What Book Are You Currently Reading?

[barefootgirl69]

Unfollow Me by Charlotte Duckworth

 

[Biggalute]

Girl A by Abigail Dean

 

[mentalmaven]

Going Home By A. American

 

[Love_Is_Blonde]

Been doing a lot of reading lately.

I just finished The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese, The Women by Kristen Hannah, and now I’m reading Small Joys by Elvin James Mensah.

 

[UnquietDreams]

Finder, Emma Bull. I am in the mood for some comfort rereading.

 

[Booboobear84]

The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan

Trade routes sure influence history. Any good?

 

[orangecurious]

The Nine - Gwen Strauss

 

[Deleted member 6607120]

The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

 

[thetabeta89]

GOD EMPEROR OF DUNE... one of the best in the series...

 

[sexy_swinger_69]

Just finished the Robot series by Asimov and the Silo series by Hugh Howey.

Just started Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K Dick, much different from Blade Runner

 

[hotwords229_A]

This seems like a good place to ask, do you still go to the library? Do you buy books at garage sales? Do you buy from bookstores (new or used), or order online?

What is your main go-to for obtaining books?

 

[barefootgirl69]

This seems like a good place to ask, do you still go to the library? Do you buy books at garage sales? Do you buy from bookstores (new or used), or order online?

What is your main go-to for obtaining books?

Yes, yes, yes, and yes. Also, I use a kindle for books I can't find anywhere else. If it's on my Kindle, I can also read it on my phone while I'm out and about. Good Will stores are great for books, too.

My main go-to is the library. Our system allows us to borrow them from other libraries, they are picked up at our local library.

 

[Booboobear84]

This seems like a good place to ask, do you still go to the library? Do you buy books at garage sales? Do you buy from bookstores (new or used), or order online?

What is your main go-to for obtaining books?

Audio books from Amazon, physical books from my local bookstore who will order anything, obscure books from e-bay.

 

[curious_slut]

This seems like a good place to ask, do you still go to the library? Do you buy books at garage sales? Do you buy from bookstores (new or used), or order online?

What is your main go-to for obtaining books?

I still go to the library and I love them so much. I've never bought a used book except online and I don't really buy books very often unless I have to order from another country or Unbound. Going in a bookstore is too dangerous because I have no self control. I can't pull my 10+ book shenanigans at a store the way I do at the library unless I want to anger my savings account.

 

[Deleted member 6607120]

This seems like a good place to ask, do you still go to the library? Do you buy books at garage sales? Do you buy from bookstores (new or used), or order online?

What is your main go-to for obtaining books?

I love the library and get books from there frequently. There is a big used bookstore/coffee house here that I frequent and always come home with books I'm not ready for lol. I'll get books anywhere I can find them. If I can't find it at the library or used bookstore I'll go to thriftbooks.com before trying to buy it new.

 

[mentalmaven]

Yes to all…I spend hours in unique bookstores like Baldwins Book Barn in PA or Liberia Acqua alta in Venice Italy.

 

[Tessinwales]

The Keeper of Lost Things by Ruth Hogan

 

[BaldAndHorny]

One Perfect Couple - Ruth Ware

Just finished "City In Ruins" by Don Winslow. Winslow has announced his retirement. "City In Ruins" is a fitting conclusion to an absolutely outstanding career.

 

[tigger_lover]

The wedding dress shop by trisha ashley

 

[SherlockianMan]

Always glad to see library love on the threads!

 

[barefootgirl69]

The Good Girl by Mary Kubica

 

[Deleted member 6607120]

Pandora's Jar by Natalie Haynes

 

[WhiteTailDarkTip]

"City of Last Chances" by Adrian Tchaikovsky. His book "Dogs of War" is a stone cold classic. I used to be an avid SF reader but there's not much that floats my boat these days.
Arkady Martine is writing some good things. I must get around to reading Martha Wells' Murderbot series. Charles Stross is a genius (try his novellas "Palimpsest" or "The Concrete Jungle") but overruns his ideas - as does Ben Aaronovitch, although Ben is a master at urban fantasy. Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan novels are first class space opera but also pretty much mined out. "Captain Vorpatril's Alliance" is a late gem.
Slightly to one side, "There Is No Anti-Memetics Division" by qntm (aka Sam Hughes) scared me so badly in it's first 100 pages that I put it down for two years. It remains to be seen if Amazon Prime can make a good fist of a dramatisation.
Becky Chambers, Anne Leckie and Cixin Liu are highly regarded but I can't get on with any of them. NK Jemisin's Broken Earth trilogy starts brilliantly ("The Fifth Season") but stutters badly in the last volume. Still won the Hugo though. James SA Corey's The Expanse series also starts well but they're not slim volumes. I lost the will to live by about volume 6.
Alastair Reynolds is like a hard SF writer from the latter half of the 20th century. Once upon a time I would have avidly gobbled up everything he wrote, much as I did Larry Niven, Greg Bear, CJ Cherryh, John Varley, Greg Benford et al but there's a sense that those days are over. I think William Gibson signalled the beginning of the end of that.
Who's left? John Scalzi, who is apparently funny (I never get the joke somehow) Peter F Hamilton, who is like Methuselah compared to the current crop, but still going somehow. Unfortunately I've always loathed his output.
Sorry for droning on!

 

[morelikeasong]

Just finished It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover, in preparation for the movie coming out. Now I’m onto It Starts With Us. Probably will finish today or tomorrow.

 

[Uk_Gentleman]

90% way through Royal Assassin by Robin Hobb. As an avid reader this series took me 3 tries to get into it after 2 DNF's!