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[Rob, Mayor of Ghost Town]

Ctgt wrote: "C'mon Rob. You'll be finished with that in a day..........write a line of code, read a chapter.......repeat. "

Part of my resolution (if you can call it that) is not to put all this pressure on myself by signing up to do a billion group reads.

I'm tired of feeling like I have daily quotas of reading to do.

Right now I'm about halfway through my current book, which is actually farther ahead than I planned to be, mostly due to how much I'm enjoying it.

Best case scenario is I'll have a week to read that book, which means I'll have to average 75 pages a day. No thanks. Not saying I couldn't do it. Just that I don't want to.

[Karen]

Rob wrote: "I'm tired of feeling like I have daily quotas of reading to do."

When reading becomes a chore, it's no longer pleasurable.

[Rob, Mayor of Ghost Town]

Eh. It still was, but less so, so I decided I was cutting back a little.

So anyways, do we have enough interest for me to add thief's magic to the shelf?

If so, when? It comes out in the US on 5/20. I think it's already out in some other places.

And who wants to be discussion leader?

[Karen]

I'll lead if you like, as I've already got the book (out in the UK on kindle 15/05/14) - and I'll delay reading until others have the book.

[Rob, Mayor of Ghost Town]

Alex wrote: "I will have the book hopefully on the 22nd!"

Which gives you 5 days to read it before Skin Game :-P

[Suzanne]

I preordered Thief's Magic - I was debating because I have a lot of reading going on, but it was so cheap! And I've been wanting to check out the author.

[Rob, Mayor of Ghost Town]

I always read those in only a few days, and I usually do 1 audio book a week. So I could do it. It would be tight though.

I don't get why you didn't listen to ghost story though if you didn't have time to read it. It's not as good without Marsters, but it's far from terrible.

[Geoff]

Will the Dresden Files be any good for me? I tend to shy away from just about anything labeled paranormal or urban fantasy, but I do enjoy crime novels.

[Rob, Mayor of Ghost Town]

Hard to say. It starts as a private eye type of series and grows into something way better in my opinion, but you may feel the opposite. In most of the books he's investigating something though, so there is usually a mystery element at least.

[Geoff]

Hmm. Quite frankly, even if I did decide to try a Dresden book, it would be so far down the queue it'd be a long ways away from getting read.

[Rob, Mayor of Ghost Town]

It's easily been my favorite series for almost 10 years. Although Stormlight archive may be giving it a run for it's money.

I've only rated 31 books as 5 stars, and 3 of them are Dresden Files. There are a few others that are 4.5 too.

It's a bit daunting now with 15 books out though. But the early ones are all pretty short, and even the later ones don't approach epic fantasy lengths.

[Jake]

Dresden Files are great. But if you ask me they don't hit their full stride till the fourth book.

[[deleted user]]

Oh snap, no one's nominated The Red Knight?? That book is one of the most intense, insane, crazy, violent, EPIC books I've ever experienced. It's almost on par with A Memory of Light in that almost the entire book is one long battle; in this case, a siege. Definitely not one to miss, guys, not in the least. Here's my review if anyone's interested. That book is BRUTAL.

[[deleted user]]

Well no rush, it's a 5 book series and the 3rd's coming out next year. The second one was really slow, but it spent all that time laying the groundwork for the entire series, so the next book is going to blow some brains.

[Rob, Mayor of Ghost Town]

Ooops. Sorry. All set.

[Karen]

Thank you. I'll wait until peeps have the book in their hands, then start off.

[[deleted user]]

Anyone else want to read the first book after the Star Wars EU reboot, A New Dawn? Alex has expressed interest, if anyone else'll be reading it that can be a group read.

[Rob, Mayor of Ghost Town]

I'm reading the Thrawn trilogy ATM, and probably will be star warsed out after, so I'm going to pass.

[[deleted user]]

Rob wrote: "I'm reading the Thrawn trilogy ATM, and probably will be star warsed out after, so I'm going to pass."

Sweet! How you finding it so far?

[Rob, Mayor of Ghost Town]

Pretty good. The audio is fantastic too.

[[deleted user]]

Rob wrote: "Pretty good. The audio is fantastic too."

I think that series in particular is one of the very few cases where the hype WON'T be overkill and you end up expecting more than the story actually delivers. I want to re-read them sometime, I need to replace my lost copy of The Last Command first, though. Enjoy!

