What are You Reading?

[Munchkin]

Always looking for new books to read! I used to go to the library with friends and we picked out books for each other to read. It was a way to expose ourselves to something different. There was only one rule, you had to read the book. Once I was given one on Chinese footbinding.

I don't go to the library anymore because it's just too easy to download books. Free, and no overdue fines!

Just finished
Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune

 

[southernlady]

LOL, I have SO many on my Kindle app...Last time I looked over 1000 and all of them were free. I go thru spurts of reading.

 

[shann]

I just finished Innocence by Dean Koontz. (good if you don't mind wordy and fantastical)
Nonfiction: The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth by Alexandra Robbins (interesting look at popularity in high school)
YA: The Sky is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson (loved it)

 

[SHales]

I also just finished Innocence. I didn't think it was as good as some of his books but not bad. I also just finished "12 Years a Slave". It had an extensive prologue that was a little confusing for me. I am going to re-read it this week-end. I am a speed reader and sometimes that's a good thing, others, not so much. I am in the middle of a Harlen Coben novel, "Six Years". I also usually have more than 1 book going at a time.

 

[Munchkin]

I also just finished Innocence. I didn't think it was as good as some of his books but not bad. I also just finished "12 Years a Slave". It had an extensive prologue that was a little confusing for me. I am going to re-read it this week-end. I am a speed reader and sometimes that's a good thing, others, not so much. I am in the middle of a Harlen Coben novel, "Six Years". I also usually have more than 1 book going at a time.

My mom always read 3 or 4 books at a time. That drives me crazy. But usually when I 'open' a book I don't put it down till I finish it.

 

[SHales]

If I am reading a book that is spellbinding to me, I will read that until I am done and not have any others going. I don't find many of those.

 

[Munchkin]

Downloaded 2 last night.
The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
The Book of Fate by Brad Meltzer

 

[Kate]

I am a huge JD Robb (aka Nora Roberts) fan so I am eagerly awaiting her next book which is due out ~middle of next month. Just downloaded and am about to start the first of The Game of Thrones stories because my sister gave me the first season for Christmas and I was told that I should read the books first. And I just finished Peter and the Starcatcher which is a "prequel" to Peter Pan. I found it an interesting take an how Peter gets to Neverland.

 

[southernlady]

This is one of the sites I use to grab free books (or discounted ones0> I tend to go just for the free. You can chose your categories and your device in what you get offered. They also have a facebook page.

 

[Whit]

AMERICANAH By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I just started and am loving it!

 

[catecholamine]

I just finished reading the last book in the Wheel of Time series, A Memory of Light. (By Robert Jordan/Brandon Sanderson)...I am SO SAD the series is over.... so sad...
I think every other fantasty series I could read would be crap by comparison.

 

[catecholamine]

Just started The Goldfinch today. 2 chapters in and the writing is very elegant. Even if I hate the story (too soon to tell) I will enjoy the eloquence. catecholamie, I like Brandon Sanderson's stuff too.

I haven't read any other Brandon Sanderson books besides the books he finished for The Wheel of Time. I think he did really well with Robert Jordan's notes and instructions he left for the books. I'm so sad it's over. If you're ever willing to devote your life to a series for a better portion of a year, you might want to pick the series up. It's 14 HUGE books. They are amazing.
I may branch out and read some of Sanderson's other works.

 

[Happy DSr]

Always looking for new books to read! I used to go to the library with friends and we picked out books for each other to read. It was a way to expose ourselves to something different. There was only one rule, you had to read the book. Once I was given one on Chinese footbinding.

I don't go to the library anymore because it's just too easy to download books. Free, and no overdue fines!

Just finished
Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune

coincidence - I was on the waiting list for this at my library and just got the email that it is now ready for my download. It sounds good. Did you enjoy?

 

[Munchkin]

coincidence - I was on the waiting list for this at my library and just got the email that it is now ready for my download. It sounds good. Did you enjoy?

Yes, I did. I initially wanted to read it because her father at one time owned Las Vegas, or at least the land it was built on. He had all the sections that belonged to his railroad line. And of course Clark County(Las Vegas) was named after him. It's quite a story. As far as the money goes, Huguette knew who where and when she was so she would have been judged competent. But she was so out of touch with reality. Probably desperately mentally ill. I will be interested to hear what you think after you finish. It's a quick read!

 

[Whit]

City of Thieves by David Benioff everyone I recommend it to has loved it.

During the Nazis’ brutal siege of Leningrad, Lev Beniov is arrested for looting and thrown into the same cell as a handsome deserter named Kolya. Instead of being executed, Lev and Kolya are given a shot at saving their own lives by complying with an outrageous directive: secure a dozen eggs for a powerful Soviet colonel to use in his daughter’s wedding cake. In a city cut off from all supplies and suffering unbelievable deprivation, Lev and Kolya embark on a hunt through the dire lawlessness of Leningrad and behind enemy lines to find the impossible.

By turns insightful and funny, thrilling and terrifying, City of Thieves is a gripping, cinematic World War II adventure and an intimate coming-of-age story with an utterly contemporary feel for how boys become men.