How about now? What are you reading now?

It's September 1, and James Sirius Potter is on the train to Hogwarts. Seems like a good time for new beginnings -- so here's a fresh new "What are you reading?" thread!

As for me, I am in the middle of The Glass Sentence by S.E. Grove, and am enjoying it very much.

Based on the current time of day, I feel James Sirius might just be crossing the lake on the way to his Sorting now. :)

I'm working on The End of All Things.

>2 biblioholic29: Take your time with that. I don't think anybody is anxious for the end of all things.

I got my hands on a review copy of Magnus Chase, which I wasn't interested in reading because I was so burnt out from all the Percy Jackson books, BUT...

I love it! Rick Riordan is very true to Norse mythology, there are several little digs at his Greek/Roman series, and it reads more like the original series, complete with the witty chapter titles! Magnus is like an older, rougher Percy. Oh, and I did not make the connection of his last name, so that was a surprise cameo!

>1 foggidawn: Good call, foggi! And from the previous thread, I'm glad to hear you enjoyed my current read. I love it so far!

This morning I started Bread & Wine as my morning spiritual/faith read.

I have decided that I need to be a better reading role model for my students...after looking over the Newbery/Honor list, I find to my shame and surprise, that out of over 300 titles, I've only read 54. So starting with that list (and knowing that most of the early Honor books are oop), I'm making a commitment to read as many Newbery's and Honors as possible this year. I made a mini-poster "What Am I Reading Now?" with a copy of the book cover, blurb, and Fun Fact. It is displayed prominently outside the library door. I plan to keep the covers and make a gallery in the hallway of all the books I read this year. The book I'm starting with is The Crossover by Kwame Alexander

>6 theretiredlibrarian: What a great idea exlib! If I were one of your students I feel like I'd probably try to keep up with you!

Hello, everyone!

Hope everyone is doing well.

I'm rereading Anne of the Island as I do every few years, and reading slaves of mastery

It suge! *waves frantically. Frantickly? Enthusiastically!*

SUGE! Good to see you!

Frantickly? Is that where you tickle someone with a pastry?

No wait, that's flantickly.

Hi Suge! *waves*. Hi everybody! *waves pastry*

I'm reading Voss. It's very... literary, i guess. But not in a postmodern way. It has an interesting heroine and also an interesting although dislikable hero.

MRANDREW! Good to see you!

Wow! Suge AND MrA? It must be a blue moon!

I finished The Sword of Summer and enjoyed it very much. If you like Norse Mythology or the Percy Jackson series, definitely add this to your list. It won't be out officially until October, so by all means, read something else while you're waiting.

>13 jugglingpaynes: I read that, too! I agree, it felt like he went back to the strengths he exhibited in the original Percy Jackson series. I'm interested to see where he goes with it.

Hello, Suge! Hello, MrA! Good to see (read?) y'all 'round again. :)

>6 theretiredlibrarian: I love your mini-poster idea! Do take photos to share with us.

I finished I'll Give You the Sun yesterday morning while sipping coffee on the balcony looking at a decidedly not sunny beach/ocean (alas). This was a magical novel, and recommend it highly.

I've now started Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None for my book club, which does seasonal themes for our selections (Mystery Fall). Based on the title, I'm pretty sure no one will be living by the end. ;) I'm chagrined to admit that this is my first Agatha Christie, but thankfully book club finally has me reading her!

Exlib: I do something similar in my school library: I take a selfie with the book and call it a shelfie. The kids all did it last spring, too, and loved it.

I am reading The Marvels, the new one by Brian Selznick. It is amazing and based on a house I visited on both London trips.

Hi all! Great to see so many familiar member names 😊Today is my 8 year Thingaversary, and for the first time I used that excuse to go on a book buying spree. I realized that with all the netgalley and library books I've been reading and audiobooks I've been listening to, I had only purchased four books so far in 2015!
I'm currently reading Royal Assassin by Robin Hobb.

Flew through And Then There Were None, and also through After the Funeral, which were the two Agatha Christie selections for my book club meeting this week. I'm now reading The Martian, as I anticipate seeing the film but (obviously!) want to read the book first.

I also started a real time reread of A Discovery of Witches last Friday, Sept. 18th. I had not heard of the real time reading schedule for the All Souls Trilogy until this summer. I thought since the days of the week line up with the dates this year, I'd do it. Chapters 2 and 3 are up tonight.
https://www.facebook.com/notes/deborah-harkness/todays-a-discovery-of-witches-tr...

>17 kgriffith: Great Thingaversary celebration plan!

Am reading Felicia Day's You're Never Weird on the Internet.  Full title being YOU'RE NEVER WEIRD ON THE INTERNET (almost).  Touchstones don't seem to know what to do with the parenthesis.

