I have just finished my 20th book on this trip and my kindle is getting dangerously low!
Some of these were re-reads for me, but still.
I'm really happy to have gotten back to reading as my primary form of fictional entertainment since Nick and I have been eschewing TV and movies. I love voraciously tearing through a book, but there's always such a sad moment when the kindle displays "100%" and I move the book out of my "now reading" collection. It's a happy moment because it opens up a spot to make a new book friend, but it's bittersweet.
I do love re-reading really good books: this trip it's been Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire). But since them I've been making a conscious effort to read new things.
I would love recommendations from anyone, even if you feel my tastes may be different from yours. I love fantasy and sci-fi, but I'm trying to get into non-fiction as well (A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson is genious!) and I'm willing to give any genre a test drive.
Things I love include (but are not limited to):
Vampires (fav: Dracula, Bram Stoker)
Zombies (Feed, Mira Grant)
Dragons (Dragon Riders of Pern, Anne McCaffery)
Robots (Isaac Asimov's writing is a bit outside my ideal, but his stories are exemplary)
Classics (Too spread out a "genre" to pick a favorite, but I've read Pride and Prejudice about 5 times)
Non-fiction favorites:
A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
Freakonomics, Stephen D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
Comedy (Douglass Adams is my hero)
Thriller (anything Stephen King!!)
Books I've read so far on this trip in approximate order:
J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings 1, 2, and 3 (re-read)
G.R.R. Martin, Game of Thrones 1 - 5 (re-read)
Isaac Asimov
Second Foundation
Caves of Steel
The Naked Sun
Robots of Dawn
Foundation's Edge
Foundation and Earth
Prelude to Foundation
Forward the Foundation
Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
Max Brooks, World War Z
Elizabeth Pisani, Indonesia, Etc.
Some of these were re-reads for me, but still.
Reading to enjoy the sun in Australia
Reading while waiting for the ferry in Indonesia
Reading out loud to Nick
Visiting traditional, local villages in Indonesia, I do sometimes do something other than read!
I'm really happy to have gotten back to reading as my primary form of fictional entertainment since Nick and I have been eschewing TV and movies. I love voraciously tearing through a book, but there's always such a sad moment when the kindle displays "100%" and I move the book out of my "now reading" collection. It's a happy moment because it opens up a spot to make a new book friend, but it's bittersweet.
I do love re-reading really good books: this trip it's been Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire). But since them I've been making a conscious effort to read new things.
I would love recommendations from anyone, even if you feel my tastes may be different from yours. I love fantasy and sci-fi, but I'm trying to get into non-fiction as well (A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson is genious!) and I'm willing to give any genre a test drive.
Things I love include (but are not limited to):
Vampires (fav: Dracula, Bram Stoker)
Zombies (Feed, Mira Grant)
Dragons (Dragon Riders of Pern, Anne McCaffery)
Robots (Isaac Asimov's writing is a bit outside my ideal, but his stories are exemplary)
Classics (Too spread out a "genre" to pick a favorite, but I've read Pride and Prejudice about 5 times)
Non-fiction favorites:
A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
Freakonomics, Stephen D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
Comedy (Douglass Adams is my hero)
Thriller (anything Stephen King!!)
Books I've read so far on this trip in approximate order:
J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings 1, 2, and 3 (re-read)
G.R.R. Martin, Game of Thrones 1 - 5 (re-read)
Isaac Asimov
Second Foundation
Caves of Steel
The Naked Sun
Robots of Dawn
Foundation's Edge
Foundation and Earth
Prelude to Foundation
Forward the Foundation
Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
Max Brooks, World War Z
Elizabeth Pisani, Indonesia, Etc.
The Anthologist
ReplyDeleteThe Goldfinch
Tale of Two Cities
Anne of Green Gables
Big Little Lies
Culture Shock: Thailand
Poems of Robert Frost
Wine & Philosophy
All the Light We Cannot See
Learning to Walk in the Dark
'nuf? :)
Thank you! I've read Tale of Two Cities and Anne of Green Gables before, but none of the rest, so I should have some good newbies here!
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