Books I am reading, read, or plan to read

[Vanimal46]

Today is National Book Lover's Day! I did end up finishing "How America Lost It's Secrets" by Edward Jay Epstein, and now have a completely different outlook about Edward Snowden. Haven't been reading as much as I probably should during the dog days of summer.... 

Anyone reading a particularly good book right now?

[Mike Sixel]

I'm reading the first collection of Neil Gaiman's Sandman graphic novels. Great stuff so far.

 

Also reading Broken Sword, and older fantasy novel. Not sure I love it....

[Craig Arko]

Our Mathematical Universe, by Max Tegmark. Pretty interesting guy, and our outlooks are often similar.

 

Just gotta figure out what that damn Dark Matter and Dark Energy (which combined make up about 95% of the Universe) are.

[gunnarthor]

I'm on book two of Justin Cronin's Passage trilogy. Pretty solid.

[kab21]

Finishing up the final book in the LOTR series although I still need to read the Hobbit. Not sure what is next up for me. I feel like I need to go back to the travel documentary with significant historical tie-ins to the current traveler experience.

[Mike Sixel]

Broken Sword got better as I went, but I don't think anyone needs to read it. Good/meh/not great.

 

Just finished The Fuller's Apprentice. If you've read a lot of fantasy, it will feel very familiar and comfortable, but I still enjoyed it enough to buy the next book. She's an independent author on Amazon, so it's not pricey.

[Craig Arko]

More Max Tegmark.

 

Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.

 

https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/max-tegmark/life-30/

[gunnarthor]

Just read a fun trilogy by Justin Cronin called The Passage. Not too bad.

[Brock Beauchamp]

Four books into the Dresden Files series. Solid but not spectacular genre stuff.

[Seth Stohs]

Random, but my daughter came to my place for MEA, and she didn't bring any of her AR books. So, we looked around and found the Little House books. I bought the set several years ago and meant to sit down and read them when I wasn't writing for Twins Daily, or the Prospect Handbook, or binge watching TV shows... or. or. or... 

 

Anyway, we started reading Little House in the Big Woods. It's not difficult reading, and it's something that she's enjoying. I find the mid-to-late 1800s fascinating, so it's fun. 

[Squirrel]

Random, but my daughter came to my place for MEA, and she didn't bring any of her AR books. So, we looked around and found the Little House books. I bought the set several years ago and meant to sit down and read them when I wasn't writing for Twins Daily, or the Prospect Handbook, or binge watching TV shows... or. or. or...

 

Anyway, we started reading Little House in the Big Woods. It's not difficult reading, and it's something that she's enjoying. I find the mid-to-late 1800s fascinating, so it's fun.

How old is she? She might like the Anne of Green Gables books by Lucy Maude Montgomery next

[Brock Beauchamp]

Started reading Renegade: The Spiral Wars a couple of weeks ago and I’m now about two-thirds of the way through it.

 

Absolutely fantastic. If you like sci-if, READ THIS BOOK. If the rest of the book holds its current pace, it’ll probably be a top ten sci-fi book for me.

[gunnarthor]

Forgot about this thread. Just finished Christopher Moore's most recent book, "Noir." He's the funniest writer around today. Am currently reading the new Stephen King novel, "The Outsider."

[S.]

Recently went on a bit of a Cormack McCarthy kick and flew through Blood Meridian, The Road, No Country for Old Men, and Child of God. Then read Audition and In The Miso Soup by Ryu Murakami. Then ran out of motivation to read and went back to wasting my time on tv and internet. I seem to go in phases where I'll suddenly have motivation to read and get through a bunch of stuff all at once, then run out of motivation and read nothing for a while.

[Brock Beauchamp]

I finished Renegade: The Spiral Wars. It's OUTSTANDING. The book didn't just hold pace through the end, it kept ratcheting up the intensity.

 

It's basically a mash-up of the best elements of Battlestar and The Expanse, with the world-building of Gibson or someone of that talent level. If you like those three things, you'll probably love this book.

 

It's a truly outstanding sci-fi war story.

 

I so badly want to see this turned into a television show. It would be amazing. The way the story unfolds and keeps you on your toes (only one thing is pretty obvious from early in the story) would be a perfect fit for television. It's laid out as a methodical mystery "reveal" every 50-100 pages, right in line with an 8-10 episode season.