I’m not really someone who can read and write at the same time, but I’ve managed to read three books so far this year:
1. These Broken Stars by Amie Kaufman
2. Pawn by Aimee Carter
3. The Program by Suzanne Young
I had mixed emotions for the first two, but I LOVED The Program. Best book I’ve read in ages! What are you reading at the moment?
Words Read & Written 
I’m reading Geek City Apocalypso by Joe Pacinko and Dangerous Hair by Misti Rainwater-Lites
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Just started the Game of Thrones series and am also reading the Lost Fleet series by Jason Campbell
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My wife just started Game of Thrones. I’m reading Daydream’s DaughterNightmare’s Friend by Nonnie Jules.
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I read a lot since beginning of this year. I read a lot of personal development books but now I’m back to reading Star Wars novels. Right now, I’m in Dawn of the Jedi: Into the Void by Tim Lebbon.
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As of right now I am reading The Sanctuary by Ted Dekker. It’s the sequel to The Priest’s Graveyard which was amazing!
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Jodie, I shall look out for ‘The Program.’ My recent reading has covered a strange selection:
Suzanne Fagence Cooper’s ‘The Passionate Lives of Effie Gray, Ruskin and Millais’. This was based on a lot of letters and gave a good insight into life in the 1800s. It interested me because of her husbands, one a writer, the other a painter. Worth a look. Have read a couple of thrillers and about to read ‘By Blood’ by Ellen Ullman, recommended by Margaux on her blog.
I have ‘borrowed’ your book reading photo for a later date, thank you!! Barbara
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The Big Sleep, by Raymond Chandler
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Oh, that’s excellent. And then there’s The Long Goodbye, which I think is even better.
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I really look forward to reading that one, especially since its a final book and good 🙂
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I’m currently reading “Walk Me Home” by Catherine Ryan Hyde. Before that I read “The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini which was absolutely amazing; a complete story.
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The Audition by Ryu Murakami! It’s really slow haha, but I’m trying to power through it because it’s supposed to get really good.
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I just finished reading “Daughter of the Winds” by Jo Bunt.
I am currently reading two books, one of which is Stephen King’s “On Writing” and the other is a book I’ve promised t review.
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I’m actually reading both non fiction and fiction right now : Wild by Sheryl Strayed and Reached by Allie Condy. But as soon as I’m done with that, I’m jumping into the last of the Veronica Roth “Divergent” books, Alligent.
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I began this year by going through my favorite series, “The Dresden Files” by Jim Butcher, for the third time. Today I just started the fourth book, “Summer Knight.”
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I just started Nicholas Conley’s, The Cage Legacy. It has been very good so far. Can barely put it down.
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The comments to this blog post.
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I’m reading test chapters. ‘m considering doing some translation work from English to my mother tongue. So I’ve got no idea of the book titles. Ans then I’m also reading a couple of Norwegian novels that have not yet been translated into English.
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Oh dear…what can I say? I’m hung over and in need of coffee. To my defense, I normally manage to deliver work without spelling mistakes when it really matters.
Quadruple espresso, anyone?
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I’ll have one 🙂
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The days are long gone when I merely had one book on the go. My main read at the moment is:
General Sir Hector Macdonald, story of a romantic career. by David Campbell
Hector MacDonald was a highly regarded Victorian soldier who started life a crofter’s son and worked his way up the ranks in the British army. In Scotland he was known as the Fighting ‘Mac. A sexual peccadillo caused his to take his own life. A secret funeral was planned. Word got out and 28,000 mourners turned up at (6 am in the morning!)
I know a MacDonald (it’s a large clan) who says there’s a lot of conspiracy theories concerning Sir Hector.For example, he was reputed to have been seen several years after his supposed suicide at a diplomatic function in Japan. Official papers on him should have been released after 100 years; it is believed that they will be retained for a further 50 years.
David Campbell’s book was written before Sir Hector’s tragic suicide.
Also reading:
A History of Western Philosophy – Bertrand Russell
Necronomicom – The best Weird Tales of H.P. Lovecraft
Aphrodite’s Hat – Sally Vickers
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“The Case of Charles Dexter Ward.” Lovecraft’s best need to be reread for maximum discomfort.
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I still have Images in my mind ‘From the Mountains of Madness’. Lovectaft, along with his writing buddies, R.E. Howard and Clark Ashton Smith, inspired my young imagination. To create a cosmogony that would make the proselytizers of science uncomfortable; an interesting ambition.
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It’s a dangerous business, reading this sort of post and the comments. My TBR pile just gets bigger and bigger!
I’m reading Tipping The Velvet by Sarah Waters and Doctor Sleep by Stephen King. So far, I can highly recommend both.
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Besides proof reading my revised galleys, I’m reading the late Professor Carroll Quigley’s “The Evolution of Civilizations” as research for a sequel.
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The name of the wind. 🙂
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Oh. Not a fan.
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So far, It’s been a good read, for me. 🙂
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I’m reading The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith (a/k/a J.K. Rowling). The Program looks cool though! I’ll put it in my “to read” bin in Goodreads!!! Thanks for the tip!
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On my 10th book of the year so far … Body of Work by Pamela Slim. Next up is Daring Greatly by Brene Brown.
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I always have to read, even when I’m deep in writing. Someone said in order to be a good writer you have to: write, read, write, read. I find that they compliment each other.
