What have you been reading this October?

[Andrea]

Robert wrote: "I got two words for you, people:

Sexy. Ogres.

Yes, I am reading The Irda, next in the Lost Histories of Dragonlance. Wish me luck!"

Been there, done that:



Though you have to be able to read French. I've seen some of these books translated into English but not a lot of them.

[Audrey]

A Game of Fox & Squirrels
now on Fated

[Robin]

OK, so I have seen off another Harry Dresden and it was fun and entertaining. I will certainly get the next one at some point fairly soon. Next, however, is Stephen King's 'The Outsider' because I picked up the e-book in an Amazon deal for 0.99p. It wasn't particularly on my radar but it was for 0.99p :-)

[Kaladin]

I had great fun reading The Quantum War series starting with Escape Velocity by Jonathan Paul Isaacs.

[Michael]

I'm on Royal Assassin
A great read!

[Michelle]

Michael wrote: "I'm on Royal Assassin
A great read!"

Isn't it, though?

[Robert]

Andrea wrote: "Been there, done that"

Oo-la-la!

[Yrret]

Golden Fool by Robin Hobb. It’s still a captivating story even through a second reading.

[Michael]

Michelle wrote: "Isn't it, though?"

If I had time I'd read it from cover to cover!

[Gary]

I finished reading Knife of Dreams by Robert Jordan, book #11 of the Wheel of Time Series. I was pleased that some of the big plots started in the last two novels were paid off in this novel. Looking forward to bigger things happening in the last three novels of the series that were all co-written by Brandon Sanderson. It should be interesting. I am reading Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. The novel was adapted into the first season of the Amazon show named Good Omens. I am also reading Assassin's Quest by Robin Hobb. I plan to read All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders next.

[Riyadh]

Just read all 3 books of the Bloodsworn Saga and have to say it was epic.

Also read Sword of Kaigen and it was impossible to put down. One of my fav books of all time.

[Andrea]

Finished The Voice Upstairs, which was free on the Simon Teen site.

Now to finish my other spooky book before the end of the day...

[Georgann]

Drowning I'm not sure when, or maybe ever, that I've read a book so intense and emotional and captivating. This was a Thriller with a capital T from page 1! WOW!

[Andrea]

Finished Hide me Among the Graves. It was creepy, more hungry ghost than vampire (there was even more on top of that, which was maybe a bit much but still worked). And of course all the real world poets who were characters in the book all wrote, well, pretty creepy poetry too. So each chapter had an appropriate lead-in by one of them and made you feel that perhaps they were being visited by a blood-thirsty muse.

And, I guess Algernon Swinburne must have been quite a character. I didn't think that Mark Hodder (author of the Burton & Swinburne series) had made it all up, but Powers portrayed him in almost exactly the same way so it was kind of uncanny reading all those books in the same year, with that one character tying both "alternate histories" together...the Burton and Swinburne series being entirely about alternate histories. So why not one variation with no Burton to be see, and with vampires instead, but Swinburne still linking the two :)

I've still got a couple hours left till midnight (though I likely won't stay up that late) so I'll get a few more pages along in Vikram and the Vampire, but no chance of finishing it.

I didn't get to my Anne Rice of the year, first time in...many many years I broke that tradition (started by reading one Vampire Chronicle a year, then one Mayfair Witch, then started on the standalones). Hide Me Among the Graves was a dense read and I could only manage maybe 50 pages a day since I was going slow. I thought maybe I could read the Rice one faster but A Feast of All Saints was itself something like 600+ pages with microscopic font...since I had started Graves already, it got priority.

Another October come and gone and now only two months left to read waaaayyy too many books! I'll have to cram to get all my BINGO books in. At least I managed to dig out my Arthurian one that was buried in the back of a closet. That one at least is short, but I've got the four massive Dandelion Dynasty books to read, with only the last one meeting the 1K page requirement!

[Audrey]

Finished Fated and My Cousin Rachel