SUMMERTIME reads

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What books did you read this past month?
Would you recommend any of them? Why or why not?

Plans for August? Anything you're looking forward to reading?
sorry for being a couple days late.../derp

Comments

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Summer seems to be a good time for me to catch up on reading. YAY!

A couple good books I read this past month are: Noah's Wife, Hounded (book 1 of Druid something) & The Dig

One I wouldn't recommend is Phantom Evil. Ugh... I don't know why I finished it other than the fact that it's a very quick read.

I seem to have stuck in reading a lot of paranormal-type books. Which surprises me because I didn't realize it was a genre I liked so much. It's like crack.

[pretty_panther]

I'm struggling to read right now because of health reasons so I picked up something very easy to read, Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them by J.K Rowling.

It was short and sweet, easy and enjoyable while proving rather amusing so it would certainly make an enjoyable quick read with a bottle of wine outside in the sun :)

For August , I am hoping to finish a book about the tutors and a Star Wars novel I've been working on.

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STAR WARS!!!! which star wars novel?

[pretty_panther]

I'm currently making my way through the Thrawn triology, I'm on Dark Force Rising right now :) I have an insane amount waiting on my kindle though. :P Shiny!

[thistleburr]

Just finishing up Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. Really enjoying it!

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I liked Snow Crash, it was very different.

[ruuger]

I seem to have been on an urban fantasy kick last month:

The Devil You Know by Mike Carey - I liked this a lot. Definitely recommend this everyone who likes Jim Butcher's Dresden Files. It's not quite as entertaining read, but the prose is better and the storylines grittier (a word of warning that the book deals with rape and sex slavery).

Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman - Gaiman's language is beautiful, as always, but the stories in this collection aren't particularly memorable.

Snake Agent by Liz Williams - Well-written, but a bit boring, and I didn't find any of the characters particularly engaging. The East-Asian steampunk-esque setting sets it apart from the usual urban fantasy fare, though, so it's worth checking out.

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The Devil You KNow sounds interesting, I might have to add that to my reading list

[skieswideopen]

I often find myself a bit let down by Gaiman's short stories, even though--as you say--the language is beautiful. His novels tend to work better for me.

[padfoot]

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern - apart from The Hunger Games, best book I've read this year. Imaginative, seductive and just delightful. Loved it.

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith/Jane Austen - fun enough, though I wouldn't say go out and buy it this minute. I quite liked the way he integrated the concepts but sometimes I felt like it was a bit too... macho? I dunno. Fun, though.

This month I'm tackling The Pleasures of Men by Kate Williams and Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk.

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I read Grahame-Smith's Abraham Lincoln book and hadn't realized that it was series or a thing or whatever.

[padfoot]

Hah! Oddly I hadn't connected P&P&Z to the Abraham Lincoln book so we're even. ;)

[ngakmafaery]

...I read mostly/skimmed through Music Law by Nolo and the fat one about the music business by Donald Passman yesterday since I am starting a music publishing company because my friends are geezer used-to-be rockstars and I spent last week with them, and a few Regency romances of varying quality, and some Charles de Lint and Will Shetterly, and some stuff like that...no clue about earlier reading this month, but most likely more of the same, older fantasy sci/fi and Regencies from the last several decades...

[colls]

Productive-reading... ftw! Good luck with the music publishing company, that sounds fascinating.

[skieswideopen]

What did I read this month? I went back and read the first book in the Quadrail series, which I enjoyed. Started Triggers by Robert Sawyer. So far I'm enjoying it, but less than I enjoyed some of his other books. I don't remember what else I read. Apparently I need to keep better records.

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[ninety6tears]

Catching Fire - Better than The Hunger Games, I thought. (I actually find myself more fascinated by what's going on in the districts than with the games themselves, which are suspenseful and unpredictable enough but just make me kind of tediously stressed out, LOL. But as with the first book, the sci-fi aspects of the arena were really cool.)

The Girl Who Played With Fire - I loved it. I felt more emotionally invested in Lisbeth Salander than I was during the first book. It's a little more outlandish/unrealistic than Dragon Tattoo but in a fun way.

Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter - I liked this one a lot. Even while it's not filled with as much action as you might expect, it was so enjoyable that I wished it was a lot longer.

[mummimamma]

My beach-book was The Cloudspotter's Guide, which was guite a good companion, when I was lying there, lazily watching the clouds (or slightly less lazily now that I tried to figure out which type of cloud it was.) I liked it!