What book are you reading right now?

[Rhian]

Originally Posted by Sass1

Oh just wait until you get to the final book - Eastern Tide - you're in for a treat and a half !! It's by far Juliet's best book so far and one of the best books for adults I've read this year... I had to sit on a review of it for months after being privileged to read the MS (for a paper I'm writing, the original deadline for which was shortly after ET came out but has since been moved back to next Spring :roll.

I'm mentioned in the acknowledgements too - actually I'm in the acknowledgements for Northern Storm and Western Shore too ! ops:

Ooh, so you are! I've waited this long after finishing the first one as I wanted to space them out before the final one came out; unfortunately I got a little side tracked so now I'll probably be reading the last three one after the other!

I'm actually pretty pleased with how much I'm getting back into regular reading now. I can read a book a week no problem (and still work, watch TV and get stitching done), and if I need to I can get through two a week. I know it's not quite up to your speed yet, but it's a heck of an improvement on the book drought I'd been going through before!

[Sass1]

Originally Posted by Rhian

Ooh, so you are! I've waited this long after finishing the first one as I wanted to space them out before the final one came out; unfortunately I got a little side tracked so now I'll probably be reading the last three one after the other!

I love reading an entire series in one fell swoop - hence I waited until I had all of the Illmoor Chronicles books before I began...

Originally Posted by Rhian

I'm actually pretty pleased with how much I'm getting back into regular reading now. I can read a book a week no problem (and still work, watch TV and get stitching done), and if I need to I can get through two a week. I know it's not quite up to your speed yet, but it's a heck of an improvement on the book drought I'd been going through before!

Well it's not a competition, so far as I know ! And don't forget, I neither stitch nor watch TV (although I do write every day, even if it's nothing more expansive than a Blog review), which gives me acres more time in which to read - nor do I work the long hours you do...

[Wolfwood]

I'm half way through Northern Lights (book one of His Dark Materials) by Philip Pullman.

Waiting to be read are the other two HDM books, 5 Alvin Maker books (Orson Scott Card), The Magician (Feist), some Michael Crichton, Dean Koontz (never read any of his books, someone recommended him), Ben Elton and a book about Leonardo DaVinci, because I've always been interested in him, NOT because of the DaVinci Code!

[Sass1]

I'm about to start David Lee Stone's The Shadewell Shenanigans - must say the alliterative titles seem a bit much after you're written all six of them down !

[Rhian]

Originally Posted by Stace

I am severely in love with that book. I really hope you enjoy it, don't forget to let us know what you think.

I have that on my shelf waiting to be read. I bought it in a bookshop in Hay on Wye, and the woman at the counter told me as I bought it that she'd thought it was really awful when she read it. Way to make a sale!

[Technophobe]

Bill Bryson's The life and times of the Thunderbolt Kid. Firstly it made me want to grow up in 50s small town America and secondly it is amazingly funny - I love his dry sense of humour.
And as a historical snapshot it is incredibly interesting, showing just how many changes have taken place in a relatively short period of time.

[Bob_metal]

Originally Posted by Rhian

I have that on my shelf waiting to be read. I bought it in a bookshop in Hay on Wye, and the woman at the counter told me as I bought it that she'd thought it was really awful when she read it. Way to make a sale!

Well I've finished it and it was superb, the first 50 odd pages were a little bit confusing and therefore a slightly hard going, but when I realised that this was a book that wasn't going to explain many of its secrets I got on with it much better. Overall I was very impressed and I'm looking forward to the next book. 9/10

I've also just started Ship of Destiny by Robin Hobb

[russelguppy]

Just re-reaading The Coffin Dancer by Jeffery Deaver

[darkman]

ain't reading much fiction these days. halfway trough Islam and the myth of confrontation

[Pope Gordy]

Re-reading Pratchett's Small Gods as I wait for Wintersmith to be delivered.

I think Vorbis could be Pratchett's best ever villain.