Continuing with my commitment to read Newberys/Honor books: I just started The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate.

BTW, Crossover was very good. Some of the themes (first girlfriend) are a little mature for my students, but it's mostly about a boy who loves basketball, rap, and his family. It's a novel in verse, the first time since Love That Dog that I've read that particular format. Even though I'm not a huge sports fan, don't really care for rap, I really enjoyed it. The format and subject is one that I think my boys can get hooked with. This is one I'll be recommending a lot to my students.

>21 theretiredlibrarian:  How old are your students?  I read The Things They Carried in 9th grade, and then at a new school in 11th grade.  I told my new teacher that I'd read it before, and she was surprised that it would have been assigned for 9th graders.  It was all the same to us, since we were at a Department of Defense school, and it read like some of the worst case scenarios for our parents to experience when they were deployed.

Truth be told, I'm horrible at guessing what book would be most appropriate for which age group.

The highest grade is 4th grade. Newbery's are chancy...some of them are waaayyy above elementary level IMO. There have been a few I just didn't buy for school because of it. The part in Crossover that is a little mature for 4th grade talks about the protagonist's twin brother, who gets a girlfriend. There are some subtle references to the parents having sex, but I think it would probably go over the heads of most elementary aged readers. The overall theme is family...a black middle-class, professional, two-parent family. This book was also the winner of the Coretta Scott King Award. I highly recommend it, and think that it would be an especially good choice for middle school boys (the protagonist and his brother are in the 8th grade).

The highest grade is 4th grade. Newbery's are chancy...some of them are waaayyy above elementary level IMO. There have been a few I just didn't buy for school because of it. The part in Crossover that is a little mature for 4th grade talks about the protagonist's twin brother, who gets a girlfriend. There are some subtle references to the parents having sex, but I think it would probably go over the heads of most elementary aged readers. The overall theme is family...a black middle-class, professional, two-parent family. This book was also the winner of the Coretta Scott King Award. I highly recommend it, and think that it would be an especially good choice for middle school boys (the protagonist and his brother are in the 8th grade).

Started A God in Ruins over the weekend. Not sure how it's going to go. I had (too) high hopes for it, given how much I loved Life After Life, but I'm disappointed so far. We'll see if it improves...

>25 grkmwk: That's what's kept me from even buying Armada. I've seen mixed reviews and I love Ready Player One to where it's become a go-to comfort read.

Haven't returned to A God in Ruins since last Wednesday. Not yet calling it abandoned, but definitely not missing it either...

My real-time reread of A Discovery of Witches is quite fun. Finished the less-than-good Sharp Knives, Boiling Oil last night. Nearing the end of Mary Oliver's A Thousand Mornings poetry collection, which is just lovely.

I'll be starting Carry On this afternoon and I'm super excited. I had no idea Rainbow Rowell had actually written a Simon Snow book!

>28 biblioholic29: I'm picking up my copy later this week!!

Returned to A God in Ruins last night, after a three week hiatus, and found it much more enjoyable. We'll see how it goes. I have, though, given up on Gaudy Night--just didn't grab me.

I'm nearing the end of my real-time reread of A Discovery of Witches. Not yet sure if I'll continue with the real-time reread of the whole trilogy or not.

Also slowly working my way through Between the World and Me, The Shack: Irish Poets in the Foothills and Mountains of the Blue Ridge, and Bread & Wine.

I just finished Throne of Glass yesterday and got Crown of Midnight from the library today. I need a reading-only vacation, I have so many books I want to read RIGHT NOW!

Just (finally) finished The One and Only Ivan...I put it aside to work on some other projects. Loved it! If you read it, have tissues on hand.

Now I'm starting on another Newbery Honor, The Year of Billy Miller by Kevin Henkes. I love his picture books, but have never read any of his novels.

Also, I'll be diving into a graphic novel, El Deafo by Cece Bell. I believe it was an Honor book this year. The last graphic novel I read was Lunch Lady and the League of Librarians, which I bought several years ago simply because the title tickled me. Before that, the last graphic novel I read was when I was a kid, and it was called a comic book. :)

I'm almost finished with Trollhunters by Guillermo Del Toro. It's taken some work to get through it. The writing is a bit flowery for my taste, but it gets better as the action picks up. Much better than the first 80 pages where I kept yelling at it to get to the point. I wish I could speed read.

I finished Carry On over the weekend. It's divided into 4 "books" and I wasn't a big fan of book 1, but once I got into book 2 I had a hard time putting it down. I think I may need to reread Fangirl now.

Stayed up MUCH too late reading El Deafo last night.

