What are you currently reading?

i am reading Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. I hate the blade runner movie, but the book has been rather enjoyable so far.

I'm reading translated Xianxia novel daily :)

What are you currently reading?

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Back to Stephen King again after a long break. Currently reading The Shining(I know, I know, bit late...). It's really quite good, but to be honest, after having just finished A Clash of Kings and A Storm of Swords, it also feels a bit empty. Like, where are all the characters? Where are all the locations?? 3 guys in a hotel, that's it? Where's my living, breathing world that makes me look up the index every few pages just to remember where this guy came from?

But then again I do know that's just not what this is about and it doesn't make it any better or worse than those two, just having some trouble adjusting.

(Weirdly enough, this isn't the first book I've read after the SOIAF series, that was Perks of Being a Wallflower, and it didn't give me this feeling at all even though it was even smaller in scale. But I mean, that was just short and sweet and the way it was written made it seem less like a book entirely so maybe that's the thing)

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (for the first time!). Just finished reading the second task chapter.

final book of the foundation series by asimov

Just finished Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson. About halfway through Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson. Just started The Death And Life of Zebulon Finch

Just finished Uppity Women of Medieval Times by Vicki Leon,
William Shakespeare's Star Wars : verily, a new hope by Ian Doescher

and am currently reading The Wide World's End (A Tournament of Shadows) by James Enge

My first light novel, Release that Witch. Currently at Volume 3 and loving it so far!

Recently finished the Song of Ice and Fire series and already impatient for the next book. I have no idea how some people handled the 11 year break between Swords and Dance :O

Til then I'm reading Bazaar of Bad Dreams from Stephen King. I found the concept really nice, and to be honest I feel quite bad for only now getting around to it. I received it as a birthday gift back in October. But I'm making may Read a Book you Won on your Birthday month, so that should work ;)

Well, I wasn't feeling The Wide World's End (A Tournament of Shadows) by James Enge.Perhaps it's been too long since I read the second book of the trilogy, perhaps I just simply don't like the main characters, but I put it down and may not pick it back up since I have so many other good books to read.

In the interim I read the following:
Templar's Acre: Templar Mysteries #32 by Michael Jecks which despite being the final book in the series is actually a prequel, introducing readers to the titular (not yet Sir) Baldwin de Furnshill as a callow youth escaping the gallows by going on crusade and serving as a man-at-arms during the Siege of Acre in 1291, when the forces of Mameluke Sultan Al-Ashraf Khalil finally retook Acre which signaled the end of the Jerusalem crusades.I read the first few books in the series years ago but couldn't find the rest and rather forgot about them.
Since reading that one I picked up the 10th book The Boy-Bishop's Glovemaker and read that within a couple of weeks. Jecks is a fine author but what I find really engrossing is his deep knowledge of medieval history and the minutiae which makes the books eminently real.Well-written descriptions of the people, towns, and life in general during the period.It very much reminds me of Ellis Peters' Cadfael Series which is only a good thing.Should be noted, though, that one needn't read the prequel before picking up the first book, although if one knows the history of the Templars it adds some context .

I'm halfway through the inestimable The Book of the City of Ladies written in 1405 by my historical crush Lady Christine de Pizan.
The book is basically a rebuttal of some of the more egregious misogyny of the period. "Her pioneering Book of the City of Ladies begins when, feeling frustrated and miserable after reading a male writer's tirade against women, Christine has a dreamlike vision where three virtues - Reason, Rectitude and Justice - appear to correct this view. They instruct her to build an allegorical city in which womankind can be defended against slander, its walls and towers constructed from examples of female achievement both from her own day and the past: ranging from warriors, inventors and scholars to prophetesses, artists and saints. Christine de Pizan's spirited defence of her sex was unique for its direct confrontation of the misogyny of her day, and offers a telling insight into the position of women in medieval culture."

I reread an old favorite:Perceval-The Story of the Grail by Chretien de Troyes.Written in 1181 it has certainly stood the test of time.

I started ON WAR by Carl von Clausewitz (Yep THAT Clausewitz fellow Paradoxians!) which " is one of the most important treatises on political-military analysis and strategy ever written, and remains both controversial and an influence on strategic thinking." There has always been a tension for me as someone who is an avowed antiwar advocate but deeply fascinated by the history of warfare and how it has impacted civilzation and vice versa. I've tended to avoid treatise' like ON WAR but my curiosity has gotten the best of me.

Just finished reading The Witcher books. Haven't played the games but now I'm looking forward to the day I finally do.

Next book I'm going to read is At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien. Read it before and loved it but it's such a weird read I want to read it again to see if I enjoy it as much. 😊

1. Dublörün Dilemması by Murat Menteş
   I currently reading and dont like it but ı'll finish it.

2. A Feast for Crows by George R. R. Martin
   I love it.

Currently "The Demon-Haunted World" by Carl Sagan.

Awesome essay about science, pseudoscience and superstition.

Malazan Book of the Fallen by S. Erikson

I'm reading Hannibal and The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson II)

Nothin at the moment. Finished The House on Cold Hill few days ago, and Kuiskaava tyttö (The Whispering Girl) before that.

Im reading a book from an Spanish author Zalacain el Aventurero, which would be something like Zalacain the adventurer

I've finished Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson (2nd book in The Stormlight Archive series), it's awesome btw. Recommend it to you.
Just started reading The Final Empire (1st in the Mistborn series), sadly I don't enjoy it very much, a bit boring so far.

Stories by Edgar Allan Poe.

Reading a few stories before I sleep. I wouldn't recommend it you read it before sleeping though, can cause restless nights. :D

I recently finished Escape from Camp 14, which I found as good as I was told it would be. I know a few details were omitted/changed, but it doesn't really have much effect on the impact of Shin's story in my opinion.

Currently Reading:

• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - The true story of a man who awoke from a coma almost completely paralyzed and wrote this book himself one blink of an eye at a time.
• Nebula Awards Showcase 2013 - Got this with Humble Bundle. I've read the first couple of stories so far and really enjoying it. The first story in particular almost made me cry.
• Something Fresh/New (rereading) - This is a favourite of mine. I've recently found out that Douglas Adams (whom I love) also considered Wodehouse one of the greatest English writers of all time, so I got the urge to reread it. It can be downloaded from Project Gutenberg/Wikisource/Goodreads.
• Consider Phlebas (rereading) - The Culture is, simply put, my favourite sci-fi series. I needed a fix. While Consider Phlebas isn't quite as good as the other entries in my opinion, I think rereading it has given me a new appreciation for its worldbuilding.

Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes.

It's interesting, I liked it so far.

Diablo The Sin War Trilogy Book 3: The Veiled Prophet. It's amazing to learn more about the angel Inarius. After that I'll read Metro 2035, it is a must read for me before I play Exodus. Eventually I wanna revisit When Nietzsche Wept as it's been ages since I read it and I wanna remember it again.

Andrzej Sapkowski - Sword of Destiny

Really good book, but it's odd to read it after playing all three games first. I do really recommend reading the books though as it does flesh out the world of Geralt even more.