What Books Are You Reading? (2018)

[shanez]

Never been the biggest thing book reader. Just couldn't quite get the hang of being still long enough to read anything more than utterly necessary to get through all of my education. Always had a hard time with it unless I was really into it. I find myself to be a fantasy or history type of fan. Made it through Elie Wiesel's "Night" in one day, while in high school. It's only about 100 pages long, but had me with every word. Since then, not too much. Tried The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings, just too difficult to sit for it.
Strangely enough, I got drawn into the Harry Potter series and I read a little of a few pages. I think I'm going to start there and see where I get. Bought the whole series and will read it at my leisure, once I finish reupholstering my wing back arm chair.

I read tons of anthologies/short story collections to take breaks from longer books and harder to understand books. Solves the problem of loosing interest.

 

[shanez]

Currently reading "The Wolf Leader" by Alexandre Dumas.

 

[timelord]

The Third Policeman - Flann O'Brien

 

[mawnansmiff]

Currently reading (among others) "A Land As God Made It: Jamestown And The Birth Of America" by James Horn (2005). It is a fascinating account of the earliest English settlers to the Jamestown and Chesapeake areas and their struggles with both the natives and the natural environment they had chosen to settle on.
Very well researched and superbly written this has to be the best book on this subject I have read thus far. The pace is steady and full of minute details that serve well to fill in the general thrust of the story. This is one of those books that is difficult to put down!
In fact on the strength of this book I have also bought "A Kingdom Strange: The Brief And Tragic History Of The Lost Colony Of Roanoke" (2010) by the same author.
For anyone interested in the early settlement of the United States, I doubt you could much better than to read the above two titles.
Regards,
Jay.

 

[bluto]

Candide , voltaire
Picked up a couple of old Ian Fleming bond novels on holiday , light read , good stuff