What are you reading this April, 2018?

[Andrea]

On my eReader I finished Synthetic Men of Mars. Taking a brief break from Barsoom with the one dragon ebook I happen to have lying around - Ben the Dragonborn by Dianne Astle. For a freebie, so far it's proving to be decently written.

[Rosemary]

I ran across Down Among the Sticks and Bones in the library and liked it so much I had to read Every Heart a Doorway afterward; even though I was reading them out of order, it kind of worked out okay. Loved them both!

[Cat]

I've had a fairly light on month for reading (life, rather inconveniently, got in the way).

I read The Path of Daggers for my WoT re-read quest, and I had completely forgotten how much I disliked that book. Ugh. Currently onto Winter's Heart which from memory wasn't much better but then I get onto the final 1/3 of the series which I found much better. So I've still got that to look forward to :)

I also picked up Raelia at a convention, which is the second in a fun YA fantasy series. I re-read Mort for some classic hysterical Pratchett, I do love the British sense of humour. And read Tooth and Claw for the group read which I did quite enjoy

[NekroRider]

Finished Love Beyond Body, Space, and Time this morning. Rated it 3.5/5 stars (3/5 according to GR rating system). There were some really great stories in here. My favourites were The Boys Who Became the Hummingbirds, Né Le! and Valediction At the Starview Motel. But also enjoyed Perfectly You, Transitions and Imposter Syndrome.

Next I'll be moving on to some horror, Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones. I've read one other book by him called Mapping the Interior and really enjoyed it. This one looks like it might be even more up my alley.

[Andrea]

Finished How to Cheat a Dragon's Curse.

And now back to my regularly scheduled Pern with All the Weyrs of Pern. I knew there was a Pern book that featured AI, and it's definitely "features" the AI enough to count for the bingo slot, yay! I was otherwise kind of stumped to get another dragon book that had AI or robots in it, maybe Iron Dragon's Daughter has magically animated mechanical dragons but is it a robot if it uses magic?

[Mary]

Dragon's Ring by Dave Freer

[Mary]

Andrea wrote: "I was otherwise kind of stumped to get another dragon book that had AI or robots in it, maybe Iron Dragon's Daughter has magically animated mechanical dragons but is it a robot if it uses magic?"

I was thinking of The Dragons of Dorcastle as SF dragons -- though you have to get fairly far into the series to know it's SF, I wasn't even sure if the dragons actually appear in the first book -- and then, I went "robots or AI."

Well, if you read all of the Pillars series, and go on to the next series, there are definitely robots in it. Drones, to be precise. But it really does benefit from being read in series.

[Mary]

Dog and Dragon by Dave Freer

[Gary]

I finished reading Armada by Ernest Cline, The Heart of What Was Lost (Last King of Osten Ard Book #0.5) by Tad Williams, The Darknet (Murder by Munchausen Mysteries Book #2) by M. T. Bass, and Ricochet Joe by Dean Koontz. I am reading Head On (Lock In #2) by John Scalzi and The Eye of the World (Wheel of Time Book #1) by Robert Jordan. I plan to read Across the River and into the Trees by Ernest Hemingway next.

[Mary]

The Wonder Engine by T. Kingfisher

[Mary]

Recursion by Marion G. Harmon