Once in a while, I like to poke my head in and ask:
So, whatcha reading?
Like, right now.
What is it?
Is it good?
Should we be reading it?
(My own update: I just finished reading Peter Clines’ The Fold, which is a twisty little sci-fi thriller about a group who creates a teleportation technology based on folding reality — and, duh, it doesn’t go so well. It was really good! Also just polished off Delilah Dawson’s Wake of Vultures, which is so good it’ll make you hate her because it’s too good. Weird Westy fantasy stuff, different from but in line with John Hornor’s totally amazing The Incorruptibles.)
Drop in the comments.
Tell us what you’re reading omg right now.
DO IT OR I RELEASE THE BEES
cathy says:
Finished “crank” by Ellen Hopkins today, GREAT book
March 2, 2015 — 12:05 AM
cathy says:
Oh I’m also reading this post
March 2, 2015 — 12:07 AM
Heather says:
I love her work. Impulse is by far my favorite of her books. Have you read it?
March 2, 2015 — 2:03 AM
Janna says:
I’m almost afraid to admit this… I’m finally reading the Hunger Games trilogy. I’m about halfway thru the second one. Reading them for a variety of reasons. So far… The best thing about the story is that the pacing is excellent.
I have Trigger Warnings sitting beside the bed, teasing me with its probable awesomeness.
March 2, 2015 — 12:06 AM
epbeaumont says:
I’m on my third re-read of Polenth Blake’s ‘Sunstruck,’ a cozy detective story set in Spokane WA. A Bigfoot gal is just starting her job as a paranormal detective, figuring out human stuff, including why/how her predecessor and his partner just got murdered. Very dry sense of humor, well-built story, with dialogue that just gets funnier every time I reread. I am hooked on this writer’s work and pretty much parked on their doorstep waiting for the next one to come out.
Oh yeah, and I’m reviewing it on my blog tomorrow, so really I’m just doing my homework *snurfle*
March 2, 2015 — 12:06 AM
Dan Dan The Art Man says:
I’ve never heard of this and I’ve lived in Spokane most of my life. I’ll definitely be checking it out. Thanks for sharing.
March 2, 2015 — 2:22 AM
epbeaumont says:
Blake lives in the UK, and did a lot of research for this (a bibliography is included at the end of the novel). There are a few Britishisms but they’re charming rather than obtrusive. I’d be curious to hear what you think. Nothing like seeing the home town on the big screen, as it were!
March 2, 2015 — 2:31 AM
Dan Dan The Art Man says:
Yeah that’s cool. I wonder why he chose little old Spokane. I’m looking forward to it.
March 2, 2015 — 3:03 AM
classictrekker (Robert Nielsen) says:
I’m working on Laura Hillenbrand’s “Unbroken,” the story of Louis Zamperini, who was a bombardier aboard a B-24 Liberator which crashed during a bombing mission in WWII.
March 2, 2015 — 12:07 AM
Cassandra Page says:
“Running Away” by Julie Hutchings. I love her descriptions, and the idea of Japanese vampires who police fate is refreshingly original. But you should read the first book first.
March 2, 2015 — 12:07 AM
Sue says:
Half Resurrection Blues by Daniel Jose Older is what’s currently on my kindle. Just finished Jimmy the Buddha and Easy, Buddha by Brett Dinelli.
March 2, 2015 — 12:07 AM
Leslie says:
I’m reading “Wise Man’s Fear” by Patrick Rothfuss. It’s the second book in an unfinished trilogy (The first is “The Name of the Wind”) I’m really enjoying it! I usually don’t do epic fantasy, but this one has really grabbed me.
March 2, 2015 — 12:08 AM
Jen says:
Such a great series! If you like that one, you might also like the Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb – the first book is called Assassin’s Apprentice. 🙂
March 2, 2015 — 12:18 AM
Brooke says:
Farseer and tawny man are two of my fave trilogies. Hobbs great.
March 2, 2015 — 12:33 AM
Jessica says:
“Wise Man’s Fear” is what I’ll be reading next! I finally out-waited the holds list. I’m both excited and saddened because then I will have to wait for book #3…
March 2, 2015 — 9:54 PM
hoopmanjh (@hoopmanjh) says:
Currently a ways into Katherine (Sarah Monette) Addison’s The Goblin Emperor and loving it; before that, I read the new eBook release of M.A.R. Barker’s The Man of Gold, the first Tekumel novel — one of my favorite books of all time and one of the books that taught me there’s more to fantasy than faux-medieval faux-Europe.
