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Go ahead and post 'em!

Like I need more books to add to my TBR mountain :P

I'm about halfway through Theories of Flight, so I guess I will finish it in June. :-)

Not sure which book I'm going to start that's in my TBR pile. I have about 70 to 80 books on my Kindle that I want to read, at least half are Sci-Fi.

How do you like Theories? Good stuff?

I've got that series on my TBR, just haven't gotten around to it yet.

It’s pretty good, though perhaps not quite as good as the first one, which is one of my favorites to be published this year. I really think this trilogy needs to be read one right after the other, though, as the second refers back to events from the first quite a bit, and starts 4 months later. My understanding (which might be wrong) is that the author wrote the whole thing and then split it up (or his publisher did), which might have been a wise course of action for an author who’s mostly done short stories in the past, but still this series cries out for an omnibus edition at some point.

I’m looking forward to picking up the 3rd book, Degrees of Freedom, on the Kindle in the next couple of weeks.

I'm rereading Promises to Keep, which would be splendid, except I didn't realize I was rereading for quite awhile...

Starting on At Grave's End today. Im also gonna read Destined for an Early Grave, This Side of the Grave, A Clash of Kings, If I Stay, Angelfire and Hex Hall, and more if i get the time for it

I'm in the middle of and .

After that. . . I have no clue what I'll be reading, because I'm in the middle of moving and haven't decided what to keep out of boxes! It'll probably be and though.

I'm halfway through Graveminder and just started A Suitable Boy (which will probably take a while). I'm trying to get through a backlog of used books I bought last month. Not sure what I'll start after Graveminder - Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell is also in the backlog, but I might want something less dense to balance out the GIGANTIC FAMILY TOME that is ASB. At some point, I'll also be reading Hurricane Dancers, which was a Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ win... and I'd reeeeeally like to continue the Weather Warden series with Heat Stroke.

Oops. I'm running late and still reading Opening Atlantis, as in May's sci-fi read. I'm nearly done with it, but will then have to decide whether to read on in the series.

I started The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective last night and am enjoying it greatly. I'll probably pick up Consider Phlebas or The Snow Queen (fingers crossed) next. Not sure what I'll be doing for fantasy, possibly some Discworld as a palate cleanser.

I really enjoyed Mr. Whicher, though it gets a bit sloggy in the middle. Overall it was really good, though.

I'm looking forward to lots of great group reads this month.

For SF&F: Consider Phlebas and The Summer Tree
For Beyond Reality: In the Garden of Iden (SF selection)
For FBC: Leviathan
For FBCS: Daughter of the Empire

During my commutes to work, I'm either listening to The Caves of Steel or reading The Winds of Khalakovo via my Nook Color.

I hope to finish The Backyard Astronomer's Guide this month, but I'm bogged down in a long chapter on deep sky objects and how to best find them.

Anything else I might attempt, provided I finish the above, can be found on my current-month book shelf.

Let the summer reads begin!

I'm reading Boneshaker on the sci-fi front. It's all right, I guess. So far it seems one of those casual, not terribly brilliantly crafted reads. the writing's a bit clunky in places (many places, actually) and seems amateurish, but it's not bad.

I've also just started on Lev Grossman's The Magicians and am desperately hoping I am not about to be sucked in to a teen drama.

My classics shelf contains Ivanhoe which I almost finished, and The Nine Tailors which I'm enjoying a great deal. More to come, I'm sure.

This month i am going to finish up my reread of A Song of Ice and Fire and then i will read The Magicians,The Summer Tree and if i have time left The Warded Man(But not exactly in that order).

Reading The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, haha!

Continuing with In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin for another book club.

I'm 25% through The Hunchback of Notre-Dame from my May list.

Consider Phlebas and A Visit from the Goon Squad for book group reads. Then I'll continue with Dresden with Turn Coat, Changes, and Side Jobs: Stories From the Dresden Files. Since I HAVE TO KNOW ABOUT THAT PIZZA: Before They Are Hanged and Last Argument of Kings.

