Literature What are you reading at the moment?

Super Powereds Year 2 by Drew Hayes

It's like if MHA and Harry Potter had a baby. I'm in love and it tickles the academia and superhero-in-training itch i always need scratching
 
King Lear
(albiet I would be better off just finding a recorded performance of the play than trying to read it myself but it's the last book I started while flying to/from vacation so I'll have to finish it)
 
If there's any RWBY fans out there, Roman Holiday was a pretty good read. The author wasn't the best, per se, but it was enjoyable enough.
 
The second season of Interview with the Vampire made me want to reread the book, so that's what we're doing.
 
IT by Stephen King. I started last week after watching IT Chapter 2 on Netflix. I have an old copy that I've had for many several years, but hadn't read it a while.

A bit of trivia. I got my copy from a church fair where one of the booths was selling used books. There was a huge stack of them. I remembered seeing the miniseries and decided to read it.

I've not gotten any new books in a while. The only King work I have is IT and I'm thinking of getting another King novel when I get another book. Perhaps I should read the The Shining next? Any King fans want to make a suggestion?
 
One Dark Window! I have been on a fantasy kick, and who can say no to a good ol' gothic fantasy
 
IT by Stephen King. I started last week after watching IT Chapter 2 on Netflix. I have an old copy that I've had for many several years, but hadn't read it a while.

A bit of trivia. I got my copy from a church fair where one of the booths was selling used books. There was a huge stack of them. I remembered seeing the miniseries and decided to read it.

I've not gotten any new books in a while. The only King work I have is IT and I'm thinking of getting another King novel when I get another book. Perhaps I should read the The Shining next? Any King fans want to make a suggestion?
Ironic you got it at a church fair (and ironic that my school had it in their library) because there is some insane shit towards the end of the book. Like, the sort of things that the mods probably would not like brought up.

The seventies and cocaine were a different time and different thing all together
 
Earth Abides by George R. Stewart. Noticed there is an upcoming series based on the book so that should be interesting.
 
Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi. I tend to read a bit and have several books, so maybe this will be updated with new additions in the future. I just prefer physical books to digital.
 
Started the Locked Tomb series after literal years of my friend trying to get me to read them :D I gotta say, so far I'm fully on board.
 
Currently: Crisis, Absolutism, and Revolution; Europe and the World (1648-1789)

We love a little early modern history don't we folk
 
I haven't started yet, but I picked up Whitley Strieber's Communion which is about extraterrestrials last Wednesday. I plan to start on Monday.
 
I gave into the urge to start a re-read of the How to Survive Camping series by Bonnie Quinn (fainting--goat on Reddit)! Specifically on the first book at the moment: The Man With No Shadow.

It's such a good series, available to read for free on r/nosleep (sans a couple of bonus chapters), and I highly recommend it. It's horror, either horror-fantasy or mythological horror or folklore horror? The main character, Kate, is a camp manager in her 30-somethings who inherited her family's campgrounds after the horrific deaths of her parents, and is just trying to help her campers survive the various non-human beings that live on the old land she manages. Unfortunately, too many of her campers just seem determined to not follow the helpfully gathered and written rules she's provided for them, so she's sharing her stories in hopes that anecdotes will do a better job of warning people away from making fatal mistakes. The worldbuilding is incredible, with consistent internal rules and so much plotted out ahead of time that little details can be sprinkled in super early on that may not culminate until multiple books later.

I forgot how 0-to-100 these stories are and I love it. First chapter Kate has to murder a guy, the second opens with her finding a human torso in the middle of the road, the third she has to murder one of her own employees, and in the fourth she casually drops "after the cannibalism incident" in the middle of an entirely unconnected story like that isn't a "wait, what? Kate please explain" moment. I know by the title that the fifth chapter is in fact her explaining that story, so the commenters were definitely asking "WHAT" at the time, LOL.
 
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The Dragon Ball Super manga. I’ve watched the anime multiple times and got to the point where I needed to know what happened after, so I picked all of the volumes up. It’s really good!
 
Hello everyone! Forgive me if this isn't the proper prefix, but I wanted to ask you readers on here, what books are ye going through at the moment? Personally, I'm reading through David Abulaifa's The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans. It isn't so much a natural history (as the title says) but moreso how human beings have interacted with the oceans and how they were used as means for trade, conquest, the spreading of ideas and immigration amongst many other things!

So I'd be very well interested in hearing what you're reading about or even the genres that you gravitate towards. :closed eyes open smile:
If you like the Warrior Cats series you may also enjoy Wings of Fire, it's very similar in that the main characters are (mostly) not human. Another good series would The Hunger Game, I'm sure you've heard about it before, but seriously, it's good. I would also recommend the Red Queen series, it's kind of a mix between futuristic and dark fantasy where the human species has branched off into two different kinds of humans: reds and silvers, they are given these names based off of the color of their blood.
 
I gave into the urge to start a re-read of the How to Survive Camping series by Bonnie Quinn (fainting--goat on Reddit)! Specifically on the first book at the moment: The Man With No Shadow.

It's such a good series, available to read for free on r/nosleep (sans a couple of bonus chapters), and I highly recommend it. It's horror, either horror-fantasy or mythological horror or folklore horror? The main character, Kate, is a camp manager in her 30-somethings who inherited her family's campgrounds after the horrific deaths of her parents, and is just trying to help her campers survive the various non-human beings that live on the old land she manages. Unfortunately, too many of her campers just seem determined to not follow the helpfully gathered and written rules she's provided for them, so she's sharing her stories in hopes that anecdotes will do a better job of warning people away from making fatal mistakes. The worldbuilding is incredible, with consistent internal rules and so much plotted out ahead of time that little details can be sprinkled in super early on that may not culminate until multiple books later.

I forgot how 0-to-100 these stories are and I love it. First chapter Kate has to murder a guy, the second opens with her finding a human torso in the middle of the road, the third she has to murder one of her own employees, and in the fourth she casually drops "after the cannibalism incident" in the middle of an entirely unconnected story like that isn't a "wait, what? Kate please explain" moment. I know by the title that the fifth chapter is in fact her explaining that story, so the commenters were definitely asking "WHAT" at the time, LOL.
I just devoured all four books in a week. My head hurts from crying now.👍 A+++ would recommend and will repeat this experience again.
 
I'm really close to finishing Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir and Devotions by Mary Oliver! They're completely different books but both are amazing so far. 👌
 

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