Whatcha reading?

[ArcticChicken]

I just finished book 7 last night and am trying to hurry since I haven't read the new one yet.

I got the new one and read it in a day.

I also need to reread the last couple of Dresden books, I've read the first several four or five times, but the most recent ones I've only read once or twice.

I'm now reading Miles, Mystery, and Mayhem by Louis McMaster Bujold, but I may switch to Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch.

[Buglady]

"Honeymoon in Purdah" (young woman travelling in Iran); I also have dibs on a copy of "Nine Parts of Desire," Geraldine Brooks' new book about women in Iran, after The Boy's mom finishes it; and I just realized "Reading Lolita in Tehran" is still on my to-be-read shelf. I actually don't know how this cluster of books happened!

Just finished Michael J Fox's "Always Looking Up" - very good

Recently read "Bachelor Girls: a history of single women in America," which I really enjoyed. (I'm a social history geek )

Other than that it has all been school work. Far, far too much of it. Last exam is in 9 hours and REALLY should go to bed!

[boringscreenname]

I'm reading Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Book Got Wrong.

[sms001]

Startide Rising by David Brin. I enjoyed Sundiver some time ago but this one is better.

They whole Uplift series is VERY enjoyable. Rich, complex, thoughtful. I wish it hadn't petered out so blandly....

[sms001]

From all of the books you all are reading...makes me feel like I'm a middle school reader in a room with highschooler readers.

Don't feel that way Aethian! ANY reading is good reading, and I bet if you see this question asked again in a couple of months the frequency/genres/sophistication of the books being read will vary widely up and down for almost everyone here. I used to feel bad because I often do SF or Fantasy or humor but my work reading is so intense and technical that fun reading has to scale WAY back to be enjoyable.

[sms001]

I'm going to read the Canterbury Tales.

Have you read them before? If not, you have got some big laughs coming. Quite a change-up from T & C.

[Bella_Vixen]

And I'm starting the Outlander series again.

[ArcticChicken]

I used to feel bad because I often do SF or Fantasy or humor but my work reading is so intense and technical that fun reading has to scale WAY back to be enjoyable.

I don't know if you intended it that way, but that sentence implies that only stupid people read those genres, otherwise why feel bad about reading them.

[lupo pazzesco]

When I actually have time (hahahahaha!!!) I'm making my way through This Book (The title's entirely too long for me to type!!

I'm also trying to work my way through J.D. Robb's In Death Series. It's only 29 books... (or is it 30...?)

[Buglady]

Cool, a new disease book! *puts on wishlist*

I have 2 new books, a present from The Boy for writing my last exam (!!!!) today. One is actually the second in a series - Tad Williams' "Shadowplay" - but I am pretty sure my sister has book 1 and I can borrow it. The other is the Nebula Awards Showcase 2009 - I LOVE these, I have read them nearly every year since about 1982

[malmalthekiller]

I just finished the Lost City of Z, which is about a famous explored called Percy Fawcett that disappeared into the Amazon in 1927 with his son, and was never heard from again. There have apparently been a lot of literature inspired by him (including, some say, Indiana Jones)

It was so good I could barely put it down.

[Lace Neil Singer]

Forty Years Of Murder - Professor Keith Simpson.

I'm reading a lot of true crime at the moment for some reason.

[sms001]

I used to feel bad because I often do SF or Fantasy or humor but my work reading is so intense and

I don't know if you intended it that way, but that sentence implies that only stupid people read those genres, otherwise why feel bad about reading them.

Nope, I sure didn't, and I don't think it does imply that.

I've long been a staunch defender of the high quality of many genres, especially SF.

My bad feeling came from being less widely read, not the quality of what I was reading. Hence the use of the words 'often' and 'scale back' (words of quantity) rather than 'stoop to' or 'lower myself.'

Believe me, I'm all too aware of the perception my favorite types of fiction invokes in many mainstream readers and would never encourage them.

[sms001]

I'm reading "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles" by Murakami Haruki. After that, I'm going to do "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies"

"After Dark" was recommended to me in my quirky book thread and I absolutely loved it. Sadly, my interlibrary has NO "Wind-Up Bird.."

Tad Williams' "Shadowplay" - but I am pretty sure my sister has book 1 and I can borrow it. The other is the Nebula Awards Showcase 2009

I really enjoyed the Otherland series. Any similarities at all? Or is it back closer to the Fantasy of Memory, Sorrow and Thorn?

[ArcticChicken]

Nope, I sure didn't, and I don't think it does imply that.

Sorry, I was in a terrible mood last night, and interpreting everything negatively. Combine that with one of my hot buttons and.....