Thought I'd start this thread, especially as other threads (the film ones in particular) had many getting into their favourites books and current reads.

I'm currently reading the third book of the Newsflesh trilogy by Mira Grant (Feed, Deadline, Blackout). I'm loving it.

Here's the synopsis:

For much of June it was Dobber's prospects report. Seriously.

Right now I'm reading Tom Clancy's Hawx. I've been reading a lot of his books lately, ones he's written and ones like Hawx that carry his name but are written by various authors under the pseudonym David Micheals. The Splinter Cell series is good if your into the futuristic military/cloak and dagger stuff. They're good reads and nothing overly long, you can usually blow through a book in a couple of days at most.

Got King's Full Dark, No Stars and Wind Through The Keyhole both warming up in the bullpen. After that I've got a bunch of Dean Koontz books to read. His entire Frankenstein series, that one piqued my interest, we'll see how he spins the story. Also have his newest 77 Shadow Street, and I want to go back and reread his Odd Thomas series before I get into the new one coming out this month.

That'll keep me busy for a while. Especially going back and rereading the first four books in the Dark Tower series, which I want to do before Wind, which will inevitably lead to reading the rest of the series afterwards.

I'm looking forward to reading Wind Through the Keyhole as well soon. Though after I'm done with Newsflesh, I plan on getting my hands on 11/22/63, which has just come out in paperback over here.

Mine's a non-fiction by one of my favorite conservative political commentators, Andrew Sullivan - Conservative Soul: Fundamentalism, Freedom, and the Future of the Right

Sullivan outlines the devolution of the GOP from the traditional conservatism of the founding fathers to the current theo-conservative fundamentalism party as it exists today.

He does a great job of demonstrating that today's "conservatives" are not so conservative at all (among other things)

Great book!

[EDIT] Here's an overview...

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Start: 2C, 2RW, 2LW, 4D, 2G

Due Diligence: An Impertinent Inquiry into Microfinance by David Roodman

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GS, W, L, SV, GAA, SV%, SO G, A, P, +/-, PIM, SOG, GWG, PPP, SHP, HITS, FOW

3C: H. Sedin,Stepan, Stastny, R. Johansen, Hanzal, Anisimov,
3LW: Burrows, Vanek, Ott, Lupul, Dubinsky
3RW: Doan, Pavelski, Brown, Okposo,
6D: Franson, Doughty, Voynov, Subban, Markov, Gonchar, Karlsson
1Util:
2G: Price, Emery


Farm: (< 100 games): S. Elliott, J. Bernier, Galchenyuk, Etem, Eakin, Atkinson

Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin

I took me a long time to read the first book, and unfortunately I've fallen into the same trap with the 3rd book. Funny how a 1 year old, work, and grad school can do that to ya.

I'll have to start from scratch in the fall. I'll hopefully have it done in time for Game of Thrones season 3.

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LW: Ovechkin, Kovalchuk, Brown
RW: Iginla, Pavelski, Horton
D: Byfuglien, J.Johnson, Goligoski, Hedman, Hamonic
U: Mueller
G: Schneider, Hiller,
B: E. Johnson, S.Kostitsyn, Neil, Biron, Giguere
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I'm also (re-)reading SoS. I think it's actually better the second time around. There's lots of little things I missed that I'm picking up on this time.

I just finished The Judging Eye by R. Scott Bakker, the fourth book in his Second Apocalypse series. If you enjoy the Martin series, you may enjoy this as well.

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Keep 6 (5 F/D, 1 D/G) Start 2C, 2LW, 2RW, 3D, 2Util, 2G

C: Getzlaf, Bergeron, Roy, Boyes (RW)
LW: Kovalchuk (RW), Vanek, Lucic
RW: Gaborik, Callahan, C. Stewart, Tarasenko, Chiasson
D: Yandle, Doughty, Goligoski, Carlson
G: Fleury, Varlamov, Markstrom
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Im currently all over the place.

Im reading a book called Leviathan by Paul Aster right now and loving it.

But then there are the books that I have finished recently and are going to continue to read the series.

Girl with Dragon Tat...need to read book 2
Dark Tower: Gunslinger....need to read book 2
Hunger Games...need to read book 2

Plus I read a couple Sherlock Holmes books after I fell in love with the BBC show so Id like to pick back up with that.

Annnnnd whenever I do cardio at the gym I read that ESPN book, "Those Guys Have All the Fun"....which has actually been really slow so far and I haven't gotten into it as much as I thought I would.

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LW:Ovi,Neal,Pach,Benn
RW:Perry,MSL,Wheeler
D:Yandle,Subban,Edler,OEL
G: Lundqvist,Miller,MAF

12 Team H2H
R,2b,3b,HR,RBI,AVG,SB,BB,K,E
W,L,SV,HLD,K,ERA,WHIP
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1B:Blanks
2B:Kipnis
3B:Zimmer
SS:Rutledge
LF:Cespeds
CF:McCutch
RF:Pence
Util:Profar
SP:Cain,Moore,Latos,Kennedy,Ryu,Medlen,Cole
RP:Bailey,Rivera,Jansen,Gregerson,Axford
DL:Anderson, Pineda,Tulo

I'm waiting on the last book of both the "Wheel of Time" series and "A Song of Fire and Ice" series to come out. Both great fantasy adventure stories if you're into the genre.

Nothing right now.

I've actually been listening to the books on audio while I do my errands (driving, shopping, etc.) and while running (surprisingly increased my pace vs. music.; I think it's because you concentrate some much more on the story you forget you're running).

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C: J. Thornton, N. Backstrom, P. Stastny, D. Desharnais, Z. Konopka
L: J. Benn (C/L), Jo. Staal (C/L), D. Perron (C/L), S. Kostitsyn, A. McDonald (C/L), B. Prust
R: M. St.Louis, B. wheeler, J. Voracek, T. Purcell
D: S. Weber, A. Goligoski, J. Carlson, D. Seidenberg, J. Gorges
G: J. Quick, M. Smith, J. Hiller
IR: --

I'm reading the Wheel of Time (Robert Jordan) for the second time. I read the first 11 books a few years ago and got into some other series since then (Song of Ice and Fire, Malazan Book of the Fallen, some Stephen King, a few others). Prior to picking up the 12th I reviewed the first 11 and realized I forgot most of it. So I'm re-reading it. Just finished the 4th book last night.

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