What are you reading in October 2011?

[Candiss]

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

[Christine]

I've started Spin and am enjoying it

[Kevin]

Did not want other people to start the thread, so you deleted my thread?

[Stefan, Group Founder + Moderator (Retired)]

Yes Kevin, we've told you before that this is something the moderators will do.

[Helen]

Being such a good club member, I'm reading Honor 2, then I shall read Royal Assassin, Fortress of Owls, not sure what else.

[Kevin]

Stefan wrote: "Yes Kevin, we've told you before that this is something the moderators will do."

Fine!

[Sandra]

I seem to be stuck in reread mode, having decided to reread the Wars of Light and Shadow in preparation for the release of Initiate's Trial at the end of the month. BTW, the first chapter is posted at Paravia.com if any of you want to read it!

Will also be rereading Royal AssassinRoyal Assassin with the fantasy series group. Will join with you for the third Honor Harrington installment. Have already read both books of the month for this group.

Aside from this, in my OCD habit of always having an audiobook to listen to when I can't actually sit down and read, I have several mysteries lined up, as well as The Lord of the Rings, which tome I have never read. So am looking forward to that. Also plan to finish The Gate of Ivrel and possibly start The Faded Sun Trilogy. I have a shameful # of books piled up and waiting for me... I'll get to them sometime, I reckon.

[Candiss]

All of my tbr books this month are group reads from around Goodreads.

I'm currently halfway through Machine Man by Max Barry and am really enjoying it so far. (SF&F Book Club) I hope to finish it up today. I'm also still working on Kafka on the Shore for Mythic Fiction. Then it's on to:

- Feed - Mira Grant (for this group, of course)
- The Passion - Jeanette Winterson (Mythic Fiction)
- Pope Joan - Donna Woolfolk Cross (Historical Fictionistas)
- Once the tie-breaker vote resolves on Oct. 3 in The Novella Club, I will be adding either The Woman in Black or The Haunting of Hill House to my month's list, just in time for All Hallow's
- Another timely read: Haunted Legends - ed. Ellen Datlow (Pick-a-Shelf October shelf: Anthology) - This has a ton of great authors in it, from Catherynne M. Valente & Ekaterina Sedia to Jeffrey Ford, Joe R. Lansdale, etc., writing modern dark fantasy stories based on urban legends from around the world.
- City of Bones - Martha Wells (for this group in November)

[Kara]

Starting up Prince of Thorns for FBC group read.

[Stefan, Group Founder + Moderator (Retired)]

I'm currently working on 3 books, all due for review by next week (which is why I asked Candiss to once again get the group ready for the new month!)

- Context, a new collection of essays by Cory Doctorow
- The Sacred Band by David Anthony Durham
- Necropolis by Michael Dempsey

I'm done with the first one, 1/3 through the second, and haven't started on the third one yet. So... it'll be a busy few days for me :)

[Shel, Moderator]

I'm still working on Little, Big - it's slow going, not because I'm not enjoying it, but because the prose is so luscious that I'm trying to savor every word! Also I barely have time to read during the work week, so I'm mostly just reading on weekends.

[Kevin]

Shel wrote: "I'm still working on Little, Big - it's slow going, not because I'm not enjoying it, but because the prose is so luscious that I'm trying to savor every word! Also I barely have time ..."

Enjoy the book. Its one of those that one has read between the lines in order to really understand the plot.

[Ken]

I finished up American Gods this afternoon and enjoyed it. I started in on The Short Victorious War for the next Honor group read.

[Sandi]

Candiss wrote: "All of my tbr books this month are group reads from around Goodreads.

I'm catching up on my group reads too. I am listening to Feed for this group and reading Detective Inspector Huss for the Scandinavian and Nordic Crime Fiction group.

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[Shel, Moderator]

Ooh, I love The Anubis Gates. It ties with Last Call as my favorite Tim Powers book.

[Bill]

I will be finishing Anansi Boys tonight and guess I'll start American Gods, the new edition, since it is a group read this month.

