What are you currently reading?

[Daedalus]

Now I'm on Drown by Junot Diaz. Incredible, hard-hitting writing.

[Mettis]

The last book of The Sword of Truth, volume XIV : Severed Souls, by Terry Goodkind.

[NakedShadow]

Now I'm on Drown by Junot Diaz. Incredible, hard-hitting writing.

I literally started reading This is how you lose her by Diaz today

[Mark]

I'm working my way through Skulduggery Pleasant: The Dying of the Light.

If loving books about a skeleton detective is wrong, then I don't want to be right.

[David B]

I'm still making my way through Neil gaimans American god. It's been meh so far so it's been kinda hard to get through.

[Dan]

I'm still making my way through Neil gaimans American god. It's been meh so far so it's been kinda hard to get through.

American Gods is a strange book in that you either love it or you hate it. There's no middle ground. More people love it than hate it though.

I slogged through it to see what was so great about it, waiting for it to get good. It doesn't.

If you don't love it now, you won't love it later.

[Mark]

I've started reading The War of the Worlds again.

[Dan]

I'm reading La Corriveau : de l'histoire à la légende

It's a fascinating and disturbing book. It's written with academic rigor but reads very well.

La Corriveau, is our big witch back from the dead out to get you story that's been terrorizing kids since the 18th century. The authors did an aweseome research job to find what actually happened and how it turned into a legend.

Long story short, family feuds, religion, sexism, desire to preserve the honour of one's bloodline and a fucked up justice system brought by a conquerant that wants to prove it means business condemns to death a young girl victim of domestic abuse for the murder of her husband she quite likely did not commit.

After this, the brutal and macabre English law of the era that was witnessed for the first time by the local left quite an impression that lingers to this day.

As I said at the start, it's as fascinating as it is disturbing.

[Dan]

La modernisation de l'accent québécois by Jean-Denis Gendron

After France elected to change its speech following the French Revolution, Quebec though it had to make its accent more modern too but it felt that the French accent sounded too pedantic and didn't want to adopt it. So a "middle ground" was decided and there was a process from 1841 to 1960 to adopt that accent. This is the story of that process.

[Dan]

La vie de Mahomet, by Charb and Zineb (of Charlie Hebdo fame)

It's the story of Mohamad in cartoon form done following extensive research. No comment or humour added. Even though the drawings are quite silly.

[J.]

Sylvia Engdahl's Enchantress from the Stars for me.

[Dan]

Just started Ma vie à contre-coran : Une femme témoigne sur les islamistes by Djemila Ben Habib

If you can read French, the pun in the title is genius.

[Mettis]

Just started Ma vie à contre-coran : Une femme témoigne sur les islamistes by Djemila Ben Habib

If you can read French, the pun in the title is genius.

@Dan Yeah, great pun in the title 

[The_Xenologer]

I'm currently speeding through The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins, and am on Catching Fire specifically. It's my first time reading the series, and it's really good so far. I am a huge sucker for dystopian novels though! Haha.

[Dan]

I'm currently speeding through The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins, and am on Catching Fire specifically. It's my first time reading the series, and it's really good so far. I am a huge sucker for dystopian novels though! Haha.

The third one is hugely disapointing. :-/

Fortunately, it's pretty short.