What books are you reading right now?

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

 

IQ84 is on my bedside table. Need to start that.

 

I'm reading The Tragedy of Arthur.

 

I actually only listen to books these days, in my car on the way to work, or any other trips of more than 5 minutes... I only mention this because my son makes sure to point out that it isn't really reading.

Reading: John Dies at the End - David Wong

 

I was on a big re-reading kick for a while. After the Magicians was its sequel, the Magician King. Then all three Hunger Games books. Felt nostalgic and picked up the Forbidden Game trilogy by LJ Smith. I had such a crush on Julian in junior high (not surprising--he was the bad guy, but fell in love with the golden girl. Also, cheekbones.)

Currently: The Miseducation of Cameron Post, by Emily M. Danforth.

 

I'm on the 4th or 5th Charlie Parker novel in the car... "The White Road." they're so creepy and bloody . Love it.

 

I just finished The Compass Of Pleasure. Pretty fascinating stuff if the brain/mind interests. Not sure what to read next as I have an excessively large pile to choose from.

 

Sleep Thieves. Anyone here use GoodReads?

 

I thought it was a terribly short payoff for 15,000 pages. Good, but I felt a bit let down.
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Yippee Kai Yay, mudblood.
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Much more like the movie than the TV series. I picked it up used in 1990 or so and read it every five years or so, whenever I need some chuckleworthy brain candy.
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I'm on Goodreads. So are some others here.

 

I'm on GoodReads. I can't really say that I use it often. They did send me an email saying that one of my favorite authors has a new release out.

I'm into Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dark-Hunter Series and Chronicles of Nick. It's kind of a fantasy romance series I guess. Chronicles of Nick is written for a teenage audience and supposed to get more advanced as he ages, but it's a spin-off from her DH series, so I'm grabbing them up when they come out She writes him as a complete smart-ass so of course, I love him.

 

As for me....
I am apparently on an accidental vampire kick. Read Anno Dracula last week, then Fevre Dream, George RR Martin's Vamipre novel (which I finally found in a mass paperback rather than the "quality" format printed on kleenex and clabbered snot that's been kicking around the last 10 years.), and I'm just now almost done with Anno Dracula: The Bloody Red Baron. The Anno Dracula books are a hurricane of fictional and historical allusions. Pretty much any vampire possibly "alive" during the events of the books is referenced in some way, as well as hordes and hordes of other characters from history and historical fiction and fantasy. Fun, if not particularly challenging sometimes.

About halfway through a third read of Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman, and just about to start on The Books Of Blood, Volumes 1-3 (Barker) or Fuzzy Nation (Scalzi) or Orb Sceptre Throne (Esslemont).

Baraka-Guru & Snowy: For totally nonstandard epic fantasy, I recommend Erikson and Esslemont's Malazan Book of the Fallen. Neither orc nor elf to be seen, and if you can figure out who the good guys are, you're doing better than I am. And yet, Epic is the only way to describe it.

 

Going through a re-read of Goodkind's Seeker of Truth series: I'm on Phantom now, so nearly done. Also reading John Scalzi's The Human Division, as they're being released over Amazon. Enjoying both, though The Human Division is not as satisfying as Scalzi's original Old Man's War trilogy, and Goodkind is resonating just a bit more earnestly libertarian/Ayn Rand-y than I remember him, though the sheer scope of his world and character arcs is still wonderfully striking.

 

I've finished Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff. It was OK, a good start to learn about that great woman.

Now I'm reading two books at once. When She Woke by Hilary Jordan, which I understand is not that good but I'm intrigued by it's premise. I'm also reading a vampire novel by a self-published author I know. One for commuting to work, the other for home.

 

Interesting series, but I was disappointed with the ending.

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The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

 

I've always meant to read some Howard. At least two of his contemporaries - Lovecraft and Ashton Smith - are great.