What Are You Reading?

[TheWolfEmperor]

I read that one with my son. I personally thought it was pretty preachy, which surprised me.

Oliver Sacks or the Minecraft book?

[greek_jester]

Just finished "An Orc at College" by Liam Lawson. Variable quality (some spelling/grammatical errors that could be the fault of whoever converted it to digital for Kindle) plus one of the main characters is a literal bunny girl (human/rabbit hybrid) who loves sex (which you discover in detail; I've lost my patience with extended sex scenes as I've got older). The "orcs in place of people of colour" metaphor with regards to racism was also somewhat heavy-handed. However I did enjoy the world building, and will be reading the sequels partly for these reasons:

1) A character and the bunny girl have a discussion about past partners, current sexual health and expectations before they get busy, even though they really want to get busy.

2) One of the semi-main characters was making out with a nameless girl at his house, and when she falls asleep he puts her in his bed and goes to sleep on the settee rather than making the assumption that he can share the bed without asking.

3) A character is involuntarily outed as trans and is not treated as a joke, but is treated with respect. They're not as developed a character as they could be, but they were on the peripheral of the first books story-line, and it is strongly implied that they may be moving to a more central role in the sequels.

[Ironclad Alibi]

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

[TheWolfEmperor]

I started reading The Trilogy of Two..

[protege]

Right now, I'm reading a well-worn copy of The Complete Official MGB, 1962-74 by Robert Bentley. Yep, I'm messing about with the car again.

[Ironclad Alibi]

I have started reading The Last Days of New Paris by China Miéville.

[YamiNoHime]

The Merlin Trilogy by Mary Stewart. It's a re-read, but I love it

[Pixelated]

Still working on the Discworld novels but have also just started "419" by Will Ferguson.

[AnaKhouri]

I read that one with my son. I personally thought it was pretty preachy, which surprised me. There's another official Minecraft novel out but my son just read that one himself.

[Mental_Mouse]

Rereading "The man who mistook his wife for a hat", by Oliver Sacks. (It got culled as a dupe from the store). J2KW mentions Max Barry - a while ago I saw the Minecraft book he wrote. Narrative has someone dropped into the MC world, specifically with the worst possible start (ocean seed, meaning you start on (or near :-( ) an island with very few resources) and no prior knowledge of the game. Surprisingly readable....

[Nunavut Pants]

I'm in the middle of "Thinking Small, the Long Strange Trip of the Volkswagen Beetle". Pretty good read so far, with biographical background on several people who were important to the development and early production of the car. So far, though, it downplays the contributions of Ganz and Jaray to the early designs. Hopefully the latter at least will come out when they talk about the Tatra lawsuit.

[Eireann]

I got two Hitchcock compilations yesterday. I do love the stories in his collections. One of them is particularly good, because it contains two stories from my past - Alexander Woollcott's Moonlight Sonata, and Midnight Express by Alfred Noyes. The second story is one I read years ago, and I'd forgotten the title and author, as well as the ending. It's very much like a Twilight Zone episode.

[Pixelated]

Still going through my Discworld novels ... not in any particular order. Currently in the middle of Hogfather.

[Jay 2K Winger]

Finished off Max Barry's Lexicon last week. Interesting approach to the narrative, as it cuts back and forth between two different perspective characters, and it dawns on you as you go on that one character's section is set before the other's, but it tricks you about what's happening when. This along with an interesting look at how language can be used to manipulate you, with a take on the Tower of Babel myth that I haven't seen since Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash.

I've now started reading Joe Hill's The Fireman, and I'm seeing a lot of his dad's influence in it. (Joe Hill is Stephen King's son.)

[Ironclad Alibi]

I am presently reading Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World by Joan Druett.

It is the real life story of two shipwrecks on Auckland Island south of New Zealand in the 1860s. A fascinating story of survival.