What are you reading in March '15?

[Brenda ╰☆╮]

What are you reading this month?

[Bev]

Just finished Half a world by Abercrombie.

Started The Swimmer.

[Ian]

Is abercrombies new serries good bev ?

[Michelle]

I started Fool's errand today. Planning to read the full trilogy his month.

[TS]

I started Memories of Ice. Just a handful of chapters in and the revelations just kept on coming.. Very promising start

[Mili]

Finished The Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy in a rush to be honest...just couldnt put it down...

Starting Words of Radiance

[Michele]

I just started The Shadow Master - so far (a few chapters in) I like it.

[Maggie]

Just finished City of Stairs. Loved it!

[Heather]

Mili wrote: "Finished The Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy in a rush to be honest...just couldnt put it down...

Starting Words of Radiance"

I adored that trilogy! She has such beautiful writing.

[Heather]

Ian wrote: "Is abercrombies new serries good bev ?"

I just finished the second book, Half the World, and I definitely recommend the series. I know it's theoretically YA, but don't be concerned, it's just that the main characters in each book are younger. He writes great arcs for his characters and there's great epic battles (in book two).

[Margret]

I quite enjoyed half a king. Was quite surprised people consider it YA, it was not in that section of my library, and it didn't have that feel at all. Glad to hear the second book is good too!

[Femmy]

I'm reading Transformation by Carol Berg and enjoying it so far. It's refreshing to read a protagonist who isn't a teenager.

[Mili]

Heather wrote: I adored that trilogy! She has such beautiful writing.


Yes her writing is beautiful! Ive never heard of her before so was glad to come across the trilogy =p

[Amy]

Margret wrote: "I quite enjoyed half a king. Was quite surprised people consider it YA, it was not in that section of my library, and it didn't have that feel at all. Glad to hear the second book is good too!"

I really enjoyed Half a King as well. As far as I can tell, it was intended to be a YA book, but it seems really hit-and-miss whether bookshops and libraries actually shelve it in YA.

I've just started Magician for the group read. I'm also reading Afterworlds but it hasn't really grabbed me so far. There was one amazing chapter right at the start, but the rest has been very slow.

[Maggie]

Femmy wrote: "I'm reading Transformation by Carol Berg and enjoying it so far. It's refreshing to read a protagonist who isn't a teenager."

I LOVE this series-a real fave of mine

[Helen, I·ᴍ ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ ʟɪʙʀᴀʀʏ]

Happy Saint David's day for yesterday. I finished up Death in the Clouds having reread Murder on the Orient Express for my reading group. I'm committed to finishing up the Poirot books, yes I know loads to go!

[Bev]

Ian wrote: "Is abercrombies new serries good bev ?"

It has been called young adult but I dont think it is really. Very enjoyable and well written.

[David]

Thinking about starting a new series. I've narrowed down my choices to: Wayfarer Redemption; The Wars of Light and Shadow; and The Tainted Realm. Thoughts? Other suggestions? Thanks

[Rachel]

I finished Seven Dreams yesterday, and am just starting The Invisible Library.

[Helen, I·ᴍ ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ ʟɪʙʀᴀʀʏ]

I've started Waylander. Planning to read quite a few this month so I may need a new job as 'My choice of books proof reader'.

[Heather]

Margret wrote: "I quite enjoyed half a king. Was quite surprised people consider it YA, it was not in that section of my library, and it didn't have that feel at all. Glad to hear the second book is good too!"

My understanding is that it was marketed as such. We all know how it all has to do with marketing vs content! I still can't believe Red Rising is YA. So violent!

[Heather]

Mili wrote: "Heather wrote: I adored that trilogy! She has such beautiful writing.


Yes her writing is beautiful! Ive never heard of her before so was glad to come across the trilogy =p"

Lauren Oliver is another author was beautiful prose that does YA. She has various genres.

[Margret]

I freaking loved Red Rising and Golden Son, but there is no way it should be classified as YA. It's not shelved that way in my library, it's in the SciFi section

[Mili]

Thanks Heather, Ive come across her summaries of the Delerium series. So might just squeeze in one of her books after finishing way of kings...and maybe after Tawny man trilogy...gahhh priorities are so difficult to maintain xD

David, Ive only read the wayfarer redemption. I liked it personally but its one of those you like or dislike.

[Alissa]

David wrote: "Thinking about starting a new series. I've narrowed down my choices to: Wayfarer Redemption; The Wars of Light and Shadow; and The Tainted Realm. Thoughts? Other suggestions? Thanks"

Hi David, I'm currently half-way through the Wars of Light and Shadow series by Janny Wurts (reading Peril's Gate right now) and I'm utterly captivated, it is an intense epic fantasy experience. If you like series of mature scope, with layered, unpredictable, deepening plots, compelling characters, gorgeous prose, humor, action and powerful world-building, and if you want to invest your time in epic fantasy (no fluff read, it requires your attention) it is totally worth a try.
The Curse of the Mistwraith is the first book of the series but can be also read as a standalone because it is structured as a self-contained arc of the story. Warmly recommended to understand if the series is for you, give it a few chapters to settle, the context-shaping and complexity of the beginning require some focus which pays off tenfold.

Femmy wrote: "I'm reading Transformation by Carol Berg and enjoying it so far. It's refreshing to read a protagonist who isn't a teenager."
I've heard of her thanks to this group, I think I'll like her very much, I plan to read a standalone first, Song of the Beast. So many good books around...

