What Else Are You Reading in 2021? Showing 151-200 of 2,230

[Faith]

My review of The Green and the Black by William Meikle

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

[John]

City of ashes by Cassandra Clare

[Stephen]

The first Bujold book I tried was CryoBurn, a Vorkosigan novel that was a Hugo nominee in 2011. I had just begun reading more sf again after many years away from the field. I didn’t finish the book. Then I read some of the discussion of Bujold in Jo Walton’s What Makes This Book So Great and decided to give her work another try. This time something clicked and I went on to read most of her books, including all the Vorkosigan and “Five Gods” stories to date. She’s intelligent and a terrific storyteller. I haven’t reread much of her work but yesterday’s discussion led me to pick up The Curse of Chalion again. I think I enjoyed those first three “Five Gods” novels as much as any Bujold I’ve read.

[Palash]

Finished reading The Dragon Republic. Here is link to my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Now onto the next book in series The Burning God. Also starting Murderbot#2 Artificial Condition in parallel.

[Meredith]

I'm reading The Relentless Moon, book #3 in the Lady Astronaut series, and finding it very engaging. It takes place during the events of The Fated Sky.

[Don]

Stephen Burridge, have you read Falling Free by Ms. Bujold?
It is very good.

[Stephen]

Don wrote: "Stephen Burridge, have you read Falling Free by Ms. Bujold?
It is very good."

Don, no, that’s one I haven’t read. I probably will at some point.

[Michelle]

Or "A Civil Campaign"! That's one of my favorite Vorkosigan book.

[Stephen]

Michelle wrote: "Or "A Civil Campaign"! That's one of my favorite Vorkosigan book."

Michelle, yes, lots going on in that one, as I recall.

[Bonnie]

"Beth wrote:"CBRetriever wrote: "I have no idea why some of Adrian Tchaikovsky's books don't seem to show up on amazon.com for US readers."

I came across this with Cage of Souls. I was able to order the British edition in paperback from US amazon (it shipped from Book Depository, iirc), but there is not an ebook for it on that site."

Yeah, I couldn't find his Dogs of War a couple years ago, and so ordered a Brit paperback of it. I passed it on to someone in IRL SF group.

[Phrynne]

Finished Elsewhere which features one of my favourite things - parallel universes. Not his best book ever though.
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Silvana]

Meredith wrote: "I'm reading The Relentless Moon, book #3 in the Lady Astronaut series, and finding it very engaging. It takes place during the events of The Fated Sky."

It is my favorite installment so far :)

Gabi wrote: "This week I read

A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik which was lame and a real letdown after her "Uprooted" and "Spinning Silver" which I liked. And to my utter dismay ..."

Glad I don't have it in my TBR then! I was curious on why you only gave it two stars.

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

I just finished Everfair, which had been pitched to me awhile ago as something like "Steampunk alt history of Liberia," which...isn't wrong, but also not at all right! A much more hopeful look at forming a "more perfect nation" than anticipated, with way cooler airships and a lot more queer and disability-centric content!

[Christopher]

Working my way through The Ministry for the Future which is sort of all over the place with 106 chapters, some as short as a page long, jumping between all different points of view with no discernable pattern to it. In his article in Locus Kim Stanley Robinson said this was intentional as the subject matter was so grim that he wanted a way to break it up more and not to get stuck too long in one place. A bit slow going -- some of the science can get very detailed at times -- but I do think this is an important book in the sense that the issue of climate change is upon us already.

Also set a goal to try to read through more of the short fiction that I own, including a bunch of Gardner Dozois's best of series books. Currently reading Trinity which is in his first best of the best collections.

Also starting both of next month's BotM's.

[Anna]

Trinity wrote: "I'd like to read more Le Guin this year but I'm not sure where to start!"

Check out the UKLG reading project here for links to almost all the discussions we have in group! There are so many, both group books and buddy reads.

[DivaDiane]

Depending on whether you like SF or Fantasy I like to recommend The Lathe of Heaven (SF) and A Wizard of Earthsea (Fantasy) as good places to start with LeGuin.

