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TomCat · Jul 25, 2017 5:46 PM

I want to know what book you're reading. When I'm not on here I can be found reading Stephen King's End of Watch. Once I'm finished that I'm moving onto Stephen King's The Bazaar of Bad Dreams.

fj1482 · Jul 25, 2017 5:50 PM

Depends. For my kids bed time store we are reading Harry Potter and the goblet of fire. For myself I just finished Twilight. I'll be ordering New Moon hopefully tomorrow. I love to read. I have a pretty big collection. I once read the Shades of Grey series and The Hunger Games series all in 4 days.

TomCat · Jul 25, 2017 5:56 PM

Oh wow! My best time for a book was with Stephen King's Dreamcatcher. It was 617 pages long and took me about 2 days and 4 hours. My English teacher got me hooked on Stephen King when I told him I was currently reading Full Dark, No Stars. Then it went from that to The Green Mile, The Shining and here I am 29 SK books later and I'm still going. I've been drawing inspiration for horse names from the books I've read. Like my one mares name is Lisey's Story. I can't bring my self to read other books right now. I've just finished It, which was a graduation present from the teacher that got me hooked. So all I have to say is thank you Mr. Headley lol

ObsidianKitsune · Jul 25, 2017 6:01 PM

Currently I'm rereading Mercedes Lackeys "Joust".

If you love dragons, ancient egypt, or alternative history (eg what if there were dragons) then you'd probably find this book interesting. Set when there were two kingdoms of egypt warring against each other, and following a serf. The serf is picked up by a Jouster, who are people who ride dragons and fight with them, ie joust. It's a great book and I don't want to give too much away. I have yet to read the others in the series but I am dying to know what happens xD

If you also love dragons and alternative history, I can recommend the Temeraire series, starting with His Majesty's Dragon. It's what if during the Napoleon Wars there were dragons.

TomCat · Jul 25, 2017 6:09 PM

I'm not much of a dragon kind of person. Fantasy like that isn't much my thing either. I do however like mysteries/crime stuff I.e. Mr. Mercedes, Finders Keepers and End of Watch its a mystery series by SK. I also like historical fiction and historical books. I've been kind of "brainwashed" by SK books lol I will type a list in the comments of all the books I've read since September. The only book I've read recently not by SK has been The Silence of the Lambs. If you're 17 and older I highly recommend TSOTL.

TomCat · Jul 25, 2017 6:20 PM

List of SK books read so far (In order)

Full Dark, No Stars
The Green Mile
The Shining
Revival
Christine
On Writing
The Dead Zone
Mr. Mercedes
Desperation
Dreamcatcher
Finders Keepers (Book 2 in Mr. Mercedes series)
'Salem's Lot
From a Buick 8
Firestarter
Insomnia
Lisey's Story
The Stand
Doctor Sleep (sequel to The Shining)
11/22/63
The Tommyknockers
Misery
Rose Madder
Different Seasons
Skeleton Crew (also the name of my second free account)
Blaze
The Dark Half
Joyland
It
End of Watch (currently reading, also last book of Mr. Mercedes series)
The Bazaar of Bad Dreams (next on list)

Cheers · Jul 25, 2017 7:06 PM

When I'm tired I am re-reading Jan Karon's Mitford series. I'm on Out to Canaan at the moment.

When I have energy I'm reading The Rum Diaries by Hunter S Thompson. I'm finding it a bit of slow going....not in love.

I have a stack of books by my bed that need to be read but I tend to read the most on my iPad because I always have it with me.

On my list to read:
--Persuasion by Jane Austen
--The Tasmanian Babes Fiasco by John Birmingham
--American Scoundrel by Thomas Keneally
--What the Dog Knows by Cat Warren
--Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, the screen play
--The Man With the Golden Typewriter: Ian Flemings' James Bond Letters edited by Fergus Fleming.

ConfluenceFarms · Jul 25, 2017 7:21 PM

@ObsidianKitsune I've read Joust, and the rest of the series. It is pretty darned good! As a matter of fact, I am finishing up the most recent (I think) Mercedes Lackey compilation of short stories called Tempest. Once that one is done I have a book by Jaqueline Carey called Miranda and Caliban, ironically enough, it is a retelling of Shakespears The Tempest. Wow, notice a theme at all? :D

HunterUnderSaddleGirl · Jul 25, 2017 8:14 PM

I'm "in between" books as I'm having a hard time finding something I like. I once read a Harry Potter book a day for an entire week.

Any suggestions of what I should read? I prefer fantasy/adventure/action but what stops me usually is the authors writing style.

