What Are You Reading?

[DarkestBirds]

I'm currently reading Gothic Charm School by Jillian Venters.

[Stormbringer]

Originally Posted by DarkestBirds

I'm currently reading Gothic Charm School by Jillian Venters.

Excellent book. Without a doubt a 'must have' for all goths. I have read it several times. Jillian if you read this - WRITE MORE BOOKS - we'll buy them I swear !

[Saya]

Reading Eisenhorn by Dan Abnett. It's Versus's favourite book so I feel just a *little* pressured to love it XD but it's actually pretty good so far. Such grimdark, much gothic horror. Wow.

[Wednesday Friday Addams]

Originally Posted by Saya

Reading Eisenhorn by Dan Abnett. It's Versus's favourite book so I feel just a *little* pressured to love it XD but it's actually pretty good so far. Such grimdark, much gothic horror. Wow.

I quite liked that series. Too bad the last trilogy of it staring Bequin seems to be have had some very long delays.

[Saya]

Oh, I didn't now that! Bummer, so far Bequin hasn't had much to do but I'm pleased to hear she gets her own series. When she first showed up I turned to Versus and said "the sex worker lives, right? RIGHT?!"

[Amaris]

Night and Day by Virginia Woolf.

[Geoluhread]

The Girl Who Lept Through Time - TsuTsui

[Acharis]

Just finished the last of the Dark Tower series.

I need something else to read. Hopefully adult books. Even if they're decent subject matter I'm old and cranky, therefore getting sick of the YA tropes.

[Saya]

ANCILLARY JUSTICE ANCILLARY JUSTICE ANCILLARY JUSTICE.

Ahem. You should read Ancillary Justice.

Just finished Anno Dracula and it was...eeeeeh.

If my reader charges I'll be reading Northanger Abbey next.

[Acharis]

My friend likes that book I think. Looking into it.

[Saya]

Your friend has excellent taste.

It's about a space empire in which people have no gender, and the narrator uses female pronouns as a neutral default. The narrator is also an AI who inhabits thousands of bodies used as soldiers, until something happens and she's down to one. Then, then she is on a quest for revenge.

[Acharis]

Yes! That's the one they've been talking about! I might chew through the cheap paperbacks I have to make space and then borrow/order it.

[Saya]

It's definitely one of those series where I start to become envious of those reading it for the first time.

Finished Northanger Abbey, and I'm mad that I didn't read it in high school. Why didn't anyone tell me Jane Austen is hilarious? Catherine is such a goth chick and a bit of a dunce, I would have identified with her like crazy eleven years ago. As is, I'll have to make do with the witty satire.

Reading Carmilla next, then maybe I might read some of the gothic novels Jane Austen mentioned.

[Acharis]

I just finished the first book of Lucifer (going back to get favoured gn's in order) and am about to start reading Daniel Way's Deadpool. Regretting that I don't have much comic money.

Then I'm going to quickly read up Tithe (which had/has promise but has already started veering annoyingly young adulty - same way as the Replacement. Don't you hate that? Something's good and then a wild Mary Sue/brooding love interest appears. There need to be more adult supernatural books that aren't crap romance!)

The I'll see if I can borrow Ancillary Justice.

[Diessa]

I reading book on programming

[satanicangel66689]

Well, I'm currently reading two things. A story Fanfiction.net, called The Way. The other is an actual book, Lords of Chaos.

[TrivialMorose]

No one has read a book in four years...

I'm always reading too many books at once, but I'm only gonna mention one, which I've only started recently.

Ash by James Herbert.

It's the final book in the David Ash trilogy, and I've read the previous parts as well. The plots in all of these are pretty ridiculous (Well, actually in the first two they they were sorta fine until they weren't anymore, this third one dove straight into it.) but David Ash is just an excellent character and I can't get enough of him regardless. Too bad he is coming to his end.

[shadowynne]

I'm reading "other minds" yet another book on cephlapod intelligence. And a warhammer 40k novel... Because I am a literary slut.

[UnderwaterOphelia]

I'm reading Ten Little Indians by Sherman Alexie. It's a collection of short stories, and it's pretty great.

[shadowynne]

I'm reading several books for review,(the backlog is getting serious now)... including a rather interesting book on mycelium, and the overall interconnected nature of plants. And yet another "space bullet drama" as my partner calls them, because I apparently don't have self control.

[UnderwaterOphelia]

Originally Posted by shadowynne

I'm reading several books for review,(the backlog is getting serious now)... including a rather interesting book on mycelium, and the overall interconnected nature of plants. And yet another "space bullet drama" as my partner calls them, because I apparently don't have self control.

What's the most interesting thing you've learned about mycelium?

[UnderwaterOphelia]

I'm reading Ten Little Indians by Sherman Alexie, and then I'd liiiiike to finally read Persepolis, which a friend lent me like a year ago. I'm terrible at reading recommended books.

I'm also reading David Sedaris' Calypso.

[TrivialMorose]

I haven't really read anything in the last few weeks, even Ash is still lingering quite right where I left him last time I was here.
But another book that I'm currently in the middle of, and have been for a while, is Lives of the Necromancers by William Godwin. It's a funny little book with short biographies of a ton of (often just rumored) historical magic users, not at all confined to the realms of necromancy, despite the title.
Some of the stories are familiar, some of them strange, some of them have been downright surprising, like how Pythagoras was said to basically have been a vampire.
It's old, and digital copies are free at gutenberg.org.

[shadowynne]

Originally Posted by UnderwaterOphelia

I'm reading Ten Little Indians by Sherman Alexie, and then I'd liiiiike to finally read Persepolis, which a friend lent me like a year ago. I'm terrible at reading recommended books.

I'm also reading David Sedaris' Calypso.

I have just finished Calypso! I am rather fond of Sedaris.

On mycelium, it would be the fact that there seems an active trade between plants and fungi. The fungi gives the plant minerals in a form the plant can use and the plant gives the fungi sugar. This is not a chemical reaction, as neither the plant or fungi have to provide sugar or mineral in order to receive the other... If that makes sense.

Persepolis, the graphic novel? By Satrapi? It's pretty good. It reminded me of my childhood in a way.

[UnderwaterOphelia]

Originally Posted by shadowynne

I have just finished Calypso! I am rather fond of Sedaris.

On mycelium, it would be the fact that there seems an active trade between plants and fungi. The fungi gives the plant minerals in a form the plant can use and the plant gives the fungi sugar. This is not a chemical reaction, as neither the plant or fungi have to provide sugar or mineral in order to receive the other... If that makes sense.

Persepolis, the graphic novel? By Satrapi? It's pretty good. It reminded me of my childhood in a way.

Yeah, that does make sense.

And yes, Persepolis. I do want to read it, and your recommendation makes it sliiiightly more likely, but I am gently biased against graphic novels. Like I decided a long time ago they "aren't my thing," and who am I to break the rules? My dad was/is and INSANE comic book collector. Like, extensive. But I read [i]Fun Home or Fun House[i], whichever. I liked that.