What are You Reading Now?

[makhorkasmoker]

 

[ssjones]

This was released in 2014, sequel just released.

 

[DanWil84]

Have red a few of the books already, this one is the last published in the series. The whole series is about a Southampton (UK) murder detective with a troublesome past on and off the job. Think the novels are pretty well written.

 

[WerewolfOfLondon]

 

[Annaresti Red]

Currently reading Grievers, and it is very interesting. Very much like Octavia Butler. Incredible.

 

[makhorkasmoker]

 

[bangzoom]

Recently finished Star Maker (Olaf Stapledon); currently working my way through Obstacle to Peace (Jeremy Hammond).

 

[WerewolfOfLondon]

Recently finished Star Maker (Olaf Stapledon); currently working my way through Obstacle to Peace (Jeremy Hammond).

Star Maker is one of the most beautiful books ever written.

 

[bangzoom]

Star Maker is one of the most beautiful books ever written.

'Tis indeed beautiful. Just ordered my own copy including Last and FIrst Men (both paperbacks)

 

[WerewolfOfLondon]

'Tis indeed beautiful. Just ordered my own copy including Last and FIrst Men (both paperbacks)

Nice. I haven't read Last and First Men. The only other book I read by Stapledon, is Sirius. Another brilliant book, but a real tear jerker.

 

[bangzoom]

Nice. I haven't read Last and First Men. The only other book I read by Stapledon, is Sirius. Another brilliant book, but a real tear jerker.

Yes...Sirius is on my list as well...got a copy from my library but font was too small to enjoy.

 

[krizzose]

Currently reading Two Years Before the Mast! Spending a week on a tropical beach, and I wanted a story that complimented the atmosphere. A (to my landlubber sensibilities) delightfully authentic tale about a two year voyage around the Horn of South America, full of salt and all things nautical. Told more or less as a diary, it’s got a fantastically transporting quality to it.

With the smell of salt and sea in my nose, a nice navy flake in my pipe, and this book to occupy my time, I’d be lying if I said I hadn’t been spending hours daydreaming of a life at sea.

Would love any suggestions for books that scratch the same itch!

That was a great read!

 

[krizzose]

Just started this:

 

[MartyA]

Currently reading Two Years Before the Mast! Spending a week on a tropical beach, and I wanted a story that complimented the atmosphere. A (to my landlubber sensibilities) delightfully authentic tale about a two year voyage around the Horn of South America, full of salt and all things nautical. Told more or less as a diary, it’s got a fantastically transporting quality to it.

With the smell of salt and sea in my nose, a nice navy flake in my pipe, and this book to occupy my time, I’d be lying if I said I hadn’t been spending hours daydreaming of a life at sea.

Would love any suggestions for books that scratch the same itch!

Well NOW look what you made me do. I'd long heard of this book but I'd never read it. Me being me, I wanted a copy printed from "that time," so I could read the same pages someone else read when sailing was "that way." Copies from 1840 and 1841 were WAY out of my price range, but I found an 1858 copy in good shape that should serve me well. It'll get read out on my swinging chair with a churchwarden pipe when I get to it...
Thanks for that!

 

[makhorkasmoker]

 

[mikethompson]

I don't read a lot of Stephen King, but this one is just creepy enough to keep me reading, but not so terrifying as to turn me off.

 

[BCF]

 

[Alejo R.]

 

[huntertrw]

John Gierach's All The Time in the World.

 

[keith929]