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In the past three-four days to a week, my books have been the follow:

Beautiful Redemption by Kami Garcia
Just One Day by Gayle Foreman
Asunder by jodi Meadows
Scarlet by Marissa Meyer

Today, I think I'm starting, Shades of Earth by Beth Revis. Or Shiver by DeStefano. I'm still so up in the air. So many books. Also, I'd love to friend anyone who has a Goodreads Account. Mine can be found here.

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I am having way too much fun with that website. :D

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I'm alternating between Madame Bluestocking's Pennyhorrid by my convention buddy Monica Marier and the novelization of Tron (so very, very purple).

Mostly right now, though, I am playing with my NEW iPHONE.

Enzo may also be reading the Tron novelization. He is looking up half the words.

Wild Cards: Busted Flush by George Martin, et al, personally. Though I got distracted from it by Gregg Taylor's Black Jack Justice.

Mark is currently reading his senior-level textbooks, in preparation for final exams. When he has time, he's reading the current issue of Science Dog.

I love the WIld Cards universe and wish I had more time to read it.

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At home I have started Goblin Secrets by William Alexandra and for my commute I am listening to The Bone Doll's Twin by Lynn Flewelling.

I keep picturing Ben trying to read 50 Shades of Grey to see what all the fuss is about but never quite managing it due to the kids always popping up.

Hank is likely reading the latest Asimov or scientific papers. I think he might be looking into Biochemistry again.

Jess has finished 50 Shades and didn't think much of it. She liked Anne Rice's Sleeping Beauty better. Now she's working on Beautiful Creatures.

My first thought with Andrea is that she'd be reading Lorna Sterling (a fiction romance author) but after meeting William, she's curious about dime novels. She might have to get some suggestions from him.

Oh and I'm on Goodreads here.

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I'm currently reading:

Ascendant, by Diana Peterfreund
Behind the Beautiful Forevers, by Katherine Boo
Midnight Riot, by Ben Aaronovitch

And several Avengers and New Avengers trades.

Oh, I'm also listening to I Am Half Sick of Shadows, by Alan Bradley, in the car. It is not helping with my urge to RP Flavia de Luce.

Alanna has next to no time to read, but that doesn't keep Myles from assigning history reading each night. Thayet turns to Tortallan history when she can't sleep. Also, crop reports.

Jim currently has no access to books.

Elizabeth has some of her favorite pirate tales stashed in her cabin. Sometimes she reads them to Will Jr.

Grace and her BFF Rhetta like to drink tequila and do Very Dramatic Readings of 50 Shades of Grey.

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I got I Am Half Sick of Shadows for Christmas!! I haven't started it yet, but I love the others.

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I'm currently re-reading/skimming Rot & Ruin for this guy. I also have The Bad Beginning, which I've been trying to read for awhile now and yet can't seem to get into it.

I'd have a lot more, but I haven't been to the library in a few days due to being sick.

Scorp, if he's reading anything, it'd be a textbook. Likely Charms or Transfiguration, as those are the two classes he tends to read ahead for.

Tom would be studying a map or reading the Town Pump, which is Mountainside's newspaper.

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Personally, I'm not managing to get much reading done, in recent weeks, asides from checking canon books for RP stuff. The last book I was in the middle of reading (God bless Waterstones and it's uses as a library) was Apocalypse, the latest Star Wars book out. Oh, and the non-fiction. Textbooks are boring, but necessary, and new papers about my project (or, at least, tangentially related) are quite interesting.

Jack is not reading anything.
Bean will be reading anything he can get his hands on (Once again, once I complete the next set of OOMs)
Alfred is enjoying a bit of Terry Pratchett at the moment.
Erik isn't reading much non-fiction recently. It's mostly been scientific papers.
Max is similar, but it's mostly been archaeological circulars and such, rather than physics ones.

And my GoodReads account can be found here

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I suppose I'm technically in the middle of my second reading of Howl's Moving Castle but I haven't made much progress as of late. I'm also reading bits of Ovid's Metamorphoses.

Mia is reading the magic primer Twilight Sparkle gave her for the holidays and the usual fare of children's books for Cepheus and Scorpius.

Lucas is likely reading comic books, probably Super Smasher.

Lohengrin doesn't have time for reading you guys. He's busy avoiding Princesses and stuff.

The Young Housekeeper's Friend, an 1859 text by one Mrs. Cornelius on how best to manage one's kitchen, particularly in terms of food-buying choices and food preparation with a minimum of waste and spoilage. And when I say an 1859 text, I mean the book itself is a copy printed in 1859- Massachusetts used bookstores do NOT screw around.

Gordon's doing his best to read the child care books he and Alyx have gotten from Bar over time, but that's going slowly. So is his attempt at reading everything Kleiner and Magnusson and Mossman have done in terms of research since Black Mesa.

... I should probably do my others too but this is all that's coming to mind at the moment.

I stepped into a used bookstore on Newbury Street on a weekend trip to Boston once. NEVER AGAIN. At least, not if I don't bring an extra suitcase for the stuff I end up buying.

