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I've had a lazy day today, so I've been reading The Waters Rising, the sequel to the crazy A Plague of Angels. That's right, you just witnessed me reading a fantasy book of my own volition. Not only that, I requested the Tiffany Aching Discworld books and The Name of the Wind from the library after reading their samples on iBooks (Thanks Tom and Veronica).

Maybe I'm running a fever... ;)

I started Revelation Space the other day. So far it's been great. I read Chasm City ages ago (sorta book 2 or 0 depending on perspective)

I just started reading Across the Nightingale Floor by Lian Hearn.

Before that it was an audiobook binge. I went threw all 12 of the Dresden Files plus Side Jobs, the short story collection. I have been mainly reading via audiobooks in the car for the longest time, but I am trying to get myself back into print.

Well kinda, since I have a Kindle on order that should show up some time next week.

I just started reading The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett after many recommendations over the years. (Although I am still unsure about the whole Discworld series, having only previously read The Color of Magic).

I am also seeing slow progress on my (re-)read of The Wheel of Time series, being 59% done with The Fires of Heaven.

In an attempt to fill in some gaps around the classics, I just started Riverworld: To Your Scattered Bodies Go/The Fabulous Riverboat.

For the commute, I'm listening to Hyperion.

I read Michael Crichton's final novel Pirate Latitudes.

Now I'm working through Stephen King's Dreamcatcher and Justin Cronin's The Passage.

I started the "Hunger Games" trilogy and I'm loving it. It's so awesome when a book with so much hype it's better than you expected.

I'm cutting through my old Doctor Who Virgin New Adventures series (no giggling, Virgin's the publisher) while also slowly digesting Thomas Covenant books again - I tried to start reading the most recent one, and realised I'd forgotten every bloody thing about the series.

Currently I'm working on Dark Haven, and even though she has a new one in the same world coming out this month, I think I'm going to skip it. Getting kind of bored. Since it's been sitting on my Kindle for a while, I'm thinking The Girl Who Played with Fire will be next. The Never Let Me Go movie is finally playing here, so once I've seen it, I'll be reading the book. And Cherie Priest has a new one this month Bloodshot, which I have pre-ordered.

Currently reading Towers of Midnight and Against All Things Ending. Must read Sci Fi next. Thinking CryoBurn.

Giving The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms a try since it's getting a lot of Hugo buzz.

Michael wrote: "I started Revelation Space the other day. So far it's been great. I read Chasm City ages ago (sorta book 2 or 0 depending on perspective)"

I read Chasm City before Revelation Space too, and I'm glad I did. BTW, check out Reynolds' two-novella book Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days: Tales from the Revelation Space Universe. A really quick read, great concepts, and provides some extra background to the series.

Oh yeah...this month's reading list includes World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, Bitter Seeds, Anathem, Soul Identity, and a dead-tree copy of Factotum.

Finally finished The Fort by Bernard Cornwell. Took forever to finish, just couldn't keep interested.
Decided to go light for my next book, so I read The Misenchanted Sword Book 1 of the Ethshar Series by Lawrence Watt-Evans. Now I'm reading Harvest Hunting by Yasmine Galenorn.
Waiting in the queue are What the Night Knows by Dean Koontz, and Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand.
Don't have any audiobooks planned right now. Spent most of last month listen to several books, so I'm about a month behind on all my podcasts, need to catch them up before my phone runs out of space. :-D

Nancy Kress's free novella was pretty good, if you like has-been movie stars, genetics, and dwarves:

It's been taking me a while to get through The Once and Future King however I listened to the whole Abhorsen Trilogy by Garth Nix. I heard you guys mention Garth Nix on a previous podcast and saw that these books on Audible were narrated by Tim Curry. Well that fact alone caused me to download the first book, Sabriel. I actually enjoyed the book and finished the trilogy pretty quick.

