What are you reading in September 2011?

[Candiss]

Please let us know what you're reading this month!

[Sarah]

Starting the month with The Magician King.

[Jim]

Rainbows End What else. :)

[Phoenixfalls]

I just finished (like right this second!) The Liminal People, by Ayize Jama-Everett, which I was very pleasantly surprised by.

I'm currently in the middle of:
Who Fears Death, by Nnedi Okorafor (still)
The Steep Approach to Garbadale, by Iain M. Banks

For sure this month I plan to read:
Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen
The Bards of Bone Plain, by Patricia A. McKillip
The Chronicles of Harris Burdick: Fourteen Amazing Authors Tell the Tales / With an Introduction by Lemony Snicket, by Chris Van Allsburg (and others)

And I hope I'll be able to get to some of these:

[Candiss]

I'm still chewing through On Basilisk Station and reading bits of Dawn each night at bedtime. Today, I'm having a graphic novel marathon, as it's graphic novel month in the Pick-a-Shelf group. I hope to get through a couple of these:


Tomorrow on the 2nd, a new 3-month challenge begins in the Dark Fiction group, so I'm waiting to begin any new novels until then. First up are three books-of-the-month for various Goodreads groups:


After I finish those:
(ARC and review copy from Netgalley)

Rounding out the month in no particular order (with whatever I don't get to carrying over to October):


(A couple of that last batch are total start/stop procrastination projects for me. I must get them read this month!)

[whimsicalmeerkat]

Ooh, which group is reading the Murakami? I love that book.

I just abandoned Alex Detail's Revolution less than 50 pages in, a nearly unprecedented act for me. I'll probably pick up Rainbows End for sci fi and I think Storm Front is up for fantasy. I am reading Sleepwalk with Me as well as a number of other things, and I think I am going to start Child 44.

[Candiss]

Denae wrote: "Ooh, which group is reading the Murakami? I love that book..."

Denae - It's being read in Mythic Fiction, which focuses on "literature that contains elements from mythology, fairytales, legends, and folklore." It's got some great folks in it, although it's not as lively as this group or some of the other spec-fic groups. It's very laid-back.

[whimsicalmeerkat]

I'll have to check it out :)

[Jenny]

I'm still reading The Three Musketeers which was an August group read, but I'm hoping to start it soon.

I've already started Leviathan Wakes and I'm listening to Something Wicked This Way Comes on audio. We'll see how many books I can read this month with school starting back up :)

[Shel, Moderator]

I am thisclose to finishing Foreigner - was hoping to actually finish during August, but didn't quite make it.

[Laurel]

My favorite part, about the first of any month, is sitting down in front of my bookshelf to make my monthly wish list! It causes me bliss :)

This month, I hope to read:

[Ken]

Well I am still reading Going Postal, and while I am enjoying it. I don't feel its as good as the previous books. Hopefully something will change in the next 160 pages

[Maggie]

I feel the same way Laurel-I usually am all organized about what to read next and it makes me feel like I have my act together...

I am planning on A shadow in Summer, Revelation Space, Reaper's Gale, Side Jobs, and Green eyes. If I get through those then I have Rainbows end as a backup! lol

[Jim]

Phoenixfalls wrote: "I'm currently in the middle of:
Who Fears Death, by Nnedi Okorafor (still)
The Steep Approach to Garbadale, by Iain M. Banks
"

You had me going for a minute. This isn't an "M" Banks book. But I liked the only non-M of his I read: Complicity, so maybe I'll have to give this one a go. But I still have Surface Detail on deck.

[Phoenixfalls]

Jim wrote: "You had me going for a minute. This isn't an "M" Banks book. But I liked the only non-M of his I read: Complicity, so maybe I'll have to give this one a go. But I still have Surface Detail on deck."

LOL, it's true, it's not an "M" book. But apparently the only way GoodReads could keep all his books together was to pick one way of typing the name or the other, and they chose the "M" version. And it would've been too weird for me not to use the GoodReads link. . . ;)

[Kathi, Moderator & Book Lover]

I'm currently reading Fortress of Eagles and next up is The Honor of the Queen. That'a about as far ahead as I can plan, LOL!

