What books are you reading right now?

Finished The Night Circus last week. It was good, but I need a change of pace, so now I'm reading The Snowman by Jo Nesbo, which is about a serial killer in Oslo.

 

John Grisham's The Litigators

 

Nathan Lowell's Half Share. It's subtitled "A Trader's Tale from the Golden Age of the Solar Clipper". And it's very good.

 

God, If You're Not Up There, I'm F*cked: Tales Of Stand-Up, Saturday Night Live, And Other Mind-Altering Mayhem-Darrell Hammond

Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?: Mindy Kaling

 

Enrique Vila-Matas: Bartelby & Co.

a really fun book.

 

I'll tell you what I read recently. "They Shoot Horses Don't They"... very sparse and quite short, and in the end leaves you feeling like you've been punched in the guts. I actually wouldnt recommend it because its simply TOO bleak and TOO disturbing.

Right now am reading "The End of Borley Rectory" by Harry Price.

 

Just finished Reamde by Neal Stephenson, and currently re-reading Thud! by Pratchett, because Snuff reminded me of elements in it that had slipped my mind.

I have just downloaded Pavane from the SF Masterworks series - I like the idea of counterfactual histories.

 

I just finished Steve Hely's How I Became a Famous Novelist. And Gone by Mo Hayder
I'm currently in the middle of A Hole in the Universe by Mary McGarry Morris and A Young Man's Guide to Late Capitalism by Peter Mountford.
I started reading for pleasure again on Thursday afternoon and I'm halfway through both of the last two titles.
Via audiobook in the car, I'm doing Jane Auel's The Land of Painted Caves. She's so freaking repetitive, I have a hard time sitting down to read her work.

 

Re-reading the Eragon series by Christopher Paolini..my step-daughter mentioned something about dragons the other day and got me missing the series.

 

I'm currently rereading the City of Bones series because its been a year or so since I first read them and another book in the series just came out.

 

The Ultimate Book of Heroic Failures by Stephen Pile. The third in the series (I don't have the first ), it is almost as funny as the second - The Return of Heroic Failures. It is a compilation of snippets about people who have failed at something in a spectacular way. You can find a lot of things like this on the net, but Pile's dry sarcastic descriptions are hilarious.

 

The Omen Machine, by Terry Goodkind. I find his style stilted, but his ideas so interesting, and his character cast so numerous that I keep reading him. Just finished The Towers of Midnight, by Brian Sanderson/Robert Jordan, which was excellent.

 

You can buy book one here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/...mp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0708819087 for one penny, plus shipping.

 

Terry Goodkind..as in "The Sword of Truth" Terry Goodkind?...I didn't even know he wrote anything else.

 

The movie was much better..I found all of C.S.Lweis' novels choppy and hurried...not to say they were not good books....just didn't care for how they were written

 

Tried as I might..I couldn't get into the Jordon series...I did like Goodkind.,,But still a die hard Salvatore and his dark elf series