March 2, 2015 — 12:10 AM
robertnemerson says:
As of late, I’ve been going back through Bujold’s Vorkosigan Saga and enjoying how well it holds up.
I’m also staring at Ari Marmell’s Covenant’s End, trying to will myself to read what I’m worried is to be the last Widdershin’s adventure.
I know, I’m being neurotic over a book series…sue me. *chuckles*
March 2, 2015 — 12:10 AM
magicant2000 says:
I actually just finished Blackbirds and am now going a little crazy that I need to await the re-release of the sequels in ebook form!! In the meantime, I’ll probably fill the gap by diving into Lauren Beukes’ ‘Shining Girls.’
March 2, 2015 — 12:10 AM
V. M. Sawh says:
Going through Fluency by Jennifer Wells. It’s a neat little Scifi romp with an interesting pastiche of classic tropes done in a new way.
March 2, 2015 — 12:10 AM
michala says:
I’m finishing up the dark tower series by Stephen King. (Again)
March 2, 2015 — 12:11 AM
doverwhitecliff says:
Dreaming Spies by Laurie R. King. Awesome read…
March 2, 2015 — 12:11 AM
Jana Denardo says:
I’ll finish Geist by Phillippa Ballantine tonight. It’s a fantasy with a touch of steampunk, the first in the series. I’m enjoying it. It has a good female lead. I’m also reading Buried Bones by Kim Fielding which is a m/m erotica stories and I’ll be going back in time to 1983 and pulling something off my TBR pile that’s been there forever, Andre Norton’s Wheel of Stars.
March 2, 2015 — 12:12 AM
Jen says:
I just started a new fantasy book called Devices and Desires by K.J. Parker, and I can believe I’ve never read anything by this writer before – I’m absolutely hooked!
March 2, 2015 — 12:15 AM
ramblingwords57 says:
I am reading Grimm Mistresses for the second time. These truly dark reworkings of fairy tales are wonderful. Since I am on my second reading in a week that should say something about how much I am enjoying them. Also, I am reading the latest issue of Southern Living. I am nothing if not diverse. 😉
March 2, 2015 — 12:16 AM
Krystal says:
I will have to add this to my reading list! Love fairytale stuff. I just read “Cry of the Firebird” and it was Russian and Finnish fairytales tied up with urban fantasy. So cool! I really recomend it if you are into fairytales
March 2, 2015 — 12:29 AM
Andrew T says:
“250 Things You Should Know About Writing”. Fucking hilarious and educational at the same time. By some dude named Chuck Wendig… you heard of him? Concurrently reading “An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth” by Chris Hadfield. Canadian hero. My hero. Cuz I’m Canadian.
March 2, 2015 — 12:16 AM
Suzan Bond (@suzanbond) says:
White Teeth by Zadie Smith, The Paris Wife by Paula McLain and All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr. Yes, I’m reading three books because I’ve been focused on writing so much lately and haven’t settled on one yet!
March 2, 2015 — 12:17 AM
Sylvidoptera says:
Currently re-reading the Apprentice Adept series by Piers Anthony. I had just finished the Ender’s Game series by Orson Scott Card and needed some lighter fluff to get my head back into a happy spot. 😉
March 2, 2015 — 12:17 AM
dpatneaude says:
P.F. Kluge’s THE BIGGEST ELVIS. Not new, but oh so good.
March 2, 2015 — 12:18 AM
Corinna says:
Julie Kagawa’s new young adult novel, ‘Talon’, about dragons living among us, in an endless war with the Order of St George. Really enjoying it!
March 2, 2015 — 12:18 AM
Haralambi Markov (@HaralambiMarkov) says:
“The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman” by Angela Carter – a WTF book from start to finish and am now moving to “Tales of Neveryon” by Samuel Delany.
March 2, 2015 — 12:18 AM
JJ says:
The Nebula nominees! Right now, Lawrence M Schoen’s novella “Calendrical Regression”, which is bizarrely fun and interesting, and available for free here:
http://www.noblefusion.com/calendricalregression/
March 2, 2015 — 12:19 AM
Paula says:
An Astronaut’s Guide to Life by Commander Chris Hadfield. It’s awesome. Interesting, entertaining and a dash of education (but not in a boring, pedantic way). I recommend this to everyone!
March 2, 2015 — 12:19 AM
Kent Sanders says:
“Save the Cat” by Blake Snyder – a screenwriting guide. It’s a textbook for a college class I’m teaching.
