What Are You Reading?

[FlakeNoir]

Is it any good?

It's cute, just a random bunch of typical-kitty-behaviour cartoons.

I am about 85 pages into Boy's Life and it is very good so far. He is a slow burn writer, (in this anyway) but boy does he have a way of showing you a thing.
I love his descriptive writing... the chapter "The Death of a Bike" was pure magic.

 

[kingricefan]

It's cute, just a random bunch of typical-kitty-behaviour cartoons.

I am about 85 pages into Boy's Life and it is very good so far. He is a slow burn writer, (in this anyway) but boy does he have a way of showing you a thing.
I love his descriptive writing... the chapter "The Death of a Bike" was pure magic.

Boy's Life is not one of my favorite McCammon's. I liked it alot, but it didn't have the grab-'em-by-the-throat intensity that his other books have. 'Mine' is one that never lets up.

 

[KingAHolic]

Cell - page 62. Trying to resist the urge to skip ahead....

 

[Aija]

I'm reading Mr.Mercedes, again, in waiting of next installment, part 2.
On audiobook i have:
1) Rose Madder, i sleep to it . ½ hour on timer. It is kind of makabre to have a horror story as a good night story. But this works for me
2) Dark Tower 7. When i walk my dog, do housework, cook, at work (i'm nightnurse at a psych ward) when everybody sleeps

 

[Kurben]

Reading Thrones, Dominations by Dorothy Sayers & Jill Paton Walsh. The critic all say that Walsh did a masterful work in finishing Sayers unfinished Lord Peter-novel. I don't agree. I think it is fairly clear were she took over the writing, it isn't seamless as they were so fond of saying. She does take good care with the wimsey family and her writings about them are well thought through but she misses out when it comes to delivering a good mystery. It is fairly clear who it is and road there is rather boring. The person who suffers most from her handling the writing is not Lord Peter or his Harriet. It is his friend from many cases the commisar Charles Parker. He is suddenly a shadow of his former self and as a consequence the whole book suffers. Wimsey need a Parker in shape to be interesting. In Sayers books it is many times their discussions of the case that keep them going. The first chapters, that sayers wrote (perhaps 5 or 6 of them), are all about Both Harriet and Peter adjusting to life as married. When she leaves off no murder is yet committed. You can see Walsh building up a situation that former did not exist. It is an amusing book for the Wimsey-fan because it is the last chapter in his story but as a mystery it is a failure.

 

[Mr Larry Underwood]

Cell - page 62. Trying to resist the urge to skip ahead....

Cell was awesome for about 100 pages. Then King threw the "retard verborreia mode" on.

 

[Todash]

Just finished Trigger Warning. I very much recommend it.

 

[Blake]

Yesterday read Mr Mercedes from 3pm to 11:30pm. Will finish by Wednesday. I was slightly confused when Brady got a Coke out of the fridge and then it said he put the 'Soda' on the bench. Then I realised it was a colloquialism.

 

[skimom2]

Swan Song. Should be reading my review book, but... NAH

 

[cat in a bag]

Finished The Girl on the Train this weekend. It was good! The reveal wasn't as shocking to me as I think it was meant to be, but I enjoyed the book.

Started North and South, I know I read it years and years ago, but nothing is familiar to me 1/3 of the way in. Not quite as charming as say, Gone With the Wind, but I am enjoying it.

 

[Kurben]

A book i can recommend for those that like a good historical novel. The Far Pavilions by M.M. Kaye. It is a good description of colonial India at the time of the Afghan war. In the center is Ashton (Ash/Ashok), a wellbred englishman born in India and raised by an indian nanny(forgot the indian term) after his parents died. Believed he was an indian until he was about 10 or 12. Concequently he sees the things a bit different than the usual englishman but at the same time they cant look down on him because he is of a wealthy family. So he doesn't really fit in either the indian cummunity that he loves or the British. But just because of that he finds himself in the middle of political dealings just because he is the british officer that thinks like an indian. There is a good love story thrown in too. Charming, romantic, exciting and wellmade.

