What are you reading?

[Sorry]

The Summoner Gail Z. Martin

Necromancers are the good guys for a change. An interesting fantasy read.

[Alcy]

The Terror by Dan Simmons, a fantastic take on the 1845 John Franklin Expedition to find the NorthWest Passage

[betsy O'shea]

Hey Alcy do you prefer fiction or non-fiction? I was curious about the book you are reading. I could google it up but I prefer hearing your view.

[umgaynow]

Fowl Weather by Robert Tarte

Sequel to Enslaved By Ducks...not as funny as enslaved but still good

[Bunnies]

'Naked' by David Sedaris. So far its pretty good. Quite funny.

[Bunnies]

'Naked' by David Sedaris. So far its pretty good. Quite funny.

[umgaynow]

OMG the Bunnies are multiplying!

[Sorry]

Kushiel's Chosen Jacqueline Carey. Very entertaining tightly woven fantasie.

[Alcy]

Hi Betsy, you know, I go through phases of reading a whole swag of non-fiction and polar exploration happens to be one of my favourite non-fiction topics...When I get hooked on a topic like that I tend to try and find fiction books dealing with the subject as a complement to the non-fiction. When I saw that Dan Simmons had written a book looking at the Franklin expedition I was sold, Dan Simmons is a great author.
With this specific subject I felt like I needed the fiction because no one knows the full story of what happened and I always felt like the non-fiction accounts were missing the ending, so to read an ending, even if it is completely made up (and in the case of Simmons completely unrealistic) is a fitting addition to my reading.

So after all that, I would say I enjoy both non-fiction and fiction in healthy doses at the right time!

I've just finished this particular book and my opinion is that it's fantastic, Simmons writes great characters, both good and evil and his descriptive prose puts you right in there. I would definitely reccommend it, not light reading though, it can be quite tough going just because of the sheer hopelessness of their situation.

[Surpanakha]

If you are asking what I'm currently reading, as in "currently" currently, it's about isocosts and isoquant graphs, the whole economics crap..(I'm 4th year high school and slaving away)

But the book I'm currently reading is 'The Once and Future King' for my English class.

[Sapphire eyes]

All that glitters by Virginia Andrews.

[cathy north]

Darfur Diaries. These people suffer and percervere despite it.

[JujuDeRoussie]

I have found an english version of my favorite book ( for children but so beautiful ), so I am reading The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince) by St Exupéry

[umgaynow]

I just finished Winkie by Clifford Chase...very odd but one of the best books I have read in a while

[Alcy]

Just finished reading 'Always' by Nicola Griffith, sequel to The Blue Place and Stay, not a bad light read, although I just couldn't get over the fact that the new love interest was named 'Kick'. Oh for the love of god...

There's nothing harder to get into than a book with badly named characters!

[cathy north]

You are sooooo right about a character having a terrible name. In the movie BOUND I just could not deal with the woman being named 'Corky'. Geez.

[Alcy]

Ha, I agree about Corky, I love Bound but it totally ruins Gina Gershon's hotness by calling her Corky

[JujuDeRoussie]

I am reading the last Bernard Werber Le Mystère Des Dieux (The Gods' mystery)...

[Leaf]

Sunshine - Robin McKinley
Like comfort food for my brain. With, you know, vampires.

[umgaynow]

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver

OK, I admit I picked it up because Amber recommended it in an interview, but it really is a good book

[ellbogen]

Fun Home by Allison Bechdel

[umgaynow]

Just started Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris...too soon to form a real opinion yet, but the first chapter was funny

Also re-reading Tipping The Velvet in fits and starts...I wish she'd come out with another new book already...I've read them all

[Sorry]

"Blood bound" Its kinda funny in its own way.

[Alcy]

A space opera called 'The Prefect' by Alastair Reynolds, the man is a genius!

And a biogrpahy about Katherine Hepburn by William J Mann, it's definitely the best biography of her out there, a great read.

[Sapphire eyes]

I am reading alot of books at the moment but my most recent one that I have started yesterday is "The spear" by James Herbert.

[woahnellie]

Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Anne Burns

[ambercissism]

Just started reading The Savage Garden by Mark Mills

[Boschi]

Just finished The Strange Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. by... I forget. I liked it, although I wish I had been a tad more awake during the moments I was reading it. Some of the side tangents would've been more interesting if it hadn't been a bed time book.

Just started The Salt Dancers by Ursula Hegi
So far, so good - one nice and vivid set of images, a little family intrigue, and an interesting main character.

[Miss Elly]

I'm reading my school book A Break with Charity by Ann Rinaldi.

[littlewicca]

The Vampire Lestat- Anne Rice