What Else Are You Reading - January 2014

[Seth]

Finishing up NOS4A2 and have a few books lined up. I'd prefer a quick read next so I can start the new year off with a bang. I counted up the books I read last year and because of life and stuff it was shorter than usual.

I have Outlander, the Golem & the Jinni, and the Way of Kings waiting on my kindle, as well as a pile of other stuff. Any of these three worth jumping into next?

[Meghan]

Derek wrote: "I'm resolving to empty my current To Read List this year. So Abaddon's Gate, Happy Hour in Hell & Doctor Sleep top my reading list. Anyone read any of those yet?"

Me too Derek. And I've even pledged not to buy any more new books this year I've got so many already, including Abaddon's Gate and Happy Hour in Hell. Also planning on starting Dangerous Women right after I finish some of my urban paranormal books.

[Keith]

Neither sword nor laser, but I have loaded up on John le Carré, just started Gorky Park, and just finished The Ian Fleming Files: Operation Armada which was better than the Ian Fleming fanfic I was expecting it to be

[Thomas]

Finished A Kepler's Dozen: Thirteen Stories About Distant Worlds That Really Exist today. A mixed bag - some good stories, a couple that did nothing for me, and a few that really needed to have been told in a longer form for proper development. They saved the best tale for last IMO.

[David Sven]

Finished Wintertide The Riyria Revelations 5 on Audible
My Review

Starting Percepliquis The Riyria Revelations 6 also on Audible

[Rob, Roberator]

David Sven wrote: "Finished Wintertide The Riyria Revelations 5 on Audible
My Review

Starting Percepliquis The Riyria Revelations 6 also on Audible"

That's because they are part of the same omnibus..cheater! ^_^

[Ctgt]

Almost finished with Greenmantle and I have Magician: Apprentice waiting in the wings.

[Dara]

Wolf Hall.

[Sandi]

I finished listening to Shadow's Edge by Brent Weeks and had to start listening to Beyond the Shadows immediately.

I'm almost done with Steelheart and I have read the first couple of chapters of The Einstein Intersection. I'm also reading City of Lost Dreams.

[AndrewP]

Finishing my Christmas reads with Peter Pan on audio. Valentine Pontifex as my main read and The Man in the High Castle on kindle.

[Viola]

I've just finished The Ghost Brigades and I'm having problem deciding if I should pick up Downbelow Station and continue that or start with Magic's Pawn or The Risen Empire or ... you get the point. I have a few books to read.

[Misti]

Viola wrote: "...and I'm having problem deciding if I should pick up Downbelow Station and continue that or start with Magic's Pawn or [..."

I have that problem almost every time I finish a book as well, lol.

[Seth]

We all have some pretty great reading problems.

[Rob, Roberator]

Sandi wrote: "I finished listening to Shadow's Edge by Brent Weeks and had to start listening to Beyond the Shadows immediately."

I must be the only one who didn't like that series past The Way of Shadows. I thought it fell way off.

[Geoff]

I finished Revelation Space (which was great) and now have moved on to The Republic of Thieves. I'm definitely going to continue on in the Revelation Space series by Alastair Reynolds (S&L definitely needs to read a Reynolds book, like of House of Suns).

I'm also reading Inverting the Pyramid, a book about the history of football/soccer tactics

[David Sven]

Rob wrote: "That's because they are part of the same omnibus..cheater! ^_^ "

I notice that The Rose and the Thorn includes The Viscount and the Witch. Can I count that as two separate books?

[David Sven]

Geoff wrote: "Reynolds (S&L definitely needs to read a Reynolds book, like of House of Suns)."

I still haven't read that one by Reynolds - I'll probably be reading it before the next Laser pick comes around though. Loved the Revelation Space books - especially the two standalones Chasm City and The Prefect

[Sandi]

David, you can count it any way you want. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

[David Sven]

Sandi wrote: "David, you can count it any way you want. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise."

Thanks Sandy! (blows raspberry to Rob)

[Kevin]

I just finished up Dangerous Women, which I thought it was the most over hyped and overrated anthology of all times. Now reading the first three Rain Wilds Chronicles all the way through after waiting for a year to get into the first book. I'm about 60% finished with the first book.

[Thomas]

Old Man's War is next.

[Rob, Roberator]

Sandi wrote: "David, you can count it any way you want. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise."

Oh he can count how he wants, he's still a cheater. :-D

[David Sven]

Finished my reread of Steven Erikson's Toll the Hounds
My review

Continuing on to reread the ninth book in the Malazan series Dust of Dreams

[Dharmakirti]

Jennifer wrote: "Just started The Shadow of the Wind this evening. I'm about 50 pages in and I'm loving it."

