What are you reading?

[Simon]

I've (finally) started reading American Gods

[David]

I am reading Creative Selection by Ken Kocienda, the book by the guy who was in charge of building the keyboard for the original iPhone. I heard about it on ATP months ago, but I got the book for Christmas and have been reading it recently. It’s very good, and actually is accessible to people who don’t know anything about software development. It’s hard to put it down, but the new baby in my life forces me to. For nonfiction readers who like Apple, it’s pretty much a must-read.

[Robert]

Yesterday I finished The Forgotten Beasts of Eld. I quite enjoyed it. It was lyrical and well-written, and I was caught up with the heroine and the story. I'm happy I finally got to this book.

[Ziad]

I enjoyed Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik. Really loved the universe.

[Scott]

The Calculating Stars

[Robert]

I found a couple weeks ago that I'd read "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" years ago, and had only started "Through the Looking-Glass." I re-read the first and yesterday finished the other. I quite enjoyed reading both of them. Fun little books, and two more classics are taken care of. I'm going to pause for a bit to think about what I want to read next. It will probably be something much more recent.

[Kerri]

So, for many years Alice’s adventures in wonderland was the only book that I had failed to finish reading. Is it worth going back to, 30-odd years later?

[Robert]

Kerri wrote: "So, for many years Alice’s adventures in wonderland was the only book that I had failed to finish reading. Is it worth going back to, 30-odd years later?"

I think so. I enjoyed reading it again, since I'd forgotten much of it. But if you get back to it and still aren't feeling it, don't worry about it. Not every book is for everyone, even the classics. :)

[Gregory]

Just finished “The Lost City of the Monkey God” by Douglas Preston today (via Audible.) This was quite interesting; anyone sharing an odd intersection of interests in archaeology, jungle exploration, epidemiology, and parasitology should have a good time. Bill Mumy’s narration was pleasant.

Next on deck: “All Systems Red” by Martha Wells

[Lewis]

I highly recommend The Annotated Alice by Martin Gardner. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

[Robert]

I too read The Calculating Stars; finished it just yesterday. I really enjoyed it. I'd like to get to the other "Lady Astronaut" works, but I want to clear a few titles off my wish list first.

[Daniel]

Greetings all. Just breezed through the Bane Trilogy. If you've never read any Star Wars and have been thinking about it, this is a great place to start. Tells the story of Darth Bane, who created the Rule of Two governing the Sith we know and love.

Also, this week, I've begun reading the first book in N.K. Jemison's Inheritance Trilogy. Quite good considering this was her debut novel. I read, and enjoyed thoroughly, her Broken Earth trilogy so thought I'd go back and read this.

Happy reading all.

[Lindsay]

There’s a novella called the Awakened Kingdom which is set after the trilogy that I recommend strongly.

[Lewis]

Starting Dan Moren’s new book today, hopefully, The Bayern Agenda

[Scott]

Volume 1 of V.E. Schwab’s Shades of Magic comic, The Steel Prince.

[Robert]

Over the weekend I finished The Fated Sky. I quite enjoyed it. I think I would like to read a bit more about the characters and the alternate timeline. However, the next books I plan to read will be one of Gail Carriger's novellas and Theodora Goss' latest.

[Robert]

Yesterday evening I finished How To Marry A Werewolf. It was a good little romance story with some interesting drama and a few of Gail's touches. I quite enjoyed it.

[Lewis]

Starting _Uprooted_, which I thought I’d read, but that was an entirely different book about living in a tree which name I can’t recall. Finished Tiamat’s Wrath

[Ryan]

Uprooted was rad, nice and compact.

My wife and I are now on the sequel to The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter, titled European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman. I am really hoping a TV series for these novels emerges.

[Robert]

Speaking of Theodora Goss...

Yesterday I finished her collection Snow White Learns Witchcraft: Stories and Poems. It contains both poems and short stories. I really liked the short stories. There were interesting takes on fairy tales and folklore, and they featured interesting heroines. I'm not that much of a fan of poetry, but I did find some of the poems intriguing as well. Well worth picking up.

[Robert]

Yesterday I finished The Bayern Agenda: Book One of the Galactic Cold War. It has a strong and twisty plot. I enjoyed the two viewpoint characters and the others they met along the way. I liked that the universe is much more filled out in this novel than in the first.

[Robert]

Yesterday I finished reading Sorcery & Cecelia: or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot. It was a delightful fantasy novel, told entirely in letters between two cousins. Quite a fun read. I was amazed to learn that the authors chose which cousin to write and that the book started out as a letter game between them.

[Robert]

Yesterday I finished Sister Light, Sister Dark. I knew it was the first book in a trilogy, but I thought it might be a stand-alone that became a trilogy. It's not a stand-alone, but it is a good book and I plan to get to the other books sooner rather than later.

[Anna]

I'm a big fan of The Steerswoman by Rosemary Kirstein. It's a sci-fi book that upends a lot of fantasy cliches, and seems like the sort of thing that members of this group might enjoy.

[Robert]

Yesterday I finished Embers of War. Good science fiction novel about atonement. Had a few interesting characters, including a sentient starship.

[Robert]

Over the past few days I re-read Expecting Someone Taller and Who's Afraid of Beowulf, both by Tom Holt. I read them when they first came out. I decided to re-read them to get into a good frame of mind for a project I've started. Both are light fantasy with classic myths meeting the modern world. The first is about the Ring Cycle, while the other is about Viking Sagas. They both have sudden endings, though I still feel that the one in the first novel just feels better. They're both fun reads, though not as funny as I remembered.