What Are You Reading in January 2012?

[Clare]

Just finished Blackveil, almost done with the audiobook of Dead Beat. Just started Rate Me Red. Then I plan on the next Dresden Files book, The Unincorporated Woman, and With Fate Conspire.

[Jenny]

I'm listening to Definitely Dead on audio.

[Ann]

I just finished Greg Iles, The Devil's Punchbowl. I know it's not very "fantasyish", but I like suspense every once in awhile. Next I'm reading Tundra 37, a futuristic space opera by Aubrie Dionne, a friend of mine. So far, it's wonderful.

[Chrissa]

Looks like I'll be reading M.J. Locke's Up Against It, Margaret Ronald's Wild Hunt, Tanya Huff's The Enchanted Emporium, and maybe James Blaylock's Knights of the Cornerstone.

We'll see if anything catches my eye--hoping to find something dealing with selkies/sea creatures.

[Amber]

I am reading The Drawing of the Three and I will be reading Percepliquis

[RuthAnn]

I am struggling through Pillars of the Earth. It's been a couple of months and I just can't get motivated. I am also reading the Black Prism and going to start Eldest.

[Lili]

I really would like to read Hunger Games and series soon, but decided on starting The Name of the Wind instead.

[Sandra]

Ruthann wrote: "I am struggling through Pillars of the Earth. It's been a couple of months and I just can't get motivated. I am also reading the Black Prism and going to start Eldest."

I gave up on Pillars early... thought it was AWFUL! Was disappointed as I used to like his spy/thriller novels.

[Ruby]

Just read Under the Vale and Other Tales of Valdemar which was one of the best fantasy anthologies I have ever encountered. Also reading The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories. Still working on Dracula in London and New Amazons. Next in line in f/sf includes:

Flight of Vengeance
Tales of the Witch World 2
The Grail and the Ring
East of Midnight
Red Hart Magic

[Sandra]

Started Jane Was Here. Very spooky. So far this month have read Ashes of Victory, The Tiger's Wife: A Novel (excellent), The Kitchen House (meh), To the Hilt (great), Her Royal Spyness (cute), Mortal Causes, (eh). and Seabiscuit: An American Legend (wonderful).

[Jenny]

Ruthann wrote: "I am struggling through Pillars of the Earth. It's been a couple of months and I just can't get motivated. I am also reading the Black Prism and going to start Eldest."

I really liked The Black Prism, I hope you do too! Have you read the Night Angel Trilogy? Prism is very different but it's great in it's own way.

[Kevin]

Ruthann wrote: "I am struggling through Pillars of the Earth. It's been a couple of months and I just can't get motivated. I am also reading the Black Prism and going to start Eldest."

I loved Pillars of the Earth along with the sequel World Without End that I just read. I found both to be really readable and a blast.

[Kevin]

I'm rereading Gardens of the Moon, which I gave up the first time around. I understand it better this time, but still not find it all that great.

[Joseph]

Finished Dawn by H. Rider Haggard and just started The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle (which, inexplicably, I've never read previously).

And just because I like the cover:

[Fox]

Catching up om the Dresden Files (Proven Guilty through Ghost Story).

River Marked By Patricia Briggs

And multiple criminological books that would just bore you to tears. :D

[Fox]

Oh and I'm reading a bit of this Daniel Kalla guy. Read Pandemic and I have Resistance on the shelf waiting to go. :)

[Kevin]

Fox wrote: "Catching up om the Dresden Files (Proven Guilty through Ghost Story).

River Marked By Patricia Briggs

And multiple criminological books that would just bore you to tears. :D"

You really should read Changes before diving into Ghost Story.

[Ben]

I just finished Robin Hobb's Assassin's Apprentice and look forward to starting Royal Assassin!

[Joseph]

The Last Unicorn is finished -- why did it take me 20 years to get around to actually reading such a wonderful book? -- and I started The End Of The Story: The Collected Fantasies Of Clark Ashton Smith Volume 1 by Clark Ashton Smith -- he's one of my favorites and it's nice to finally have all of his short fiction in a single uniform set. Maybe after this I'll read something a bit more modern . . .

[Jelmer]

I'm currently reading The Dragon Reborn and I'm looking into buying the next WoT boxset or The Name of the Wind and Gardens of the Moon. But I will problaby go for the boxset because I'm totally immersed in the Wheel of Timee books now.

[Jelmer]

P.S. Does anyone know how to change language settings I'm Dutch so it is set to Dutch automaticly. And therefore all my text is underlined with red when I'm typing in English, and it is confusing me :S

[Sandra]

Jelmer wrote: "P.S. Does anyone know how to change language settings I'm Dutch so it is set to Dutch automaticly. And therefore all my text is underlined with red when I'm typing in English, and it is confusing m..."

It's probably in your profile settings somewhere.

[Traci]

I loved Pillars of the Earth but never got around to the (sort of) sequel. But other than fantasy my other love is historical epics.

I finished Tolkien although I still need to read The Silmarillion (it scares me). Read A Game of Thrones again. Reading The Runelords: The Sum of All Men and happy to be almost done. I don't care for it but I could see recommending it to fans of Brandon Sanderson. And then I'm going to return to Malazan with Crack'd Pot Trail: A Bauchelain and Korbal Broach Novella.

[Jenny]

I'm finally diving into The Night Circus. I'm really glad it is the monthly read because I don't think it is something I would have found on my own, I'm enjoying it a lot.

[Helen, I·ᴍ ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ ʟɪʙʀᴀʀʏ]

Ditto what Jenny said. Also, whilst saving books for GR, noticed I have Gardens of the Moon, is this the first book?

