What book are you reading right now?

[Inkachu]

Life Expectancy is one of my 5 favorite Dean Koontz novels. Out of the 20-25 I've read.

I'd probably rate them
Lightning
Dark Rivers of the Heart
Odd Thomas
Life Expectancy
Watchers

I haven't read any of his super-old stuff- only 1 thing written before 1985- but I've read 90% of the stuff you'll find at a typical bookstore. He's terrific.

After you through 20 or so of his books, they kinda start to all seem the same, but they're still mega fun to read. I LOVE Lightning, Watchers, and Life Expectancy. Others I'd recommend are Midnight, Whispers, and Darkfall.

 

[MehTeh]

Epiphany of the Long Sun by Gene Wolfe

Good choice.



About to start re-reading The Otherland Series by Tad Williams. Might just last long enough till Christmas.

 

[Beauty4Ashes]

the shack

 

[Balugon]

New books I'm reading: The Homework Myth: Why Our Kids Get Too Much of a Bad Thing by Alfie Kohn, and Framing Innocence by Lynn Powell. Framing Innocence is a real recount of how an Ohio mother was charged with making child porn when she took some pictures of her daughter in the bathtub, but later was found innocent, and it talks about all the junk she had to go through and how she could have lost her kid.

 

[Revived]

Just finished Heaven is For Real now I'm in The Power of a Whisper

 

[Edwards1984]

the shack

Eh...better stop on whatever page you're on and find something else. Unless you're reading it for "experience."

 

[GambitTheIntellectual]

Behind Those Eyes - TP Carter

If you don't have it, get it! 2nd time reading it!

 

[TwistTim]

I'm so glad to find this thread exists in Singles... I've seen it in other corners but I don't know any of the readers there...

I finished up Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol in 2 days time...
so now it's well I got bible reading to catch up on, then I will pick up a novel from the stack... I read a lot of non-fiction this year and I need a break from it... though I did read a lot of fiction as well...

 

[crishmael]

I decided my winter break read shall be War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. I've read it before over winter break, but I've decided to read it again.

 

[kevlite2020]

I've been doing some light reading lately...

 

[MyEverything]

The Names of God - George Knight
The Court of the Last Tsar - Greg King
Seeing Christ in the Old Testament - Ervin Hershberger

 

[Rhye]

Ecology of Human Development- Urie Bronfenbrenner. I am in love with this man.

Immigration and Entretreneurship- edited by Light & Bhachu

 

[PeculiarTreasure]

Rereading Eclipse for like the 3rd or 4th time. I want the movie sooo bad. I hate being broke!

 

[Lover_Of_Shoes]

Jane Eyre <3

 

[TheOliveSeed]

A House for Mr. Biswas -V.S. Naipaul

 

[Themistocles]

Good choice.



About to start re-reading The Otherland Series by Tad Williams. Might just last long enough till Christmas.

You know, that was an odd series for me. I read the first book really quickly with lots of interest and then...I dunno. Didn't get halfway through the second book. And I put it down to Tad Williams being a sort of drawn out writer (he has a reputation for that). Except that, not long after that, I read and loved, the whole Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series- loved as in top 5 series' ever. So I dunno. At some point I may have give it another try.

I'm not totally sure what to think about the Long Sun series. On the one hand, Gene Wolfe writes gorgeous prose. And it's a very interesting concept and a detailed world with characters Wolfe clearly knows and wants us to know. On the other hand, I'm uneasy. I don't really understand why there's so much digression. I don't really understand why there's, for lack of a better explanation, so much "telling" and so little "showing". I'm utterly unpersuaded by the love stories. Still, I'm enjoying it and the religious implications are compelling. I really want to love Gene Wolfe. He's a Christian and a conservative and, by all accounts, the best writer on the planet matching that description. For some reason I read the first book of the New Sun series and I loved it, but randomly switched the Long Sun before going any further. I'm practically done with The Long Sun and I don't think it'll be possible for me to say, unreservedly, that I love it, so I'm hoping the rest of The New Sun lives up to the quality of the first book.

 

[Themistocles]

I decided my winter break read shall be War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. I've read it before over winter break, but I've decided to read it again.

War and Peace is astonishing. I'm still in the middle of my first read because I'm sort of savoring every word. I'll probably finish up before the first of the year myself.

 

[broken_one]

Good choice.



About to start re-reading The Otherland Series by Tad Williams. Might just last long enough till Christmas.

I almost thought you said "Ted Williams", because then I would have congratulated you.

A large part of my talent (which is currently being wasted >_>) can be attributed to Mr. Williams' book.

 

[Revived]

I almost thought you said "Ted Williams", because then I would have congratulated you.

A large part of my talent (which is currently being wasted >_>) can be attributed to Mr. Williams' book.

Which reminds me...a sincere thank you to San Diego for Adrian Gonzalez!!

 

[xDenax]

How to Run a Traditional Jewish Household which should be done tomorrow then I'm moving on to Heschel's Man's Quest for God.