Books you're reading now

[Screwtape]

Saw it in the bookstore, but I won't buy a hardcover book, so I'll have to wait a while until it comes out in softcover.

Just finished reading the first book (Gardens of The Moon) in a 10 book series called The Malazan Book of The Fallen by Steven Erickson. I'm going to pick up book 2 this week.

Also read the Dragonlance Legends trilogy as well. Read it when I was in my mid teens, and picked them up at a local book store that was having a sale (got all 3 for 6$). I'd call it low fantasy, but it was easy reading and I enjoyed it for what it was. Wasn't sure I was going to after not reading it for about 30 years.

I'm also waiting for the new Abercrombie book to come out in softcover. And I've got Gardens of the Moon in my TBR pile.

 

[pv3Hpv3p]

Im relistening to the Black Company, love it

 

[shockaholic12]

The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler

If you like noir he's one of the founding fathers of the genre.

 

[shockaholic12]

Also Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allen Poe because there isn't a more apropos story about viruses and social distancing in my opinion

 

[Spookv]

1984

 

[SalvadorCollie]

Finishing up book 6 of the wheel of time.

got burned out after book 4, determined to finish the series eventually. Brandon Sanderson is one of my goats. Tolkien defined a genre, Jordan carried the torch.

currently on the last novel of the second Mistborn trilogy. New Laird Barron novel (part 3 of the Isaiah Coleridge series) drops next month, so part 2 “Blood Mountain” is next.

New Dresden Files comes out in July, never been so excited for a new release.

 

[HenryFlower]

 

[TheRuthlessOne]

The Picture of Dorian Gray
Notes from Underground
Parable of the Sower

 

[Losfer Words]

got burned out after book 4, determined to finish the series eventually. Brandon Sanderson is one of my goats. Tolkien defined a genre, Jordan carried the torch.

currently on the last novel of the second Mistborn trilogy. New Laird Barron novel (part 3 of the Isaiah Coleridge series) drops next month, so part 2 “Blood Mountain” is next.

New Dresden Files comes out in July, never been so excited for a new release.

Just finished book 12 (the first sanderson book) it was very good, looking forward to reading more from him.

 

[HenryFlower]

this was a fun little metafictional romp. Christie Malry was like Melville’s Bartleby meets Patrick Bateman as written by Robert Coover. hope to read more B. S. Johnson soon as to erase all that pretense & replace it wholly back into the ownership of Johnson.

 

[squeakymcgill]

Last book I read was The Overstory by Richard Powers. It was really, really good and I'd recommend it to anyone into ecology or environmentalism.

Currently reading The Republic of Pirates by Colin Woodward...it's interesting but I wish he'd narrow the focus a little.

 

[TheLinguist]

About a detective and a plot to overthrow after Hitler wins the war, kicks off in ‘62 and it’s very well written

 

[Otto!]

Red Rising. Great so far.

 

[COHAB]

Also Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allen Poe because there isn't a more apropos story about viruses and social distancing in my opinion

I couldn't agree more...

I read The Masque of the Red Death and The Black Cat as well this week.

 

[COHAB]

this was a fun little metafictional romp. Christie Malry was like Melville’s Bartleby meets Patrick Bateman as written by Robert Coover. hope to read more B. S. Johnson soon as to erase all that pretense & replace it wholly back into the ownership of Johnson.

 

[Danger Dave]

I am reading The Wheel of Time series with my ears. Each audiobook is 30-40 hours long and there are like 15 of them or something....

Reminds me of when I listened to every single star wars audiobook in the expanded universe and it took me a very very very very long time.

 

[salamander]

Just finished this fantasy novel "The Book of Thomas Volume One: Heaven" it's a dark story about a boy who is sent to make things right within the sphere of heaven. Very well written but exceptionally dark.

"Children of Time." Adrian Tchaikovsky was recommended to me by the dude working in the bookstore I bought it at. He did such a good job trying to reccomend it to me that I had to get. Just started it now, the first couple pages didn't snag me right away (voyage to colonize another world) but I'm willing to be patient with an Arthur C. Clarke award winner.

 

[Shael]

Reading the Richard Pevear translation of Crime and Punishment right now.

Plan on reading this next

 

[General_Speckz]

Bought Meditations by Marcus Aurealius a couple months ago.

Sat down and read it a couple of times, but I can't even get through the (multiple) intros. There's a lot of unpacking in every sentence, and 2 footnotes for every 5 sentence paragraph. Tough to tackle.

 

[HenryFlower]

good looks sherbro

Reading the Richard Pevear translation of Crime and Punishment right now.

Pevear & Volokhonsky are the dynamic duo when it comes to Russian translations. they might not always be the best option, but when it comes to Dostoevsky, they are #1. my friend who was born & raised in Russia refuses to read any other translations of Dostoevsky.