What Else Are You Reading - January 2014

[Jeff]

Finished Timebound which had a good premise regarding time traveling, but kinda got all jumbled up in the process. Also finished Neverwhere on audiobook but oddly it did not click for me. Strange as I like Gaiman. Now getting my urban fantasy fix listening to Moon Called on audiobook.

[Dharmakirti]

I'm starting A Wizard of Earthsea a few days early because, well, I am just really excited to read it.

[Whitney]

I bought A Wizard of Earthsea didn't open it up and try it out cause I was sure it had to be good. Big mistake... what is this writing style?

[[deleted user]]

Currently reading Irish Fairy & Folk Tales by William Butler Yeats. Great read so far. One thing to know going in is the fairy folk don't like to be discussed, so they are often refered to as the gentry. It took me a while to discover that, I felt a bit at sea a couple of times.

[Whitney]

anyway not reading that...
instead : A Clash of Kings The Name of the WindCrown of Midnight Under the Never Sky and Destined for an Early Grave

listening to Storm Front

[Dustin]

David wrote: "Currently reading Irish Fairy & Folk Tales by William Butler Yeats. Great read so far. One thing to know going in is the fairy folk don't like to be discussed, so they are often refer..."

Oh, good. I just picked one up.

[terpkristin]

I finished listening to a popcorn book, Pretty Little Liars (I'm sadly addicted to the TV show, a product of my sister's influence and pain medications while recovering from back surgery!) and am getting ready to start Seer: A Prequel to the Mongoliad before jumping into A Wizard of Earthsea.

I haven't decided if I'm going to listen to A Wizard of Earthsea or if I'm going to read the print edition. I suppose it will come down to my free time stuff.

[Tamahome]

I just got Elizabeth Moon's first Vatta's War milsf book Trading in Danger on the Graphicaudio app (mostly full text, full cast, effects, music).

[Carolina]

So...this month I finished 2 books from Harlequin (**blushing**), The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Days of Blood & Starlight, City of Glass. I am also listening to Smarter Than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better and The Goldfinch but I doubt I will finish those before the end of the month. All the reviews were originally posted at: A Girl that Likes Books although I am a bit behind.

[Bryan]

I started the one Culture book I haven't yet read, Surface Detail.

[Teena]

Starting up The Handmaid's Tale before picking up A Wizard of Earthsea, which I'm actually kind of excited for since it has been on my reading list for some time now.

[Mark]

A classic from Margaret "I don't write sci-fi" Atwood

[Daniel]

I had a week between exams and this semester, So I sat down and have now finished reading The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man's Fear, so now i'm looking to finish Ancillary Justiceand after that, i'll sink my teeth into Prince of Thorns and just in general trying to keep up with the picks every month.

[Nico]

Just finished The Martian. Brilliant book! A must read and I think it would be a nice pick for laser!

[Jennifer]

Finally finished The Way of Shadows, by Brent Weeks, it seemed to take forever. I just couldn't bring myself to like it all that much even though I wanted to so bad. It had such potential. I'm now on to The Alloy of Law, before starting the next book club read.

[Joseph]

Finished The Sleeping God, the first of Violette Malan's Dhulyn and Parno books, and moved on to The Soldier King, second in the series.

[Ty]

Finishing out the month with Clementine because I loved Boneshaker, Witch World, my first by Andre Norton, and just to change things up a bit, Swamplandia!.

[Geoff]

Finished The Eye of the World.

Moving on to The Andalucian Friend to feed my need for Scandinavian crime fiction

[Misti]

Last night, I finished Hollow City. Then almost immediately started reading Steelheart.

[Jason (jasonb)]

I was reading "Quicksilver" by Neal Stephenson. But I've had to put it down as I have only read about 250 pages and I still can't get into the main character. Sometimes Daniel is interesting but other times he, and the others bore me.

Questions for anyone: Is it me? Has anyone read Quicksilver and liked it and the series? If you liked it then why?

