What are you reading?

Neil Gaiman "Fragile Things"

I've just finished "Hawthorn and Child" by Keith Ridgway. It started off well, his writing style is fresh and innovative and some of his use of imagery is breathtaking - the man can really write. However, the novel overall has no purpose and just seemed to be an endless series of shock-jock episodes that vaguely related to each other without hanging together at all, and then it just finished with no ending. Or maybe I completely missed something, but given how well it started, I was disappointed.

Solar, by Ian McEwan.

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Taking a break from the Cousins' War Series by Philippa Gregory. So far I've read The Lady of the Rivers, The White Queen, and The Red Queen. I really love this series and even better than the Tudor Court series. So far The White Queen is my favorite. I still have The Kingmakers Daughter and The White Princess waiting for me.

For now, because I'm obsessed with the show on PBS, I'm reading The Paradise by Emile Zola. It's a good book, and close enough to the show but I like the feminist version of Denise better on PBS haha.

William F. Buckley: The Maker of a Movement - Lee Edwards

Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. I found it on my library's resource called "NoveList", and it gave me that book in one of the suggestions. I thought the book's synopsis sounded interesting, peeked at a couple of Youtube trailers, and finally checked out the e-book version at the library.

Stephen King's "IT"

Perdido Street Station. Been meaning to for a while.

The Late Shift by Bill Carter

I just finished The Giver by Lowry and Dreaming of You by Kleypas. Great, great books.

I'm reading Book of the Black Sun by G. W. Thomas and War of the Whisperers by Adam Niswander, a pair of Cthulhu Mythos books.

I finished the above and have moved on to Caging the Dragon: The Containment of Underground Nuclear Explosions by James Carothers, and The Forbidden Zone by Whitley Strieber.

Somehow I never read We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson. Rectifying that now.

Letters from the Dust Bowl by Caroline Henderson (ed: Alvin O. Turner). I love reading books about strong women and men.

The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester. This time the complete graphic story edition, which is a brilliant, faithful and perfect adaptation of the book.

Finished the Earthsea stories, loved the first three books, Tehanu was too philosophical and the others were okay.

Just finished Vicious by V.E. Schwab, read it in two days, loved it. If anyone could recommend anything like it, go ahead.

Reading Something Wicked This Way Comes by Bradbury slowly...more for learning interesting prose than storytelling imo.

Trying hard to finish Way of Kings by Sanderson...I keep starting and stopping it. I'm only reading it because it's popular so I can learn and dissect why people love the story. I can understand why this appeals to nerds (no offense) though.

Mary Frost Mabon, ABC of America's Wines, 1942. Like a time capsule.

--Ken

Reading Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood. Doesn't have quite the punch that The Handmaid's Tale, one of my all time favorite books, gives me, but I like it.

Might as well procrastinate update...

Just Finished:
(Nook)Riders of the Purple Sage, by Zane Grey. Classic Western set in frontier Utah, where a wealthy Mormon woman defies church elders and befriends a gunslinger. Nice descriptions of the deserts, the frontier, and even the horses, but I found the characters melodramatic and the plot - especially by the end - contrived.

Still Reading:
(Kindle) Write That Book Already!, by Sam Barry and Kathy Kamen Goldmark. Another how-to-write book, with a somewhat irreverent voice. So far, so good...

(Paperback) Island in the Sea of Time, by S. M. Stirling. An unknown phenomenon sends modern Nantucket Island and a nearby Coast Guard vessel back in time. I keep misplacing this one...

Finished Christopher Moore's Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Best Friend. Moving on now to Moore's Fool, which is a take on King Lear.

"Master and Commander" by Patrick O'Brian
Absolutely blown away by the level of details and navy jargon, that at the same time make it difficult to read at first. At least on the kindle one can quickly check the words in the dictionary...

Is anyone reading or has read Khalen Hosseini's latest novel? I am about 30% through the book and I have SUCH FEELS I need to share. >__<

I'm pretty much all about romance right now.

I just finished two very nice novellas, Married for Christmas, by Noelle Adams, and The Story Guy, by Mary Ann Rivers. The latter featured some really exceptional writing, IMO.

Currently reading Cost of Repairs, by A.M. Arthur, my first M/M romance. It took a while to get into the story, but I'm glad I stuck with it.