What are YOU currently reading? (8)

[jubileeLEE]

The Fellowship of the Ring

Every few years I read through The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. It's good for the soul.

Every year!!! You must have every character name and every location memorized. I listen to the audio books of Lord of the Rings read by Phil Dragash, a dashingly handsome man. It's a production with music and sound effects. I can not take the original reader & his slow ponderous pace through such a long trilogy. I used to go though a book in less than a week that way playing them on my mp3 player as I worked outdoors all day, rode the bus & sat in eateries. Love those books but I get restless for new adventure when I try to read (or listen to) them again.

 

[jubileeLEE]

I'm reading Shaman's Crossing which in it is an interesting story that keeps me reading by giving me the feeling that just around the corner waits the really good part. It keeps leading up to something but now I'm more than half way through, I'm not sure if this is not all there is. Robin Hobb is a female who loves to write in depth about the feelings of the lead character. I mean you get 3 lines of conversation and three pages breaking down each possible interpretation, then every possible outcome, and how the lead character, so far always a male, feels about each one. Her books are like the Lord of the Rings written as a purely emotional journey. The action is few & far between. You know those movie trailers that promise so much and then you watch the movie and find you were completely mislead. Well, I'm allowing her to mislead me again. She makes me long to find out what happens to the characters that she gives so much depth to that you love them. She gives them so much promise, power to speak to animals (Farseer Trilogy) and unite with them with which they do nothing noteworthy.

 

[Konnie King]

A Chaparral Christmas Gift by 0. Henry

 

[emullins]

I was reading The 5 Love Languages but kinda drifted from it. My husband just finished Not a Fan so I will start reading that.

 

[sunshineforJesus]

I'm reading Becoming more than a good bible study girl,but havent had much time to read it lately.

 

[HonestTruth]

Charlie Chan - The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective by Yunte Huang

 

[Konnie King]

Joyland by Stephen King

 

[SMA12]

Dark and Dreadful Forest by C. David Louis

Here is a review if you are interested. No spoilers to worry about in the review.

OnlineBookClub.org

 

[Konnie King]

Charley de Milo by Laurence M. Janifer

 

[Bananagator]

Linear Algebra and Its Applications by David C. Lay

All I have to say is

 

[jubileeLEE]

Linear Algebra and Its Applications by David C. Lay

All I have to say is

I loved linear algebra! I actually have a much easier time as it's like writing out a sentence.

Now, that I've gotten used to Hobb, I'm reading Forest Mage from the Soldier Son trilogy. In the end the hero finally does what he could've done from the beginning of the story but was trying to be normal through the whole story. So not much action but a lot character building and emotional journeys. She can make really interesting odd characters that are supremely funny and will make you laugh. I love to laugh whiles reading.
There was the 'Fool' in the Farseer Trilogy and Epiny in Soldiers' Son trilogy.

I would not recommend Rain Wild Chronicles, it seemed she rushed out those books and tried to make it more of a titillating adult story (had to skip over paragraphs and pages) by filling it with gay men, adultery and youngsters committing fornication. It did not have much humor and the major characters were female. There are pages of disparaging marks on goodreads and amazon about them, so sin does not make a story good.

 

[Konnie King]

The First One by Herbert D. Kastle

 

[saintandrew4life]

the first phone call from heaven by mitch albom

 

[Konnie King]

It Could Be Anything by Keith Laumer

 

[NIrelandGillian]

The Last Days of Pompeii by Edward Bulwer-Lytton.

Gillian

 

[Konnie King]

The Christmas Guest by Maria J. McIntosh

 

[Bananagator]

I loved linear algebra! I actually have a much easier time as it's like writing out a sentence.

Ugh, I find it extremely frustrating lol.
It may have something to do with this textbook; it uses a LOT of symbols and does little to explain what they really mean. It's really hard to follow along with.
Combine that with a subpar professor and you get a semester full of headaches



Just to stay on topic: currently reading - The Two Towers by JRR Tolkien (still)

 

[Konnie King]

The Man the Martians Made by Frank Belknap Long

 

[jsimms615]

still reading "Deadly Stakes" by J.A. Jance

 

[Konnie King]

My Shipmate - Columbus by Stephen Marlowe