Uhm, so, I have a bit of a problem. It's to do with Amazon "One-Click" purchases. I occasionally (two or three times a year) go on wild book buying sprees, and then have a break while actually read the books I bought. I had one such "incident" recently, and have the following books to read before I am allowed to buy any more;

The Truth, Good Omens, Assassin's Creed: Renaissance, Assassins Creed Brotherhood Official Complete Guide, The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 4 Novels & 56 Short Stories, Mortal Engines, Retribution, Nostradamus Ate My Hamster

And that's not including books that I'd bought just to have, as I'd already read/listened to but didn't have own a copy (like The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series).

So, uhm, yeah... I have a problem.

I've been reading The Dresden Files recently. Currently on book 9, White Night. I'm probably going to be taking a little bit of a dresden break after I finish this one. Probably going to read either The Name Of The Wind or the next S&L pick (depending on which one it is)

Well, well, here we are in January and I still find myself in the hole the George Martin dug for me. Not complaining, mind you. I am really enjoying the 3rd book (Storm of Swords) and about 75% through. I did get a few cool books for Christmas and will dive into these soon.

At the moment I'm reading The Name of the Wind I think it's very good so far. The lively (though sometimes testy) thread about this book, over in the fantasy group, was pretty interesting, if anyone cares to take a look, it's here. A few readers had some good insights about the book, I thought.

Just finished off What's My Pee Telling Me?and Life of Pi. Working on Stonewielder on the nook and Empire in Black and Gold in paperback. Stonewielder is by far the most tightly paced Malazan book in quite awhile, quite enjoyable.

Just finished reading (and re-reading in some cases) all 18 of the Tony Hillerman Navajo mysteries. About to dive into Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics by Alfred Korzybski and I need to finish the Shadow of the Apt series by Adrian Tchaikovsky so I can get reviews posted.

Just finished Assassin's Quest which I really enjoyed, and am now about half way through An Autumn War, which I'm liking more than the first 2 books in the series (A Shadow in Summer & A Betrayal in Winter) - not that either of these was bad per se, just didn't grab me like this one has. After that I'm planning on reading Century Rain (as well as whatever the latest S&L pick is).

A quicky, but well worth the ten minutes to read a CJ Cherryh short at Apex:

The Soul Mirror showed up on my Kindle this morning (a very pleasant surprise, since Carol Berg is one of my favorite authors and I had forgotten that the release date was today), so that is moving up to the top of my to read list, as soon as I finish City of Ashes, which I'm enjoying, even if the characters all make me feel old. (I guess that's what I get for reading a YA book.)

After that I have Ship of Magic left from my group reads from last month (finally got a copy from the library!), and then lots of group reads for this month... in some order.

I'm currently reading Widdershins by Charles de Lint and Tales of the Dying Earth by Jack Vance. The Jack Vance book is a collection of short stories so I've just been reading it in between other books.

I just finished the first two books Jack Campbell's Lost Fleet series, Dauntless and Fearless, as well as Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand and The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival by John Vaillant.

I am currently reading A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge and The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin.

I'm reading a lot of books right now, they're all marked in my profile here. The most active other one at the moment is Bad Science.

Finish A Storm of Swordstonight and went ahead and jumped into A Feast for Crows. I have definitely fallen and can't get up. How could I not continue given the way he ended Storm of Swords? Anyway, did dl the S&L book and will take a break from SoI&F to read How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe. Looking forward to it....

I am reading Sandman Slim thanks to kind words posted both here and Felicia Day's brief review. I love it when noir and fantasy are mashed-up.

Sandman Slim is pretty good.

I picked it up a month or so ago when it was offered as a free download for the nook.

A sort of hard boiled Noir Fantasy novel involving magic, hell, death, and life. The main character sure takes a beating - but at the end of the story I wasn't sure who I was more sorry for, Sandman Slim - or his enemies :)

About 75% through Makers on the Kindle and loving it so far. Doctorow has a very interesting take on where we're going!

I was stuck in the Lowes parking lot this morning waiting for a tow truck, and realized I had Childhood's End in the back seat. A little win in the middle of a stressful morning.