Reading Without a Summer now -- I read the first two books in the series about a year ago, and am just now catching up with the next few. I'm happy to find that I remember enough of the earlier books that I don't feel completely lost. I'd recommend this series to all of the Jane Austen fans in our group. (Shades of Milk and Honey is the first book.)

I just got Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone: The Illustrated Edition, and Magnus Chase in the book order. JP, I'm glad to have read your review. It makes me more excited to read it.

I've been reading lots of random genres lately.

I hope you enjoy it kirby! For the sake of fairness, my 13 year old was not as impressed as I was. She thought the final confrontation scene was too fast. I think she just doesn't like Norse Mythology. I would like to know what you think.

Right now, I'm reading The Sleeper and the Spindle, which I should have finished in a day. If life would leave me alone for a few hours, I might be done by now. :oP

Just finished El Deafo...I enjoyed it very much, as it is the author's autobiography in graphic novel form. I'm not sure kids will get the 70's references in it.
My reading gallery is growing, kids are noticing, and at least one teacher is planning to do the same!
Off to scan the shelves for another Newbery to read.

Abandoned A God in Ruins after all. Just couldn't get into it. I own it, so I may yet return to it...

Finished A Discovery of Witches, then happily devoured the newest Robert Galbraith/J.K. Rowling mystery, Career of Evil--quite good. I'm now reading the next in the Deborah Harkness All Souls trilogy, Shadow of Night, but not as a real-time re-read--just a normal re-read. :)

Reading Glinda of Oz, doing research for my NaNoWriMo attempt.

Currently reading Earth Afire
Listening to Luck in the Shadows
on pause but not forgotten are Royal Assassin and Throne of Glass
Three of these things are quite a bit alike...

I just devoured Fuzzy Mud by Louis Sachar. I would recommend it! I just got Winter from the local bookstore. Marissa Meyer will be there Friday!

>#42: Earth, Luck and Throne. Because the English Royal family are lucky to be still on the earth. Unlike the Russian royals.

No, wait. Afire, Shadows and Glass. Because something afire throws a shadow, unless it's made of glass.

hmmm, i don't think that makes sense.

How about In, The and Of, because they are all propositions. I think.

Reading, listening and pause - because they are all sedentary activities?

>#44: I propose that it is preposterous to think that prepositions are propositions. They are obviously not pros.

Finished Shadow of Night, and enjoyed it more the second time around, which is a happy thing. Now reading the first in the Brandon Sanderson Stormlight Archive, The Way of Kings.

ha. i typed propositions. what a maroon.

Still reading--and enjoying!--The Way of Kings. I want to read it faster than I've been able to, but with fantasy, I've learned that I need big chunks of time to really settle into the story before I can pick up my reading speed. But with the holidays, big chunks of time aren't really possible. Ah well, I take what reading time I can get!

Earlier this month, I finished Ta-Nahisi Coates's Between the World and Me, which was eye-opening and thought-provoking. He spoke at my university in mid-November, the night before winning the National Book Award, which was timely. Tonight I'll finish the Irish poetry collection I've been reading throughout the fall, The Shack.

I've also started two new books for the Advent/Christmas season: The Greatest Gift and The Christmas Letters.

Finally reading the third When Women Were Warriors.  I don't know how interested anyone would be in reading it (published back in 2008), but I'll provide spoiler tags for my gripe, just in case:  I wasn't too gungho about continuing when a romance broke out in the third book.  I'm not anti-romance of all sorts, but I am on the lookout for stories that portray a solid friendship, which don't treat friendship as a consolation prize.  This story, thus far, doesn't do the consolation prize bit, at least.  Otherwise, it's a decent story, though I could also do without multiple racy passages.  I'll just respect the author for writing the story that she had always wanted to read, and fast-forward to the plot that keeps me plucking along.

So, after the whole Sad Puppy thing this year, I've resolved to nominate for the Hugos and not just vote. I've never nominated in the past because I felt like I hadn't read enough eligible works. This year I'm looking at year-end "Best of" lists and reading as many of those as I can in next couple of months. I've started with Seveneves which is getting raves all over the place.

>50 biblioholic29: Good for you, bib!

Spelled is what I'm working on right now.

Still reading, and thoroughly enjoying, The Way of Kings. Also reading The Language of Food, two different translations of the Tao Te Ching, and The Artist's Way.

Recently finished The Christmas Letters, The Greatest Gift, and Bread and Wine.

I moved on to a reread of Leviathan Wakes. I've been told the series gets progressively better and 2015's installment Nemesis Games is on a lot of Best-of lists. That in combination with the fact that my boss is reading them and I'd like to watch the new TV series bumped The Expanse Series to the top of my list.

