What are you currently reading?

[killjoy72]

I just finished Finders Keepers.
Now I'm reading The Border by Robert McCammon.

[jhanic]

I've started a reread of To Kill a Mockingbird, getting ready for the release of To Set a Watchman.

John

[Ricky]

I've been wondering if I should maybe re-read Mockingbird before Watchman comes out.

[frik]

Now I'm reading The Border by Robert McCammon.

Unfortunately, my least-favorite McCammon in many, many years.

sk

[WeDealInLead]

2/3 done The Scarlet Gospels. It maybe not as stylish as Books of Blood, but I don't understand the underwhelming reviews. It's a solid read. Barker has made it very clear how much he loathes the name Pinhead. 3.5 stars on US Amazon, 5 on Canadian. Weird.

Gave up on Kazuo Ishiguro's The Buried Giant 1/2 in. What a let down after Never Let Me Go. I liked the melancholy style but the story just didn't do it for me.

Thinking about giving up on Ready Player One by Ernest Kline. The premise seemed like the book was written for me. I'm 1/4 deep and I can't find a reason to pick it up again. Each time the nerds start one upping each other with inconsequential and mundane details about some irrelevant game, I start losing interest. The issue could be that I'm listening to it and Wil Wheaton is trying so damn hard to sound hip and enthusiastic about every word in the book. Just read the damn story, OK? I'll probably power through it. I listen to it when I'm running so depending on the weather, I should finish it within a week.

Gene O'Neill's newest novella At The Lazy K is really, really good. He also sent me The Hitchhiking Effect (a retrospective collection) and an anthology The Library of the Dead. He feels these "have Stoker legs."

[wolfehr]

Just finished The Memory Tree by John R. Little. I thought it was really good and had a hard time putting it down. It was told in the style of a narrator writing down his story, and at times it was easy to forget the narrator was a fictional person. It was sad and dark at times, but had an uplifting ending. Quick read and I highly recommend it. Just started reading Salem's Lot, for the first time. (ducks) I read Night Shift recently and Jerusalem's Lot is fresh on my mind, so I figured it was a good time to finally read it.

[BROWNINGS CHILDE]

The Lord of the Rings.

Your first time?

I'm reading The Martiian-Andy Weir as a beak between GoT novels. It is really good. Heavy on the science, which seems fairly solid.

[SystemCrashOverRide]

Couple hundred pages into Finders Keepers. I'm enjoying it but haven't found enough time to power through it. Catcher in the Rye is on deck.

[WeDealInLead]

Just finished The Memory Tree by John R. Little. I thought it was really good and had a hard time putting it down. It was told in the style of a narrator writing down his story, and at times it was easy to forget the narrator was a fictional person. It was sad and dark at times, but had an uplifting ending. Quick read and I highly recommend it.

His short stories are even better. Cemetery Dance published a ton of his e-books. If you're looking for hard copies, Bad Moon Books did his latest collection called Little by Little.

I started Count Zero by William Gibson. Exactly what I needed.

[biomieg]

I started Dan Simmons' Ilium. No verdict yet but it's certainly interesting...

[zelig]

The Lord of the Rings.

Your first time?

Yes. First time reading it. It's one of those books that I have been meaning to read for 20 years or more. The other day I just said, do it. Now is the time. I must say it's slow going. Not sure if the pace picks up but I'm currently around page 260.

[zelig]

Thinking about giving up on Ready Player One by Ernest Kline. The premise seemed like the book was written for me. I'm 1/4 deep and I can't find a reason to pick it up again. Each time the nerds start one upping each other with inconsequential and mundane details about some irrelevant game, I start losing interest. The issue could be that I'm listening to it and Wil Wheaton is trying so damn hard to sound hip and enthusiastic about every word in the book. Just read the damn story, OK? I'll probably power through it. I listen to it when I'm running so depending on the weather, I should finish it within a week.

I absolutely loved Ready Player One. Maybe it's the audio like you say. I simply cannot listen to audiobooks. I remember listening to Joyland and I gave up. It was annoying me. Mostly the way the narrator was taking on the different characters accents. Like acting the part. I can't stand that. One exception for me would be the Dolores Claiborne audio. On Joyland I just stopped listening and read the book from the beginning and it was way better. A whole different experience.

