What are you currently reading?

[Anek]

@NancyTree those are truly beautiful editions!

 

[PetiteSheWolf]

@NancyTree , I can understand your feeling of emotional distance re. Jane Austen - it's England after all, and even the characters , due to social norms, often keep quite a curtain between emotions and outward action (well, there is a certain Elinore Dashwood who'd disagree with me, but that what she is there for, LOL).

 

[THew8]

Currently reading Lethal White, a Comoran Strike novel by Robert Galbraith
Just finished The Wedding People by Alison Espach - not at all what I had expected but I did enjoy it. Made me contemplate and ponder some things about myself and where I stand in life.

I have been reading these as well. I just finished The Ink Black Heart.

 

[NightWolf714]

I found out the Elf Quest comics are on the Hoopla app, so slowly reading through those. I've seen and heard of the comics a number of times, but never actually sat down to read them before now.

 

[Ariem]

73 pages into The Impossible Knife of Memory. It's very YA but not in a bad way

 

[VLogan]

73 pages into The Impossible Knife of Memory. It's very YA but not in a bad way

Personally, some days I really like the YA books....taps into my younger brain

 

[Ariem]

Personally, some days I really like the YA books....taps into my younger brain

I'm not rlly sure I want to tap into my younger brain lol. Actually, this one did that for me and I didn't fully enjoy the experience emotionally but it was a good book. I'm trying to figure out how it was different for me from a lot of YA books that I've been reading lately. I do get the "annoyed at teenage characters' choices" feeling I didn't get when I was actually YA age but I got it in this one as well. Maybe it's just that Laurie Halse Anderson knows how to write rlly rlly well.

 

[Ariem]

183 pgs into A Skinful of Shadows. It's also YA, technically, but Frances Hardinge just doesn't write YA the same as others. It has a very different vibe.

 

[AquaMarie]

Just finished Sargassa by Sophie Burnham. I liked it! It's a political drama with some romance thrown in. It's a little cliché in spots, and I did figure out the twist at the end before I got to it. It was a very delicious twist, though (opens up all kinds of storytelling possibilities), so I felt more satisfied than disappointed when I was right. I liked the characters, and I'm looking forward to reading the sequel.

 

[THew8]

Current reads:
Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingsolver
The Ferryman and His Wife - Frode Grytten
What Does it Feel Like - Sophie Kinsella
Recent reads:
Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas - John Boyne

 

[Anek]

I just finished a lovely book, "In the company of witches". It's a cozy fantasy meet cozy murder, and it's really good.

 

[Damer]

A third of the way into "The Book Of Elsewhere" and I am beginning to question why I am not, already, an immortal warrior with Berserker capabilities?

 

[Ariem]

I'm currently reading Winds of Fate/Mercedes Lackey (which is technically a re-read, but I either dnf'ed this one or the next one in this trilogy cause I was too young for them when I first attempted), and also The Yiddish Policemen's Union/Michael Chabon, which is soooo depressing but also very good.

 

[Jaga]

I just finished a lovely book, "In the company of witches". It's a cozy fantasy meet cozy murder, and it's really good.

That sounds inviting!

 

[Dyneti]

I just started a book with short stories: Recognize Fascism - A Science Fiction and Fantasy Anthology
I'm 4 stories in and so far I really like it!

 

[AquaMarie]

Since my gallery at work is themed around it (I work at a public aquarium), and it's been over a decade since I read it, I decided to re-read Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. It's definitely odd. It almost feels unfinished, or more unedited, like Verne didn't have enough time to polish it up before he had to get it to the publisher; but maybe I just haven't read enough books from the 1860-70s and that's just the way they sound. It was entertaining, though; recognizing a critter in the lists (and lists and lists) of scientific names always made me happy.

 

[LiteraryMatcha]

I'm currently "reading" (or rather, experimenting) " Osho's "The Book of Secrets". It is more of a guide to visit chapters as desired, rather than a book to devour, in my opinion.


It contains 112 meditations and reflections that make eastern spiritual traditions and concepts very easy to understand and to experience.

I didn't know about him before, and I love his style. He's nonchalant, very straightforward and direct to the point, and explains abstract concepts in very logical and natural ways.
He makes the topic very accessible.

If you struggle with meditation, find it boring, love meditating, haven't tried meditating before, or worry that it requires a lot of time and cannot be done throughout your day, I can recommend this book.
Some techniques can actually be done during isometrics, when things get spicy, and they make the experience of exercising much more holistic.

 

[Jaga]

I've just finished Genius Gut by Emily Leeming, and I've started Plays Well with Others by Eric Barker and Pornografia by Witold Gombrowicz.

Still reading two of previously mentioned books.

Good omen by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman is already waiting for me on the table...