@Alyse - hope you managed to find a copy of shadow scale 😊
I've abandoned a Harry Potter and the methods of rationality because it was driving me crazy (I don't care for a world where Harry and Ron are not BFFs) reread Anne of Green Gables which left me yearning to rewatch the movie (and finish the rest of the book series) it's been awhile since I've ugly cried over a character death... But damn!
Currently reading the straight razor cure by Daniel Polansky... I had accidentally picked up the third in the series but put the bookmark in when I realised my error and headed off to the library. Quite good so far - it's a detective thriller / noir fantasy...
Reading Red Rising now, and loving it, it's so far a really nice dystopia, combining The Hunger Games and Enders Game to a degree, but in a fascinating way.
Picked up A Darker Shade of Magic by VE Schwab today so I will start on that later tonight since everyone has been raving about it . . . also, if I'm perfectly honest, I just really liked the cover of the paperback.
@sionainn, think we've all been influenced by excellent covers 😊 hope you enjoy it!
I shunned my assignment this weekend and read Cinder and Scarlet (the first two books of the Lunar Chronicles) and then The Ill Made Mute (book one of the bitterbynde trilogy) by Cecilia Dart Thornton... Which I read way back in 2002 when it was published and pulled off my bookshelf on a whim... The first 150ish pages were a struggle but I'm glad I kept going.
Red Rising was amazing, so definitely worth a read!
Reading I'll Give you the Sun by Jandy Nelson now, cause I got it sent to me for free by Dymocks (yay free books). Didn't think I would like it from the blurb, but it's written really well, and it's so descriptive and a different sort of read. So I'm actually enjoying it
Currently reading: Deadline by Mira Grant, the third book in the Newsflesh Trilogy. Once you get past the 'zombies' in the trilogy it actually looks quite well at aspects of today's society.
I adore Mira Grant! Also the Lunar Chronicles! And yes I managed to find Shadow Scale it's sitting on my pile.
At the moment I'm reading the Blood Keeper by Tessa Gratton which is alright but I don't love it.
I really liked Cinder--but disliked Scarlett because Scarlett the character really disappointed me. If Cinder and Kai weren't also in the book, I think I wouldn't have even finished it . . .so I haven't read Cress yet. Should I, alyseharleton?
Both of you; READ CRESS, and then read Fairest which is about Levana and is SO GOOD.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell is my favourite book out of all of the books it is my FAVOURITE and I am so happy that people are getting into it. Especially with the miniseries because it is rather good so far.
I'm rereading Shadow & Bone by Leigh Bardugo because I haven't read the third in the trilogy yet but I did buy it... I'll reread both before I get to it.
The other day I finished the Shadow Cabinet by Maureen Johnson which was excellent. I do love that series.
I just found a lot of Scarlet's character attributes to all be rather cliche. Red Riding Hood is my fave fairy tale and so I've read a lot of retellings, and I feel her characterisation just fell into a lot of trappings that commonly crop up in such (being a firey, ragey redhead, falling in love with the 'wolf', etc.). Cinder was a more unique representation of the original tale, that I guess I just felt cheated with Scarlet.
Anyway, I'm on a Terry Pratchett kick at the moment, so I've been rereading (and rebuying the shiny new hardbacks of) his books at the moment. I'm halfway through Equal Rites at the moment, and I'd started off with Mort before that cause I always reread that at least once a year.
Also reading Moon of Soho on the side since I ordered the rest of the Peter Grant series (another series I got into because of the fab cover).
Since exams are nearly over (well, not quite, but what better time to start reading a new book than just before exams?), I started The Death Cure by James Dashner - book 3 in the Maze Runner series. I'm a little underwhelmed by the series, too many twists, it just feels too try hardy
I'm a little underwhelmed by the series, too many twists, it just feels too try hardy
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I've heard variations on that sentiment quite a bit about the maze runner trilogy... I read the first one ages ago and then suffered dystopian burn out by the time the next one appeared - think I'll just watch the movies...
Temporarily have cast Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell aside, as I was finding the book difficult to hold (my finger is starting to behave almost like a proper finger again tho so hopefully will be able to resume reading soon) in favour of The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins (couldn't resist a book about librarians with supernatural abilities and comical fashion sense) and am now reading The Rook by Daniel O'Malley.
I've been getting a good amount of reading done lately because I haven't had internet... lots of re-reads. I'm currently on Killer Instinct by Jennifer Lynn Barnes after re-reading the first in the series and I recently finished Roxane Gay's volume of essays; Bad Feminist, which I actually really enjoyed. She makes a lot of interesting points.
I just finished some nonfiction "The Broken Years" by Bill Gammage about Australia's involvement in WW1, largely through the writings of the soldiers themselves, which made for a very interesting read, and has made me more interested in that history.
I'm now reading The Water Knife and I'm only 50 pages in and loving it, it seems really intriguing.
Been reading George R.R. Martin's fiction nonfiction The World of Ice and Fire and while it's a lot harder to read than the novels, it's really intriguing and interesting to read all the history and culture of the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros.
Yeah I thought the same thing Loren when I read it, it's actually really dense sometimes, while at the same time fascinating (and frustrating when they hint at things which sound cool but don't explain them)
I'm still on my Pratchett kick--up to Pyramids at the moment . . . though I'm not really reading them in order.
I'm reading Rosemary and Rue by Seanan McGuire, and in my desperate attempt to read as many books as I possibly can, I am also reading Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin (finally), and (as part of the Ober-reread) Ashlings by Isobelle Carmody.
I have also just finished The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian by Sherman Alexie (it wasn't as great as I have been told), and The Girl with All the Gifts by MR Carey (it's taken me a whole year to get through the middle part of this book, but it ended very well! Looking forward to the movie).
I've read wizard of Earthsea and I found it pretty good, tell us what you think when you're done 😀
Started reading Magonia on the train today. Main character is very bitter, which is understandable considering context, but also slightly annoying at times.
I've been reading a string of YA contemporary lately, currently on To All the Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han and recently I read and loved Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli and the Flywheel by Erin Gough which is an Aussie debut.
I have been trying to read Game of Thrones. It's.... not easy, to say the least.
I think IC has set the bar too high re. character depth in a series, everyone from Blyss to Darius feels necessary and real to the story. I'm halfway through A Storm of Swords and severely bogged down with that boring old Onion Knight 😑
No, the Onion Knight is awesome :P
I just read Surveillance by Bernard Keane (which is coming out soon), just to make me more paranoid and suspicious of governments and corporations. And I also read Fahrenheit 451 which is awesome!
Now I'm reading A Picture of Dorian Grey, not sure what to think of it yet.
Next (if all goes to plan) I shall finally start my Obernewtyn reread
I'm reading Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard which is alright but a lot of the story elements are familiar so I don't feel like I'm reading anything particularly new.