[[deleted user]]

I hate ARC deadlines. With a vengeance.

[[deleted user]]

Alex wrote: "Well, it's not the 55-day limit so much as I'd like to get a review up before the release date. Otherwise, I would feel like an ass for requesting an early copy, and then not using it to build hype..."

I tried that at first, even managed it for a while. But then I ended up requesting far too many over too short a time span. So now I have a big backlog I'm digging myself out from under. For the next two months . . . .

[Bill]

So is anyone else up for reading Prince of Fools in 2-3 weeks? So far Alex and me are in.

[Sky]

I'm in! I was about to start it now but decided to go with the rest of the PM novellas + The Crimson Campaign first, since I just finished PoB, and won't have to context switch again after PoF.

[Mark]

Bill wrote: "So is anyone else up for reading Prince of Fools in 2-3 weeks? So far Alex and me are in."

me, need to try more group reads.

[Sky]

Speaking of Prince of Fools, I just noticed Sleeping Beauty was released in April...Didn't know about it!

[Rob, Mayor of Ghost Town]

Sounds like you have enough interest. Just need to decide on a start date and discussion leader.

Just remember that Cibola Burn is 6/17. Not sure if any of you will be reading that as well.

Once you decide, I'll add it to the shelf and make a new section.

[Geoff]

I really wish I had time to read Mark Lawrence. I'm still steaming through the Wheel of Time (just finished A Crown of Swords) plus club picks (Cibola Burn being the next one). And then I'm always trying to read other stuff as well (Mr. Mercedes is next up), so I just haven't had a chance to read Prince of Thorns. It sounds really good.

[Bill]

Works for me.

[Mark]

Thats ok.

[Sky]

works for me too!

[Dara]

I should be reading Cibola Burn too.

[Bill]

These are the future releases I intend to read. Anyone else interested?

Tower Lord releases July 1st.
Assail releases August 5th.

Are dates set for Half a Kingand The Shadow Throne yet?

[Rob, Mayor of Ghost Town]

Bill wrote: "Are dates set for Half a King and The Shadow Throne yet?"

Yeah. They are already on the calendar.

[Bill]

Ah I see now. Thanks.

[Sumant]

I have heard a lot about Red Knight series too.

[Bas]

I really want to jump into some new books with you guys!

How about the Codex Alera series by Jim Butcher starting with Furies of Calderon.

Or The Goblin Emperor?

[Rob, Mayor of Ghost Town]

I just did a reread of Codex Alera, but I would probably jump in on the discussion. I rather enjoy that series albeit probably less than his Dresden books at this point.

Also, In the short term I'm pretty overbooked. This month we are doing 4 "group" reads (albeit 2 of them spur of the moment for books I was doing anyways), but we don't have anything on the schedule for August.

I don't anticipate having extra time for another group read until after The Fool's Assassin in August anyways.

[Bill]

I just finished the Codex Alera series and really enjoyed it. Like Rob I would jump in on discussion but wouldn't reread at this point.

[Bill]

Sumant wrote: "I have heard a lot about Red Knight series too."

Sumant, i really enjoyed the series so far and would highly recommend it but like Codex Alera I would probably not reread yet.

[Sky]

Anyone interested in group reads of:

The Magician's Land (The Magicians #3), Aug 5 Release

The Slow Regard of Silent Things (Kingkiller 2.5) Oct 28 Release (only 176 pages though)

Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch #2) Oct 7 Release

[David Sven]

I'm all for Ancillary Sword and Kingkiller.

[Sky]

Awesome! Rob how do we get things on the calendar?

[Richard]

Sky, all sound good, though I need to catch up on Magicians.

[Sky]

Great! I haven't read The Magician King yet (#2)...Will probably read that after HaK, if you or anyone else is interested in a group read of that before Magician Land comes out.

[Bas]

I haven't read The Magician King neither. The first book was amazing though so I would probably catch up to that if we are going to read it.

I'm really looking forward to The Slow Regard of Silent Things so that's a yes for me.

I haven't heard of Ancillary Sword so I would have to look into that.

[David Sven]

Bas wrote: "I haven't heard of Ancillary Sword so I would have to look into that. "

That's book 2 after Ancillary Justice

[Mark]

I am in for the mirror empire.

[Bas]

Mirror empire sounds interesting. The new star wars novel might be something to jump into, I haven't read a lot of star wars fiction.