What have you been reading this February?

[Marie]

I started this urban fantasy series and really been enjoying it so far.

by William Massa

[Tony]

I'm about a third of the way through The Runes of the Earth and finding it a bit of a slog, although less so that the second Chronicles. So, I'm taking a break (again - I will eventually get through all 10 books :) ) and I'm starting on a reread of Asimov's Foundation series. While I have read them all before, I haven't read the Robot series, followed by the Empire series followed by the Foundation series, which is how Asimov retconned his future history.

It feels a bit strange to be starting the Robot series on a book other than I, Robot but Robot Dreams and Robot Visions gather all the Robot short stories and present them in their chronological order rather than the order he wrote them in, so I think that's a better fit for this project.

Which is a long-winded way of saying I'm currently reading Robot Dreams :)

[Alexandria]

I just started reading The Witcher series! I am currently on book two. I really love the story and writing so far. Anyone else here reading the series or have read them before? What are your thoughts?

[Jim]

I read some of the Witcher books years ago & liked them, but I don't remember too much. I'm not going to reread them until the TV show is done. My wife & daughter are both reading them now & loving them.

[Kivrin]

Alexandria wrote: "I just started reading The Witcher series! I am currently on book two. I really love the story and writing so far. Anyone else here reading the series or have read them before? What are your thoughts?"

I've just read the first two books of short stories. I really enjoyed them. Loved seeing what they drew on for the t.v. show. I'm going to order the first book in the original trilogy shortly.

[Mary]

The Monsters Know What They're Doing: Combat Tactics for Dungeon Masters by Keith Ammann

[Andrea]

Finished And Another Thing..., I did not figure out why we needed another sixth book in the Hitchhiker's Guide "trilogy" other than to give the characters a slightly happier ending than they got in the fifth book. But then I'm not one that felt that more than one book was needed in the first place :) This type of humour isn't my thing (which is why I'm not a Monty Python fan, not did I love Good Omens, not saying I dislike them, but they don't really make me laugh, just the occasional snort or smirk with a lot of groans and eye-rolling). At least I can check off another completed series, as well as the humour slot on my BINGO card.

Finishing the Divergent trilogy with Allegiant by Veronica Roth, not because I much enjoy this series either but I do want to know what is outside the fence and what the whole Divergent experiment was about. Hopefully get some good answers...

[Faith]

My review of Creeping Jenny by Jeff Noon

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

[Kay]

Sunset and Sawdust and this delightful series Cocaine Blues(miss fisher's murder mysteries) by Kerry Greenwood

[NekroRider]

This morning I finished The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden which is the last book of the Winternight Trilogy. I rated it 5/5 stars, it was a truly great conclusion to the series.

Haven't started just yet, but my next read is likely Bloody Rose by Nicholas Eames, second book of the Band series. My aim for the first half of the year was to read the final book/the most recent book in certain series that I've been reading over the last 2-3 years. I've now finished Centenal Cycle and Winternight Trilogy, and caught up on the second book of Sixth World series. Next is Bloody Rose, which I've kept putting off since it was released.

Alexandria wrote: "I just started reading The Witcher series! I am currently on book two. I really love the story and writing so far. Anyone else here reading the series or have read them before? What are your thoughts?"

I read them all a few years ago (except Season of Storms that was published in English more recently). It was a pretty mixed bag for me. There were some books that were really awesome, others that were straight up good, others mediocre. A lot I really liked about it but also a lot that bothered me. One of the few series out there that I have such widely varying feelings about or that I found the quality varied so widely.

[Mary]

A Middle-earth Traveller: Sketches from Bag End to Mordor by John Howe

[Pierre]

I just finished this morning Red Seas Under Red Skies, that I started in January, but there was a two-weeks skiing vacation in the interval, and just recently a nasty disk failure on my PC. So I consider that I finished the book in late February. I enjoyed it as much as the fist book in the Gentleman Bastard series, even though it was quite different. I have grown fond of Locke and his companion Jean. At the cost of perhaps being disappointed, given the reviews I just read, I'll move now to the third book, The Republic of Thieves.

[Kivrin]

Read Ninth House in about a day and a half. Stayed up until 1:00 a.m. to finish it which I have not done in some time. Really enjoyed this one. I knew I liked Bardugo's writing from her YA books, and this adult story did not let me down. Lot of twists and turns. It took me a while to warm up to main character, but I grew to love her. This is a neat take on Yale with magic and power struggles at its hidden core. Really, really enjoyed it.

[Jim]

Recursion by Blake Crouch surprised me. I've really liked some of his other books, but time travel has been done to death or so I thought. He actually came up with one that's going to make my top ten list of TT stories. Considering how many I've read over the years, that's quite a compliment. I reviewed it here:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...