What are you reading?

I am listening to Mount Dragon by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, narrated by David Colacci.

I have read numerous Preston and Child books this year, including done of their solo books. I am looking forward to their new Pendergast book which comes out next month.

 

Cats, Dogs, and Other Strangers at My Door by Jack Smith

 

I'm reading Left Behind Book 1 by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins. I've read the series several times over the year.

 

Just finished the idiot by dostoevsky.

Now reading The picture of Dorian grey by wilde

 

On The Road by Jack Kerouac

 

I am listening to The Cat, the Quilt and the Corpse by Leann Sweeney, narrated by Vanessa Johannson. It is a cozy mystery but the main character is so cat obsessed that she is annoying to even cat-loving me. I hope she mellows out a bit as the story continues.

 

I'm rereading Under the Dome. Will be starting to read the first two Game of Thrones books shortly.

 

My current paperback read is The Poor Mouth: A Bad Story about the Hard Life by Flann O'Brien (Brian O'Nolan). I was reading it while in the doctor's waiting room and I could stop chuckling at the absurdity of the tale.

This morning I finished listening to A Dangerous Thing by Josh Lanyon. It is a murder mystery with a gay protagonist. Narrated by Chris Patton.

Tonight I started listening to Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt, narrated by Amy Rubinate. It is a story set in the 1980s and is about a teenage girl coping after her much loved uncle dies of AIDS.

 

I'm nibbling on a few, haven't dived in yet:
A Short History of Byzantium, John Julius Norwich
Between the Testaments, D. S. Russell
The Strange Career of Jim Crow, C. Van Woodward

 

Just finished The Golem of Hollywood, by Jonathan Kellerman and Jesse Kellerman. Suspense/horror. Fascinating, complicated, creepy.

I don't write many comments in fiction, but I do in non-fiction and textbooks. I also highlight passages that I want to remember.

 

Earth Abides by George R. Stewart.

I've heard nothing but good things about it so it's time to give it a try.

 

I would be interested to hear your opinion. I have always loved the novel but when listening to it recently I found myself cringing over quite a few of Ish's opinions of people.

 

Finished the Doc Savage novel "The Maji", onto "The Golden Man".

 

I've just finished a re-read of The Survivor by James Herbert and now I've started The Martian.

 

Interesting. You don't see a lot of Golem novels. I might pick that up.

 

I have a book titled The Golem and the Jinni on my wish list.

 

Let me know what you think of it!

 

Just finished Sword Art Online Light Novel Volume 02 and started on ARRL General Class License Manual 7th Edition.

 

Non-SF

Robert Goddard - The Ways of the World.
Next: CJ Sansom - Lamentations.

Both write adult thrillers with a strong line in plausibility and interesting plot twists. I recomment hem highly Goddard's are set in the 20th Centurty mostly, while Sansom's main series isabout Matthew Shardlake, lawyer in the time of Henry VIII. Damn good stuff.

 

Sweet. I'll look for that, too.

Will do.

Today, for Halloween, I think I'll be reading Arthur Machen's "The Great God Pan." Last night, I read the introduction to the anthology by Darrell Schweitzer-- this Machen was one messed-up dude, so this should be interesting. I'll probably also delve into my Creepy and Eerie archives.