[HeyT]

I've finished up through book 6 of the Alex Verus series (Veiled) and I'm still enjoying it although reading four in a row was a bit of a mistake so now I'm taking a breather and reading Reticence. I may also go back to the expanse before getting into more Alex Verus but who knows.

[Phrynne]

Thomas wrote: "I've only just managed to complete my first read of 2021 after a manic start to January. I must say though I was quite satisfied with Mr Sanderson's The Alloy of Law. Happy new year..."

Great series but I don't think he is ever going to finish it which makes me sad.

[Rachel]

I thought I read Sanderson was planning a new Wax and Wayne book for next year?

[Phrynne]

Rachel wrote: "I thought I read Sanderson was planning a new Wax and Wayne book for next year?"

I think it has been planned for next year every year since 2016 but I would be delighted to be wrong this time 😀

[Phrynne]

I just finished Thunderhead. I really enjoyed it - even more than book one. Loved the cataclysmic ending!

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

[Bonnie]

Phrynne wrote: "I just finished Thunderhead. I really enjoyed it - even more than book one. Loved the cataclysmic ending!

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

Oo I meant you thought the horse book Thunderhead

[Don]

I just finished the last of the available Penric's novelettes and it good and I liked it.
Currently reading an Eisenhower biography"Eisenhower, in war and peace"

[Mary]

Reincarnated as a Sword (Light Novel) Vol. 1 by Yuu Tanaka

[Phrynne]

Bonnie wrote "Oo I thought you meant the horse book Thunderhead ..."

I have never read that one Bonnie although I loved My Friend Flicka when I was a child.

[CBRetriever]

I'm reading A Star-Wheeled Sky and am not all that impressed.so far, at 18% into the book, it appears to be pretty much a lead up to a space battle filled with stock characters. It was part of a "Bundle" of some sort and wasn't something I would have chosen to read on its merits.

as far as horse books from my childhood, I loved Misty of Chincoteague

[Tamara]

Thanks for people's answers to my Lois Bujold question. I'm considering the Five Gods series (if that's the right title) - Curse of Chalion. It seems different to Penric's Demon, and maybe the sort of thing I'd enjoy. Options for Penric are 1. not to keep trying, as Anna said, b/c that's how they all are, and 2. read it if I can. I don't think our libraries have any real copies, so that might not be possible, but I agree that the narrator was difficult to listen to, for the most part. I didn't love his accent, and his expression was quite different to how I read, but he did the 'demon' voices better than my head would...

[Michelle]

Tamara wrote: "Thanks for people's answers to my Lois Bujold question. I'm considering the Five Gods series (if that's the right title) - Curse of Chalion. It seems different to Penric's Demon, and maybe the sort..."

I really liked the Chalion series. I had read those when they were first published.

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

Do note that Curse of Chalion is narrated (at least the one I listened to) by a voice actor who laughs and stutters and stuff as he is giving lines, which I sometimes found distracting as it felt a bit forced/staged rather than natural.

[Michelle]

Allison wrote: "Do note that Curse of Chalion is narrated (at least the one I listened to) by a voice actor who laughs and stutters and stuff as he is giving lines, which I sometimes found distracting as it felt a..."

Oh no! That would be distracting. I have the hard copies of the books, so I didn't have that problem!

[T.S.]

Don wrote: "Salem's Lot is amazing and something I will not read before bedtime."

My fiancée read that last year and refused to read it at night. She would only read it in the morning.

[Meredith]

T.S. wrote: "Don wrote: "Salem's Lot is amazing and something I will not read before bedtime."

My fiancée read that last year and refused to read it at night. She would only read it in the morning."

Sounds like me when I read Pet Sematary.

[Eric]

I finished the Tanyth Fairport Trilogy: Ravenwood, Zypheria's call, The Hermit of Lammas Wood. Easy reading. The author Lowell writes about people and human nature in this fantasy world, which could be any where. No world building here. Three stars.

