ways_back_room | Daily Entertainment

Entry tags:

daily entertainment

Daily Entertainment

Let's talk books as I'm currently adding new books to my library catalog. What are you reading? What are your pups reading? What should everyone else read if they haven't read it yet?

I'm in the midst of rereading The Once and Future King, which is one of my absolute favorite books. Also I'm reading The Talisman Ring and enjoying Heyer playing with how silly romantic ideas can be, I need to do an EP of Jane being given one of her books. Since Heyer is one of those authors that seems to trace a direct line from Jane Austen.

Then my next book to read is Libriomancer by Jim Hines, it was my gift to myself for getting through orientation and welcome back stuff, soon I plan on buying the new October Daye book as well.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Well, I just finished re-reading Pierre Boulle's Planet of the Apes, for Zira's sake. I need to get back to reading Project Orion, though, and Brotherhood of the Bomb; the first one's about the genuine attempt to design and build a nuclear-powered spaceship and the second is about the scientists who developed the A-Bomb in the first place.

Perhaps I should correct myself. By 'nuclear-powered' I don't mean 'like the engine on the USS Nautilus'. Project Orion was gonna be powered by controlled detonation of nuclear bombs, and it was gonna be launched in atmosphere. Not from orbit. In atmosphere.

Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to present the history of the real world. You only thought Fallout was making stuff up.

Ooh, those all sound like fascinating reads. I can see a nuclear power spaceship as at one point, it seemed like everyone was making nuclear things. Also I feel like I read about it in a Cracked article.

Edited 2012-09-05 13:22 (UTC)

(no subject)

igetthatalot - 2012-09-05 13:23 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

ceitfianna - 2012-09-05 13:26 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

igetthatalot - 2012-09-05 13:29 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

ceitfianna - 2012-09-05 13:31 (UTC) - Expand

Well I don't know what my pups have been reading but I just got through rereading the Kate Daniels series and am now starting on rereading the October Daye series. I also just got through with Lev Grossman's Codex (fun ride if you like his style) and have started Green by Jay Lake.

Future reads include Spirit Gate by Kate Elliot, The Magician King by Lev Grossman and In The Shadow of Swords by Val Gunn. I seem to be in a high fantasy kick.

I also have discovered I need to read George Orwell's Animal Farm and Thomas Wolfe’s You Can’t Go Home Again since they are a couple of Hank's favorite books (at least according to the 90s animated show).

Lev Grossman is one of those authors, I feel like I should try reading, but the reviews make me wary.

The Kate Daniels' is one I've been recommended as well as Kate Elliot, there's so much good fantasy out there.

(no subject)

bjornwilde - 2012-09-05 15:32 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

ceitfianna - 2012-09-05 15:33 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

silveraspen - 2012-09-05 20:12 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

bjornwilde - 2012-09-05 20:26 (UTC) - Expand

My list!. :D

YA and a LOT of comics, mainly. A LOT. It is alarming. Currently I am reading Riordan's new short story collection, The Demigod Diaries, and Grave Mercy.

Code Name Verity is by far the best thing I've read this year. BY FAR. It has joined the ranks of The Book Thief, The Wednesday Wars and Will Grayson, Will Grayson on the list of books I throw at my friends.

I am very much looking forward to September's new releases, particularly Dodger and The Casual Vacancy, as well as new Libba Bray, Sarah Rees Brennan and Gary Schmidt.

As for my pups... I don't think any of them read a lot for fun. Alanna reads maps and histories. Thayet does the same, though she probably sneaks in some pleasure reading from time to time. Grace spends a lot of time not reading the Bible. Lizzie used to read everything about pirates she could get her hands on, but doesn't have much time for that anymore, seeing as how she's living it. Maybe a few parenting manuals, though I imagine she'd toss most of them aside in disgust. :)

Edited 2012-09-05 14:03 (UTC)

I'm looking for a copy of Code Name Verity, it sounds amazing.

Comics are good, I'm currently making a wish list of comics/graphic novels/manga for my library.

(no subject)

lunamystic - 2012-09-05 14:33 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

ceitfianna - 2012-09-05 14:35 (UTC) - Expand

Yeah, another person reading Rosemary and Rue! \o/

Currently rereading Laurie King's The Game (the Mary Russell book which is a crossover with Rudyard Kipling's Kim), having just read Kim to my mom and working my way through the series to the ones I haven't read yet. I have also been working on the Marcus Didius Falco books.

