I haven't done the Wednesday reading Meme in ages, but I'm going to try to get back in the habit of doing it at least semi regularly.

What are you currently reading
Carlene O'Neil: One Foot in the Grape: First book in a mystery series about a photojournalist who takes over her family's winery. Dramatic neighbors abound. I'm only just to the ( Read more... )

What are you currently reading
The House of Hades by Rick Riordan. Not far enough into it to have an opinion.

I'm a few chapters into Rose of Versailles, and it's very different, so far, from the anime, which I knew to expect going in, as the mangaka started it expecting to do a series about Marie Antoinette.

What did you recently finish reading?
Rose ( Read more... )

This is actually...what, 3 weeks of books?

What are you currently reading
Nothing, ATM. Finished my plane-reading book last night before bed.

What did you recently finish reading?

The Mark of Athena by Rick Riordan. I'm glad that this time, when Annabeth got a quest, it was actually about her. (IIRC, when she had an official quest in the first ( Read more... )

Heroes of Olympus, the sequel series to Percy Jackson and the Olympians, isn't as good as the first, but is still pretty fun. The first book is about an amnesiac boy named Jason who wakes up between two other demigods-Piper and Leo-on a bus just in time for the bus to be attacked by air spirits and the three-who don't know they're demigods-to learn ( Read more... )

These are the first two books of Riordan's "Kane Chronicles" which is Riordan's take on modern kids and Egyptian mythology. Riordan relies heavily on what worked for the "Percy Jackson" books here, but not so much that he's copying himself.

Carter and Sadie Kane are siblings who only see each other two days a year because of a custody battle ( Read more... )

Despite the Greek mythology connection, I dismissed this series as one that wouldn’t appeal much to me, as it was clearly intended for 12-year-old boys for ages, but then I heard that it actually depicted ADHD and dyslexia, instead of only mentioning or stereotyping them.

These are very much books for 12-year-old boys, but pretty entertaining ones ( Read more... )