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What are you reading?

Gulpin

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    Sad to see that this thread died a few months ago..
    Simply, what book are you currently reading? Are you enjoying it? What books are you looking forward to?


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    As for me, I'm reading And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini. I am really enjoying it and love all of the characters and the way they are portrayed. Hosseini really captures what it truly means to be alive in such an unfair world.
     
    I have so many books that I've started and thus stopped because of school. So, here's the books I've started to read again before school picks up once more.

    The Fall of Five by Pittacus Lore, I really enjoy this series and I remember being really enthralled by the the first three books even though it feels like I read them so long ago.

    That book and, A Feast for Crows by George R. R. Martin, I've been trying (and failing) to read the books before continuing the show. It was mostly so I could stay ahead of the TV Show, which is why I'm only on season three.
     
    I'm currently nearing the end of Fool's Errand by Robin Hobb
    It's the first book in the Tawny Man trilogy - the sequel series to the Farseer trilogy
    I LOVE these books - Robin Hobb's writing is fantastic, her books are a true joy to read; I've previously read her Rainwild Chronicles and the Farseer ones :)
    Really looking forward to reading her next series: Fitz and the Fool!
    I really recommend these books to anyone, particularly anyone who loves fantasy/romance/action/magic etc!!! Truly brilliant books
     
    Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami. very compelling characters and storyline. way more erotic than I was expecting. Overall, A Winner
     
    Game of Thrones - George R.R. Martin: I started to read this when PC's staff was excited for the new season to start, and I'm still not done with the book. It's slow going, and that's all I say about that.

    Pathfinder - Orson Scott Card: Another fantasy book that's more like a brick, but it's a Card book so I'm enjoying it. It's slow going with this one as well, but there's only three characters to keep track of and the plot's moving along. I haven't read the rest of the series yet, so I'm looking forward to Ruins and Visitors.
     
    I've started reading The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. I'm not quiet sure how I feel about it.. At this point, I really don't seem to be liking the protagonist 'good guy' of the story, so I guess I'll have to see how it goes.
     
    The World According to Bob - James Bowen

    I picked up this book because it looked so cute with the kitty on the cover. It has a prequel, but reading this book is hard to resist. You know me, being the ultimate cat lover and all. 8D
     
    I just started with Ted Hughe's Tales of Ovid, Metamorphosis again. I've probably read it like 10 times, but it's just so beautiful. The audio recordings of it are chilling and lovely.
     
    I'm reading Web of the Witch World by Andre Norton. Old fantasy from the 60s, and the second it a seemingly very long series of books which I probably won't ever read. It's kind of so-so, but there's enough to keep me reading. It does things a little differently from typical fantasy from then and now, and that's nice to see.
     
    I finished The Fountainhead, and I enjoyed it a bit more than I thought I would initially but it is by far not the best book I've read recently. Now I'm reading All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr, and so far it has been very beautifully and vividly written with an interesting story to follow.
     
    The Warrior Heir by Cinda Williams Chima

    I actually got two other books from the series, not realizing I didn't have the first one. I only just got the first one today. My intention was to actually buy the prequel to "The World According to Bob", but I never asked if they had it. :/
     
    I finished All the Light We Cannot See today, and it was a very good book. I'm not going to lie - I found it a bit disappointing, but I think that may be part of the effect it's supposed to have. Nevertheless, the writing was beautiful, especially in the first half.

    I've just started The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz, a book that has been on my list for a while. I've really been looking forward to reading it for a while now, so I hope I enjoy it!
     
    I picked up Stats Canada: Satire on a National Scale about a week ago, and I'm loving it so far. It's exactly what it sounds like, though if you aren't into Canadiana at all, you might not be all that interested in reading it. But then again, where else can you learn fantastic things like the fact that the average Canadian says sorry 45,000 times a day, or 37% of Canadians die due to choking on a Timbit?
     
    Shaman's Crossing, by Robin Hobb.

    I actually bought this book years ago, hoping to try once more to get into another series of hers, since I absolutely loved reading her Farseer Trilogy back when I was in high school. I fell in love with her characterizations and the way she writes. I actually did get maybe like a third of the way through this book originally, but I stopped reading it for some reason. I think what happens with her books - and what happened here - is that I tend to peek ahead, and then I get absolutely pissed at what happens and then don't feel like reading anymore.

    So now that I just finished read the book I had been trying to finish for a few years (!!), I'm starting this book over, and I'm going to actually read it all the way through this time. No skipping ahead. No spoiling myself.
     
    I just finished Oscar Wao, and I really enjoyed it! I'm glad that I've finally read it after having it on my to-read list for so long. I'm about to start Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections, another book that has been on my list for a while.
     
    Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality by Eliezer Yudkowsky: This was recommended on a subreddit, and I finally got around to reading through it. It's interesting to me because I absolutely love alternate universes and reimaginings of stories. Some of the parts (about the higher sciences and theories) go over my head on the first readings and I have to go back and re-read them. But it's still interesting to see Harry Potter looked at in a more scientific way. The writing style could use a little work, though.

    Ruins by Orson Scott Card: Then we get to the books about time-traveling and saving the world. I'm enjoying this one more than the first book in the series, Pathfinder, but I like when Card writes about the relationships between his characters, which this book has more of than the first in the series.
     
    Re-reading Lord of the Rings- The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien.
     
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