What Else Are You Reading - January 2012 Edition

[Kevin]

New Years, new thread, new books, just wondering what everyone is reading in this first month. I finished up the Rise of Endymion, now its on to Clan of the Cave Bear.

[Kate]

I'm flying home from Boston today and dammit will finish House of Leaves.

[Sean]

Didn't get a lot of reading done in December, so my first goal is to knock out the last part of 1Q84.

[William]

Going to finish Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. Then I'm probably going to read Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke, The New New Rules by Bill Maher, and possibly The Association by Bentley Little.

[Melissa]

I'm reading

[Been]

Currently reading Snow Crash. I got an Amazon gift card for Christmas which I'll buying books aplenty with, but with the ever-expanding Kindle sale on right now I'm going to be leaving that until the very last day.

[Tamahome]

Just finished Peter F. Hamilton's old Mindstar Rising. It wrapped up nicely.

[Kevin]

I'm reading a Bag of Bones and Valley of the Horses.

[terpkristin]

Finished 1Q84 and Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America so am going to start Infinity Blade: Awakening tonight. Will probably finish it relatively quickly. Also going to start listening to Brisingr on my way home tomorrow (1.2 hour trip or so).

[Levi]

On Dec 31, I finished 11/22/63, the first King book I've read in at least a decade -- he was the author who got me in a reading when I was 7 or 8 but I drifted away around the time of Regulators / Desperation.

Yesterday I read Grave Witch, which was an excellent little urban fantasy book I put on my to-read list after Felicia Day wrote a rave 5-star review. I didn't like it quite as much as she did, but it was very good. I think Mercedes Lackey fans in particular would enjoy this book.

Right now I'm finishing I Shall Wear Midnight, the last of the Tiffany Aching books, and I'm about to start The Magician King, and unless they pick a stinker, whatever book S&L announces as the next pick.

[Jlawrence, S&L Moderator]

Infinite Worlds: The Fantastic Visions of Science Fiction Art, probably the best collection of science fiction art in one volume I've ever seen - really stunning and fun, with fascinating details about the artists' lives and the evolution of the medium.

Terry Jones' Medieval Lives, a fun read examining some of the main misconceptions about medieval times. Part of research I'm doing for a re-write of my NaNoWriMo hunk o' fantasy fiction.

[Tina]

Finish 1Q84.

Then Micro and Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

[Kevin]

Tina wrote: "Finish 1Q84.

Then Micro and Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children"

Nice!

[Tracy]

Started "Turing Evolved" by David Kitson, "Viridis-A Steampunk Romance" by Calista Taylor, and "Among The Living" by Timothy Long. Kinda bounce back and forth between them as my mood changes. All were free from the Nook store. Have at least temporarily abandoned Elantris, was just moving a bit too slow for me right now, but at some point i will get back to it.

[Tracy]

Tina wrote: "Finish 1Q84.

Then Micro and Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children"

I very much enjoyed Miss Peregrine, hope you do too

[Graeme]

I am just finishing up The Gathering Storm and will start #13 Towers of Midnight. Then I can focus on some other series/authors.

[Jenny]

I'm finishing up Dead as a Doornail on audio and I've started Mansfield Park. I'm looking forward to S&L's next pick.

[Kate]

House of Leaves is finished. I've realized to my horror that I will have to reread it to fully appreciate it. Will leave that for a while yet though.

I've pulled down off the shelf a battered anthology called Cybersex* that I bought in a charity shop about two years ago and haven't touched since. Quite an impressive table of contents, which I would have known two years ago had I bothered to so much as open it.

*It is sf and not, as the title might imply, erotica.

[Ken]

Dancing at the Rascal Fair

[Ryan]

Currently reading Conqueror by Conn Iggulden. His Rome series was great but the Genghis series is outstanding. I am also reading The Magician King. It is a good read also.

[Ryan]

The Art of Manliness, Among Others, Bones of Fairy, Dies the Fire (for the third time) and Stoneheart (amazing YA book)

[Tamahome]

Ryan wrote: "The Art of Manliness, Among Others, Bones of Fairy, Dies the Fire (for the third time) and Stoneheart (amazing YA book)"

Dies the Fire is that good?

[Will]

I started Storm Front yesterday and when I finish that I'll get back to 11/22/63.

[Ryan]

Dies the fire is great. Its a end of the world as we know it book that will have you rooting for the Mayans in no time.

[Ian]

I am almost done with God, No!: Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales and about to start The Old Man and the Wasteland when I'm done here, and will start listening to The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor at work tomorrow.

[Adam]

I finished the Primal Blueprint and started reading Guns, Germs, and Steel.

[Greenicicle]

Zero History, and Blueprints Of The Afterlife.

[Dustin]

Finished The Golem's Eye (Bartimaeus Volume 2): Golems Eye Bk. 2 on audiobook. The narration really made this book though the humor wasn't so serious this time it was still very fun.

