What's the Last Book You Read/Finished? - Part 1 Page 1 Chapter 1 Paragraph - Part 2

[tzarinna]

Clive Barker's Cabal & other annotations.

 

[queenkale]

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children - Ransom Riggs

Good book. I love photography so seeing the old photos was a treat, and the story was pretty gripping. I finished it in about a week, which is pretty fast for me.

 

[raisethe3]

Hunger Games Mockingjay. Good book, but not as good as the first two which I really enjoyed.

 

[Whiskey Tango]

The Man Who Folded Himself by David Gerrold

Short but entertaining (and occasionally awkward) exploration of time travel. Some really far out ideas in this one, I've read it a few times over the years. Great book.

 

[Roadkill]

Sharp Objects -- Gillian Flynn

 

[squeekness]

Hail to the chief -- Ed McBain

 

[Silvermoon]

Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor (just starting the sequel, Days of Blood & Starlight)

 

[Ravenna]

Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

 

[Tim007]

Rich dad poor dad - Robert kiyosaki

 

[ComicChick]

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children - Ransom Riggs

Good book. I love photography so seeing the old photos was a treat, and the story was pretty gripping. I finished it in about a week, which is pretty fast for me.

are you planning on reading the sequel? i read Peregrine earlier this year and was surprised at how much i enjoyed it

 

[ComicChick]

Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor (just starting the sequel, Days of Blood & Starlight)

i loved the series. how did you like smoke and bone?

 

[Silvermoon]

i loved the series. how did you like smoke and bone?

I liked it. It took a little while for me to get into it, but I'd say about 1/3 to 1/2 way through I was hooked. It's definitely interesting. I really love the names and personalities of the characters.

 

[queenkale]

are you planning on reading the sequel? i read Peregrine earlier this year and was surprised at how much i enjoyed it

Oh defiantly, it's on my list.

 

[Enriquespy]

I´m reading "The Iron Column" by Taylor Cadwell as a long term project (almost 800 tinily fonted pages!).

 

[squeekness]

The Home --Scott Nicholson

 

[Roadkill]

The Fall (The Strain series book 2) -- Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan

 

[hammerhedd11]

The Falcon and the Snowman by Robert Lindsey

 

[squeekness]

Kill City Blues -- Richard Kadrey

 

[Anubis]

Clapton by Eric Clapton.

Good book. Nice insight into the life and career of a Rock God. Hadn't realized how messed up he was. I only ever saw him while he was sober after the death of his son. Guys come a long way. Also, good to get the definitive story on the "Layla" legend. Fell in love with his best friend's girl. Saw how he messed around on her any chance he got. Wrote her a song pleading with her to leave his friend and be with him. Then he gets the girl. Finally. After years of chasing her. Then f**ked it all up by doing the same damn thing her old, old man did. Nice.

Hendrix is still better.

 

[STARMAN]

Logan's Run---William Nolan.

 

[Silvermoon]

Okay, okay, okay, I know this is the what's the last book you read thread, but I have to put a plug in for my sister's book. It debuts TODAY

Published by Disney-Hyperion it should be in most major US (and Canada?) bookstores - ebook versions also available on the likes of Amazon Kindle, B&N Nook.

It's called 'Stitching Snow' (her inspiration came from the Florence & the Machine song "Blinding" where there's the lyric "Snow white's stitching up your circuit board" - which she first thought she misheard, but didn't), it can be found in the 'young adult' section, and is a sci-fi retelling of Snow White.

Princess Snow is missing.

Her home planet is filled with violence and corruption at the hands of King Matthias and his wife as they attempt to punish her captors. The king will stop at nothing to get his beloved daughter back—but that’s assuming she wants to return at all.

Essie has grown used to being cold. Temperatures on the planet Thanda are always sub-zero, and she fills her days with coding and repairs for the seven loyal drones that run the local mines.

When a mysterious young man named Dane crash-lands near her home, Essie agrees to help the pilot repair his ship. But soon she realizes that Dane’s arrival was far from accidental, and she’s pulled into the heart of a war she’s risked everything to avoid. With the galaxy’s future—and her own—in jeopardy, Essie must choose who to trust in a fiery fight for survival.

Okay, now that that's out of the way - I did finish reading Laini Taylor's Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy (so Days of Blood & Starlight & Dreams of Gods & Monsters). All in all a good series, I do think the last book dragged a bit, however. Things could've been tightened up and there are some threads that she introduces in that 3rd book that she kind of left hanging (so will she write a one off or a novella to tie those off or will there be a spin-off series, or will they be left hanging?).

I have now moved on to reading The Archived by Victoria Schwab

 

[ComicChick]

im currently reading Bloodlines by Richelle Mead for the third time lol

 

[breadtalk]

The mystery of the Ivory Charm- Nancy drew detective story

 

[hammerhedd11]

The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

 

[hammerhedd11]

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis