I'm in the middle of Fast Forward 1 - found it while searching for Elizabeth Bear titles. It's amazingly good! I'd almost given up on short SF stories after the 90's when everything seemed so dark and grim - and of very uneven quality too. These are great, it proves that the art is alive and well! Especially liked "Aristotle OS."

Viktoria wrote: "doing the Wheel of Time re-read. This month I finished The Fires of Heaven and am 1/4 of the way through Lord of Chaos."

How is it going? The re-read I mean? WoT was the first fantasy I read after LotR, I read only the first 8 books that were written and I am dreading the time when WoT is finished and I start to re-read and get disappinted :(

Finished Assassin's Apprentice and doing the Wheel of Time re-read. This month I finished The Fires of Heaven and am 1/4 of the way through Lord of Chaos.

Finished The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle last night. I loved it. :)

Now, I've just started Dragonseed by James Maxey, third in his Dragon Age series. A post-apocalyptic fantasy series about a war between dragons and humans.

I'm also still reading The Curse of the Mistwraith. I get the feeling I'm going to be jumping around quite a bit with this one.

i'm reading Children of Húrin for the 3rd time. saving money to buy The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún this Oct.

I started Mark Del Franco's new book Skin Deep

I finished The Hunger Games (http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/643...) earlier today and started The Martian Chronicles at lunch.

Finished Lost in a Good Book a few days ago - http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/560... Just finished Assassin's Apprentice this afternoon - http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/643...

Started reading Sabriel, The Hunger Games and started listening to Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets as a CD audiobook during my commute to/from work.

Barbm1020 wrote: "I loved "The Last Unicorn" years ago and my kids loved the animated film."

I loved that book too - sadly it got lost during several house moves. I'd love to read it again.

I just finished Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn Trilogy Boxed Set which I quite enjoyed! It's so wonderful to see a strong female heroine in fantasy as so many fantasy books are misogynistic.

I then started Faerie Tale by Raymond E. Feist. This book has been on my "to read" list for a very long time and I'm so glad I finally got around to reading it. It's a terrific read and I can't put it down! AND it features a shout out in the acknowledgements to our very own Janny Wurts!

Elise wrote: "Megan wrote: "I just finished reading Tales Before Narnia, full of some older short fantasies which influenced C.S. Lewis, my favorite of which was Undine. Also finished The Last Unicorn. Loved i..."

The movie's alright, you know? I like it, but it's a little odd. Hope you enjoy it, I feel like I need to rewatch it now that I've read the book, maybe I'll like it more...yeah, I think I'll go do that.

I am reading The Covenant Rising by Stan Nicohls. It is a light enjoyable fantasy read. The plan is to genre hop to sci fi in August if I finish Covenant by then. I am proud of myself for resisting rotation reading for awhile. Because of that I was able to finish reading a historical romance novel ("One Wicked Night"). If I stick to to the one book at a time regime, I should be able to start significantly reducing many of the half read novels pleading for attention at home.

Megan wrote: "I just finished reading Tales Before Narnia, full of some older short fantasies which influenced C.S. Lewis, my favorite of which was Undine. Also finished The Last Unicorn. Loved it! It was so ..."

I'm reading The Last Unicorn right now. It's really good isn't it? Such beautiful prose. I've never seen the movie, but I'm looking forward to it now.

I'm reading Diggers. The second book in Terry Pratchett's Bromeliad trilogy.

I loved "The Last Unicorn" years ago and my kids loved the animated film.

I just finished reading Tales Before Narnia, full of some older short fantasies which influenced C.S. Lewis, my favorite of which was Undine. Also finished The Last Unicorn. Loved it! It was so lyrical and pretty, funny and sad and thoughtful and whimsical, all at once. I can't believe I haven't read Peter S. Beagle before now. But I just bought two more of his books at a used book store, yay!
I just got back into The Name of the Wind (finally!), and will probably finish that up this weekend.

Just read Kiss by Ted Dekker. Okay story, but I didn't feel there was any reason for it to be a fantasy. It seemed like a regular mystery by someone who just felt like throwing physic power in. He could've made the protagonist a tad smarter and she would have been able to figure everything out through deduction.