Just finished The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom, The Neptune Project, and Rump: the True Story of Rumpelstiltskin in the last week. Loved Hero and Rump; Neptune was pretty good. All 3 are the beginning of series. I read Rump last night in a few hours.

Great news! My reading gallery is growing, and the kids (at least at one campus) are absolutely noticing! I pulled all the books from the gallery and put them on display...all but one checked out, and a couple of kids asked for those titles. And today one 4th grade boy asked if he could go out to the hall to read the posters. Such a simple idea, and yet, wow! So pleased with the results and def will continue.

I am starting a re-read of The Blue Sword; it's been several years since I've read it. On my poster "Will I Like It?" teaser, I wrote, "If you liked Merida in Brave, or battling dark magic like in The Hobbit, you will like this book.

I finished Leviathan Wakes last night. I really remembered very little of that book! I plan to start Caliban's War tonight.

>54 biblioholic29: Leviathan Wakes is on my short list, between a rec from Loranne and it making CH's top 5 for the year.

>57 kgriffith: I can't believe I didn't continue reading the series after the first read! My excuse is that I read it as one of the Hugo nominations and by the time I'd gotten through everything else that year I'd lost the impetus. That's not happening this time!

Reading the ER book I got yesterday, Hour of the Bees. It's very interesting.

Finished The Way of Kings, read Six of Crows, and am now back in Sanderson's world with Words of Radiance

I just finished Wonder by R.J. Palacio last night. The fact that this book did not win the Newbery Award is a travesty! I've been reading a lot of children's literature lately, and this is by far the best of what I've read. I am getting ready to start Auggie and Me: Three Wonder Stories, and just called Barnes & Noble to pull a copy of 365 Days of Wonder: Mr. Browne's Precepts. If you haven't read it, you must!

If you are enjoying the Stormlight Archive, read Sanderson's Mistborn series. I loved it!

I am about halfway through the newest Newbery Honor book, The War That Saved My Life.

Since my brother-in-law has a few credits to spare, I'm listening to Witch World on Audible while I work.  I actually burned two credits, starting first with Refugee, but my suspension of disbelief could not accommodate Anthony's...shall we say...interpretation of the female persuasion.  Husband is reading Witch World in his downtime, and I just re-read The Coelura.

Touchstones really don't like me, right now.  Witch World is attached to a 2012 novel, while The Coelura is attached to Nerilka's Story.  Weird.

>53 grkmwk:  I just finished going through that with a meetup.  What do you think of it?

I liked The War That Saved My Life, and stayed up way past my bedtime to finish it, but had a few bones to pick with it. It is set in WWII Britain, about London children evacuees. However, it used several terms I consider American rather than British; i.e. radio, instead of wireless, "Merry Christmas" rather than "Happy Christmas"; "movies" instead of "cinema". "Okay" was used a lot...was that typical in 1939 England? The bio on the jacket says the author is a "longtime Anglophile", so I would think she would know this. Or, perhaps, I've just watched too much BBC, and am nitpicky. Since the author and audience is American, perhaps she changed the vocabulary on purpose for clarity, as Rowling did in Harry Potter.

Reading the latest (and last, I think) in the Magic Ex Libris series by Jim C. Hines: Revisionary

>62 LibrariZan: Mistborn is now on my list!

Finished the superb Words of Radiance on Friday; just amazing. Even better than the first book in the Stormlight Archive, which I loved.

As a palate cleanser, I zipped through Alan Bennett's The Uncommon Reader (delightful), and am now reading Rainbow Rowell's Carry On.

>67 grkmwk: Yay! I was so sick of not having anyone to squee over Carry On with, I gave it to both of my sisters for Xmas.

Just began Echo by Pam Munoz Ryan, another new Newbery Honor.

I just finished Echo! It was great!

I've started Evicted by Matthew Desmond and A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers, and I'm liking both.

>68 biblioholic29: bib, Carry On is amazing!!! I was so sad it ended.

I'm now reading How to Catch a Russian Spy. It's pretty good so far, although the cockiness of the author has been off-putting. However, I met the author at our local book festival last fall, which is helping me. Plus, he was a spy, and that takes a certain amount of cockiness...

I am starting Neverwhere: the author's preferred text

Finished How to Catch a Russian Spy, which was OK. Once he really got into the meat of his spying activities it became more interesting, and he clarified that his cockiness was part of the persona he had to create for himself in order to stay sane while spying.

Started Gold Fame Citrus after that, but it was too intense, so I switched to the much happier, fluffier Anna and the French Kiss. Flew through it, and am now back to GFC.

My boss told me about the Iron Druid Series today. I immediately bought Hounded and look forward to starting it this afternoon.

