I don't think this discussion has started yet so I'll do it this time. It's important to me that we don't skip months on this because seeing what you folks are looking over is how I get a lot of my reading list.
Currently I am wrapping up the Gospel Singer and Feast of Snakes by Harry Crews and I have started on HeartSick by Chelsea Cain and A Miracle of Catfish by Larry Brown.
Japanese Horror Cinema by Jay McRoy and The Sight and Sound Science Fiction & Horror Reader edited by Kim Newman for an article I'm researching. A Tabernacle for the Sun by Linda Proud and for bedtime light reading Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins, but that might have to go on the back burner for a bit 'cos I've got to find time to fit in We Live Inside You.
Chris said: Currently I am wrapping up the Gospel Singer and Feast of Snakes by Harry Crews and I have started on HeartSick by Chelsea Cain and A Miracle of Catfish by Larry Brown.
I think Feast of Snakes may be my favorite Crews. But admittedly, I haven't read all his books. So, who knows, that may change.
Is Heartsick the 2nd book? If so, yeah, I read that one too. Really enjoyed it.
Currently, I'm reading It Came From Del Rio. Story is much different than I was anticipating. So so good though.
HeartSick is the first book, I'm not that far into it but its been a really good read so far. I've been reading so much southern gothic that I felt I needed something that wasn't written in a southern dialect.
I think that's the danger with giving all the books in a series similar names. That's why I haven't read any more Dexter books. You forget which one you left off at. But, I read that one too.
Dakota, Off Season is great! I've been meaning to read the sequal, Off Spring, for a long time now. I think there's another one too.
What do you think of Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates? This might sound weird, but when I read it, I couldn't decide if I liked it or not. I mean, I flew through it. I loved the way it was written for some reason, but then reflecting on it after, it didn't seem as good. Looking back much later, I think it was a solid book, nothing super special though.
What do you think of Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates?
Well I haven't started on it yet but I will soon since I got it from the library. I was looking for her first book but realized she had so many damn books that was impossible.
Yeah they're made the movie of adaptation of Off Spring while Ketchum was writing the novel. I though that was pretty interesting. Can't wait to get to them both.
@ Jamesey. That isn't sad. If they weren't quite so long I'd be contemplating that myself. Reminds me, I'm still need to pick up The Wind Through The Keyhole. I walked past a Waterstone's yesterday and saw their adverts for that in the window, along with Skag Boys by Irvine Welsh. Reminded me I need to be spending some money.
I am still reading Buy Jupiter by Isaac Asimov. It's pretty good so far. Yesterday I got Ringworld by Larry Nivern from a charity shop for £1. I may read that next.
@Wicked Voodoo I know - I have to pass a waterstones EVERY day on the way too and from work so I know what its like (and they do such good displays lol). My hubby hates it when I drag him into waterstones unless I let him go and buy a coffee cause Im normally there for ages.
I'm really just using the new book as an excuse to re-read the whole series and it gives the hubby enough hints to remember to that all i want for my b'day is a few more of the graphic novels (which if you've not read I really suggest. They're pretty mighty!)
@James Sympathies - my bloke is similarly phobic of long rambling visits to bookshops. Not that he doesn't like books, just he has this frustrating habit of knowing exactly what he wants and going straight to it. Stick him in a shop full of camera equipment on the other hand and you're there 'til Doomsday while he mutters over lenses.
To be fair though - he does put up with my monthly visits to this place, so I can't really complain.
I finished Zazen last night and it definitely warrants a re-read. The writing is unlike anything I have ever read before. Anyone else?
I started Torch by Cheryl Strayed this morning.
Are there any really good but also really happy stories any of you would recommend? I got my passport photos done today and my current "neutral expression" looks like I'm about to explode into tears.
@Sparrow - I'm 10 pages away from finishing number 1, I'm planning on buying 4.5 when I start 4 to help get me through it (its my least favourite in the series, but I freakin LOVE the graphic novels even though they are just a continuation of the same story.)
@Drea - If your after kind of fluffy story I read a really good book called Back Where he Started, which was a fluffy tale about a gay man picking his life up after his partner of 15 years leaves him. (honestly sounds depressing but is a really nice uplifting story)
Has anyone read Eat, Pray, Love? I've got the movie (still not watched) but i've heard some really good stuff about the book?
@Sparrow - I'm 10 pages away from finishing number 1, I'm planning on buying 4.5 when I start 4 to help get me through it (its my least favourite in the series, but I freakin LOVE the graphic novels even though they are just a continuation of the same story.)
@Drea - If your after kind of fluffy story I read a really good book called Back Where he Started, which was a fluffy tale about a gay man picking his life up after his partner of 15 years leaves him. (honestly sounds depressing but is a really nice uplifting story)
Has anyone read Eat, Pray, Love? I've got the movie (still not watched) but i've heard some really good stuff about the book?
Hulk reviews Eat, Pray, Love.
On the other hand, I'm giving serious consideration to tossing my efforts at reading Castle in the Forest. This book isn't boring because it's dense and difficult to understand. It's neither of those things. Perfectly understandable. Has anyone here read this book and thought it was really good? Something very redeeming about it? Because I'm getting nothing.
So far I am. Loving it. Every minute I spend with it.
It could be "the one."
You know, "the one.". The one you want all the time, the one you want to take everywhere, the one you want to do everything with.
The One. And years later you remember the first time and you have stories together.
We're talking books, right?
Stop judging.
So I've moved on, and now am reading three different books. I like times like these. I've got Jewball by Neal Pollack on the e-reader, and it is really effin' good. It's about a semi-pro all Jewish basketball team from Philly taking on an American Nazi group in the 1930s, I've also started The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo...I'm "ehh" on it so far, but I hear it gets better after a slow start, and then last, I'm reading some cheesey zombie rom-com book I picked up at a used book store. It is called Married, With Zombies and the tagline is "The couple that slays together stays together". It's no literary work of art, but it's easy, it has its moments, and fuck it, zombies are fun.
