Books I'm currently reading:
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Fall Higher by Dean Young
Why Evolution is True by Jerry Coyne
Books I've recently finished reading:
The Iliad by Homer
Sum by David Eagleman
No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July
The Girl in the Flammable Skirt by Aimee Bender
The Lifting Dress by Lauren Berry
Reviews of these books potentially to come in future posts!
Ender's Game
ReplyDeleteThe Hobbit. Lookin' forward to the movie, and figured I should give the book a read first.
ReplyDeleteWho Fears Death - Nnedi Okorafor
ReplyDelete20,000 Leagues under the Sea - Jules Verne
A Dance with Dragons - George RR Martin
Lots of graphic novels, most recently:
ReplyDeleteUnwritten by Mike Carey
American Vampire by Scott Snyder
Smile by Raina Telgemeier
Bone by Jeff Smith
Akira's next I'm thinking,
As far as traditional novels I just finished the Vampire Acedemy Series by Richelle Mead and I'm looking forward to picking up The Taqwacore by Michael Muhammad Knight.
I read all three books in the Hunger Games trilogy last week, in my break from writing. This week, I'm back to novels in my genre--Jane Austen sequels. I've got Sass and Serendipity and The Darcys of Pemberley for review, and Mansfield Park and Sense and Sensibility for two different group reads.
ReplyDeleteThis weekend while I'm on vacation, I'd like to finally read Throne of Fire--preordered it for my Kindle, so I've had it since May. I've just been too busy to read it!
Next week, I need to read two reference works: An Intelligence Officer in the Peninsula and A Regency Companion.
Current: Gulliver's Travels (defoe), Sophie's World (gaarder), Berlin (Beevor), Time Out of Joint (Dick)
ReplyDeleteRecent: Afterlight (Scarrow), Witches Abroad (Pratchett), For Two Nights Only (Holt), The Trial (Thomas), Whoops (Lanchester), The Call-Up (Hickman), Moon Over Soho (Aaranovitch), Reaper Man (Prathcett), Outliers (Gladwell).
Just finished Jim Butcher's Ghost Story (awesome) and Jacqueline Carey's Naamah's Blessing. Both gave me the literary high I've been thirsting for. Now, on to Jude the Obscure (Hardy), and possibly some George RR Martin.
ReplyDeleteCurrent: The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security by Kevin Mitnick, A Light in the Dark by Nathan Lowell
ReplyDeleteRecent: The Magicians by Lev Grossman, The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
I saw Jorgh's comment about The Hobbit and got really excited. I guess I'm behind. I knew it was coming...but then I found video blogs and then I had to blog about it. So excited.
ReplyDeleteOh yes...currently reading Natasha's Dance. A cultural history of Russia.
The Eye of the World by Richard Jordan
ReplyDeleteAcross the Great Barrier by Patricia Wrede
The Grand Weaver by Ravi Zacharias
I just finished The Book of Flying by Keith Miller.
ReplyDeleteThe Art of Racing in the Rain
ReplyDeleteOne Thousand Gifts
The Amish Nanny
Just started Stories, a compilation of dark stories edited by Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio. Just finished The French Quarter: An Informal History of the New Orleans Underworld, by Herbert Asbury (who also wrote Gangs of New York).
ReplyDeleteJust finished "Them" by J.C. Oates, and was disappointed.
ReplyDeleteNow reading "Between Meals; An Appetite for Paris" by A.J. Liebling and loving it.
To be followed by "Whiter than Snow" by Sandra Dallas.
I am a serial monogamist (where reading is concerned).
Just got these from the library:
ReplyDeleteA Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
One of Our Thursdays is Missing (Jasper Fforde)
A Northern Light (Jennifer Donnelly)
Magic Under Glass (Jaclyn Dolamore)
What am I *not* reading...um, let's see:
ReplyDeleteA Game of Thrones by George R. R Martin
Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey
A Faerie Fated Forever by Mary Anne Graham
Mozart's Blood by Louise Marley
Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker
Lime Creek by Joe Henry
The Crown of Vengeance and The Dream of Legends by Stephen Zimmer
So many more on the TBR shelf. But that's the start of my list.
The Art of Racing in the Rain (twice)
ReplyDelete100 Secret Senses (Amy Tan)
The Handmaid's Tale (Atwood)
oh - and read The Goon Squad too, strange one that.
ReplyDeleteI just finished reading a YA novel called "Arson" by Estevan Vega, which is first in a potential series, and a B&N reprint of one called "Covered Wagons" that originally came out in 1922.
ReplyDeleteI'm reading this really funny book of political essays titled, “I Don't Want to Go the F**k to Sleep." And I LOVED "Goon Squad." It's up there with my favorites.
ReplyDeleteReading the Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht. Just finished the Snowman by Jo Nesbo and Don Bartlett, Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson and Bloodmoney: A Novel of Espionage by David Ignatius. They are all well written and enjoyable to read. I can recommend them all. Try to read a book every two or three days.
ReplyDeleteBooks I'm currently reading:
ReplyDeleteThe Confession by John Grisham
Books I've recently finished reading:
Never Knowing by Chevy Stevens
In the Name of Honor by Richard North Patterson
Just finishing The Wise Man's Fear - Patrick Rothfuss
ReplyDeleteThis is my summer of Shakespeare. I've been reading the plays and watching the movies. I just did a reread of Richard III, and loved it.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.taylornapolsky.com
I've recently finished reading Emile Zola's Lourdes and now I'm half way into Rome, the second of his Three Cities Trilogy.
ReplyDeleteHe's definitely a bad example for the wannabe writer. It's not just that he's prone to author-intrusiveness - the whole point is to provide a vehicle for author intrusion. But it's gripping stuff.
Recently: SHATTER ME by Tahereh Mafi (excellent - I'll be buying the book when it comes out in November), THE EMERALD ATLAS by John Stephens (also excellent), and THE MAZE RUNNER by James Dashner.
ReplyDeleteI'm currently reading ERAGON by Christopher Paolini, and am enjoying it immensely, as well as BOOM! by Mark Haddon (a fun read).
Perdido Street Station by China Mieville. This man's work is proof that it's still possible to tell an original story of science fiction and fantasy.
ReplyDeleteBefore that I was reading Jack Vance's Tales of the Dying Earth. I wanted to read something that was a source of inspiration to other authors of sci-fi/fantasy, and now Jack Vance is an inspiration to me.