So what are you reading this year 2021?

[trappedslider]

Working my way through the Harry Potter series again, about to start book four. I realized that having grown up with the books, that I don't mind that in some cases there's a lack of internal consistency or somethings just plain don't make sense but that's okay because they entertain me, and I'm pretty sure in saying that they weren't set out with the purpose of being great literature on the same level as Lord of the Rings.

 

[Marc_C]

In May I'm participating in a book club that reads The Island of Doctor Moreau. Never read it.

 

[KahlessNestor]

Do you read at least some pages of each of these every day, week, or month? Or are all these books just bookmarked, and you just read a few to completion at a time?

I rotate through them. Usually I get about 30-50 pages done in one a day. I'm about getting to my limit, though, so as I finish ones they will whittle down.

 

[Nellisir]

Yes, the 4" x 71/2" format lots of Stephen King books are in this format now. Still a mass market pb; but just... larger. Annoying for the bookstores that were maximizing their shelf space with shelves that were exactly tall enough to fit the classic mmpb size book, like my local used bookstore.

Yep. I don't understand the point of this format, which is apparently called "premium". That said, I just did some googling and apparently several publishers are switching to a "max" format that's 4.75 x 7 for improved legibility & readability.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

I finished A. Merritt's Creep, Shadow!...the exclamation point being part of the title. While I found The Moon Pool to be more difficult to read, and I was close to writing off Merritt as "not for me," Creep, Shadow! was more accessible and enjoyable. Very eerie, too...sections definitely gave me the chills.

Now I'm reading Fletcher Pratt and L. Sprague De Camp's The Land of Unreason.

 

[Ryujin]

I just received "The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition" and will be digging into it starting this weekend. I've already read "A Wizard of Earthsea" (multiple times), "The Tombs of Atuan", "The Farthest Shore", and "Tehanu", but have never read "Tales from Earthsea", "The Other Wind", nor "A Description of Earthsea" before.

 

[dragoner]

Finished Brin's Uplift War, then Benford's Artifact, and on to Clarke's Sands of Mars, after that I have Bear's Slant waiting.

 

[Eyes of Nine]

Finished Brin's Uplift War, then Benford's Artifact, and on to Clarke's Sands of Mars, after that I have Bear's Slant waiting.

I have queen of angels on my tbr list; and I have 3 of the 4 books of the series. Just missing Heads. I would be happy to purchase that from you if you are willing to give it up... If yes, please DM me.

 

[dragoner]

I have queen of angels on my tbr list; and I have 3 of the 4 books of the series. Just missing Heads. I would be happy to purchase that from you if you are willing to give it up... If yes, please DM me.

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[Richards]

I finished Touch & Go and it was a good read, but I'm afraid my years of reading Jeffery Deaver made me quite immune to Lisa Gardner's plot twist at the end - i saw it coming from a mile away. Still, I enjoyed it, although the fact that every third chapter or so was told from first person perspective (the wife in the kidnapped family of three) while the rest of the novel was third person was a bit jarring at first.

Anyway, now it's on to the last Lisa Gardner novel I picked up: Fear Nothing, about two daughters whose serial killer father has been dead for years - one grew up to become a pain management specialist, the other to be a murderer who's now incarcerated. Now a detective needs both of their help to stop another serial killer who preys on women.

Johnathan