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Truly off-topic thread! What are the books in your lives right now?

I recently read The Magicians by Lev Grossman.

Do comics count? I'm currently working my way through Daredevil vol 2 as well as rereading Watchmen. For books, I think the last book I started reading was the diaries of Sylvia Plath. I am almost finished with a degree in microbiology though and I traveled and took classes this summer so comics have just been a lot easier for me to digest than 'real' books.

Well, my reading has slowed right down lately ever since I got involved with fanfic, but ...

I just finished re-reading Revelation, by C.J. Sansom for the second or maybe the third time. I love this series of historical mysteries set in the time of Henry VIII, featuring hunchback lawyer Matthew Shardlake.

Now I'm in the middle of Iron and Blood, by Gail Z. Martin, a steampunk fantasy set in an alternate history Pittsburgh in 1898. Airships, clockwork zombies, Gatling guns, mad scientists, inventors, carriage chases ... I love steampunk.

Next on my list to read: As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust, by Alan Bradley. It's another in the Flavia de Luce series of mysteries, featuring eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poisons who uses her scientific skills to solve mysteries in 1950's England. Highly recommended!

I recently read The Magicians by Lev Grossman.
Oh hey, me too! What did you think of it?

I've been tearing my way through the Queen's Thief series by Megan Whalen Turner, and I'm so in love with it.

It was great! I loved the grim atmosphere. I loved how it showed young people making mistakes.

Would've been even better had the protagonist not been a broody genius white boy, but whatcha gonna do?

I'm reading 'Eastern Europe - Everything you always wanted to know about a region who shaped the world and still does' one of those humorous-ish non-fiction books as well as 'Minette' by Melanie Clegg, a historic novel about one of the daughters of King Charles.

(I am not always that pretentious. Among the books I recently read are a sexed up version of The Three Musketeers and a historical gay crime romance...)

Sabriel by Garth Nix and The Secret History by Donna Tartt, which I just picked up.

Garth Nix! That man was my jam growing up! I hope you like Sabriel
Now I have to go dig my abhorsen books out of storage.

I've been reading a lot of short stories lately from Dangerous Women edited by GRRM. There is one particular short story in there that I love that reminds me of Gone Girl and the Casey Anthony media coverage. Other stories aren't so good. I've also been listening to some of the fantasy short stories on Podcastle. I have only listened to a few but I really like the diversity of settings and characters.

The Magicians is sooooooo good! Did you guys see the trailer for the SyFy adaptation coming out soon? God, I hope it's at least decent.

I have been on a crazy comics binge - Daredevil, but also catching up on Secret Wars, Ms. Marvel, and Loki: Agent of Asgard.

Book-wise, it's been sooooo long since I've had the attention span. Probably the last one I read was Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris by David King. Shockingly, I don't read a lot of fantasy/SF fiction, but lean more towards non-fiction if I'm going to sit down with a book.

Although I did promise to read an advance copy of an author friend's novel. And Daredevil fanfic has big-time been distracting me from that. :S

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lol oops same - I'm supposed to be working on a round of edits for someone's legit book, and here I've been reading and writing fic.

Ahhhh I hadn't even heard of the SyFy thing, but the trailer looks promising. Fingers crossed!

Ohhh how do you find Death in the City of Light? I like reading about true crime but sometimes get annoyed because so much books are written in a really sensational 'look how horrible this is'-style.

I'm someone else whose put their books on the back burner in favour of comics and fanfic :') I tore through a big chunk of daredevil, then deadpool, then she-hulk, and now I'm poking around Hawkeye :') book-wise though - I've been reading treasure island for AGES, cos I keep putting it on hold (even tho it's so short and so freaking fun). Also I just started reading the luminaries by Eleanor Catton.

(Thanks for starting this thread btw - book recs are my fave and I get the feeling that people on this meme have good taste)

Against a Dark Background by Iain M. Banks. Largely because I ran out of his Culture novels.

I've also started the comic Y: the Last Man as recommended to me by a friend.

Y: The Last Man is my fave!

Let The Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist
Human child and vampire sort of a child become friends in the most painfully Swedish way possible while the supporting cast have lives like soap operas except with more unspeakae body horror.
Also a great adaptation on netflix.

I'm on the last chapter of h.jenkins's convergence culture.... And I even replied making a new thread D:

i'm reading bendis' alias comics, so jessica jones!

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