watchya readin'?

[palitoy]

I found a book on mindfulness in my little free library last night and read it yesterday afternoon. Not something I would have paid for but a few nuggets were gleemed.

PS I have no qualms with comics being in this thread.

[Makernaut]

Finished The Maltese Flacon (then rewatched the film to see the differences), then read Ian Fleming's Live and Let Die, which I finished last night. Not sure what will be up next.

-M

I read this and immediately thought about how I pitched out some early paperbacks by Ian Fleming when I moved house many years back. Kind of made me feel it a bit in my guts to think how stupid I was and how much I wish I had those paperbacks BACK in my possession.

Well, something very incredible happened the very next day. I stopped in Half-Price Books and they had a rack of $3 paperbacks. I picked up "For Your Eyes Only", "Thunderball", "The Spy Who Loved Me", "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" and "The Man With the Golden Gun". All of them are early to mid-60's paperbacks and four of the five don't even have a crease in the spine.

I don't remember for sure which ones I had pitched in my move, but I am pretty sure that between that boo-boo and this haul, I probably owned all of the early Bond paperbacks at points along the way.

[Brazoo]

Are comics allowed here? I just binged Tom King's Mister Miracle tonight and now I'm a bit wired. I don't believe I've ever read a superhero comic I've related to more than this. Brilliant. Somewhat frightening.

The story follows the mythology set up in the Kirby's Forth World Mister Miracle series but twists the whole concept into a totally different direction which both honours the classic comics while adding a lot of character-driven depth.

[cjefferys]

I picked up a stack of 1970's comic magazines at a comic shop yesterday, I'll be reading them out on the back deck this afternoon.

[MRP]

Finished The Maltese Flacon (then rewatched the film to see the differences), then read Ian Fleming's Live and Let Die, which I finished last night. Not sure what will be up next.

-M

[palitoy]

I read a book called "One Million Followers" recently, it was a social media strategy and while i learned a few things, it seems to be targeted at people who want to be YouTube celebrities and I was hoping for more stuff for work.

[Makernaut]

^ I'm a big Detective Fiction fan (I'm a "pulp fan", in general) and I really dig Dashiel Hammett.

[MRP]

I'm currently doing the Dragonlance Chronicles series on audiobooks. I read them in the mid 80's and am enjoying them all over again!

I just reread the trilogy last year, for the first time in about 20 years.

I finished Rohmer's Mystery of Dr. Fu Mancu and am now making my way through Dashiel Hammett's The Maltese Falcon.

-M

[drquest]

I'm currently doing the Dragonlance Chronicles series on audiobooks. I read them in the mid 80's and am enjoying them all over again!

[Duncan]

Audiobooks. I plowed through a bunch of James Patterson earlier in the year, but they're like candy: quick and sweet but without much real value. I then started the JK Rowling (under the name Robert Galbraith) Cormoran Strike detective series. It's so refreshing to read (hear) the prose of an author with a good command of her language and adequate time to use it. I've made it through the first 3 books, but I hesitate to do #4 just yet, because after that I'll have to wait for new releases. Later in the summer I'll listen to Neon Prey by John Sandford, but I have the same problem there - I'll be caught up, and have to wait for the next release. Sandford's Prey series (along with his Virgil Flowers series) is my favorite, followed by MC Beaton's Hamish MacBeth.

[Makernaut]

I'm currently reading Neal Stephenson's new book: Fall; Or, Dodge in Hell: A Novel. I'm quite enjoying it, especially the religious analogies in a digital afterlife.

I dig Neal Stephenson. Sometimes the stories seem wonky to me, but the ideas and themes he's building the stories around are always deep and heady stuff.

I've been on a long stretch where my diet has been either the Bosch or Jack Reacher series with some Elmore Leonard Westerns thrown in the mix, so I switched it up a bit last week. Currently re-reading "1984" and also working on Walter Isaacson's Biography of Steve Jobs.

[megomania]

"Missing 411" (both Western US, Canada & Eastern US) by David Paulides - just got them over the weekend so haven't started them yet. Unexplained Disappearances of North Americans that have never been solved.

-Chris

[cjefferys]

I'm currently reading "Snakes! Guillotines! Electric Chairs!: My Adventures in the Alice Cooper Group" by Dennis Dunaway (original bassist for the band) and am really enjoying it.

I usually have a fiction and non-fiction book going at the same time, so I'm currently looking for a good fiction book to read as well.

[Wee67]

I switch back and forth between fiction and non-fiction.

On the non-fiction side, I just finished Russia and the Russians, by Geoffrey Hoskins. It is a pretty good history of Russia up to about the turn of the century (2000).

On the fiction side, Death is Better than Madness, by Ned Beaumann. Its a pretty wild story about two separate ventures that head into the jungles of Central America looking for a newly-discovered temple and the 18-year standoff that results. This was a gift because of my interest in "Magical Realism." It was a fun read, but not a good as some of the more noted authors of this genre like Murakami, Saramago or Mitchell. The best I've read recently in this genre is Jonathan Lethem's Fortress of Solitude (no relation to Superman's pad).

[Brazoo]

"China Mountain Zhang" (1992) by Maureen F. McHugh

I don't usually read a lot of sci-fi, but a friend gave this to me. Seems unique for sci-fi in that it's more character-driven than plot-driven. I'm enjoying it. Incredible details.