Sample of a scene I enjoy- Three imps are fighting, villain demon makes his third return to the same location. Each time he comes back around he gives a little speech and eats an imp.

"Are you breeding?" villain says "No, just a bit of rough and tumble." "I mean your numbers, there were two of you last time." "Reinforcements, they sent me over to hear you speak, and to get eaten of course."

[Will]

God's War via Kindle, A Beautiful Friendship via Audible, and The Clone Redemption via iBooks.

[Kris]

reading Sixkill as I am a great Parker fan....still need to finish The Children of the Sky and I am looking at what to buy on my new kindle Fire.

[Christian]

For reading, received a Nook for Christmas. So I read Precipice, a free e-book. After finishing that I have started Fireborn: Embers of Atlantis. There are other books I am looking at, but not all sci-fi/fantasy.

[Lee_grehan]

Just finished up Firebird by Jack McDevitt, turning my attention to Embassytown.

[Andy]

I am starting Sandman Slim and John Carter of Mars Omnibus Volume 1 because I got them each for $0.99 on Kindle over the last week. Otherwise I am going to finish Midnight Tides in my quest to finish Steven Erickson's Malazan Book of the Fallen series sometime before summer.

[Kevin]

Reading The Perks of Being a Wallflower since I heard there was going to be a movie later this year.

[Don]

Reading The Rogue and Being Geek on Kindle and Assassin's Apprentice on Audible which I picked up for $4.95 during a recent sale.

[Bree]

Normal book: The Briar King
Audiobook: The Name of the Wind, The Iron Dragon's Daughter
E-book: Soulless

I MUST CONSUME BOOKS IN ALL FORMS AT ALL TIMES.
. . . I DO NOT HAVE A PROBLEM.

Could probably use another eBook in the near future, if someone has something interesting to recommend. :)

[Melissa]

I'm almost halfway through Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson. I was reading the Count of Monte Cristo but lost interest. I'm considering re-reading Towers of Midnight after Warbreaker, but I haven't made up my mind yet.

[Eric]

The Search for God and Guinness: A Biography of the Beer that Changed the World

[Jenny]

I started reading after the quake. I'm giving Haruki Murakami a try to see if I like his writing. So far so good.

[Brad]

I just finished listening to Hounded (book 1 of the Iron Druid chronicles) by Kevin Hearne, a very fun urban fantasy that will be a good replacement for the Dresden Files now that I'm all caught up on that. I just started listening to First Lord's Fury by Jim Butcher, that ought to be fairly epic. I'm also reading Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks on Kindle, I'm only halfway through it but I'd already have to say he's my second favorite Sci-Fi author, right behind Peter F. Hamilton.

[Louise]

I'm reading Hamilton for the first time with Pandora's Star

[kvon]

I enjoyed Snuff, Terry Pratchett still has it. Now I'm reading Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor, which I also noticed showed up on the Barnes and Noble top ten SFF list. Nigerian fantasy, good so far.

[Brad]

Louise wrote: "I'm reading Hamilton for the first time with Pandora's Star"
That is a fantastic book to start with for Hamilton, that's exactly where I started.

[Michael]

I'm reading a few things simultaneously...

Under the Dome
A Game of Thrones
The Night Circus
Among Thieves

I'm a slow reader so each will advance a bit but I'm sure I won't finish them this month.

[Jonathan]

I just finished The Once and Future King. Now going to be reading:

The Bourne Identity
The Name of the Wind
Daughter of the Empire
His Majesty's Dragon
The Warded Man
The Colour of Magic & The Light Fantastic

[Kate]

My head is wrecked and my concentration shot with the new year and going back to work and various other annoyances so I am seeking comfort in the arms of one of my favourite books, Wicked Gentlemen.

[Michael]

Currently trying to finish up How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu. It's a quite depressing book actually, about a son trying to find his father who is lost in time.

[Tom]

I am trying to read some more classics. Just finished Gulliver's Travels. Starting Lord of the Flies next. Anyone have suggestions?

[terpkristin]

Tom wrote: "I am trying to read some more classics. Just finished Gulliver's Travels. Starting Lord of the Flies next. Anyone have suggestions?"

Catcher in the Rye. To Kill A Mockingbird. The Jungle. David Copperfield. Those are ones that I associate with "classics," probably because there are "Classics" editions of them in my parents' basement that I remember from growing up.

In other news, I finished Infinity Blade: Awakening. It was pretty cute; there was a surprising amount of tech-ish humor in it. Now I've moved onto the novella Perfect Shadow: A Night Angel Novella. I'll probably finish that one tonight or tomorrow.

[JRush]

I finished The Name of the Wind and Wise Man's Fear last week. Listened to Fuzzy Nation this week and started Snow Crash. And my Kindle Touch arrived in the mail today so I think Old Man's War will be first on it.