[Bill]

I just finished The Magician King by [Lev Grossman] and started The Dark Beyond the Stars by Frank M. Robinson. Next up is Gaiman's Neverwhere and then I think I'll tackle The Stand. I've never read anything by Stephen King.

[Hélène]

I had a ten hours drive two days ago and listened to the French version of . It greatly helped to pass the time!
Now that I'm back, I intend to finish and then
I'll re-read for the Fantasy Book Club. I liked it very much when it was released (I'm appalled to notice it was more than twenty years ago!) and I'm curious to see how it has aged. No further plans - but probably on audio. The first volume was fun.

[Pickle]

Currently reading with a hope to squeeze in before reading in october

[Nick]

I just picked up Into the Green by Charles de Lint at the library. I've only read one DeLint before and was not enthralled, but this one has better reviews.

Just finished The Seas: A Novel by Samantha Hunt which is a mainstream novel with fantasy overtones (such as the heroine trying to push a beached King Neptune back in to the sea).

[Kerry]

I've gone back to Peril's Gate and I've about read enough to be hooked back into the story.

I'm also planning to read Archangel's Blade and New York to Dallas when they come out. Beyond that, I don't know. Hopefully I can make some serious progress on the Wars of Light and Shadow books.

[orannia]

Just started Melissa Marr's Darkest Fantasy and I have Kat Richardson's Labyrinth on its way to my local library. So, it's a UF month :)

[Mike (the Paladin)]

Want to finish . I've had it "in process" for a while and it went on the back burner so i could finish some library books. The last library book I plan to finish of that last batch that was keeping me away from my own books is , almost finished with it. I've started in audio for when I can't sit and read and I have already listed in my currently reading and warming up in the bullpen.

[Kevin]

I am reading the two lastest books from Terry Brooks. Just finished the first book, then onto the lastest one, The Measure of Magic.

[Helen]

My jaw hit the ground when I read that it was 20 years ago that I read Dragonbone Chair - I shall have to reread!

Well, I'm terribly behind this month, this is unusual as August is school free and I usually read loads. I'm 81% through Basilisk Station. Then I'm on Fortress in the Eye of Time. Then in no order I'm reading Honor 2, hopefully the Magician King (I want kindle) and The Book Thief. I might go off on a tangent though!

[Mike (the Paladin)]

I read Dragonbone chair back when to. It might be worth reread I'd like. This was one of those series that I struggled to get through the wait between volumes. If I'd only known what was to come in other series LOL.

[Helen]

I bought the third part in hardback as I couldn't wait, unheard of for me. Tad signed it too so that was nice. I read War of Flowers, Tailchaser ..., and Caliban's Hour (was that him?) but the other series sit on a shelf waiting for time. I like to read as a set as I can't do the waiting between!

[Mike (the Paladin)]

I know I have some of his books that have (literally) been waiting for years. I have this series (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn) in hardcover. It's what I read first by him.

[whimsicalmeerkat]

*deep breath*

I am currently reading:

Storm Front by Jim Butcher
The Amazing Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman (re-read)
Nine Horses: Poems by Billy Collins
Sleepwalk with Me by Mike Birbiglia
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Uncle Silas by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Watchmen by Alan Moore (re-read)

[Mike (the Paladin)]

Denae, I got the Mrs. Pollifax books in audio for my wife back when and got started listening to them myself.. I liked them, lots of humor and a quirky idea.

Of course you know I'm applauding Storm Front, LOL.

[whimsicalmeerkat]

Who reads the audio books? I read them all when I was in my teens and loved them. As for Storm Front, I'm enjoying it.

[Mike (the Paladin)]

They're older and read by Dorothy Gilman, I think she makes Mrs Pollifax sound a bit more "old ladyish" than she is in the books. In the books she is an older lady, but very..."active", LOL.

My wife and I talked about it and (this is back in the 80s/90s) we always thought Debbie Reynolds would have been great as Mrs. Pollifax in movies. (They did one, I think a TV movie with Angela Lansbury, but as talented as she is, I don't think she came across as the character very well.)