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I’m reading the Devil in the White City, which is about the world’s fair in Chicago and America’s first serial killer…not my usual, but it is littered with information on American history that I’m surprised I didn’t know.
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Currently reading two: The Language of Flowers (novel) and Eating Animals (part memoir, part informational non-fiction). Although not finished with either, I feel it’s safe to say that I would highly recommend both.
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I just finished “By the Waters of Kadesh” by Carole Towriss. I really enjoyed this biblical historical novel set during the time of the Hebrews’ exodus from Egypt. Very well written and biblically/historically accurate.
I am now reading “Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital. “
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As Stephen King says: “If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
Isn’t that the truth. Right now I’m reading “The Seneca Scourge” by Carrie Rubin (a medical thriller) and “Structuring Your Novel” by K.M. Weiland.
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I insist you read anything by a YA writer by the name of Hannah Moskowitz. She is a GENIUS. I’ve read two of her books, Teeth and Break, and they were amazing. If you are as crazy about YA as I am, she needs to be on your TBR list.
Rainbow Rowell, author of Fangirl, is also an excellent one. 🙂
Thanks for stopping by my blog, by the way!
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I just finished “French Silk” by Sandra Brown.
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I love Sandra Brown. I haven’t read this one yet. I hope you liked it.
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I’m reading a book I’ll be reviewing as a guest blogger, proofs of my new book, and “The Mood Cure” by Julia Ross, M.A. I’ll review “The Mood Cure” on my blog when I’ve finished, but at 46% through I can highly recommend it for anyone interested in mental health from a holistic nutrition point of view.
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isn’t the cover for THESE BROKEN STARS just breathtaking?
This week I’m catching up on INDEPENDENT STUDY and the LIES OF LOCKE LAMORA…we have a guest review of LIES coming up on Friday! It’s a great read!
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Currently reading: “Becoming Myself’ by Stasi Eldredge; “Final Witness” by James Scott Bell and “The Piano Shop on the Left Bank” by Thad Carhart. I just downloaded “The Swiss Courier” by Tricia Goyer and Mike Yorkey. Recently read “Invisible” by Ginny Ytrupp and “The Face of the Earth” by Deborah Raney. Just now realizing what an eclectic collection that is! All great books so far 🙂
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I just finished reading Annie’s Christmas Plan, a novel by Lorraine Paton. It was an excellent sweet romance. Am getting ready to start reading Wool by Hugh Howey. I like a good mix.
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I just finished reading Annie’s Christmas Plan, a novel by Lorraine Paton. It was an excellent sweet romance. Am getting ready to start reading Wool by Hugh Howey. I like a good mix.
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I usually read a completely different genre from what I am writing. It’s typically a book I have read before so I’m not focusing on someone else’s story while I am trying to write my own. So at the moment I am rereading mostly Julia Quinn. I can get into it enough to be entertained and fall in love with the characters but not so much that I lose my story. I can’t read a brand new book that I have never read before while I am writing.
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Good People by Nir Baram. Simply amazing. Just happened to be browsing in my local bookshop and picked it up on a whim. Started reading it and cannot put it down! These are the best impulse bookshop buys.
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Good People by Nir Baram. Simply amazing. Just happened to be browsing in my local bookshop and picked it up on a whim. Started reading it and cannot put it down! These are the best impulse bookshop buys.
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Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast trilogy: a classic from the Tolkien era, and indescribable.
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Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast trilogy: a classic from the Tolkien era, and indescribable.
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Nice choices! Very tempted by THE PROGRAM!
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Nice choices! Very tempted by THE PROGRAM!
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Because I’m me (and just a tad obsessed with the series…), I’m currently rereading Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. I’m planning to start Divergent once finished, hopefully before the movie comes out so I don’t run into any spoilers on the net.
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Because I’m me (and just a tad obsessed with the series…), I’m currently rereading Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. I’m planning to start Divergent once finished, hopefully before the movie comes out so I don’t run into any spoilers on the net.
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American Gods by Neil Gaiman.
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“Hannibal”, by Thomas Harris. Much like “The Silence of the Lambs”, its plot structure is pure gold.
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“Hannibal”, by Thomas Harris. Much like “The Silence of the Lambs”, its plot structure is pure gold.
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“The fault in our stars” by john green. Normally I read fantasy fiction. But I’m hooked on this one. Kind of don’t want it to end.
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This may come as a strange phenomenon to you all, but honestly can’t place myself into reading books even though I love writing and write a lot. It’s weird how I can have lots of imagination while writing, though when I have to read books, I simply can’t manage to make the images move. This may of course be an effect caused by being obsessed with movies and all the factors of storytelling within them such as music, sounds, voices, scenery etc. It is all these things that I miss when reading books and therefore my attention while reading easily fades away. I’m trying to read The Hobbit at the moment and still barely find successing the pleasure of reading.
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This may come as a strange phenomenon to you all, but honestly can’t place myself into reading books even though I love writing and write a lot. It’s weird how I can have lots of imagination while writing, though when I have to read books, I simply can’t manage to make the images move. This may of course be an effect caused by being obsessed with movies and all the factors of storytelling within them such as music, sounds, voices, scenery etc. It is all these things that I miss when reading books and therefore my attention while reading easily fades away. I’m trying to read The Hobbit at the moment and still barely find successing the pleasure of reading.
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