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How's your summer reading going? What have you read so far/summer 2017?

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I just finished Shattered by Amie Parnes & Jonathan Allen, it's the inside story on Hilary Clinton's doomed campaign.

I am currently reading Harlan Coben's Home. I always read some Stephen King in the summer, so for 2017 I chose The Bazaar of Bad Dreams, a collection of impressive horror stories. Maybe next I'll read an impressive set of whore stories...lol.

What are you reading this summer? (Assuming people still read books...)
 
I'm a reader! And a regular library patron, blessed to have an excellent county library system ( www.delcolibraries.org )

I am finishing The Sellout, by Paul Beatty. It's the story of a guy from Dickens, California...a onetime black agrarian city in Los Angeles County that has somehow disappeared...and, oh, is it outrageous. Beatty has had me laughing, wincing, and reflecting on every page. Yes, he goes there. It's been quite a trip.
 
I'm working my way through Terry Brooks' 'Shannara' series again.

I used to love reading mystery stories and discovered a lot of great mystery writers at my local library. They were all gathered in a single 'mystery' section.

And then, a few years ago, the library decided to do away with sections and all of the mystery, science fiction, young adult, and all the other genres of books were simply mixed in with all of the rests of the non-fiction books according to Dewey. If you didn't know the name of an author, it would be happenstance if you found him or her.
 
I read Old Man Logan, now I'm going to read one of Harley Quinn's adventures.
 
gsdx said:
I'm working my way through Terry Brooks' 'Shannara' series again.

I used to love reading mystery stories and discovered a lot of great mystery writers at my local library. They were all gathered in a single 'mystery' section.

And then, a few years ago, the library decided to do away with sections and all of the mystery, science fiction, young adult, and all the other genres of books were simply mixed in with all of the rests of the non-fiction books according to Dewey. If you didn't know the name of an author, it would be happenstance if you found him or her.
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Yep. I loath their new shelving system. Absolutely loath. Bookstores do the same thing regarding fiction. All labelled under 'fiction', the asshats. If I could read print with ease I wouldn't care so fuckin' much, but I read most things online these days anyway. At least most of the titles are in large print, even if nothing else is. I like to give books as gifts but I dislike having to support institutions that don't give a damn whether their material is accessible to me or not.

My summer reading is doing decently, finished a few John Sauls this past week along with a new one in the erotica genre and reperused "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin just for the hell of it. Excellent book, that. Could swoon just for the punnery, really. If you like Mysteries give it a go. Also spelunked back into C.S. Lewis, always a favorite. The week before I was devouring a comic series as fast as I could, which is awfully slow considering its format (no matter how large the page is blown up, when images are that heavily involved I drop down to snail speed), Hill's "Locke & Key' series. I don't usually do comics because of the time consumption involved, but that was worth it. The artist had some excellent use of space and positioning for a great affect.
 
I'm reading some Darwin Porter biographies, sheer gossip and slander.
 
The Sandman Book of Dreams - Neil Gaiman and Ed Kramer. I'm a Gaiman fanboy.
 
Catalogues with essays for two exhibitions I recently visited on trips a few weeks ago to Dublin and Oxford:

Vermeer and the Masters of Dutch Genre Painting

Raphael: The Drawings

Both exhibits were superb, and well worth a visit to both cities.

The National Gallery in Washington D.C. will also be showing the Vermeer exhibit; the Albertina in Vienna will have a Raphael show similar to the one in Oxford.
 
My hotel in Kenmare, Ireland, had a copy of The Atlas of the Great Irish Famine, which I read over the course of my stay there.
Both fascinating and horrifying and gave me a better understanding of the immense and enduring Irish animosity toward Great Britain:

 
I am doing no heavy reading. I am downloading free ebooks on to my nook reader app on my tablet.
I am reading a lot of light, fluffy stuff, and loving it!
 
I am working my way through E M Forster.
 
I just finished Get In Trouble, the latest collection of stories from Kelly Link. It's weird and wildly imaginative. She writes of worlds where dentists share their convention hotel with superheroes; where people vacation in "pocket universes;" and where some people have two shadows. Gay men are featured in two of the stories It's a wow.

I also read Peter Slevin's biography of Michelle Obama. It is informative and I like her even more after reading it...but the book isn' t a wow. I finished it easily but almost didn't bother telling you about it.
 
Full Service by Scotty Bowers.

Hollywood and the secret sex lives of the stars, most of it is made up fantasy, enjoyable light reading though.
 
Going to the Jersey Shore for vacation for 2 weeks. Taking along several "Train" magazines to read through. A close friend passed away in February and his son gave me the ones he was reading last. Sentimental value to me now.
 
I'm trying to spend all of my "reading time" editing my book. It's no longer fun, it's painful, and it's apparently never-ending.

Lex
 
G-Lexington said:
I'm trying to spend all of my "reading time" editing my book. It's no longer fun, it's painful, and it's apparently never-ending.

Lex
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I strongly suspect I'll be feeling that way about chess very, very soon. In about a week, at the rate I'm going via study. Damn resume/college worker gives spectacular advice, and my resume's been scarily empty the last several years. Aside from volunteering for various legal beagles he says admissions likes Chess club and Philly's all seem to be rated. Which is fine, as I'm better than average, except rating is obviously an ongoing thing and I refuse to acquire a low rating which admissions will see. Also he keeps going on about networking and I feel I'm going to need some greenery for that while the groundwork is learned. Makes me feel I should've applied in my brother's field but - math. Makes me shudder.

I wish the chess material were better illustrated, those fucking pieces are hard to discern.


You doing nano as well, out of curiosity?
 
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