What books are you reading right now?

Don't feel guilty. It was an enjoyable read, and well written. I actually thought the whole trilogy was one of the best YA series I've read in years.

 

Hyperion (The Fall of Cantos)

 

I enjoyed the first two Hyperion novels, I didn't realise there were any more books in the series until now

 

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins.

My guilt has passed, THG was an enjoyable read. While Collins is not a great writer, I give her credit for keeping the plot moving, she didn't add a bunch of superfluous filler to 'stretch' the novel (E.L. James could take a lesson from Suzanne Collins). I'm going to keep my eyes open for the other two novels in the series.

I'm not a movie person, but from what little I've seen in the ads, trailers, clips, etc. THG might be worth watching, while Catching Fire seems to be too Hollywoodized.

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I finally finished re-reading The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy. I'm now wanting to read My Losing Season, which I mistakenly thought was "just another Conroy rewrite of TPOT."

 

I'm about 3/5ths through reading Nate Silver's book, The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail -- And Some Don't.

There's a lot here about economics, weather, earthquakes, epidemiology, gambling, politics, etc. Every chapter has been interesting.

 

I rently finished A Stone Gone Mad by Jacquelyn Holt Park. It's a novel about a woman who struggles with her sexuality for several decades. Parts of it seemed odd to me, but I had to remind myself that much of the book is set in the late '40s through the mid '60s, and that I grew up a city with the second largest gay population in the US. I haven't read any of Holt's other works. A good read.

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I'm about 60 pages into Slammerkin by Emma Donoghue. So far so good, the author keeps the story moving. I'm very interested in seeing what happens with Mary Saunders, a fourteen year old who.....sorry, that would be a spoiler.

 

Name of the Wind was pretty awesome. I started The Wise Man's Fear immediately afterward, but have since taken a break. I want to savor it.

The Neighbors, by Ania Ahlborn, was...well, one of the reviews I read said something like, "the book equivalent of a snuff film." Lots of blood and gore, but the story was predictable and just...meh.

Currently reading What Alice Forgot, by Liane Moriarty. A woman comes to on the floor of a gym, only to find out she's fallen off her stationary bike, and, oh yeah, she's completely forgotten the last ten years of her life.

 

Excuse me. I'll just be over here crying into my tea.

 

Flashbacks don't bother me as long as the author does it well, & I think Collins pulled it off. I'm not a movie person, but one of these days I'll give THG a look. Since action movies aren't my thing--they have to be very well done without relying too heavily on computer generated graphics (CGI)-- I'll have low expectations going in.

I disliked for FSOG for many reasons, and one was the lack of boning. Seriously, the hype lead me to believe the sex might make it worth wading through the horrible writing. It wasn't. I spent a fair amount of time randomly reading parts of the 2nd Grey novel, and it seemed to have even less actual sex than FSOG. Oh my (ugh!!).

 

Oh...dude. Oh....

*shakes head sadly with disappointment*