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I'm sort of splitting my time between The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich and A Time to Kill by John Grisham. Though I also have to do some background reading for some work I'm doing.

Elle usually reads what she knows she's had a pleasant experience with before, or whatever the Bar gives her. Or what she needs to study for a job, though that hasn't come up recently. At the moment, she gave her collection of Emiky Dickinson poetry to Gaeta, so the Bar gave her another one, and she's been looking at that again.

Asami doesn't read recreationally as much as she feels she ought to - or she does, but it's usually split between news or reports related to her father's company. When she does read books, she tends to prefer non-fiction, in any case.

Leslie also prefers non-fiction, especially memoirs and biographies of women in government. Right now she may be reading Sonia Sotomayor's new memoir.

Manny... knows a poem, so I think he does some reading, though he's usually married to his job, and so doesn't have a lot of time to read for fun. Most of his reading is client files or the like.

I don't know if Marceline does much reading. But if she does, I doubt it's dating tips from Jay T. Dawgzone.

I've been alternating between the Downside Ghosts series by Stacia Kane (I'm actually considering apping a pup from these books to Milliways, ahem) and the In Death series by JD Robb.

Up next is probably the Kate Daniels series and the last two books in the Beautiful Creatures series, but I'm devouring books ALL THE TIME. Having a 30-minute commute to work every morning helps with that.

Oh, and if you have a Goodreads account, feel free to friend me here.

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I can not recommend the Kate Daniels series enough. Just the dialog is worth a read but the characters are awesome.

What....

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I just finished reading Don't Breathe a Word by Jennifer McMahon -- which was nnnnnot that good, unfortunately. Especially when the author confused "suspenseful ending" with "no ending whatsoever." :\ Oh, well. Now I'm reading a novel-length BSG/Dollhouse crossover that's already making me shriek a tiny bit.

And...actually, I don't think any of my characters are big readers. Olivia might pick up a novel every so often, but not with serious regularity. Gaeta's got other things on his mind, Bolin's too busy being awesome in the pro-bending ring, and the Trickster would rather drink champagne and send sewer alligators after people.

Oh, and if you have a Goodreads account, mine's here!

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I just added you as I never have enough books to read (despite what the size of my to read list might suggest) and my friends are how I find new ones. =]

I just finished the latest Discworld book, Snuff yesterday and loved it. I'm reading a collection of Nero Wolfe mysteries and am about to start a book of Damon Runyon's writing that I found at a used bookstore. Its to help with a fic and also I've always wanted to read him. I'm on Goodreads and thanks to it, my to-read pile is huge. I'm here.

Will doesn't read, he knows how but he's never gotten into it enough for it to be habit for him.

Charles is reading information about Cerebro, rereading Darwin in honor of his birthday, also going through various journals and books in the Milliways' library.

William is reading the latest dime novel in one of his favorite series and Tennyson.

Sameth is reading any books he can find on Wallmakers around the Old Kingdom but there aren't many and a journal for electricians that he found at Milliways.

Jane is reading various novels but not with as much joy as she did before and working on her own writing.

Moist is reading the biography of the Disc's version of Casanova as well as a trade journal about printing. He picked it up in an office he stopped into and its giving him good ideas.

Demeter is reading a book about new cooking techniques that the family she's staying with has.

Tumnus is reading a book of protocol, a history of Archenland and a dwarf saga.

The Pirate King is reading week old papers from London that he picked up from the last ship they stopped.

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If Adobe Reader would kriffing cooperate, I'd be reading either the Annihilation Event Book for Marvel Heroic Roleplaying or the Shônen Final Burst core rules.

I'm in the middle of reading the first Harry Potter book in French, though I have not been very assiduous about it.

Ambriel has graduated from Shel Silverstein and Nancy Drew to fashion magazines. Not sure how that will go.

Duo reads cheesy action novels when he has the time. But nonfiction is more his bag.

Coyote doesn't bother reading very much, because if enough of her people read it, she gets spoiled and knows it. Why not just let everyone else read for her? She does enjoy the occasional badly written supernatural romance.

Don is also more of a nonfiction guy. Some speculative sci-fi is good once in a while. And Mike has made him a fan of a select few comic books.

I can see Mike giving Don Unwritten as a sort of manual for Milliways.

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Right now? I'm reading this blog! (Surprised no one said that till now.)

Currently am involved with three books (a habit I learned when I was a lit major and needed to read multiple books at once). The Watchers is a history of Elizabeth I's secret service, and how men like Walsingham and the Cecils protected queen and country from Spanish/Catholic threats real and imagined. (If you read 1602, Sir Nicholas Fury was partially based on such men.) Next is Nostrilia, a rather strange SF novel by Cordwainer Smith that reads like almost every other odd SF novel from the late 60s and early 70s. Last is PTerry's Dodger, good so far, but it's weird to read what might have started off as a Discworld book and watching the real world added to it as the fantasy leaves.

Of these books, Kirk and Charlie would be interested in the book on Eliz I. Can't imagine the others reading these.

