What books are you reading right now?

Finally gathering my ladyballs and reading The Shining.

 

i loved the shining... there are a lot of bits not put in the movies, like the hedge animals instead of a maze.

i just finished "Ready Player One" by ernest cline. can't recommend enough.... great mix of 80's and video game culture mixed in with a compelling dystopia story.

Ready Player One: Ernest Cline: Amazon.com: Kindle Store

 

Just finished Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, which is a high-tech, code monkey, romantic adventure spanning 500 years and the secret to eternal life, mostly set in a bookstore in San Francisco.

 

Getting through the Townshend book has proven to be a slog. I'm trying to finish so I can read "Kicking & Dreaming" as they are both due back at the library and cannot be renewed due to the on hold list of people waiting to read them. I've never been a big fan of The Who but rather Pete Townshend's solo songwriting. I'm finding however that the book is dense with Townshend's personal reflections/opinions that stray really far from music and for me, they are not really that compelling.

 

I loved Ready Player One! Besides all the obvious cool things about it, James Halliday was from my hometown

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I just finished A Dog's Journey, the sequel to A Dog's Purpose. Thankfully, I did not spend half of the book crying, like I did with the first one.

 

The Aenid.

 

This seems to be the year of the Rock 'n' Roll biography for me... I'm currently reading Heaven and Hell: My Life in the Eagles, by Don Felder. Things I didn't know about him previously: he taught Tom Petty to play guitar; he was in a band with Stephen Sills in high school; he wrote the bass line for "One of These Nights."

It does make me sad, though, that everything I've read about the Eagles basically says Glenn Frey is a total asshole.

 

I believe that at various times nearly everyone in the Eagles have been assholes, maybe not Walsh. Not sure about Felder, either. He kept under the radar unlike Henley and Frey. Felder got screwed.

 

Damn it. Stills.

I haven't heard anything negative about Randy Meisner, either, but I haven't really delved into it. Everyone mostly points to Frey and Henley.

 

Stephen Hunter's Hot Springs.

It's a'ight.

 

Dean Koontz, Sole Survivor

 

i've been tearing through the dresden files... i'm on 7 of 12 between the two 6volume compendiums.

 

The Bookman by Lavie Tidhar

I'm finding it a bit slow perhaps but it's very creative and I have no idea where the Hero's journey is going so I'm definitely engaged.

 

Speaking from Among the Bones -- the latest in the Flavia DeLuce series.

Flavia in an 11 year old chemistry wiz in 1950s English village who likes to play with poisons, stumble across dead bodies and solve mysteries.

 

I am just starting the Bernie Rhodenbarr series by Lawrence Block. I have read (listened to audio book) several in the past, love mr Block's work, especially the Hit Man series. I am an avid listener, and love to get series and start them from beginning to the end. I drive an hour to work and back daily so the books break up the time.

 

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

John LeCarre

 

Red Country by Joe Abercrombie