What are you reading?

[noxious.sunshine]

The Arcana Chronicles by Kresley Cole.

I just finished the first 2 books and have the 3rd preordered on Google Play (It'll be released on the 6th).

I really like them!

http://www.thearcanachronicles.com

I'm absolutely dying to know who the girl that models as Evie is on the book covers... I've found the guy who is Jack, but there is absolutely NOTHING on the girl. She's absolutely gorgeous, though. The author even claims to not know who she is in spite of shooting the mini trailer of the books and the behind the scenes photo shoot for the 2nd one.

Anywho.

My sister loaned me "The Goldfinch". I have no idea what it's about, but her best friend pokes fun and says it's one of my sister's "smart people books". Lol

[krissy]

Nafisi rocks my friggin world
Finished that one

Now onto Camus' the outsider

[sharkythesharkdogg]

I just put Hyperion on my Kindle the other day ! Aaaaah, can't wait to read it

I really enjoyed that book. I thought how the book is divided into sections for each character to tell how they wound up on the pilgrimage was just really satisfying. The Shrike, weird time travel tricks, and human emotions were all quite powerful to me.

I have The Fall of Hyperion sitting on a shelf, and I keep forgetting to read it. I'm bad.

I did read From a Buick 8 recently because I got it free along with several other books. I wanted to see how similar it was to Christine. Other than a young man becoming obsessed with the car, it's different atmosphere. This book also divides itself into sections told by the different characters, much like Hyperion. It's not nearly as strong, but it's a decent little book.

[Pant Leg Eater from the Bad World]

Well. I finished Interview with the Vampire today. It was alright. I really liked the first half. But it really just got boring and dragged out after a while. Meh.

I also added a few of you nerds on GoodReads. I'm going to try and be more active on that place.

Only a few more hours until I can start reading Tolkein!

[Slothy]

Read the Science of Interstellar recently. Very good book highly recommend it science nerds. Also got another of Kip Thornes books, Black Holes & Time Warps. Also enjoyable so far.

Also just got some books on casting bronze, sand molds, and one on building a lathe. Eventually want to cast some drums in bronze.

[Pike]

Add me on GoodReads mates https://www.goodreads.com/author/sho...10.S_M_Johnson (assuming you haven't already, I think a lot of you have)

[Slothy]

I must confess that despite you nerds talking about it for years I have no clue what goodreads is.

[Pike]

What is it with this forum and calling people nerds? It's like a bunch of tuna sitting around calling each other fish.

GoodReads is a site that lets you catalog and rate the books you've read. I mainly like it because I like tracking the media I've consumed, which is also why I use Last.fm, Steam, etc.

[Slothy]

What did one fish say to the other fish?

Nothing, they're fish.

[Madame Adequate]

Just finished early iterations of a couple of Pike's own novels, which are wonderful, and have now begun A Canticle for Leibowitz, which I have wanted to read for years and finally got for Christmas

[Shorty]

What is it with this forum and calling people nerds? It's like a bunch of tuna sitting around calling each other fish.

GoodReads is a site that lets you catalog and rate the books you've read. I mainly like it because I like tracking the media I've consumed, which is also why I use Last.fm, Steam, etc.

It is a friendly and joking social exchange in which we show our love for one another.

[Jinx]

I'm reading Bedwetter by Sarah Silverman. I saw Shorty reading it and knew I had to as well. :3

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/8820352-sam

me goodreads

[Shorty]

I think I'm abandoning that one D: Not loving it so far.

[Jinx]

It's very Sarah Silverman. Some of the stuff she writes is just OH MY GOD hilarious (like the part where her grandmother's dying words were to tell her sister Laura that she was the prettier sister) but a lot of the stuff is just really uncomfortable and sad. It's not totally a comedy book.

Also, she throws around the c-word a lot, and I know you hate that.

[Shorty]

I don't mind the sad stuff, I am just not particularly fond of her voice and writing style, I guess. I don't think I've laughed once, and I do believe she intended for it to be a comedic memoir because she's a comedian. It's just not my style.