I've not discussed this book before and am looking forward to it.

[Laurel]

I had a really quiet reading month. I just couldn't get through anything. Does that ever happen to anyone else?

I'm going to finish , hopefully today. Then back into . After that, I want to try and get back into a few quick but fun reads. Maybe , , . If I'm REALLY good, maybe I'll finally get into !

But, I would really love a good, scary read for October. Any suggestions?

[Hélène]

I finished All Men of Genius by Lev A.C. Rosen yesterday - with the result that I'm now re-reading The Importance of Being Earnest and Twelfth Night :)

[Kathi, Moderator & Book Lover]

I finished and started on my iPad. Then I think I'll read to complete that series (as far as it is completed). I have a couple First Reads wins but I'm not sure what I'll read next.

I read back in 2006 and will follow along the discussion here but am not going to reread it. Not reading either.

[Helen]

My copy of Fortress of Owls is at the Post Office sorting depo so I can't get that until next Saturday. Then I realised I hadn't put Royal Assassin on my replacement kindle yet and couldn't face going to get wires etc to connect it to the netbook, it was 9am Sunday morning! So, I started Eden, enjoying it.

[Kelly]

I'm reading Midnight Tides of the Malazan set, Spirit Walker of the Chronicles of Ancient Darkness set, and Chanur's Venture (Compact Space, #2) of the Compact Space set

[Kevin]

I'm going back to the world of the underdark and Forgotten Realms with Daughter of the Drow to get ready for the mood of the new Drizzt book coming out in two days.

[mark]

Shel wrote: "I'm still working on Little, Big - it's slow going, not because I'm not enjoying it, but because the prose is so luscious that I'm trying to savor every word! Also I barely have time ..."

i'm jealous of anyone reading this for the first time. it's a beautiful book, one of my favorites.

[Shel, Moderator]

Laurel wrote: "But, I would really love a good, scary read for October. Any suggestions?"

Great question which I think deserves its own thread :) Going to start it!

[Ken]

Laurel wrote: "I had a really quiet reading month. I just couldn't get through anything. Does that ever happen to anyone else?"

Yup, last July. Took me forever to get through Embassytown. Every once in a while I read something and I just dont have the....energy to read it.

[Jim]

I just ordered a copy of Spin in anticipation of the group read. Probably will get it read this month.

Just finished The Wine-Dark Sea by Patrick O'Brian. As usual, an intriguing tale, loaded with thought-provoking detail. Not many left in the series.

I'll likely read Daemons Are Forever next for a slight Halloweeny touch (Mostly I love old films such as The Wolf Man and Frankenstein this time of year).

At the DFW airport yesterday, I picked up a copy of this publication: http://www.technologyreview.com/sf/ Printed like a periodical, it looks interesting. Intriguing list of authors and all the stories are of a length just right for airplane reading. But I took a nap instead. I'll get to this soon, however.

[Kerry]

I did something rather insane the other day and made a spreadsheet of the books I have in paper copies that I'd like to replace with ebooks instead. Quite a few are available and I just have to have the money to buy them, but a lot, especially older favourites, aren't digitised at all. (For the record, there are 378 books on the list.)

Anyway, as part of the process I did a quick check on availability as I went. I ended up purchasing 5 new Kindle books on the spot as things showed up, mostly self-published by the authors. So it's going to be a rereading month for me.

Right now I'm reading The Annotated Firebird. Waiting are both books of Stephen Donaldson's Mordant's Need in an omnibus edition, Robin McKinley's Beauty, The Mountains of Channandran by Susan Dexter (that's actually the third book in the trilogy as I've been buying them as she released them; the first is The Ring of Allaire) and The Phoenix in Flight by Sherwood Smith and Dave Trowbridge. For the latter, it's the first of five, so I'll wait in the hope the others will also be released before deciding if I'm going to reread the series.

I guess that makes it a very retro month ahead for me.

