Since things are so busy right now in this fangirl’s world, I thought I’d give you, dear readers, a chance to chat it up.
So tell me, what are you reading right now? Is it good, bad, meh? Tell us about it!
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The Discriminating Fangirl, who is more likely to answer to Pamela if you shout it at her, is currently working on a MA in English, focusing on children's/young adult literature and popular culture. She reads voraciously, loves geeky movies and tv shows, reads comic books as often as she can buy them, and when she's procrastinating, she enjoys playing video games. She can be contacted at t.d.fangirl @ gmail.com and followed on Twitter at the link below.
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Right now, I’m reading two different books (not counting the books I’ve been pouring over for this semester’s art history paper, of course, or the comics I follow). The first is Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane. So far, it’s really good! It’s making me excited to see the movie that’s coming out.
The other book I’m reading is The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown. It’s a pretty good mystery style book in the same sort of style as his other books.
What is Shutter Island? I don’t think I’ve heard of that one. I tend to be pretty insulated when it comes to new book (and movie) releases, heh. I only hear about stuff that I actively follow, because I just don’t have the time this semester to keep up with anything else.
And I have a confession. I’ve never read any of Dan Brown’s work. I think my reaction to it is sort of like how some people refused to read Harry Potter because it’s so popular, heh.
I’m currently rereading “Good Omens” by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett.
Hi, Shannon! That is one of my all-time favorite books. Gaiman’s and Pratchett’s senses of humor blend so well.
Shutter Island is sort of a mystery-thriller type book. From Lehane’s website:
“The year is 1954. U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule, have come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to investigate the disappearance of a patient. Multiple murderess Rachel Solando is loose somewhere on this remote and barren island, despite having been kept in a locked cell under constant surveillance. As a killer hurricane bears relentlessly down on them, a strange case takes on even darker, more sinister shades.”
The book is being adapted into a movie directed by Martin Scorsese. You can see a trailer at shutterisland.com. :)
I’m finishing up The Turning by Jennifer Armintrout and about to start the second book in the series, Possession. I also have a couple books I picked up from work, 100 Strokes of the Brush Before Bed & The Scent of Your Breath by Melissa P (apparently, they’re controversial, so I’m game).
Oh, and about Dan Brown — his writing style definitely isn’t for everyone. I like mysteries and puzzles, which is why I like his books, but I don’t really take any stock in the “oh, all of this is really true and based on history” part he tries to sell. It’s fiction to me, that’s it.
I’m reading about a billion and five things, but they’re all research related, except Death Match by Lincoln Child. It’s really, really good, even if I’m already pretty sure I know what’s causing the book’s main plot mystery, if not all the details of how. It’s a near sci-fi cyber thriller.
Currently re-reading Tumbling Through Time by Gwyn Cready. It’s not brilliant, but if you can get past the disastrously awful cover art it’s pretty amusing.
By dint of some enchanted shoes she can’t actually take off, the lead character gets sucked both back in time and into the novel she hasn’t yet written in a slightly meta pirate-involving sort of way. Hijinx ensue, history gets a bit broken and there’s the prerequisite amount of mistaken identities and anachronistically-accented gypsy women.
Liked it better than Cready’s other book, Seducing Mr Darcy, but that’s mostly because I have Darcy apathy and it ran kind of close to the plot of “Lost in Austen” in some ways even if it does have a completely different conclusion.
Next on my reading list, George Mann’s “The Osiris Ritual” (Mmm, Victorian steampunk mystery) and then Deanna Raybourn’s “Silent On The Moor” (Mmm, Victorian paranormal-ish-a-bit mystery.)
Reading Literature after 9/11. It’s a collection of essays. Kinda boring but necessary.
Right now I’m listening to HP & the Goblet of Fire and Gregor and the Code of Claw by Suzanne Collins (both absolutely excellent). I’m reading Perelandra, the second in the Ransom Trilogy by C. S. Lewis, and a YA book called Hero by Perry Moore, which so far is excellent. Perelandra is hard to describe, except that it’s science fiction and extremely dense. Hero is about a boy who discovers he has a superpower and has to hide it, and the fact that he is gay, from his father, who was kicked out of what is essentially the Justice League and is also a homophobe. I highly recommend it.
I’m doing the PNR groups reading challenge for october on Goodreads.com and am currently on the sixth (out of nine). It Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart. Its a reread for me, but I love it so much that I seriously doubt this will be my last time through. =)
I’m also relistening to Hat Full Of Sky by Terry Pratchet. The reader, Steven Briggs, is awesome with all different accents that show up in the book. He is by far the most skilled reader I have listened too on CD. Besides Terry Pratchet is hilarious!
Death Troopers by Joe Schreiber. Star Wars and zombies, I mean come on how can you go wrong? I met the author last night at a reading (woo for him being in the same non-home city as the same time as me!) and he’s cool as hell. book is good so far, I’m only about 50 pages in. But Star Wars horror sounds pretty cool to me :)
I’m in the middle of Terry Jones’ Barbarians, and Midnight Never Come by Marie Brennan. Both are library books and I just know I’m gonna have to recheck the Terry Jones one. Because even though it’s interesting, it takes me longer to read non-fiction. :\
Both books are good so far though.
I’m reading Star Trek Titan – Over a Torrent Sea. It’s one of the books from the big pile of Star Trek books MarronMarvel sent me.
I’m currently reading Spellbinder by Melanie Rawn. I’m really enjoying it with the exception of all the Gaelic thrown in at random intervals. I hate feeling like I need to take notes on pronunciation and meanings. I think after that I am going to read Physics of the Impossible by Michio Kaku.
I’m currently working on an oldie I found in a used book store, titled The Cross of Frankenstein, by Robert J. Myers. It’s not bad so far (I’m a little more than halfway through); the tone and stylistic choices and language is all consistent with the period and Mary Shelley’s original work.
After that, I’m moving on to Jailbait Zombie, by Mario Acevedo.
Just finished up Girl Genius #1 by Phil Foglio. It’s actually an online comic that they’ve compiled. I fell in love with the characters. It’s Steampunk fun! http://www.girlgenius.net if you want to read it online! :)
I’m currently reading Castle Waiting by Linda Medley. I just started it about 20 minutes ago so no real feelings on it yet. It’s also a graphic novel. I’ve been on a tear with graphic novels lately.
I’m listening to Sisters Grimm: The Fairy-tale Detectives by Michael Buckley. Mr. Buckley is coming to visit my library on Nov. 14th and I want to be able to at least say I’ve read ONE of his books. I couldn’t see myself reading N.E.R.D.S., his new book. So Sisters Grimm it is. I’m… not loving it yet. But hopefully soon. It seems like something that I really should love, right now though I want to kick the lead girl in the head. Hard. And I would feel no remorse.
Also, finally finished up Inkdeath on Thursday. And I hated it. Sadly. :(