Comments on: What are you reading right now?

By: Renee

Renee — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:28:58 +0000

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. :(

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:17:02 +0000

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.

By: Hurrigirl

Hurrigirl — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 06:25:35 +0000

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.

By: DarkSakura

DarkSakura — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 04:45:07 +0000

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.

By: Wenchie

Wenchie — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 04:28:05 +0000

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.

By: melody

melody — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 01:49:44 +0000

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 :)

By: Token Female Gamer

Token Female Gamer — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:42:17 +0000

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!

By: rons_pigwidgeon

rons_pigwidgeon — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:18:27 +0000

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.

By: Brendan

Brendan — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 22:24:33 +0000

Reading Literature after 9/11. It’s a collection of essays. Kinda boring but necessary.

By: Lady-T

Lady-T — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 21:09:36 +0000

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.)