Salvistar · Jul 25, 2017 8:18 PM

Right now I am almost to the end of Lord of Shadows, by Cassandra Clare. It's a continuation of her shadowhunter stories if you happened to watch the movie City of Bones or the tv series Shadowhunters on ABC Family those storylines come from Cassandra Clare's novels.

I also just recently finished The White Cat by Holly Black. Talk about an awesome book! It was different from the typical Holly Black fare, and I couldn't put it down. There's several plot twists that left me totally shocked. It follows a boy who comes from a family of Curse workers (people who can control others with hand contact. For example give someone bad luck, or make them feel a certain emotion, kill someone instantly, alter a person's memories). Awesome stuff if you like a little magic in your reading.

SeldomSeen · Jul 25, 2017 8:31 PM

I just started Split the Party which is the sequel to NPCs which is about a group of NPCs in a tabletop game who go rogue and become adventurers after the adventurers die. If you like fantasy novels, bridging the fourth wall and tabletop RPGs it's a pretty good read and fairly fast.

I was reading Off to be the Wizard an the other books in that series. It's about a dude who hacks a webpage and finds out his world is a simulation so he does what any sane person would, go to medieval England to become a wizard.

And before that was the Bobiverse series. Starting with We are Legion. About a dude who was cryogenically frozen brought back 100 years in the future as a computer program who is forced to go out and explore space.

Yeah all of those just this month.

Cheers · Jul 25, 2017 9:06 PM

@hunter--I loved Raymond E Feist's Magician saga, which comprises some 20 books. I also liked the semi-spinoff trilogy he wrote with Janny Wurtz starting with Daughter of the Empire.

I liked David Eddings two fantasy trilogies.

I liked Anne McCaffreys Pern series, though I thought it fell apart pretty badly once her son took it over.

Christopher Pasolini's Dragonrider saga is amazing, really well crafted.

I like JK Rowling's Cormoran Strike mystery series, written under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. It's not fantasy, but it's a cleverly crafted little whodunnit series with lots of humor.

And of course, JRR Tolkien is a classic for a reason. Start with The Hobbit and move up to Lord of the Rings...but he can be really tough going. His writing style is pretty bogged down, especially in Fellowship, where he can spend pages and pages describing nothing... he gets better in the later books.

If you're looking for something stupid and light, I love Janet Evanovich's Numbers series. The later books are a bit repetitive but the early books made me laugh out loud.

And if you haven't read it, Rita Mae Brown's foxhunting series starting with Outfoxed is really good. The main character is a Master of Foxhounds in her 70s named Sister Jane. She is definitely who I want to grow up to be! It's another mystery series but I also love that it describes foxhunting and the horse and hound work really well because Rita is a foxhunter in real life.

Cheers · Jul 25, 2017 9:13 PM

Also if you love Harry Potter, read Harry: A History by Melissa Anelli. She was an editor of the HP fan page "The Leaky Cauldron" and has written this about the fandom. HP was sort of the first big online fandom movement with the modern web and she writes about a lot of different aspects of the fandom including Wizard Rock, various websites, spoilers, HP and 9/11, and getting to interview JK in person, all through the lens of a 20something young woman finding her way in the world after graduating from university.

RipshinCreekFarm · Jul 25, 2017 9:45 PM

I cycle through genres, from sci-fi/fantasy, romance, young adult and so on. I am on a beach vacation and I took Naughty In Nice from The Royal Spyness series by Rhys Bowen and Nine Lives To Die from the Mrs. Murphy series by Rita Mae and Sneaky Pie Brown. They are both mysteries with a good bit of humour and aren't so deep.

Cheers · Jul 25, 2017 9:51 PM

How are you liking the new Mrs Murphy books, Ripshin? I'm a bit over it...not sure the new mixed era books are quite good enough to save the series.

HunterUnderSaddleGirl · Jul 25, 2017 10:39 PM

Oh wow thanks @Cheers

I'm going to save this post for all of these ideas! Most of those I've never heard of, but whenever we're off to a horse show we get the Janet evanovich books on CDs. It's great!

Also love the dragonrider series. Want to read it for the 10th time. Lol.

SandycreekFarm · Jul 26, 2017 7:47 AM

I spend a lot of time reading. In fact, for most of my life, my ideal world has been one where I could have an infinite supply of books and infinite time to spend reading them. Sadly, such a state is not to be found, although having acquired a Kindle several years ago, I find it much easier to carry my personal library around with me. :D

At the moment I'm in the midst of rereading Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising series.