I am reading the Prydain Chronicles all in one book for the first time.

I'm starting my 6th, 7th, 8th re-read of . I've lost track of how many times...

I was in the mood for a good murder/mystery, and Brandon Sanderson has been very vocal about his friend's series which starts with . So far it's quite imaginative. The premise is that a 15 year old boy, who is aware that he is a sociopath with all of the serial killer predictors, is trying to "be good" as an active serial killer starts a spree in his small home town. I'm really enjoying it!

After that, I'm a bit stuck. I have too many good books in my to-read pile, (probably over 50). Plus, I'm also in the mood for a few more re-reads. I want to re-visit the Obsidian trilogy by Mercedes Lackey, the Prydian Chronicles by Lloyd Alexander...

I may have to resort to eenie meenie minee moe....

Nicholas Christopher: The Bestiary. Modern day protagonist searches for medieval bestiary about animals that didn't board the ark but nevertheless survive the flood. In the process the 1st person narrator has occasional encounters w/ mythical beings. But the book is more existentialism than fantasy.

Going to buy Hexed by Kevin Hearne, the 2nd installment in "The Iron Druid" series. Premise is a rather boyish 2,000+ year old Druid living in the American southwest contending with hostile witches, vindictive Tuatha de Danan (sp?) and spiteful faeries and other unfriendlies. On a literary level, it's like eating a twinkie. Not much substance but still, it tastes good.

Craig,

I bought Hexed this past weekend. Isn't it the first book in a series?

I've been slacking in my reading the last couple days. I've only gotten a few pages into The Inferior so far.

I finished Hawkwood and the Kings and it was really good. I have to go buy the next one soon.

I'm going outside the genre now with 2666.

In terms of sci-fi, I'm planning to read , and also looking at Ender's Game. I have heard a lot of great things about Ender's Game, so I'm looking forward to that.

For fantasy, definitely going to finish off book 3 and book 4 of A Song of Ice and Fire. Aside from those, any recommendations?

Julia wrote: "Craig,

I bought Hexed this past weekend. Isn't it the first book in a series?"

Hello Julia. Hexed is the second book Julia, Hounded is the first. Bon lisez. Craig.

This weekend I will try to finish three books, Ringworld and Ringworld Engineers, then Doomsday book, which I am a little behind, but just got a copy a week ago.

Craig wrote: "Julia wrote: "Craig,

I bought Hexed this past weekend. Isn't it the first book in a series?"

Hello Julia. Hexed is the second book Julia, Hounded is the first. Bon lisez. Craig."

I clicked on Julia's link for Hexed and then clicked on Kevin Hearne. That's when I discovered that Kevin has another profile with only two books on it. Perhaps that's why Julia thought it was the first book in a series. The other book on that profile is unrelated to Hexed. Unfortunately, since Kevin is a GR author, an ordinary librarian like me can't deal with any profile problems.

I don't know Shomeret. The third book in the series is called Hammered. I guess the author likes the letter H. Or maybe it's the Celtic custom of 3s. Here's his website. Under "Books" you'll find all of his works so far. Enjoy your weekend Shomeret.

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

I devoured The Native Star the first day of June. Loved it. Will order the next in the series shortly.

Currently finishing up Spy Glass, to complete the Glass series, and listening to Changeless during my commute. (Both these books got thrown to the side while I read The Native Star).

Then... I'm not sure. I'm supposed to be reading Daughter of the Empire for the FBCS group read, but I still haven't finished A Darkness at Sethanon, and I'm not sure I'm going to.

I've finished book 2 of Fionavar, The Wandering Fire. Will start book 3, The Darkest Road, later tonight.

And then I'll go back to BotM's and finish those off.

At any rate, this is apparently a re-read for me of the Fionavar Tapestry, since I started having deja vu while reading Fire and then fully remembered a particular scene.

I must have read it a really, really long time ago to not have a complete memory of it anymore.

