What are you reading in December 2010?

[Marco]

I'm reading "City Under the Sand" by Jeff Mariotte, a Dark Sun novel. It is quite an interesting reading, since I'm also reading the D&D campaign guide.

[Ron]

I'm almost finished the beautiful calendar Janny sent last year as a prize in one of our draws. The illustrations are spectacularly beautiful; however, the plot is fairly predictable and the characterization, usually one of her great strengths, is almost non-existent. Still, I don't regret a moment of it, and have been looking for the next volume in the stores here. (I'm hoping it's in paperback by now.)

[Stefan, Group Founder + Moderator (Retired)]

Ron, I don't want to give too much away here, but you should be warned that the structure of the next volume is ALMOST IDENTICAL to the last one. I know... I expected more originality too.

[Kathi, Moderator & Book Lover]

To Stefan & Ron, thanks for my chuckle of the day!

[Jon]

I'm on a novella kick this week. I'll finish three (perhaps four) today and hope to finish more by the end of the week.

If you know of any good Christmas novellas (anything that's 75 to 125 pages long or 35-50k words) that's in the public domain as an ebook or available as a URL, please let me know.

Merry Christmas everyone!

[Sarah]

Just resigned myself to a Harry-Potter reread. Starting from the very beginning, not sure how far I'll get though.

[Shel, Moderator]

Sarah wrote: "Just resigned myself to a Harry-Potter reread. Starting from the very beginning, not sure how far I'll get though."

I've been wanting to do that :) But I have so many new books to read too...

[Sarah]

Shel wrote: "Sarah wrote: "Just resigned myself to a Harry-Potter reread. Starting from the very beginning, not sure how far I'll get though."

I've been wanting to do that :) But I have so many new books to r..."

Tell me about it...I'd thought I'd never actually get to rereading those, since I had so many other new books to try out, but I realised all of a sudden how much I'd missed Harry Potter, and then I just couldn't help it...

[Ron]

I've spent about four months, from the end of August until now, mired in Erikson and Esslemont's Malazan books: of the eleven novels that are out I've read nine, and very little else in that time; I was beginning to wonder if my reading was slowing down that much. But now I've read two and a half Elmore Leonard books in three days ("Swag", "Comfort to the Enemy" and "Road Dogs", for those keeping score at home). It's not SF/F, but at least it's reassuring.

(edit)finished the third Leonard novel and started in on Banks' Transition. It's good to get back to SF after all this F.