What is everyone reading at the moment?

I am about half way through this intriguing time travel novel that looks at baseball in 1869 (the Cincinnati Red Stockings, in particular).  The author gives credit to Jack Finney (Time and Again and From Time to Time) and I can see where he is coming from.  However, I find there is too much redundancy of baseball scores and not enough to time travel plotting.  While I am enjoying the story, I think it could have been so much more and unless things get more interesting in the second half I'm not sure I will want to read the sequel.

Cixin Liu - The Three Body Problem

Great book for our time

American Psycho - Brett Easton Ellis

Been a couple decades since last read.  Hell it seems more timely now than the nineties....  Was a really mentally tough read - the sociopathy, decadence and cupidity bring back memories of so many classmates better forgotten

I've got about 20 pages (of 300) left in Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, by Haruki Murakami.
It's on my Kobo Aura e-reader.



I was half way through it before I realized that none of the characters have regular names, only names like "the Colonel", "the Gatekeeper", and "the Chubby Girl".

Looking forward to reading J.G. Ballard's The Drowned World (1962) next.

1Q84 - Book Three by Haruki Murakami

Ooh, I loved that book.
The first one of Murakami's that I've read.

The Sixth Column - Robert Heinlein

This is the second book by Patrick Gale that I am reading (the first being A Place Called Winter).  I thoroughly enjoy the way Mr. Gale writes and it is easy to get engrossed in the tales he tells.  I'm not sure his writing would appeal to many here but I shall certainly consider other books by him such as A Perfectly Good Man and Notes from an Exhibition.

Done with Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World. 
Now onto Abaddon's Gate by James S. A. Corey, book three in the The Expanse series.
A nice bit of Space Opera.

StarShip Troopers - RA Heinlein

Rereading for the umpteenth time.  Really describes exactly the events leading up to the global authoritarian fascist military government almost as if it was recording history as opposed to science fiction.  Heinlein was a genius.  We would do well to hold our military to the same disciplinary standards and repercussions for failure outlined in the book if we want the results we are entitled to expect.

I made an effort to stick to one book at a time a while back. I broke my rule