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⌈ Secret Post #3406 ⌋

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Comments

What have you read recently

[(Anonymous)]

or are currently reading?

Re: What have you read recently

[(Anonymous)]

Currently trying to get into the Harper Hall trilogy by Anne McCaffrey. Still on the first book.

Re: What have you read recently

[shortysc22]

I'm about to start Dan Wells's "Bluescreen" and I'm just waiting for a few of Timothy Zahn's books to come in at the library.

A book I can't recommend enough would probably be "A Darker Shade of Magic" by V. E. Schwab. It's about these alternate Londons, white, red, grey ,and black and how one woman gets wrapped up in traveling to the one with magic and the adventure that ensues.

Re: What have you read recently

[sparrow_lately]

Reading a book on the history of subways but detouring to reread Bill Bryson's At Home.

Re: What have you read recently

[shortysc22]

What is this book on the history of subways? This sounds like something I'd really love (I love subway systems!!!)

Re: What have you read recently

[(Anonymous)]

Mark Avery's "Inglorious" about how driven grouse moors (a sport that has more in common with Nintendo Duck Hunt than it does with normal hunting) are destroying the UK's environment, wildlife, economic mobility of whole counties, and are actually contributing to loss of property and possibly life due to causing more flooding.

Also finished re-reading S Andrew Swann's second "Dragon" book, Dragon Thief, which picks up on the story of the hapless hero's endless string of poor decisions and involuntary body swapping. Also, surprisingly given the first book, this one includes a trans male character and gives a decent and sympathetic insight into their life and how they manage to live it in a world filled to the brim with cursed magic artifacts and dumbasses airhead gods. Turns out when you think there is an easy answer to the problem of being born in the wrong body, the consequences of that easy answer are just too damn complicated.

Re: What have you read recently:Book club

[(Anonymous)]

SA: Can I nominate those two books for the current book club read please?

NOS4A2

[kaijinscendre]

I listened to the audiobook of it. And it is probably in my top 5 books ever now. If anyone else has read it and wants to talk about it, I am all ears!

I'm starting The Girl With All The Gifts this week.

Also, lots of fanfic of various kinds.

Re: What have you read recently

[dethtoll]

I recently read through the new translation of Soviet sci-fi classic Roadside Picnic. It's the first time the book's been in print in the US since the 1970s (my old copy I had to order from Amazon UK about 9 years ago.) It's much improved over the SF Masterworks translation, and very readable. There's a long discussion towards the end of the book between two characters that just makes so much more sense now.

And while I'm a little annoyed that they just slapped a screencap from Stalker (the film adaptation) on the front, at least they picked a GOOD screencap.

Re: What have you read recently

[(Anonymous)]

Just finished reading Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn.

I wouldn't say I'm ambivalent about it exactly - I think it was really good and I enjoyed reading it. But at the same time, there were several big aspects of it that bugged me. So I guess I'm still kind of mulling it over.

Also, now I'm sad because I've read all of Flynn's novels and damn it why aren't there more! :P

Re: What have you read recently

[(Anonymous)]

Good Poems by Garrison Keillor - - they were indeed good poems! I like poetry anthologies for bathroom reading.

I also recently read the Jedi Apprentice series again - - all 20 of 'em. Real light reading but a lot of fun and a real nostalgia trip... It was interesting to be reminded that so much of my ideas about the Jedi Order and indeed star wars was rooted in this series.

Re: What have you read recently

[(Anonymous)]

What's Left? by Nick Cohen, about how the left wing lost its way and basically became the inverse of everything they once stood for. I can't believe he wrote this book in 2007 because no one was talking about it then, but it perfectly describes what's going on today.

Re: What have you read recently

[(Anonymous)]

I just finished Crash & Burn by Lisa Gardner, which I was sort of recommended by someone here (at least they told me what it was; it was originally recommended by someone at work but she couldn't remember the title). The lady from work pretty much spoiled a few of the big twists but I still thought it was still really good.

Currently I'm reading What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty, which I was reading before Crash & Burn but kind of lost interest in. I'm 2/3 of the way through and still not all that into it, but I want to finish it soon and move onto something else.

Next will be either The Bone Tree by Greg Iles or Track of the Cat by Nevada Barr (which I don't even remember the plot of but I first heard of it years ago and thought it sounded good, and I just came across it again the other day).

Re: What have you read recently

[leisuretime]

I've been slogging away (read: hardly ever reading) the 170-some pages that make up the A New Hope novelization since January. It's very bad writing but also very interesting when read with the context of seven movies.

Re: What have you read recently

[feotakahari]

Symptoms of Being Human. The highest praise I can give it is that until I read the author's note, I had no idea whether he was writing from personal experience. He avoids all the pitfalls of both self-insertion and ignorance. (Also, the Star Wars nerd turned football player is one of the most rounded characters I've seen in recent YA.)

Re: What have you read recently

[(Anonymous)]

I just finished listening to the audiobook of The Raven Boys, and now I'm addicted. I need to get the next book in some form or other.

Re: What have you read recently

[(Anonymous)]

I've been reading the Waterfire Saga books by Jennifer Donnelly.

To be honest, the writing is kind of bad, lots of telling instead of showing, the character development is lacking and some of her ideas are kind of lame. But I'm also really enjoying it- when it's good, it's really interesting. It's basically a magical-girl type story with mermaids.

It's probably aimed at young teenagers, so I'm about twice the intended demographic, but even though it's kind of bad, I'm enjoying it and awaiting the fourth and final book in a few weeks.

Re: What have you read recently

[kallanda_lee]

Smut.

Re: What have you read recently

[(Anonymous)]

Read recently: Red Harvest, by Dashiel Hammett. Pretty good. Don't like Hammett as much as Raymond Chandler - Chandler has more of a sense of style, more irony, that kind of thing - but pretty well-moving and well-written and good.

Currently reading:

The Little Sister, by Raymond Chandler - pretty good. Doesn't seem like Chandler's best thing he ever did but it's pretty engagingly nasty so far. and Chandler's always pretty good.

The Haunting of Hill House, by Shirley Jackson - I've never been much of a horror fan but this is amazing and I love it a lot and I don't want to finish it.

Re: What have you read recently

[(Anonymous)]

Just finished The Raven King (which, didn't love it, but I also love those characters SO MUCH that I don't care?). I'm reading All The Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation by Rebecca Traister when I have the brainpower, and rereading Diana Wynne Jones's Dalemark Quartet when I don't.

Re: What have you read recently

[(Anonymous)]

Just finished The Raven King. At the moment, I'm reading fanfic and A Little Life.

Re: What have you read recently

[diet_poison]

Just wrapped up Who Censored Roger Rabbit for April book club the other day. Now I'm reading an old sci fi book my dad lent me called Footfall by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle; no idea if it will be any good. I'll need to find Maurice soon for May book club.

Re: What have you read recently

[dahli]

I'm halfway through the second book of Captive Prince because I have lost control of my life and I'm really enjoying it? I don't know why but it's giving me flashbacks to all those AU fics I used to read when livejournal was still active and not a rotting corpse by the highway. But point being, I'll get to finishing it once I get rid of irl responsibilities.

Re: What have you read recently

[(Anonymous)]

re-reading A House for Mr. Biswas. And I remembered why I never read it thoroughly. I hate that brand of realism. It's beautifully ironic (oh noes, irony is only for white people!!) and you get this sense of "fuck you brits, I know more words than you", but it just gets so dull with the endless descriptions of ugly people and their relatives and their cows and donkeys and furniture. Gaaah!

Re: What have you read recently

[(Anonymous)]

You Are A Badass: How To Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living An Awesome Life by Jen Sincero.