So, What Are You Reading?

Just finished Half Lost by Sally Green and am currently half-way through The Hidden Oracle by Rick Riordan.

Bossypants by Tina Fey. I'm actually listening to it as an audiobook, and it's pretty much my first experience with that format ^note I say "pretty much" because I've got a record of Vincent Price reading Ligeia and I guess that counts as an early audiobook. Autobiographies read by the author are something the format makes a lot of sense for - Tina Fey has a distinctive enough sense of humor and writing style that if I were reading it as text I'd probably be imagining her speaking it aloud anyway. I would like to read a well-done fiction audiobook sometime too to see what it's like.

Reading the first book in the Mistborn series; it's pretty great so far. The only thing that bothers me is that this is the most gender-imbalanced cast I've seen in a book since Tolkien. Hoping it gets better, especially since Vin's character arc is fantastic.

Also reading To Say Nothing Of The Dog, only understand about 15% of the literary references but definitely one of the funniest books I've ever read.

Just finished my Word of Radiance reread. It was very worthwhile.

About to start the first book in the Death Gate Cycle at the recommendation of a friend.

Yeah, the first Mistborn series is flawed in that way. A couple more ladies show up in book 2, but it's still not great. The second series is better, though.

Plowing through 1634: The Galileo Affair, and one of the series' main ongoing and recurring bad guy bastards has just popped up for the first time. Michel Ducos, Huguenot fanatic, agent provocateur and a man with more faces than a dice. I'd call him a magnificent bastard, but all I want to see happen to him is for Harry Lefferts to gut him with his Bowie knife. Make that happen, Eric Flint.

I just finished Watership Down. God, that was so beautiful! I have already found animal behavior to be super fascinating, so reading a story about it was just really great. I could talk forever about how complicated the lives of animals are! Though this isn't really the place, huh? :^P

The library's having a book festival tomorrow, so I will get to pick out some new stuff!

I just finished Star Wars: Bloodline. It's basically a political thriller told from Leia's point of view and is set 6 years before The Force Awakens. I thought it was really, really good, and answered a lot of questions I had while watching TFA. I highly recommend it.

Currently reading: Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World, by Timothy Garton Ash.

edited 29th May '16 3:04:49 PM by SabresEdge

Reading Mistborn: The Well of Ascension. And I really want to talk about it, but should probably go find the actual forum thread for it.

Also reading Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers. I really need to start reading more 30s mystery novels, they're great.

Currently working my way through the Ring of Fire anthology, "Grantville Gazette VI".

Currently reading Dragon Fate, last book in E. E. Knight's Age of Fire series.

You'll want the Brandon Sanderson thread for that. But be careful of spoilers.

I'm currently reading the Death Gate Cycle. On on second book now.

Right now, the anthology for Black Tide Rising that just came out, titled (drumroll) Black Tide Rising. Collection of short stories set in the early days of BTR's Zombie Apocalypse, with a bunch of "old hand" writers and new writers.

What does Brandon Sanderson have to do with a series by E. E. Knight?

1636: The Cardinal Virtues. Monsieur Gaston has just had his brother, Louis XIII, killed, wants to kill his brother's wife, Anne of Austria, and is an utter bastard of a Borja fanboy. I hope someone kills him to death in a later book in this series. He deserves it.

Recently finished Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles, and now starting Niccolo Rising, the first book in the prequel series.

Currently reading four books at once:

Dangerous Women 2, second volume in an anthology series about Exactly What It Says on the Tin.

Terminal Freeze, a thriller set in the Alaskan wilderness by Lincoln Child

Monster Hunter Alpha by Larry Correia. Yeah, I know I'll probably get hammered for that but he's still a good action-fantasy writer.

Abhorsen, final volume in trilogy by Garth Nix.

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Working my way through 1636: The Kremlin Games having finished my previous mentioned book in the series and another one or two I've not spoken about. It's amazing the amount of stuff you can learn about how things really were in that time period in Central and Eastern Europe in among all the characters from up-time.

Nothing wrong with Larry Correira - I read him too. Monster Hunter International (first one in the series) is a cracking adventure yarn from the first page to the last. And his utterly brutal take-down of Heckler and Koch on his blog that I so love referring to in Yack Fest's "Gun Porn" thread will never stop being hilarious or accurate.

edited 20th Jun '16 6:20:28 PM by TamH70

Mercury Rises by Robert Kroese. The story of an everywoman journalist who writes pieces on apocalypse cults for a Christian newspaper who works with a childish and somewhat disaffected angel named Mercury to stop both the Apocalypse and Lucifer's attempt to stop the Apocalypse. Linoleum, ping-pong and snowmen are involved.

Just finished Carry On by Rainbow Rowell, and have started The Last Star by Rick Yancey.

Finished Terminal Freeze and added Ettiquette and Espionage, a steampunk book set in the same universe as The Parasol Protectorate but set a generation earlier.

Re-reading Grantville Gazette VII. Nice collection of stories set in the Ring of Fire universe. Some of them are bitingly funny.

El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de La Mancha. I love it, it's fucking great.

I just finished re-reading Mona Lisa Overdrive about 20 years after the first time I read it. It made much more sense this time.

Also recently finished Patriot Games, the novelization of Star Trek VI, and Out of the Silent Planet.