[whimsicalmeerkat]

I kind of really like those, but I like Angela Lansbury in general. I'm drawing a blank on Debbie Reynolds at the moment.

[Mike (the Paladin)]

I feel so old...you're drawing a blank on Debbie Reynolds....oh, it hurts, I'm so old. She's like a huge star, Singing in the Rain, How the West Was Won, the original Tammy (and sang the song), she's Grandma Mazur in 2011's One For the Money,Been in movies since 1948...Princess Leia's mother (Carrie Fisher daughter of Debbie Reynolds and Eddi Fisher who left ger for Elizabeth Taylor...who then left Fisher for Richard Burton, twice???) Oh well, like I said I feel so old now.


sigh.

[whimsicalmeerkat]

No reason for you to feel old, I regularly utilize IMDB because I can't remember who people are or where I've seen them, regardless of era. :)

[Jim]

Mike (the Paladin) wrote: "I feel so old...you're drawing a blank on Debbie Reynolds....oh, it hurts, I'm so old."

Just so you (and I) can feel REALLY old, check out this site which details some of the mind-boggling items Ms. Reynolds has collected over her almost 80 years from her Hollywood connections:

http://www.profilesinhistory.com/debb...

It offers up more names that those younger than us will likely also draw a blank on. She just recently sold the "Seven Year Itch" Marilyn Monroe subway dress for more than 5 million dollars. Who's Marilyn Monroe?? Oops. :)

[whimsicalmeerkat]

Pretty sure she, at least, is fairly universally known, as are at least two of her husbands.

[Mike (the Paladin)]

Yah, I think most people still know Marilyn. She's one of those special people who has "one" name, Elvis, Shakespeare, Houdini, Marilyn....Gandalf.

[Ken]

Finished up with Going Postal last night, fun book. Liked the characters, Discworld but the story was lacking. I didnt feel any peril for the main characters.

Started on another eighth doctor book
The Banquo Legacy

On deck is next months books
American Gods
and
A Short and Victorious War (Honor)

[Jenny]

Mike (the Paladin) wrote: "I feel so old...you're drawing a blank on Debbie Reynolds....oh, it hurts, I'm so old. She's like a huge star, Singing in the Rain, How the West Was Won, the original Tammy (and sang the song), she..."

You're not old, I know Debbie Reynolds! I really like her. I also like the way Carrie Fisher portrays her in Wishful Drinking (which I highly recommend).

[Stefan, Group Founder + Moderator (Retired)]

I'm reading The Highest Frontier by Joan Slonczewski. Very promising, so far (50 pages in or so) but it feels like one of those books where every small detail is going to become important, so I already found myself rereading the first 3 chapters before moving on.

[Shanshad]

Currently tearing through Downpourthen I've got some Brust on the TBR shelf I should probably get to.

[Hélène]

I got sidetracked and am re-reading Cordelia's Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold. In fact, I'm reading it in English for the first time as I didn't start picking those books in English before Memory.

[Helen]

Have to say I'm loving Fortress in the Eye of Time, good choice of whoever nominated.

[Kevin]

I getting through reading Flashforward for another group. The book and idea is pretty interesting, I see why it was made into a tv show.

[Shel, Moderator]

I just ripped through The Adoration of Jenna Fox during the baby's naptimes today - a quick read which I loved, though I could have done without the last chapter.

Not sure what's up next. First day of school tomorrow so I'm going to be pretty busy figuring out how to manage this working mom thing...

[Helen]

The kids were at school today. My new class is so loud!

[Andrea]

I've discovered Mark Hodder - have finished The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack (was fabulous), and will read The Curious Case Of The Clockwork Man next.

I also plan to start the Liaden Universe series (by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller), not sure how far I will get as there seem to be an awful lot of books in the series.

[Random]

Legacy of Kings by C.S. Friedman just came out, but the ebook has been delayed *sob*

Hopefully the delay won't be too long. I'll be reading it as soon as its available. :)

[Shel, Moderator]

Started The Hidden Goddess (sequel to The Native Star) last night. I was going to skim the first book to refresh my memory, but can't seem to scrape up the energy (barely have time to read at all)... I'm sure whatever is important will come back to me as I'm reading.