ElementalStables · Jul 26, 2017 8:02 AM

I've been reading and enjoying the Southern Vampire Mysteries (aka the Sookie Stackhouse series), which are the books that the show TrueBlood was based on. The books are way better IMO.

They're really quite good - mini-mysteries, all focused on a relatively interesting main character and with some really great secondary/secondary main characters. I really love these books.

Timber · Jul 26, 2017 9:14 AM

Eh I got roped into reading a novel my SO's grandmother wrote and recently published. An August Affair. It's a regular romance novel. I'm more of a Sci-fi/fantasy/mystery reader myself but I'm trying to push through it.

RainTree · Jul 26, 2017 9:47 AM

I am reading City of Fallen Angels. It's one of the Mortal Instruments books by Cassandra Clare. @Salvistar I also watch the tv show that airs on freeform (it's on Hulu also) I can wait to get through the first set of books and move on to the other books that continue the story!

I just finished the Fifth Wave series and a few books written by Navy Seals.

Wildland Acres · Jul 26, 2017 10:11 AM

Wheel of Time: Crown of Swords

best friend · Jul 26, 2017 1:09 PM

I read the Throughbred series growing up and just now finished the series. I love reading training books on horses and applying it to my style of training. Anything nonfiction is what I love to read.

HunterUnderSaddleGirl · Jul 26, 2017 1:13 PM

Oh I loved the thoroughbred series!

I personally have 1-10. Then I've read like some of the 30-something's. Trying to find the ones in between. During summer I used to read at least one of those a day. The first 3 I've probably read 8 times.

The one by Joanna Campbell right?

fj1482 · Jul 26, 2017 1:27 PM

One of my favorite authors is Frank E. Peretti. He writes fiction that mainly circles around Christianity, I guess you can say. Two of his books that are my favorite are Piercing the Darkness and This Present Darkness. Basically it's about a church and the main character. As well as angels and demons. There are huge battles that the book depicts among the angels and demons. There are times the angels have to wait because they get their power from prayer. I don't want to give to much away but if you like big epic battles against good and evil they are amazing books. Another one of my favorite is called The Oath. Another very scary book. I let my friend borrow it to read it and she admitted to putting the book in the freezer when she wasn't reading it because it scared her that bad. It's along the same lines but this time there is a very big twist and everyone in the town knows what's going on and tries to hide it.

ConfluenceFarms · Jul 26, 2017 2:16 PM

@HunterUnderSaddleGirl - I've been in that place! My old favorites seem to not be as....'rich' as I used to think they were! Have you tried the Black Jewels series, by Anne Bishop? VERY good stories and world development. She also has a new series out that I liked a lot called The Others. The first book is Written In Red.

@Salvistar - Ooo! That Holly Black book sounds good! I may have to look it up!

@Cheers - I TOTALLY agree about the Pern books. They started out GREAT then just kind of got old. (I may have to dig them out, though, and do a Pern marathon! I'm on a kick where I want to read a real book, not the Kindle, for some reason!)

Raymond Fiest and David Eddings! Those names are a blast from the past! I haven't read them since high school! They were my brothers books that I swiped!

I have shelves and shelves of Rita Mae Brown stuff. I agree that the Sneaky Pie stuff has gotten old, but I do love the Sister Jane books! Rita Mae was the Master of her hunt for a long time (she still may be for all I know!)

If you want fantasy/romance check out The Grey Horse by R.A. MacAvoy. It's one that I read over and over again. She also wrote Tea With The Black Dragon, Twisting The Rope, and The Book of Kells, all just AMAZING books!

Wow. See what happens when you get me started on books!? LOL!

HunterUnderSaddleGirl · Jul 26, 2017 2:22 PM

@Confluense Farms Wow, I just read like 4 lines of the preview on amazon and I'm already hooked. Going to see if my library has it or something.

Wildland Acres · Jul 26, 2017 3:14 PM

David Eddings? I was looking at some of the Belgariad (Sure I am am spelling it wrong) books the other day, and ended up getting a Robert Jordan book and a Brandon Sanderson Book instead. Anyone know of the Belgariad series and what you'd say the movie rating would be? (I like reading books I'd say would be pg/ pg 13, not higher)

jezmynespice1 · Jul 26, 2017 3:38 PM

@cheers I'm currently in the middle of the second book of Christopher Paolinis dragonrider series, really good books, after I finish eldest I have brisingr and inheritance to start, wish the movie was as great as the book!

