What are you currently reading?

[dannyboy121070]

I just started Doug Stanhope's DIGGING UP MOTHER: A LOVE STORY, and I'm already halfway through...cannot put it down. Brutally funny, vile, heartbreaking...just a great read.

Still slooooowly making my way through Josh Malerman's SPIN A BLACK YARN. The last of the five stories is the best one, at least so far, but this has been a real struggle.

I know it already, but when you have a few years between reading books by him, you forget just how much of an incredible talent Robert McCammon is. SEVEN SHADES OF EVIL is, as always, amazing. I was going to skip the story NIGHT RIDE, as I had just read it a year or two ago, but I got sucked right back in. In a just world, this man would sit atop the bestseller lists all year long, every year. One of the best writers out there.

And I'm savoring Werner Herzog's EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF...AND GOD AGAINST ALL. This is less an autobiography than a rambling stream-of-consciousness series of recollections, and it doesn't really make you want to read it in big chunks, but small nips here and there. I hear Herzog's extraordinary voice in my head as I read, lol.

[Boggle Champion]

Finished Cold, Black and Infinite by Todd Keisling. Really enjoyed this collection, and I look forward to reading his novel Devil's Creek.

Just starting Out by Natsuo Kirino for a book club. I know nothing about this one going in, other than the bookstore owner telling me it was brutal.

[sholloman81]

Finally finished Fracassi’s CHILD ALONE WITH STRANGERS. Pretty good, a solid read. I’m starting A HALF LIFE, a non-fiction memoir, one described by its publisher as: “In this powerful, unforgettable memoir, acclaimed novelist Darin Strauss examines the far-reaching consequences of the tragic moment that has shadowed his whole life. In his last month of high school, he was behind the wheel of his dad's Oldsmobile, driving with friends, heading off to play mini-golf. Then: a classmate swerved in front of his car. The collision resulted in her death. With piercing insight and stark prose, Darin Strauss leads us on a deeply personal, immediate, and emotional journey—graduating high school, going away to college, starting his writing career, falling in love with his future wife, becoming a father. Along the way, he takes a hard look at loss and guilt, maturity and accountability, hope and, at last, acceptance. The result is a staggering, uplifting tour de force.”

Glad to hear Child Alone with Strangers was good. It's high on my TBR pile.

[adman75]

I just started Robert McCammon's SEVEN SHADES OF EVIL, and while I'm thrilled to be reading another Matthew Corbett book the typeface in the trade hardcover is SO....SMALL...as to be almost unreadable. If this is what Lividian is planning for the last book in the series, I'll probably wait for the e-book.

The font was small in the previous book as well. THE KING OF SHADOWS, I believe. I had to stop reading it because it was killing my eyes, which is a shame since I love those books. I imagine the font size is to keep the page count down and reduce costs. However, I'd gladly pay a few extra bucks to have a better reading experience.

[RonClinton]

Finally finished Fracassi’s CHILD ALONE WITH STRANGERS. Pretty good, a solid read. I’m starting A HALF LIFE, a non-fiction memoir, one described by its publisher as: “In this powerful, unforgettable memoir, acclaimed novelist Darin Strauss examines the far-reaching consequences of the tragic moment that has shadowed his whole life. In his last month of high school, he was behind the wheel of his dad's Oldsmobile, driving with friends, heading off to play mini-golf. Then: a classmate swerved in front of his car. The collision resulted in her death. With piercing insight and stark prose, Darin Strauss leads us on a deeply personal, immediate, and emotional journey—graduating high school, going away to college, starting his writing career, falling in love with his future wife, becoming a father. Along the way, he takes a hard look at loss and guilt, maturity and accountability, hope and, at last, acceptance. The result is a staggering, uplifting tour de force.”