It’s Monday! What Are You Reading This Week? is a weekly event to list the books finished last week, the books currently being read, and the books to be finish this week. It was created by J.Kaye’s Book Blog, but is now being hosted by Sheila from One Person’s Journey Through a World of Books.!
I don’t know if you heard, but Dewey’s Readathon was this weekend. And I got LOTS of reading done! Did you participate? What did you read?
This week, I didn’t finish any books (other than my readathon books), mainly because I’m reading such a chunkster. I am now over 400 pages into The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss and y’all. I am completely engrossed. I can’t remember the last time (yes I can) when I was so into such a looooong book. (It was The Crimson and the White and it was YEARS ago). I have a little over 200 pages to go, so don’t really look for me to finish it this week. But maybe keep your fingers crossed. It’s just so good!
I finished listening to I Shall Wear Midnight, the last of the currently released Tiffany Aching stories in the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett. I love this series so hard. I saw somewhere that there would be one more. I really really hope so! So, my Terry Pratchett loving friends; where do I go now? To the beginning, with the Colour of Magic? Or somewhere else? I’m still learning to navigate this large, splendid world of Mr. Pratchett’s!
I am now listening to Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, read by Jeremy Irons. It is a distinctly uncomfortable read, as intended, and Mr. Iron’s isn’t helping. The gorgeous writing isn’t helping and neither is that sexy purr of a British voice! It just ups the discomfort level, lemmetellya. Wowzers! I think I’ll finish it this week.
If you didn’t see, this weekend I read five books (and part of a sixth) during the readathon. They were all wonderful! Here’s the run down:
1. Bone: Rose by Jeff Smith
2. where i live by Eileen Spinelli, illustrated by Matt Phelan
3. Bone: Tall Tales by Tom Sniegoski and Jeff Smith
4. The Kitchen Daughter by Jael Henry
5. Hare Moon: A Forest of Hands and Teeth Short Story ebook thingy by Carrie Ryan
6. The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss, about 130 pages
How was your week? Plans for this one? Have a great reading week!
Holy moley, Heather!!!! I can't believe how much you got read this over the weekend–that is awesome!!! Of course, best of all, you had fun!
So glad you asked, Heather, because I hadn't sorted that out yet for myself! LOL Btw, I thought it was amazing that you read all of that over the weekend, too. You really ran through those books.
So, I think I'm reading (don't want to encase this in stone):
"The Giver" by Lois Lowry
"Truth: Four Stories I Am Finally Old Enough To Tell" by Ellen Douglas
"The Sherlockian" by Graham Moore
"I Will Not Be Silent" by April Maley
and at least one Audiobook because I'm traveling to see my daughter & little grandson this week. Yay!
Good luck with your reads, and all who have their lists, too.
Please visit me, Heather, when you get a chance. I'm a new follower of yours, now.
Deborah/TheBookishDame
Hi! There are two books suggested to start off Discworld with. One is Mort and the other is totally slipping my mind at the moment. I haven't got around to reading them yet anyway…
Well, the read-a-thon sure made up for not finishing any books last week.
While there are benefits to starting at the beginning, sometimes people are put off because the very first books were written when he was a less-accomplished writer – still very good, just not his best work. If you decide to start with The Colour of Magic, I recommend that you immediately follow it with The Light Fantastic, because they are two halves of one story. Some people like to follow the subgroups instead of reading them all in publication order. There's a reading guide for that at lspace.org, where you can also find many annotations for the books(read the books first, then see what other people noticed). Many people find a good starting point is Guards! Guards!, others like Small Gods, Wyrd Sisters, or Pyramids.
Oh yes, I know exactly how you feel about listening to Lolita. It's like…oh wow, his voice is sooo sexy. Oh wait…EWWWW. And then five minutes later…oh wow, that was just gorgeous. Oh wait…EWWWWW. And it's like that for the whole damn book.