What book are you currently reading?

[Shahdai]

Right now Im reading Marlon James' 'The Book of Night Women.' (pg. 218 of 432)
Its such a good book, its about a young woman named Lilith, who was born into slavery on a Jamaican sugar plantation at the end of the eighteenth century. The subject matter is as you can imagine terrible, but its still such a good read. I reccomend it.

[rowan]

I like this thread already :D

I'm reading A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin. It's the 4th book in his A Song of Ice and Fire Series and I'm sure it'll be just as good as the others. (page 65 of 978)

It's a fantastic fantasy series. The characters are so wonderfully "grey" and have such dimension. The books are enormously long, however, but totally worth every page imho. I'm really hoping to finish Feast before the HBO series starts. I'm so very very pumped to see it, the casting looks AWESOME, and the storyline is more than dramatic and interesting enough. Thoroughly recommend to anyone, in case you couldn't tell.

[Sowen]

Oh, I was thinking last time about reading the A Song of Ice and Fire seried but can't came across in library..
in general I am very upset I have very little time for reading recently (thet is why I am not that often anymore in here:( ) but at the momment I am trying to read "Midwinter" by J. Buchanan - last time I get interested in Jacobites stories and the book describes thise time...well, i have also started reading some ghost stories about Edinburgh but I am afraid that I won't be albe to go any furher before it will be due to return to library..In general at the momment I am trying to read as much as I can about some scottish history, spooky stories ect as I won't have possibility to get such a kind of books when I go back to Poland.

Gosh, I miss school time when I had enough time to read so many things..and I want to read LOTR again!

[Emmie]

I'm in the middle of A Feast for Crows too. :) Although I haven't picked it up in a while, and I figure I might as well wait until there's some news about book 5 to do so.

Anyway, I recently read The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald. The style and setting reminded me a lot of The Hobbit, but it was published in 1872. And JRR Tolkien actually said "The magical, the fairy story... may be made a vehicle of Mystery. This at least is what George MacDonald attempted, achieving stories of power and beauty when he succeeded."

[Shahdai]

Ive never read, 'A Feast for Crows' despite my love for Lord of The Rings Im not much of a fantasy fan. Its gotten pretty good reviews, I might look for it at my library once I have the time. As for what Im currently reading, it's 'Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy (pg. 50 of 1488 lord have mercy!) This massive book is about a Hindu family trying to find a suitable husband for their young daughter, Lata. Im only a fingernails lenth in but Im really enjoying it so far!

[Emmie]

What type of books do you usually like, Shahdai?

I do like fantasy myself, although I read plenty of other stuff too. I've been going through a lot of Lorrie Moore's books in the last couple months. I also thought Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day was excellent... and A.S. Byatt's Angels & Insects, in particular the first part.

I've seen A Suitable Boy in various libraries and bookstores - you'll have to let me know what you think when you finish it.

Also, if you wanted to try A Feast for Crows, you might actually want to pick up A Game of Thrones instead; that's the first one in the series. For the most part, I really enjoyed them, although it isn't one of my absolute favorite fantasy series ever.

[Lanyare]

Ooh, I'm going to love this thread as well. ;-)

I've been reading Priestess of Avalon, but I'm not advancing very fast in it. It's the first book in the series that I actually don't seem to like as much. It's also entirely different from the rest, as it doesn't focus on Avalon as much, but more on Roman history and politics. Not as mystical as what I've read until now, and that's why I like this one less. Almost through it, now, though.