[Amy]

Alissa wrote: "Hi David, I'm currently half-way through the Wars of Light and Shadow series by Janny Wurts (reading Peril's Gate right now) and I'm utterly captivated, it is an intense epic fantasy experience"

Curse of the Mistwraith is firmly on my TBR pile, and all because of this group. I've seen so much love for it around here that I decided I have to give it a go!

[Alissa]

Amy wrote: "Curse of the Mistwraith is firmly on my TBR pile, and all because of this group. I've seen so much love for it around here that I decided I have to give it a go!"

You are right, at least for me it is love. I know this sentence is overused, but it is really a series you either like or dislike. And my like turned into love. After reading the gorgeous To Ride Hell’s Chasm and thanks to this group's threads, too, I decided to go for more Janny Wurts: her writing style and imagination blew my socks off. At first I wasn't really sure about reading epic fantasy, or invest in a longer series but woah, now I cannot even fathom why I had misgivings in the first place!
Anyway, it is s win-win, Curse of the Mistwraith can really be treated as a standalone, by the end of it you'll know if the series may be to your taste, so you either have read a book with no cliffhanger or you have discovered your next fantasy boon.

[Ian]

Im reading the magicians by lev grossman.

[Marcus]

speaker of the dead by Orson scott card.

[Sandra]

David wrote: "Thinking about starting a new series. I've narrowed down my choices to: Wayfarer Redemption; The Wars of Light and Shadow; and The Tainted Realm. Thoughts? Other suggestions? Thanks"

Wars of Light and Shadow series is great. Hope you do that one. Don't know the others you mentioned.

[Monica]

Finished Royal Assassin...very good. Will finish out the Farseer trilogy soon, but first will read Bellman & Black by Diane Setterfield

[Joseph]

Finished The Goblin Emperor -- wow, that was really, really, really good -- and decided to revisit another classic: She by H. Rider Haggard. (I've been very slowly working my way through all of Haggard's novels in publication order, more-or-less; at the rate I'm going, I should be finished somewhere around 2035 or so.)

[Monica]

Joseph wrote: "Finished The Goblin Emperor -- wow, that was really, really, really good -- and decided to revisit another classic: She by H. Rider Haggard. (I've b..."

Okay Joseph, you've convinced me to add it to my reading list. I've seen this title pop up from time to time, so...I'll bite ;-)

[Joseph]

Marilyn wrote: "I love the She series by Haggard."

It's amazing -- She was his fourth or fifth novel and it's such a masterpiece. His first couple of novels were kind of utterly forgettable Victorian family-melodrama-with-very-slight-supernatural-elements; then came King Solomon's Mines and She, which pretty much created an entirely new genre -- the lost-race adventure novel.

[Helen, I·ᴍ ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ ʟɪʙʀᴀʀʏ]

I haven't read She but I loved the film when I was small.

[Joseph]

Helen wrote: "I haven't read She but I loved the film when I was small."

I highly recommend the book, although you do have to remember the time in which it was written. Haggard wasn't as bad as most -- he'd actually lived in Africa, so to some extent he knew what he was talking about -- but some of the attitudes expressed are ... unpleasant.

[Helen, I·ᴍ ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ ʟɪʙʀᴀʀʏ]

You sound like me defending Agatha Christie! I'll add it to my list.

[Joseph]

Finished She and decided to give myself genre whiplash by jumping ahead 125 years to The Martian by Andy Weir.

[Helen, I·ᴍ ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ ʟɪʙʀᴀʀʏ]

Read that recently Joseph. I couldn't put it down and finished it in one day. I thought it was amazing.

[Will]

Blood Song Didn't care much for the obvious atheist slant in his work.

London Calling

The Violent Century

Black Science #1

Firefight

The Autumn Republic

Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring

[Ojo]

Thinblade by David Wells, Hawkwood's Voyage by Paul Kearney and Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb

[Bev]

Margret wrote: "I freaking loved Red Rising and Golden Son, but there is no way it should be classified as YA. It's not shelved that way in my library, it's in the SciFi section"

Agreed.

[Bev]

Marilyn wrote: "I love the She series by Haggard."
Loved them too.

[Bev]

Also liked The Martian

[Tara]

I started with Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb, but couldn't seem to get into the story, so I'll leave it and get back to it later as I still want to read it.. so instead I started reading The The Republic of Thieves by Scott Lynch, have to see what Locke is up to this time and before the 4th book is out later this year..
And I also agree, The Martian was a very fun read..

[TS]

Finished Memories of Ice and it was amazing! All the hard work reading the first couple of books is showing huge payoffs now. The Malazan series is shaping up to be one of my favourites now.

Might move on to either Night of Knives or Tigana next.

[Amy]

TS wrote: "Finished Memories of Ice and it was amazing! All the hard work reading the first couple of books is showing huge payoffs now. The Malazan series is shaping up to be one of my favourit..."

I absolutely adored Tigana, so much so that I'm now working my way (slowly) through everything Kay's written. I have a feeling it's a bit of a love-or-hate book, though. It either clicks with you, or it doesn't!

[Marina]

I loved Tigana too. Kay's writing is gorgeous.

I just finished Charming by Elliott James. My review is here. I really enjoyed it and gave it 4 stars. It surprised me that it had a lot of other rather lukewarm reviews.

[Heather]

I couldn't stand Tigana, but almost everyone else I know loved it. :)

I just finished Leviathan Wakes (which was pretty good) and started Ship Breaker, which is boring and childish so far. Quite surprised as I read an adult book of his and it was intelligent and interesting.

[Joseph]

Just finished The Martian -- holy Hannah, that was good! -- and am next going to read a couple of pieces of short, gaming-related fiction (both from the Numenera setting -- far future, when technology has become indistinguishable from magic), beginning with The Amber Monolith.