[Katie]

Well, I made it my goal this year to read 200 books at least. So that means around 17 books a month for a while (though 4 months I can manage with 16).

1. Asunder
2. Incarceron
3. Leviathan Wakes
4. Goliath
5. Zombies Vs. Unicorns
6. The Host
7. Shanghai Girls
8. The Hunger Games
9. Catching Fire
10. Mockingjay
11. The Game
12. Lost in space*

*Not sure why I had a copy of this book, it's the movie made into words, but I read it so I could feel free to get rid of it.

So those are the books I've already read so far in January. Woo-hoo. I just bought some more I want to read from the local bookstore:

Legend, Sapphique, Boneshaker, Dreadnought, The Affinity Bridge, and Under the Dome. I also want to read more of Scott Westerfeld's books like his Midnighter series and so forth.

[John]

This month, I tried an author I haven't read before. Finished The Warded Man and have started The Desert Spear. WM went pretty fast. I think the characters are likable, and the plot is ok. However, in my opinion, there are some problems with the story.
I'm looking forward to reading A Crown Imperiled when it is released!

[Traci]

Helen wrote: "Ditto what Jenny said. Also, whilst saving books for GR, noticed I have Gardens of the Moon, is this the first book?"

Yes, it's the first book.

[Helen, I·ᴍ ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ ʟɪʙʀᴀʀʏ]

Thanks Traci, I shall have to read it. Don't remember when I bought it!

[Nate]

Just finished reading
Blood Divided by Kevin James Breaux

Looks like he just listed a giveaway here on goodreads for it.

Has anyone read the first book in the series?
Soul Born

Its a great start to a series, and Blood Divided really is an epic follow up.

[Nate]

Oh, here is a recent review of Soul Born the author posted on twitter. I think this really sums up the epic dark fantasy. So I wanted to add it. Kevin James Breaux is one of my favorite new authors, and is fun to follow.

http://www.bookspotcentral.com/2012/0...

[Joseph]

All done with The End Of The Story: The Collected Fantasies Of Clark Ashton Smith Volume 1 and moved into Howard Andrew Jones's The Waters of Eternity, a set of Arabian sword-and-sorcery short stories that take place before his novel The Desert of Souls, which I'll be reading next.

[Sandra]

I'm reading The Daemon Prism, the third in Carol Berg's Collegia Magica series and it's excellent so far. About halfway through.

[Amelia]

Sandra aka Sleo wrote: "I'm reading The Daemon Prism, the third in Carol Berg's Collegia Magica series and it's excellent so far. About halfway through."

I need to read that series. I just bought the third book, but I haven't even read the first yet. Guess that's what I get for reading the Malazan series for about a year now. All those other books are pushed back to read later. I'm almost done with Malazan, more than halfway through Dust of Dreams. Then I'll be moving on to The Crippled God to finish up the series.

[Sandra]

Amelia wrote: "Sandra aka Sleo wrote: "I'm reading The Daemon Prism, the third in Carol Berg's Collegia Magica series and it's excellent so far. About halfway through."

I need to read that series..."

A long series does monopolize your time! It's a good series. You also need to read Initiate's Trial!

[Amelia]

Yep, that's another one I was hopping to read when I finished the series it belongs to, but I had to wait, and in waiting started something else and devoured that instead. At least I'll have a little less time inbetween books when I do finally get to reading that one.

[Traci]

I'm still burned out from reading Malazan, in a good way, and am having trouble getting into anything else. So lately I've been reading urban fantasy. Monster Hunter International. Highly recommended. Now reading Death Masks.

[Shannon]

I've read Erikson's Malazan series and decided to try Ian C. Esslemont's Malazan novels. Just starting Night of Knives.

[Traci]

I'm still trying to make up my mind to read those now. Or reread Malazan in a few months and read them where they go publishing order. OR and this might be crazy of me but...I'm thinking of reading the whole series in chronological order bouncing back and forth between books.
;)

[Ann]

Working my way through The Hangman's Daughter. Looking for more CE Murphy titles. Considering GRR Martin's latest, but it's gotten really spotty reviews and I didn't like the last one all that much. Too disjointed with too many loose ends.

[Shannon]

Traci wrote: "I'm still trying to make up my mind to read those now. Or reread Malazan in a few months and read them where they go publishing order. OR and this might be crazy of me but...I'm thinking of reading..."

Haha that's quite a decision and a lot of reading either way :)
I'm hoping the Esslemont books are the same quality.

[Helen, I·ᴍ ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ ʟɪʙʀᴀʀʏ]

Think that is how the sister group are reading them.

[[deleted user]]

Enjoying The Way of Kings, but I am rotation reading it with other genres, so I am set to finish reading it by end of year. The travails of heavy rotation reading!

[Jelmer]

Finnished the dragon reborn. THe second boxset should be arriving soon.

[Jenny]

I'm reading Elizabeth The Queen: The Life Of A Modern Monarch and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1. I'm craving some epic fantasy...

[Joseph]

Finished The Waters of Eternity, which was short but enjoyable, and started The Desert of Souls, a novel about the same characters. (And for anyone to whom these things matter, it looks like the short stories actually take place after the novel.)

[Helen, I·ᴍ ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ ʟɪʙʀᴀʀʏ]

Ship of Destiny, starting this tonight. Just finished Dead Reckoning which I enjoyed.

[Michele]

After a long hiatus from fantasy, I am now listening to Stardust and reading The Magician King.

[[deleted user]]

I just finished this one by Carroll Bryant and now diving into Thornbirds.