What are you reading? (Reboot 2.0)

[Spiderlegs]

By John Gwynne

[Férial]

Just started The Dragonbone Chair. Re-started it actually. I remember being so bored the first time and so annoyed by whinning-Simon (it's not a good thing when one is annoyed by the main character, is it ?)

Anyway. I have decided to give it another try because I've been told I couldn't possibly "NOT love it" (meaning "how can you be so dumb ? This book is wonderful") :)

[malrubius]

Abercrombie's Best Served Cold..and struggling a little.

[carol. , Senor Crabbypants]

I can see that. I did at first too--it's almost predictable but not quite, and it kept not going where I wanted it too. Also a lack of sympathetic characters made it more challenging.

[Scott]

Last week I finished The Name of the Wind. It was a great book. I will be reading the next one soon.

Now I am reading Predator One.

[Helen]

I finished the enjoyable The Rithmatist and now am reading North and South for my actual reading group. It's drab to say the least.

[Greg]

This is a fun book that many fantasy readers might like. I like these old dates and how things could be a lot older than we think.

Fingerprints of the Gods: The Evidence of Earth's Lost Civilization

[Janice]

I finished The Secret Place on audiobook last night and will start Fuzzy Nation today. I also started The Three the other day, this one in hardcover.

[carol. , Senor Crabbypants]

Oh, I love French. Did you like it?

[Leo]

Just finished Midnight Riot by Ben Aaronovitch, picking up The Buried Giant by Ishiguro Kazuo. Bummed they changed the name of Aaronovitch's premier book in his series - it was originally called Rivers of London in the UK, no clue why they changed it. Excited for Ishiguro's book, I've heard good things.

[Benjamin]

Blood of Innocents So far, its OK, but nothing spectacular.

[Bill]

I'm now reading The Gospel of Loki. It is a very amusing retelling of Norse mythology from Loki's POV by Joanne Harris author of Chocolat

[Spiderlegs]

Just finished Ascension by Brian K. Fuller. It starts VERY slowly and I started to give up hope, but if you can hang in there the book really picks up and becomes very interesting.

[Férial]

Just finished To Green Angel Tower. This series (Memory, Sorrow and Thorn) was a good one.

I'm now reading Fierce: A Fantasy Collection

[Doug]

I am reading, The Battle of Verrill, the third book of the series. This has been a decent series to read.

[Scott]

I read Predator One and Cycle of the Werewolf. I timed it pretty good so that this morning I could start Finders Keepers.

[carol. , Senor Crabbypants]

Good luck with Finders, Scott. Lots of speculation in the King-verse about what it will be like.

[Janice]

I finished Tricked the other day and started Wolves of the Calla. I'm also reading Hollow City.

[Bill]

Just finished The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi a Cli-Fi

I'm reading Seveneves by Neal Stephenson

[Lisa]

Currently reading Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch and Gulliver's Travels. I am super close to finishing Good Omens and once I do I will be starting We Are Pirates It's my the book I picked out for the 2015 reading challenge for the book I read based off the cover. I have no idea what it's about and I'm really excited to read it!

[Férial]

Just discovered Martha Wells.

Oh. My.

Read in a row City of Bones and Wheel of the Infinite. I can only recommend those books.

I was so...well...very happy to have found something new and this good.

I'll be starting The Death of the Necromancer when I'm done with this post :) and next, I intend to read the Raksura series.

[Spiderlegs]

So I'm half way through American Gods by Neil Gaiman. I'm not sure what the book is about but I like it.

[Helen]

Férial wrote: "Just discovered Martha Wells.

Oh. My.

Read in a row City of Bones and Wheel of the Infinite. I can only recommend those books.

I was so...well...very happy to have fo..."

City of Books is good but her Raksura series is mindblowing! The Cloud Roads, The Serpent Sea, The Siren Depths

[Férial]

Helen wrote: "Férial wrote: "Just discovered Martha Wells.

Oh. My.

Read in a row City of Bones and Wheel of the Infinite. I can only recommend those books.

I was so...well...very h..."

Yes, that's what I have been told but before I commited myself to a trilogy, I wanted to try her stand alones. I must say, I was very pleasantly surprised. I cannot wait to start the Raksura books.

[carol. , Senor Crabbypants]

Férial wrote: "Just discovered Martha Wells.

Oh. My."

Right? I felt the same way--how did it take me so long to discover her? Her books are almost all very different in setting, so there's still more if you don't like the setting of one of them. I think I like Death of the Necro the most.

[Marion]

I finished reading A Time of Changes by Robert Silverberg. It was thought-provoking and interesting to read. Here's my review:
http://marion-hill.com/book-review-67...

I have decided to read more of Robert Silverberg during his prolific period from 1967-1976. I just started Tower of Glass and I have bought Downward to the Earth and Shadrach in the Furnace. Looking forward to finishing these novels throughout the summer.