March 2, 2015 — 12:19 AM
Mark Lewis says:
I’m currently reading Hunter of the Dead by Billie Sue Mossiman. The final book in a trilor. Awesome vampire story.
March 2, 2015 — 12:20 AM
Therin Knite says:
Just started Joe Hill’s “NOS4A2.” Lots of promise. 🙂
March 2, 2015 — 12:20 AM
Brent McGuffin says:
Love that book!!
March 2, 2015 — 12:50 AM
Chris L. Owens says:
Reading “I’ll Give You the Sun” by Jandy Nelson. Not what I normally read, but trying to expand my horizons.
March 2, 2015 — 12:21 AM
Ldrwriter says:
Reading The Mark of the Dragonfly by Jaleigh Johnson. Its middlegrade sci-fi. Pretty interesting world she has created here, where meteorites fall from the sky bearing items from other planets and are scavenged by the locals. Some of the charm of a Harry Potter novel and gritty darkness of Golden Compass.
March 2, 2015 — 12:21 AM
lisaprose says:
I am weird I guess because I’m not reading scifi right now. I working on “Waking up White” by Debby Irving, it’s not a page turner but I connect with it in many ways and also “Go Tell it On The Mountain” by James Baldwin which is quite the opposite.
March 2, 2015 — 12:27 AM
Krystal says:
Just finished reading new urban fantasy “Cry of the Firebird”…Its new release from Australian- Finnish author Amy Kuivalainen and it was fkn amazing. Really interesting twist on some well known Russian and Finnish fairytales (Baba Yaga eating children!) I was recommended it by a friend and I am telling everyone about it who likes urban/paranormal fantasy.
March 2, 2015 — 12:27 AM
wondrouswrittenworld says:
Nick Harkaway: Angelmaker after the Gone Away War. Can’t say enough about his writing and his mind.
March 2, 2015 — 12:31 AM
Donald says:
I just finished The Fold, as well, and I have to agree that it was a really good book. I’ve also just finished Vision in Silver by Anne Bishop, the third in The Others series. While it was good, I didn’t like it as much as the previous two, but it was still a good read. Anne Bishop does some “house cleaning” throughout the book so be prepared.
March 2, 2015 — 12:37 AM
writingkat says:
Noooo! Not the BEEEEESSSSsssss!
Usually I have two books going at once, often a non-fiction and a fiction.
I just finished ANYTHING FOR A MYSTERY by Cathy Hickey; very light and light-hearted cozy mystery. Author does a good job of throwing distractions and red herrings around.
I’m nearly finished with GET IT DONE BY Sam Bennett–a book to give procrastinating creatives a lot of exercises and occasional kicks in the posterior.
Have a few scifi in the TBR pile…
March 2, 2015 — 12:38 AM
Mike Voss says:
What am I reading right now? Well, it’s a secret, sorta 🙂 But not that
much of a secret, I can still describe it well enough for interested readers
to find it when it’s released. It’s a beta copy of a novel set in the universe
of The Foreworld Saga, in fact a prequel to The Mongoliad series written
by Neal Stephenson, Mark Teppo, and others.
The beta is written by a fan of the Saga and will be published via the Kindle Worlds
platform, which has featured several short and novelette-length stories set in
the Foreworld, but this one is unique in two ways: it’s the first full-length novel
(at 196K, not a short novel either!) for KW in that universe, as well as the first
(that I know of, at least) to feature characters from the Mongoliad books, in
particular the Binder Cnan and the Shield-Brethren warrior-monk Feronantus.
Is it good? You betcha! I was surprised at just how well-written the book is,
and how the author manages to stay stylistically similar to the original Mongoliad
books. I’d expect Stephenson and Teppo to be proud their efforts led to such a
dedicated and skilled effort. And it’s the first part of a trilogy! It should appear
soon on Kindle Worlds, if the author hasn’t tired of my rather lengthy beta
read – I’m savoring it, you see! – and already set it to publish before I can finish!
Not a Mongoliad/Foreworld fan? What else am I reading, you ask?
Well, I stopped reading Mark Lawrence’s third Broken Empire book,
Emperor of Thorns, to read the Foreworld book. And as much as
I’m enjoying that, any Lawrence fans will know that I’m anxious to return
to that story too! Anyone not familiar with Lawrence should pick up
Prince of Thorns and get busy! Would have loved to beta-read that!
