What Else Are You Reading in 2019? Showing 3,201-3,237 of 3,237

[Christopher]

On my holiday travels I stopped into a few used bookstores and managed to pick up the following titles from our bookshelf:

The Lies of Locke Lamora
Blue Mars
On the Oceans of Eternity
Against the Tide of Years
The Speed of Dark
Furies of Calderon
The Briar King

Let me know if there's any of these I should prioritize! My general plan is to pick up group books and then try to join re-reads as they occur. I know Blue Mars is coming up, but I'm still only about 25% of the way through Red Mars, so I'll have to wait on that one. The Speed of Dark would be an interesting contrast to Remnant Population both being by Elizabeth Moon.

[Anna]

I really enjoyed Speed of Dark, but it's very different compared to RemPop.

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

Lies of Locke Lamora was one that wiggled straight into my brain and wouldn't leave. Lots of fun and excitement!

[Sarah]

I'm ending my year with Blue Mars and The Night Circus.

[Jacqueline]

I really want to get Remnant Population finished by the end of the year but I don’t know if I will. Might.

The last of our kids went home yesterday and it was looking like I might get two days of uninterrupted reading and doing nothing in before my hubby goes home on New Years Day but that is not to be. Yesterday we took his dad to the emergency dept with an ulcerated leg and then a few hours after he was discharged we had him back in again after a really weird turn. This time he won’t be coming home but spending some time in hospital and then moving into a nursing home. He decided yesterday that he couldn’t live by himself anymore and our daughter, who was staying there, went home so he was scared I think because he would be by himself until we could organise the home and he talked himself into shutting down. Fun times.

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

Ugh, I am so sorry to hear that! We went through that earlier this year, Jacqueline. It is very stressful and difficult. I am glad your family is helping out and I hope whatever the decision is, that everyone is content with the outcome and safe. Hopefully you get a bit more time to relax now! You deserve all the reading time!

[DivaDiane]

Christopher, have you read Red and Green Mars already? If so, we are buddy reading Blue Mars in the group right now. Join us!!

[Jacqueline]

Yeah unfortunately I’m mostly in this by myself again. Hubby is on his way home in two days. I’m my FILs Legal Guardian anyway and I have final say in everything. I don’t get support from the rest of the family normally.

We’re sitting with him now. He’s really not very well.

[Jacqueline]

I wanted to read Red Mars and I was looking the other day at the bookshop when I bought the Le Guin, Roanhorse and that and they only had Red Moon by KSR. Maybe another day.

[Marie]

Bruce wrote: "Marie G, I really enjoy the series. It’s a bit dark, but more escapist and entertaining than the Hunger Games. It has some similar themes, but not kids getting killed in a blood sport. This is actu..."
Thank you! I like my books a little dark. The series is now on my tbr list!

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

Well, I'm done reading Beggars in Spain insomuch as I will not be reading it til the end. I got 75% in and...I think the author has gone sooo far away from my own points of reference and understandings of humanity that I don't get the story anymore. It's like when comedians do that bit where they say something like it's normal but it's a completely unhealthy response and you lose track for a second if you've just led a blessed life or if the person telling the "joke" is in sincere trouble?

I feel like that.

A lot of great ideas and decent writing, I just...don't know why this was the outcome and I don't want to see how this ends.

[Raucous]

I'm sorry to hear that reading Beggars in Spain didn't work out. It's been on my physical bookshelf since it was originally published (maybe my oldest fiction TBR) based on the enthusiastic recommendation of a writer friend. I thought that it would appeal to the sleep challenged me. Perhaps it's just as well that I've never gotten to it.

On a related topic I'm finding that none of the genre books that I'm reading right now are working for me so I've started Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams and The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power. That covers sleep related and perhaps not ending well.

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

haha those do sound like the scholarly take on Beggars' plot!

[DivaDiane]

I’m sorry you aren’t enjoying Beggars in Spain, Sllison. I remember really liking it, but the ending was a little bizarre (psychedelic stuff?). I barely remember the details though.

[Christopher]

Diane, I would! But I'm still working my way through Red Mars as a background read after I finish the books of the month. I'll likely check out the thread sometime many months from now. Thanks for the invite though!

