So what are you reading now?

[kimc]

I tried this in another forum and it sank like a lead balloon. However, rumor has it there are readers here so chances are someone is reading something.

So what are you reading now? It doesn't have to be Trek Lit although that's a possibility for some.

I normally read fiction but decided I need to add some non-fiction into my life. I've just finished "Outliers" and am now starting "Galileo's Daughter" by Dava Sobel. So far it's pretty interesting.

 

[Thrawn]

I just picked TrekLit back up in a major way this past summer, after having spent a really stupid year in graduate school wherein I was depressed and didn't read more than about a half dozen books all year (I'm a high school teacher now, and much happier). Ever since, I've been on the biggest Trek binge I can remember, just under 70 novels so far.

At the moment, I'm re-reading Day Of Honor, as part of a plan to re-read all the big Ordover miniseries; I haven't touched any of them since 2001 when Gateways came out, and I'm curious how well my memories formed in high school (when I pretty much read and liked anything) will match my opinions now that I'm more critical/knowledgeable in my tastes. Ancient Blood was about a 6/10, about as I remembered; I'm currently enjoying Armageddon Sky more than I thought, though. Interesting setting, surprisingly deep characterization.

 

[LightningStorm]

I'm in the middle of several books at the moment only one of which I'm "active" in.

Actively reading Star Trek: A Singular Destiny by KRAD

Also in the middle of:

Terok Nor: Dawn of the Eagles by SD Perry and Britta Dennison - this one is quite boring and is taking me for ever to get through (I started it back when it came out and have read several other books since then.)

2012: The War for Souls by Whitley Strieber (This one is quite good, but A Singular Destiny was more important, so I stopped temporarily to read that. I'll be back to this one after ASD).

I've also got the Myriad Universe Anthologies, but not in the middle of any story there, just have only read 3 of the 6.

I also went and bought Tales from the Captains' Table. And read just the first story there.

I need a LOT more time... specifically the free kind.

 

[OmahaStar]

Currently reading The Rising by Brian Keene. It's ... well it's pretty good, so far. I'm liking it.

 

[Ktrek]

I just finished A Singular Destiny, and my next fiction outing is going to be the latest Adam Dalgliesh novel by P.D. James called The Private Patient. I love P.D. James' mysteries. They are really extremely well written, and the only mystery novels I have ever read that I can't figure out who did it before the last chapter.

In non-fiction I am reading a biography about my favorite actress of all-time named Barbara Stanwyck, and it's just simply titled...Stanwyck. I am a huge fan of classic movies pre-1960 and I run a social network for classic movie fans called The Golden Age of Hollywood. So, I read a lot of historical type books about Hollywood, and the stars, and directors of the Golden Age for reference in discussions mainly. It's a fascinating hobby and almost as much fun as Star Trek.

Kevin

 

[Kelso]

The Golden Age of Hollywood

Hey, I used to be a member of that board!


Actually, I might still be. I forgot all about that place.

 

[shanejayell]

Bought Diplomtic Implausability by KRAD. DAMN good book. Also recenty finished his two book Brave and the Bold series.

Is it me or does KRAD write a really good Worf?

 

[Thrawn]

KRAD does, indeed, write a really good Worf

I absolutely loved the scenes between Worf and Spock in B&B2.

 

[shanejayell]

I absolutely loved the scenes between Worf and Spock in B&B2.

That was a RIOT. Especially the personality blending... Spock as a feral warrior, Worf using the nerve pinch?

 

[Trent Roman]

Actively reading Star Trek: A Singlur Destiny by KRAD

Singlur? Can I haz destny now?

Books currently in various states of read-ness:

Creative Couplings, edited by KRAD, some sci-fi thing about engineers zipping about on a ship...

Old Creole Days, by George Washington Cable, about Lousiana around and after the Purchase.

Libra, by Don DeLillo, about Lee Harvey Oswald and conspiracy theories.

Jack Sheppard, by William Harrison Ainsworth, about a petty thief in 19th-century London (real London, not Londontario).

White Horizon: The Arctic in the Nineteenth-Century British Imagination by Jen Hill, title self-explanatory.

Some are... more interesting than others.

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

 

[William Leisner]

Just finished reading Farthing by Jo Walton, which I found a tad disappointing. I have to decide now what's next off the ol' TBR pile...

 

[LutherSloan]

I finished 'A Singular Destiny' a few days ago.

Right now I am reading the book 'Crazy '08', which is about the 1908 baseball season and what the game was like 100 years ago.

 

[LightningStorm]

Singlur? Can I haz destny now?

D'Oh!! And I'm usually pretty good about proof reading and catching my mistakes...

 

[MarciaCat]

Just finished the final Errand of Fury book and I'm now reading Bright Hair About The Bone by Barbara Cleverly. I am still waiting for Singular Destiny and Shards and Shadows to be released in the MS LIT ebook format and getting real impatient about it, I might add!

 

[PaulSimpson]

Working my way through the Kelley Armstrong novels, and reading a story a night from the various Trek anthologies in publication order - just finished TerriO's contribution to Prophecy and Change, which I'd forgotten how much I enjoyed. When we get near print deadline on the mag, I try to avoid Trek fiction if I can just so I can concentrate on whatever element of the franchise we're dealing with!

Paul

 

[JAG]

I just finished Executive Orders by Vince Flynn, and am starting ASD by KRAD.

 

[DimesDan]

At the moment I am reading Peter David's Before Dishonour and Richard Hammond's As You Do.

 

[Stevil2001]

I've been working my way through Corps of Engineers: Wounds the past week or so. I'm on Wounds itself, and it really is quite good; I'd forgotten.

And of course I've got my reading to do for graduate school, which never ends. This week it's:
- Film/Fiction, volume 1: Pulping Fictions: Consuming Culture Across the Literature/Media Divide, edited by Deborah Cartmell, I. Q. Hunter, Heidi Kaye, Imelda Whehelan (finished last night)
- The Aran Islands by John M. Synge (halfway through)
- Little Women, or Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott (will start tomorrow)

 

[Steve Roby]

In non-fiction I am reading a biography about my favorite actress of all-time named Barbara Stanwyck, and it's just simply titled...Stanwyck.

Axel Madsen's book? I read that... must be nearly fifteen years ago. Stanwyck would be worthy of worship if all she'd done was Double Indemnity and The Lady Eve, but there's so much more good stuff.

I am a huge fan of classic movies pre-1960 and I run a social network for classic movie fans called The Golden Age of Hollywood.

I still have it bookmarked. Just haven't had time for the classic movie hobby over the last few years, with life being unpredictable as ever.

Meanwhile, I started reading one of the SCE omnibuses but took a break to read A Singular Destiny. I've also recently read one of Ian Rankin's great Rebus novels and a Doctor Who Past Doctor Adventure, Deep Blue by Mark Morris, featruing the Fifth Doctor in a rather gruesome horror story.

 

[Trek]

Having just finished, and greatly enjoyed, Greater than the Sum, I'm now reading Star Trek Destiny: Gods of Night. Got to tak it a little slower than GttS though as Lost Souls and A Singular Destiny haven't arrived yet (and won't until early March!)