What Are You Reading?

[mjr]

I recently bought Plato's "The Republic". It's short, so I'll probably read it soon.

I also have several other books I've been meaning to read, but haven't even taken a peek at. I still need to read "Leviathan" and "Frankenstein", along with a couple of other tech books I've been meaning to read.

[Jay 2K Winger]

Which sites do you read on, please? Are they on AO3?

I don't know, I found them on FanFiction.Net.

[greek_jester]

I've been reading a Discworld fanfic author by the name of A.A. Pessimal *snip*

Which sites do you read on, please? Are they on AO3?

[Jay 2K Winger]

I'm zooming my way through them. I had two here for a while, but this box contains, if not the entire set, a large chunk of them.

I've reread Lords and Ladies and Reaper Man (Death is such a nice guy ) and am partway through Witches Abroad and have just started Guards! Guards!. Got a couple more waiting in the wings and then, of course, there are more in the box still in my storage unit.

I've been reading a Discworld fanfic author by the name of A.A. Pessimal, who captures a lot of Pterry's style and has written a number of stories that explore the Assassins' Guild and its School. I'd recommend checking him out, and starting with the story "The Graduating Class."

[Pixelated]

Huzzah!

#GNUTerryPratchett

Congratulations! The first books I downloaded when I finally gave in and got my smartphone were PTerry's.

I'm zooming my way through them. I had two here for a while, but this box contains, if not the entire set, a large chunk of them.

I've reread Lords and Ladies and Reaper Man (Death is such a nice guy ) and am partway through Witches Abroad and have just started Guards! Guards!. Got a couple more waiting in the wings and then, of course, there are more in the box still in my storage unit.

[greek_jester]

I HAZ FOUND THE BOX WITH MY TERRY PRATCHETT NOVELS!!

Congratulations! The first books I downloaded when I finally gave in and got my smartphone were PTerry's.

[Ironclad Alibi]

I have started reading The Electric Church by Jeff Somers. The first few chapters have more action in them than a Die Hard movie.

[Jay 2K Winger]

Stopped by my storage unit today (just before the skies opened!) and ...

I HAZ FOUND THE BOX WITH MY TERRY PRATCHETT NOVELS!!

Huzzah!

#GNUTerryPratchett

[Pixelated]

Stopped by my storage unit today (just before the skies opened!) and ...

I HAZ FOUND THE BOX WITH MY TERRY PRATCHETT NOVELS!!

[Pixelated]

Just finished Ben Winters' The Last Policeman. An okay mystery but the real deal is the setting- modern Earth six months before an asteroid hit that will destroy civilization as we know it.

For once there is nothing listed on my Goodreads! I am in that terrifying, hopeful place between books. I'll choose a new one by tonight.

I found the first book of that trilogy on the "remaindered" desk at the local Big Box Bookstore and was so impressed with it that I special-ordered the remaining two books.

You're right, the mysteries themselves (each book has its own little mystery/mysteries and there is an over-arching one that goes through the entire series) are generally just okay, but it's the background that really catches the attention ... the impending global catastrophe and how different people are coping with it (or not).

[AnaKhouri]

Just finished Ben Winters' The Last Policeman. An okay mystery but the real deal is the setting- modern Earth six months before an asteroid hit that will destroy civilization as we know it.

For once there is nothing listed on my Goodreads! I am in that terrifying, hopeful place between books. I'll choose a new one by tonight.

[Ironclad Alibi]

I'm going to start reading Hogfather next. I've enjoyed the other books I've read in the Discworld series, so.

That is a good book. The movie version is one of my favorite movies.

[Ghel]

I gave up on reading Clan of the Cave Bear. After a section early in the book where a character was remembering being abused by her (now dead) mate, I went and looked at spoilers. They made me angry. So I threw the book in my donate box. (I was already disappointed by the patriarchal and hierarchical BS among the clan, but I was hoping Ayla would change that. Quite the opposite, according to spoilers.)

I'm going to start reading Hogfather next. I've enjoyed the other books I've read in the Discworld series, so.

[Pixelated]

Katherine Kurtz Saint Patricks' Gargoyle. An elderly Knight of Malta performs one last quest in time to be Home for Christmas. *snip*

That sounds interesting; I'll have to see if I can find it around here.

I discovered the first book (I think) in Linwood Barclay's Promise Falls series ... oops, I just Googled it, and it appers to be the second book in the series. It's titled Broken Promise and thank goodness I'd managed to untangle the characters and their storylines (sorta) while reading Far From True ...

The only drawback was that, having read Far from True before Broken Promise, I pretty much knew what was coming.

[dalesys]

Katherine Kurtz Saint Patricks' Gargoyle. An elderly Knight of Malta performs one last quest in time to be Home for Christmas. I'm loaning it to my Dad... It's been nearly 5 1/2 years since Mom got away and like Francis Templeton and Maeve, he misses her.