Thread: What are You Reading?

Originally Posted by welshwizard

I've just finished my last exam for a degree in Classical Studies (40+years after leaving school). I've put away the Iliad, The Aeneid and countless others like them.
Now I get to catch up with Michael Connelly and all the other stuff I've not been able to read for the past few years.

Congrats! Enjoy your newfound literary freedom.

Congrats to weishwizard for getting your degree after so long. For some (and maybe many who won't admit it) achieving a degree is validating a long felt inner need. I have several degrees, but the one I want the most will be long time coming since I am seeking a Doctorate of Procrastination, heaven knows I've earned enough credits towards it.

and now I've moved on to Hermann Hesse's "The Glass Bead Game" I think I might spend the summer reading antisocial books.

I just finished reading Röde orm(the first book), my mom read it to me when I was little and I decided to reread it again now that I can see it from new eyes and I loved it as much as when I was little. A true classic.

I actually took a break from reading A song of ice and fire to read it so when I've finished the second book(Röde orm) I'm going to read a clash of kings.

I love re-reading the books from my youth. Always interesting to catch things we may have missed when we were young and hurried.

Just re-read "The Camerons" by Robert Chrichton A young Scottish girl with a great deal of determination finds a husband and raises a family under brutal conditions in a turn-of-the-century Scottish mining town. Very inspirational story.

Since George Martin is taking forever to finish Winds Of Winter I'm currently reading the ten book saga Book of the Malazan Fallen.

I'm working my way through a series of murder mysteries by Alan Bradley. They are interesting because the main character is an 11 year old girl-chemistry genius called Flavia De Luce, set in post WWII England.

I think the murder mystery part is probably fairly standard fare (I don't read a lot of murder mysteries), but I really like how he writes the character. I sense a BBC/CBC tv series sometime in the future.

James.

The Dog Stars by Peter Heller.

Oh, cool thread! I've been doing a lot of reading recently. Some good ones were:

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson
Murder as a Fine Art by David Morrell
The Bourne Trilogy by Robert Ludlum
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
American Gods by Niel Gaiman

I read Animal Farm in a day, cause I hadn't read it in middle school. Not worth it, if you're an adult, but good for middle schoolers.
I was unimpressed by the Divergent Trilogy, but I read all three anyway. Just fluff, imo.

My summer reading list has mostly sci-fi on it, but I'll be looking through here for some good suggestions.

Currently reading Anathem by Neal Stephenson.