Hangout for Friendly Readers discussion

We already have a "Current Reads" thread, started by Amanda, in the Book Recommendations folder, here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... . That one is a place to mention things you're currently reading that you actually want to recommend to the group to read; and this thread doesn't replace it.

However, I thought it might be a good idea to have a thread where we could all just share whatever we're currently reading, just so we can keep in touch and, as it were, look over each other's shoulders as we read, without the pressure of having to recommend the book to others. (After all, what floats my boat reading-wise may not float yours!) Several other groups I'm in have a thread exactly like this, and some of them get a lot of posts; I'm hoping this one will too.

To start the ball rolling, I'm currently reading a kid's book by British author Penelope Lively (hey, some kid's books can be enjoyed by grownups, too! :-) ), The Ghost of Thomas Kempe; it's a common read in another group. And my wife and I are reading The Husband Tree together; it's the second novel in Mary Connealy's Montana Marriages trilogy.

Julie Klaussen’s Lady Maybe... but I’m halfway through and I’m losing interest. I think I’m going to put it down and look for something else to read. It’s moving so slowly.

This year, I'm hoping to read all of the remaining fiction by one of my favorite authors, H. P. Lovecraft, that I haven't read yet. The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath is his only book-length writing by that I haven't read so far, so I started on it today. I'm not actually reading this edition; since it's quite short (141 p.), it's not easy to find a printing of it by itself, so I'm reading the 1970 Ballantine printing, edited by Lin Carter, that bundles it with several other fantasy works by HPL.

Li wrote: "sorry I cant Dd photos as I'm using the app on my phone."

No problem, Li; we know there are quite a few things that can't be done on the phone app! Here are the links to the books you mentioned: The Bone Witch and Spin the Dawn.

Since I was looking for a fairly quick read between now and March 1-19, when I'll be mostly offline and not devoting time to reading, I recently started The House of Dies Drear by Virginia Hamilton. It's been on my radar ever since I saw and liked the movie adaptation years ago; and it will add another state to my Literary Road Trip Across the U.S.A. challenge in another group. More importantly, I'm woefully poorly read in books by black authors, and this will be a small step towards redressing that neglect.

Ever since late last year, I've had a review copy of my friend Andrew Seddon's new SF novel Farhope in hand (I beta read it in 2017 --and would have given it five stars then if it had a Goodreads record!-- but the published version is longer and incorporates some changes, so it needs a fresh read). I've been champing at the bit to get to it, but have just been waiting until I knew I'd have a long enough bloc of reading time to finish it before having to start another book. That time has arrived, so I started reading it yesterday! :-)