I'm thinking of going back but I've wanted to read this months book club pick so if someone answer my question about going back afterwards I would appreciate it very much.

[[deleted user]]

Carolina wrote: "So...this month I finished 2 books from Harlequin (**blushing**)"

No need to blush about your reading. I read comics and Star Wars novels. No need for everything to be high literature. I let my kids know it's OK to somtimes read stuff below their grade level for fun. Now if that was all you read your horizons might need to be expanded, but as part of a mix it's just fine.

[Sandi]

Jason, I abandoned Quicksilver with only 120 pages left to go. I liked a lot of it, but I was mostly bored.

[Whitney]

150 more pages in I'm starting to hate the site of this book I have the next one from kindle.

[Joseph]

Jason wrote: "I was reading "Quicksilver" by Neal Stephenson. But I've had to put it down as I have only read about 250 pages and I still can't get into the main character. Sometimes Daniel is interesting but ot..."

I did get through all three books but it was a bit of a struggle just based on sheer volume. Myself, I liked the weird historical asides and multi-page info-dumps around Dutch market practices of the 17th Century, but I can see how that wouldn't work for a lot of people. Cryptonomicon was much more accessible (well, relatively -- "accessible and "Cryptonomicon" are probably words that shouldn't appear in the same sentence) because the surface plot -- WWII codebreaking and modern day dotcom shenanigans -- was much more engaging even if you were just flipping right past the heavy mathematics.

[Jason (jasonb)]

Joseph, thanks for the info. I guess I'll take a break and return to it when I take a vacation from school (Spring Break). It seems I read more if it when I'm not focused on other things.

[Carolina]

David wrote: No need to blush about your reading. I read comics and Star Wars novels. No need for everything to be high litera..."

hehe, is not so much about it not being literature, is about it being romance, it was actually the first ones I read and they were quite funny to read, predictable as hell, but a new experience.

[Tamahome]

I checked out a little of A Darkling Sea. It seems like Scalzi.

[Keith]

After giving up twice on Spook Country by William Gibson and pronouncing it terrible, but not ever being able to fully abandon something without finishing it, I started in on my third try. I don't know what happened, but I absolutely love it now.

[Scott]

I actually fell behind after Curse of Chalion so I've been trying to catch up. Finished Boneshaker earlier this week. Now half way through Ancillary Justice

[Michele]

Got The Magic of Recluse as the Audible deal so I just started that. I think I may have read this one back in the dark ages but don't remember a thing about it.
Still making my way through the Anne Perry mysteries - on book 24 now.
Oh and I read/listened to The Bloodletter's Daughter, by Linda Lafferty, good historical fiction.

[JRush]

Tamahome wrote: "I checked out a little of A Darkling Sea. It seems like Scalzi."

That makes me excited to pick it up, i like scalzi's work. I'm a sucker for first contact stories. Been looking forward to this one since I first saw it on an iO9 article a few months ago. Looks like it would be a good fit for a future laser pick.

[Sandi]

For the last day of the month, I finished One for the Money in audio and The Resurrectionist in ebook. Neither one rated very high for me.

My next audiobook will be Winter's Tale. I've had it in my Audible library for a long time. It's narrated by one of my favorite narrators, Oliver Wyman. I've started it before and didn't finish it. I decided that I will listen to the whole thing before the movie comes out in a couple of weeks.

In ebooks, I'm reading both Far North and The Lost. They are very, very different books.

[JRush]

This month I re-listened to Red Seas Under Red Skies in preparation for The Republic of Thieves. Republic of Thieves reminded me somewhat of Name of the Wind. Not sure why exactly, but it had the same flavor. Which is great for me as the series evolves from Oceans 11 to an rich, in-depth character story.

Read Machine of Death: A Collection of Stories About People Who Know How They Will Die and it blew me away. Those stories were written just for me. Probably pick up the next book on Audible.

Picked up The Atrocity Archives over a weekend and enjoyed it. The tech was definitely outdated but that was apart of the charm of the story.

Reading Small Favor and listening to Use of Weapons now.