What Are You Reading?

[OldDarth]

The Girl With All The Gifts by Mike Carey

Interesting twist on the post-apocalypse/zombie genre. Has the same tones as The Last Of Us videogame.

On deck, The City of Mirrors by Justin Cronin.

 

[doowopgirl]

The new Harlan Coben, No Second Chance. It was ok, fairly typical of his stories. The new Linwood Barclay Far From True. The finish of a trilogy set on Promise Falls. Enjoying very much. REALLY ready for End of Watch.

 

[Arcadevere]

I need to hurry up finishing re reading Under the Dome and DaVinci Code because EOW is coming and it would haunt me again after release date lol

 

[Arcadevere]

Okay forgot to say. I finished re reading a local short sci-fi novella at my country

Project 17 by Eliza Victoria (Filipino writer)

Spoiler: The book is all about. . (SERIOUSLY THIS IS A SPOILER, NO JOKE)

The book was a pure sci-fi futurism about a lady (Lilian) who was finding a babysitting job and a desperate man (Paul) who is searching for the one who will babysit his younger brother (Caleb, he is ridiculously 28 years old) who suffers from a schizophrenia. And as she works in them, she discovers some secret about her employers that includes;

• The two mysterious drugs that Caleb take together with his normal drugs
• The past of the brothers and the reason why they are listed as dead at National Database
• Their part in secret robot project (Project 17)
• Their involvement at the big pharmacy company

Thsi is my fave sci-fi novella because this is so loyal to its main genre. Which is sci-fi. Also Caleb and Paul were amazing folks, i hope i learn about them but the novella was too short. Caleb was so strong despite of under pressured because of his trauma in past, and is a genius lad. This novella needs expansion.

 

[AchtungBaby]

Emma Straub - Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures. Loving it so far! She's one of my favorite contemporary writers, but I somehow overlooked this one.

Also just discovered she has a new one, called Modern Lovers, out now. Ordered!

 

[Dana Jean]

Emma Straub - Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures. Loving it so far! She's one of my favorite contemporary writers, but I somehow overlooked this one.

Also just discovered she has a new one, called Modern Lovers, out now. Ordered!

I read this one when it first came out. I remember I enjoyed it.

 

[skimom2]

The Girl With All The Gifts by Mike Carey

Interesting twist on the post-apocalypse/zombie genre. Has the same tones as The Last Of Us videogame.

On deck, The City of Mirrors by Justin Cronin.

I just read that one last week and I liked it a lot. I just got his latest book from the library (Fellside), but likely won't be able to start it until after the weekend.

 

[skimom2]

Finished They May Not Mean To, But They Do (Cathleen Schine) last night, for review. All the promo refer to the story as 'hilarious' (least trustworthy word on book promo or DVD boxes)--not even. It's pretty sad, with a few places you might smile, but no laughs. Aging is hell. I usually get impatient with the "NYC is the only place worth living" books (lol), but this story concerned 2 85-90 yr old NYC natives, and their resistance to being moved away from the city with which they were most familiar rang absolutely true. Good book, NOT HILARIOUS. Next, I have I Almost Forgot About You (Terry McMillan) on deck, then Fellside. By the time I'm finished with that, The Fireman should be in

 

[CriticAndProud]

I have started Devil May Care by Sebastian Faulks, it's one of the Bond continuation novels.

Next up on my list is Atlas Shrugged. I've an almost completely philosophical turn around in the past couple of months, so I'm gonna give it a go.

 

[fljoe0]

I'm finishing up The Fireman. I got sidetracked and had to put it down for a few days but I'm back at it. (and I think it's awesome). So I think I'll stretch these last 150 pages out and finish on Monday night so I can jump right into End Of Watch on Tuesday.

 

[Tery]

Just finished up a re-read of Finders Keepers. Ready for EOW now!

 

[Kurben]

Anyone who likes a good, really good, crime writer should try Tana French. The Likeness, The Secret Place, Broken Harbour, In the Woods and Faithful Place are all good. Irish writer who just got started.

 

[AchtungBaby]

Just finished up a re-read of Finders Keepers. Ready for EOW now!

I finished my reread on the day before yesterday. When I read it upon release I really liked it, but this reread propelled it into the top 10 for me.

 

[skimom2]

Anyone who likes a good, really good, crime writer should try Tana French. The Likeness, The Secret Place, Broken Harbour, In the Woods and Faithful Place are all good. Irish writer who just got started.

Agreed. She's a favorite.

 

[skimom2]

I have started Devil May Care by Sebastian Faulks, it's one of the Bond continuation novels.

Next up on my list is Atlas Shrugged. I've an almost completely philosophical turn around in the past couple of months, so I'm gonna give it a go.

I'm interested in what you think of the Rand book. I'm a realist (and part time cynic--lol), and I found her books as laughable as the 'hug the world and everything will be okay'-type novels. It seems to me that neither type of book has any interest in how actual people act, both the ways we can be absolutely (and predictably) horrible and the ways we can be spontaneously wonderful.

 

[AchtungBaby]

I'm interested in what you think of the Rand book. I'm a realist (and part time cynic--lol), and I found her books as laughable as the 'hug the world and everything will be okay'-type novels. It seems to me that neither type of book has any interest in how actual people act, both the ways we can be absolutely (and predictably) horrible and the ways we can be spontaneously wonderful.

Same here.

 

[Anduan Pirate Princess]

Just finished Rose Madder today and DT3 a few days ago. Very anxious to get into DT4!

 

[skimom2]

Just finished Rose Madder today and DT3 a few days ago. Very anxious to get into DT4!

DT 4 (Wizard and Glass) is my favorite of the series. Young Roland breaks my heart.

 

[staropeace]

Reading the Runaway Jury by John Grisham.

 

[Walter Oobleck]

Finally finished Hopeful Monsters, Nicholas Mosley, I liked it, liked the ideas used herein, liked the description of "nature worship" in Germany of the 20s/30s, people getting naked out in nature and this from that time period. I'd heard that that had happened, or heard that pre-Nazi Germany included a kind of "green" movement, that sort of thing, so it was curious to see it described in fiction, part of the story...as well as the time of the Spanish War...Civil War. Heh! There is this one scene a group of men charging into battle (of sorts)...one guy is wounded, right...and before long, one from his side shoots him dead. He was moaning, wounded. Reminds me of this scene I liked in Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls. Spanish guy asks the white guy lead, American, "do you want me to shoot thee, Ingles? Quierres? It is nothing." Was the American's name...Parker? I forget.

Now it is on to prufrock21 's Investigative Eye: The Case of the Maltese Pyramid, a novella, picked it up at Amazon a day or three ago for 3.99, kindle. I'd read a page or two into it after it downloaded, looks like a promising story. Good day for it, rain all day yesterday, today.