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What Are You Reading?

September 14, 2011 by Nathan Bransford 183 Comments

Every now and then I like to check in to see what people out there are reading.

So what about you? What are you reading?

I just finished China Mieville’s Embassytown, and will be starting The Invisible Bridge soon.

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  1. jan says

    September 15, 2011 at 5:15 pm

    "State of Wonder" by Anne Patchett. I'm dying of envy.

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  2. E. VERNA TURNER says

    September 15, 2011 at 5:35 pm

    Finished reading THOSE IN PERIL by Wilbur Smith. Action-packed, mystery thriller coupled with romance. A novel full of surpriseS.

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  3. Nicole says

    September 15, 2011 at 5:42 pm

    Just read John Stephen's THE EMERALD ATLAS and K.A. Stewart's Jesse James Dawson series (A DEVIL IN THE DETAILS and A SHOT IN THE DARK). Loved them all!

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  4. Darley says

    September 15, 2011 at 5:46 pm

    The Dark Half by Stephen King.

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  5. Diana says

    September 15, 2011 at 6:10 pm

    I'm rereading the Dragonriders of Pern series by Anne McCaffrey.

    Crescent Dawn by Clive Cussler

    The Ancient Celts by Barry Cunliffe (nonfiction)

    Leanardo Da Vinci by Kenneth Clark (nonfiction)

    And a guide to stuff you can find on the beaches in Florida which is really rather interesting…

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  6. Taylor Napolsky says

    September 15, 2011 at 6:20 pm

    Hey katdish, I LOVE Stephen King's It! I love that book more than anything!!

    anyways, I'm reading Three Musketeers!

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  7. veela-valoom says

    September 15, 2011 at 6:59 pm

    Just finished the adorable "The Gorgon in the Gully" by Melina Marchetta – a MG book thats making its way around the world via my goodreads group.

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  8. Anonymous says

    September 15, 2011 at 7:04 pm

    Just finished LUCKY JIM by Kingsley Amis, going to start THE ISLE OF BLOOD by Rick Yancey.

    -Salom

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  9. Krista V. says

    September 15, 2011 at 7:09 pm

    The funny thing about posts like this is that people are probably only going to comment if they love and/or are proud of what they're reading. It'd be much more interesting if you HAD to comment after reading the post:)

    *scurries off without mentioning what I'm reading*

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  10. Taylor Napolsky says

    September 15, 2011 at 7:58 pm

    ^^^
    oh come on just tell us what you're reading. How bad can it be? Is it some crappy erotica novel?

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  11. Miss Daisy says

    September 15, 2011 at 9:27 pm

    Just finished PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS series by Rick Riordan.

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  12. Robert Michael says

    September 15, 2011 at 9:29 pm

    Just finished THE ROAD by McCormack and started THE EYE OF THE NEEDLE by Follet. KITE RUNNER by Hoesseini on deck. Thinking about picking up Anne Rand to read in the meantime. Also reading 2 Corinthians.

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  13. Ishta Mercurio says

    September 15, 2011 at 9:44 pm

    Just finished a bunch of chapter books last weekend: JUDY MOODY, CLEMENTINE, RALPH S. MOUSE, IVY AND BEAN. My next book for youngish readers will be PURE DEAD TROUBLE, by Debi Gliori.

    I also read SOLD, by Patricia McCormick, and it was amazing. I love books like that.

    I'm currently reading ERAGON by Christopher Paolini, and will read ROT AND RUIN when I finish that.

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  14. Krista V. says

    September 15, 2011 at 11:44 pm

    Taylor, ha! No, DEFINITELY not some crappy erotica romance.

    It's a YA dystopian (probably not giving too much away there), and I haven't so thoroughly NOT connected with a book in a long time. I keep thinking it will get better, but it hasn't. And since I don't want to quasi-endorse a book I haven't liked (or straight-up slam another writer's work, especially since this writer happens to be published and I'm not), I'll just stick with not mentioning it:)

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  15. Sean Thomas Fisher says

    September 16, 2011 at 12:02 am

    Just finished Brian Keene's Dark Hollow and about to begin Nicholas Spark's The Notebook.

