I finished reading City of Ashes (Book 2) from the mortal instruments series. Now I'll be moving on to a.. book I borrowed from the library called the Whispers of the Dead (I can't remember the authour o.0) ^^

finally got into Allegiant by Veronica Roth.

Well after finishing the first five books in the series in like a week, I'm reading Last Sacrifice by Richelle Mead. Also reading Scarlett Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Walden by Henry David Thoreau and The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allen Poe.

An Abundance of Katherines by John Green

So now that I finished Last Sacrifice, I'm reading Bloodlines by Richelle Mead. And am still reading the other books in my previous post.

I am currently reading Eyes Wide Open by Ted Dekker, Katawa Shoujo, And a book that my good friend wrote. Slowly getting them read. :)

I'm currently reading The Children by Edith Wharton :)

I'm currently reading Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. This is my first read-through of the Harry Potter series, and it's every bit as good as people have told me it would be!

Right now I am working on reading Around the world in 80 days by Jules Verne.

Again, reading 2 books at the one time, 'Blue Dragon' by Kylie Chan and 'Dragon's Oath' by P.C. & Kristin Cast.

I am still working on Around the world in 80 days by Jules Verne

I've just finished The Foster Children of Time by Robert Schell - it's about two friends who stumble across a time travel tourist, and manage to end up first in a futuristic space station, and then stuck in the 11th century in a some nut's idea of a RPG. My description sucks, but I really enjoyed it.

Not sure what I'm going to read next. I've won a few books through Goodreads and Tumblr, so I'll probably pick from those. I quite like the mystery element of winning random books; most of the ones I love I would never have picked up and chosen myself. Too stuck in my ways, I guess.

Season 4 of Game of Thrones will be starting up soon, so I'm trying to speed read through all the books again! I'm currently on Clash of Kings.

I just finished two good ones - The Little Friend by Donna Tartt and In the Woods by Tana French.

The Little Friend is kind of a southern gothic novel. The main character is twelve year old Harriet, who is a resourceful and strong-willed child. Most of the characters in the book - the main characters, anyway - are eccentric and I really enjoy that. Harriet's family - sister, parents, grandmother and great-aunts - has been fractured into horrible disfunction by the apparent murder - by hanging - of her nine year old brother, who was the star of the family, many years ago. Harriet was just a baby, and her sister Allison was only four when it happened - on Mother's Day, in their front yard, in a busy neighborhood, during a big family gathering. Inexplicable! The crime was never solved. Harriet decides that she will solve the crime and see justice done, but how she goes about it, puts her in the way of a family of meth users and manufacturers, and in mortal danger.

In the Woods is a sort of hard-boiled police detective book, taking place in Ireland. Years ago when the lead detective was just a boy, his two friends went missing in the woods, while he was found the next day totally bloody and clinging to a tree with his nails embedded into the bark and three big scratches on his back. He was completely comatose and so traumatized that he did not talk at all for months afterwards. He had no memory of what took place. His two friends were never found. Now there is another case in the same woods that has many similarities to the old one.

Now that these two are finished, I guess I will go back to reading World War Z by Max Brooks. I did not enjoy it at all, which surprised me. I expected it to be good. I liked the movie, but the book is too dry and military for me. I don't like the format of the reporter visiting all the military leaders getting their memories of what it was like during the Zombie War. So I had set it aside awhile to read something - anything! - else, but now I will go back and try to slog through it. Who would have thought a global zombie outbreak could be boring?! ;)

Currently reading The Godling Chronicles by Brian and Jonathan Anderson, a father/son authoring team. The plot is a journey of self-discovery, very good vs. evil, and includes elves! The main character discovers he's adopted and his parents are not human, but gods.

I prefer fantasy/sci-fi/horror/gothic, but they need to be highly descriptive and well-written. If I cannot visualize it or the characters are unintentionally irritating, they do nothing for me. My focus now is to find YA books for my daughter to reignite her love of reading.

What kind of books would she like, do you think? Are you familiar with Charles deLint's books? He has adult and YA fiction. Both novels and books of short stories. He is considered the 'inventor' of the urban fantasy genre. I absolutely love his work! You might want to give him a try.

She became incredibly burned out on reading when she was in school. Started reading before she started Kindergarten and I'd often find her curled up reading something until she started having to go through the reading programs in school. So, at present, she is trying to figure out what she likes. I know she does not enjoy horror or romance. Beyond that? We're in that awesome discovery stage!

Currently I'm reading Out of Breath by Julie Myerson. But the lack of "" for dialects freaks me out. I feel as if the book is too silent and the characters are speaking in their heads. I don't even know whether they are humans >.< Has anyone read this book?

@Lexa: I haven't read that but it sounds interesting!

Currently I'm reading I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai.

I'm reading Dante's inferno, by Dante Alighieri :)

I am reading "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman
It's terrific and feels dreamlike in my opinion, Neil Gaiman is an amazing author


But since I'm terrible at explaining, here's the description from the inner cover ^^"

"Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy.
He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a sprawling graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor of the dead.
There are dangers and adventures in the graveyard for a boy—an ancient Indigo Man beneath the hill, a gateway to a desert leading to an abandoned city of ghouls, the strange and terrible menace of the Sleer.
But if Bod leaves the graveyard, then he will come under attack from the man Jack—who has already killed Bod's family . . . "

Dragon - sounds like a pretty interesting book!

I'm currently reading The Empty Chair by Jefferey Deaver.

I am currently halfway through reading Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It by Gina Kolata. I'm really fascinated by this stuff.

Side note: Her parents are geniuses for naming her Gina. Sounds like Pina, as in Pina Colada. I just love that. "If you like Gina Kolatas..."

Ecofeminism by Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva.

I finished the Gate Thief (can't wait for the next book to come out!) and now I'm rereading Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind. Its been a long time since I read it and I need some refreshing :)