What are you reading?

[bigsleepj]

I'm currently reading The Scarlet Letter.

[sh51]

The Sin War : Scales of the Serpent from the Sin War Trilogy by Richard A. Knaak, Diablo universe

[Nanao]

Just finished Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau. Interesting perspectives. Started A Pocket Full of Rye by Agatha Christie.

[Edward]

Read Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card over the break, and now I'm reading The Runelords by David Farland.

[Davidizer13]

I've started Griftopia by Matt Taibbi, one of those bits of muckraking journalism that cropped up after the financial mess cooled off a bit, focusing on its aftermath and the resulting formation of the Tea Party. So far, it's provided a rather interesting explanation of the latter, and hopefully the rest should be just as good.

After that, Larklight by Philip Reeve and Behemoth by Scott Westerfield will be showing up at the library pretty soon so...yeah. Got some reading ahead of me.

[bigsleepj]

Read Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card over the break, and now I'm reading The Runelords by David Farland.

I loved Speaker. I thought it was great. Runelords... I liked the plot, but I found the writing dreadfully boring for some reason.

[rocklobster]

Reading Dragonspell by Donita K. Paul. Another really good Christian fantasy here folks!

[That Dude]

Reading Dragonspell by Donita K. Paul. Another really good Christian fantasy here folks!

My mom knows her. And I have a friend who's baby sat her grandkids.

[rocklobster]

That means you must live in Colorado! Because that's where her bio says she is from!
And now I'm reading Grave Peril, book 3 of the Dresden Files.

[Atria35]

Just finished Empire of Ivory, book 4 in the Temeraire series.I'm so sad that my library doesn't have the 5th or 6th!

[FllMtl Novelist]

Finished Ranger's Apprentice book 4: The Battle for Skandia, by the amazing John Flanagan. Once I got going, it was great.

I'm impressed by how well he writes battles and fighting. It feels authentic, and I wonder what kind of research he does.

[Ally-Ann]

I'm reading The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. It's pretty good.

[Atria35]

I'm reading The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. It's pretty good.

I want to hear your opinion on it after you finish, how you feel about the ending.

[That Dude]

That means you must live in Colorado! Because that's where her bio says she is from!
And now I'm reading Grave Peril, book 3 of the Dresden Files.

Yup I do live in Colorado. Apparently within a few miles of her.

Anyway, now I'm reading Temple Of The Winds by Terry Goodkind.

[bigsleepj]

Temple of the Winds was when I began to have my fill of Terry Goodkind, and was the last book of his that I read. From what I hear his books get worse from there anyway.

[Okami]

I have been slowly going through David M. Hoffeditz's "They Were Single Too: 8 Biblical Role Models" over the past two months. I've been taking time to journal my way through the book, taking notes and reflecting on the text. (I decided to do this when I read the first chapter through and realized there were reflection questions at the end....leave it to a professor. xD) And when I say slowly, I mean s l o w l y (I've literally gotten through 15 pages through the first chapter in two months. Note this book is only 144 pages. But I'm learning. And I'm growing. So my impatience will just have to stuff it while I grow. I don't want to zip through this book because I'm really learning something about myself and my faith through it! )

[That Dude]

Temple of the Winds was when I began to have my fill of Terry Goodkind, and was the last book of his that I read. From what I hear his books get worse from there anyway.

I've liked his stuff quite a bit so far. I enjoy his style.

[ich1990]

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[Kaori]

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[Xeno]

I'm about halfway through the first book in the "Circle Trilogy" by Ted Dekker and I just started reading "Darkly Dreaming Dexter" by Jeff Lindsay.

[the_wolfs_howl]

For school, I just read Oedipus Rex by Sophocles and A Doll House by Henrik Ibsen, both of which I'd read for pleasure before. I'd like Oedipus Rex a lot more if Sigmund Freud didn't exist, and I didn't like A Doll House very much because of the feminist message (those annoy me to no end).

Now I'm reading Othello by Shakespeare. As usual, my assessment of this Shakespeare play is that the words are beautiful and the substance behind them rather blah.

[MomentOfInertia]

Garth Nix's Sir Thursday and Lady Friday.
I'm enjoying this series immensely, just a wonderful world and very interesting characters.

Leviathan by Scott Westerfield
This one was wonderful. I really liked the steampunk technology in it and the plot is pretty good too.

Adventurers Wanted, Book Two: The Horn of Moran by M. L. Forman.
I really like the set up for this series, and the writing is tight, but the last part of the story came together a little too easily in my opinion.

Reading Dragonspell by Donita K. Paul. Another really good Christian fantasy here folks!