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  16. Sommer Leigh says

    September 16, 2011 at 4:15 am

    I just finished Angelfall by Susan Ee. My new favorite of all time.

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  17. Cynthia says

    September 16, 2011 at 4:37 am

    I'm reading Suzanne Collins' Mockingjay and Tina Fey's Bossypants.

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  18. Taylor Napolsky says

    September 16, 2011 at 7:30 am

    Krista, is it hunger games? Is it Ender's Game? Is it self published or indie published or epublished or whatever the correct term is nowadays?

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  19. MT Nickerson says

    September 16, 2011 at 12:34 pm

    Busy Monsters by William Giraldi. Nice style, well-crafted, interesting and unlike other books I've read lately.

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  20. K. M. Walton says

    September 16, 2011 at 2:00 pm

    Just finished POSSESS by debut author and fellow Apocalypsie Gretchen McNeil. Loved it.

    I'm about to dive into THE NIGHT CIRCUS….

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  21. Anonymous says

    September 16, 2011 at 2:44 pm

    "The Best American Mystery Stories," sandwiched between dozens of "How To Find An Agent" and "What Publishers Really Want" articles.

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  22. Jamie says

    September 16, 2011 at 3:20 pm

    Reading a old classic – To Kill a Mocking Bird

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  23. dcamardo says

    September 16, 2011 at 3:59 pm

    The funny thing about you asking this question right now is that I'm actually just finishing up JACOB WONDERBAR AND THE COSMIC SPACE KAPOW.

    Reply
  24. Rebecca Kiel says

    September 16, 2011 at 4:02 pm

    Ram Dass and Shreve's THE PILOT'S WIFE (again!).

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  25. Meghan Ward says

    September 16, 2011 at 6:25 pm

    Jo Ann Beard's In Zanesville, and I love it.

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  26. Susie says

    September 17, 2011 at 3:24 am

    Divergence! Finished it in a day. Wished book two was ready now.

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  27. Susie says

    September 17, 2011 at 3:30 am

    Beginning The Night Circus tonight.

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  28. Nicole says

    September 17, 2011 at 2:09 pm

    *Just* finished Queen of the Dead by Stacey Kade and First Grave on the Right by Darynda Jones.

    Currently reading Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress for my book club.

    Lamb by Christopher Moore and Ripple by Mandy Hubbard are on deck.

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  29. Edwin Arnaudin says

    September 17, 2011 at 8:51 pm

    Recently finished THE FAMILY FANG by Kevin Wilson and about to start Tom Perrotta's THE LEFTOVERS.

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  30. Ann M says

    September 18, 2011 at 1:27 pm

    It's actually quite fun to answer this at the moment since I'm reading such a variety of books:

    NOVELS
    *Little House in the Big Woods, by Laura Ingalls Wilder

    *A Brief History of Montmaray, by Michelle Cooper

    *The Demigod Files, by Rick Riordan

    *The Edge, by Rudy Josephs (Starfleet Academy)

    and

    *Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (for the third time!)

    AUDIO BOOK
    *Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident, by Eoin Colfer (narrated by the wonderful Nathaniel Parker)

    NON-FICTION
    *Hope for Animals and Their World, by Jane Goodall

    and

    *Uncle Eric Talks About Personal, Career, and Financial Security, by Richard J. Maybury

    Phew… perhaps I shouldn't read *quite* so many all at once….

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  31. Anonymous says

    September 20, 2011 at 2:03 pm

    Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut. Written in the 1950's there are a few passages that are almost prophetic. An excellent read more than fifty years after its first publishing.

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  32. JustSarah says

    October 29, 2012 at 4:29 am

    Currently I am reading Frank Huberts Dune.

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