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[Kaia]

Started Mirrored Heavens by Rebecca Roanhorse last night. I’m excited to finally finish this trilogy - book 3 was supposed to be published last year. So far, it’s interesting, and I’m not having trouble following the story (even though it’s been a few years since I read the second book). I know some people re-read the previous books before starting the next series installment, but I’ve never been able to bring myself to do that. I just suffer through trying to remember while reading the new one. :-)

[Marc]

ooh, that End of everything sounds very intriguing! thank you!! Added it to my to-buy list (and to-read).

I didn't know book 3 of Rebecca Roanhorse's trilogy was out. I read books 1/2. adding to my to-buy/to-read list! and I'm with you Kaia, I rarely re-read a book...

Finished Ursula K LeGuin's Tales from Earthsea. A pretty good collection of novellas set in her universe. Some of which are links from one book to the next.

Now moving on to the final book in the series, The other wind

[Kirsten]

Marc wrote: "ooh, that End of everything sounds very intriguing! thank you!! Added it to my to-buy list (and to-read).

I didn't know book 3 of Rebecca Roanhorse's trilogy was out. I read books 1/2. adding to m..."

Really? I can't wait to read book 3 !! It is such an incredible and gripping storyline.

[Vondas]

salvation war by stuart slade, i don't think it's hyperbole to say it's a work of modern homeric art, it's like if the Illiad and indepence day had a baby

[TheBookLounge]

Anyone in here read anything from T.J. Newman? Her first novel back in 2021, (Falling) seems like it would be a great page turner.

[Bobby]

Finished A Clash of Kings. The Ghost Brigades next. Still 13 books behind my pace for last year.

[Stephen]

I'm now reading something out of left field (for me) - Lost Souls by Ian Rankin. It's a police procedural and very good.

[Kirsten]

I'm reading Tales of the Dying Earth by Jack Vance

[TheBookLounge]

I love fantasy movies. I could watch them all day every day. for some reason, though, I can't read fantasy books and stay hooked. there's been maybe 2-3 books that have kept me glued. I want to read more fantasy, though.

[Michelle]

Marc wrote: "I love fantasy movies. I could watch them all day every day. for some reason, though, I can't read fantasy books and stay hooked. there's been maybe 2-3 books that have kept me glued. I want to rea..."

Marc, what if you start a thread with your favorite fantasy books, and then we can recommend some things that you might like?

[TheBookLounge]

Michelle wrote: "Marc wrote: "I love fantasy movies. I could watch them all day every day. for some reason, though, I can't read fantasy books and stay hooked. there's been maybe 2-3 books that have kept me glued. ..."

So the two fantasy books that I have read and kept me hooked are,

Child of a Mad God: R.A. Salvatore
The Two of Swords Book 1: K.J. Parker

I completely forgot about The Two of Swords. I read it so long ago it slipped my mind. And I may be wrong but I think you can't buy them separate anymore. I believe they made them into one book.

I'm up for any recommendations so throw em at me!

[Michelle]

Marc wrote: "Michelle wrote: "Marc wrote: "I love fantasy movies. I could watch them all day every day. for some reason, though, I can't read fantasy books and stay hooked. there's been maybe 2-3 books that hav..."

Child of a Mad God has two sequels. Have you tried those?

[Michelle]

Or have you ever read Raymond Feist? For some reason I've always thought of the works of Feist and Salvatore as fairly similar.

[TheBookLounge]

Michelle wrote: "Or have you ever read Raymond Feist? For some reason I've always thought of the works of Feist and Salvatore as fairly similar."

That's another one I forgot. I remember reading that Child of a Mad God was going to continue. I mean it makes sense because it's left open for more. And I haven't read anything from Raymond Feist. I'm going to Barnes and Noble on Sunday to pick up a few books. I'll check out Raymond Feist. Any other ones you can think of, let me know. If you want to message me some, feel free. I have a book I never read called Hyperion. (Dan Simmons) Have you read that?