You should start over and read the book. It's fantastic. I don't know how old you are, but if you were a kid or teenager in the 80s then you will love it even more. Especially if you played the classic video games. I'm rambling so will stop now.

[Girlystevedave]

I finally started Finders Keepers last night. I am hooked.

[Heather19]

I was just debating if I should pick Mr. Mercedes back up or read something else?

[Mattrick]

I must say it's slow going. Not sure if the pace picks up but I'm currently around page 260.

Spoiler: the pace does not pick up. Even Maturin outruns that book.

[Mattrick]

I was just debating if I should pick Mr. Mercedes back up or read something else?

My book should be up for sale on Kindle through Amazon next week hint hint, nudge nudge....BUY BUY BUY BUY

[Girlystevedave]

I was just debating if I should pick Mr. Mercedes back up or read something else?

Are you having a hard time getting through Mr. Mercedes?

[Ricky]

My book should be up for sale on Kindle through Amazon next week hint hint, nudge nudge....BUY BUY BUY BUY

Are you going to be offering physical copies as well? I just hate reading off a screen.

[goheat]

Since I last posted, finished Summer of Night by Dan Simmons! Read Let's All Kill Constance by Ray Bradbury (finishing up that trilogy), then stormed through Song of Kali by Dan Simmons (what an awesome novel). Then read Little by Little by John R. Little and have started The Influence by Bentley Little (first of his I've read.)

[Heather19]

I was just debating if I should pick Mr. Mercedes back up or read something else?

My book should be up for sale on Kindle through Amazon next week hint hint, nudge nudge....BUY BUY BUY BUY

I will definitely keep an eye out for it.

I was just debating if I should pick Mr. Mercedes back up or read something else?

Are you having a hard time getting through Mr. Mercedes?

Yeah, I'm on page 131, but it was just blah. Then I got a book in from the library so I read that, and now I can't make myself go back to Mr. Mercedes. So I decided to finally start Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer.

[DoctorZaius]

Plowed through a bunch of books with my high schoolers at the end the year - they do book clubs, which means I gotta read them all! Luckily, I was rereading some of them.

Juniors: Cat's Cradle (this is the book that turned me on to reading when I was a junior in high school - the kids loved it); One Second After (a superb look at society breaking down); Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (super Y/A novel that is part X-Men and part Heroes); Off to be the Wizard (not good at all - gotta worry about these self-published books)

Sophomores: Ready Player One (a superb Y/A apocalyptic novel); Snow Crash (I really loved this zany sic-fi ride, as did my students); Miss Peregrine, again (great reaction from this grade as well); Good Omens (this is one of my favorite novels - the apocalypse has never been so funny!)

Now that school is over I have gotten to my own books. I am currently reading Hollow City, the sequel to the Miss Peregrine book - I must say I got hooked in the book clubs. I just finished The Twelve, and I can't wait for the next book to arrive from Cronin, though my guess is that I will be waiting for a while. Next up is King's newest, which seems to be getting some good reviews.

[DoctorZaius]

I loved Song of Kali - so heart wrenching! Summer of Night was tremendous. If you liked it as much as I did you should go find a copy of the Roadkill Press "Banished Dreams," which is a portion of the novel which as edited out of the completed novel due to size restrictions from the publisher - a very cool piece that shares the haunted dreams of some of the boys. You should also go on a read Children of the Night, which is not a sequel, so much as some of the characters make a return visit - great stuff! I can kind of take and leave Bentley Little.

Since I last posted, finished Summer of Night by Dan Simmons! Read Let's All Kill Constance by Ray Bradbury (finishing up that trilogy), then stormed through Song of Kali by Dan Simmons (what an awesome novel). Then read Little by Little by John R. Little and have started The Influence by Bentley Little (first of his I've read.)

[Heather19]

I read one Bentley Little book and it traumatized me so much that I refuse to read any more of his books

[jhanic]

I read one Bentley Little book and it traumatized me so much that I refuse to read any more of his books

Which book?

John

[Heather19]

I read one Bentley Little book and it traumatized me so much that I refuse to read any more of his books

Which book?

John

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