Using my Goodreads account for Evil -Book thread...

[Meghan32]

Hello Litpeople,

Everyone needs a good addiction, and at least mine isn't heroin. I'm a high school teacher attempting to wind down in my tiny remnants of free time. My usual tool for this venture is reading. I read the following authors to excess, along with some young adult, historical fiction, etc:

1.) Sarah Waters
2.) John Greene (Fault in Our Stars is incredible)
3.) Rob Sheffield
4.) Chuck Klosterman
5.) Cassandra Clare
6.) Sara Vowell
7.) Gillian Flynn (Sharp Objects - Gothic modern-day twisted fairytale/murder mystery)
8.) Ken Follett
9.) Clive Barker

Any other recommendations? What/who have you been reading these days? Please share.

 

[WeedSmoke420]

thanks

 

[kotori]

What subject do you teach?

Oh, almost forgot the Official Lit Greeting:

Show us your tits.

 

[run_silent]

Welcome Meghan. Put on your body armor and get ready for a rough ride. Once the hazing stops you will have fun here.

 

[WeedSmoke420]

What subject do you teach?

Oh, almost forgot the Official Lit Greeting:

Show us your tits.

haha..

 

[run_silent]

Oh, almost forgot the Official Lit Greeting:

Show us your tits.

It is a Lit law. It has to be said.

 

[Sean]

I know Patrick Rothfuss needs to stop doing book tours and finish writing the third fucking kingkiller novel.

 

[lovetoread]

I've been reading a lot of Joe Hill and Lorelei James.

The next King novel comes out on my birthday.

 

[Meghan32]

grazie

Welcome Meghan. Put on your body armor and get ready for a rough ride. Once the hazing stops you will have fun here.

Thanks! Welcomes and responses appreciated.

And don't judge me too harshly, but I read the first Rothfuss Kingkiller book, enjoyed it, then read the second one. Wanted to fling it with great force across the room.

I liked Joe Hill's first one, Heart-shaped Box I think.

 

[blackleggings]

I'm reading Song of Ice and Fire. I just finished Game of Thrones. It's extremely addicting.

 

[gravyrug]

I know Patrick Rothfuss needs to stop doing book tours and finish writing the third fucking kingkiller novel.

I've just started the first one. Good stuff so far.

 

[Meghan32]

heehee

What subject do you teach?

Oh, almost forgot the Official Lit Greeting:

Show us your tits.

I'm honored and also, nope.

I teach special education - Biology, English, and Algebra, anything they throw my way.

M

 

[gravyrug]

I'm honored and also, nope.

I teach special education - Biology, English, and Algebra, anything they throw my way.

M

We had to ask, it's tradition.

Also, good for you, teaching. I hope it stays enjoyable and rewarding for you.

 

[Emerson40]

Hello Litpeople,

Everyone needs a good addiction, and at least mine isn't heroin. I'm a high school teacher attempting to wind down in my tiny remnants of free time. My usual tool for this venture is reading. I read the following authors to excess, along with some young adult, historical fiction, etc:

1.) Sarah Waters
2.) John Greene (Fault in Our Stars is incredible)
3.) Rob Sheffield
4.) Chuck Klosterman
5.) Cassandra Clare
6.) Sara Vowell
7.) Gillian Flynn (Sharp Objects - Gothic modern-day twisted fairytale/murder mystery)
8.) Ken Follett
9.) Clive Barker

Any other recommendations? What/who have you been reading these days? Please share.

You may enjoy Caleb Carr, Dan Simmons, Peter Straub, and Douglas Preston.

 

[Sean]

I've just started the first one. Good stuff so far.

Yeah, they're excellent. But he writes about as quickly as Harper lee.

 

[evesdream]

Children's lit. I've been nomming A Series of Unfortunate Events at the rate of about two a week. In the other pile I've been on a librarian memoir kick. The last one I liked was Running the Books by Avi Steinberg, describing his life and times as a prison librarian.

I don't really get into YA the way you do, but I had fun reading a choose-your-own-adventure style novel called Cinderella: Ninja Warrior a few months ago (and the follow-up - Sleeping Beauty: Vampire Hunter)

Everything else in my bookpile is very dull right now.

 

[evesdream]

By the way, when does the evil part of your thread begin?

 

[MatthewVett]

Well, what are your preferences, in terms of genre? Simon Winchester writes some amazing tightly-focused histories, for example, and Terry Pratchett is my favorite fantasy author.

 

[Sean]

By the way, when does the evil part of your thread begin?

She'll mention Stephanie Meyer, just wait.

 

[JohnnySavage]

She'll mention Stephanie Meyer, just wait.

I read Twilight last weekend to see what the hubbub was about. It was awful.

 

[Sean]

I read Twilight last weekend to see what the hubbub was about. It was awful.

I've read a few pages, just out of curiosity. It's not quite as bad as Dan Brown, but it's close.

 

[evesdream]

She'll mention Stephanie Meyer, just wait.

If Stephanie Meyer is the herald, E.L. James might be the beast.

 

[Meghan32]

heehee

She'll mention Stephanie Meyer, just wait.

Oh God, I fully do NOT intend to. Count your lucky stars.....and also, count me old and decrepit for using a phrase like "count your lucky stars" in common discussion board parlance.

 

[Meghan32]

You may enjoy Caleb Carr, Dan Simmons, Peter Straub, and Douglas Preston.

I love Caleb Carr - read The Alienist and its sequel. I've only read "Drood" and "Summer of Night" from Dan Simmons so far. He's switched from sci-fi to literary fiction door-stopper novels lately, which is curious... Don't get me started on E.L. James. Oy.

 

[Fata Morgana]

I used to love Sarah Waters, the last one or two she wrote not so much though.

The last one I read that I couldn't put down was Life After Life by Kate Atkinson. Bloody good read that.

A few others I've enjoyed:

The Snow Child - Eowyn Ivey
Deathless - Catherynne M Valente
The Girl With Glass Feet - Ali Shaw
The Brides of Rollrock Island - Margo Lanagan