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Gonna crack into "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk" by Ben Fountain after I read the newest New Yorker I just got in. Only heard glowing reviews, so expectations are running high!
 

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After a break to read some fun stuff (Tom Perrotta's Election, for example) I'm back into Roots by Alex Haley.
 

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I just finished Me Before You by JoJo Moyes. It was brilliant, but boy did it tug on the old heart strings.
 

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'The Pillars of the Earth' Ken Follett.

Someone recommended it to me, not been overly impressed so far, kinda predictable. Plenty left to go, though.
 

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Finally reading Game of Thrones, book 1. And LOVING IT! Which is crazy because it's not my normal thing. But I surprised myself by enjoying the HBO series (we buy the DVDs and don't have HBO), so I thought I'd give the books a shot.
 

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Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer.

It's not what I thought it would be, which is a good thing. I'm a non-fiction nut and this is a solid bit of piecing the MC's life together. The three or four filler chapters aren't badly written, they just don't need to be in this book.

ETA: Oh, and Roots is bogging down again, hence the detour, and shooting for 30K words on the novel this month, so this will probably be it for a while!
 

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Forgery and Counterforgery: The Use of Literary Deceit in Early Christian Polemics, Bart D. Ehrman. Kindle edition. Dense, scholarly, and inconveniently for me, laced with untranslated Greek, but still worthwhile. Fascinating stuff.

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Currently reading Walter Jon William's City on Fire. I loved Metropolitan (after spending months tracking it down) and I have to say I'm struggling with this one. Much longer and it takes ages for anything to happen.

Reading the Maze Runner series next :)
 

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Reading Persausion by Jane Austen for my lit. class. I think I have mentioned this before on this thread, but I really don't like Jane Austen. This is my last book I have to read for the class. Thank the Lord.
 

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The Leftovers - Tom Perrotta

Yeah, gave up on Roots (again!)
 

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Reading Persausion by Jane Austen for my lit. class. I think I have mentioned this before on this thread, but I really don't like Jane Austen. This is my last book I have to read for the class. Thank the Lord.

Me neither, I thought I was the only one. There was some line in Persuasion (I think) where Anne was given a lift in a carriage and then 'they put Anne down'. I laughed, imagining them shooting her like a dog...

I'm reading 'Guernica' by Dave Boling and '11.22.63' by Stephen King (taking me ages but loving it)
 

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I finished Patrick Lee's Breach Trilogy with a reread of 'Ghost Country' and the final book of the trilogy 'Deep Sky'.
Currently reading 'The Ark' by Boyd Morrison

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