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Just read 'Double Dead' by Chuck Wendigo. About a vampire trying to survive the zombie apocalypse. Enjoyed it quite a bit.

Also recently re-read 'A Simple Plan' by Scott Smith. Classic crime novel about how people can talk themselves into the most evil crap.
 
I'm very repetitive in my book selections because I'm currently doing yet another reread of A Song of Ice and Fire and just got done with Clash of Kings the day before yesterday and that's about where I was when I posted in this thread five years ago :haha:

Before that I read the Alex Verus series by Benedict Jacka, it's pretty good take on modern day wizards. If you like The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher you'll probably like it.
 
I'm reading "Dark Places" by Gillian Flynn. I'm not far into it, but it's good so far. I really enjoyed "Gone Girl" and I like her writing!

I'm also always reading tons of comics and graphic novels, I'm about to start Sweet Tooth! I've heard great things and I like Jeff Lemire so I hope I like it.
 
Currently, I'm reading "The Feminist Porn Book: The Art of Producing Pleasure". It's a collection of essays from sex workers who consider themselves feminists'. Amazing so far, i'd definitely recommend it!

Just recently finished, "Going Buddha" by Peter J Conradi. I'm not Buddhist, nor am I going Buddhist, but a member recommended this and sent it to me when I confided that I was having a rough time lately. It helped me a lot with becoming more in tune with myself. And the thought alone that the member was kind enough to do something like that helped!
It's a really good read, and if you're interested in meditation, I recommend it!
 
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I am currently reading Hollow City the second book in the Miss Perregrines Home for peculiar Children book. It is technically a "young Adult" Novel but it deals with some pretty intense Themes. The Holocaust, Death of a Family member, Sex etc. Plus I get to enjoy the discussions of the book with my Tween.
I like that it takes the supernatural and real life issues and blends them together. Its a great precursor to reading Stephen King, whom is my favorite Author. So if you want a simple but yet good read I recommend. Miss Perrigrines Home for Peculiar Children and Hollow City the second book in the series.

Also Tim Burton is currently making the film version and I am quite excited to see his adaptation of the book.
 
I am currently reading Hollow City the second book in the Miss Perregrines Home for peculiar Children book. It is technically a "young Adult" Novel but it deals with some pretty intense Themes. The Holocaust, Death of a Family member, Sex etc. Plus I get to enjoy the discussions of the book with my Tween.
I like that it takes the supernatural and real life issues and blends them together. Its a great precursor to reading Stephen King, whom is my favorite Author. So if you want a simple but yet good read I recommend. Miss Perrigrines Home for Peculiar Children and Hollow City the second book in the series.

Also Tim Burton is currently making the film version and I am quite excited to see his adaptation of the book.

I will have to check that out, especially since I am a Steven King fan. Gotta finish my WOW book first though.
 
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I like reading poetry as well. Right now I'm working on Katie Chaple's "Pretty Little Rooms." I fell in love with her at a reading when she read a couple lines from her poem about Nancy Drew
"I mean, a girl who, if tied, knows how to clasp her hands together
so she can free them , is a girl who possesses
more than a nodding acquaintance with bondage,"
I can never just read just one book, though, so I'm also working on Michelle West's "The Broken Crown" which I haven't decided how I like yet and rereading the first volume of David Edding's "Belgariad."
 
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...rereading the first volume of David Edding's "Belgariad."

Read a few Edding books several years ago and really enjoyed them. Stopped for some reason and haven't read any since. Thanks for reminding me...I'll have to get some more.
 
Read a few Edding books several years ago and really enjoyed them. Stopped for some reason and haven't read any since. Thanks for reminding me...I'll have to get some more.
With the intricate cultures cultures and rich characters, it's very easy to get absorbed in that world. I couldn't get into "Mallorean" as much but adored all of "Belgariad" and the two prequels. Enjoy!
 
My preferred genre for reading is usually plays or fantasy, but right now I simply adore Dean Koontz Odd Thomas Series. I don't like reading thrillers so this was a real change of pace for me. Maybe I'm "maturing" ahahahahaa
 
My preferred genre for reading is usually plays or fantasy, but right now I simply adore Dean Koontz Odd Thomas Series. I don't like reading thrillers so this was a real change of pace for me. Maybe I'm "maturing" ahahahahaa

Nice -- I was SUPER into the Odd Thomas series a while ago. I definitely think they're the best of his books that I've read, but I haven't checked out any of his books in the past 6-8 years because I got super busy with other ones.

