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[Brett]

Just started Legends and Lattes. Having trouble getting into A Discovery of Witches.

[Michelle]

I just finished Gobbelino London & A Contagion of Zombies, and I liked it even more than the first book.

[CBRetriever]

reading One Day on Mars by Travis S. Taylor. I suppose it would be good if one was into space battles, space marines, etc but as I'm not it's a slow go.

ETA; this was for some challenge from my TBR pile (I'm presuming it's part of a Humble Bundle)

[Sarah]

Michelle wrote: "I just finished Gobbelino London & A Contagion of Zombies, and I liked it even more than the first book."

I just started the first book - it's so good. Looks like I've already broken my goal of not starting another series before finishing my others.

[Michelle]

Sarah wrote: "Michelle wrote: "I just finished Gobbelino London & A Contagion of Zombies, and I liked it even more than the first book."

I just started the first book - it's so good. Looks like ..."

Sarah, isn't it a fun series, though? It's worth breaking your goal!

[Eric]

Michelle wrote: "I just finished Gobbelino London & A Contagion of Zombies, and I liked it even more than the first book."

Try Watt's short stories. Free at her web site: https://kmwatt.com
"The Cat Did It," among others.

I've you to thank for putting me in touch with Watt.

Remember, if the Cat winks, be sure to wink back.

[Michelle]

Eric wrote: "Michelle wrote: "I just finished Gobbelino London & A Contagion of Zombies, and I liked it even more than the first book."

Try Watt's short stories. Free at her web site: https://k..."

Oh, how nice, Eric! Both thank you and you're welcome!

[Sarah]

Michelle wrote: "Sarah, isn't it a fun series, though? It's worth breaking your goal!"

Yes! Worth it!

[Brett]

Started in on The Three-Body Problem, Liu Cixin. I'm liking it so far. Pretty much DNF'ing A Discovery of Witches, finding it tedious and boring.

[Leslie]

I'm rereading all the books I loved as an older teen and into my early twenties. The only SFF on that list is Valis and A Scanner Darkly. I began reading SFF in earnest about seven years ago. I'm starting with Brett Easten Ellis's The Rules of Attraction, then ionto McInerney's Story of My Life and Janowitz's Slaves of New York. Ripping off Jimmy Buffett's song A Pirate Looks Back at 50, I am calling this endeavor A Librarian Looks Back at 50. I'm turning 50 in March and I think this is driving this nostalgic reading project. I'll alternate each of these with SFF or it could become a drag.

[Bobby]

About to start To Kill A Mockingbird. Saw the play a few weeks ago and want to read the book. Everyone else seems to have the same idea because I had to wait a while for the book to come free at the library. Need to get on it because I have 4 people waiting on it behind me.

[DivaDiane]

Leslie, that sounds like a great project! I did a lot of that before turning 50 too. Except for me, it was my favorite children’s and middle grade books (sharing them with my son, who is now 13). I was not disappointed.

[Marc]

Finally finished Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan series, finishing off Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen.

Was debating on finishing up Vernor Vinge's Zones of thought series (Children of the sky) or David Brin's uplift (read sundiver/startide rising/uplift war, had brightness reef on deck as well), but, I decided to start Mira Grant's Newsflesh. I suppose I got inspired by that new HBO series The Last Of Us, great first episode!

[Alasse]

Randomly started The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right - needed something brief for reading during a flight and it's been on my TBR for ever. I'm really enjoying it!
It talks about the ways we handle complexity and prevent mistakes, comparing medicine with other fields, such as construction. I guess I make it sound dry, but it's accessible and almost philosophical. I'm not even sure that healthcare workers are necessarily its main public.

[Dj]

Leslie wrote: "I'm rereading all the books I loved as an older teen and into my early twenties. The only SFF on that list is Valis and A Scanner Darkly. I began reading SFF in earnest about seven years ago. I'm s..."

The Cannonballs don't thunder and there is nothing to plunder.
Such a great song

[Michelle]

I've read two books that I DNF: The Warden and Longevity The Awakening. Last night I finished the third in the HF Midshipman Bolitho series, Band of Brothers, which was very likeable. Now I'm back to the good ol' Lost Fleet series, with Steadfast.

[Colin]

Read and loved Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin. This is a terrific story of three individuals who meet during their college years and create games and a gaming company. Actually, it's closer to a biography of the first half of the lives of two of them, Sam Masur and Sadie Green. The best things about the book are the characters. These are people who feel real, misunderstand each other while caring about each other, and have big wins and big losses. I feel like I could know these people. The book is also about gaming and how it has evolved over thirty years. There is a Ready Player One vibe about some of the classic gaming references. Zevin's prose is light and easy to read. I would recommend this to everyone.

