I have been told by a 13 year old Harry Potter Fangirl that I must read Twilight, so it is next on the dockett.
I’m in sort of a reading slump. Mainly just re-reading some favorites. I’m working my way back through the Dresden Files right now. I just don’t have much extra brain power to devote to anything serious.
I did re-read Pushing Ice by Alistair Renolds (sp?). Still a great book.
I feel the same way about these books. I like them as I’m reading them, but when I’m finished, I don’t spend any time thinking about the story or the characters. The best books leave you wondering what the characters are doing now, and Malazan isn’t doing that. But I’m entranced while I’m in that world.
Loved that, and its sequels; though the last was something of a disappointment I will continue to pick them up. A wonderful series.
Thanks for the recommendations. I’ll see about those at the library.
I just re-read **House of God ** by Dr. Samuel Shem. Very funny, but with a message about the brutal teaching methods used in educating doctors, and how this damages the delivery of medical care to those who need it most.
Just finished * To Kingdom Come: A Novel by Will Thomas*, the follow up to Some Danger Involved.
As I said earlier, this series is a homage to Sherlock Holmes. The series is a Victorian crime novel with Cyrus Barker as the “enquiry agent” and Thomas Llewelyn playing the faithful Watson to Barker’s Holmes.
I’m enjoying the series and will read the others.
I’m reading The Nelson Touch: The Life and Legend of Horatio Nelson, by Terry Coleman. It’s not bad, but I’m not really crazy about the author’s writing style.
The third book in Sharon Kay Penman’s trilogy about Henry and Eleanor is finally coming out in October (Devil’s Brood), so pretty soon I have to re-read the first two books, When Christ and His Saints Slept and Time and Chance, to get ready for it.
Reading Heartstopper by Joy Fielding. Khadaji, I also checked *The Black Hand * out of the library; it’s the latest Barker/Llewellyn entry.
I’m still fiddling half-heartedly with The End of Food by Paul Roberts. I usually like books about the food industry, but for some reason I’m just finding it all too depressing to think about right now. We’re all raping the earth and torturing animals and eating crap and other people are starving to death. Got it.
So, for a nice little pick-me-up, I’m starting on Who Hates Whom: Well-Armed Fanatics, Intractable Conflicts, and Various Things Blowing Up A Woefully Incomplete Guide by Bob Harris. I loved his book Prisoner of Trebekistan.
I put that on my Christmas list. It gives Mom something to buy that I know I’ll enjoy.
I just finished reading Soon I Will be Invincible by Austin Grossman this morning and started to reread Emergence by David Palmer this afternoon. Both very good.
I just started A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World, the latest by Tony Horwitz.
Half-way through Sister Pelagia and the White Bulldog by Boris Akunin (not enjoying it quite as much as the Erast Fandorin novels). And with the film coming out next year, I finally got around to reading Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. I don’t usually read graphic novels, but that one was worth the purchase for sure.
Finished Myth Hunters. It wasn’t bad, but had I known it was part of a trilogy I may not have bought it.
This is an oddity in my nature. Sometimes I want there to be more, sometimes I just want a self-contained story. This was one of those times.
However, I suppose that I will be reading the next one.
Got an e-mail from Amazon today that the third book in Joe Abercrombie’s First Law fantasy series will be out on Wednesday. I’ve been waiting to read the first two until the third came out.
On a Dominick Dunne-fest right now. Re-reading “Fatal Charms” makes me wonder if Sunny von Bulow ever died? Have to look it up. As usual, a Trollope, this time “The Three Clerks”. Also enjoyed “The Cold Minds”, scifi by Kristin Landon, who happens to be a friend of mine. I recommend it, it’s a good read, the second of three, the third to come out next year. First one is “The Hidden Worlds”. Fun reading, good characters as well as a nifty “science” part to the science-fiction.
I finished Don Quixote. YAY! As a reward, I’m allowed to dive into the second volume of the Annotated Sherlock Holmes.
Off the top of my head I recently finished:
Coyote Blue by Christopher Moore
Buried Dreams by Tim Cahill
Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Island of Ghosts by Gillian Bradshaw (which was wonderful)
And I pulled out my next reads which will be:
Resistance: A Frenchwoman’s Journal of the War by Agnes Humbert
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
And for poops and titters:
Now working on Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, oddly I never really read it before now.
The House on Mango Street is up for a re-evaluation of its place on the bookshelf. So far it looks like it’s not going to return to its former home.