Reading my ER, Why the Grateful Dead Matter, which is a bit rambling. I'm not sure, but this might have been on purpose.

I'm on the second of Patricia Briggs' Alpha and Omega series, Hunting Ground.

I've been in the mood for rereading -- no, not Harry Potter, or at least not yet (I may do that next, in anticipation of the release of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child -- hey, it touchstones!). I just finished rereading At Home in Mitford, and I'm about halfway through A Light in the Window. This series is a favorite comfort read for me.

About 3/4 thru with The Trials of Apollo. Very entertaining.

>79 theretiredlibrarian: Oh, I meant to mention that I just bought that! It will probably be my next read.

I am reading Mars Evacuees which I thought was just going to be Hogwarts in space, but just went totally Lord of the Flies on me! Half way through and good so far!

I finished reading Uprooted and it was ok, I think I was not in the mood for that kind of story. Oh, well. I started reading American Gods in anticipation of the TV show. I'll let you guys know what I thought of it :D

>81 compskibook: I've been eyeing that one -- sounds like I should give it a try!

>82 Renald128: I enjoyed that when I read it, but I can see it being the sort of thing you'd have to be in the mood for. I also had a couple of issues with the romance, which I think I mentioned when I reviewed it. Very different from Novik's other stuff, isn't it?

Mars Evacuees is on my TBR list. It's at school; maybe I should snag it before the last day of school.

#83: Foggi, I haven't read anything else from Novik :P...I chose that book because it was a stand-alone and not part of a series. I will try reading some of her other work at a later time for sure.

>85 Renald128: Oh, I love her Temeraire books! I liked Uprooted as well, but in a different way.

I'm taking a break from The Iron Druid and rereading Three Parts Dead. I've got a trip to CA coming up and I'm taking the train home so that will be 3 days of nearly uninterrupted reading time. I think I'm going to download a bunch of old favorites on my Kindle and do some comfort reading. I'm not buying new for a reason I will now go post in the News thread.

>83 foggidawn: + 84: Foggi and exl: Now it has turned into The Martian, Jr.!

>88 compskibook: Yeah, still sounding like something I should read!

One of my holds came in at the library today, so now it looks like Me Before You is in my near future.

I finished Furiously Happy, which I loved and couldn't read fast because parts were so funny. Now I'm reading the children's book Orwell's Luck.

Just finished The Trials of Apollo: The Hidden Oracle. I keep thinking that Riordan must have just about run through the supply of Graeco-Roman myth, and then he manages to dig up more, or spin in a new direction.

I've been in a bit of a reading slump lately, as I've gotten bogged down in One Hundred Years of Solitude. It's a beautiful story, but I can't seem to move quickly with it, so I'm struggling to finish. After a month, I've less than 100 pages to go...

#92: grk, I had to read One Hundred Years of Solitude in high school, and I loved it! Maybe part of the magic was lost in translation?

> 93 I do wonder what was lost in the translation, although it was intensely beautiful! I just struggled to move through it...or perhaps it was that I never seemed to have enough time to settle into it deep enough to tap into the story's rhythm. Regardless, I struggled. BUT, I finished last night, and am very glad I read it.

For something fun and fast, I began Isla and the Happily Ever After this morning, and already it seems to be the palate cleanser I need after Gabriel Garcia Marquez's lyricism.

I sailed through three books over the long weekend: Isla and the Happily Ever After, Relish: My Life in the Kitchen, and Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library. They were all quick, quirky, delightful reads.

After that lovely break from heady reading, I started The Garden of Evening Mists yesterday. It's beautiful, but will be an emotional read.

>95 grkmwk: I've been meaning to read Relish, so I went ahead and put that on hold.

I'm back from vacation. Some of you on Facebook saw that I took the train back from So.Cal. and took the opportunity for a Harry Potter re-read complete with candy from the Wizarding World of Harry Potter. I got home on Friday and kept going with the reread. I got through the wedding last night, so I should finish sometime tomorrow evening!

Just started Red Queen last night.

>97 biblioholic29: bib, I love that you created your own Hogwarts Express adventure during your train travels! What fun!

Finished the moving, thoughtful The Garden of Evening Mists on Sunday. Am now tearing through The Likeness, the second in Tana French's Dublin Murder Squad series.

>99 grkmwk:: I also had this with me!

I'm in the last third of Uprooted, and also reading Dodgers by Bill Beverly.

> 100 Perfect!!

Reading the second book in a children's series by Polly Shulman, The Wells Bequest.
Next up will be Bookishly Ever After

The Glass Sentence, but I am having trouble getting into it. Has anyone else read it?

>104 compskibook: I had the same problem with that one -- in fact, I eventually gave up on it.

