What are you reading?

Thanks for the suggestions! I always seem to be late to the party but that is probably because I get my books from charity shops, so I've also just finished "The Girl on the Train".

If anyone likes "The Inspector Lynley Mysteries" on TV (Drama channel, from early 2000's), the series of books by Elizabeth George are absorbing. As an avid reader of crime fiction I find it difficult to work out "whodunnit".

Just finished reading 'Room'... I saw the film first, and then read the book immediately afterward.
Started 'This Road Is Red' by Alison Irvine yesterday.  It's about the inhabitants of the Red Road Flats in Glasgow.

Working my way through the Game of Thrones book series. On the fourth one now (just starting it). I must say, I'm not usually a person to read much in the "fantasy" genre, bit it's GOOD. While it does parallel the show quite a bit, there is also a decent amount left out of the book so it keeps it fresh/interesting even if you'er a fan of the series!

I just read The End of the World Running Club, the long road to a small angry planet, Uprooted, and The Stone Man. I've been on a reading binge in the last month.

I have to say I most enjoyed the long road to a small angry planet and Uprooted the most. The End of the World Running Club and The Stone Man were both books that were okay, but I don't think I would re-read them.

I also picked up The Invisible Library and All the Birds in the Sky and they really aren't tickling mu fancy. They sounded up my street after reading the novel description, but they just aren't my style.

The Invisible Library feels like it could have used another editor. It has promise, but it's just...ugh. I'm trying to just plow my way through, but I may give up on it.

Not reading but listening to while busy doing other things, Night Sins by Tami Hoag. I love a good thriller!

I am currently reading A Little Revenge: Benjamin Franklin and His Son.  It is interesting to see how much his son William actually did that was attributed to Benjamin and how their relationship disintegrated. 

'Without A Doubt' by Marcia Clark

The Plague by Albert Camus

The Plague by Albert Camus

French Existentialism is like a basket of yarn....there are no answers in there.

French Existentialism is like a basket of yarn....there are no answers in there.

Haha, The Stranger is one of my favorite books and a friend lent me this one, so I'm trying it out before my upcoming quest to actually finish the Brothers Karamazov

I used to take Sartre's Nausea along as my "train book".....

I mean you don't read it for the exciting plot, but a typical passage would have the main guy walking through a French town in the rain and he would stop in a manky café and have a foul cup of coffee and then he would go by someone's house....Serge (who has slept with his estranged wife) and they would discuss the state of the local Socialist literary journal they were working for, "Non!, Emile has said he will not fund us if we print this thing...it will rend the movement in half I tell you! Like warring cousins, non?" And then the main guy goes and spends the night with a woman who killed many during the occupation. "I did not enjoy it Antoine....the killing. I did, but I didn't, non? Like our lovemaking."

And so he leaves and walks down to get the papers and his shoe has a hole in it and his sock gets wet..

I work in a library so I am never reading *just* one thing.  Current list is:
The Midas Legacy by Andy McDermott- Action, adventure, archaeology, lots of explosions.  Guilty pleasure read.
Echo in the Bone by Diana Gabaldan- trying desperately to make it through the Outlander series.  I flew through the first four but the next four are just dragging.
The Ugly Sister by Jane Fallon- I had never heard of Jane Fallon until I moved to the UK.  So funny, so good, just a bit of light reading.  She is Ricky Gervais's partner, as well, which is interesting.

Factotum, Charles Bukowski. Actually I read that ages ago, I just wanted to plug it. The book of jobs. It's short but guaranteed you will need to take a shower before finishing it. Should be sold in a box set with Studs Terkel's Working.

Age of Innocence---Edith Wharton      I don't think I can finish  it...might just skip to the movie 

One year later nearly and I'm still pluggng my way through GoT.....But soon! I am nearly there! hah