Cheers · Jul 26, 2017 5:07 PM

@wildland David Eddings is PG or PG13. Action/Adventure/Philosophy with some relationships but not really any romance. Nice moral/philosophical development of the stories.

@confluence The very last of the magician books came out a couple years ago, so you can actually read the entire series beginning to end if you want. May I recommend that you read the new editions of Magician and Prince of the Blood instead of the old? And read by chronological order (from Feist's website) rather than publish order if you can. I much prefer them in chronological order.

I read Magician, then the 3 with Janny Wurtz, and then the rest of Feist's in chronological order.

I have tried the Robert Jordan books but he gets so bogged down around book 7 that I've stopped about there twice. Too many character lines.

RipshinCreekFarm · Jul 26, 2017 6:12 PM

@Cheers, I definitely prefer the older Mrs. Murphy books from the 90s. I haven't read the two newest books yet because te last couple have been meh. I think the Sister Jane books are better. Also a hearty here here for Anne McCaffrey's Pern, but not so much for Todd's.

Wildland Acres · Jul 26, 2017 8:13 PM

Yep, I'm on book seven right now... Seeing that a lot. Love stories with multiple perspectives, but these books are reminding me the virtues of slightly less complicated plot lines where we actually stay with the characters! haha

Cheers · Jul 26, 2017 9:21 PM

@Ripshin--I LOVE the Sister Jane novels. I also like her historical fiction. The newest two or three Mrs Murphy mysteries are part historical fiction, part modern day. If you can get one from the library or something (this is my source for Mrs Murphys, though I buy the Sister Janes) I would be interested in your take. I think it sort of works....but not really.

Cheers · Jul 26, 2017 9:23 PM

@jezmyne I love the Paolini books! I think they just get stronger and stronger!

You know Angela the witch is loosely based on his sister in real life? He's contemplating a spin off book or series about her. I really hope he does it!

MoonAcre Stables · Jul 26, 2017 9:46 PM

Ive been in a seriously long reading slump but these are making me want to dig out some of my books (Ive got a very big to be read stack lol) So hey thanks guys! :))

ColorGoodStables · Jul 26, 2017 10:46 PM

I don't read nearly as much as I used to (heartbreaking) but I'm currently working on the first book of the Lord of the Rings and well as the 5fh book of the Harry Potter series. Bother being read for the 2md time

BlueValley · Jul 27, 2017 12:54 AM

One of my absolute favourites is "The Martian" written by Andy Weir! I read that sucker in 24 hours. XD It is much more in depth than the movie and I just loved the way it was written! 10/10, would definitely recommend. :)

jezmynespice1 · Jul 27, 2017 1:46 AM

@cheers really!? Thats cool lol I didn't know that, that's pretty awesome I hope he does it too! Lol

TomCat · Jul 27, 2017 1:37 PM

I just finished End of Watch guys. I almost cried because it been such an awesome series and in the end it just rips you apart because you feel for the characters.

Ammit · Jul 27, 2017 1:45 PM

"How to set up and run a fashion label" by Meadows.

TomCat · Jul 27, 2017 1:52 PM

That sounds interesting @Ammit

JamesBayMemorial · Jul 30, 2017 8:40 AM

I'm reading 2 books at the moment, I have adhd and even though I'm hooked I can't just do one thing at a time. I'm reading 'vanished' by Tim weaver and 'assassins creed brotherhood' by Oliver someone, I'm also playing brotherhood alongside reading the book.

TomCat · Jul 30, 2017 10:36 AM

I can't focus on two books at once lol I tried and I got the stories tangled up and was disappointed when they got straight because I was so confused.

TomCat · Jul 30, 2017 10:40 AM

What I have to do when I read is be chewing on something. Whether it is gum or some candy I have to have something to chew on or I end up chewing the inside of my mouth apart until it bleeds. My favorite reading "snacks" are Lifesavers Wintergreen Mints and Gobstoppers. They seem to help me focus on the story and it gives me a boost on how fast I read.

RedRockRanch · Jul 30, 2017 1:27 PM

Right now I'm working on Pacific by Simon Winchester. It's all about the pivotal role that the Pacific has played in history and commerce since WWII and its continued importance into the future. I really like his writing style. He takes nonfictional writing and gives it character and keeps your interest. As someone who will be working on the ocean in a few years and lives near the Pacific Ocean it's shaping up to be a really interesting read.

GoldenShoe · Aug 1, 2017 6:34 AM

Right now I'm reading the Percy Jackson & The Olympians :)

RedRockRanch · Aug 1, 2017 7:10 PM

@GoldenShoe I love those! I should go back and reread them :)

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