What is everyone reading at the moment?

I just finished the "English Spy", I would highly recommend you enjoy thrillers and action packed books. Plots twists and turns make it a page turner.

I just started reading the "Rook" sci fi/fantasy book.

The Allon series are fun reads - The Black Widow, #16 in the series, just came out last month as well which follows English Spy in the line.

I'm rotting my mind (mainly at bedtime, when my eyelids are getting heavy) with a Greig Beck sci fi action/thriller, Kraken Rising, about a race through a Jules Verne kind of sub-Antarctic hidden world full of hostile, deadly creatures to recover a previously lost prototype nuclear submarine. Lousy character development and plotting, but diverting in a simple and undemanding way.

The Martian by Andy Weir

Saw the movie first still a good read.

The Martian by Andy Weir

Saw the movie first still a good read.

Loved the book. Haven't seen the movie, yet.

I am in the middle of The Forgotten Room by Lincoln Child.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2321...otten-room

This children's book, Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick, is the second of his I am reading.  The first was The Invention of Hugo Cabret which was made into a movie.  This book, too, is to be made into a movie.  However, in each book, more than half of the pages are illustrations by the author and are an integral part of the story.  These books, to me, are stories to be read and not seen as movies.  They lose their magic as films.  The books are pure delights to read and can easily be taken in in just a few hours and in one sitting, if one desires to do so.  While I am enjoying this as an adult, I can see this being enjoyed by eleven or twelve year olds or older.

I am currently addicted to Louise Penney's Chief Inspector Gamache novels.

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Which would be #1 in the series, ( first book not best). I checked out the author on Amazon an it looks interesting. Thanks

I have had Still Life in the queue for quite some time- will have to bump it up in the next to read list!

I just read Still Life, great read. I quite like Chief Inspector Armand Gamache. Thanks for the recommendation MaineYooper , I bought Penney's first 3 Gamache novels as a box set so i've got 2 more to go right away. kwsher I think you'll like them.
Marko

This children's book, Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick, is the second of his I am reading.  The first was The Invention of Hugo Cabret which was made into a movie.  This book, too, is to be made into a movie.  However, in each book, more than half of the pages are illustrations by the author and are an integral part of the story.  These books, to me, are stories to be read and not seen as movies.  They lose their magic as films.  The books are pure delights to read and can easily be taken in in just a few hours and in one sitting, if one desires to do so.  While I am enjoying this as an adult, I can see this being enjoyed by eleven or twelve year olds or older.

That looks interesting Freddy , I guess I'm not alone in my love of "juvenile fiction" or just children's books. My wife and I read bedtime stories to our kids every single night. I took great delight in finding great reads for both my son and my daughter, I really cherish the memories of those days. One of the saddest days of my life came when my then 11 year old son told me that he no longer needed me to read bedtime stories to him

Have you ever read anything from Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell The Edge Chronicles? Very imaginative with some illustrations by Riddell. My son and I will still make references to characters or events from the series and he's 22 now.

https://www.amazon.com/Edge-Chronicles-B...deep+woods

Marko

Marko, I have never heard of that series.  However, I was a primary school teacher and used to read to my students all the time.  I used to try to read with individual voices for each character.  One year, without knowing anything about it before making sure it was appropriate for my youngsters, I read The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis to them.  I never dreamed they would want me to read all Nine Chronicles.  By the time I was done, I would go home each day hoarse.  More often than not, I could not get away with reading just one chapter.  My students loved it, my vocal cords not so much.  I read so many dfferent themed books to them and I loved watching their faces light up.

Then, as education changed, I could only read from a given list and the kids had to analyze every story.  The pure joy of reading was lost for many of my pupils and me.  While we may have gained much with our electronics and special effects, we have lost, too.  Watching a Harry Potter movie cannot hold a candle to reading the same story, in my opinion.  The magic is simply not to be found at the cinema.

Marko, I have never heard of that series.  However, I was a primary school teacher and used to read to my students all the time.  I used to try to read with individual voices for each character.  One year, without knowing anything about it before making sure it was appropriate for my youngsters, I read The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis to them.  I never dreamed they would want me to read all Nine Chronicles.  By the time I was done, I would go home each day hoarse.  More often than not, I could not get away with reading just one chapter.  My students loved it, my vocal cords not so much.  I read so many dfferent themed books to them and I loved watching their faces light up.

Then, as education changed, I could only read from a given list and the kids had to analyze every story.  The pure joy of reading was lost for many of my pupils and me.  While we may have gained much with our electronics and special effects, we have lost, too.  Watching a Harry Potter movie cannot hold a candle to reading the same story, in my opinion.  The magic is simply not to be found at the cinema.

That must have been a great time. Reading to kids and watching their eyes as they build worlds in their minds is an amazing experience. I may have mentioned this before but I recall reading The Hobbit to my son when he was 5 or 6. Its a bit of a slow starter when you're introduced to Bilbo Baggins at his home at Bag End Under Hill. My son was in his bed playing with his teddy bear and sort of half listening until the first knock on the door, and then the next....you could see his attention focus on the question. Who were these dwarves and what did they want? I had him, or rather Tolkien had him from that point and then what an adventure. Good times.
No iPhone or imax movie can top that.