Book meme

[sabotabby]

"To play along, just answer the following three (3) questions:

What are you currently reading?
What did you recently finish reading?
What do you think you’ll read next?"

My responses:

Currently reading The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch and Sashenka by Simon Montefiore.

Most recently finished reading The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking by Oliver Burkeman.

Next up: The Dark Side of the Earth by Alfred Bester. (No, not that one.)

On hold: Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt by Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco.

Should you generally be interested in my reading material, I log everything because I'm a nerd that way.

In other news, I miss wouldprefernot2's "What are you reading?" posts. And. Well. I miss wouldprefernot2 in general.

Comments

[misslynx.livejournal.com]

Currently reading: The Last Colony by John Scalzi.

Recent finished reading: Libba Bray's Gemma Doyle trilogy (A Great and Terrible Beauty, Rebel Angels, The Sweet Far Thing)

Reading next: probably Zoe's Tale by Scalzi, since it comes after the one I'm in the middle of now.

But also Ekaterina Sedia's shapeshifter anthology Bewere the Night and a book I can't recall the author of called 10 Days to a Less Defiant Child (title is a ridiculous exaggeration, it's more like 10 different strategies for dealing with highly contrary kids such as mine, but I strongly suspect each one would take weeks to implement at all effectively). I had both of those out as e-books from the library, but I had too many e-books at once, and those two both expired before I'd finished reading them.

[seaya.livejournal.com]

I read a lot of books as a kid but now I only do so occasionally, alas.

Currently reading: The Internet
On deck: The Internet

That's pretty much it.

[radiumhead.livejournal.com]

Read?? Haha, i never do that shit anymore, my eyes move too fast.

But the last thing i read was the second game of thrones book.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_ex_cowboy/]

totally found Blum's "Killing Hope" at Goodwill. i would have paid the used price at Powell's if they ever had it. pages and pages of dirty, fucked up U.S. military porn.
the moral animal by r. wright.
in a different voice: psychological theory and women's development by c. gilligan
dr. tatiana's sex advice to all creation by olivia judson
the dreaming brain by j. allan hobson
battle royale manga
the hunger games book 1

[thebigbadbutch.livejournal.com]

What are you currently reading?
Shadow of Saganami by David Weber (Honor Harrington series)

What did you recently finish reading?
Honor Among Enemies by David Weber (Honor Harrington series)

What do you think you’ll read next?"
In Enemy Hands by David Weber (Honor Harrington series)

I am really in love with Honor Harrington right now. She's kind of like Xena Warrior Princess but in space and without the obvious subtext. I'll probably put Shadow of Saganami on hold as soon as I can get In Enemy Hands (the next book in the series) simply because Saganami is in the "honoverse" but not really about Harrington.

[jvmatucha.livejournal.com]

Most recently read: Becoming Shakespeare by Jack Lynch, a very good book about Shakespeare's evolution into a literary god.

Reading now: Oxford, by Paul Streitz, about the Earl of Oxford and various theories surrounding his heritage and role in Shakespearean Theater. (Sensing a theme yet?)

About to read: The Violinist's Thumb, by Sam Kean, about DNA in the formation of hoo-manz. Science stuff! :D

[ltmurnau.livejournal.com]

Currently reading:
The Counterinsurgency Era, by Douglas Blaufarb

Recently finished:
Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, by Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco

Next up, probably:
Hybrid Warfare and Transnational Threats, edited by Paul Brister

I think this year I should perhaps log my reading too. at least, the ones I get to finish.

[smhwpf.livejournal.com]

Currently reading: Historia kring Stockholm: Vasatiden och Stormakttiden. Bit more academic than I'd bargained for, so might not see it through, but quite interesting.

Recently finished reading: Charles de Lint, Memory and Dream. Before that was the Hunger Games trilogy.

Next up: either Les Miserables, The Colour of Magic (I suck, I've read hardly any Pratchett, which I need to rectify), or a book set in Prague called City of Dark Magic. I'm a sucker for Urban Fantasy, especially when set in awesome cities I know.