[Bnz]

Michelle wrote: "Now I'm back to the good ol' Lost Fleet series, with Steadfast.

Heh, just when I thought that my "lightweight military SciFi" subpile of TBR pile is starting to look shallow, here somes new recommendation.

After absorbing quickly the excellent "Vorkosigan saga" by Lois McMaster Bujold and slightly weaker but still very entertaining "Familias Regnant" series and some of "Vetta" novels by Elizabeth Moon, having started David Weber's "Honorverse" that has been languishing in free CD from Baen and "Alliance-Union Universe" novels by C.J. Cherryh (these are perhaps a tad less lightweight), I began worrying about next year's entertainment. So, "Lost Fleet" goes to the tail end of the pile. (I just bought two Jack Campbell's short story collections that are practically free on Amazon, just to check the style.)

After having read Dr Greta Helsing novels by Vivian Shaw I lined up Rivers of London books for my "cozy paranormal mystery" slot. Those will last me for quite some time.

Speaking of Shaw, Arkady Martine has nothing new out after her two superb novels, neither does Martha Wells. Becky Chambers seems to have concluded her "Warfarers" series (not that "Monk & Robot" is not good), so the search is on in that department.

Within the crime genre, I prefer mystery to suspense sub-genre, but Three Hours I just read is superb. It has everything.

In the "turn your brain on" department I currently read The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, a well argued novel view on recent evidence on the path humanity took on the way to what we call "civilization. If you liked Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, by all means read this one, too. Some new ideas are brewing in anthropology.

[Kirsten]

I've been listening to Young Rich Widows

[Jenni]

I just finished Heart of the Sun Warrior which is the sequel to our November fantasy read, Daughter of the Moon Goddess. Very good! It did not end the way I was expecting it to.

[Michelle]

Bnz wrote: "Michelle wrote: "Now I'm back to the good ol' Lost Fleet series, with Steadfast.

Heh, just when I thought that my "lightweight military SciFi" subpile of TBR pile is starting to lo..."

Sorry :) Have you tried Marko Kloos, too? Starting with Terms of Enlistment. If I can help inflate your TBR in any way, please let me know!

[Rick]

Bnz wrote: "...Arkady Martine has nothing new out after her two superb novels, neither does Martha Wells. Becky Chambers seems to have concluded her "Warfarers" series (not that "Monk & Robot" is not good), so the search is on in that department.
..."
Wells has a new fantasy novel out Witch King this year and Martine has one as well Rose/House though neither are SF of course.

[Bnz]

Michelle wrote: "Sorry :) Have you tried Marko Kloos, too? Starting with Terms of Enlistment. If I can help inflate your TBR in any way, please let me know!."

Not yet, but somebody (probably you) already turned my attention to Mr. Kloos.

[Bnz]

Rick wrote: "Wells has a new fantasy novel out Witch King this year and Martine has one as well Rose/House though neither are SF of course."

Rose/House sounds just like Arkady Martine, judging by the blurb here. It is not yet available on Amazon, though, at least not from Croatia :-(

I think I will try Witch King when the price drops a bit - I start to think that Wells can do no wrong. I keep claiming I am not into fantasy, but when I look through books that I read and enjoyed, many fall into that category. Just keep me away from "paranormal urban fantasy romance", please (then again, I did enjoy both Strange Practice and Rivers of London...)

[Rick]

Bnz wrote: "
I think I will try Witch King when the price drops a bit - I start to think that Wells can do no wrong. ..."

If you're open to fantasy and like Wells, her Books Of The Raksura (starting with The Cloud Roads are good. I've not read the whole series, but the first couple at least are well done.

[Bnz]

Rick wrote: "Bnz wrote: "
I think I will try Witch King when the price drops a bit - I start to think that Wells can do no wrong. ..."

If you're open to fantasy and like Wells, her Books Of The Raksura (starting with The Cloud Roads are good.."

Thanks. I might try it...

[Sam]

Just started reading 2061 (the third odyssey) yesterday

[Bnz]

Sam wrote: "Just started reading 2061 (the third odyssey) yesterday"

I hope you will like it more than I did...

