Post a book you're reading

Post Reply New Topic

The Atlantis Complex, the seventh book in the Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer and will be listening to Storm of Swords, the third book in A Song of Fire and Ice series by R.R. Martin. I don't usually do two at once.

I just finished reading Sum: Forty Tales of the Afterlives by David Eagleman. It's a series of very short stories describing multiple possible afterlives. It's more of an exercise in creative writing than a serious attempt at figuring out where we go when we die, but it's still very thought provoking, and ultimately spell-binding. I recommend giving it a read!

Koolaids by rabieh alameddine.
it was really good. it's about lebanon, the queer lebanese community, HIV/AIDs, war, sectarianism, culture clashes in the queer diaspora, family, religion, history, life, death and that sort of stuff. i could identify with a lot of the stuff the diaspora queers in the novel experienced(because that's what i am i guess). also the guy references many places that i have been or go to or have lived in and it just made me realise that these places have stories. i mean i knew the places had history but if you walk past them they just seem boring but stuff happened there. the writing technique itself was wonderful to read as well. i will hunt down more of his books. i had meant to read this long ago and the people at HELEM (queer lib group in lebanon) love it too so i bought it. best book i have read in a long while.

Commoner the Vagabond. It's about a man with undiagnosed Asperger's who suffered brain trauma while an airman at Vandenberg AFB and becomes homeless afterwards. He later becomes a celebrity because a cartoonist used his likeness for a TV show which became a hit on CBS. Through his trials and tribulations, his celebrity is used for good in regards to the homeless population in Seattle. It's an inspiring book about hope.

Due to the Holidays, it took awhile to get through Above the Clouds but I've finished it just now and ordered Forever on the Mountain by James Tabor. Book examines a 1967 climbing expedition on Denali that went very wrong. Looking forward to reading it.

A wonderful collection of essays, articles, biography, and reviews about my favorite novel.

I was given this as a Christmas present.
Illuminating and insightful book from one of my favorite historians.

I just finished Cold Days. The hero Harry Dresden fights off the influence of the winter knight turning him into a sex crazed maniac while fighting the evil outsider menace and not knowing who to trust. Part of Jim Butcher's The Dresden Files.

Also finished Pretending to be Normal by Liane Holiday Willey.

Working on Dandelion Wine. And I have a few other things to read.

Well, I was thinking of buying this...



...but then I realised that I have a huge stack of DVDs to be getting on with, and any books can bloody well wait until I've made at least a significant dent in that pile of discs.

The Enchiridion by Epictetus again...

Otherwise Enganged
Undead and Unappreciated and
Perks of being a Wallflower

"The Children's War"-Monique Charlesworth

I just finished reading "Shadowhunters and Downworlders", a series of essays about one of my favorite series, "The Mortal Instruments" and am currently reading "Still LoLo" by Lauren Scruggs and the Scruggs family about a young woman who loses her left eye and hand after she walks into the propeller of a plane. It is quite moving and sad at points but she has a great story to tell.

Dutch book called Het land van herkomst ('Country of origin'), by Edgar du Perron. It's basically his memoires written down when he was 36 (in 1935), and much of his childhood takes place in Indonesia, which ties into my special interest. I'm enjoying it very much, I'd never read anything else by Du Perron, but he writes really well.

Rading the Hamish Macbeth murder stories.

Hamish is epic

Stray by Andrea K. Höst. It's basically a diary entry style book tied in with science fiction and fantasy. It is more interesting than it looks.