Read The Likeness, then read The Word Exchange last week while traveling (quite thought-provoking!), and am now reading Faithful Place. Might need to take a break from mysteries, though, as I'm starting to have disrupted sleep due to vivid dreams...

I used to love the Dick Francis mysteries, but then started getting bad dreams just like you said.

Just finished Bay of Sighs by Nora Roberts, an enjoyable, if predictable read. Looking over my TBR pile and trying to decide on the next book. The Red Tent ? or I Am Malala?

I started reading American Gods but couldn't get into it even though I love Gaiman, maybe I quit too soon?

After that I read The Light Between Oceans which was great and can't wait to watch the movie, I also read Uglies, it was fun and light and I finished Furiously Happy which I loved, this book made me laugh out loud several times, highly recommended.

I started reading Pretties and Cuentos de amor, de locura y de muerte (Tales of love, craziness and of death)

#109: Furiously Happy is the best!

My daughter has added Carry On to my ever expanding TBR list. She cannot say enough on it, but can't say anything about it as it would give stuff away. She cried at the end because it was over. All I know about it is that it is the actual story that is written about in Fangirl. I think we decided it was a fanfiction of a fanfiction of a fiction in a fiction. Fiction inception. :)

>109 Renald128: American Gods was my first Gaiman and I wonder if you're being thrown off by the relatively straight narrative? It's very different from say Neverwhere or Stardust (which is the one I haven't been able to get through. I'd vote give it another try before the show comes out.

>110 jugglingpaynes: Carry On is amazeballs. I loved it so much I bought it (and Fangirl for both of my sisters last Xmas since neither of them seemed willing to take me on my recommendation alone.

I'm rereading the Newsflesh Trilogy. I'm doing a lot of rereading right now to de-stress from the whole home-buying/moving process. (I close next Tuesday!)

#111: Congrats on your new home Bib!
My thoughts on closings: Be sure to go to the bathroom before the closing starts, and prepare to feel like you have no idea what anyone is saying anymore. You will be signing about a million pieces of papers. I didn't know what half of them were. I probably signed away my first child to a banker somewhere.

I'm waiting for a couple of books from the Early Reviewers, so I've been hesitant to start a long book. I just finished Smile, which brought back a lot of memories of being a teen. I am so glad I don't have to relive that stage of life.

Way to go Bib! Good luck tomorrow!

I couldn't stand waiting for the library copy, so I went out and bought Carry On!

>110 jugglingpaynes: Carry On is excellent!

>111 biblioholic29: Congrats, bib!!!!

I did not stop reading mysteries/murder-related books after all: finished Faithful Place, Broken Harbor, and The Book of Speculation in recent weeks. Am now reading - and LOVING - Jane Steele! Highly, highly, highly recommend if you love a quirky, funny villaness running about England in the mid-1800s, obsessed with Jane Eyre - I mean, really, who doesn't?! ;)

grk: It's on my list. :o)

Just finished The Trials of Apollo: The Hidden Oracle and about to start Beast of Cretacea, which I should have gotten as an Early Review copy, but it never came. I borrowed it from the library instead.

Started Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi, after finishing the excellent Everyone Brave is Forgiven.

>116 jnwelch: Both of those are on my TBR list! I keep missing them as they come available at my library...

Jane Steele was wonderfully fun! Since finishing it, I've read Kitchens of the Great Midwest (pleasant), The Secret Place (I'm now all caught up with Tana French's books), and A Court of Thorns and Roses (intriguing). I tried to read The People in the Trees, but the lack of morals in the protagonist and the blind hero-worship of his "biographer" disgusted me, and I quit. Too many other things to read!

I'm now reading The Gap of Time by Jeanette Winterson, which is a retelling of A Winter's Tale in the Hogarth Shakespeare series.

>117 grkmwk: I read In the Woods and got annoyed that none of the mystery of what happened to him got solved and it put me off reading more (flashbacks to all the unanswered questions on Lost). Does she ever get around to dealing with that again?

>118 biblioholic29: No, she doesn't. Each book focuses on a different member of the Murder Squad, and while previous cases are mentioned in later books, they aren't revisited. That said, the later books give more complete pictures of the featured detectives' pasts, with exception of the last one (The Secret Place, which departs structurally). I really, really enjoyed the second and third books, The Likeness and Faithful Place.

I set aside The Gap of Time in favor of reading the second ACOTAR book, A Court of Mist and Fury, which was far better than A Court of Thorns and Roses. I also read Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Not sure what'll be up next.

Just finished Cursed Child, and started a spoilery discussion thread for it: http://www.librarything.com/topic/228659

I went through a bit of a book funk after finishing A Court of Mist and Fury, which was SO MUCH BETTER than the first in the series - and I liked the first! So, it took me a while to settle on something, and now to settle into it, but so far I'm enjoying Dan Vyleta's Smoke: A Novel. Reimagines Victorian England where people's sin manifests as smoke and soot coming from their bodies. It's an interesting premise.