March 2, 2015 — 12:39 AM
Julie Griffith says:
Almost finished reading The Young Elites by Marie Lu. YA/fantasy . Love that the female protagonist is a dark, antihero (antiheroine?) type.
March 2, 2015 — 12:40 AM
underastarlitsky says:
I’m reading and listening to Mira Grant’s (aka Seanan McGuire) books. Reading the first book in her Newsflesh zombie trilogy ‘Feed’, and listening to on audio book the first of her Parasitology series ‘Parasite’
March 2, 2015 — 12:41 AM
Heather says:
I have the Newsflesh trilogy sitting on my desk. Really need to read them soon. Parasite sounds so good, too! How is Feed so far?
March 2, 2015 — 2:10 AM
underastarlitsky says:
I’m 75% through Feed and really enjoying it! And maybe because its a different experience listening to an audio book, I’m actually enjoying Parasite a bit more, but both are good. Have book 2 of Newsflash queued up on my ereader ready to go! 🙂
March 2, 2015 — 5:04 AM
Empress says:
“The Devil’s Queen: a Novel of Catherine de Medici”, by Jeanne Kalogridis.
March 2, 2015 — 12:42 AM
bendodge26 says:
William Gibson’s “Zero History.” Loved cyberpunk since I first picked up “Snow Crash” in high school, but I never got around to reading one of the genre’s founders until now. Each one of the narrative threads running through it is dense enough to be its own novel, but unpacking it all is surprisingly satisfying.
Also working my way through Warren Ellis’s weekly inbox ramble, aka +orbital operations+, and this week’s feature stories on @longreads.
March 2, 2015 — 12:43 AM
glenavailable says:
Fifty pages from the end of a 610 page true crime book WHERE IS DANIEL? by Lindsay Simpson. This book documents the abduction and murder of 13 year old Daniel Morecombe and the hunt and eventual conviction of his killer. This case occupied the whole of Australia for more than 11 years beginning from 2003. The undercover police sting that flushed out the killer must surely be one of the most ingeniuous of its kind undertaken anywhere in the world (though copied from a similar operation mounted in Canada) Voluminous but mostly fascinating read.
March 2, 2015 — 12:45 AM
Brent McGuffin says:
Funny you should ask. I just finished up Brandon Sanderson’s Legion Skin Deep which is short but pretty damned good. And I immediately picked up Atlanta Burns. So far, I’m loving it and diving in head first!
March 2, 2015 — 12:47 AM
Paula Stout Burke says:
Stephen King’s “On Writing.” Really enjoying it though I have never enjoyed any of his other books. I am also reading “The Gift of Imperfect Parenting” by Brene Brown.. and for a little fiction fun (vs all the self improvement stuff) I’m about to dive back into the Janet Evanovich Plum series. I am at #8.
March 2, 2015 — 12:51 AM
Helluu says:
Animal farm by George Orwell. Maybe one of those books everyone should have read :p
March 2, 2015 — 12:52 AM
Dan (@sometimesilie) says:
Dragonriders of Pern. I feel like I’m 40 years behind schedule. Enjoying it greatly.
March 2, 2015 — 12:53 AM
Bill Rose says:
Fifth book in the “A Song of Fire and Ice” series, “A Dance with Dragons.”
March 2, 2015 — 12:58 AM
Steven Hartline (@RoyHotPower) says:
Recently finished one of the Monster Hunter International installments. Now diving into Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children. Cuz every now and then I need to read something I can talk about with my wife’s friends :p
March 2, 2015 — 12:59 AM
Ella Drayton (@EllaDrayton) says:
Remember Me Like This by Bret Anthony Johnson. This book gives me the feels big time. It’s about a family whose oldest son goes missing for 4 years and then is found alive in a town twenty miles from their home. It follows their lives as he comes back home to live with them. This is one of those books that proves that happy endings aren’t always so happy.
March 2, 2015 — 1:00 AM
Kathryn Mann says:
I just finished Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel.
March 2, 2015 — 1:03 AM
ina says:
Several friends have told me it’s brilliant – how are you finding it?
March 2, 2015 — 2:46 AM
Jessica E says:
re-reading Deborah Harknesses book “A Discovery of Witches” again for like the fifth time. Really like it and its something enjoyable to read while I wait for snow to melt. I’m not venturing out until the white stuff is gone.
March 2, 2015 — 1:04 AM
Cheryl M. (@Writezalot) says:
I’m reading through my own book, The Unknown Sun, just because. And also The Queen of Carleon by Linda T.
March 2, 2015 — 1:22 AM