[Mel]

The turning of new year tends to slow down my reading, with this year being no exception. But I very much enjoyed A Marvellous Light which I read with a local book club, and its sequel A Restless Truth. My only problem now is waiting until November for the last book to come out!

[Emily]

finishing my reread of A Conjuring of Shadows and The Thursday Murder Club.

[Emily]

*A Conjuring of Light I meant

[Brett]

Finished Three-Body Problem a couple of days ago. Waiting for Dark Forest to arrive at the library.

Reading Peter Caddick-Adams book Monte Cassino in the meantime.

[Ozsaur]

Into the Forest: Tales of the Baba Yaga - I like anything and everything when it comes to Baba Yaga. Enjoying it!

[Kirsten]

Just started listening to The Shuddering

[Alexandra]

I've just finished reading Remnant Population, for another book club. It's not that often that you come across a sci-fi book where an elderly woman is the main character. Kudos to Elizabeth Moon for doing this! I loved the story and the writing. Great aliens, too.

My review is here :)

[Kaia]

Alexandra wrote: "I've just finished reading Remnant Population, for another book club. It's not that often that you come across a sci-fi book where an elderly woman is the main character. Kudos to Eliz..."

Adding this one to my TBR list - it looks really interesting. Thanks, Alexandra!

[Ryan, Your favourite moderators favourite moderator]

RemPop is one of my fave books on the SFFBC shelf! You can chat more about it over in the spoiler thread if you fancy.

[Alexandra]

Kaia wrote: "Adding this one to my TBR list - it looks really interesting. Thanks, Alexandra!"

You're most welcome! Hope you'll enjoy it as well :)

[Alexandra]

Ryan wrote: "RemPop is one of my fave books on the SFFBC shelf! You can chat more about it over in the spoiler thread if you fancy."

Oh, cool! Thanks!

[Dj]

Brett wrote: "Finished Three-Body Problem a couple of days ago. Waiting for Dark Forest to arrive at the library.

Reading Peter Caddick-Adams book Monte Cassino in the meantime."

Nothing like a little light reading between your Sci-Fi/Fantasy selections. LOL

[Michelle]

I'm about a third of the way in to Gobbelino London & A Complication of Unicorns. It's not often that I've come across a donkey named Kent 😉

[Rick]

Michelle wrote: "I'm about a third of the way in to Gobbelino London & A Complication of Unicorns. It's not often that I've come across a donkey named Kent 😉"

Just finished that. Fun series, isn't it?

[Michelle]

Rick wrote: "Michelle wrote: "I'm about a third of the way in to Gobbelino London & A Complication of Unicorns. It's not often that I've come across a donkey named Kent 😉"

Just finished that. F..."

It really is fun!

[Jacqueline]

Loved Remnant Population.

[Ann]

I've been off to a good start this new year!

I read Dreadful Company the second in the Dr. Greta Helsing series. I enjoyed this but I think I like the first one more.

Disappointedly I decided to not finish The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle with only 3 hours left on it, I was dreading having to listen to it and life is too short for that. I think it was well written and the story was interesting but I felt like the main character was creepy. I know I'm in the minority on this but oh well.

I listened to the The Galaxy, and the Ground Within, #4 in the Wayfarers series. It was a really sweet story, and a good way to end the series.

My husband and I listened to Hench on a long road trip and loved it. A fun take on heroes and villains.

Last one, I read the first in the The Paper Magician series. I enjoyed this one and like the magic in this world. Looking forward to reading more from the series.

[Alexandra]

Jacqueline wrote: "Loved Remnant Population."

Glad to hear that!

[Alexandra]

Ann wrote: "I've been off to a good start this new year!..."

Sounds great! I am a Becky Chambers fan, so, yes, The Galaxy, and the Ground Within is a really lovely story.

[Mel]

Ann wrote: "I listened to the The Galaxy, and the Ground Within, #4 in the Wayfarers series. It was a really sweet story, and a good way to end the series."

I agree, it was probably the sweetest sendoff to a series I've read. Leave it to Chambers to hold your hand through the goodbye, reassuring that the ending of one thing leaves room for the start of another. Like being tucked into bed at the end of the day. <3

[Ann]

Mel wrote: "Ann wrote: "I listened to the The Galaxy, and the Ground Within, #4 in the Wayfarers series. It was a really sweet story, and a good way to end the series."

I agree, it was probably the sweetest s..."

you put it perfectly!

[Regalado]

I just started Leviathan Wakes. First from these authors. I haven’t seen the series on Prime. Can anyone comment on the adaptation?