What are You Reading Now?

[saltedplug]

Paul, you know Russian? Damn!

 

[ssjones]

I enjoyed Station 11. I don't think she has had another release.

Station 11 by Emily St. John Mandel

Creepy little book I stumbled on by accident. Didn't even know what it was about until I started reading and well, it's something for our time if you're not overly paranoid.

 

[unadoptedlamp]

I don't think she has had another release

She wrote a book called "The Glass Hotel", out this year. I haven't read it.

I'm not sure she has written any more science fiction/fantasy books. Which, I guess Station 11 is maybe a fantasy.

I liked it. Mostly. Some of the longer flashbacks pulled me away from the story. I think it would have done better if it was more rooted in the current state of the aftermath, following the symphony around. There seemed to be more to explore there, but it was instead filled with flashbacks.

It was a compelling world that she created. Worth a look anyway. I just found myself skimming a lot of the flashbacks to get back into the story.

 

[Gecko]

 

[mortonbriar]

I just read a little book by Jim Dodge called 'Fup', which is also the name of the duck in the story (fupduck).

Very fun quick read, lots of laughs and some depth too....

 

[greeneyes]

 

[bluesmoke]

Poldark series by Winston Graham

 

[oldgeezersmoker]

Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & The Light.

 

[hairvise]

Currently reading the book The People, No by Thomas Frank. I can’t more highly recommend his previous book called Listen, Liberal. Has anyone else read either of those two books?

Edit: removed political comments

 

[olkofri]

Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Seaver's The Last Vikings.

 

[unadoptedlamp]

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak.

So far, an interesting story about a girl living in the beginning of Nazi Germany. The narrator is death and the author explores some different storytelling techniques that are not particularly common.

Recommended read. It's a good change of pace on the narration.

 

[username]

Sherlock Holmes the ultimate collection.

 

[bullet08]

God Emperor of Dune. Want to finish the Dune series by Frank Herbert, but this fourth book is rather slow.

 

[ssjones]

Malorie, by Josh Malerman. The follow-up to Bird Box. Equally as good, so far.

 

[edger]

Cynical Theories by Pluckrose and Lindsay. Postmodernism is certainly a plague. This is tough going for me intellectually but quite interesting. The jettisoning of tradition and orthodoxy seems to me an excercise in insanity by the left in this country and the world.

 

[JOHN72]

The truth of the Spanish Empire............Long life to patriotic Catholic............in the world.........????❤❤❤

 

[kcghost]

I am starting on the 17th Harry Dresden book by Jim Butcher title "Battle Ground". Really good series if you are young enough for it. It's Urban Fantasy or Harry Potter for grown ups. Butcher says the series will run to 25 or 26 books in total. He used to publish about one book a year then took eight years to write the 16th book.

 

[olkofri]

The truth of the Spanish Empire............Long life to patriotic Catholic............in the world.........????❤❤❤View attachment 45454

¡Santiago y cierra, España!

 

[JOHN72]

 

[ssjones]

Just started this, so far it very good and well written. George of course is dead, and I wasn't familiar with Kraus.


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