What Else Are You Reading in 2022? Showing 1,251-1,300 of 1,359

[Leonie]

I am currently reading Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Novel Form, as I went and saw it in Melbourne on Saturday at the theatre. Seriously fabulous play!

[Mel]

Anna wrote: "(Off the top of my head) some of the other cozy fantasies I read for Book Cup but didn't end up using:

The House Witch + The House Witch 2 - These are one book
[boo..."

Nice. My kind of list. It's like when you find a Listopia that informs you you've read half the books, and a ton more are on your TBR. *nods* Yep, passes the vibe check.

Ah, that is so disappointing to learn about M.C.A. Hogarth though. Drat. Had some books in my library queue, but now may have to reconsider.

[Randy]

Jacqueline wrote: "I might check some of those out Anna. I’m in the mood for a cosy something. Mystery, fantasy, space adventure. Any will do. This week I’ve been finding new cosy mystery shows to watch. The new seas..."

If you haven't already and get a chance, you might want to watch the BBC adaptation of Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz. It's very good, a mix of traditional cozy ala Christie and Sayers, with something more contemporary. The book is also very good.

[Anna]

Don’t take my word for it! I was reading a stack for Book Cup and thought nah not worth taking the risk and moved on without looking into it properly.

[Mel]

Anna wrote: "Don’t take my word for it! I was reading a stack for Book Cup and thought nah not worth taking the risk and moved on without looking into it properly."

No, just taking a look at some of the tweets referenced in her wiki page was enough to turn me off. You just gave the heads up. I admit I'm still intrigued by Mindtouch, because it seems sweet and right up my alley. But with so many other books out there, it's enough to make me want to reach for something else.

[Anna]

OK good, and yeah I know what tweets you mean ☹️

[Sarah]

The Left Hand of Dog sounds awesome! :)

Another book that might be considered cozy or fluffy sci-fi is The Cosmic Turkey by Laura Ruth Loomis.

SO funny, but warning: If you're a chocoholic, make sure you have some to eat while you're reading. Because the book is (partly) about chocolate being banned on Pluto. Oh and coffee later too...OMG!

[Anna]

Do we need/want a Cozy SFF recs thread?

[Sarah]

I’d love a cozy thread - Monk and Robot series was great palate cleanser cozy sci fi too.

[Mel]

I don't know if I need more recs per se, but considering my inability to resist chiming in on cozy books, you probably should set up one for quarantine measures for when I start going off on Tea Tangents and trying to set up Flower Shops in random corners of the threads.

[Anna]

Well here it is, stop by when you feel like it :)

Cozy SFF

[Meredith]

Anna wrote: "Well here it is, stop by when you feel like it :)

Cozy SFF"

Super, thank you Anna!

[Sarah]

Yay, thanks! :)

[Marc]

finished Slaughterhouse-Five (Vonnegut), so off to the next Vokosigan book, A Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bujold, book 12 of 16, getting closer to finishing! I am enjoying this series!

[Michelle]

A Civil Campaign was my favorite of the series. It was really comical!

[Alexandra]

Marc wrote: "finished Slaughterhouse-Five (Vonnegut), so off to the next Vokosigan book, A Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bujold, book 12 of 16, getting closer to finishing! I am enjoying this series!"

The Vorkosigan series is a favourite of mine! I recommend rereads ;)

[Alexandra]

I am about half-way through the latest K.J. Parker novella, Pulling the Wings Off Angels. It's a good Parker - is there anyone else here who is a K.J. Parker fan?

[Jen]

Alexandra wrote: "is there anyone else here who is a K.J. Parker fan?"

I enjoyed Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City and A Practical Guide to Conquering the World, been meaning to check out some other works by this author.

[Rick]

Alexandra wrote: "I am about half-way through the latest K.J. Parker novella, Pulling the Wings Off Angels. It's a good Parker - is there anyone else here who is a K.J. Parker fan?"

Yep, his Salonius novellas are highly amusing.

[Alexandra]

Jen wrote: I enjoyed Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City and A Practical Guide to Conquering the World,..."

I liked Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City very much. The second book of the trilogy, How to Rule an Empire and Get Away with It, is even more enjoyable (there is a lot of acting and theatre in it :)).

[Alexandra]

Rick wrote: "Yep, his Salonius novellas are highly amusing."

The Devil You Know is probably my favourite Saloninus novella.

[Queen of Shelves]

I finished Shatter me..I'll be starting unravel me

[AndrewP]

Marc wrote: "finished Slaughterhouse-Five (Vonnegut), so off to the next Vokosigan book, A Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bujold, book 12 of 16, getting closer to finishing! I am enjoying this series!"

I'm reading the series too. Are you reading them in publication order, or the authors recommended reading order? I'm currently on Komarr.

[Ozsaur]

You're Never Weird on the Internet by Felicia Day - I always liked her humor, and she made a career out of being her own geeky self, so of course I had to read her memoir.

[Marc]

AndrewP wrote: "Marc wrote: "finished Slaughterhouse-Five (Vonnegut), so off to the next Vokosigan book, A Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bujold, book 12 of 16, getting closer to finishing! I am enjoying this ser..."

