For several years, I started or participated in a monthly poll on the USA Amazon Kindle discussion boards asking people a simple question: what are you reading on your Kindle? Unfortunately, the discussion boards on Amazon have gone away and I have periodically hosted something similar on our website.
I’ve received some great tips with past polls, finding out what others are reading on their Kindle, and found some “new” authors I generally wouldn’t have found using my hunt-and-peck method. While I have certainly enjoyed the “mainstream” author suggestions over the years, I’ve also enjoyed a lot of independent authors from each month’s poll I never would have heard of previously.
If you are reading this on the blog’s free email subscription, the blog’s free reader app for your Fire tablet or Android device – or anywhere other than the blog’s website – and would like to check out the poll and find some new things or, better yet, tell others what you are reading, just click here or type in https://geni.us/novpoll into your web browser, scroll down to the bottom of the post, and start typing away in the comments section!
Here’s how this works – on the blog’s website (using the link above) list a book you are currently reading or just recently read on your Kindle, whether you would recommend it, did you get it free, and anything else you would care to share.
As I type this up in advance for publication Sunday morning, I am reading With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa by E.B. Sledge, a Marine in World War II; this book is an autobiography of his time in World War II, and he makes you feel as if you are right there. This book was also the basis for the HBO Miniseries The Pacific – I thought the miniseries was outstanding (it is available for free with Amazon Prime), and the book is very good and I am having a hard time putting it down. I would recommend it to each of you as it is probably one of the best books I have read in years!
Finally, here’s my standard continuation of each request for prior participants in the poll: if you like or dislike a title you have read, in addition to telling us about it in this informal poll, how about writing a book review on the Amazon website? The review will certainly last and be visible a lot longer than this poll will. If you’re like me, you look at the customer reviews in order to see if you want to investigate a book further. Since we are all a little community here, and while I realize each review is each person’s opinion and we may not like the same thing, I know your friends and online discussion neighbors would appreciate your honest assessment of the likes and dislikes without providing a spoiler – I know I would!
Your reviews don’t need to be a long dissertation of the book, I like to keep them short, sweet, and hopefully to the point (some people think I am too blunt on things I dislike, but I am at least giving you my honest opinion!). You can see the reviews I have written if you click here or type in http://smarturl.it/mgreviews into your web browser.
We’d really like to hear what you’re reading right now – I, for example, may find something interesting from your list I want to read (It’s been known to happen!). If you are reading this on your Kindle – or anywhere other than the blog’s website – and would like to check out the poll and find some new things or, better yet, tell others what you are reading, just click here or type in https://geni.us/novpoll into your web browser, scroll down to the bottom of the post, and start typing away in the comments section!
Anyway, that’s all for today. Have a great rest of the week!
Michael
Led Zeppelin All The Songs
Managed Care – humorous book about a guy who can’t get his one-year-in-advance payment to a nursing home refunded when his father dies before he can move in – so he moves in and refuses to leave unless the money is refunded. Quirky characters.
Lalechka: A WW2 Jewish Girl’s Holocaust Survival. Only 9% done, but it seems like it’s going to be good. The writing is a little hard for me to wade through, but I’m pretty persistent. I think I got this book for $.99.
My husband was sick a long time and died almost three years ago. I could not concentrate to read for pleasure until this sumner. I read books about grief and devotionals and my Bible but it was not until this summer I began to enjoy reading again. This fall I began rereading some of my favorite books and authors. In Death series by J.D/Robb, Andy Carpenter books by David Rosenfelt, Watchers by Dean Koontz, The Martian, To Kill A Mockingbird. I have never been one to re-read books before but these books are like old friends and good memories. My husband was not a reader but always wanted to know about what I was reading. He would sometimes be as anxious as I for me to get to the end! He loved movies and he would say about a movie “Didn’t you read this book?” . As any reader knows most of the time the movie can’t compare to the book but we would watch it. Right now I am finishing the David Rosenfelt books and then I will start on the many many books i have not read here at my house and in my Kindle.
Books by Greg Lewin, an Austin-based author and acquaintance. No freebies, but his “In Wolf’s Clothing” ($2.99) is a spectacular thriller, compact and gut-punching. About to start his other works.
The Body
Just starting a new book called “The Book Ghost” by Lorna Gray. (The story takes place after the war in 1946. It is about a war widow working at a publishing house, and a haunting story of an orphan’s last days) I always review every book I read on Goodreads, Amazon when it is published and if I really like it I recommend it on bookbub. The book I am reading now publishes in December 2019 it is an ARC from NetGalley. Shirley
I am just starting a new book called “The Book Ghost” by Lorna Gray. (The story takes place in 1946. It is about a young war widow working in a family owned publishing house. She comes across a manuscript about the last days of an orphan.) I review every book I read on Goodreads and on Amazon when it is published. If I really like it I will recommend it on Bookbub. This one is an ARC for NetGalley and publishes in Dec 2019. I buy a lot of books from Amazon, probably should be banned as much as I am on there.
