The Word Exchange:Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation
About to start The Poisoned Crown (The Accursed Kings, Book 3)
Comment has been collapsed.
Rereading Harry Potter, currently on the 6th book and reading A Feast for Crows, although it's been a while since I picked it up.
I'm also in the (very slow) process of reading The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa. It's excelent, but since it's a sort of collection of texts, it's best read slowly, one text at a time, so that you can think about what you read.
After these... I don't know, my reading list is WAY too big.
Comment has been collapsed.
Recently finished The Man in the High Castle(Philip K. Dick) and now reading Slaughterhouse Five(Kurt Vonnegut)
Comment has been collapsed.
this guys thread, he just published a book or something ... i mean
look at the WALL OF TEXT, there's like over 15+ lines of presumed printing-gold lol:
http://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/5pwD0/being-casual-1-greed-and-desire
Comment has been collapsed.
Shadows Beneath: The Writing Excuses Anthology by Brandon Sanderson, Mary Robinette Kowal, Dan Wells and Howard Tayler
I have been reading some books about writing on the last months, If everything goes well I will probably start writing some of my ideas later this year...
It' a pretty interesting reading as you follow the writing process for some short stories from the four authors, but I only recommend it if you have real interest in writing as it is quite repetitive as you go through many versions of the same story to accompany the chances from the first draft to the final version.
Comment has been collapsed.
Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei its a light novel, was made into an anime series, light novel goes way past though and is super interesting, just released a 3 chapter preview of the 17th volume this morning so I'm reading that up right now.
Comment has been collapsed.
I read the first book in the Runelords fantasy series (The Sum of All Men) by David Farland a while ago, and I'm in the middle of the second one now. The world has some... well, one very interesting aspect, but I'm not having fun with the plot. And, seeing as how there are about 5 more books, I can assume things are going to get worse before they get better. As such, I'll probably switch to something else after I finish the current book.
Comment has been collapsed.
I recently signed up for a free month of Kindle Unlimited and proceeded to read as many 'true ghost story' compilations as I could find, plus some that weren't compilations.
I've actually kept a text file which is mostly cursing because so many of these things are the exact same boring stories in different orders, and not even first person accounts, so let's see here...
The four Jim Harold's Campfire books, Strange Things in the Woods and More Strange Things in the Woods by Steve Stockton, 50 Real Ghost Stories 2 by MJ Wayland are all good. I'd recommend Strange Things/More Strange Things in the Woods first, I think he actually went to the effort of picking out the most entertaining stories.
Phantoms & Monsters: Strange Encounters/Bizarre Encounters/Mysterious Encounters are good but they do repeat stories between them and I'm relatively sure if you search up the Phantoms & Monsters blog most of the stories have been posted there previously.
Man Monkey: In Search of the British Bigfoot by Nick Redfern is entertaining but reads like a fiction book. I don't even get the 'these people genuinely believe the stories they're telling even if there's a rational explanation' vibe, I mean every new character he introduces I'm going 'Bullshit that guy never existed'. Don't bother getting Wildman by him, it's formatted as images rather than text. At 100% zoom the text is too small to easily read, zoom in any closer and it gets blurry and actively painful to read. :(
On the non Kindle Unlimited side, the Fortean Times: It Happened to Me series is great and has a lot of the really weird stories that I like. (I don't want to hear about grandma appearing to tell you she died, tell me about watching your alarm clock vanish into thin air and never being able to find it again, or the time you saw a dog walk out of a solid wall)
I've just started The Road Unseen: A Paranormal Journey Into High Strangeness by Dennis W Carroll and Brandon Hudgens, but I haven't read more than a couple of pages so I have no idea if it's good or not.
Comment has been collapsed.
Forta by Michał Cholewa
It's Polish Military Science Fiction and winner of last years Zajdel Award which is the most important polish sci-fi and fantasy award. It's 3rd book in the series, previous two were good, but I wouldn't call them great, but this one is on totally different level I must admit and well worthy of the awards it got. Sadly for now it's available only in polish so most of community won't be able to read it ;p
As for other things I read, here's my goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/38288567-piotr :>
Comment has been collapsed.
1,960 Comments - Last post 5 minutes ago by MeguminShiro
7 Comments - Last post 20 minutes ago by FEGuy
19 Comments - Last post 1 hour ago by Vincer
768 Comments - Last post 2 hours ago by grimfandango8888
37 Comments - Last post 3 hours ago by GarlicToast
49 Comments - Last post 3 hours ago by Chris76de
11 Comments - Last post 4 hours ago by PoeticKatana
46 Comments - Last post 8 minutes ago by PicoMan
186 Comments - Last post 10 minutes ago by kudomonster
436 Comments - Last post 13 minutes ago by Moony1986
2,214 Comments - Last post 18 minutes ago by Mayanaise
172 Comments - Last post 19 minutes ago by genkicoll
137 Comments - Last post 20 minutes ago by RGVS
14 Comments - Last post 38 minutes ago by herbesdeprovence
there are constantly threads for music, movies, and games, but so little love for the written word!
I'm currently reading Uprooted by Naomi Novak. I thoroughly enjoy her Temeraire series and I highly recommend it to anyone who is remotely interested in historical fiction (even if you don't it's worth looking into).
update: Now reading "Blood and Iron" by a local author
Comment has been collapsed.