I am currently reading the novel “The Historian” by Elisabeth Kostova. Its about the historical Vlade Tepes & the mythical dracula. Ten yr in the writing she sold it to Little Brown for 2 Million! Went to best seller in one week on NY times best seller list (a record). Dracula lives among us! Not actually a horror book but “eerie”.
Keith
Currently in the middle of "Lights Out". Good book especially for the price. :)
I’m working my way through my lee child novels, I’ve just started his first which is ace called killing floor.
I was not clear enough in my OP but if all could give author, & maybe a condensed (short,or long)description would be nice. I am just curious what folks are reading as this is a question I would ask if we were face to face. I find it interesting.
Keith (who is a voracious reader)
I just started "Starters" by Lissa Price, it is said to be similar to the "Hunger Games"-style. (great books/horrible movie btw)
Sure, it is one of the more famous PAW books and was originally written on the Frugals Squirrels Forum by David Crawford. It is set after a EMP destroys the electrical infrastructure and is the story of his town working together to survive. It can be purchased from Amazon for 19.95 or the PDF can be downloaded from the archives for free.
“In search for Major Plagge”, somewhat along the lines of Schindler’s List…he was a Wehrmacht officer that protected and saved many Jews that were working for him in a repair depot. It’s non-fiction and rather interesting…I like to read history.
An Uncertain Place by Fred Vargas
One of the Commisaire Adamsberg Mystery Series. He's one of the chief's of police in Paris. Murder mystery.
I read about 1-3 books a week, mostly mysteries, but sometimes books like the Jim Butcher series.
Fiction or fantasy are mostly what I read. I get enough reality every day to satisfy. I have read some books on the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, Ben Franklin, Washington, Lincoln, Churchill, WWII and some of the classics, especially Dickens.
The nice thing is that I have very little short term memory from reading, so I can read the same books again in a few months, because I don't remember much about them. My wife is into paperback swap, otherwise I wouldn't be able to afford all those books.
A 6 page booklet :nerd_face:
It’s A… A…. A manual 
… OMG… a manual!? who needs to read a manual!
But I didn’t do so well before I read it… It was a necessity 
Its a programming manual for my torch… :party:
This is one really difficult manual to read when its not very logical and the english perfectly clear isn’t, and all it’s talking about is clicking on and off and twisting tight and loose.
http://www.armytek.com/content/predator_manual_v1_2_en_A3.pdf
I’ve read 5 or 6 of the Jack Reacher novels, they are a fun read. Thoroughly enjoyed everyone I’ve read.
I’m working on the 3rd volume of the Fifty Shades of Gray series.
Pretty light and fast reading, with some mild porn thrown in but not as much as many seem to worry about.
I’ve enjoyed the first two and the third one is not disappointing me at all.
Troop… Please say you are joking. 
Nutin’…I pretty much stop reading in the summer nowadays. Got nothing to read nowadays, already read hunger games a few times this school year. And last school year I read harry potter at least 7 or 8 times…I…had an ADDICTION THEN. Had two study halls this last semester so I was able to read about a thousand pages a week.
Nice. :p
Researching the native plant life of Hickory Nut Gorge in North Carolina . I want to know what I'm looking at when I get there this summer .
Most of my reading these days is research .
Justin, you like Jim Butcher? THat’s awesome! He’s my favorite current day author. I LOVE the Dresden series and the Codex Alera series was great too. Waiting for the latest Dresden novel to come out.
Also a big SciFi and Fantasy fan for the same reasons as you. 
Johnny
For the last several months, I’ve been reading It’s Not the End of the World; It’s Just the End of You- The Great Extinction of Nations by Spengler. It’s a bunch of essays on all sorts of weighty topics. Very thought provoking but very hard/slow to get through., which is why it is taking me a long time to digest it. While this type of philosophical tome isn’t for everyone, I recommend it if you are into such things. Just don’t expect to blow it out in a week.
I’m also in the middle of Chris Stewart’s The Great and Terrible series. This series is a fictional account of the so called “end of days”. The first book was an artistic retelling of the Biblical account of how Satan fell from grace, but the subsequent books I’ve read (I’m on book 3) are much closer to something from Tom Clancey.
With all of the feel good reading I do, you can see why I come here for laughs. :nerd_face:
While they are not “what am I reading NOW”, I did just read Joker One and Ten Hours Till Dawn in the last couple of weeks. Both were very good if you like true accounts of heroic acts. Joker One was about a Marine platoon’s year in Ramadi and Ten Hours was about the sinking of the Pilot Boat Can Do while on a rescue mission during the Blizzard of ’78.
I think I’ve read every one at least three times, I love them, I’ve also just gone through the whole disk world series for the fifth or sixth time, I tend to buy 5 - 6 books a month, read them then pass them onto my brother and friend. I currently have a seven foot by three foot bookcase full, and at least the same amount of books (mostly warhammer/40000ad) out on loan. I can’t stand the tv toni watches so I read, blf is making a serious dent in my reading time though :bigsmile:
I pretty much read the world news posted on the internet when surfing.
Helps to keep me current so I’m not lost in a conversation.
I’ve just read - in no apparent sequence:
Paulo Coelho: The alchymist ( for the umpteentht time - still love its simple language and deep complexity)
Tsun Tsu: The art of war (for the ump… - had to read up on a passage that is simple yet carries many possible meanings)
Unrecalled author: The accident man - an entertaining fictional book of no consequence. Explicit violence and sex. I like that. Easy end by the author.
Today I started Domestic Enemies by Matthew Bracken, 2nd in the Enemies Foreign and Domestic trilogy.
Basically reads like Holder stays on as AG after Obama gets re-elected. Very bad feds and the country goes to pieces, literally. :exmark: