What book are you reading now?

[justbry87]

The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones.

Was s'ppose to read it during my vaca last May, but I got
caught up with going out every other night and everything
just got hella busy when I got back.

Now that I've found some time in between job hunting and
the gym, I've started reading it this past week. Almost finished!

It's good, I really like it. Haven't really gotten mixed up/lost
in a book in forever so I'm happy 'Velma'ing' it out during the
Winter months. So glad they've been out for awhile now that
the paperbacks are like $6-7 woo~

[LostAndSound]

I don't read but I'd like to pick it up.

Starting off with Divergent.
Friend of mine suggested and the plot sounds intriguing.
Picking it up today!

[Ekwarph]

Unfortunately I don't know how to read, so I don't read.

[Vigilias]

Just moved on to "Thomas Cromwell - The Rise and Fall of Henry VIII's Most Notorious Minister" by Robert Hutchinson. ISBN 9781407244563.

[southbiochem]

"La increíble y triste historia de la cándida Eréndira y su abuela desalmada" one of García Márquez's finest

[Vigilias]

Let us know what you thought of that. Freemasons seem like weirdos.

My dad was a Free Mason for a number of years and Master of his lodge for one. He once asked if I would be interested in joining but I wasn't.

Sometimes a books cover is more interesting than its pages and this was the case with the book I read.

It was rather too well argued for both sides, those in favour and those against the Masons. It seems as though the Free Masons have been credited with too much influence over world affairs, influence they simply haven't exerted.

They were not responsible for the French or the American Revolutions, it was simply the case that they became what they were accused of being. The accusation was enough to attract revolutionaries to their ranks. Hitler and Stalin were both ultra suspicious of the Masons and each said they were working for the other side. Some claim they play both sides off against each other.

Accusations, it seems, that are not helped by the fact the the Masons traditionally only ever answer their critics with vagueness or silence.

The reader always expects a book of this nature to blow the lid off the secrets of secret societies but the end always disappoints.

4/10

[ManicReptile21]

Ender's Game. Awesome.

[Lilitu]

I bought The Luminaries, I'm gonna read it afterwards. i'm on a streak of Kiwi authors.

[HumbleTangerine]

Carmilla! Curious to see if the lesbian undertones are imagined or not!

[partis]

Military misdemeanors...

Actually I've just been dipping in and out for the past week. Each true story is just a short segment (4 pages max) it gives you a good understanding of events in a clear way... of course hindsight allows for that, but i hate "filler" - all that useless information in a book (name-dropping etc) just to bulk up the volumn.