Finally getting around to reading Gone Girl.

I finished Heroine Complex over the weekend. It's a fun read about superheroes and demons in San Francisco. The first chapter has a fight with demon cupcakes. That pretty much says it all!

Just started Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.

A few weeks ago, I checked out Cold Mountain from the library; never got around to reading it and returned it. Then a few days later, I opened a box of books in my closet and there's Cold Mountain right on top...I think it was bought at the last last FOTL sale last autumn. So that's what I'm reading now, because evidently the universe thinks should happen. :)

I loved Cold Mountain. Charles Frazier has a very unusual writing style, but once you get into it you wonder why everyone doesn't write like that.

Finished Smoke: A Novel - it was great! Also finished The Girl with Seven Names (intriguing), Wink Poppy Midnight (twisted), and Sweetbitter (meh).

Next up will be the three Hogwarts short story collections released last week as ebooks. More wizarding world adventures, yippee!

On very rare occasions, the trailer for a movie based on a book I've been resisting removes the last of my will power and I give in and read the huge best-seller everyone else read years before. The last book it happened with was Hunger Games but now I have purchased The Girl on the Train pretty much because of the commercials for the movie. Will I see the movie? Probably not. But I'm about the read the @#$% out of the book.

#128, bib: I read The Girl on the Train, I liked it, hope to hear what you thought of it :)

I am reading Crooked Kingdom, I love the whole Grisha universe Leigh Bardugo has created!

I listened to and read Eleanor & Park this weekend. Wow!

>129 Renald128: I love, love, love the Grisha world!! Leigh Bardugo spoke at our local book festival a few years ago, and she was enchanting. Hope to get Crooked Kingdom soon.

>130 compskibook: Wow, indeed! Eleanor & Park blew me away. Gorgeous, heart-wrenching book.

So the Hogwarts ebooks haven't really captivated me, so I reread the third book in Deborah Harkness's All Souls Trilogy, The Book of Life. I then read Winger by Andrew Smith, which was a productively painful read (if that makes sense). Now reading The Secret Ingredient of Wishes. It's getting steadily better, but started off almost too cutesy. We'll see...

I just finished reading and reviewing Her Eternal Moonlight.  I was never a fan of Sailor Moon, as a kid, but this book gives me a bit of an appreciation for it.  I think I'll give that newer Crystal series a go.

I wrote this post and then LT had some sort of fit or something, so apologies if this suddenly appears multiple times!

I made a New Year's resolution (largely because I realized about a week in that I'd already been doing it and thought I may as well make it intentional) to read at least 100 pages a day. So far this year I've finished Caliban's War, Abaddon's Gate, Cibola Burn, and Nemesis Games. I'll start Babylon's Ashes tonight. I'm also reading A Curious History of Food and Drink during my lunch hour, but not counting it toward my daily pages.

Now reading Tehanu.  I've read A Wizard of Earthsea multiple times, but I've never gotten this far in the cycle.  I'm really enjoying it.

Just finished The Hammer of Thor. It was very good, liked it better than the first Magnus Chase book, I think the story was tighter.
Also finished Children of Icarus, which is based on the story of the Labyrinth. It was very interesting, but gory and disturbing at times, and a bit unfulfilling at the end. I can't decide whether the author intends to write a sequel, but there are so many loose ends in the plot that I can't imagine why she wouldn't. I read the whole thing in a day, which is something I normally don't do, but the book did hold my attention.

I think my next book will be Hatched by Bruce Coville. (Link isn't working. It keeps giving me The Very Hungry Caterpillar)

>135 jugglingpaynes: Are you aware of Neil Gaiman's upcoming Norse Mythology? I cannot wait until February 7th! Also, have you read any Kevin Hearne? He's like Rick Riordan for grownups.

>136 biblioholic29: Yes! So excited for that. I've enjoyed everything I've read by him so far and I know I have a lot of catching up to do. He's just making it harder to get through all of his books!

I finished The Expanse including all of the short fiction in the universe. Next I'm going to give The Three-Body Problem another shot. LG tells me it gets really good.

I'm currently reading The Riddle-Master of Hed, in an attempt to work through some of my oldest TBRs.

Finishing up a re-read of the Dragonriders of Pern series: Dragonflight, Dragonquest, Dragonsong, Dragonsinger, Dragondrums and now I'm almost finished with The White Dragon. I found them in a box of books that had been packed away.

