Amph What book are you reading right now?

The Star Wars: Legacy II, Vol. 2: Outcasts of the Broken Ring TPB

 

This is why you need to do something with the font to distinguish author from title.

I was really hoping to read about the author’s ongoing death feud with Willa Cather.

 

George Sand: A Woman's Life Writ Large

Sand lived with Chopin, dated Flaubert and was mates with everyone from Delacroix to Browning. A genuinely fascinating author and Parisian kingpin. If you like biographies about writers/salons from the 19th century you'll enjoy it.

I'm also reading One Day by David Nicholls (the guy who wrote the excellent Starter for Ten). So far so decent....

 

A Wilder Rose
by Susan Witting Albert

 

The Earthsea Quartet by Ursula K. Le Guin

A Wizard of Earthsea was great but I couldn't really get into Tombs of Atuan. Currently on The Farthest Shore which I'm really enjoying so far. Hopefully Tehanu will be good.

 

The title is legit the best thing about it. Really disappointing when it finally comes into play in the story.

 

There's two more after that... it's really two trilogies.
Tales from EarthSea isn't just an anthology, it really is book #5, flowing from the previous and leading to the next.
The Other Wind is the finale of all the plot threads from the previous 5 books.

If you have the editions with her commentary at the very end of each book, those are great to read after finishing each book

 

That is something I want to read.

 

I tried to read A Wizard of Earthsea a couple of times, but it just didn't hook me. Granted, for whatever reason "Fantasy"--once my go to genre--just doesn't have the same appeal to me anymore. I know the series is well regarded and beloved.

Just finished; Project Maigo by Jeremy Robinson. Book #2 of the Nemesis series is another tight, action propelled bit of literary chaos. Not high art, but fun. - 7/10

Currently reading; The Gray Man by Mark Greaney.

 

As I Lay Dying

by William Faulkner

 

Since I have a lot of travel time ahead of me, I should make a serious dent in a new book.

Or I could...

I could...



*Sigh* Start rereading The Lord of the Rings for the millionth time.

 

A wise choice, Master Ramza.

 

Marilyn: The Last Take. It covers the final phase of Marilyn Monroe's life and the troubled production of Something's Got to Give. You sympathize with her working under bully director George Cukor as she fought mental illness and addiction. Not to say she was an angel.

Some of the details concerning her time with JFK have since been debunked as tabloid nonsense, but whatever.

 

Just started Imperator: Wrath of the Omnissiah (Warhammer 40K).

 

I genuinely read that as "time travel." I thought it was an injoke reference to another thread or something.

 

In that case he should be reading Doctor Who..

 

Finished The Outcasts by JCCer Misty Hayes. It is not in stores and must be ordered. Via facebook I already through a spelling correction at her and found a couple of missing quotation marks which she as me to tell her about to fix for later release.

What she succeeds at here is characters. The protagonist tells the story and does so well. The chapters are short and make it an easy page turner. And she is hard at work on the sequel.

Moving on to Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb. If this is good I shall buy whatever comes next each week in what I know is a long series. Last year I read Nevernight and Godsgrave which are two of the best books ever, and it turned me on to this assassin genre.

 

The Farseer trilogy are some of my favourite books I've ever read. I'm sure you'll enjoy them. The Tawny Man Trilogy was amazing too. I have the Fitz and the Fool series ready to read but I'm saving it for the holidays (because the other two series were so good I kind of also don't want to read it though knowing there's no more after them, if that makes sense).

 

The only assassin genre books I ever liked were Brust's stories of Vlad Taltos. Light and fun, and told with a distinctive voice.

 

Little Lessons from the Saints by Bob Burnham

 

The Lays of Beleriand. Which would make a great name for a Silmarillion porn parody. This collects never-finished poetic versions of the stories of Turin and of Beren and Luthien, plus very brief beginnings to a few quickly-abandoned poems, all dating from the same fairly early period. There are some notable firsts here, as the stories take shape, though at this point, between this, the Silmarillion, The Children of Hurin, The Unfinished Tales, and the Book of Lost Tales, I've read six versions just of the Turin story (or at least of the beginning of it) and you can get a bit numb to the repetition (the Beren and Luthien story, which has changed more and been retold less, is a bit fresher, which is good, because it's the bulk of the book). The main draw becomes the novelty of seeing the poetry itself, Tolkien working in a different form, aping the medieval storytelling forms he was inspired by. I enjoyed that aspect more than I expected to, especially the alliterative verse used for The Lay of the Children of Hurin, an antiquated style much less common than the rhyming verse used for The Lay of Leithian. Also especially worth noting is the inclusion of notes on the Lay of Leithian by none other than C.S. Lewis, reviewing the work in progress for his friend, who actually used several of the suggestions and criticisms in his revisions. Best of all is the fact that Lewis puts his response in the form of a commentary on an actual historic work, citing made-up critics, alternate texts, and critical traditions to couch his notes, because Lewis and Tolkien were both enormous nerds. You also get delightful notes by Tolkien regarding Lewis's notes, playfully talking back to his letter, and it's a true joy to see a playful, brilliant dialogue like this between two of the great writers of the twentieth century. As I started this, I thought I might be in danger of First Age burnout, but it turned out to be an enormous pleasure.

 

Just started the Rogue One TPB. It's really good so far. Very nice artwork.
It has a cool scene with Bodhi and Galen right at the beginning that was not in the film.

Picked this up at the local comic book shop after work today.

 

Marvel's Star Wars Volume 4 Last Flight of the Harbinger

 

Sleeping Giants
by Sylvain Neuvel

 

Now that sounds amazing.