From time to time I like to hear what everyone is reading. How about it? Any good recommendations?
When I’m not reading manuscripts, I’m reading Ian McEwan’s ENDURING LOVE, which, of course, is amazing.
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From time to time I like to hear what everyone is reading. How about it? Any good recommendations?
When I’m not reading manuscripts, I’m reading Ian McEwan’s ENDURING LOVE, which, of course, is amazing.
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Sean McLachlan says
I’m always reading half a dozen books, mostly as research for my own books. For pleasure, right now I’m rereading THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X, which is affecting me very differently than it did when I read it almost twenty years ago. Then I was amazed by how often he changed his life, from hick to hustler, from anti-white to anti-racism. This time around I’m struck by how little of the book I can actually disagree with.
The other book I’m reading for pleasure is GHOSTS OF SPAIN. I live in Madrid, and picked it up in a local used book store. This sort of expat expose is trendy of late, and this is one of the best of the lot. It mainly deals with the unhealed scars of the Civil War, something I see in my own in-laws.
Kathryn Harris says
I’m re-reading “Watching the Tree Limbs” by Mary DeMuth.
I just finished “Julia’s Chocolates” by Cathy Lamb and Perfect Match” by Jodi Picoult.
Up next, “My Name is Russell Fink” by Michael Snyder.
cactusbeetroot says
I just finished The Sunset Limited by Cormac McCarthy and will look to finish the Ursula Le Guin classic The Dispossessed next.
And I think my next book will be How Fiction Works, by James Wood.
Anonymous says
I’m currently reading “Thirteen Reasons Why” by Jay Asher.
Adaora A. says
THIRTEEN REASONS WHY is pretty amazing.
Anonymous says
i just read Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn. Started about six yesterday evening and did not stop until I was through-and then kept thinking about it!
Excellent and this is her debut novel. A Dark, edgy, psychological thriller, but there is humor to help you bear it all. I thought because she writes for Entertainment Weekly it would be a bit of…fluff. Cushy at least. Talk about judging a book by its author’s first job-I willingly and happily loved the surprise of being completely wrong. Nothing wrong with a cushy mystery, but this was stunning.
Taylor K. says
I decided to read something classical and artsy so I’m reading HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS. My wife’s been bugging me to read the books for a while, and since it had been about two years since I read the first one I decided it was time to read the second. At this rate I should read all 7 by 2020.
Howard Shirley says
I’m constantly reading something, either for work or pleasure.
For work, I just finished The Woman Who Can’t Forget by Jill Price and Bart Davis. It’s the true story of a woman who literally can’t forget the details of her life. Watch BookPage for my review (I think the May issue).
For pleasure, I just finished, at roughly the same time, Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett (“Crivens! Tha were a gud bit o’ readin’, laddie!”), Command Decision by Elizabeth Moon (sci-fi action novel, 4th in her Vatta War series), and Sword Song by the incomparable Rosemary Sutcliff. (If Sutcliff wrote it, I love it. She’s the first author to make my own blog.)
I’m in the middle of Garth Nix’s Sabriel, which is turning out to be far better than I expected.
Next on my shelf is a block of Father’s Day books for a review (10 books in a month. Yowza. 8-o). Somehow I’ll try to squeeze in another book for pleasure or two, but it’s gonna be tight…
Thanks for the great blog, Nathan.
Calenhíril says
I just started the second book in Gail Martin’s Chronicles of the Necromancer, The Blood King. I’m also in the middle of Robin Hobb’s Renegade’s Magic, and a few months of Newsweek back issues.
JakePlummer&TheWings says
“What HO!”, a PG Wodehouse collection.
Anonymous says
Cam:
Thanks for the feedback on the two books we have in common.
Terry Pratchett is VERY different from the other books I listed. I confess to needing to feed eclectic tastes. My favorite Terry Pratchett book is Soul Music. Try that one.
It is a scream, funny!
Annie says
SCHUYLER’S MONSTER by Robert Rummel-Hudson. A moving and surprisingly funny memoir about raising a mute little girl.
Indu Nair says
‘Zen in the art of writing’ by Ray Bradbury. Very, very inspiring.
abc says
I can’t seem to put down The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova. I spent all my money from selling books at the used book store (which pays diddly) to buy it USED. Reading does not pay.
hana-no-kiri says
Victory Conditions, by Elizabeth Moon. I’ve really been sucked into the whole Vatta’s War series.
Zen of Writing says
Savage Detectives, by Bolano, and Love’s Executioner (nonfiction) by Yalom.
jae says
Right now for pleasure it’s “Jingo” by Terry Pratchett. The man cracks me up!
southernbelfry says
This blog