What are you reading?

Finished The Honor of the Queen and Changes back to back. Honor gets better and better and Changes is the best Dresden book yet!

Reading multiple books at the moment:

Gaston Leroux's Phantom of the Opera
H.G. Wells's War of the Worlds and Time Machine
Sir Author Conan Doyle's The Lost World

Finished Big Machine by Victor Lavalle. I'm reading This Side of Brightness by Colum McCann and occassionally a story in a John Cheever collection.

Urban Gothic by Brian Keene.

Right now im reading "The winter King" by Bernard Cornwell

Ann Rule, Green River Running Red.

Tish Cohen---Town House. I THINK she was trying to be funny with this work...it tries too hard. I'm noticing passages that suggest the author was striving for humour...but it never quite makes it. I'm seeing it through to the end, though. I just don't know why???


I have THE PASSAGE waiting in the wings.

Finished Michael Connelly's Echo Park, picked Greg Iles' The Devil's Punchbowl back up after a short pause. I've got to decide which of the five on my TBR list are next.

TBR as in staring at me on the shelf in my bedroom. My actual list is pretty long and distinguished, just like my j-----n. (sorry for the Top Gun reference)

"A Reliable Wife" by Robert Goolrick. Good read.

Well of Ascension- Book #2 of the Mistborn Trilogy by Brandon Sanderson.

Just finished reading:

The Hiding Place (Corrie Ten Boom) - highly recommended.

The House (Danielle Steel) - Not recommended. I bailed halfway through the book.

Tears of the Desert (Halima Bashir) - All I can say is wow.

Now reading:

The Girls of Room 28. (Hannelore Brenner).

Pygmy by Palahniuk. Hilarious.

Just started The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington.

i'm reading mainly nonfiction this summer. the best is called "harvard and the unabomber"-fascinating because i started out life in the fifties. "gallipoli" for the second time. "science: a 4,000 year history" is hard to get into but i think i'll like it in a chapter or two. there is also a book on outdoor ponds and waterfalls in my stack--mainly because i bought a bunch of second hand pond supplies on impulse and now they are stacked in my backyard while i try to figure out how to untangle them and start a pond.


my only fiction is "anne of green gables" i started reading a digested version to my g-daughter. she went home and i checked out the original because i'd forgotten how much i enjoyed it---s6

Ice Station by Matthew Reilly

It started off great, the opening part of the book with the battle with the French soldier came off as believeable and pretty exciting.

Once that was over it quickly turned into a farce, with ridiculous scenes, stupid coincidences (Like the titular Ice Station been built unknowingly over the EXACT spot in Antartica that a former research station was) and the main character single-handedly overcoming a 50 man squad of SAS without breaking a sweat...

Ridiculous

Can't wait to finish it, it's a shame because the opening 100 pages or so had me hooked and there are some very nice ideas in the book but alas, it turned into a farce.

Put down: The Girls of Room 28 by Hannelore Brenner. It's an excellent book, but so incredibly sad, I just couldn't take any more, a true story about a group of women who lived through the Holocaust.

Just started reading: Escape by Carolyn Jessup, another a true story, about a woman who escapes from her abusive husband and a polygamous marriage.

Beautiful Boy by David Sheff. Ann Rule is just going to have to wait a few more hours.

Reading The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Stieg Larsson) at home, and It's Not Summer Without You (Jenny Han) during the commute. Hardbacks don't travel in the purse well.

I'm currently reading over countless weekly reports, and filling in some blanks. It's been weeks since I've read anything but work-related material. Recommendations for someone who's life is in shambles?

Lyx

Lyxdeslic said:

I'm currently reading over countless weekly reports, and filling in some blanks. It's been weeks since I've read anything but work-related material. Recommendations for someone who's life is in shambles?

Lyx

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Tweak by Nic Sheff will redefine the word shambles for you.

Don't forget Stacia Kane's Unholy Magic.

Just tore through the second half of UNHOLY GHOSTS by our own Stacia Kane. What a kickass book. I want to give the heroine the hug she desperately needs.