I don't feel like digging up an old thread and necro'ing it.

So, I just finished reading A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon. It was quite enjoyable. The best summary I can come up with comes from the end of the description on the back; "As parents and children fall apart and come together, Haddon paints a disturbing yet amusing portrait of a dignified man trying to go insane politely."

Next up is A Wolf to Remember by Kali Brazier-Tompkins. It was written by a high school student, and published in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. (This is important to me because we're a small province with no major publishing companies, so that's awesome. ) Rather excited to read it.


What's everyone been reading lately?

I just finished Earth by David Brin and it is now one of my favorite sci-fi books of all time.

Blindsight, which you can read in its entirety online. Space travel, first contact, scientifically justified vampires, artificial intelligence and non-conscious intelligence... It's packed with fascinating concepts. I read it a long time ago but I try to recommend it whenever I have the opportunity.

I enjoyed a Spot of Bother it was a good read, although Supergute Tage (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) was much better.

I am currently reading Miracles and Idolatry, by Voltaire, which I am finding quite amusing.

Aside from that I am reading things for my German course. I also just bought the Good Book, by A.C. Grayling which is a secular bible. I'm hoping to have time to start soon because I might go to his lecture while I'm at the Hay Literary Festival at the end of May.

Still have a Brian Jaques book, The Legend of Luke, on my nightstand which I read a few pages of every couple of nights.

Lately? My textbooks.

But fiction that I absolutely loved and been wanting to reread are The Five People You Meet in Heaven and Flowers for Algernon.
And I have a whole list of dystopian novels that I'm still looking for/finding time to read.

The Legend of Luke is my most favorite in the entire Redwall series.

I've been rereading the Percy Jackson books and the Troy Game by Sara Douglass, they're really the only books I have here.

Just finished The Blind Watchmaker, trundling glacially through Unseen Academicals.

This leads me to believe that England is one of those Muslim countries that forbids women to read. ARE YOU OKAY, DAI? WHAT IS YOUR SAFE WORD?

The local library has a :censor: collection in that it just does not appeal to me and its organisation is absolutely horrid. I read some of the classics, but haven't found much else to my liking. As for the only books I have here, the only books of which I brought with me to England. Silly Casilu.

Am I the only one who liked this book? A lot of people seemed to be disappointed with it but I thought it was pretty much up to his standards (maybe not as good as some of the very best, but then, few books are).

Loved The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, had to read it for school last summer.


I finally got the chance to finish the Percy Jackson series earlier in the month, then learned he had started a continuation series, so I got the second book and I'm eagerly waiting for the second one later this year. Month or two ago I read the Codex Alera series by Jim Butcher, and I'm honestly sad that the series ended, since it really was a gripping tale, and in a lot of ways written differently than The Dresden Files. I've got a bunch of Dragonlance books downloaded, but have yet to really get into them. And still looking for more series' to read.

No, not at all, I'm liking it too. The slow speed I'm going through it has nothing to do with the quality, I don't know why it is exactly. But yeah it's fine and up to standards. I was reminded by the inclusion of Rincewind how much better the entire rest of the cast is than him. He's like a really terrible relic from before Pratchett figured out how to write. Even the university randoms have more personality.

I am currently re-reading A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin in preparation for Book V's release this July.

(I can't wait!)

((Omg he finished writing yesterday!!))

Oh yes, how could I forget about A Song of Ice and Fire?! And Terry Pratchett?!

Currently reading The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins...really surprised by how good it is so far.

I did one of these Facebook list things recently and was disappointed to get only 41/47 in the Terry Pratchett Book List Challenge. It is mostly the non-Discworld books that I'm missing. I agree on Rincewind... although it is some time since I read The Colour of Magic it certainly wouldn't be one of my Discworld favourites. I liked Unseen Academicals, I enjoyed it more than his previous one, Making Money. I also quite like the Tiffany Aching series, even if they are supposed to be YA books.

So, I have to read Heart of Darkness. I am excited.

English 12 1, you are the best class I could have ever taken.

I'm currently reading Kafka's The Metamorphosis inbetween re-reading Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov. I'm finding Kafka pretty good so far (I was expecting it to be hideously depressing, considering his reputation, but it's actually funny in a twisted way), so I'll prob'ly end up reading more of his stuff when I'm done. Wish I could speak German, though; apparently there's a lot of subtext that's lost in the translation.

You would think that.