What are you reading?

[synger]

For summer reading I looked at the Hugo and Nebula award nominees and winners that I hadn't read yet, and picked about six from my library. I never would have read The Yiddish Policeman's Union or Rainbow's End on my own -- I'm not that into alternate history or cyberpunk. But I really enjoyed both of them. I just got this year's Hugo winning books and will begin them shortly.

 

[BardSkye]

Just bought the audio versions of Rhys Bowen's "Her Royal Spyness" and "Her Royal Spyness: Royal Pain." Now I'm going to have to buy at least two copies of the print versions for myself and a friend.

If you like dry British humour, they're priceless.

 

[Velcro]

The Vampire Lestat, Anne Rice

I'm doing research for a vampire novel of my own and figured this would be a good book to keep my mind focused. I did finish "Interview" just last month and Lestat is just so much cooler than whiny Louis in my humble opinion.

 

[Vito]

Our Story Begins, by Tobias Wolff

 

[DrZoidberg]

Tales Of A Nympho Humiliation Pain Slut Volume 1 by Breanne Erickson

I picked it up on title alone. Not so much erotica as a diary by a girl who gets turned on by pain and humiliation. All her intimate thoughts and feelings. It's interesting and well written.

 

[synger]

The 90-day Novel. So far, I'm very impressed.

 

[ResearchGuy]

Nearly halfway through Dreiser's An American Tragedy. (Put on to that thanks to an AWer here who hated the book; my perverse response was that I just had to read it.) Whew! Alas, the arc is clearly headed toward the disaster implied in the title.

But it is a hell of a ride getting there.



--Ken

 

[AllieKat]

Classic Baby Name Book: 2,000 Names from the World's Greatest Literature, by Grace Hamlin (It's always good for a writer to learn new names!)

The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party, by Alexander McCall Smith (I always enjoy these!)

 

[jazzman99]

I'm working my way through the Library of America's American Fantastic Tales: 1940-now. Some great stuff in there, and it's really fueling ideas for some of the stories I want to write this year.

 

[childoflight]

The House of the Wolfings (William Morris) and Utopia (Sir Thomas More). I want to finish them before school starts!

 

[texas_girl]

Gone with the Wind

 

[HarryHoskins]

Disgrace - J.M. Coetzee

 

[Camilla Delvalle]

Inés - del alma mía, by Isabel Allende. Just finished it. It is the first novel I have read in Spanish!

 

[heyjude]

What You Have Left, Will Allison. Allison writes beautifully, but I hated every character in this book and really don't like getting jerked back and forth through time. It makes it hard for me to focus.

 

[Blake M. Petit]

My sixth or seventh time reading The Stand by Stephen King... which means I'll be getting a cold soon, because I ALWAYS get a cold when I read The Stand and it ALWAYS freaks me the hell out.

 

[milly]

"The Folded Leaf" by William Maxwell

 

[larocca]

Moving out of sequence, I just finished In The Company of Cheerful Ladies and am now reading Tears of the Giraffe, both by Alexander McCall Smith.

 

[HarryHoskins]

Through A Glass, Darkly - Jostien Gaarder

 

[Morrell]

Just finished Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs.

 

[AllieKat]

I'll tell you what I'm not reading. I'm not reading Beauvallet, by Georgette Heyer. Eighty pages was enough to show me I'm just not going to be able to read the stilted language.

I really, really like her Regency romances, but this non-Regency one is just not working for me.

 

[STKlingaman]

One Hundred Years of Solitude

 

[FrederickS]

I can't believe I can't find this thread, is there really no "what are you reading" thread???

I just picked up Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen. I'm 10 pages in and captivated.

I just finished "the Breach". Now I'm looking for an action thriller...

 

[HarryHoskins]

The Cleft - Doris Lessing

 

[Logan!]

Tishomingo Blues by Elmore Leonard.

 

[HarryHoskins]

Rabbit, Run - John Updike