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Finished up The Word is Murder by Anthony Horowitz (out today and here's my review). I also finished up Breaking Bad: A Cultural History by Lara C. Stache. Now time to figure out what I'm going to read next.

 

Can't wait to get this in from the library!

Did you read Magpie Murders?

 

I did not. I saw it at my library a while back, but didn't pick it up so this was actually the first book of his that I read. It might be a while before I pick up Magpie Murders just because I keep telling myself to real the never-ending piles of books that I have at home haha.

 

Gotcha. Yeah MM was my first Horowitz and I liked it quite a bit.

Was this one feel very British? MM was extremely British and I can see how that may make some leery.

 

Yeah, but it felt kinda like I was just reading something that could've been an episode of Sherlock. I loved it. Once I sat down to just read it, I got through it fairly quickly.

 

That definitely makes me more interested. Thanks for answering

 

No problem! Hope you get to check it out soon.

 

Forgot to update this thread! Continuing in the vein of reading books by/about people who are different from me, I am now reading Americanah, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. It's about two people from Nigeria, who both grow up to leave their country and eventually return, and about their lives and their love story through the years. So far it's really good but I'm only 27 pages in.

And then, for our family read-aloud nights, my sister is reading us Steelheart, by Brandon Sanderson. Not sure how far in we are. It seems okay, the characters and premise are interesting, but I am still waiting for the plot to kick in, which I think it just did last night, but we'll see. My sister has read/audiobooked the whole series and really liked it, and my husband is really interested in superhero stuff, so he's enjoying it as well.

 

Sanderson is soo good. That series is one of his Young Adult series but it's still quite good. I'd recommend checking out his other stuff as well, ie, his mistborn and stormlight archive series.

 

I read Americanah last year for the same reason and it really impacted me. One of my favourite reads last year.

 

Magpie murders has been on my list for quite a while, gotta finally get on that this summer.

 

Definitely recommend it. My only complaints are the execution could've been better and just HOW British it is lol. I had never read something quite like it but enjoyed it alot

 

Noted! I'm a big crossword nerd, and it was recommended by one of the better known constructors - I think he implied there's some kind of element to it that especially appeals to crossword solvers but I don't really remember what exactly...

 

Picked my next book. Reading The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall.

 

This was such an interesting read. I don’t remember all that much about it’s plot, but I vividly remember the way the pages looked.

 

Yeah a friend recommended it to me after I borrowed House or Leaves from her forever ago. I’m a few chapters in and enjoying it so far.

 

I first read this book on recommendation from this thread (or the AbsolutePunk version of this thread) like, jeez, 10 years ago now. really cool book!

 

Renewing my Chicago public library card 2 months ago has substantially boosted my reading. I think I've read 10 books already this year when I read about that many in the last 3 years. Feels good!

 

Libraries are the best. I signed up over here in Sheffield, UK last year and I've borrow 62 books since then!

 

The /Film 2018 Summer Reading List: The Best Books Being Made Into Movies and Shows

Going to try to read quite a few of these this summer.

 

GOOD, GREAT, EXCELLENT post!

 

Don't know where else to post this so I'm really sorry but

Fantasy Author Brandon Sanderson Teams With FremantleMedia North America To Develop TV Drama Series

 

Failed miserably at not checking out another book from the library. Picked up Ragdoll by Daniel Cole. I also bought Horns by Joe Hill, an advance copy of Hangman by Daniel Cole, Red Moon by Benjamin Percy and 100 Things Packers Fans Should Know and Do Before They Die for a whopping total of $6 at the library bookstore. I will never not have books stacked everywhere in my room.

 

Bit of a specific one, but I just started watching Last Man on Earth and I really dig the premise, can anyone rec any books that deal with a similar idea? Post-apocolpytic wandering around an empty planet kinda thing.

 

Y: The Last Man by Brian K. Vaughn
The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Neither are really funny, though.

Oh: STATION ELEVEN!