What Are You Reading? 3

[Sister Jennifer]

Currently reading.... Fools Assassin by Robin Hobb

It's been a while but I've read The Liveship Traders and Farseer trilogies, they were excellent.

Have just started reading I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou.

 

[Tonyblack]

I'm reading and enjoying the book that 12 Years A Slave is based on. "Twelve Years a Slave" by Solomon Northup. The book was published in 1853 and is a memoir of the actual events.

 

[Catch-up]

Just before leaving on my trip, I read a book called Why Are You So Sad? by Jason Porter. It was hilarious! One of the funniest books I've read in a long time.

Porter’s uproarious, intelligent debut centers on Raymond Champs, an illustrator of assembly manuals for a home furnishings corporation, who is charged with a huge task: To determine whether or not the world needs saving. It comes to him in the midst of a losing battle with insomnia — everybody he knows, and maybe everybody on the planet, is suffering from severe clinical depression. He’s nearly certain something has gone wrong. A virus perhaps. It’s in the water, or it’s in the mosquitoes, or maybe in the ranch flavored snack foods. And what if we are all too sad and dispirited to do anything about it? Obsessed as he becomes, Raymond composes an anonymous survey to submit to his unsuspecting coworkers — “Are you who you want to be?”, “Do you believe in life after death?”, “Is today better than yesterday?” — because what Raymond needs is data. He needs to know if it can be proven. It’s a big responsibility. People might not believe him. People, like his wife and his boss, might think he is losing his mind. But only because they are also losing their minds. Or are they?

 

[Sister Jennifer]

^ They both look like very good reads.

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

I got a copy of the Hive it's a proof trade paperback copy at Worldcon which won the T.P. award it looks quite good just had a flick through it. It looks to a bit cycberpunkish.

 

[AgnesOgg]

Charlie Fletcher the Oversight, just started it, very good beginning

 

[Ghost]

Manga
I've just finished the last 10 chapters to Welcome to the NHK in record time although I enjoyed it slightly more than the anime with it's more realistic tone.
I found the ending wasn't as satisfying as the anime. One day I might read the novel to compare the three different ways this story has been translated but as it's almost £40 that won't happen any time soon.

I'm also taking another crack at Fruits Basket but even though I love the anime I find the manga hard going I think maybe it's because the layout of the pages is hard to follow although most of the time with other mangas I can cope easily with the reverse layout and dislike it when the pages are flipped for western readers

Books
Finished The tent, the bucket and me by Emma Kennedy and I loved it I haven't got a bad word to say about this book in fact this book has earned me some very odd looks from giggling out loud to it.

Started The Universe Versus Alex Woods by Gavin Extence yesterday I'm only up to about page 50 so far so I can't give a definite review on how I feel about this book only that so far it reminds me of The Contortionist's Handbook by Craig Clevenger

 

[Catch-up]

A good friend gave me Jackie Chan's autobiography. It was such a sweet gift, he knows I'm a big fan, but I thought, "Oh jeez. This is going to be awful." Gave it a try and to my surprise it was pretty good! He had kind of a horrifying childhood, and you can definitely see the holes where he left stuff out after he became famous, but still a decent read if you're a fan.

 

[MongoGutman]

Just finished the last of Katherine Kerr's Dragon Mage series - 7 books but actually more like 15 because it follows on from two previous quadrilogies, the Deverry series and the Westlands series. I'd read those before and been most impressed, especially with the 'Deverry' books. However Ms Kerr hadn't finished the third instalment so I put them down for a decade or two. Anyway, much enjoyed the rereads of first two but The Dragon Mage'? - meh, rather disappointed. series just seemed to amble along without much pace and reached no real climax, just kinda petered out.

 

[chillicamper]

Just finished The Girl With All The Gifts by M R Carey. A zombie novel with a difference. Haunting but enjoyable. About a girl (a sentient zombie who initially does not know her true nature) and her teacher......and a whole load more besides.

 

[chris.ph]

try zomblog chili its well worth a look imo

 

[chris.ph]

now reading the godhunter, yet another freebie for the kindle, funny and quite good so far

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron on Kindle, with stories from Neil Gaiman,Tannith Lee,Jim Butcher, Holly Black etc. pretty good so far but Neil's was verry short and I did not like it that much about 2 pages long.

 

[Ghost]

just finished friends like these by danny wallace and found it okay not as good as yes man or join me
and I am about to start either the human by matt haig or The Prisioner of Brenda by Colin Bateman
both borrowed from the library at the same day so I really don't know which one to pick first

 

[Sister Jennifer]

Just started More Fool Me by Stephen Fry.

Happy reading all

 

[Catch-up]

Almost finished with The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell. Really enjoying it!

 

[raisindot]

I've just started reading John le Carre's Circus/Smiley series, and am watching the BBC version of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy with Alec Guinness. It definitely helps to read that novel first.

 

[The Mad Collector]

After reading A Slip of The Keyboard which includes Terry's preface for The Evolution Man I realised it is years since I last read this really well written and funny book so today I made up for it and got it back off the shelf. If you haven't come across this book it can be tricky to find but is well worth the effort

 

[Tonyblack]

After reading A Slip of The Keyboard which includes Terry's preface for The Evolution Man I realised it is years since I last read this really well written and funny book so today I made up for it and got it back off the shelf. If you haven't come across this book it can be tricky to find but is well worth the effort

Is that the one by Roy Lewis? This one?

 

[=Tamar]

I'm about to begin a reread of all the Diana Wynne Jones books I can find, which is a lot. She may have written more actual novels than Sir Terry, but generally they were in different universes.