Looking forward to the releases of The Mark of Athena and Dodger, while the next book I read to my mom will be Shada, the novelization of Douglas Adams' unfinished Doctor Who storyline (just as soon as we've watched City of Death).

I love the Falco books and always keep an eye out for the newest ones. The Laurie King books have been recommended to me but I've yet to read them.

(no subject)

shinyhappygoth - 2012-09-05 14:16 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

ceitfianna - 2012-09-05 14:17 (UTC) - Expand

At the moment, I'm rereading The Lost Conspiracy by Frances Hardinge, recommended a bit ago by

skygiants.

I'm also reading and re-reading Brandon Sanderson's stuff, all of it. And it's all highly recommended, though I haven't actually read his Wheel of Time stuff (I dropped the series when a gap of two months was enough that I couldn't remember who the characters introduced after Book 1 were). Even his YA series, the Alcatraz books, are utterly delightful; I read the first one the other day, and spent the whole time laughing my head off. My current AIM status is a line from it.

Oh, I need to try and find that book as Frances Hardinge is wonderful, her books can be tricky to find at times.

(no subject)

kd7sov - 2012-09-05 16:13 (UTC) - Expand

I just finished Echoes of Honor by David Weber, to get my periodic Honor Harrington fix (although she's only in about a third of the book), and I'm starting Some Buried Caesar by Rex Stout. And, as with every time I read a Nero Wolfe mystery since I started reading Milliways, my brain starts suggesting Archie Goodwin as a pup. Not Wolfe though; Nero Wolfe would be absolutely livid, beside himself with rage, at the very possibility of a bar intruding itself into his orderly and controlled household. He would go off in a sulk and want nothing to do with any of us (though he might send Fritz in after some good beer).

Edited 2012-09-05 14:31 (UTC)

Arche in the Bar would be amazing. Nero Wolfe stories are high on my list of favorite mysteries and Stout's like Christie, he's written so many that I lose track of what I've read and haven't. Some Buried Caesar is a fun one.

I just got done with X-Wing: Mercy Kill last week, the latest Star Wars book -- and anyone who was into SW back before it got ridiculous should give it a shot! It's not like all the long series that have plagued our lives the past decade, it harkens back to the days of yore (i.e.the 90s), and requires no background reading except for maybe the old X-Wing books.

As I write this comment I'm halfway through this week's Ultimate Comics Spider-Man and Miles Morales is still the most adorable baby superhero omg.

What I'm looking forward to? Mark Of Athena. I need more Percy Jackson in my life!

Oh awesome, the X-Wings books were fun. I'm so behind on Riordan's books, he just writes so much.

I'm reading The Secrets Of Pain by Phil Rickman. That's the eleventh in a series of mysteries set in the area between England and Wales where my good friend and ex-Milliwayser Sal lives; I came to the series by her recommendation and have read everything by the man since then.-

Interesting, I'll have to look out for it. I love a good mystery series.

(no subject)

yakalskovich - 2012-09-05 20:57 (UTC) - Expand

I'm kind of ashamed at all the reading I'm not doing at the moment. I kind of stopped with the whole reading thing when I learned how to watch .avi files on my Kindle. Now I just watch cartoons during my commute, when I'd usually be reading.

For shame, Bing. For shame.

Tomorrow I'm working an election that's likely to have zero-to-no voter turnout, so I'm hoping to catch up on Unwritten, and at some point I'm going to buy Alif the Unseen.

Watching stuff sounds nice and I've heard great things about both Unwritten and Alif the Unseen.

Right now, I'm alternating between the WFTDA rulebook (if I make it to the second round of derby tryouts, I'll have to take a written rules test) and, um... Columbine by Dave Cullen. I checked it out over a month ago and have been pecking at it in small doses; while it's extremely well-written, and clears up a lot of the myths I'd internalized about Columbine, god is it a harrowing and difficult read.

Next up I'm reading a book about fuzzy kittens being adopted to good homes or something, I swear.

Ugh, harrowing books really do feel like jobs, but they tend to be worth it. One in my to read pile is This Nation of Suffering about death in the Civil War, I know I'll learn a lot and enjoy it but I'm not ready for it yet.

