What Are You Reading?

Neesy · Oct 26, 2015

MadBoJangles said:
Been away from the board for a few weeks as I was busy getting married to my beautiful wife!
I did manage to read Wizard and Glass while travelling on our honeymoon though
Currently about 1/4 of the way through The Deep by Nick Cutter, so far so good (if a bit pedestrian).

Congrats - hope the honeymoon was fun!

FlakeNoir · Oct 26, 2015

Neesy said:
What!?? you didn't read the user manual for your new van?

Only the bits about the alarm... :biggrin2:

yar, it's sitting here right next to me, taunting.
My garden is calling more loudly though... plus my eyes tire with too many words lately. (I know, sacrilege.)

Kurben · Oct 27, 2015

FlakeNoir said:
Only the bits about the alarm... yar, it's sitting here right next to me, taunting.
My garden is calling more loudly though... plus my eyes tire with too many words lately. (I know, sacrilege.)

And then, of course, Go New Zealand!!!!!! I can hear you screaming in front of the TV......

FlakeNoir · Oct 27, 2015

Kurben said:
And then, of course, Go New Zealand!!!!!! I can hear you screaming in front of the TV......

True... I have been watching a heck of a lot of rugby lately too.

HollyGolightly · Oct 27, 2015

skimom2 said:
My daughter just started the Groff book today (NOS4A2 creeped her out entirely--lol)--glad to hear that it's a good'un.

Eek - Just the first two pages of NOS4A2 creeped me out. I found it in the thrift store and read the two pages and put it back on the shelf. Now I'm kicking myself for that. But at the time I thought, I cannot read about this type of horror. It seemed too real. I can do supernatural because I don't really believe in it. But murderers, child molesters, those guys are out there.

kingricefan · Oct 27, 2015

Last night I started Delicate Edible Birds by Lauren Groff. It's a short story collection. The first one takes place in the smae small town that her first novel The Monsters Of Templeton was set in. No monsters in the short story, well, at least of the supernatural ilk......

Dana Jean · Oct 27, 2015

kingricefan said:
Last night I started Delicate Edible Birds by Lauren Groff. It's a short story collection. The first one takes place in the smae small town that her first novel The Monsters Of Templeton was set in. No monsters in the short story, well, at least of the supernatural ilk......

Sounds interesting. Let me know what you think.

Kurben · Oct 27, 2015

Finished Dust and decay by Jonathan Maberry. Good. I like this series. It is YA, it is actionpacked but there are good characters, good bad guys and very little sentimental lovedrip thrown is. Heck, the characters don't have time for things like that. They want to survive! Think I'm gonna try the next part Flesh and Bone when i come across it. See if i can find it somewhere.

EMARX · Oct 28, 2015

HollyGolightly said:
Eek - Just the first two pages of NOS4A2 creeped me out. I found it in the thrift store and read the two pages and put it back on the shelf. Now I'm kicking myself for that. But at the time I thought, I cannot read about this type of horror. It seemed too real. I can do supernatural because I don't really believe in it. But murderers, child molesters, those guys are out there.

Mr Hill has a very disturbing edge to his work. Though the subject matter of NOS4A2 is not something I would normally engage with, it was a book that every turn of a page was made with dread and anticipation.

EMARX · Oct 28, 2015

skimom2 said:
The George book started well, but it's become a slog. Have to finish it today, to get the review in on time, but it's not compelling reading.

I started Station Eleven yesterday (as a palate cleanser between After Alice and A Banquet of Consequences), and it's a much more interesting book! Shades of The Stand and Swan Song abound, but the writer also has her own quirks that set the book apart. I'd rather be finishing it, to be honest. After the weekend (I promise myself).

I really enjoyed Station Eleven! It looks at the subject from an interesting point of view without the supernatural trappings. And having grown up in Toronto it was cool to read about all those familiar places.

HollyGolightly · Oct 28, 2015

EMARX said:
Mr Hill has a very disturbing edge to his work. Though the subject matter of NOS4A2 is not something I would normally engage with, it was a book that every turn of a page was made with dread and anticipation.