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

Diane wrote: "I’m sorry you aren’t enjoying Beggars in Spain, Sllison. I remember really liking it, but the ending was a little bizarre (psychedelic stuff?). I barely remember the details though."

Perhaps at some other time I would have liked it more, but it didn't pair well with the other things I'm reading and doing IRL. I absolutely see the appeal, though, and understand why I was recommended it!

[Don]

I agree "Beggars in Spain" lost the plot in the second half.... such a great premise and kickoff.

[Don]

what would a person do with all that extra time?

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

Don wrote: "I agree "Beggars in Spain" lost the plot in the second half.... such a great premise and kickoff."

Exactly!

[Don]

The Drawing Of The Three

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Beth]

Don wrote: "I agree "Beggars in Spain" lost the plot in the second half.... such a great premise and kickoff."

Its origin as a novella might have something to do with this.

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

Don wrote: "The Drawing Of The Three

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show..."

Don, want to tell us a small bit about your thoughts in chat? We like having conversations here :)

[Phrynne]

Finishing my year with Spiderlight by Adrian Tchaikovsky. This guy does love his spiders!

[Kateb]

is any body else reading John Conroe's Demon Accord.?

a really good and novel take of vampires etc

[CBRetriever]

Phrynne wrote: "Finishing my year with Spiderlight by Adrian Tchaikovsky. This guy does love his spiders!"

any kind of bugs - his Shadows of the Apt Series has beetles, dragonfly, fly, wasp, bee, ant and other insect Kinden. I love this series.

[Phrynne]

CBRetriever wrote: "Phrynne wrote: "Finishing my year with Spiderlight by Adrian Tchaikovsky. This guy does love his spiders!"

any kind of bugs - his Shadows of the Apt Series has bee..."

That's on my list as a series to start in 2020

[CBRetriever]

I liked it a lot and am currently trying to get all of it on Kindle

[Phrynne]

So Spiderlight was indeed my last book for 2019 and it was so good! I am planning to read lots more of Tchaikovsky's books in 2020.
My review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Jacqueline]

I didn’t get Remnant Population finished yesterday like I planned. FIL is still in hospital and yesterday I had to arrange his permanent bed in an Aged care facility for next week when he’s discharged from hospital. Then Hubby took me out for lunch. By the time we got home we were too pooped to pop and didn’t even bother with even a sandwich for dinner.

Hubby is flying back to the Outback today and other than a quick trip to hospital once or twice a day for the next few days I can sit and maybe finish it. Thankfully he’s staying in the hospital that’s only 10 minutes and 15km away instead of 50 minutes and 65km. That was a pain.

[Atlanta]

I’m
Finishing out the year with old mans war.

[CBRetriever]

I'm at 75% through Chanur's Legacy so i should finish tonight. This one is really different than the other 4 Chanur books as it has a lot of humorous bits in it. This may have to do with the main character being the niece of the main character in the first 4 books and with the fact that it was written 6 years after the other 4. I'm totally enjoying it

[Gabi]

It's 2020 here, so I can finally finish "Psychology of time travel", which I enjoy a lot, but had to hold back, cause I need it for the 2020 challenge :)

[Anna]

Gabi, I love your new pic! And I guess you're the first one to knock something off a 2020 challenge list :D

[Leonie]

I'm currently doing a lovely relaxing re-read of Terminal Uprising. I so enjoy this series.

[Phrynne]

Leonie wrote: "I'm currently doing a lovely relaxing re-read of Terminal Uprising. I so enjoy this series."

Me too Leonie! Wish he wrote faster. His Magic ex Libris series was great too.

[Phrynne]

My first book for 2020 was Prudence by Gail Carriger and I can tell that I am going to enjoy this new series just as much as I did the first one. I think Rue may be even more interesting than Alexa.

My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Dj]

so I finished my first book for 2020.
One-Night Stands with American History: Odd, Amusing, and Little-Known Incidents

A lot of small pieces of history in the United States. Some of them are really funny most are bits and pieces you don't get much of in history classes. I gave it four stars so a good way to start the year off.