[Sjgomzi]

Lexicon by Max Barry and continuing my reread of The Dresden Files with Summer Knight by Jim Butcher.

[Sumant]

Here is my review of 2nd book in the Gormenghast trilogy.

[Scott]

I finished Finders Keepers about a week ago. It was on par with Mr. Mercedes.

Then I started The Girl on the Train.

[carol. , Senor Crabbypants]

Scott wrote: "I finished Finders Keepers about a week ago. It was on par with Mr. Mercedes."

Damning with faint praise? ;)

[Scott]

I liked it. I don't think either one of them were great reads but I don't think they were up there with the best either. I would have probably given them both 3.5 stars if that were possible.

[Scott]

I've recently finished The Girl on the Train and Every Fifteen Minutes. Both were good suspense books.

Now I'm reading Dark Star: An Oral Biography of Jerry Garcia.

[carol. , Senor Crabbypants]

I'm re-reading Stray Souls, which is fun and about to jump into Positive. Yay, zombies.

[Leo]

Ecko Rising by Danie Ware. I'm still skeptical after a few hundred pages in. She's trying to go full anti-hero with her protagonist without giving us enough of a reason to like him despite his numerous faults. It could improve, although I already have other quibbles, so we shall see.

[Sumant]

Here is my review of crown of swords, book in WOT series.

[carol. , Senor Crabbypants]

Positive a bust and soooo boring. Working on Rapture which is amazing.

[Férial]

Read Anthony Ryan and then Lindsay Buroker's last EE book (to comfort me because after the magnificent Blood Song , I was so disappointed in Queen of Fire).

Just finished Brian McClellan's Powder Mage excellent trilogy.

If you haven't read it yet, I recommend it : Promise of Blood, The Crimson Campaign and The Autumn Republic

[Scott]

I recently read Dark Star: An Oral Biography of Jerry Garcia and The Last Kind Words. I highly recommend The Last Kind Words.

Now I'm reading Cat's Cradle.

[carol. , Senor Crabbypants]

Wow, Last Kind Words looks very intense. I haven't read Vonnegut since high school days... someday I'd like to get back to him.

I just finished Last First Snow and found it thoroughly satisfying. Now to write up my review for Positive, which wasn't.

[Leo]

Taking it back to the Golden Age - The Knight of the Swords by Michael Moorcock. They've started republishing his work, I'm giddily excited about - the man is one of the gods of Fantasy.

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65% through Traitors Blade book one of the Greatcoats

[David]

I'm reading The Intruder by Charles Beaumont. I was hoping to provide a link, but apparently, I'm reading another book not on Goodreads. I guess that shouldn't be a surprise since it is its first publication since 1962 and there was a print run of only 200. It was published by Centipede Press in 2013. For anyone who forgets who Beaumont is, he was one of the main writers on the original Twilight Zone series.

I decided to read this because I read To Kill A Mockingbird and Go Set A Watchman this summer. The Intruder was originally published in 1959, just four years after Harper Lee's book. It's about a Northerner entering the south (just after The Brown Vs. The Board of Education decision, when southern towns were forced to integrate) and spreading segregationist views and inciting riots. Roger Anker's long introduction provides background on the reception of the novel and on the filming of it from Beaumont's screenplay by Roger Corman just a couple of years later. They filmed it on location in the south. The reaction of the southerners to the filming itself was almost as dramatic as the script. I just finished the intro and can't wait to get into the meat of the novel. I discovered the film is available on YouTube, so I'll definitely be watching it soon too. Beaumont and some of his writer friends like William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson (of Logan's Run fame) were bit actors in the film. The afterword is by Nolan about his part in it.

[Férial]

Reading The Mad Ship. I am so enjoying this trilogy that actually comes between the Farseer and the Tawny Man trilogy but which I had skipped at the time.

[David]

I found The Intruder this time. I'm not sure why it wasn't coming up in my search before. Here's the Centipede Press version: The Intruder

[carol. , Senor Crabbypants]

I've had that problem too, David, with a rather obscure book. I could find it in a general database search but not the linked book search. Glad it worked for you!

[David]

Carol. wrote: "I've had that problem too, David, with a rather obscure book. I could find it in a general database search but not the linked book search. Glad it worked for you!"

I posted it in another What are you reading thread for another group and someone else found a different version on Goodreads and posted the link. I followed it and found my version that way.

[Sumant]

Here is my review of Lord foul's bane , 1st book in Thomas covenant series.

[Sumant]

Here is my review of 2nd book in Thomas covenant series. This book sucked big time.

[Scott]

I recently finished Cat's Cradle and Thinner.

Now I'm continuing my Halloween read with Skeleton Crew.

[Scott]

I recently finished Skeleton Crew and Searching for the Sound: My Life with the Grateful Dead.

Now I'm reading The Wise Man's Fear. I've been waiting to read this one.