What book is on your nightstand? Readers!

[FatDragon]

哈利波特与死亡圣器 - After getting stuck on book five for over two years, I pushed through the sixth one in about eight months and I'm about 160 of ~550 pages into the seventh Harry Potter book in Chinese. I'd like to say I'll finish it before the summer - I'm on that pace, but will my reading time survive my transition to fatherhood in the next week or two? That's far from certain...

 

[passedpawn]

哈利波特与死亡圣器 - After getting stuck on book five for over two years, I pushed through the sixth one in about eight months and I'm about 160 of ~550 pages into the seventh Harry Potter book in Chinese. I'd like to say I'll finish it before the summer - I'm on that pace, but will my reading time survive my transition to fatherhood in the next week or two? That's far from certain...

Congrats! (on the book, and on the imminent Little Dragon)

 

[hagar]

"Brewing With Wheat" - Stan Hieronymus

It's a beer book, but it's a book! It's whatever gets me reading, these days. I used to read like crazy when I was younger. Nowadays I have a great deal of difficulty getting into a book, it seems.

 

[kristiismean]

Cleon Moon: fallen Empire by Lindsay Buroker

 

[hopkincr]

The Big Nowhere, James Ellroy.

 

[day_trippr]

Been on an Arthur C. Clarke jag lately on Kindle with Prime.
One book leads to another. It's almost like he planned it...

Cheers!

 

[passedpawn]

Just finished Follow You Home by Mark Edwards. I would recommend it. A suspenseful psychological thriller about an English couple on a trip through Europe who end up in a creepy area of Romania at one point. Some things happen there that set the stage for the rest of the story. Enough of a page turner to keep me interested and I decided to try his next one, The Devils Work. Just started that one last night.

^^ Finished this. It certainly was a page turner, but the plot was a bit ridiculous. I loved the spooky beginning on the tracks, and in the woods, etc, but man by the end of the thing there were more players and twists. I kinda got the feeling the author was making up a lot of it as he was writing it.

It was a good read for the daily bike rides (I listened to most of it). Thanks for the recommendation.

 

[binabik]

Avenue of Mysteries. John Irving.

I love this guy. Offbeat topics and humor.

 

[Leezer]

@ passedpawn I agree, it had a promising beginning, but wasn't as good on the follow through, although it did keep my attention. Glad it got you through some bike rides.

 

[beermanpete]

Yeast by Chris White and Jamil Zainasheff

 

[Firewalker11]

Back to my childhood with Robert Asprin, The Myth Series, I'm on Mything Persons right now.

 

[binabik]

Love Robert Asprin. My son is reading the series now.

 

[Homercidal]

Wood and Beer. Gift for Xmas.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1938469216/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20

 

[passedpawn]

Reading When I'm Gone now. Just read the first chapterish. Sappy, not for me. Somebody dies, it's sad, there's love notes, yada yada.

But I looked on Amazon and apparently there's more to it than sad syrup. So, I'll give it a shot. At least another chapter or two, but life's short you know

 

[RevA]

Currently Michael Sullivan's Rose and Thorn and Wilbur Smith River God.

 

[Vandulus]

Just got Recluce Tales by L.E. Modesitt Jr. in the mail yesterday. I know what I'll be reading this weekend!

 

[passedpawn]

Just grabbed the audible version of this for my bikerides. Anybody read this? I love Bill Bryson. I've read a bunch.

 

[FirstAidBrewing]

Been doing a lot of reading on Buddhism as of late. Currently reading the one on the left with the on on the right on tap. View attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1483671032.629920.jpg

 

[LabRatBrewer]

I liked Do androids dream of electric sheep? So now I'm on to: The Philip K. Dick MEGAPACK ®: 15 Classic Science Fiction Stories

 

[Leezer]

I just started The Winter Over by Matthew Iden, a thriller/mystery that takes place at a research facility at the south pole. Was my once a month freebie from Amazon prime. Kinda early on but seems good so far.

 

[RevA]

Just got Recluce Tales by L.E. Modesitt Jr. in the mail yesterday. I know what I'll be reading this weekend!

How is the book?

 

[Vandulus]

Cracking it open today as I wanted to finish up the book I was reading first.

 

[ajdelange]

One still had the Dodo bird as "possibly extinct".

I've been to Mauritius a couple of times and I didn't see a single one. So I think you can go to 'probably extinct'.

But every shop on the island has at least one shelf dedicated to gaily painted carved ones, stuffed toy (not real) ones, pictures of them, Dodo shaped salt and pepper shakers etc.

 

[Leezer]

Been reading Square Foot Gardening by Mel Bartholomew. Been around awhile but I just discovered it. Seems like a lot of good ideas.

 

[gratus fermentatio]

The Space Trilogy by C.S. Lewis. I'm not sure I'm a C.S. Lewis fan. Seems to be a lot like Edgar Rice Burroughs' Mars series, which was far superior to C.S. Lewis.
Regards, GF.

 

[dryboroughbrewing]

Octavia Butler's "Parable of the Sower", good read as ever from her.

 

[hagar]

War at the Edge of the World by Ian James Ross. I haven't had a book grab me like this in quite a while.

 

[passedpawn]

Just finished this one. Page turner. Great airplane reading Supersonic jet accident, zombies attacking the cockpit, loads of people doing the wrong thing and covering it up, etc. Not classic lit, but... zombies

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000FA5SS4/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20

 

[passedpawn]

I liked Do androids dream of electric sheep? So now I'm on to: The Philip K. Dick MEGAPACK ®: 15 Classic Science Fiction Stories

That guy (Dick) never got the recognition other writers (Ray Bradbury, azimov, etc) got. But he was as good. I read half a book of short stories of his, then lost it somewhere.

 

[FatDragon]

I finally finished the Harry Potter series in Chinese about a month ago, and I wanted something I could page through a bit faster so I grabbed the unabridged version of Stephen King's "The Stand". Not my usual jam but it's alright, though if there was ever an author who preferred to say in fifty pages what he could have said in five, Stephen King's the one. I'm about 1000 pages in, which is to say I've got another third of the book to go. That's part of the reason I bought it, though; English books aren't as plentiful in China so when you find something that can hold your attention for a month for less than $10, it's hard to say no.

When that's done, I'll probably jump into "Vineland", one of two Pynchon novels I haven't read yet (the other being the one that came out a couple years ago), though I've got a Murakami novel waiting on the shelf as well.