Great novel!

[Mark]

Kevin wrote: "I just finished up Dangerous Women, which I thought it was the most over hyped and overrated anthology of all times."

Uh-oh. That post does not fill me with confidence

[Jennifer]

Dharmakirti wrote: "Jennifer wrote: "Just started The Shadow of the Wind this evening. I'm about 50 pages in and I'm loving it."

Great novel!"

I'm almost done with it. It's and absolute beautiful read. I wasn't expecting much from it, I thought it would be a good read, but it's so much more. It's been awhile since I found a book like that for me. I think Cloud Atlas was the last one.

[Tamahome]

Is it fantasy? I've heard the author on Agony Column.

[Dawn]

Finished Blood Song the book has some issues and the end I found confusing so it is not a five star read but solid book.

[Dawn]

Tamahome wrote: "Is it fantasy? I've heard the author on Agony Column."

No if memory serves it is a mystery - kind of a story inside of a story.

I read it in Spanish so not sure I could appreciate the beauty of it as it was complex for me.

[Michele]

Finished Blackout / All Clear by Connie Willis. Took me a while to get all the characters straight in my head, but once I did the story was wonderful. Almost overwhelming amount of detail, but by the end I was having dreams about living through the Blitz. Loved almost every single character and hated to leave them when its was finished. Both listened and read, audio version is very good.

Not sure what to read next, probably the group pick, but need a few days to digest after that massive story.

[Mark]

And going by Connie Willis average book release date, we can expect her next book to come out sometime in 2020

[Sandi]

Mark wrote: "And going by Connie Willis average book release date, we can expect her next book to come out sometime in 2020"

She used to write a lot faster. Her real strength is short stories and novellas. I think she still writes those.

[Michele]

I don't mind the wait, when the product is excellent. And her books are stand-alones (Blackout/All Clear is one huge story the publishers chopped in half) so there's no cliffhangers. I just really love her Oxford time travel stories.

[Sandi]

I agree with you, Michele. I have read as much of her work as possible since she published her first short story in Asimov's. I even got to meet her a few years ago. That is a story to be told from my PC rather than this stupid android app.

[Rob, Roberator]

The Shadow of the Wind is on my favorites shelf. Pretty much the only non-SFF book there I think too.

[Jennifer]

Tamahome wrote: "Is it fantasy? I've heard the author on Agony Column."

It's the first non-sci-fi/fantasy book that isn't a children's book that I've read in a while.

[kvon]

I found a new Robin McKinley book in the store the other week, Shadows. I really enjoyed it. It's another alt-contemporary standalone, and reminded me a lot of Nina Kiriki Hoffman's stories.

[Laura]

I finished The Einstein Intersection. I'm starting Mirror Friend Mirror Foe by Robert Asprin and George Takei.

[Sandi]

I finished Steelheart today and am now reading The Einstein Intersection.

[Mark]

What did you think? I thought it was pretty fun

[Sandi]

I really enjoyed it. It kept me guessing and surprised me more than once.

[D3a]

Trying tomotivate my girlfriend to read more, we started reading a public domain book together every month. This month we are reading The Island of Doctor Moreau. Any sugestions for next month, by the way?

[Mark]

amazon just happens to have a monthly free classic. Serendipitous!

[Shona]

Currently reading the Tom Clancy Jack Ryan books (watched Red October for the first time and got hooked on the back story). After that I'm going to go back to usual Fantasy stuff but not sure what exactly yet. Have a lot of books on Kindle that I have bought with deals and not read yet.

[Robert]

Just finished Ready Player One, and it was pretty awesome. Gonna start on this month's pick next, then move on to I Don't Want To Kill You by Dan Wells.

[Sean]

Just finished Dan Ariely's The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone -- Especially Ourselves. Reading Daniel Dennett's Breaking the Spell currently alongside The Einstein Intersection. I really want to read some of Jon Ronson's work soon.

[Joe]

Sean
"I really want to read some of Jon Ronson's work soon."

Definitely worth checking out! Highly recommend.

[Rob, Roberator]

I finished reading Toll the Hounds (My Review).

I'm now starting the last rain wild book: Blood of Dragons.

[Jenny]

My first audio of the year was The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and now I'm listening to The Titan's Curse.

[Joe]

Highlights read this month (so far):
Dark Force Rising Star Wars The Thrawn Trilogy 2
Li'l Harlan and his sidekick Carl the Comet in Danger Land
Locke and Key Vol. 2 Head Games
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

But I was underwhelmed by Death of the Black-Haired Girl