What are you currently reading?

[TacomaDiver]

Last night I began the next installment of Martha Well's Murderbot series - Fugitive Telemetry. I know it's not the newest book, but it's next for me.

Before I started this last night, I finished a re-read of Neil Gaiman's Coraline. Pretty sure I hadn't read that since it came out originally, and it's a hit for me. Gaiman seems to be hit or miss with his novels, but this one one was one of the good ones. Hopefully I can revisit the film soon (I have a sweet 4k version downstairs that I haven't watched yet.)

I started Coraline because while I wanted to read some comics, my iPad's battery was dead, so I needed a shorter book, and it was available on Libby.

The big book I finished before these was Katherine Arden's newest The Warm Hands of Ghosts. I first found her via her Winternight trilogy which I LOVED! I even got to meet her at ECCC in 2019 - I got the best inscription from her since she knocked her water bottle all over my books. (Luckily nothing was damaged!) Her newest is a ghost/love story that takes place in World War I, and is told from the two main character's perspective. It did not click for me. I think I gave it three stars in Goodreads because I didn't want to be too hard on it (although I may revise that rating to two stars the more I think about it.) I don't know, just something about the book as a whole didn't work for me. Which is a bummer because I bought SO MANY versions of this book from retailers all over the world (well, US and UK - that's all over the world!)

[TacomaDiver]

Trying to get into LONESONE DOVE for a second time, after my first try three decades ago or so didn't work.

I'm pretty sure my wife has been "reading' this book for as least as long as we've been together (so nearly 13 years . . .)

[RonClinton]

Trying to get into LONESONE DOVE for a second time, after my first try three decades ago or so didn't work. Slow going thus far on this Great American Novel, and it feels like I'm again not in the right headspace for it, but trying to push through. If it doesn't happen, will likey try again in a month or two. This after AFTER WE FELL by Dennis Lehane, which I flew through...yeah, it was some issues of strained credulity and some purplish padding in spots, but it was, for me, the definition of compulsive reading.

[Boggle Champion]

Just finished reading the Gauntlet LE of Blake Crouch's "The Last Town", a first time read for me. This book was exactly what I was hoping for when I finished the last book in the series. It pretty much picks-up right where that book left off, and boy was it a pure high-octane horror show of a read, and that ending had me completely in my feels for the rest of the day. Man, what a great way to end the Wayward Pines trilogy! I've only read this series & Dark Matter so far, but boy can Crouch write!

Am now reading the SST signed slipcased LE of Stephen Graham Jones' "Don't Fear the Reaper", the second book in his Indian River trilogy and a first time read for me. I have very high hopes for this one as I enjoyed the first book and am a big Jones fan in general.

I'm also reading SST's Don't Fear the Reaper, a re-read for me...getting ready for Angel of Indian Lake, which I'm so excited for!

I haven't read any Blake Crouch yet, but just this week I got the Pines Limited off of Ebay and I'm looking forward to reading that soon.

[sholloman81]

Just finished reading the Gauntlet LE of Blake Crouch's "The Last Town", a first time read for me. This book was exactly what I was hoping for when I finished the last book in the series. It pretty much picks-up right where that book left off, and boy was it a pure high-octane horror show of a read, and that ending had me completely in my feels for the rest of the day. Man, what a great way to end the Wayward Pines trilogy! I've only read this series & Dark Matter so far, but boy can Crouch write!

Am now reading the SST signed slipcased LE of Stephen Graham Jones' "Don't Fear the Reaper", the second book in his Indian River trilogy and a first time read for me. I have very high hopes for this one as I enjoyed the first book and am a big Jones fan in general.