The Gentleman Bastards sries (all two of 'em) is awesome, though Lynch seems to be taking his time over number 3. Interestingly, his partner is Elizabeth Bear, who was at the centre of the Racefail imbroglio a few years ago, though I don't think they were together at the time.

[coconuthead.livejournal.com]

Currently reading: Tales of the Secret Earth River by Gretchen Beito and Diane Drake (the latter taught with my mom in a small town SD high school in the early 1970s) and Very Good, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse.

Recently finished Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters

Next....the Picture of Dorian Gray, maybe...or perhaps The Lunatic at Large.

[franklanguage.livejournal.com]

1) I'm currently reading two: Zappa by Barry Miles

and

Wild by Cheryl Strayed

2) The last book I read was Just Kids or maybe it was Djibouti or maybe it was Life.

3) I have no idea what I'll read next.

[marlowe1.livejournal.com]

Oh wow. That's so cool. I'm also reading Lies of Locke Lamora. It's really great. Very happy that I didn't get into it until now since Scott was basically hit with divorce which exacerbated his depression after the second book. Looks like the third one should be around by the time I read the second book.

I'm actually bummed out because I was hanging out outside teh hotel at CONvergence and I had a choice of either hanging out with Scott, Elizabeth and company or flirting with this woman that I met in the most stupid way possible (ie, the "oh sure, show me your short stories" way which then leads me to reading the damn things and trying to be nice because I'm flirting but I'm also highly critical) and while I'm looking at her chart of characters (which was way more interesting than the story itself) Scott was nearby talking about a friend from LARPing days who became a Nazi for a time and really how hard it is to maintain a friendship with a man who has way too much to say abotu the Holocaust and Jews. Seriously, THAT was a conversation that I wanted to hear.

(I also just finished reading a book by someone that I like personally but the book was boring ass steampunk with dull characters and some bullshit about clocks)

[khalinche.livejournal.com]

Recently finished: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, which I thought was great and very thought-provoking especially if you have an interest in the ethics of medical research, Zoo City by Lauren Beukes, very good, Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link, liked that a lot too. Also working my way slowly through The Poor Had No Lawyers by Andy Wightman, about why land ownership in Scotland is do messed up, Debt The First 5,000 years by David Graeber, and A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge. I've been reading all of them for a while. Just started Hard Times on a whim after not reading any new Dickens for a while, and it's quite entertaining in that nakedly-appealing-to-emotion way. Also re-reading Lolita, about five pages at a time, just to savour the language.

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

Current - Assholes: a Theory
Recent - Finch
Next - Kraken

[pofflewomp.livejournal.com]

"So THAT'S what they're for!" - a long book about breastfeeding.

That answers all three questions, really! I am a bit one-track minded at the moment.

I have a kindle now, though, so will be open to suggestions to take my mind off breasts!

[mistersmearcase.livejournal.com]

I must have gotten to LJ right after he stopped posting or died. Everyone seems to have known him.

I'm not reading anything. I don't know how I turned into such a non-reader. It alarms me.

Enter the fanboy ...

[ed-rex.livejournal.com]

Currently reading: (a) Blue Remembered Earth by Alastair Reynolds and (b) Elisabeth Sladen: the autobiography, by (no kidding) Sladen and one Jeff Hudson.

Most recently finished reading: The Hobbit, by you-know-you.

Next up: God only knows, but possibly a re-view of Neil Young's Waging Heavy Peace with an eye to a better review.

[chibibluebird.livejournal.com]

Reading Osama by Lavie Tidhar and Living in the End Times by Slavoj Zizek. Both were given to me, the latter b/c I was curious about references to him on this blog.:)
Last read a pile of books I won as a doorprize at a poetry reading...best not to name them.

[jenlight.livejournal.com]

Salt: A World History and Le Morte d'Arthur

I miss him too. [sadface]