 

[danie]

Finished The Girl on the Train this weekend. It was good! The reveal wasn't as shocking to me as I think it was meant to be, but I enjoyed the book.

Started North and South, I know I read it years and years ago, but nothing is familiar to me 1/3 of the way in. Not quite as charming as say, Gone With the Wind, but I am enjoying it.

I agree with you about The Girl on the Train, ending-wise, but enjoyed her way of writing...kind of different than most...

 

[EMARX]

I finished The French Lieutenant's Woman. I've never seen the film so I'm curious how they handled the unique way the book is written. The author John Fowles, inserts himself into the narrative as he tells the story of a love triangle, but looking at Victorian England from the point of view of late 1960's England. But it's written in style of the time.

I started Pandora's Star, by Peter F Hamilton and Wonder Boys, by Michael Chabon. Also some short pieces by John Scalzi.

 

[skimom2]

Finished The Girl on the Train this weekend. It was good! The reveal wasn't as shocking to me as I think it was meant to be, but I enjoyed the book.

Started North and South, I know I read it years and years ago, but nothing is familiar to me 1/3 of the way in. Not quite as charming as say, Gone With the Wind, but I am enjoying it.

I remember really liking that series

 

[skimom2]

A book i can recommend for those that like a good historical novel. The Far Pavilions by M.M. Kaye. It is a good description of colonial India at the time of the Afghan war. In the center is Ashton (Ash/Ashok), a wellbred englishman born in India and raised by an indian nanny(forgot the indian term) after his parents died. Believed he was an indian until he was about 10 or 12. Concequently he sees the things a bit different than the usual englishman but at the same time they cant look down on him because he is of a wealthy family. So he doesn't really fit in either the indian cummunity that he loves or the British. But just because of that he finds himself in the middle of political dealings just because he is the british officer that thinks like an indian. There is a good love story thrown in too. Charming, romantic, exciting and wellmade.

Agreed!

 

[Walter Oobleck]

kindle...or book...kindle? book? Kindred in Death? All the Pretty Horses on kindle? Went with the lather. McCarthy drive you bat-eyed at times? Yes'm.

 

[skimom2]

kindle...or book...kindle? book? Kindred in Death? All the Pretty Horses on kindle? Went with the lather. McCarthy drive you bat-eyed at times? Yes'm.

McCarthy's sentence fragments in The Road drove me NUTS. Powerful story, but I almost couldn't finish it because of the construction of the novel. I've never attempted any of his other books because I disliked that writing conceit so much.

 

[Walter Oobleck]

McCarthy's sentence fragments in The Road drove me NUTS. Powerful story, but I almost couldn't finish it because of the construction of the novel. I've never attempted any of his other books because I disliked that writing conceit so much.

This, All the Pretty Horses, will be the 7th title for me from McCarthy. This one is even more difficult than the others trying to decipher who is speaking to whom. I'm just going with it as I've thoroughly enjoyed his other stories...with some minor exceptions...that hillbilly ph.d. he uses in No Country For Old Men...in places, not throughout...when the narrator steps back and prologues. Nobody I know talks like that...except maybe Pat...heh! First story I read was The Road and I thought the lack of quotation marks, he said she said, thought that added to the...ambiance, the mood...the end of days...but they are ALL like that!

 

[Kurben]

A book that is really speciell is Irene Nemirovskys Suite Francoise (called Storm Over France in my swedish translation) and should be read. Describes France in early 1940 when the germans came over them as a wave. The author is a contemporary that wrote the book while living in Paris that year. Her family had fled Russia during the revolution to France. She was arrested 1942 and killed in Auschwitz for being of a partially russian-Jewish descent. Whats so special is that it is far from being just a diary or a journal. This is a fullgrown author that tells a story. At the same time as she describes the events she manages to reflect upon events. Highly recommended. And no mistake, this is not history, this is a novel.

 

[TanyaS]

Skeleton Crew. I bought it online, second-hand, and when it arrived, a lovely tidy copy, several pieces of paper with names and phone numbers were in it . This is what I love about pre-loved books...the previous owners' imprints etc!!