My resolution is continuing to go well. Since I last posted I finished the Cixin Liu trilogy, Norse Mythology, The Hobbit and The Fellowship of the Ring. I'll move on to The Two Towers this evening. (You may be shocked to learn I plan to read The Return of the King after that! ;)

Just finished two graphic novel, Heretics! by Steven Nadler and The Big Bad Fox by Benjamin Renner. Also read Evil Librarian which was both dark and funny and full of Sweeney Todd love.

I just finished All Our Wrong Todays, and if you like science fiction and time travel. you should read it. Next up, I'm reading Station Eleven.

I'm reading Six Wakes, a clones in space mystery.

I'm making March John Scalzi month in my house. I'll be rereading the Old Man's War series for the first 3 weeks. Then his new book, (not in the series) The Collapsing Empire comes out on the 21st. When I finish that I'll probably reread Lock In, Redshirts and Fuzzy Nation. That should get me to April!

I'm now reading News of the World by Paulette Jiles, and M Train by Patti Smith.

145 Bib, the Fuzzy books were one of my favorites as a teen! First book I read about them was a sequel based on H. Beam Piper's books, but from the Fuzzies' perspective.

Well, my self-declared Scalzi month ended with a whimper as I got knocked out with a sinus infection and spent more time sleeping than doing anything else last week. But, in the end I did manage to read all 6 Old Man's War books, his new The Collapsing Empire, (which was excellent!), Unlocked, and Lock In. The I discovered I had the Subterranean Press Scalzi Bundle sitting in my Kindle cloud waiting for me to remember it existed - so I finished up with that. A collection of short fiction which included The Sagan Diary and The God Engines and finished with You're Not Fooling Anyone when You Take Your Laptop into a Coffee Shop which is about writing. So I ended up doing fewer rereads than I expected!

It being April now though, I've moved on and am deep into Uprooted. The Girl with All the Gifts is on deck.

Well, I've finished the 2 mentioned above and will be finishing a quick reread of 2312 this afternoon (Mandy's book club read this month).

Once I finish that I'll be starting the Hugo reads. I took last year off because of the politics but they've fixed the rules this year and there are far fewer unworthy candidates this year so I'm back in. Also this year they've added a new category which they're testing out - "Best Series". That means 6 nominees of at least 3 books totaling 240,000 words. Plus all the usual stuff. I'm a little bit panicked. Thankfully, I've already read one of the series - The Expanse and it was just a few months ago, so no need to reread. I'm going to start on the Craft Sequence next. I've read the first 2 of those before so I just need to skim for a refresher and the rest of them were cheap for Kindle so I felt okay buying them. Also on tap are the series Temeraire, Peter Grant, October Daye, and the Vorkosigan Saga.

Wish me luck!

(I'll be tracking my progress on GoodReads if anyone cares to watch me spiral!)

>149 biblioholic29: I've read all of the Temeraire series (loved it) and the first two of the Vorkosigan Saga (really enjoyed them; just haven't gotten around to reading more). And I've heard good things about October Daye. Glad they got their puppies sorted out.

>150 foggidawn: It's interesting, the basic description of Temeraire is nothing I'm at all interested in - and yet I'm weirdly excited for it. There was a Vorkosigan book nominated a couple year's ago - the 15th in the series - and I enjoyed that one. It's a favorite series of my boss so I have high hopes for that one as well. I've also read some of Seanan McGuire's short fiction set in the fae world, so if they're anything like that I should enjoy them. The Peter Grant books I hadn't heard of before but they look fun too - maybe a little Jasper Fforde-ish? They're supposed to be somewhat comic I think...

I just bought my 6th copy of the first Harry Potter book! I had to get the 20th anniversary Ravenclaw edition of Philosopher's Stone!

Hello, my name is compski...

Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya...

Stop saying that! :)

I am halfway through Your Breath in Art. I can't believe how long it's taking to read it. It arrived right before my life got in the way of my reading time.

I just learned the long-awaited posthumous release of the final Amelia Peabody book, The Painted Queen is only weeks away! I have pre-ordered and can't wait for July 25!

I've started The Sword of Shannara, but so far haven't really gotten into it. It had been on my TBR list forever, and there was a special on the trilogy on Kindle a few months ago. I thought I would read it before watching the show, but if the pace doesn't pick up I may have to abandon it.

I got a notice about the Painted Queen, Bib! I can't wait!

>158 jugglingpaynes: I introduced a co-worker to them a couple years ago and she's been slowly making her way through the series, borrowing my copies. She finished the last one about a week before I found out about The Painted Queen so I'm pretty sure that's why it's (finally) coming now!

I gave up on Shannara; started watching the series on Netflix, and am enjoying that. Now about halfway through The Trials of Apollo: the Dark Prophecy.