What are you reading?

[Miss Chicken]

I'm going to do this 2016 reading challenge that a friend posted on Facebook (not sure where it comes from):

a book published this year
a book you can finish in a day
a book you've been meaning to read
a book recommended by your local librarian or bookseller
a book you should have read in school
a book chosen for you by your spouse, partner, sibling, child, or BFF
a book published before you were born
a book that was banned at some point
a book you previously abandoned
a book you own but have never read
a book that intimidates you
a book you've already read at least once

Anyone else want to give it a try?

I will give it a try so long as I can include audiobooks.

So far this year I have read and listened to The Wizard of Oz by L Frank Baum, the audiobook was narrated by Emilio Martinez and I has the Annotated Wizard of Oz out while I listened.

That I followed up by listening to Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West narrated by John McDonough.

Maybe I could re-read A Barnstormer in Oz by Philip Jose Farmer as part of the challenge. i think I still have a copy of it on my bookshelves.

 

[C. Cole-Chakotay]

I'm reading The Stand by Stephen King. The unabridged, 1000+ page edition.

 

[Owain Taggart]

I don't abandon books often, but last year it was TransAtlantic by Colum McCann. It was disappointing to give up because while I loved the subject material, but I couldn't stand the writing style.

Currently about to go through the final stretch of Return of the Jedi as part of the trilogy I picked up awhile back. This one I feel is much better than ESB, where the author made way too much use of "laser sword".

And finally, I'm getting back to 1984 on my Kindle. I had my Kindle stolen over the holidays (among many other things) and my Sister gifted me a new one, so I'm just getting back to it.

 

[Tora Ziyal]

I'm going to do this 2016 reading challenge that a friend posted on Facebook (not sure where it comes from):

a book published this year
a book you can finish in a day
a book you've been meaning to read
a book recommended by your local librarian or bookseller
a book you should have read in school
a book chosen for you by your spouse, partner, sibling, child, or BFF
a book published before you were born
a book that was banned at some point
a book you previously abandoned
a book you own but have never read
a book that intimidates you
a book you've already read at least once

Anyone else want to give it a try?

I will give it a try so long as I can include audiobooks.

So far this year I have read and listened to The Wizard of Oz by L Frank Baum, the audiobook was narrated by Emilio Martinez and I has the Annotated Wizard of Oz out while I listened.

That I followed up by listening to Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West narrated by John McDonough.

Maybe I could re-read A Barnstormer in Oz by Philip Jose Farmer as part of the challenge. i think I still have a copy of it on my bookshelves.

Of course you can include audio books!

I loved the Wizard of Oz books when I was a kid, but lost interest in them as an adult. I did read Wicked a few years ago. Liked it enough that I bought the sequel... and hated it. Oh well.

 

[Miss Chicken]

Good. I will see how much of the challenge I can get down.

I found my copy of A Barnstormer in Oz and I am not going to re-read it as the font is too small and it isn't available as a Kindle or on Audible.

i am listening to Jennie by Douglas Preston and not really enjoying it. It was the first novel he wrote and the last of his novels I have to read. It is about a chimpanzee bought up in a human household.

 

[Saga]

I'm going to do this 2016 reading challenge that a friend posted on Facebook (not sure where it comes from):

a book published this year
a book you can finish in a day
a book you've been meaning to read
a book recommended by your local librarian or bookseller
a book you should have read in school
a book chosen for you by your spouse, partner, sibling, child, or BFF
a book published before you were born
a book that was banned at some point
a book you previously abandoned
a book you own but have never read
a book that intimidates you
a book you've already read at least once

Anyone else want to give it a try?

I will give it a try so long as I can include audiobooks.

So far this year I have read and listened to The Wizard of Oz by L Frank Baum, the audiobook was narrated by Emilio Martinez and I has the Annotated Wizard of Oz out while I listened.

That I followed up by listening to Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West narrated by John McDonough.

Maybe I could re-read A Barnstormer in Oz by Philip Jose Farmer as part of the challenge. i think I still have a copy of it on my bookshelves.

Of course you can include audio books!

I loved the Wizard of Oz books when I was a kid, but lost interest in them as an adult. I did read Wicked a few years ago. Liked it enough that I bought the sequel... and hated it. Oh well.

i loved Wicked. the sequels get worse with each book.

 

[Tora Ziyal]

^ I'm glad I gave up when I did, then.

 

[Miss Chicken]

I probably want bother with Son of a Witch unless I run out of other books to read.

 

[Owain Taggart]

My favourite thing about Wicked is how it expanded on the mythology and made the world feel more lived in.

 

[kirk55555]

Trying to struggle through The Sword of Shannara. Its not terrible, but its nothing special. I might just move on to something more interesting.

 

[mimic]

^If you're looking for recommendations, I'd suggest N.K. Jemison's The Killing Moon. It's set in a city-state system based largely upon Egypt/Nubia and is relatively different, as far as fantasy-type books go.

 

[Enterprise is Great]

Star Wars: Heir to the Jedi

 

[Saga]

Trying to struggle through The Sword of Shannara. Its not terrible, but its nothing special. I might just move on to something more interesting.

that is disappointing to hear. i picked up a copy years ago but its somewhere in the middle of my 'to read' pile. had been thinking of reading it since it became a tv series.

 

[Tora Ziyal]

I'm going to do this 2016 reading challenge that a friend posted on Facebook (not sure where it comes from):

a book published this year
a book you can finish in a day
a book you've been meaning to read
a book recommended by your local librarian or bookseller
a book you should have read in school
a book chosen for you by your spouse, partner, sibling, child, or BFF
a book published before you were born
a book that was banned at some point
a book you previously abandoned
a book you own but have never read
a book that intimidates you
a book you've already read at least once

Anyone else want to give it a try?

A book recommended by my local librarian: Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel. I normally stay far, far away from dystopian stories, but I trust this librarian's judgment, and she was right -- I really liked it.

 

[Smellincoffee]

I just finished Data and Goliath, about government and corporate empires of data collection. I'm not sure what is next..possibly Demonic Males.

 

[Saga]

Tuf Voyaging by George R. R. Martin.

 

[Joel_Kirk]

Currently The Walking Dead, Vol. 24.

 

[RJDiogenes]

Tuf Voyaging by George R. R. Martin.

Great stories. I've wished for a long time that he would do more.

 

[trekkiedane]

I just finished Data and Goliath, about government and corporate empires of data collection. I'm not sure what is next...

Skynet?

 

[Retu]

I read The Martian over the weekend.