Most of what I read now is humor-related, but I also like unique/passionate/"crazy" writing like conspiracy or alternative religion books, as well as convoluted-but-logical stories about large & small scale conflicts, like Dune, Game of Thrones, and Romance of the Three Kingdoms. I had stopped reading poetry for a while simply because I didn't have the time for it, but now that I've been dealing with some health issues that keep me mostly bedridden, I've been getting back into it again.

The last book I read was "In the Realms of the Unreal" which collected the writing of schizophrenic men and women, as well as other individuals with mental health issues (most of the poems/stories were collected from mental health institutions, but there are a couple famous names in there, like Henry Darger). The last book before that was The Book of Joshua by Zachary Schomburg, really good surreal prose poems, but I'm not sure whether I thought it was better or worse than his earlier stuff.

The next book I'm hoping to read is the Grace Jones autobio. My roommate's reading it and says it gets juicy as all get out and I might have to kill him to get to it because he takes forever to finish a book!
 
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I just got done with 5 books of The Claw of the Conciliator by Gene Wolfe, and felt really down and upset so I decided to read something fun and really childish, and then I remembered that I never read Harry Potter and started that. I'm through 2 books already and thought I'd just finish them off. It is jolly and fun to read, but I was disappointed by how close they were to the movies, I was hoping to get more out of the books.
 
I just got done with 5 books of The Claw of the Conciliator by Gene Wolfe, and felt really down and upset so I decided to read something fun and really childish, and then I remembered that I never read Harry Potter and started that. I'm through 2 books already and thought I'd just finish them off. It is jolly and fun to read, but I was disappointed by how close they were to the movies, I was hoping to get more out of the books.

The Claw of the Conciliator... That's one of the Book of the New Sun books, right? I read all of those in 2 volumes, and they confused the hell out of me. But that was years ago, so I might understand more of it, now. Though, his use of unused older words probably didn't help any.
 
I'm a big fan of David Weber, hard-sci with a female protagonist in the Honor Harrington series. 14 books I think: she's established early.

Clarke, Asimov, love that too.

/edit Weber rather than Webber.
 
I recently finished Myke Cole's Shadow Ops: Control Point and am almost through Alma Katsu's The Taker. I'm also reading through the Star Wars: The Force Awakens novelization, but the author's prose is dry dry dry and it's boring me.

I'm also a writer myself and I'm in a group that reads finished (though maybe not 100% polished) manuscripts before writers start looking for an agent. Right now, I'm reading a massive epic fantasy story from an old college alum and will be giving him feedback in two weeks.

I have a terrible habit of reading several things at once!
 
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I read alot of vc Andrews I love her books .I also like Janet evanovich /Lillian Jackson Braun /house of night series by p.c. cast /getting to happy by Terry mcmillan/Carolyn Hart/John Saul /nightlife by caitlin kittredge.I read all types of mystery and paranormal books
 
Just checked out "Cam Girl" by Leah Raeder from the library. Anyone read it? Back cover blurb: "It's just a kinky escape from reality until a client gets serious."
 
I just finished The Traitor Baru Cormorant. That was really fucking good. I knew there was a twist coming, and even read hints of it before it came, but it still surprised me how severe it was, even with the foreshadowing. It's a "fantasy" book, in that it's set in a different world before guns, though, rocket propelled arrows are a thing. It's about a girl living in a "backward" place that allows families with one mother and 2 fathers, etc, and an empire, insultingly called the Masquerade, comes in, and "conquers" it. (It was a rather bloodless initial conquest). Anyway, she's educated in one of her new ruler's schools, and is eventually made the Imperial Accountant of another land the Masquerade had taken over, and how she uses that new found power to get back at the Masquerade for killing one of her fathers. Anyway, this is a terrible description on my part, it's a good book, read it, etc, etc
 
Just checked out "Cam Girl" by Leah Raeder from the library. Anyone read it? Back cover blurb: "It's just a kinky escape from reality until a client gets serious."

Finished. Not a great book but certainly a very good book. I want to pass on an excerpt from an online review I found:

"Before reading this, I was one of those feminists who was staunchly anti-sex trade in all forms, and that included camgirls.

I think a lot of other readers might have as strong of a reaction as I did, because the sex trade is such a polarizing issue. I realize now that what Raeder depicts here is supposed to be awkward and uncomfortable at first, and that makes total sense.

Even as someone who considered herself "against it", I thought Leah did a marvelous job portraying how camming can be about more than objectification. How it can be about someone owning their sexuality, whatever it might be, and choosing how they want to be treated, by whom, and when. It was less about the client's desires and more about Vada's (the main character)."
 
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