What Are You Reading?

[fljoe0]

The Prophet - Michael Koryta

I have enjoyed this one. This is a slow burner that just keeps building tension. I've got 80 pages left and I feel a major left turn coming.

 

[80sFan]

I'm about halfway through The Girl From Charnelle by K. L. Cook.
Not bad. Some parts are better than others, but good for a discount ebook.

 

[skimom2]

Bookmark notified me that A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith) is $1.99 today only on Amazon I know there were a few here who either liked that book or expressed interest in reading it.

 

[RichardX]

"Midnight Assassin" an excellent non-fiction book about a series of brutal murders in Austin, Texas during the 1880's. Just released.

 

[bigkingfan91]

Re reading 11/22/63. I loved the show, and it really got to me at the end, like the book did the first time but even more. Stayed with me ever since Monday morning and I feel like I have PTSD for Jake and Sadie lol. Figured it was a great time for a re read, with faces to put on the characters. I was enjoying The Passage until a certain jump was made, and that same morning I finished the show, so I said good riddance to Passage and jumped right into 63 lol.

 

[Mr.Ace]

Re-reading some short stories by Gogol. They are just amazing! Love them all.

 

[Bardo]

Finished Cujo and felt like hanging at "the Rock" some more so reading "Sundog"

 

[carrie's younger brother]

I'm reading You, Me and the Rest of Us:#newyorkstories by Alex Clermont. It's a collection of short stories set in New York. I'm about halfway through and so far I like it. The author has an easy, conversational style and the stories are simply told but filled with real life characters and emotions. He also creates a great sense of place and time in the telling of these stories.
Full disclosure: the author is a coworker of mine.

 

[Haunted]

Bookmark notified me that A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith) is $1.99 today only on Amazon I know there were a few here who either liked that book or expressed interest in reading it.

Gosh, read that when I was thirteen, what a wonderful book!!

 

[Haunted]

I am reading Every Patient Tells a Story by Lisa Sanders, M. D. Dr. Sanders was the Technical Advisor to the tv show House, M. D. This was recommended by my doctor's RN.

She says in her Author's Note: The use of pronouns when you are speaking of an individual remains problematic in writing now that we can no longer just use the generic "he". There is no rule on this at this point, so in this book I will refer o the generic doctor as she and the generic singular patient as he.

 

[fljoe0]

Johnny Got His Gun - Dalton Trumbo

I just watched the movie Trumbo last night and I decided to read this one again. I don't think Trumbo had many novels as he was mostly a screenwriter. The timing is kind of funny because not too long ago I was going through some boxes of books and I pulled this one out to read again not really thinking about seeing a movie about him. I read it in high school and I'm pretty sure this is the same paperback (the printing date is in the 70s so that would be about the right date). I had a history teacher that assigned it to us to read.

By the way, the movie Trumbo is very good.

 

[Mr.Ace]

Johnny Got His Gun - Dalton Trumbo

I just watched the movie Trumbo last night and I decided to read this one again. I don't think Trumbo had many novels as he was mostly a screenwriter. The timing is kind of funny because not too long ago I was going through some boxes of books and I pulled this one out to read again not really thinking about seeing a movie about him. I read it in high school and I'm pretty sure this is the same paperback (the printing date is in the 70s so that would be about the right date). I had a history teacher that assigned it to us to read.

By the way, the movie Trumbo is very good.

Metallica - One!

 

[kingricefan]

I'm going to start The Dropper by Ron McLarty. I've had this book in my TBR pile for months and now I want to read something that will have drama with some humor and suspense mixed in it. I read McLarty's first novel The Memory Of Running (thanks for helping get that one published Steve King!!!) and loved it.

 

[RichardX]

I'm running out of Robert McCammon books to read. I was looking through the awful Barnes & Noble website for some decent horror but it is filled with cheap looking zombie, romance vampire novels. Other than King and Koontz it is slim pickings. So I'm going way back with James Herbert who I vaguely recalled from the late 1970s and 80s. Starting with "The Dark" which I'm sure I read decades ago but don't remember a single thing about.

 

[80sFan]

Metallica - One!

This video is the first thing that comes to my mind whenever Johnny Got His Gun mentioned.

 

[Kurben]

started Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood.

 

[kingricefan]

I'm running out of Robert McCammon books to read. I was looking through the awful Barnes & Noble website for some decent horror but it is filled with cheap looking zombie, romance vampire novels. Other than King and Koontz it is slim pickings. So I'm going way back with James Herbert who I vaguely recalled from the late 1970s and 80s. Starting with "The Dark" which I'm sure I read decades ago but don't remember a single thing about.

You should check out thriftbooks.com for the McCammon books. They probably have all of them.

 

[César Hernández-Meraz]

Just finished reading "Graveyard Shift" for the second time in a row this morning.

There were so many great visuals and inspiring moments, I just had to read it twice.

 

[adamjah]

Just finished Skeleton Crew last night. ( Why is it that i always finish my books just before i go to bed? I`m always too scared or full of adrenaline to sleep haha)

Aaand started 1984 by George Orwell. I wanted to read this for a long time now, because this is my father`s favorite. I`m sure he had read it at least a hundred times. I don`t like ordering stuff online (because we have no obvious address here lol), so i wanted to hunt it down somewhere in a book shop, which is not easy. But i found it last week haha.

I know it`s a very good book. Only read the first chapter, but it`s really scary in it`s own way.

"War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength."

 

[Spideyman]

The Green Mile, Stephen King’s #1 New York Times bestselling novel, was first published twenty years ago in six original paperback installments. Inspiration for the Oscar-nominated film starring Tom Hanks about an innocent man on death row, The Green Mile is now available for the first time in e-serial form. - $1.99 each