Oh you are right behind me! I read the author's recommended order, started with falling free (I did skip her novella Dreamweaver's dilemma, only because I couldn't find the physical copy. I'll probably get the digital copy so I can cross that one off, but not yet!

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

(If you want, we can start a Vorkosigan series buddy read!)

Yay for never weird!

[Mel]

Well, it's happened. Apparently I've read so many queer books this year that my Sheets data has malfunctioned. It's now saying I've read 101% books with LGBT protagonists. Oh noez, the straights!



It was a silly, fluffy romance that did it. How Not to Marry a Prince. Apparently with multiple queer couples and trans characters, it overloaded the gender circuits or something.

Whelp, I think I'm going to read Ocean's Echo next, and see how far I can break this thing.

[Anna]

Mel, I love that! XD Both the fact that your reading is so queer that it broke Google, but also finding flaws in your Sheets formula by reading in a way that highlights them.

[Jacqueline]

Started reading The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune the other day while I was flying to Melbourne. Had 2 one and a half hour flights and a 4 and a half hour layover. Did a lot of walking around the terminal in the layover as well as reading. Anyway enjoying it immensely. Still reading it. Just under halfway through.

[Dj]

Mel wrote: "Well, it's happened. Apparently I've read so many queer books this year that my Sheets data has malfunctioned. It's now saying I've read 101% books with LGBT protagonists. Oh noez, the straights!
..."

Well, I guess if my daughter can pass her history class (this was some years ago) with 120% of the grade, you can read over 100% of something. LOL

[SFFBC, Ancillary Mod]

Voting for our January group books is open!

Goodreads polls: SciFi & Fantasy

[Gary]

I finished reading Winter's Heart by Robert Jordan. It’s Book 9 of the Wheel of Time. It features Rand, Elayne, Mat, and Perrin. I’m reading The Lost Metal by Brandon Sanderson. It is the seventh book of the Mistborn series and the last book of Mistborn Era 2 featuring Wax and Wayne. It is intimately tied to the Cosmere series and it will be interesting to connect all the dots between the different series. I plan to read The Tommyknockers by Stephen King next.

[Alexandra]

I've just read Bryony and Roses by T. Kingfisher, a wonderful, scary, cozy, romantic, hilarious retelling of Beauty and the Beast. I can't get enough of T. Kingfisher!

[Anna]

Alexandra wrote: "I can't get enough of T. Kingfisher!"

Then you have to check out The Ursula Vernon/T. Kingfisher Reading and Admiration Society!

[Alexandra]

Anna wrote: "Alexandra wrote: "I can't get enough of T. Kingfisher!"

Then you have to check out The Ursula Vernon/T. Kingfisher Reading and Admiration Society!"

Oh, thank you! I will :)

[Brett]

Joe Hill's NOS4A2
Mark Kurlansky's 1968 (nonfic)

[Phrynne]

I just started The Doors of Eden. So far it is brilliant!

[Sam]

Just read Doug Chiang's Robota, and I loved it! Reminded me of Star Wars with good reasoning.

[Alan]

Brett wrote: "Joe Hill's NOS4A2
Mark Kurlansky's 1968 (nonfic)"

1968 was a bit of a nostalgia read for me as a late teen becoming more aware of the world outside the small town I was living in at the time.

[Phrynne]

Finally finished The Doors of Eden and sadly my enthusiasm for it waned as it laboured on for over 600 pages. Usually I love this man's books but not this one.

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

[Sarah]

Has anybody else gotten into Kindle Vella? My favorites on there so far are Heir of the Line by Eric James Stone and The Midnight Files by Deborah J. Natelson (both fantasy).

[Mel]

I finished Ocean's Echo, and now am in that terrible predicament when there are no more books by an author. I'm so spoiled to usually have a whole backlog to catch up on. I suppose I can go back to reread Winter's Orbit, since it has been a couple years, but... I want more!

[Ann]

Just finished listening to The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin and really enjoyed it. I highly recommend the audiobook version, they really play with the sound and I think it enhances the story.

[James]

I intend to read no boooks this year and everyyeatr

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

Did you succeed? It's December, mate.

[James]

:)

[Marc]

finished Lois McMaster Bujold's A Civil Campaign, got the ebook version of winterfair gifts which I've just started, then on to Diplomatic Immunity (still read that as in the bad-guy voice of the movie 'Lethal Weapon' before it got 'revoked')

I guess I'll just finish off her series before moving on to the next non-Lois book!

[Woman Reading]

It may not have won this year's GR Choice award for nonfiction, but it definitely merited being nominated. This has the kind of stuff that inspires Sci-fi writers.


An Immense World by Ed Yong


For readers who like popular science books, this is a solid selection. For fans of comparative zoology, this is a must read.


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

[Alexandra]

Woman Reading wrote: "It may not have won this year's GR Choice award for nonfiction, but it definitely merited being nominated. This has the kind of stuff that inspires Sci-fi writers.


[bookcover:An Immense World|59..."

Oh, I've heard so many great things about this book! It's on my tbr :)

[Brett]

Hitler's Willing Executioners. Not casual reading by any means, but a good place to start a subject that, as a trained historian, I've neglected for too long. Will need something lighter as a palate cleanser. (Thinking Liu Cixin).