What book are you currently reading?

[Trillium]

Oh! That is such an excellent series Mairte!  I've read it several times, and will again!

[Mairte]

Yeah, I really like Tad Williams! His Shadowmarch series is excellent too.
My favorite authors are George R.R. Martin (a Song of Ice and Fire), Tad Williams, Diana Gabaldon and Kate Elliot. They write good LONG interesting books that you can really sink your teeth into, lose yourself.
I LIKED Laurel K. Hamiltons Anita Blake and Merry Gentry series but its getting real repetitive.   And the books arent as long. I mean, you just start to get into it and its OVER.
I cant stand that.

[Sir Ironhead]

...New" is a loose term here. Even raggedy ones are new if I havent read them!  )

A book is new if I haven't read it.  Case in point, "The Sword of Shannara" published in 1977 is new 'cause I ain't read it.  Yet.  I still got 500 some odd pages left.

[Xantrawler]

Finished "The Eye of the World" now working on the second book in the series. Wonderful thing that Nook. I take 22 books to work with me each day.

[Mairte]

Eye Of The World WAS one of my favorites, though I havent kept up and read the rest of the series after the first 10 or so.
Maybe time to get the others.
And either a Nook or a Kindle or even Sony Reader....

[amy]

The kindle price is coming down.   Really becoming worth it if you have someone with whom to share books.   If you love reading now, making it even easier by not having to hold the book or find a light (lighted cases) then you will feel like a kid again!    The only thing they don't have is the smell.  I love the smell of a new book.

[crazyrennie]

Game of Thrones-Don't have cable so have to go old school

[Mairte]

crazyrennie, hope you enjoy Game Of Thrones. It really drew me in the first time I read the series and I still love it.

[SirRichardBear]

BeastMaster by Andre Norton Its one of those books I try to reread ever year.

[KeeperoftheBar]

The Perfect Nazi: Uncovering My Grandfather's Secret Past by Martin Davidson.

So far an interesting book about how and why a seemingly normal person became a member of the SS

[Lady Christina de Pond]

reading at this point
sorry very active brain and yes i'm reading all these at once time and yes i can keep each one straight

The once and Future king
The sisterhood of the traveling pants book2
Ink death(the series finally of the inkheart series)
wild at heart(just finished Captivating)
voices of the faithful

[Mairte]

Besides The Dragonbone Chair, I have also been reading every now and again a fairy series by Holly Black. They are more teenage books though and dont hold my interest for more than 10 minutes at a time....Going to re-read Game of Thrones and the whole Song of Ice and Fire series again when I get them back. I wish the fifth book was out already.
Might read Kate Elliots "Jaran" books again....
Its REALLY time to order more books or get to barnes and noble.
While going through all my books this week my son says I have enough for a library. I have read most of them at least a couple of times...

[Trillium]

I highly recommend the Fablehaven series!  So much fun! The main characters are 2 kids but you will have a blast with it!

[Mairte]

Fablehaven....going on to amazon after I log out here to look at info.

[dbaldock]

Currently, I'm re-reading Never Sniff a Gift Fish by Patrick F. McManus.
This is a quote from "Poof - No Eyebrows!", a story that relates his youthful adventures with black powder, which may interest the Privateers on the Forum -

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Attired in out muskrat-skin hats, which we had sewn up ourselves, we mounted our bicycles and, with cannon in tow, set off for the local golf course, where a fairway would serve as a firing range, a putting green as a target.

As we had hoped, the golf course turned out to be deserted.  We quickly wheeled the cannon into firing position and began the loading procedure.

"Think that's enough powder?" Retch asked.
"Better dump in some more," I advised. "That croquet ball is pretty heavy."
"And there's some for good measure," Retch said.

The croquet ball fit a little too tightly, but we managed to ram it down the barrel.

Then we both took up positions alongside the cannon to witness the rare and wonderful spectacle of a sewer pipe firing a croquet ball down a golf-course fairway.

"Ready, aim, fire!" I commanded.
Retch tripped the firing mechanism.

Eventually, the thunder was replaced by clanging bells inside our heads, the shattered pieces of earth and sky fell back into place, and the wobbly world righted itself.  Retch and I limped over to the side of a utility shed and sat down to relax a bit and collect our senses.  Presently, a deputy sheriff drove up.  He stood for moment gazing at the haze of smoke wafting gently over the golf course, the patch of smoldering turf ringed by fragments of sewer pipe, baby-carriage wheels, and pieces of two-by-four.  Then, hoisting up his gun belt, he sauntered over to us.

"You boys know anything about an explosion out this way?" he asked.
"What kind of explosion?" Retch asked.
"A big explosion."

I was still so stunned I couldn't even think up a good lie.  Anyway, I knew the deputy had us cold.

"Now, what I want to know," the deputy went on, "is why are you two boys sitting out here behind this shed smoking?"
"Shucks," I said, "if you'd been a little earlier, you'd have seen us while we were still on fire!"
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