What are you reading?

[Astinus]

Currently reading Ender's World: Fresh Perspectives on the SF Classic. It's a collection of essays written by other authors and such about their personal experiences reading Ender's Game. Some of the essays are interesting, others are weird, and the answers Card gives to questions asked by common fans make me drop the book in disbelief.

 

[Judge Mandolore Shepard]

Another book I am currently reading is The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to today by Thomas E. Ricks

 

[Hannah]

I am currently reading Playlist for the Dead by Michelle Falkoff and I'm not really sure if I like it or not ahaha. (I just finished reading Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock by Matthew Quick and it was a great read, definitely recommend it for those looking for a nice book)

 

[Gaea]

I'm currently reading both Game of Thrones and the Deadman Wonderland manga.

 

[VanillaMiltank]

Right now I'm reading Dodger by Terry Pratchett :)

 

[Astinus]

Moved on to Ender's Game and Philosophy: Genocide is Child's Play, which is a collection of essays taking an in-depth look at various things about Ender's Game. A lot of them are interesting, and I've jotted down notes about things I want to think about more.

 

[milkyfriend]

Been in somewhat of a reading slump for about 5 years, but literally yesterday got a book called Uprooted for my birthday and I can't recommend this more! It's certainly pretty cool - really wonderful story and wonderful writing style too
Gonna go ahead and recommend The Moomins to anyone who hasn't read them either, the best item of literature I've ever encountered! C:

 

[Neintendo]

Starting the Game of Thrones series, wish me luck guys! I want to finish it before I watch the TV show.

 

[Astinus]

Starting the Game of Thrones series, wish me luck guys! I want to finish it before I watch the TV show.

I wish you all the luck getting through that series! I heard that the books are really good, but they take a serious commitment to read. I only read the first book so far, and have plans to read the rest of the series at some point.

I'm currently reading Ender's Game and Philosophy: The Logic Gate Is Down, which is the second book of that particular line. The essays inside aren't as interesting to me as the ones in Genocide Is Child's Play, but maybe it's because I was hoping for the essays to discuss more than the Just War Theory.

 

[EC]

Been reading "Welcome To Night Vale" since early January. I'm a few chapters in, and would like to finish it soon, but I'm always so busy doing other things at night. Certainly hope to have it done by Spring though. Loving it so far.

 

[Margot]

I'm currently reading Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago

It's very interesting! In 1995, Chicago experienced a week-long heat wave that killed over 700 people: more than any of the hurricanes/tornadoes/other natural disasters that had hit the states. So this sociologist decides to scrutinize the different policies in place, as well as social factors that may have lead to such an abnormally high death rate. I can't get enough it <3

 

[Esper]

I'm reading The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin. Somehow I thought I had already read it and was just picking it up for something to read between other things and I realized I never had read it after all. I like it, but she's one of my favorite authors so I pretty much like anything she's written. I like her take on scifi and I've been on a small scifi kick. Previously I'd read Radiance by Catherynne M. Valente, which was a little confusing to get into because it throws you in the middle of a kind of alternate history where the things people though about the universe back in the 19th century are the reality of the book (like Venus being a pleasant, if rainy place to live and not an oven with sulfuric acid rain). I also read Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie which was okay. Found out after finishing it that it's part of a series and it does have a kind of first-book-in-a-series since it makes a big point of something things and doesn't give any closure on them. Still, both it and Radiance were different kinds of scifi and I like to see that.

Been in somewhat of a reading slump for about 5 years, but literally yesterday got a book called Uprooted for my birthday and I can't recommend this more! It's certainly pretty cool - really wonderful story and wonderful writing style too
Gonna go ahead and recommend The Moomins to anyone who hasn't read them either, the best item of literature I've ever encountered! C:

Uprooted is really good and engaging. I'm not surprised it helped you out of a slump.

 

[milkyfriend]

Uprooted is really good and engaging. I'm not surprised it helped you out of a slump.

Yeah it's so fabulous! About 300 pages in, which is crazy fast for me considering I'm such a slow reader and I have so much work on

 

[starseed galaxy auticorn]

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.

I'm actually pretty content about reading and finishing it. I got it at the library, and I have always been a Potter fan... yet I've never actually read the books. I don't care much for the movies, except the first one. Don't get me wrong, it's not that they are really bad. The main reason is because one of the movies has giant talking spiders in it. This is a major trigger for my arachnophobia. :c So, that's why I decided to read the books instead. It won't be as bad as watching that movie.

 

[VanillaMiltank]

Currently, Quidditch Through The Ages :)

 

[Astinus]

Earth Unaware by Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston - With Johnston writing alongside him, the book reads like a classic Card, only less...crazy!Card. There's still some in there, but it's not as apparent.

 

[Margot]

I'm very non-committal when I don't know what to read next. So right now I'm sampling chapters of both The Essential Keynes and Arab Spring Dreams. One is a 500+ page book on one man's economic philosophy and theory. The other, personal accounts from people who lived through the Arab Spring, which is super important to me.

 

[Winter]

I just finished Ink and Bone by Rachel Caine. Starting on The Shotgun Arcana by R. S. Belcher.

 

[gimmepie]

I'm currently reading A Clash of Kings but I really want to buy Flowers in the Attic and read that soon too.

 

[Margot]

Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein. It's her memoir about being in a band that was part of the Riot Grrrl punk movement in Olympia & Seattle. I'm gonna end up with a whole bookcase of music biographies and memoirs at this rate.