[Jim]

Kerry, I don't think you're crazy & started a new topic here:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/6...
to discuss how people order their books. I've done something similar, although on a smaller scale.

[Sandra]

Kerry, that omnibus copy of Mordant's Need is a real door stopper! I enjoyed the book a lot, but that edition was very hard to hold, it was so heavy.

[Kerry]

Sandra, that's why I was so delighted to get it for the Kindle instead!

[Sandra]

Oh, I didn't understand that was one of your kindle books. That's extremely good.

[Dawn]

Reading

[Ken]

Sandra aka Sleo wrote: "Kerry, that omnibus copy of Mordant's Need is a real door stopper! I enjoyed the book a lot, but that edition was very hard to hold, it was so heavy."

the original hardcovers were HUGE. I was young and strong back then, Ha

[Kerry]

Ken wrote: "Sandra aka Sleo wrote: "Kerry, that omnibus copy of Mordant's Need is a real door stopper! I enjoyed the book a lot, but that edition was very hard to hold, it was so heavy."

the original hardcov..."

I read them originally in paperback and those were big enough (and I think the UK ones were a bit bigger than the US ones)> I am neither young nor strong these days and very happy to have ebooks to read instead.

[Red]

Not reading for personal time at the moment, as I'm in the process of formatting and publishing a few books for my label, and reading two for review purposes:

An Uprising of Angels by Marc Baldwin (modern historical), (it's quite good thus far) and The Last Man on Earth Club by Paul Hardy (scifi) (just getting into it, but it's been highly rated on Goodreads, so looking forward to finishing it).

[Helen]

Dawn wrote: "Reading "

Feel like I should read Bitterwood as I seem to have loads of books that feature an eye on the cover, plus it's about dragons, any good?

[Bookbrow]

I am reading Deadhouse Gates by Steven Erikson which is maybe the only book I read this month with a heavy workload and bathroom reno on the schedule. Oh yes I am also still reading Open by Lisa Moore, a non-genre book that reads like one giant poem, very unlike my usual reads I must say.

[Dawn]

Helen wrote: "Feel like I should read Bitterwood as I seem to have loads of books that feature an eye on the cover, plus it's about dragons, any good?"

So far I am really enjoying Bitterwood it drew me in from page one so that is saying something.

LOL on the eye when I first saw the cover I could not help but to think of Lord of The Rings...no idea why but it worked out because that is what made me pick it up.

Anyway I will let you know how it works out.

[Shannon]

I'm reading The Winter King by Bernard Cornwell.

[Kevin]

The Hunger Games

[Helen]

I was finishing Royal Assassin but my kindle battery went! Then it's either Fortress of Owls or Dracula.

[Ken]

hmmmm. One con for e-readers. Was worried about power issues. One of the reasons I havent jumped in yet.

[Kathi, Moderator & Book Lover]

I finished The Short Victorious War and I think Fortress of Ice will be next, although I may not get it started for a while. Busy couple of weeks starting today!

[Bill]

I started How Firm a Foundation by David Weber book 5 in the Safehold series.

[Christine]

I finished up Spin which I enjoyed and look forward to discussing next month with the group. I'm now back to Recluce and am reading The Magic Engineer which is very reminiscent of The Magic of Recluce

[Kevin]

Christine wrote: "I finished up Spin which I enjoyed and look forward to discussing next month with the group. I'm now back to Recluce and am reading The Magic Engineer which is very remi..."

I loved the Mgaic Enginner. I thought ir was a lot better than The Towers of the Sunsets.

[Helen]

My battery normally lasts about a month but I didn't pay attention! I'm actually reading Frankenstein, so much for plans.

[Stefan, Group Founder + Moderator (Retired)]

I finally started on Stormed Fortress by Janny Wurts. Loving it so far, as expected.

[Richard]

Currently reading The Honor of the Queen and after over a year have finally finished Janny's The Ships of Merior, so I ought to move straight on to Warhost of Vastmark.
Feed is still following me around in my case begging to be read. I really must pull my finger out and get on with some reading.