What books are you binge reading right now?

Several Lee Child (Jack Reacher) mysteries over the last week. He’s fun.

Just starting on an Allende binge. I know that once I finish this one, I’ll frantically re read everything.

The Chronicles of Kazam series by Jasper Fforde. Just finished book 2 (Song of the Quarkbeast) and am awaiting the arrival of Book 3 from amazon.

Next on tap – Winds of War and then War and Remembrance.

An old book but an awesome book. The Book of Marvels. If you like traveling I suggest reading this book:)

The History of Southeast Asia in 12 volumes, numerous authors. The Pentagon Papers, National Archives. Men and Power by Helmut Schmidt.

@Espiritus_Corvus Is Sam reading it too?

@janbb
Sam spends his evenings sleeping at my feet, Dave is usually in my lap, and a cat has decided to forego the communal life of the stable and take up residence on the armoire.

I’m reading the Autiobiography of Malcom X and a book about violence against women by Jimmy Carter. I just finished Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates.

@Cupcake How was the Coates book? I want to read it.

@janbb It should be required reading. My (19 year old) son and I talk about it almost daily.

I saw an interview with him in which he talked about the need for more diverse editors and writers. I agree, and think we need so many more books like his written from so many different perspectives and life experiences.

It’s a quick yet profound read, with sentences like “Race is the child of racism, not the father”.

Yes, I saw him interviewed too.

Spooner by Peter Dexter.
It’s my second time through and I’m liking it even more.

Sure sign of aging when you’d rather re-run something you know is good rather than taking the chance on wasting time with random newness. ~

The short story collections of Jorge Luis Borges. I’ve already read three of them this month and am starting on the fourth.

I’m reading the Temeraire series by Naomi Novik. They are quite fun and it’s quite a long series

I’m rereading sections of robert Fisk’s War for Civilisation, The Conquest of the Middle East. You will need any extremely strong stomach for that one. It’s rough. Also W.E.B Griffon’s (sp?) officer series. It’s more a novel series about the politics of the military, not the battles, so it’s kind of an eye opener to what goes on behind the doors.

None. I don’t have any money to spare right now, and most of my favourite books happen to be English – which makes browsing German libraries less effective.

I binge-read the books by Lisa Lutz, a while ago, but I’m through now. At the moment, I’m making do with old favourites and the weekly newspaper.

Not binge reading but I’m waiting with eager anticipation for Bobby Zappa’s account of growing up in the Zappa household in the 50’s and 60’s. Bobby and Frank were very close and I’m hoping the book will give an interesting insight into the early life of my favourite composer.

I have a roomful of math books, mostly unread. I made a very short list of the ones that I could conceivably get through. You can’t exactly binge read books on math. Four pages in a night would be satisfactory.

I have started reading a book on Galois theory. Galois theory is related to the theory of groups, which is a very important unifying concept in mathematics and in applications of mathematics. The creator of the theory, Evariste Galois, had a very short but dramatic life. The book that I am reading tries to duplicate the line of thought that led Galois to the theory.

It’s a mini-binge: the Aristide Ravel books by Susanne Alleyn. I read and reviewed another title of hers (A Far Better Rest) a while back, and the review was not all that positive. But I decided to give her detective series a try. It’s set in the revolutionary period in France, late 1700s, and there’s a lot of period detail and atmosphere.

I finished the first (it was free on Kindle) a couple of days ago—The Cavalier of the Apocalypse—and immediately started the second, Palace of Justice. Ordinarily I just don’t do this: if I like a series, I spin it out and make it last as long as possible so I know I have something dependable on deck amidst a lot of reading that may be a gamble. I’ve held onto the very last Brother Cadfael mystery for many months in case of a literary emergency.

^^ A “literary emergency” – I like that! I’ve got one now; the library was closed for Veteran’s Day and I finished my two Gamache books. I do have things around the house to pick up.

@janbb, a literary emergency is exactly what made me return to the Alleyn title I’d downloaded months ago. It turned out that although it was the first in order of publication, two “prequels” had been published since, and I like to take series in chronological order with respect to the narrative.

I was a long-time holdout against e-readers, and the one I have is a dedicated Paperwhite, not an all-purpose tablet. I still strongly prefer a “real” book, but being able to get hold of a new book in a hurry is definitely a plus.

^^ Agree. I have the Kindle app on my iPad. I was buying and reading books almost exclusively on it for a time but have recently switched back more often to book books and enjoy it more.

Thomas Perry. I picked up one of his newer Jane Whitefield novels at a free library in the neighborhood, and I was hooked. I am now going back and reading the series. (I’m trying to do it in order but the library doesn’t have the third one.)

I’d have to be trapped in the house for maybe 2 years before I had a “literary emergency”, having read all the books in the house. And that doesn’t include re-reads. Or county histories from 1876 that take about a month each. 3 years?

@ibstubro Well, you have a point there. Some years back I calculated that I had about 2300 books in the house. I can tell you that the number hasn’t gone down since then. And I’ve never read more than 100 books in a year. But that doesn’t necessarily mean that there’s always something I’m in the mood for, you know?

I have a few favorite books that I have read so many times that I can pull one out, randomly read for the time I have available, and put it back on the shelf. I’m always in the mood for “I Know This Much Is True” by Wally Lamb, @Jeruba. This is my first re-read of Dexter’s “Spooner”, but it won’t be my last. I love plainly written, complex novels.