I finished The Wee Free Men two days ago, thanks to several of your recommendations about Pratchett. I enjoyed it, and look forward to reading the rest of the Tiffany Aching books. I like her character, mostly, I'm not sure I care much about the (disc)world around her.

Just finished Murder at Avedon Hill (which was pretty good) and Soul Identity (not so much). Now I am reading Old Man's War and enjoying it greatly.

I just finished Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson and thoroughly enjoyed it.

I am reading Dark Force Rising. Also reading the audio book version of The War for Late Night: When Leno Went Early and Television Went Crazy

SF -
>Howard Who?by Howard Waldrop, Intro by George R.R. Martin. Fairly amazing short stories, mostly alternative history. I think you could snag Kindle samples and get a few complete stories to see what you think. One of my favorite has Dwight Eisenhower as Benny Goodman.
>The Name of the Wind
>Queued up: The Lord of the Sands of Time (thanks, Sean)

Detective -
>The Redbreast

Non-fiction --
>I'll mention one because I think it would be useful to anyone writing epic fantasy. The author has a fairly plausible theory about how empires are built and how they fall apart. The net result is a pretty good collections of historical moments where things went horribly wrong. War and Peace and War: The Rise and Fall of Empires
>Oh, and this one's a trip: Spring, Heat, Rains: A South Indian Diary
"I will follow my own principle...of always reading poetry in the language in which it was written (that is the easy part), but also absorbing it in the setting where it was written." Which brings the author to south India.

I just finished Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void, which was very good, and am now reading Diary.

I'm now reading too much. In addition to Bad Science, I've started (and since finished) Science Fictional Universe, and am now working on Bitter Seeds since it sounded so interesting from the conversations of last year.
I'm listening to METAtropolis as well, and liking it.

Finished Sandman Slim (enjoyed it) and on a blind recommendation I picked up The Hunger Games which blew me away. Now I'm trying to read The Lies of Locke Lamora but it hasn't grabbed me yet.

Just barely started The Name of the Wind but it'll be put on hold; ordered Good Omens today to read with the group. Finally about to finish Volume 16, Issue 1/2 of and need to have something on the nook so will start either Daemon or Best Served Cold this week.

I am reading Anathem which will prolly keep me reading for months.

I'm halfway through The Name of the Wind and its excellent so far. I also recently finished Surface Detail by Iain M. Bankshis latest Culture book. I think he would be a good choice for a future read. The anarcho-communist world of the is a really interesting world to get into!

David wrote: "I'm halfway through The Name of the Wind and its excellent so far. ..."

I'm about 1/3 in and it is really surprisingly good. I'm going to have to stop saying I don't like fantasy.

I just got a B&W Nook for Christmas. Our Library is starting to get more electronic books, so I downloaded Vampire Academy as a test. I'm about 1/3 the way through and find the characters easy to imagine and relate with. Very well written so far. The author does a reasonably good job of drawing you into the story.

I have not read many Vampire stories, but thought I'd give this one a shot since it was highly rated on the Library website.

I have David Weber and John Ringo's March Upcountry in audio from Overdrive.

Going to re-read Good Omens and take a look at The Blade Itself since it was recommended.

Just finished Agatha H and the Airship City, which was surprisingly good for a novelization of a graphic novel.

Next is King Maker, which is yet another Arthurian tale, except this time Arthur has been reincarnated as a street-wise hustler who must unite the pimps and crack dealers of Indianapolis to battle otherworldly evil.

Sean wrote: "Next is King Maker, which is yet another Arthurian tale, except this time Arthur has been reincarnated as a street-wise hustler who must unite the pimps and crack dealers of Indianapolis to battle otherworldly evil. "

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For the love of all that is pasta, please let me know how that goes.

Finally finished Swan Song. Long book but well worth the time. Now I've moved on to The Third Bear and listening to Stephen King's Full Dark, No Stars. And soon Good Omens. No Kindle version available so I'll be listening to it.

I just finished Broken Angels by Richard Morgan. Not as good as Altered Carbon but still well worth the read if you liked Altered Carbon.