I recommend some Georgette Heyer after, she's become one of my light and fun writers or whoever you like, many options.

(no subject)

ladysingsthe - 2012-09-05 17:59 (UTC) - Expand

Zelda is reading ALL THE THINGS.

I am reading NONE OF THE THINGS.

Aww, no time for reading?

(no subject)

sky_child - 2012-09-05 18:16 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

ceitfianna - 2012-09-05 18:17 (UTC) - Expand

.... I hadn't even fully read this before I EP'd Ava researching vampires.

XD

I myself just finished Kushiel's Avatar, a book which has a really weird and disproportionate amount of personal resonance for me. The fun part is that on the plane next to me, another young lady was reading a different sexy book.

"You know ... if you like 50 Shades of Grey, you might really enjoy Kushiel's Dart."

Hee, I saw that. Power to librarians and someday I will start that series as it just sounds fascinating.

(no subject)

saphyria - 2012-09-05 18:51 (UTC) - Expand

*cracked knuckles*
I am currently reading: a small ton of fanfic, Executive Assistant: Iris, re-reading Atomic Robo for his next EP, picking at 'A Plunge Into Space' as an ebook and all the email I let build up over D*C.

Ako is reading study guides for the Japanese curriculum because she's noticed how terribly slack her studies have been for the past several months while Bound.

Tyler is reading something research-ey. Possibly about GMOs, but having your food change people is a perfectly valid horror plot.

Robo is not currently reading as he fell from low earth orbit, without a spaceship let alone a heat shield.

Artemis is cramming in profiles for different costumed and themed criminals. She is also resisting the urge to make notes in the margins about things like favorite icecream flavors.

Heh, I love Artemis' reading and I hope Robo ends up okay.

(no subject)

seat_five_girl - 2012-09-05 18:21 (UTC) - Expand

(no subject)

ceitfianna - 2012-09-05 18:22 (UTC) - Expand

I just finished reading Perdido Street Station.

*sob* hold me

Oh my, I've yet to read any of that author's works but they always seem like intense books. *makes you tea*

(no subject)

jothra - 2012-09-05 18:40 (UTC) - Expand

Well, let's see...

Scarecrow and the Army of Thieves, by Matthew Reilly
The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
Ender in Exile, by Orson Scott Card

Those are the fiction books I've brought with me.

Also in my case, were:
God's Undertaker, Seven Days That Divide The World and Gunning For God, all by John C. Lennox.
Plus a First time guide to Africa.

Otherwise, recently I have been re-reading Jack West's canon for the nth time.

Also, I am currently reading all the Milliways + Bruce Wayne things. Because Alfred.

Re: Other Reading

cutting_edgex23 - 2012-09-05 19:09 (UTC) - Expand

Re: Other Reading

1nv1nc1ble - 2012-09-05 19:45 (UTC) - Expand

Re: Holiday Reading!

ceitfianna - 2012-09-05 18:55 (UTC) - Expand

I should be being better about reading, considering I have the time right now. I did read the first Sandman series thing, as well as this Watson and Holmes comic, which I liked.

But I've also been trying to read The Shield of Achilles, which is a giant nonfiction political book which is, again, giant, a million pages long, and dense with tiny text. It's hard for me to read more than five pages at a time, and I can't carry it around with me because. Huge. Blah.

As for my characters: Leslie likes political biographies and other historical/political nonfiction, though she also loves Harry Potter, so I think she probably likes a lot of popular fantasy/sci-fi YA lit. Manny apparently reads comic books, and I have to imagine a lot of creative types are stuck in the Land of the Dead, so maybe some publishing goes on. Asami I imagine tends to go for science nonfiction/whatever publishing goes on in Avatarworld, though thanks to her education she's got a solid background in whatever the classics are/etc.

And Elle does in fact like books, though she's not always great about branching out when it comes to what she reads. A lot because a whole lot of books are couched in things she doesn't really understand. But I did like having her share her two favorite books with Gaeta. Good job, Elle!

Edited 2012-09-05 21:30 (UTC)

I've spotted that Achilles' book, it looks interesting. I hope its worth the denseness.

So yeah, like that, only thicker than my hand is wide.

Wow, good luck.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only