Amph What book are you reading right now?

I love college textbooks

 

I found it at place and it has section on non-verbal so may help with my quiet Sir.

 

and me

I am currently reading Winesburg Ohio

 

Piazza Tales by Herman Melville. Longest short stories ever! Also, his not unexcessive use of double negatives is not unnoticed by this reader.

 

Dinotopia The World Beneath by James Gurney

 

I'm up to Lobo 4, still pretty terrible.

 

The Baltimore Clipper, Its Origin and Development, by Howard Chapelle. Fairly technical descriptions of American schooners from the Revolution to mid 19th century, lots of diagrams, some great excerpts from contemporary accounts.

 

Trudging through Clash of Kings.

 

The Nobody by Jeff Lemire, one of my favourites.

 

The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O'Connor.

 

A quick summary of my post apocalyptic reading in 2015:

1. The Bone Clocks A
2. The Girl With All The Gifts A-
3. Station Eleven: A Novel B+
3. California B
4. The Earth Abides C+

 

Cushy is studying hoofed creatures of the world for world-building.

 

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

 

Vengence Of The Iron Dwarf, Salvatore, the next D&D Forgotten Realms book.

 

I'm all out of good post-apocalyptic fiction. I think I've read everything there is.

 

Have you read Roger Zelazny's This Imortal? It's old, lightweight, and fun.

 

ok, no! I guess I was wrong. I'll read it tonight and report back.

 

Just started Robin Cook's Cell. It's been on my Amazon UK list for awhile as I was waiting for the pb.

 

I'll take some ideas.

 

Still the same book. I think it's time for something new.

 

Where’d You Go, Bernadette (2012) - Maria Semple



Semple has a big pedigree in comedy writing in the field of television, but this is only her second novel. It’s a convoluted tale, but the central figure is Bernadette Fox, an agoraphobic, iconoclastic ex-architect with a penchant for driving everyone around her to distraction and for strange, unexplainable disappearances. It’s the funniest book I’ve read in . . . maybe ten years. Since I read the Hitchhiker’s Guide series, which was when I was in college or else just recently graduated, I don’t recall exactly. The format of the book is strange, told mostly via in-story documents, e-mails, interviews, transcripts, letters, etc. Semple has a very weird, deadpan sense of humor and it just really hit the sweet spot for me. I can’t remember the last time I laughed out loud this often reading a book; I would occasionally just set the book on my lap, bury my face in my hands and shake with laughter. While in public places. But at its heart, the book also has some real emotions; the relationship between Bernadette and her daughter is a compelling one and there’s a long section in the middle when we finally get the story of Bernadette’s past and it’s really painful and devastating. Anyway, this is a wonderful book. Highly recommended. 4 stars.

tl;dr – absolutely hilarious novel chronicles the strange life of Bernadette Fox, one of the best female characters ever; surprisingly poignant at times, but a consistent laugh riot. 4 stars.

More Book Reviews!

 

Currently reading "Heir to the Jedi". So far it has all the pizazz of a Fingerhut catalog. Not helping matters is the appalling and insulting amount of fan service. In just the first ten pages Luke muses about whether or not Tosche Station still has his power converters on hold, and as his thoughts go to each of the main OT characters he manages to reference one of their iconic lines from the first film.

This new era of Star Wars fiction is off to a rather dubious start IMO.

 

Star Wars: Cloak of Deception by James Luceno

 

That's a pretty good book. I enjoyed it.

 

Beat to Quarters, by CS Forester. The original Horatio Hornblower book, hence, the original of the modern genre of naval adventure stories. It holds up, and then some. The Lydia vs Natividad battle is epic.