that book was indeed very sad

I didn't like the ending so much though

Currently Reading: Startide Rising
Dolphins in spaaaaaaaaace. OMG!
Favourite Book: Americ (The Book): A Citizen's Guide To Democracy Inaction
"A Bridgett Jone's Diary for the educational, nonfiction textbook set"
Favorite Series: His Mortal Instruments
Spoiler Warning: Awesome

Currently Reading:

-The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the fall of New York by Robert Caro
-The Open Society and its Enemies by Karl Popper
-Maximum City by Suketu Mehta

I blame my roommate for constantly having interesting sounding books lying around the apartment.

Reading book 5 of the Dresden Files.

You know what I hate about reading new books? We've got until Fall '14 before the second Reckoners book. Steelheart was pretty good. Saw some stuff coming, but nice twist at the end. Not what I thought it would be.

Currently I am reading a novelization of Star Trek: Voyager, "Endgame".

Just finished reading: Chimes at Midnight by Seanan McGuire

~SE++

Does listening to Dune via audio book while working on other stuff count as reading?

Sure, why not?

I spent the last four days traveling, and somehow forgot my Kindle (the horror!). I picked up a copy of The Woman Who Died A Lot (the latest in Jasper Fforde's "Thursday Next" series"), which was OK, and The Lies of Locke Lamora, which was excellent.

Now it's on to The Way of Kings...

I am doing the exact same thing. The version I am listening to keeps doing this odd thing of occasionally having different voice actors voice the characters, and then in mid chapter switch back to just the main narrator doing the voices. Plus I wish he would just use his regular voice for people like Jessica. His falsetto is a little irritating.

I finshed up both John Grisham's new book "Sycamore Row" and Veronica Roth's "Allegiant" so right now i'm not reading anything

I haaaaated that book in high school. Loathed it. We were required to write a book report talking about how the main character (I can't remember his name) changed over the course of the novel, and my report basically said that he was a terrible character who didn't change at all because he was just as terrible at the end as he was at the beginning.

I've been trying to pick up the latest Dresden Files novel at the library, but the waiting list is enormous; I actually made it to the front and had it waiting for me, but it had been so long I forgot about the hold and didn't pick it up in time. Back to square one...

A Cure for Cancer:

This is part of the Jerry Cornelius quartet, which is hailed as one of the seminal works in the New Wave of science fiction. Jerry's wielding a vibragun, feeds off the psychic energy of those around him, and is hell-bent on recovering a black box that accelerates the world's slip into entropy. Journalist, glutton, and bishop Dennis Beesley is trying to destroy the box to lock the world in a state of perfect Law. Problem is, the war raging in Europe as well as the uprising of American Indians and Black Panthers in the US would go on without end. The catch to Jerry acquiring the box is that the world would decay, thus allowing a new Cycle of Time to begin.

Favorite Book: either Revenge of the Rose or The White Wolf's Son.

Favorite Series: The Malazan Book of the Fallen (Erikson's works; I haven't read Esslemont's)

Currently Reading:

Everything that Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor

I read A Good Man is Hard to Find years ago, and I am belatedly starting on the second of O'Connor's two collections of short stories.

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu

Here's the first page in this novel:

"When it happens, this is what happens: I shoot myself. Not, you know, my self self. I shoot my future self. He steps out of a time machine, introduces himself as Charles Yu. What else am I supposed to do? I kill him. I kill my own future."

What I wouldn't give to be able to write a first page that good.

The rest of the book is a little bit of a letdown. It mixes science-fiction and pop-culture satire with an examination of the paradoxes of time travel and a meditation on family relationships. Most of it is really good, but the author is primarily a short story writer, and I think it shows. There are long sections, mainly focused on the father-son dynamic, where the story seems to run out of steam, and the prose gets a little florid for my taste. But I would still recommend it.

Favorite Book:

Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard

The thing which always gets me about Get Shorty is that it seems like it must have been easy to write, and I mean that as the best possible kind of compliment. The characters - the way they talk to each other, the way they make mistakes, the way they rationalize their actions - seem so real that it almost tricks you into feeling like Leonard didn't make these people up, that they really exist and all he had to do was follow them around and write down what they said and did. Put aside for the moment that the book is funny and suspenseful and all those other things - to make writing look that easy and natural is an amazing accomplishment.

I suspect that, if you put all the bad crime stories which people have tried to write after reading Get Shorty from end-to-end, they would reach from Miami to LA. (And I would know, because I have contributed to that pile.)

Get Shorty isn't the best book I've ever read, and there are plenty of other books which I might choose as my favorite depending on my mood or the moment, but this book more than any other always leaves me with the profound sense that I've enjoyed something great without feeling like it is some sort of impossible creation which belongs on a pedestal. Reading Flannery O'Connor, for example, I think: "How did she do that?" Reading Get Shorty tricks me into thinking: "I bet I could do it, too." And that's a pretty neat trick.

On Dresden Files book 6. I was actually going to take a break from the series for a book or two, but a BART delay threw that idea out the window.

Bed stand book, Warhammer:Thanquil series
Work: The Dwarves, third book and Dragonlance The fall of Magic series.

KEEP READING THE SERIES!

I happened to be passing by the box of old books I had when I was a kid yesterday, and picked one up just because: The Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White. It was still entertaining, but it's amazing how many aspects of the story I just glossed over and accepted as a kid leap out at me as being totally ridiculous as an adult--they practically scream "This is for kids!"

I just started reading "infinite jest." Wish me luck.

Ive been thinking about reading some stuff by Patrick Rothfuss.


I just wish I had time to read!

I went on a 3-week tear where I read Jim Butcher's entire catalogue and couldn't write a single thing. Which reminds me, I should probably post the first chapter of my urban fantasy novel in the creative corner.