What are you reading in January 2016?

[Andreas]

The Water Knife, a very good near future CliFi. My review.

[Tani]

I finished up Night Owls by Lauren M. Roy yesterday. It's the first book in a newer urban fantasy series, I thought it was quite good. A nice balance of world-building and actions, and I liked the characters.

Now I'm back to Malazan with Toll the Hounds! It's nice to be back in the Malazan world after so long away. :)

[Shel, Moderator]

I just finished Bloodchild and Other Stories and am pleased to report that I found Octavia Butler's short fiction to be as gorgeously written as her novels.

Next up is Bastion by Mercedes Lackey for a little brain candy. Her more recent Valdemar novels have not been nearly as good as the earlier ones, but I'm an addict and can't seem to quit them :)

[Andreas]

Shel wrote: "I just finished Bloodchild and Other Stories and am pleased to report that I found Octavia Butler's short fiction to be as gorgeously written as her novels."

Her stories seem to be hit or miss for me, but see for yourself.

[Pickle]

Justine wrote: "I like that you got a picture of your kids in front of the TARDIS Pickle; that was a lucky shot:)"

there's a few permanent tardis in Glasgow city centre

http://www.chem.gla.ac.uk/~gbarr/tardis/

[Justine]

Nice:)

[Random]

Shel wrote: "I just finished Bloodchild and Other Stories and am pleased to report that I found Octavia Butler's short fiction to be as gorgeously written as her novels.

Next up is [book:Bastion|1..."

I've been meaning to try Butler for a long time now so went a head and grabbed Bloodchild. So far, the first story was pretty good.

[Justine]

I just finished Infidel by Kameron Hurley, which was great; I think better than the first book in the trilogy, God's War, which we read as a BOTM here a little while back.

I'm now reading The Fire Sermon by Francesca Haig.

[Shel, Moderator]

Andreas wrote: "Shel wrote: "I just finished Bloodchild and Other Stories and am pleased to report that I found Octavia Butler's short fiction to be as gorgeously written as her novels."

Her stories ..."

I agree with you about Crossover, that's the only one in the collection that left me sort of meh.

[Christine]

I've finished City of Stairs which I enjoyed (another book I learned about from a comment posted here). Now out of genre again with The Quiet Game. I've just gotten All the Birds in the Sky as a digital book from my library; has anyone here read this book?

[Bob]

Kathi wrote: "Random wrote: "That's hard to do. There is just something so pleasing about getting new books. :)"

Don't I know it!! I didn't say I was being successful, only that I was trying..."

I took on the challenge to stop buying books several years ago. The biggest help was when I donated just about all of our existing books (over several purge sessions) and limited the book storage area. Unless you are absolutely set on re-reading it, get rid of it. Having a good local library that exchanges with other near by libraries is a key to success too.

[Justine]

Christine, I have a copy of All the Birds in the Sky too. I'm going to be reading it in February:)

[Kathi, Moderator & Book Lover]

Bob wrote: "I took on the challenge to stop buying books several years ago. The biggest help was when I donated just about all of our existing books (over several purge sessions) and limited the book storage area. Unless you are absolutely set on re-reading it, get rid of it. Having a good local library that exchanges with other near by libraries is a key to success too."

We have gotten quite good at purging those books we have both read. Neither of us is a rereader. The problem is that my husband & I don't read the same books at the same time, so there are hundreds that I have read but he has not, and vice versa.

Having said that, I will reread the earlier books of a series when new ones come out. Which I hate to do, but have to because my memory is so lousy. Which is why I really, really try to not start a series till it has been complete.

[Random]

My husband and I are both heavy rereaders and neither of us like getting rid of books. Part of what makes libraries so difficult, you always have to give them back. :)

Well that and we're like 1 or 2 towns in the area that isn't part of the greater Seattle library system. It sucks. the small town I grew up in had a much better library than what I have currently.

But we've also moved over almost completely to electronic formats like ebooks and audiobooks so physical storage space isn't much of a problem anymore. Plus it also means I'm less likely to leave the book I'm currently reading at random places never to be seen again. :)

[Christine]

Random wrote: "My husband and I are both heavy rereaders and neither of us like getting rid of books. Part of what makes libraries so difficult, you always have to give them back. :)

Well that and we're like 1 o..."

Are you in King County??? They have the largest library in the country (much bigger than Seattle)

[Justine]

I'm a book hoarding sometime rereader who has run out of physical space. So now I buy ebooks for me and hardcopy for my kids...or if it something we have to have, like the new illustrated Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone:)

[Random]

Finished Bloodchild. It was good.
Started The Vagrant last night. Interesting so far. It was a bit of a unique voice.

[Ken]

Finished No Heroes last night. Not a bad glimpse into the FBI amd how they handle the sort of situations like they have in Oregon now. It's not a great book but it was interesting

Started some SF
The Enemy Papers

[Kathi, Moderator & Book Lover]

I finished The Crippled God and really need to read some thing different, so my next 2 books will be a William Monk mystery (by Anne Perry) and then a Discworld book, The Last Continent.

[Shel, Moderator]

Bastion was kind of meh, but I'm a completist when it comes to Lackey's Valdemar books so I'm glad I read it, anyway. Not nearly as good as the earlier ones, though.

Back to short stories, David Brin this time with his collection Otherness.

[Sumant]

Here is my review of Tombs of Atuan, 2nd book in Earth sea cycle.

[Christine]

Abandoned The Quiet Game and am now enjoying Dreamer's Pool

[Justine]

I finished Infidel, and I did end up liking it even more than God's War (which I thought was good), although it was still a very intense book. I'm now about 1/3 through City of Blades, the follow up book to City of Stairs.