Just started The Lies of Locke Lamora

Christina wrote: "I just finished Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere..."

I recently saw the BBC series on DVD. Does the book contain the same obvious plot flaw that the show did? The one with the 'record ball' or whatever they called it. Maybe there are others but that one just kills the whole story.

I received Charles de Lint's What the Mouse Found and Trader (Newford Book 7) for my birthday and I've already finished them both. The Mouse book was a small but charming collection of fairy tales he'd written for children he knew. I know I read Trader when it was fairly new, about 15 years ago, but I didn't remember a thing about it. But it was another solid entry into the Newford books.

I just read Vivian Vande Velde's Stolen, it is a very good quick read if you like YA fantasy.

I read the entire Harry Potter to prepare for my viewing of movie number six (which I will see tonight).

I just finished Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere, as well as the Uglies Trilogy by Scott Westerfeld (I also reviewed that one on my VERY MODEST book review site: http://www.bffbookreviewers.blogspot.com... in case anyone is actually interested.

Other books I've started: American Gods by Gaiman and Chosen Few by Matthew Simon.

I'm speeding through The Cup of the World (to get it over with more quickly, not because it is engrossing) and waiting to start Richard Morgan's Thirteen. I was more eager to read his Altered Carbon, but the library didn't have that one, so...

Thanks, Sandi, but I finished it. I'm glad I did, just for the sake of having it done.

I've started the graphic novelizations of the Dragonlance Chronicles.

Just finished Stone of Tears; might start Warbreaker while I am waiting for Blood of the Fold to come in.

Just finished The Little Stranger, by Sarah Waters. It's a great ghost story, and it kept me guessing all the way through. Her style is very detailed, and her story made me feel I had made the journey back through time and space (or at least the Atlantic) to England in the 1940s.

Blackrose, you can give yourself permission not to finish The Historian. The ending really isn't worth it.

JJ wrote: "With all the interesting postings from Janny Wurts book of the month The Curse of the Mistwraith, i have decided to read this novel instead. Only wish i had started ear..."

It's a long and rich read. Don't worry about starting just starting now. Many of us are still working on it and I anticipate the discussion will go on for quite a bit. A really great book!

Just finished The Dry Salvages by Caitlín R. Kiernan. It is more hard sci-fi than her usual dark fantasy, and is quite short, but still has some of the creepy tone.

I finished Warbreaker last night - http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/568... I'm still working my way through Lost in a Good Book.

I know I've said this before, but I *love* the Ranger's Apprentice series. I'll give you my quick opinion, though - book two is good, but not as good as one. Book three is slow - not much happens, and it's more sort of a set-up for book four. Book four is almost as good as one, and a great ending to the arc. Haven't read five yet.

I've finished Evermore (meh) and picked The Historian back up. I'm now skimming every opportunity I get just to finish the damn thing.

I finished the 1st in the Ranger's Apprentice series The Ruins of Gourlan by Flanagan and really liked it, especially toward the end even if the flavor is exactly what young boys would love and I'm not a young boy. I'm reading a lot of YA fantasy and justifying it as market research.

JJ, there are those not finished, yet, I'll be there for you when you get there.

With all the interesting postings from Janny Wurts book of the month The Curse of the Mistwraith, i have decided to read this novel instead. Only wish i had started earlier before the discussions began.

LaTrica wrote: "I recently read The Charnel Prince as well and so far am enjoying the series. Haven't gotten to The Blood Knight yet but I'm finally getting behind that princess. "

Anne's development throughout the series was great, yes! I finished the last two books a little while after that post and the series turned out to be excellent all the way through. :) I think the beginning of The Blood Knight was the weakest part of the quartet, but he certainly makes up for it with the wonderful pace of The Born Queen.

Nicola wrote: "I'm currently reading The Charnel Prince by Greg Keyes. I've enjoyed it as much as the first volume in the series, so I intend to go straight on to the final two (The Blood Knight and The Born Quee..."

I recently read The Charnel Prince as well and so far am enjoying the series. Haven't gotten to The Blood Knight yet but I'm finally getting behind that princess.

Currently I'm reading New Moon Book One of the Oran Trilogy. I'm having some trouble getting into it but it seems promising.