[Michelle]

Maybe L.E. Modesitt Jr.? He's also somewhat similar to Feist & Salvatore. I have read Hyperion but I can't remember a darned thing about it! I read and rated it before I started writing actual reviews. Hopefully another member could shed some light on it for you.

[Michelle]

You're welcome to look through my GR bookshelves for ideas. I have finally gotten around to getting most of them sorted by genre. Not all, but most :) One of the shelves I recently designated was the fantasy shelf. One of these days they'll all be properly shelved. I wish that I had done that when I first joined GR instead of now, let me tell you!!

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

Marc, if you'd like tailored, uninterrupted recs, you can make a thread in the Recommendations folder! If you're okay with it piecemeal, this is also fine :)

[TheBookLounge]

Michelle wrote: "You're welcome to look through my GR bookshelves for ideas. I have finally gotten around to getting most of them sorted by genre. Not all, but most :) One of the shelves I recently designated was t..."


Oh believe me, I know. I'm trying to sort mine as well. It's never ending, lol.

[Kateb]

Marc wrote: "Michelle wrote: "You're welcome to look through my GR bookshelves for ideas. I have finally gotten around to getting most of them sorted by genre. Not all, but most :) One of the shelves I recently..."

Feists series sound just what you would like. Unfortunately each series really builds on the one before, so make sure you look up his books list before buying some

L E Modessiti is also a good choice. Orson Scott Card and enders game is also a good one

[Kirsten]

I'm reading October Screams: A Halloween Anthology edited by Kenneth W. Cain

[Araych]

The Stainless Steel Rat by Harry Harrison

The first entry in the Stainless Steel Rat series which is the adventures of Jim diGriz a top level thief and con man in the 30th century. Fun, witty, fast-moving adventure/thriller. I liked it and I'll probably read another book in the series although it's not written at a very high level so it's impossible to take seriously. 3 stars.

[Economondos]

Marc wrote: "Michelle wrote: "Or have you ever read Raymond Feist? For some reason I've always thought of the works of Feist and Salvatore as fairly similar."

With those recommendations, you might also want to look at Elizabeth Moon's Sheepfarmer's Daughter. You may have read some of Moon's Sci-Fi, which would give you an idea of her writing style.

[TheBookLounge]

Allison wrote: "Marc, if you'd like tailored, uninterrupted recs, you can make a thread in the Recommendations folder! If you're okay with it piecemeal, this is also fine :)"

I made a thread, thank you! That way I could follow it easily and not miss any replies.

[Kateb]

Araych wrote: "The Stainless Steel Rat by Harry Harrison"

i read this series years ago. It was light and funny. i must re read

[Brett]

Finally finished America For Americans. It was okay. Double check some of the data.

Beginning Forget the Alamo, Burrough, et al, a non-academic history of the events there and the myth making since.

[Steve]

Halfway through Words of Radiance by Brandson Sanderson! I suppose just over halfway, as I got the two paperback version and part 2 is like 100 pages shorter haha.

Really enjoying it. Read Way of Kings a few years back and also love Sanderson's writing in general - but these books are maaahooosive and getting through them before December (Book 5, Wind and Truth's release) seemed intimidating. But gliding through it now and have bought Oathbringer (one big paperback this time) and the novella in between both books, Edgedancer.

[Kirsten]

I'm reading The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann

[CJ]

Finished The Daughter of Dr Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia and found it pretty wanting. I felt it was an even weaker novel than her Mexican Gothic which I wasn't terribly impressed by either. I'm over reading authors who write SFFH when they clearly would rather be writing historical fiction. It'll take something big to get me to read this author again.

For a palette cleanser I reread Exit Strategy by Martha Wells for a 4th time. The Murderbot Diaries really hold up well with repeated reading. In fact, I may enjoy them more.

I also recently read the novelette Ivy, Angelica, Bay by C. L. Polk and thought it was fantastic. The moral conflict in the story is very well-written and compelling, with an interesting take on the self-serving and individualist vs the accountable and community-oriented moral divide.

