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Currently about a third of the way through A Fire Upon the Deep, by Vernor Vinge. Pretty great so far; I'd previously only read some of his short fiction.

Started WIZZYWIG yesterday

Dharmakirti wrote: "...I've only read two Murakami novels so far, 1Q84 and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World and I get what you mean by the beat/rhythm...."

:) How was 1Q84? I really enjoyed Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World.

Read two short DarkFuse novellas.

The first, Savage pretty much sucked. I think that's the first story from DarkFuse I didn't enjoy. Was bound to happen eventually. Here's my review

And then there was Ceremony of Flies, which was pretty fun. Not fond of the ending, but the protag has got to be one of the best written female characters I've ever read. Here's my review

Up next are:

Paolo wrote: "Dharmakirti wrote: "...I've only read two Murakami novels so far, 1Q84 and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World and I get what you mean by the beat/rhythm...."

:) How was 1Q84? I really..."

1Q84 was the first Murkami novel I read and it hooked me from the opening pages (which features a woman leaving a taxi in the middle of the freeway so she's not late for an appointment...to kill a man). It is a much more challenging novel than Hard-Boiled Wonderland and quite a bit longer. I would highly recommend it.

Just finished Words of Radiance. My long review is here. My short review is 1000+ pages of awesome!

I'll continue my Sanderson kick by getting back to the Mistborn trilogy with The Well of Ascension

Shad wrote: "Just finished Words of Radiance. My long review is here. My short review is 1000+ pages of awesome!

I'll continue my Sanderson kick by getting back to the Mistborn trilogy with [..."

Have you read Warbreaker? Its probably the most Cosmere-relevant book to Words of Radiance

Geoff wrote: "Shad wrote: "Just finished Words of Radiance. My long review is here. My short review is 1000+ pages of awesome!

I'll continue my Sanderson kick by getting back to the Mistborn t..."

Actually, I had heard some of the people who read Words of Radiance when it first came out talk about it was helpful to read Warbreaker, so I read it earlier this year. Thanks for the tip though.

I am starting way back at the beginning of the Honor Harrington series...just finishing up "On Basilisk Station" by David Weber.

Just finished The Silkworm. Still listening to The Way of Kings and over half way done with Cibola Burn.

I'm rather jazzed that Name of the Wind is the August selection - I've read and listened to it twice and love it, but now I have a chance to catch up on my missed S&L books, plus read Half a King and maybeThe Widow's House.

I just finishedThe Shadow Throne. I liked it but not quite as much as the first book my review

My library request for Words of Radiance is coming in so all other books are going to have to get out of the way for a while :)

My time with Agent Pendergast begins to draw towards a close -- I finished Two Graves, read Extraction (a short story) and just started his most recent adventure, White Fire. All by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. After which I'll be ready for something completely different.

Finished Maus, II: And Here My Troubles Began by Art Spiegelman. It somehow doesn't seem right to say I loved a story about the Holocaust but I will say it is worth reading.
Starting The Name of the Wind.

Closing out the month with The Name of the Wind in print and Terminal World on audible. Those should keep me busy all of next month too.

Alan wrote: "I just finishedThe Shadow Throne. I liked it but not quite as much as the first book my review"

I felt the same. Knowing how chaotic and unpredictable revolutions can be in reality, it's hard for me to accept that a handful of backroom schemers can influence the course of events as easily as they could within a stable political setting (yes, there's some magic involved, but still). That said, the epilogue was intriguing enough for me to see what happens next.

I finished Crossroads of Twilight this week. This is the first time in the series where I would concede that nothing happened. Every plotline got to the brink of something happening and then switch to a different POV. And despite that, I still liked the book.

I'm going to hold off on reading Name of the Wind, I've read it twice already and I'm waiting to enjoy it again when we get closer to book 3. So, for July I'm reading "A Cuckoo's Calling" (the mystery novel by JK Rowling under a pen-name) to change things up :)

Currently plowing through Count of Monte Cristo. I checked the word count. It is within 10K words of Lord of the Rings. I like long books just fine, but I tend to think that the story of one man's revenge could be told in fewer words than the history of Middle Earth.

John wrote: "Currently plowing through Count of Monte Cristo. I checked the word count. It is within 10K words of Lord of the Rings. I like long books just fine, but I tend to think that the story of one man's ..."

Ah, but the book is so good. (There is one section, though, where I thought it would never end. Once I got past that, the pace picked up and I had a great time with it.)

Reading a couple of good books. Superman Is Jewish?: How Comic Book Superheroes Came to Serve Truth, Justice, and the Jewish-American Way is good fun and some good insights into comics and graphic novels.

The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar is a nice find. It begins much like Jules Verne, a search for the North Pole. Then they sail inside the hollow Earth. It then reminds me a bit of Haggard, a goddess like She. The style is more like Merritt. Quite enjoyable. It has a utopia feel to the description of the society encountered. It does seem that the author felt that the U.S. was too concerned with material things to the neglect of the soul and the arts. I'm very enamored of the imaginary country and dread the part of the subtitle "conquest." I'd hate to see it despoiled.

I'm also reading lots of comic books from the Digital Comics Museum. 3D from the '50s, Kubert, and Simon and Kirby mostly.

David you might like this: "All Superheroes are Deontologists and All Supervillains are Utilitarians"

Jlawrence wrote: "About to start the July S&L pick, and also starting The Golem and the Jinni.

Having just finished Name of the Wind , I've got Golem at the top of my reading list. Now to decide if I'll buy the book or the ebook.