Please don't bill it as Christian fantasy quite so aggressively, it just makes me worry when that's the element that gets played up the most. I'm just sort of odd that way I guess, My favorite Christian story, I didn't notice as being billed as Christian until one day I looked at the properties of the bookmark/link. I liked the values in it but I hadn't made the connection.
I'm really observant sometimes.

Just finished Empire of Ivory, book 4 in the Temeraire series.I'm so sad that my library doesn't have the 5th or 6th!

Six is out? I'll have to request it.
I love that series!

[Atria35]

Six is out? I'll have to request it.
I love that series!

Finished The Affinity Bridge- Indifferent, really. Mostly a Victorian-era steampunk mystery, with little steampunk and more romantic tension between the main and his partner (his partner is a woman, yes). The mystery wasn't that good, and the main was a Gary Stu. I enjoyed it as a light read, but I've read better. And the zombies didn't even show up much!

Now onto The Dream of Perpetual Motion.

[J.D3]

Among other things, I am currently reading The Pilgrim's Progress (really groovy so far! Can see why it's a classic) but also The Lost History of Christianity by Philip Jenkins, which I must say has been incredibly fascinating so far & has really made me think twice, or rather has added a whole new dimension to the Church's history.

Here's part of the blurb:

This book tells a surprising story. Many think of Christianity as a Western faith, which grew out of its origins in the Middle-East towards Rome and into Europe, paving the way for the Enlightenment, science & modernity. However, Philip jenkins reveals, the largest & most influential churches of Christianity's youth:
> lay to the east of Rome
> covered the world from China to North Africa
> ruled the Middle-East for centuries
> became chief administrators & academics in the Muslim empire
> encountered a full spectrum of acceptance to persecution under Islamic rule
> and only expired after a 1000 year reign after Constantine

I really hope it's a fairly accurate book - the problem is it seems to be such a specialised area, and I've only had vague inklings of some of the stuff mentioned in it so it's really very new to me!
So far I recommend giving it a look if one is ever curious.

[Nami]

Finished reading; The Agency: The Body at the Tower by Y.S. Lee. A good, good read. The second book in the Mary Quinn trilogy. When a female detective has to disguise as a 12-year old male worker on the cite for Big Ben, trouble brews as her identity may be uncovered by anyone of the other male workers. Its only when James Easton, her flame from nearly a year ago returns from India, a little worse for wear, and helps on the cite that she genuinely begins to feel safe. But what they discover together could tear a hole in Easton's trust so wide that Mary may not be able to fill it.

Now reading: The name of this book is Secret. I'm on Chapter 6, and so far, its interesting. The Narrator is hilarious. Its for kids though, so if you aren't interesting in children/pre-teen books, this isn't for you.

[Edward]

I have just started reading Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke.

[rocklobster]

Started Circles of Seven, book 3 in Bryan Davis's Dragons in Our Midst series.

[Winry]

I'm part way through The Summoner by Gail Z. Martin and The Way of Shadows by Brent Weeks and the 6th book of the Wheel of Time. I really need to stop the bad habit of starting books when I'm still in the middle of others XP

[uc pseudonym]

The Scar by China Miéville

I am now a fan. Even though I preferred Perdido Street Station for a variety of reasons, I'm interested in how he's revealing information about his world even though the novels are barely connected. So I'm going to read Iron Council despite what some have said about extent of the political undertones... but probably not for a while.

Switched by Amanda Hocking

I would call this a "poor man's Twilight" except that I'm distracted by how the gender neutral form of that phrase wouldn't work (it might be fair to say "poor woman's Twilight" given the target audience). Apparently trolls are just like people except attractive and with miscellaneous super powers. But there's a twist: not only does the protagonist have three guys in love with her, she's also a Princess. Not joking.

On the bright side, the prose isn't as purple. I am undecided on whether or not this is preferable to use of the adjective "foxy" close to ten times. Every time it's used a bit of beauty and goodness is drained from the world.

By Blood Approves by Amanda Hocking

If the other series could be summarized as "like Twilight" this one could be summarized as "Twilight." Vampire guy likes her because she's inexplicably different. Vampire family with basically the same set of personalities. 54% of the book passes before the big reveal that was in the premise. The plot isn't introduced until... actually, a plot wasn't ever introduced.

I read Hocking because she's one of the exceptional stories in e-publishing. Two books is enough for me. Next I'm definitely reading an Abercrombie novel, because you know he won't have any teen romance.

[Htom Sirveaux]

Just got back from the Borders store closing sale. Picked up some good stuff.

-John Marco's The Eyes of God; The Devil's Armor; The Sword of Angels
-Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn; The Well of Ascension
-Terry Pratchett's Nation
-Yukiko Sumiyoshi's The Black Gate vol. 1-3 omnibus (manga)
-KMFDM's Krieg (CD)

Grand total: $37.32, wit a total savings of $52.72.