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What is everone reading now?

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Hi all, it has been a busy year and time is just flying by.

I was wondering what everyone is reading, or more specifically the last 3 books you've read and the next one on your list. I have 23 books on my to read list at the moment, but I am always looking for new ideas.

I am currently reading For King and Country by @Karen Gray.

Before that it was You're Not Alone which is an indie author anothology by Ian D Moore and friends, they are donating all royalties to cancer research, and The Other Side of Here by @Island Writer

All three are very good.

Next on my list is Critical Failures by Robert Bevan

That should take me up to the beginning of September when my own books are coming out but even that won't slow my reading much, I hope.

I hope you're all well. Have a great day.
 
Boundless by Kenneth Oppel (read this last)
Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters (reading currently)
Also reading The Tudor Treasury for a starting point to research next book.

Bought:
The Monogram Murder
To Kill a Mockingbird
Percy Jackson and the Titan's Curse
The Adventures and the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
 
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David Steele said:
It's all about the politics at the moment. My summer reads are Owen Jones, Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein and Zoe Williams. (All background info for the next book)
For light-hearted relief I have Naked Lunch by William S Burroughs.
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David, your choice of light reading + the shiny red apple you have as a profile picture, has got me worried about your William Tell proclivities...
There are other ways to fame, and even notoriety, than using your wife as something to balance a target on!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Vollmer
 
The opening pages of 'Salem's Lot' hooked me. They had gravitas. I enjoyed it throughout but it started to lose me. Sometime he takes things just that bit too far, and I stop being able to suspend my disbelief and find myself watching the writing instead.
 
Last three books:
The Fixer by Joseph Finder
Lincoln Myth by Steve Berry
Red Rising by Pierce Brown

Next on up:
Dreams of Gods & Monsters by Laini Taylor
Killing Floor by Lee Child (re-reading)

I don't normally read YA or fantasy this much, but Red Rising was very good, and Dreams I'm reading because I read the first two so I feel obligated to read the third one lol.

Anyone interested in US history, the constitutionality of secession, and the Mormon religion would be really interested to read Lincoln Myth. It was very good.
 
Recently, I've read the first three books by our lovely @Karen Gray, and 'Demon-bound' by @David Steele.
I'm reading 'Displaced' by Steven Drake (unpublished yet), and 'Ceridwen and the Order of the Future Keepers' by our own @Alistair Roberts (I'm almost done!).
On my 'To read' pile; How to land a literary agent, shared by @Paul Whybrow earlier this week, Herbal Remedies for everyday living which i bought today and a host of others. I was sent a link to a free copy of Darkness from Beyond by Stefano Lanciotti on Twitter, which I can't find a program to open it atm.
 
I let myself off reading science books for August, and have been enjoying a series of re-reads of novels I bought years ago:

Currently well into The Possessions of a Lady (Jonathan Gash) - if you only ever saw Lovejoy on TV in your youth, the books are much darker
Just finished Granchester Grind - Tom Sharpe
and The Witches of Chiswick - Robert Rankin
 
Hmmmm, right...

I have recently read @David Steele 's "Demon Bound" and an early version of what will be "Welcome to The People Farm" and @Island Writer 's "The Other Side of Here"

I am currently working my way through "The Mortal Orphan" by @Jennifer Stone , "Displaced" by @MontanaMan65 and "The Vision of Arcadia" by @Jason Byrne and crafting book 4 of my own.

It may surprise you to find out that I don't really read much. The last time I read a book other than my fellow writer's books was... um... yeah January 2012 and before that we are talking 2009. See that thing where people say you have to read more than you write? Yeah, that's a myth ;)

Atm I write, and I read/edit my own, and I read and give feedback for those of you who would like my feedback, but other than that I fall under my own target audience. I am so so SOOOOOO picky about my books that I very rarely find one that will hold my interest. I discovered I wasn't alone in this, so went looking for what I wanted to read and found nothing. So I wrote my own ;)

What can I say, I walk a little to the left of normal ;)
 
I'm reading Joe Lansdale's "Bad Chili", with his book "Cold in July" up next, as well as "Silence of the Lambs" in the queue. Last books read were both non-fiction: Lena Dunham's "Not That Kind of Girl" and a rereading of Dan Savage's "American Savage".
 
Hello Emurelda. Been busy with work and moving house but good to be back.
I entered the comedy story for the Greenhouse Funny Prize... but didn't make the shortlist :(
 
I've three books on the go,
1) Game of Kings
2) When Jesus became God
3) City and the Pillar
 
Just finished @Karen Gray's latest! Before that it was The Curiosity by Stephen P Kiernan (it had its inconsistencies, but hooked me from the get-go with a great story, nonetheless). Right now, I'm almost embarrassed to say I'm re-reading Pride and Prejudice--it's my wintertime, husband-is-out-of-town-for-two-weeks comfort read. I could probably write the thing, word for word, from memory by now, which makes it perfect for when stress levels are high. I find it highly amusing I go back to this book so often, because I hate romances, as a rule. (which explains a lot about my marriage...but that's another story ;) )
 
OH! And I also recently finished She, by H. Rider Haggard (from 1887). Talk about a product of its time! Can't say I really liked the book, but it was fascinating to me, because my father always calls my mother "She who must be obeyed", and the book gave me some interesting insight into my parents' relationship...
 
I am still re-reading books which I last read about 20 years ago - just finished the Gormenghast trilogy [Peake], and Sherlock Holmes' Study in Scarlet / Sign of the Four [Conan Doyle]; probably will read Darkness Visible [William Golding] next. The only time I get to read is a few minutes before finding that I am actually too tired to read anything, so it's slow progress.
 
Robinne Weiss said:
Just finished @Karen Gray's latest! Before that it was The Curiosity by Stephen P Kiernan (it had its inconsistencies, but hooked me from the get-go with a great story, nonetheless). Right now, I'm almost embarrassed to say I'm re-reading Pride and Prejudice--it's my wintertime, husband-is-out-of-town-for-two-weeks comfort read. I could probably write the thing, word for word, from memory by now, which makes it perfect for when stress levels are high. I find it highly amusing I go back to this book so often, because I hate romances, as a rule. (which explains a lot about my marriage...but that's another story ;) )
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Omg did you? That was quick :) (is that a good or bad sign? lol!!)
 
Karen Gray said:
Hmmmm, right...
I am so so SOOOOOO picky about my books that I very rarely find one that will hold my interest. I discovered I wasn't alone in this, so went looking for what I wanted to read and found nothing. So I wrote my own ;)
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Lol I used to be the same, that's why I started writing, yet now I can pick up and read anything.
Thanks for all the great replies, I have some ideas of new titles to add to my wish list now :)
 
I'm in the middle of Chains of Blood and Steel by a well-known writer named Karen Gray, as well as a short story in the Spring 2015 Hypnos magazine, and Fade to Black ebook by Tim McBain and L.T. Vargus. Next up is The Mortal Orphan by Jennifer Stone, and Ceridwen and the Celtic Prophesy by Alistair Roberts.
 
Lol I'll have to watch for when you get close to the end of that book @Jason Byrne I have a feeling you won't want to have a break between 2 and 3 considering the... um... yeah, you'll want book 3. Just ask @Jennifer Stone (no spoilers Jen ;) )
 
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