Tried to read The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut Jr, as it's hailed as a sci fi classic of sorts, but I just found Vonnegut's relentless mid-20th century lampooning of the rich and famous pretty tiresome. I DNF'd it.

Also leisurely reading through Worlds Beyond Time: Sci-Fi Art of the 1970s by Adam Rowe. I had pre-ordered this like a couple years ago? and now finally getting around to actually reading it. It's quite a nostalgia trip for me. I was born in the 1970s so this was the kind of SF art I grew up around and would see in bookstores and posters.

For my next reads: The Truth of Aleke, the 2nd book in Moses Ose Utomi's The Forever Desert duology, and Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie.

[Stephen]

Ann Leckie is great, I loved Translation State

[Colin]

Read The Night Ends with Fire by KX Song. This is a re-telling of the Mulan legend. The hero is 18-year-old Hai Meilin (rather than Hua Mulan) whose father is an opium addict avoiding the imperial draft and the matchmaker has set her up with a rich, but abusive, merchant so that the dowry will cover her father's debts. Against this backdrop, she disguises herself as a boy and joins the army. Meilin is a complex and much darker character than the Mulan of legend, consumed with her own inner turmoil and faults. The world is a much darker world, too, with everything rigged against her. The story in the book is heavily weighted with magic that is well-described. Less well described are the military aspects of the story, which can be an issue since that is a large part of the tale. Meilin is the one fully realized character and in some places character decisions and events seem to pop in so that the plot moves where the author wants it. Even without the large "To be continued . . ." on the last page, the way this concludes makes it clear another book is coming. It's a good story, even with its flaws, and I would recommend it to fantasy readers and those who like the Mulan legend.

[Marc]

Finished Ursula K LeGuin's The Other Wind. It's her final book in the EarthSea series. It's basically about life, death, and dragons! A good book, a mix of wizards (major and minor), a king, a princess, a stepmother, and a stepchild, plus... dragons!

Really, I've read a big fat book called 'the books of earthsea' a almost 1000 page book of all her earthsea works, including short stories. got one short story to go, like less than 10 pages, and I'll be finished with the book. A great big book, a great read!

Now, once I finish that short story, I'll be moving onto Leigh Bardugo's Six of Crows. It's for a hiking bookclub that I belong to! Gotta finish by Saturday, which should be easy to complete.

[Ian]

I have a copy of that Earthsea collection. Unfortunately I had to pack it for moving well before finishing it. And the move has been delayed several times, so I will probably start over when I finally unpack it.. Of course, I read most of them as they appeared, but that was a long time ago.

[Marc]

I get that! It is a beast of a book! I tried not to read it before bed, the last thing I need is to fall asleep and have that big heavy book fall on my face!! great book, but I am glad I finished it and go to a more normal sized/normal weight book!

[Economondos]

That sounds like the Earthsea collection we saw at the local library. It is beautiful, but seemed a bit impractical for a reading edition. That said, if a copy fell in my lap tomorrow it would get pride of place on a bookshelf!

[Faith]

My review of The Witchstone by Henry H. Neff

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

[Beth]

With only a couple of days left in July, I'm confident this will be it for the month. On the puny side, but I'm not too upset this time because I've been on vacation and not too excited about reading. Back to the grind...

Murder in the Tool Library by A.E. Marling: a new series, I think, from a talented self-pub author. He started with dark fantasy and has moved on to a solarpunk universe. Even a utopia can have a dark underside. (review)

The Devil is a Part-Timer Light Novel, Vol. 2 by Satoshi Wagahara: silly UF/portal fantasy/comedy about superpowered rivals from a fantasy world who have been stripped of their powers and transported to Earth. They're reduced to underemployment and bickering with each other until it's time for this volume's explosive battle. (review)

[Jonathan]

I am about halfway through Bastion by Phil Tucker. It is pretty good so far. It is a progression fantasy series. I have been interested in progression fantasy ever since reading the Cradle series by Will Wight.