The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo
I just finished Ex Libris by John Oehler and left a 4 star rating on Amazon. Really good book, similar to books by David Baldacci but with less violence and more believable when the characters are in a fix.. It is still free on Amazon and I recommend anyone pick it up and read it.
Just finished You Have to Believe Me by Sunday Tomassetti – it wasn’t that great. I decided I wanted a change from they psychological twist stuff so I went with the Joe DeMarco series by Mike Lawson – I’m reading the first book – The Inside Ring. So far it’s awesome
I just finished Holy Ghost , a Virgil Flowers novel by John Sanford. I purchased this book and the next in the series, Bloody Genius. I really enjoy this series that takes place in MN which is next door to SD.I am also reading a Hope Callaghan cozy mystery that I got for free.
Currently reading Archer’s Nothing Ventured, just finished Life and Other Inconveniences by Higgins borrowed from library on my Kindle. Also, right before that I read the print book The Guardians by Grisham (highly recommend–I don’t do five stars that often).
I just started The Alice Network
Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters. I borrowed the ebook through Libraries Unlimited. It’s the first book in a long series. I’ve read about 20% so far and I’m enjoying it.
Just finished The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah. Wonderful book. I was in tears at the end.
I’m revisiting my youth and working my way through Phyllis Whitney’s books again. Just finished a Listen for the Whisperer.
I am reading Julianne Maclean The color of forever. It a series. Very good author.
I am into fantasy and paranormal books. I recently finished the John Conroe series Demon Accords. I started reading them for free from the library and got hooked. I purchased the remaining one for my Kindle.
I love Jana DeLeon’s “Miss Fortune Series”. Reading book 17 now. Suspense, fast reading & I love the characters!
The Ungovernable by Franklin Horton.
A post apocalyptic book. It is about the future of the country and how it survives. When a disaster strikes and we have no electricity and no resources will we allow the UN to take our food, weapons, and our Constitutional Rights so they can put us in a camp for our ‘own good’? What kind of country are we going to have when we get back on our feet again when we have given our rights away? After two hundred years of freedom, we could lose it all in a three to five disaster.
Lantern Beach series by Christy Barritt
I’m reading the darkover series by Marion Zimmer Bradley
I started in the wrong order, but, I read UNDER THE BONES (book 2) in the Lou Thorne series by Kory M. Shrum and loved it. At the time I got it, it was free. I signed up for Kory’s emails and she sent me the first book SHADOWS IN THE WATER. I highly recommend this series and can’t wait to continue reading it.
Just blazed through Joyce Harmon’s Regency Fantasy series re-imagining the adventures of Mary Bennet after the events of Pride and Prejudice. (Hint: there’s amazing magic involved.) The first book (of a current three) is Mary Bennet and the Bingley Codex. They’re well-written, very entertaining, and fit the feel of the period quite well (except for one not-so-minor detail).
My main gripe is the author makes a big deal of Mary’s attempts to reconcile magic with “scientific skepticism,” which, given the time the book occurs, wouldn’t necessarily have been a major problem. Materialism to the exclusion of the supernatural didn’t have any particularly strong hold in the scientific community as a consensus until the latter half of the century, while the book is set in the first quarter of the century. Plenty of scientists also pursued various supernatural pursuits, almost as a matter of course, during this time. But, I suppose most of the audience wouldn’t know that either, and Mary is supposed to have read all the major philosophers of the Enlightenment (which would have been a better angle for that internal conflict, but I’m digressing again), so the detail is somewhat forgivable.
All in all, the books are a fun read, and I’m looking forward to the next one when it comes.
Dennis Kent Allen
Dark Academy and In Her Image
I have another called Fanimals , I believe.Though it was not a Kindle book.
I have discovered a new genre that blows my mind. I have ALWAYS been modern romance, contemporary drama, comedy…… nothing dark. Nothing scary. Nothing unknown. I finally read the Harry Potter books because I was tired of my friend nagging me. I wanted more. I found Womby’s School for Wayward Witches Series. Harry Potter ramped UP. I love reading about things I have never considered before. I love linking with the characters and continuing in several,,, many… more books. I believe I will seriously cry when I read the final book in this series. I will miss all of my new friends so much!
Finished book 1 of the coming of age trilogy On the Kennebec by William Michael Wachna. A young man joins a logging crew to cut trees in the winter in Maine. There is drama among the everyday life of the crew with an interesting narrative of outdoor life and scenery described. These are novels based upon the ideas found from genealogical research by the author. The three books were free at the time I downloaded them.
I like apocalyptic fiction but NO ZOMBIES, PLEASE. Always enjoy a good mystery and for light reading, a non-formulaic romance.
The passage. Hope to read the entire trilogy
Justin Hall Spy Thriller Series Box Set Books 1-3 – quite entertaining
Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children, The Satanic Verses, The Moor’s Last Sigh, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights, The Golden House, Quichotte, Haroun and the Sea of Stories for a college literature class I’m in.
Well, it’s the Kindle app on my phone, but anyway, I’m about to start a long-overdue reread of This Alien Shore by C.S. Friedman.