Kirk, as you might have seen, is reading a book about Abe Lincoln and Darwin's journals. Knox rarely cracks a book, though he might be reading a crime novel. Cyborg is too busy with assignments for school to have time for a book. Howard is probably reading some now-forgotten 1930s potboiler. Charlie is reading whatever comes to hand, sometimes ironically. And Gibbs can barely read in the first place.

*cough*avengersfanfic*cough*
DON'T YOU JUDGE ME!

Splinter might have a secret cache of trashy romance novels...maybe. You know, for when he's not reading poetry or books on art history.

Raph doesn't read. He can, but he chooses not to because reading makes him feel stupid. Raph hates feeling stupid. SO...no reading.

Mike will read anything he can get his hands on. No really anything. Cereal boxes, comics, tv guides from ten years ago. Anything.

Bumi makes a habit of also reading trashy romance novels under the guise of pre-reading them before he sends them to Jinora. Then there's also what ever news he can get out of Republic City.

Now that Aang isn't required to read for "school" he doesn't do much of it at all.

Ida found Reddit. That is all.

Splinter might have a secret cache of trashy romance novels...maybe.

Really? What's the theme? I go for pirates myself. You ever hear of Lorna Sterling?

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I stared Fight Club and Warm Bodies before I moved, and have yet to find them again. Er.

My reading goal for the year is to read all the unread books I've been acquiring over the past few years. (Yesterday my stepfather sent me a book about the western expansion--I'm not sure why, except he knows I was a history major for a while--so that's added another book to my to-read pile.)

Merlin comes from a time before there was a lot of literature available, so he generally reads The Big Book of Magic. Bilbo is a voracious reader, though one does wonder what sort of literature hobbits produce in their idyllic world. Lots of pastoral poetry, maybe? Lydia has already finished the novels for English for the year and is studying archaic Latin instead. Steve, I have decided due to this DE, has just discovered there's a sequel to The Hobbit (I have stolen his liking for The Hobbit from American Captain) and is now reading The Lord of the Rings.

My Goodreads is here. I use it mostly for my own books (hence the name it's under) but I'm trying to rate and review what I read more often, too.

My reading goal for the year is to read all the unread books I've been acquiring over the past few years.

Ahahah good luck. I've been trying to do that for the past several years. It would help if I didn't keep buying books...

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I am reading the collected works of Dr. Seuss and Shel Silverstein to my preschooler. As for me, only copious amounts of fanfic will suit at the moment. /shameless

Autor... Goodness, what isn't he reading? A partial list can be found at here, but since then he has picked up some primers on magic in the Potterverse, a book on Wagner's operas, What You Need to Know About Vaccination, and Knitting: A Beginners' Guide.

As an extra dash of creepy, he's writing dossiers on ya'll, so if he chances on, say, a history book from your time, he'll eat it right up.

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I kind of love you for the dossiers idea...

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I am reading many things: Deadline by Mira Grant, Ghost Story by Jim Butcher, The Osisris Ritual by George Mann, Fated by Benedict Jacka and Switched by Amanda Hocking. I am also rereading The Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett and The Handmaid's Tail by Margaret Atwood.

What? I get bored easily.

Helena is reading whatever books she is teaching at the moment - she doesn't get much time to read for personal pleasure.

I have a tremendous amount of fanfic and a Baen military SF novel of hard men making hard choices that I am slowly flipping through. (They seem to get worse every year. Or possibly the tremendous amounts of fanfic have raised my standards since High School.)

Tyler has recently read Cryptonomnicon. He's pretty sure the thing as a whole wouldn't work, but the details are at least semi-solid and what more do you want out of a novel? Beside a solid encryption scheme that is.

I'm dividing my reading time among:
Blood Alley by Tom Coffey
The Misremembered Man by Christina McKenna
Faerietale co-written by a friend of mine, Angela Barry (plug plug plug)
An Innocent, a Broad by Ann Leary

Just realized that these are all wildly different genres.

Tommy doesn't really read books unless it's a biography about a sports figure. Other than that, it's either Sports Illustrated or whatever magazines are lying around the firehouse.

In canon, Lou would be reading The Tao of Pooh.

As usual, I am trying to read all the things at once. I've been slowly working my way through The Hobbit for awhile, except now I've misplaced the book somewhere in my house, which is an issue. I just picked up Days of Blood and Starlight from the library this evening, and I think I'll be concentrating on that next, lest I get the crazy eyes from Heather.

I keep track of everything I read on Goodreads and my journal. So far everything I've read this year has been really good.

(Not pictured: Lots of Teen Wolf fic. What?)

Clash of Kings. I started the series the minute that season 1 of Game of Thrones ended. And I'm still on the second book. I might be slower at reading the series than George RR Martin is at writing it. Let's see if I can catch up to him.

I have a bunch of old comic books and comedian books I'm going through too. (Not super old. Just a few years. But also not new releases.) Too many to list because I like to multitask.

As far as Joan goes, I don't know.