What are you reading at the moment?

[MColton84]

Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult. I am a tremendous fan of her writing. She has a knack for striking an emotional cord in her storytelling.

 

[Lori_the_Hoosier]

The Children of The New Forest - Captain Fredk. Marryat.

A classic early Victorian children's historical novel set in 1647, among the turbulence of the English Civil War 1642-1651. The story concerns the orphaned children of a Royalist nobleman killed by Cromwell's Roundheads at the battle of Naseby, who are hidden in the New Forest by a former servant, who tries to pass them off as his own grandchildren to keep them safe from Cromwell's Parlimamentarians, who were hunting Royalist supporters and executing them. Very much a book of its time, stilted and wordy in places, but all the more charming for that.

I love Victorian novels, especially children's stories, all the way up to the turn of the century novelists like E. Nesbit, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Ellinor Davenport Adams, J. M. Barrie, and Beatrix Potter (and not forgetting Kenneth Grahame!)

 

[SimonDoom]

Just finished Walter Tevis's Queen's Gambit. I still haven't watched the show, although so many people I know have raved about it I probably will. The book is enjoyable, and it's a fairly easy read, if you don't mind all the detail about chess games (I like chess so I don't mind).

Before that I read Elizabeth George's A Great Deliverance, which I highly recommend to any mystery/crime novel fans who are looking for something that's better-written than usual. George is a wonderful writer. This was the first of the novels about detective Thomas Lynley.

 

[Paul_Chance]

"Ten Arrows of Iron" by Sam Sykes. Great fantasy read, a combination of steam punk and magic, with an awesomely entertaining protagonist "Sal the Cacophony". It's the sequel to "Seven Blades in Black".

 

[MsNatalie99]

Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult

Yesterday I finished Every Breath by Nicholas Sparks

And Wednesday I finished Beneath a Scareltt Sky by Mark Sullivan

 

[anniebaby10]

PAPPYLAND. by Andrew Wright. If you love bourbon and stories about families that over come adversity, this is for you.

 

[SimonDoom]

Graham Greene, The Power And The Glory.

 

[pantyboidoe]

- Shazam! #1 (201 - Geoff Johns
- A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire #5) - George R. R. Martin
- Your Song Changed my Life: From Jimmy Page to St. Vincent, Smokey Robinson to Hozier, Thirty-Five Beloved Artists on Tehir Journey and the Music that Inspired It - Bob Boilen
- A Promised Land - Barack Obama

 

[Lori_the_Hoosier]

The Mill on The Floss - George Eliot, because I love Gothic tragedies

The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century - Jane Webb-Loudon 1827, because I found it on my father-in-Law's shelves and pinched it, and always promised myself I would read it; it was obviously inspired by Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus and is a fascinating, if sometimes dense, almost prophetic read, and definitely a science-fiction novel, not a horror story

The Phoenix and The Carpet - E. Nesbit, because it's a great story, written before it became fashionable to write children's stories as though they were talking to simpletons

 

[oggbashan]

Jeffrey Farnol - a neglected author nowadays because I found several of his books online at a stupidly low price.

And Quiller-Couch, on reading and writing - books of his lectures that inspired Helene Hanff but I knew and met Q's books long before she did.

 

[Blind_Justice]

I'm neck-deep in my current Geek Pride Day submission. No time to read anything else.

 

[YarikB]

I'm currently re-reading the Harry Potter books. They are so kind and make me positive. It is so important today.

 

[Misshotndeep]

The smoke signals from a bon fire.

 

[ChloeTzang]

I'm neck-deep in my current Geek Pride Day submission. No time to read anything else.

That's me, too. But I was re-reading "Retief Unbound" by Keith Laumer. Love those Retief stories.

 

[TwoTaTango]

Second Hand Reads

I have discovered a few gently used book stores with great prices...

My Read right now is....The Tiger

 

[Blind_Justice]

After watching the TV show, I'm reading the "Invincible" comics. I love a good superhero comic and "Invincible" is fucking amazing.

 

[nkdoldman]

I love a good book, and I'd like to know what the rest of you are reading. So please tell me, what are you reading at the moment?

To kick off, I'm reading:

• Shots from the Front, the British Soldier 1914 - 1918 by Richard Holmes
• Darkling by Yasmine Galenorn (supernatural fantasy / romance)
• The Student's Guide to VHDL by Peter Ashenden (a programming language for programmable logic chips rather than computers)

Right now, I'm reading a few eBooks that I picked up online from that large site whose name starts with A and ends with N and is the same as a River and a large Jungle in South America.

The Authors are a pair of women by the names of Max and Monroe, and the two eBooks that I am reading are "Single Dad Seeks Juliet" and "Hot Stuff".

Let me tell you folks, these two Authors put most of us to shame when it comes to well written and detailed erotic scenes/situations. I've authored a few books on this site, but my scenes are extremely pale in comparison! I never dreamed the Romance Novels (aka "Chick Lit") could be so down right erotic!

Go to that site and grab one or both of them to see what I'm talking about, then go back to writing after your eyes have been 'opened' by what you have just read.

 

[Lost_Yonder]

Okakura Kakuzo's The Book of Tea

Also exploring some works by Petr Kropotkin...

 

[SimonDoom]

I finished The Power and the Glory, which I thought was great, and am switching gears to dive back into Neal Stephenson's Anathem. I have mixed feelings about Stephenson. I enjoy his imagination and world-building but he's too wordy. Snow Crash was great but after that he fell in love with his words too much.

 

[KeithD]

John Grisham's Camino Winds


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Ian Rankin's Westwind


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[Payne_Hall]

I finished The Power and the Glory, which I thought was great, and am switching gears to dive back into Neal Stephenson's Anathem. I have mixed feelings about Stephenson. I enjoy his imagination and world-building but he's too wordy. Snow Crash was great but after that he fell in love with his words too much.

I’m in the middle of Cryptonomicon again and I know this is true, but I... love it anyway and I don’t know why. Also, Snow Crash was one of those books that made me sad when I finished it because I was never going to get to read that for the first time again.

The Altered Carbon books are also amazing in that Snow Crash weird way.

 

[Lori_the_Hoosier]

The Stone of Heaven: The Secret History of Imperial Green Jade

Adrian Levy & Cathy Scott-Clark

 

[Dubinsky]

The English Spy, by Daniel Silva.

 

[HeyAll]

I bought the book "Macbeth" by Jo Nesbo at the bookstore months ago.

I was also reading "Tampa" by Alyssa Nutting on googe books.

I stopped reading both of those at the moment to work on a bunch of stories.

Also because Amazon offered a 2 month free trial for Kindle Unlimited, so I'm taking advantage of that while I can. I'm reading Batman comics with the laptop app.

 

[yowser]

Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica - Isaac Newton