Onto The Copper Promise.

[Beth]

Finished The Last Wish over lunch today. This collection of short stories gets better as it goes along. I can't help but wonder or worry what will happen to this character, and his world, as the series goes along. (review)

It's my first finished book this year after a couple of false starts (par for the course post-isolation days, I'm sorry to say).

[Mary]

Methodical Realism: A Handbook for Beginning Realists by Étienne Gilson

[Daniel]

I am reading Timeline by Michael Crichton, and it's really amazing! Actually, it is the very first chapter named "Corazon". I'm getting familiar with a nation called "Navajo" that I haven't heard of it before. I like meeting new cultures! I like the character of Robert Doniger! He is the CEO of ITC, a highly modern company in quantum technology. Wow! That's too much fun!

[Daniel]

Bruce wrote: "I’m reading Five Weeks in a Balloon, by Jules Verne."

Wow! I haven't read it yet. I hope that I could do it this year. In fact, I am a big fan of Jules Verne who haven't read much of his books! Excited to hear that of you! Have fun reading it!

[Don]

Still reading "Eisenhower in War and Piece" Very interesting.
It really shows how The Allies beat the Axis with The American Assembly Line as much as anything else.
An unvarnished look at Ike who I like.

[Araych]

Great North Road by Peter Hamilton

Sci-fi mystery. A member of a very rich and powerful family is found murdered in Newcastle, England 200 years in the future. This is a very detailed police procedural stretching out to 948 pages. Life is too short. Not recommended.

[CBRetriever]

Araych wrote: "Great North Road by Peter Hamilton

Sci-fi mystery. A member of a very rich and powerful family is found murdered in Newcastle, England 200 years in the future...."

I enjoyed it but it did take a long time to read

[Stephen]

Don wrote: "Still reading "Eisenhower in War and Piece" Very interesting.
It really shows how The Allies beat the Axis with The American Assembly Line as much as anything else.
An unvarnished look at Ike who..."

I have a copy of that on my TBR shelf at home. I enjoyed the author’s FDR.

[Woman Reading]

I needed a break from some grim nonfictions, and so I read UF/PNR Alpha Night by Nalini Singh. This was distracting but also disappointing given what Singh is able to write.

My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3791566057

[Mary]

Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents by Rod Dreher

[CBRetriever]

now reading Bear Head which is very interesting so far and very political.

[Michelle]

Another by Bernard Cornwell Rebel: Novel of the Civil War and just began Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II

[Don]

Stephen Burridge, I would definitely read Jean Edward Smith again. I like that he looks at the subject objectively in a historic sense but also evaluates through the eyes of the subjects contemporaries. For me it has generated a interest in further reading on General Montgomery and General Marshall.

[Dj]

Don wrote: "Still reading "Eisenhower in War and Piece" Very interesting.
It really shows how The Allies beat the Axis with The American Assembly Line as much as anything else.
An unvarnished look at Ike who..."

I haven't read that one is it any good?

[Don]

Dj, I'm enjoying it very much. It is not only that Eisenhower as the main character is interesting but his supporting cast in this book, Patton, Bradley, Churchill, FDR, Montgomery, McArthur, are quite the ensemble.
Interesting substories like the German General who refused orders to destroy Paris on his way out....

[Don]

Dj, It's not a puff-piece, the author gives you the facts and the evidence. example Eisenhower's Secretary/Driver The Author doesn't say she was his mistress but points out enough smoke to suggest probably there was a fire somewhere.

[Soo]

The Girl with Ghost Eyes #1 by M.H. Boroson was fun. =)

Emily Woo Zeller did a nice job on the narration for the audiobook. The writing is a little rough around the edges. I really enjoyed getting to know Li-Lin and the ghosts of old San Francisco. A nice blend of folklore, Asian culture, a tiny dash of history and engaging plot. The author loves Asian martial arts, culture & movies. It shows in the story.

Pretty sure Dawn & Anna would enjoy the story.