This is really all my iPad's fault. Once I was able to read my Nook library on my iPad using the app, I began reading a great deal more in my short spare moments. For one thing, the iPad is backlit. For another, I can swipe or tap to turn the page. (Poor first-gen Nook. How I hated its clicky-clicky page turning. I read so fast that I was clicking incessantly, and it annoyed me so much I stopped reading.) And even more important: larger font for my tired eyes. Enough said. Anyway, I have a book rec! -
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller. The book is told from Patroclus' POV. At its heart, this book is the love story of Achilles and Patroclus, and it's lovely. I enjoyed it greatly. If you are a fan of Mary Renault, or of classics slash, this is going to be right up your alley. I picked it up due to
sineala's recommendation. This is why book recs are awesome.
After I read that in one day two weeks ago, I went on to the Hunger Games trilogy, which I read in three days. I enjoyed those books a great deal, except for parts of the last one. Which I won't get into here, because, spoilers. But someday I'll write a post about all that.
When time permits, I'm a fast reader, which is inconvenient because I'm always on the prowl for new things. Also, sometimes books really fail to grab me in the first chapter and I have to move on to others. (Life is too short to waste time on boring books.) So: here's the list of unread or only-just-started books currently on my Nook. (I have numerous print books in my library unread, but the likelihood of me reading them is somewhat less than the chances of me reading the ones I've downloaded to the iPad. Backlit! Larger font! Joy!!) If you have any recs for me based on the types of things I have listed here, please let me know, or point me to your Goodreads page.
Side note: I am not really very interested in YA books that have angsty and yet entirely predictable hetero girl/guy/guy or girl/girl/guy triangles. Especially if they involve vampires, werewolves, angels, or demons. It shocks me that I liked Hunger Games, but maybe that's because it's dystopian SF, which is a thing I love unto itself. So there you have it. Side note part 2: I don't really enjoy most SF or its sub-genres. In fact, it bores me to tears. So recs for that are lost on me, UNLESS it has a character-driven, post-apocalyptic and/or dystopian foundation.
Fiction:
The School of Night by Louis Bayard (I've read and loved all his previous books)
Grave Mercy by Robin LeFevers (REALLY looking forward to this one)
The False Prince by Jennifer A. Nielsen (really really looking forward to this one, too)
Angelology by Danielle Turssoni (I'm dubious, but I'm giving it a shot)
The Alehouse Murders by Maureen Ash
Frontier Wolf by Rosemary Sutfcliff (fandom: enabling my reading habits since 1996)
Good Omens by Gaiman and Pratchett (No, I've never read it. Really.)
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Roman Blood by Steven Saylor
A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
Nearly Departed in Deadwood by Ann Charles
The Death Instinct by Jed Rubenfeld
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor
A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin (Nope, never read it. Tried once before, gave up.)
Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey (See above re fandom and enabling.)
Ghost Road Blues by Jonathan Maberry
The Passage by Justin Cronin
Under the Dome by Stephen King (I've been trying to finish this for a year. It's not looking promising.)
Percy Jackson books 2, 3 and 4 by Rick Riordan (saw the movie, don't need to read #1)
The Alienist by Caleb Carr
Robopocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson
Non-fiction:
At Home by Bill Bryson (I've already read everything else of his)
How the End Begins: The Road to a Nuclear World War III by Ron Rosenbaum