of Days. It's Douglas Adams-funny, but also has a lot of dark elements and it's not shallow or cynical at all. It's hard to describe but I highly recommend it!

[It's me]

Right now I am reading this particularly engaging but WEIRD book (for kids) titled "The Higher Power of Lucky" by Susan Patron.

I just looked this up on Amazon. Weird doesn't begin to describe it! I just might have to see if they have it at the library...

[It's me]

I am currently reading (as is usual for me 6 or 8 books right now). A few of them:

Somewhither by John C Wright is odd but fun.

Spellbound by Larry Coreria. Magic, steampunk, mayhem, Larry's usual fare.

And I just started the 4th Laundry Files book (The Apocalypse Codex) by Charles Stross. I think am over being weirded out by book 3, we shall find out soon enough.

I'm looking through my list of Kindle books and now realize I have something like 15 books on the go. 🙄

[Pixelated]

A bit of background: some weeks ago somebody dumped a box full of books outside a donut shop. I asked a few customers and one said the box had been sitting there for hours so ... I took them home and am reading my way through most of them (the one on science fair projects is one of the few exceptions ...)

Right now I am reading this particularly engaging but WEIRD book (for kids) titled "The Higher Power of Lucky" by Susan Patron. Lucky Trimble lives in Hard Pan, California (population 43) with her guardian, Brigitte, and her dog HMS Beagle (who isn't actually a beagle). She and Brigitte and HMS Beagle live in three trailers that have been attached together. Her idea of entertainment is listening (through a hole in the wall) to the testimonies of the members of various twelve-step programs. She carries her survival-kit backpack everywhere (I'm not sure at this point what's in it).

At one point Brigitte is in near-hysterics after opening the dryer and finding a snake inside. Lucky helps to get rid of it and is later telling her friend Lincoln about it.

Lincoln: "Mike's grandmother had one in her dryer once. It came in through the vent going to the outside of the mobile home."

Lucky: "What did she do?"

Lincoln: "Thirty minutes on normal cycle."

My first reaction was

My second reaction was "OMG I'm going to hell for laughing at that ..."

Lincoln's mother wants him to grow up to be president ... hence his full name of Lincoln Clinton Carter Kennedy.

Lincoln, however, is fascinated by knots and while he is indeed interested in being president, it's the presidency of the International Guild of Knot Tyers that he's aiming for.

Which, might I add, is a real thing.

When I picked up that boxload of discards, I figured most of the YA and kids' books would ultimately be donated.

This one is just SO weird it might be a keeper.

[Ironclad Alibi]

I have started Prelude To Foundation by Issac Asimov.

[Pixelated]

About 3/4 of the way through "The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents" by Terry Pratchett. This had been sitting around for a long time and yet somehow i'd never gotten to it until now.

I believe the person who did the cover art was David Wyatt; he's got the cat's expression down perfectly.

[Ironclad Alibi]

I am now reading The Golden Dream of Carlo Chuchio by Lloyd Alexander.

I finished The Golden Dream of Carlo Chuchio this past weekend. It reminded me of the Arabian Nights.

Being in a hotel all weekend I read several other books. First was When Marnie Was There by Joan Robinson. This book was made into an anime movie.

After that I read The Multiplex Man by James P Hogan, a science fiction novel.

And I just finished Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman.

[greek_jester]

Now I'm reading Neil Gaiman's American Gods. I started reading it a couple years ago, but when life intervened, I put it down and never finished it. I'm finally getting back to it (and starting over) now.

I always thought that was one of his better ones. I loved the world-building, and the way gods were born. As always, though, his female characters are a bit rubbish with their (lack of) motivations.

[Ghel]

I finished The Hogfather last week. Susan was an amazing character.

Now I'm reading Neil Gaiman's American Gods. I started reading it a couple years ago, but when life intervened, I put it down and never finished it. I'm finally getting back to it (and starting over) now.

[TheWolfEmperor]

Barry wrote Jennifer Government and created the NationStates game.

Great book by the way. The game was, meh.

[Jay 2K Winger]

J2KW mentions Max Barry - a while ago I saw the Minecraft book he wrote.

I think you've confused Max Barry for Max Brooks, also an author, who also wrote the Zombie Survival Guide and World War Z.

Barry wrote Jennifer Government and created the NationStates game.