What Book Are You Reading Thread?

I mentioned a while back about "Ready Player One". I thought it was great and apparently Speilberg agreed. They're filming right now.

 

I've been reading a collection of french short stories by Anna Gavalda, which were translated into English as I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere (because I'm trying to learn french, and pretentious, I've been reading them in French). They are pretty good for the most part. Just various takes on fairly average people.

In terms of enjoyability, the first, "Courting Rituals of the Saint-Germain-des-Prés" was quite good. "Lead Story" was a nice little philosophical question piece.

 

Wish I still had the time to read.

 

Everything Flows - Vasily Grossman

If you like history and misery this is your book.

Read 'Life and Fate' first.

 

Summer's over but still reading beach books- just finished Carly Simon's 'Boys in the Trees', next up Shelley Winters 'Shelley Also Known as Shirley'

 

My mom bought this for me, but won't let me read it:


A bunch of essays from one of my favorite rappers and the guy who made me at least slightly interested in spoken word poetry. PLUS he's being promoted by the guy who made a musical I actually enjoyed (not Hamilton, but In The Heights)!

 

I am wrapping up the last chapter of "Sam Phillips" biography by Peter Guralnick. It is absolutely fascinating. The man had some lofty ideals and was way ahead of his time and was conversely a sage, guru and (depending on who you talk to) crazy as a loon but in a positive way I think.

 

I have the luxury of taking Metra to/from work, so I get to do a good amount of reading when I'm not responding to work emails/studying. I thought Ready Player One was a cool book as well, excited to see what the movie is like. Station Eleven and the Postmortal are two fiction books that remind me of that one. I enjoy non-fiction primarily though- most recently read Racecraft and found it fascinating, absent a couple of chapters toward the end that seemed like filler.

 

A 7-book series called 'the Accursed Kings'

The Accursed Kings (French: Les Rois maudits) is a sequence of seven historical novels by French author Maurice Druon about the French monarchy in the 14th century. Published between 1955 and 1977, the series has been adapted as a miniseries twice for television in France.

Phillip the Fair nukes and loots the Knights Templar, who put a curse on his progeny. All of his sons are shitty kings in succession and soon comes the Hundred Years war. Poitiers, Crecy, Agincort...

 

I just heard from someone that the script was leaked and the movie will be nothing like the book. They said, and I quote, "It's going to be a worse adaptation than Percy Jackson."

Dammit Spielberg!
Worse than Logan Pause.

 

Possible?

 

Okay maybe a bit too far.

 

Just got a signed copy of Nick Offerman's "Good Clean Fun".

 

Anyone on Goodreads? You should be my friend. Because I'm lonely or just codependent or need lots of book ideas or just like turning hobbies into competitive math equations.

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/6348232-jason-king

 

The best book I've read in ages was Stoner by John Williams. One of the New York Book Review books, of which like 98% are incredible, 1% is so-so, and 1% sucks in my experience.

 

Got this for my grandson- true, and might as well learn it early...

 

About half-way through Ready Player One. I feel like it bashes you over the head with the 80's references and it's written by someone who hasn't matured past middle school, but yet it's not bad, even kind of enjoyable.

It's a nice break from the Song of Ice and Fire series which I've slowly been making my way through.

 

just started Ready Player One.

also reading The Magicians series by Lev Grossman. So far the SyFy series is better.

and rereading


and



science is cool

 

Reading books?!?!?! My reading is on the interwebs.

Actually, the wife just picked up Springsteen's autobiography for me. I'll get to it someday after I start Team Of Rivals, which she bought for me the week it was released 11 years ago. I'm not into fiction unless it is alternate history (and not something stupid like the Confederates winning the Civil War, or Hitler winning WWII).

 

These days, thanks to the little one, if there's not flashing lights and loud noises, the second I try to do anything I fall asleep. I think reading will be a luxury I get back in like 5 years.

Edit: I would like to start the Preston and Childs, Relic/Pendergast series over again before reading the more recent books. Entertaining, relatively mindless, summer blockbuster type stuff.

 

I'm currently re-reading The Gate to Women's Country by Sheri S. Tepper. Man, I loves me some feminist sci-fi.

Edit: My wife said "they probably think you're being sarcastic."

I'm not being sarcastic.

 

My wife says "It is! It's straight-up young adult, but it's good."