Me, I'm still trying to find time to get through Abercrombie's First Law trilogy.

I've been drowning in too much work related reading and research.

Saltie, did you like the Nicholas Flamel series? I've been debating about whether to pick it up or not.

I've put down 'The Historian' and am reading 'Evermore'. I just needed a break, and something light and fast. I'm sort of rolling my eyes a lot at the hackneyed teenage angst of it all, though. Don't get me wrong, I like me some good angst... but I can't help feel like I've read every aspect of the character and story somewhere before, and probably better.

So far I've read Nation by Terry Pratchett, The Alchemyst, The Magician, and The Sorceress by Michael Scott. And I just finished Clash of the Demons by Joseph Delaney. And I think I'm going to start Dune, which will be interesting as it's my first sf book!

I'm about halfway through Stone of Tears. The first book was excellent so I was in quite the hurry to start the next book, but wow is the book ever large.

I'm nearly halfway with A Game of Thrones. Started this book a long time ago, but never finished it, and yet I have put it down once again. Will try to finish it after Stone of Tears, I think.

Also on my shelf this month (or maybe next): Elantris and Warbreaker. Finished the Mistborn trilogy, loved it, and now I'm ready for some more Brandon Sanderson. :)

Just started The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle after feeling dissatisfied with my current sci-fi read. First impressions so far, it has such wonderful prose. :)

Thanks for the recommend. I'll add it to my ever-expanding TBR list, but I think it'll be awhile. I'm kinda Drac'd out right now.

As one of the reviewers of 'The Historian' said, Kostova has managed to "suck the life out of Dracula". And I still have almost 250 pages left...

And I agree that all her characters sound/write the same. That's what comes from weak characterization. I'm also not convinced all of her history and geography is accurate, either.

@blackrose: If you like the Dracula topic and general approach of the Historian, try Barbara Hambly's Renfield Slave of Dracula instead. I thought her characters were much stronger. One thing that bothered me about Kostova was that her characters all had pretty much the same voice.

I am reading The Little Stranger, which is soooo good! I won't be good for much till I'm done with it. *Hmm, page 140 was it?*

I was going to jump right into The Steel Remains by Richard K. Morgan for another club.

But after the WOW-ending of The Curse of the Mistwraith by Janny Wurts, I am going to have to tackle something lighter and less epic for a few days....

So, it's a re-read of Thinner by Stephen King. Quick, easy, not a lot of depth. Just what my brain needs while Mistwraith settles in....then it's on to Steel Remains......

I'm reading "Septimus Heap: The Magykal Papers" on Ebook. I got my copy at www.booksonboard.com when they released it last week.

300 pages Lies of Locke Lamora, Red Seas under Red Skies in next. It's really the top 1 for me.
Mmmm... maybe Malazan is another choice for the rest of this year

Well, if I liked it better I'd be reading it right now. ;) Lets see - I found the first 200 pages or so dreadfully dull and thought about putting it down if it didn't get better soon. Somewhere around 300 it started getting better, but now I'm a little over halfway through and I can't help but wonder if it needs to be so long. There seems to be a lot of needless description of architecture and food, as if the author didn't want any research to go to waste, or, perhaps simply that she's a traveller and wants to share her experiences. I'm sure for some it would add to the story, but since it, so far, has no bearing on the plot, I could live without it.

On a more personal note, I'm a little annoyed that Dracula is given no sympathy - I mean as a historic figure. Her characters can find sympathy for other barbarians of the time period, but no love for poor Vlad. I guess I understand why, given the givens of the plot, but as a sort of admirer of the brute, it rankles.

Back to the book - I hate it when allegedly intelligent characters are so slow on the uptake.

I'm sticking with it mostly because a coworker suggested it to me, and because I have some sort of obsession with finishing books I've started. I look forward to finishing it far more than I do to reading it, though.

All that said, while I am reading it it's interesting enough. It's sort of odd that way.

How are you liking the Historian, blackrose? I enjoyed it quite a bit while I was reading it, although afterwards I kept thinking of flaws.

I just finished The Hawkline Monster A Gothic Western which was very short and very, very strange.