What are you reading?

roseangel said:

I just finished the second Septimus Heap book and am going to start on the third.
And also the second book in the Araminya Spookie searies, the second Dresden Files book and the first Percy Jackson book are on my to-be-read list.

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I loved Bartimaeus.

Finished Chamber of Secrets, and now starting Prisoner of Azkaban. Also rereading Misery by Stephen King. Read it as a kid, and it really freaked me out (had to skip over parts). Now that I am much older, I want to give it another try.

regdog said:

I've read the harry Potter series more time than I can remember, but I've been thinking about starting them again. My brain is starting to shrink from not reading.

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I can't believe I waited this long. I have wanted to read them for years, but kept pushing it back. With the last movies coming out, I decided I wanted to finally read the series before that. And I am loving the books. They are long, and I don't read a lot of YA, but they are fun, quick reads.

Just finished Philip Roth's novel Indignation. Excellent.

Black Banners by August Strindberg.

The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum.

Man. Without all those musical numbers, the story just screams on by!

Just finished Coetzee's Waiting for the barbarians. Not for nothing is he a Nobel laureate!

Aha, I haven't read that, but I read his book Age of Iron last week.

'Anatomy for Artist' by Barrington Barber


...I feel like such a nerd

The Testament by John Grisham

Satori1977 said:

Finished Chamber of Secrets, and now starting Prisoner of Azkaban. Also rereading Misery by Stephen King. Read it as a kid, and it really freaked me out (had to skip over parts). Now that I am much older, I want to give it another try.

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Loved it!

I just finished River of Darkness by Rennie Airth (a must if, like me, you love historical mysteries from the early part of the century!)

I liked it so much I went out the next day and bought the second book in the series, The Blood Dimmed Tide!

I'm reading Small Island by Andrea Levy. WHY have I not already finished this? It's so fantastic!

I just finished To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf. I can't claim to fully understand it... but it was beautiful.

I just finished John Grisham's The Innocent Man. Highly recommended.

THe Passage by Justin Cronin. I cannot read fast enough to devour this book. It is mindblowingly amazing. I can't wait to get the ARC for the second one in the trilogy.

Also checking out The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Amy Bender. The language is very nice but the book is very episodic and herky jerky in backflashes and info dumps. I think you can really tell she's a short story writer at heart. She's lacking coherence in this book. Not sure I'll finish it.

Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite

This has been the most disturbing book I have ever read.

1. 360 Degrees Longitude by John Higham - One family's journey around the world. A true story, based on John Higham and his wife September and their two children, ages eight and eleven packing up their suburban lives good-bye to travel round the world.

2. O Bom Inverno, by Joao Tordo. A Portuguese Fiction thriller/Romance, and a bestseller in Portugal. A story about a frustrated writer, that goes to Budapest on a literary event, and is distant from where literary can really take him.

Barbarians to Angels: The Dark Ages Reconsidered, by Peter S. Wells (Norton, 2008). He shows that the common picture of the period of about 400 - 800 A.D. as benighted and stagnant is mistaken (or at least, misleading), as life went on much as before for most people, albeit with much less of a written record. Commerce was active and widespread, he argues on the basis of archeological evidence. Only about 200 pages (plus notes and index), with b/w photos and maps.

--Ken

Monas Heiroglyphica - By John Dee, in the original Latin. Awesome find.

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Inner Paths to Outer Space - By Rick Strassman, et. al.

The Lightning Thief.

Christine by Stephen King

I find it to be surprisingly good. I hated the movie version, thought it seemed tacky and cheesey and so wasn't expecting much of the book but, the book is pretty good.

Playmates - Andrew Neiderman

There Goes the Bride (Agatha Raisin mystery), M.C. Beaton. Fast fun fluff.

--Ken