[Michelle]

I finished Rihasi tonight and I really liked it. Great characters!

Now I'm reading the graphic novel version of Macbeth. I always liked MacBeth, so this version will hopefully due it justice.

[Mathew]

I picked up at a book auction. Hadn't really heard about this King book, but I'm surprised at how much I like it. I seem to like everything I pick up of King's.

[Economondos]

Took a while to make my way through it, but finished up The Islander by John Maddox Roberts this morning.

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

2.8 rounded to 3 stars. Nothing really wrong with the book, but not very interesting to me nor up to other works I have enjoyed by this author.

My review here

Started on The Way of Kings by Sanderson, The Prelude to this was better than any part of The Islander.

[Economondos]

Also started my second audiobook. My lovely wife got me a copy of The Fellowship of the Ring (1990 edition read by Rob Inglis). Up to disc 5 and enjoying every minute of it. My current DIY projects involve a lot of sanding and painting, so it is nice to have on in the background.

[CBRetriever]

Economondos wrote: "Also started my second audiobook. My lovely wife got me a copy of The Fellowship of the Ring (1990 edition read by Rob Inglis). Up to disc 5 and enjoying every minute of it. My current DIY projects..."

that is an excellent reading of the books

[Marc]

Just finished Leigh Bardugo's Six of Crows, holy crap that was a fun book! It's basically a heist book but set in a fantasy setting, with some people having special powers that don't exist in real life. Reading the author's comment, her inspiration was really the movie Ocean's Eleven. And that was a fun movie, this is a fun book!

About to start Elizabeth Moon's the Speed of Dark.

[Economondos]

The Speed of Dark is one of Moon's that I haven't read. Looking forward to your opinions on it!

[Braydon]

Marc wrote: "Just finished Leigh Bardugo's Six of Crows, holy crap that was a fun book! It's basically a heist book but set in a fantasy setting, with some people having special powers that don't exist in real ..."

Have you read Mistborn? Similar concept I'm sure you would really enjoy it!

[Brett]

Beginning Elena Zamora O'Shea's El Mesquite, the history of the Tejanos as told by a mesquite tree.

[Meredith]

Brett wrote: "Beginning Elena Zamora O'Shea's El Mesquite, the history of the Tejanos as told by a mesquite tree."

That looks really interesting!

[Jan]

I read Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson. Absorbing and interesting. 4 stars. I like Larson's writing style. The way the information was presented wasn't depressing or overwhelming, even though it was about a terrible tragedy. On the up side, more than 700 people did survive the sinking.

[Charlton]

Marc wrote: "Just finished Leigh Bardugo's Six of Crows, holy crap that was a fun book! It's basically a heist book but set in a fantasy setting, with some people having special powers that don't exist in real ..."

I'm with Braydon Wirth, I think you'll like The Final Empire.

[CJ]

I just DNF's Clockwork Boys by T Kingfisher which I was hoping to be a fun fantasy romp. OK, if you have to have rancid, badly written misogyny in your fantasy world at least make it worth the psychic damage your not-male readers have to take to wade through it and not because you can't think of another way to create conflict for your shallow, probably-a-self-insert female main character. People love this author and I am really not getting it. Also, I desperately need a steampunk novel to not disappoint me on just the basic levels of novel craft.

I finished Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie. I gave it 4 stars although I didn't enjoy it as much as the first book. An awful lot about tea. And dishes. And teenage drama. There was enough intriguing developments with the series to make it enjoyable and worthwhile for me, but I hope the 3rd book will focus a bit more on Leckie's intriguing worldbuilding in this series. Or at least, not so much on tea and teenagers.

It's the weekend and on weekends, I usually try to read short books I can finish in a day but I'm not in the mood for anything I can on hand at the moment, so I probably will be continuing with my Dune and Murderbot rereadings for now.