Tea & Books - What are you reading?

Loved Ancillary Justice. am yet to read the others

Oh, just wait until you get to Ancillary Mercy!

I love the entire series so much. Of course, my username might give that away slightly.

Finished Ancillary Sword, now starting Ancillary Mercy. And yes, I did see your username and was happy to know there are other Leckie fans here.

my brothers reading that series.. i may want to look into it.

carol who —I second your assessment of YA SF/F. It can be quite good and sometimes superior to adult novels.

Have you read the Molly Fyde series by Hugh Howey? It’s one of my favorite YA SF. Hugh is mainly known for his dystopian trilogy Wool/Shift/Dust (which is excellent) but the characters and story lines in Molly Fyde have stayed with me even two years after reading it. In fact, it’s probably time for a re-read :)

Especially Harry Potter!

ah i have it in my goodreads ‘want to read’ list. let us know how you get on with it (not one spoiler please!)

Wow…that’s one of those I had to read in high school lit class and didn’t really get. Wonder how it would translate a few decades down the road :) (Did you know there was a movie based on the book done in the early 80’s? I didn’t get it, either, but then, I was all twinkly-eyed over my date and didn’t pay attention!)

i can already tell you it’s beautifully worded, sort of poetic. im often finding i dont know whats happening as i read, but then it becomes clear again.. its not a bad thing since its well written.

also no i didnt know of the movie, i’ll watch it after reading, thanks.

is it serious or long winded like a stephen king or more simpler & shorter? im trying to rack my brains if ive read anything else by him.

i would describe it as sporadic, not long winded at all. im thinking that the plot is fairly simple but the execution is what makes it.

i like stephen king to, mainly gerald’s game.

i had that waiting for me to read it so i have just started. 10% through. interesting!

hope you like it, its psychologically thrilling.

im hooked already. I love the way he really puts you in someones mind – Just the right amount of description, im really beginning to feel it. Totally my favourite writer for sheer consistency

its a great story. probably the only book so far to really make me feel alone and stressed out.. and i love that. i love the way the setting takes on a life of its own.

I actually started a thread on goodreads about the fact that the last few books loved were as much about the place as the characters in it. He has definitely mastered the art of nihilism hasn’t he.

You might like ‘the long walk’ by him as Bachmann. I think he wasn’t even 20 when he wrote it. Don’t read a synopsis, just pick it up if you haven’t read it yet.

yea, it may be his default attitude towards life.. and i know how that goes so it sometimes resonates with me. what i love about gerald’s game is that the room is so unforgiving to her struggle, and you get the sense that the room would not be affected in the slightest if she were there or not.. the weight of the world is on her shoulders.
i’m on goodreads, havnt been active on it at all, possibly due to the fact that i find it a bit confusing to navigate. id like to read your thread though, where can it be found?

Yeah goodreads.. I wish you could sort by first date published, and most of the recommendations are not to my taste but I’ve found some good ones. And a nice repository for reviews to remind you who you liked.

The thread isn’t great but there’s a few suggestions :
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/17528414-unexpected-out-there-serious-story-recommendations

Funnily enough geralds game fits perfectly with what the thread was about, serious stories that couldn’t be guessed from the title!

those are my favorite kinds of books.

‘The Ruins’ by Scott Smith is quite a good one. Didnt see that coming.

And of course, the grandaddy of them all, ‘House of Leaves’ by Mark Danielewski. My favourite book ever, and every fan of any good story ever should just bypass all synopsis or reviews and just read the damn thing. 10/10

interesting.. im going to have to add those to my tbr pile. you might like false memory by dean koontz.

Excellent! I love it when people haven’t read it. Ive never read false memory either.

rasseru — I could not find House of Leaves in the Kindle store. Found the author but not the book. Was this published a long time ago?

TeaExplorer – House of Leaves is really a book you need to read in print, since it does a lot of things with the canvas of the page itself that you can’t reproduce in ebook form.

Christina — Thanks! Found it in paperback on Amazon.

I was going to write that, not sure why i didn’t post it! Was busy going to Halloween makeup

Hardback is best, then paperback, then mobi version. Really want the hardback but it’s expensive!

Not certain but thought the mobi or epub version was close to the paperback? I have the paperback and is not in colour… Its the story for me anyway, absolutely love it.

something like a sheng with that menthol or medicine aroma to make you think of antiseptic?

lol haha nice

Is the Kaling book funny?

I’m torn about it. I enjoyed it, but found it a bit similar to the character she writes and portrays on the Mindy Project. I love the show, but I guess I wanted a little more from the book. I definitely chuckled a few times when I read it though, and that was the point.

That one’s in my queue… looking forward to it :)

John Green is good stuff! I need to read Fault in Our Stars also, keep getting distracted by other books.

This sounds cute! I also read cozy mysteries from time to time, especially if they have a paranormal angle. I finished the Samantha Sweet series earlier this year and really liked it.

I love cozy mysteries! I haven’t read any paranormal ones, so I’ll have to look it up!