I read and loved Heart Shaped Box, and I've been searching for Twentieth Century Ghosts. But the opening scene in NOS4A2 terrified me. Which is the point of horror writing, I suppose.

EMARX · Oct 28, 2015

HollyGolightly said:
I read and loved Heart Shaped Box, and I've been searching for Twentieth Century Ghosts. But the opening scene in NOS4A2 terrified me. Which is the point of horror writing, I suppose.

There is a fine line between disturbing and gratuitous.

Neesy · Oct 28, 2015

HollyGolightly said:
Eek - Just the first two pages of NOS4A2 creeped me out. I found it in the thrift store and read the two pages and put it back on the shelf. Now I'm kicking myself for that. But at the time I thought, I cannot read about this type of horror. It seemed too real. I can do supernatural because I don't really believe in it. But murderers, child molesters, those guys are out there.

NOS4A2 was excellent - you should read it!
Very good writer - almost as good as his Dad :yes_pig:

EMARX · Oct 30, 2015

A while back I read Fates and Furies, by Lauren Groff. I thought it was stunning! It is the story of a marriage, much like Lisey's Story, and if you liked that book, this one will I think will affect you in the same way. The structure is such that the husbands story is told first, and the second half is from his wife's point of view. I wasn't fond of the husband's character but I've realised that it's probably because his behaviour and personality mirrored mine in many ways. There are revelations in the latter half of the book that are literally jaw dropping, which shine light on so many events of the first half. And the prose is gorgeous to top it all off. I'm finding more and more that there are certain authors that are just so very good at their craft, that after we finish one of those books, subsequent novels just seem pale and wanting.

kingricefan · Oct 30, 2015

EMARX said:
A while back I read Fates and Furies, by Lauren Groff. I thought it was stunning! It is the story of a marriage, much like Lisey's Story, and if you liked that book, this one will I think will affect you in the same way. The structure is such that the husbands story is told first, and the second half is from his wife's point of view. I wasn't fond of the husband's character but I've realised that it's probably because his behaviour and personality mirrored mine in many ways. There are revelations in the latter half of the book that are literally jaw dropping, which shine light on so many events of the first half. And the prose is gorgeous to top it all off. I'm finding more and more that there are certain authors that are just so very good at their craft, that after we finish one of those books, subsequent novels just seem pale and wanting.

This is so true! Groff's prose is excellant! Her storytelling gifts are awesome- she can define a character in two or three sentences like a certain other author that we all love and admire. I'm about halfway done with her collection and each story is different in mood and content. The one I just finished (Blythe) is actually rather disturbing.

fljoe0 · Oct 31, 2015

My November reading schedule is filling up. I just noticed that Stephen King, John Irving, Michael Connelly and Joe Landsdale are releasing books on the same day (Nov 3).

Bardo · Oct 31, 2015

just finished "Things they left behind" from the Sunset story collection.
Enjoying the art of short story's again,

kingricefan · Oct 31, 2015

fljoe0 said:
My November reading schedule is filling up. I just noticed that Stephen King, John Irving, Michael Connelly and Joe Landsdale are releasing books on the same day (Nov 3).

Wouldn't it be awesome if they all went on a reading/signing tour together?

Kurben · Oct 31, 2015

Just started Mine by Robert McCammon. (and i mean just... About 20 pages in but already something terrible happened)

HollyGolightly · Oct 31, 2015

EMARX said:
A while back I read Fates and Furies, by Lauren Groff. I thought it was stunning! It is the story of a marriage, much like Lisey's Story, and if you liked that book, this one will I think will affect you in the same way. The structure is such that the husbands story is told first, and the second half is from his wife's point of view. I wasn't fond of the husband's character but I've realised that it's probably because his behaviour and personality mirrored mine in many ways. There are revelations in the latter half of the book that are literally jaw dropping, which shine light on so many events of the first half. And the prose is gorgeous to top it all off. I'm finding more and more that there are certain authors that are just so very good at their craft, that after we finish one of those books, subsequent novels just seem pale and wanting.

I'm going to be on the lookout for that one! I do love her style and that sounds like a great story!

I'm almost finished with the Ha Jin stories. Such an interesting peek inside the Chinese culture. There's so much oppression there.

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