I finished re-reading The Inferior by Peadar Ó Guilín, which was as good as I remembered.

Now reading The Deserter also by O'Guilin.

Ala wrote: "I've finished book 2 of Fionavar, The Wandering Fire. Will start book 3, The Darkest Road, later tonight."

Yay I'm not the only one who's going to read the whole trilogy. :D This is at least my third full time through the series, although it's been long enough since the last time that there's a lot I didn't remember right away.

Other books for the current month:
Bellwether as an audiobook. Connie Willis is great, although this is apparently one of her weaker books. Kate Reading's skill is really bringing this book to life though, so I'm enjoying it very much. Reads like The Office meets Malcolm Gladwell.

After that, still trying to get through the Wheel of Time in audiobook format. Kate Reading helps there too (I really like her as a reader). Getting a bit bogged down in Winter's Heart but I know there's exciting stuff coming up.

Plus A Plague of Angels (Sheri Tepper is another favorite author and I already read The Waters Rising without realizing it was a sequel) and Mountain of Black Glass (read the first two some years ago and determined to finish the series this year - summaries of the previous books at the beginning of the next help a lot - WoT should really have those).

Currently reading Wolf Totem, about a Chinese student "sent down" to Mongolia during the Cultural Revolution in China to live with the Mongol herdsman. It was a classic in its day supposedly.

Andre wrote: "Yay I'm not the only one who's going to read the whole trilogy. :D This is at least my third full time through the series, although it's been long enough since the last time that there's a lot I didn't remember right away."

I used to always finish a series once I started, as long as I enjoyed the first book enough to go for the second one.

Lately though, I've found myself starting a series because it's a Book of the Month pick for a group I'm in, and then never getting around to continuing/finishing a series.

Figured I needed to get back to my old ways, so I'm going to power through Fionavar before the weekend is over.

Currently reading Regenesis, the Cyteen followup by C.J. Cherryh. I can not decide yet, about 40 % thru the book, whether it is mostly a rehash or not.
Also reading the 4th Kate Elliot Crown of Stars book which I find a bit wordy, but entertaining.

Ala wrote: "Andre wrote: "Yay I'm not the only one who's going to read the whole trilogy. :D"

You two are making me want to pick up book 3 as well.

I finished the first two over a month ago, but I think I've been holding off on The Darkest Road so that I can savor the end a bit.

I've really love the trilogy. But I've found that I have to be in a certain frame of mind to fully appreciate it.

So I take breaks.

=)

Just finished The Red Wolf Conspiracy by Robert V.S. Redick which I really enjoyed. The characters are complex and so interesting and the action keeps one flipping pages. The beautiful Thasha is to be married to a prince, presumably to make peace between two countries but the political intent is to start a war. Pazel is a young boy with a magical gift of languages whose father abandoned him. Neeps, Pazel's best friend, is a fiestly little boy whose fierce tenacity and friendship endears him to all. Hercol is a peace-loving skilled warrior who is devoted to serving Thasha. The magical beings include Arunis, an evil sorcerer whose goals are to serve only his own ends; Klyst, a magical female of the deep who loves Pazel, and Ramachni, whose home is another world and fights Arunis from world to world. My only complaint is that the book ends on a hook to get one to read the next in the series, The Rats and the Ruling Sea.

Kara wrote: "I finished the first two over a month ago, but I think I've been holding off on The Darkest Road so that I can savor the end a bit."

I finished it today.

Leith would probably have called me a wuss.

I'm re-reading A Feast for Crows and just started looking at the prologue of Embassytown, but I keep getting sucked into Westeros, so I'll probably finish AFfC first.

Im currently reading The Elfin Ship by James Blaylock

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19...

To be followed by either:

The Dragonbone Chair by Tad Williams or The Shrinking Man by Richard Matheson.

I finished Midnight Riot yesterday, which had come highly recommended by someone in my writer's group. I enjoyed it quite a bit - sort of a veddy British take on the Dresden Files. And - bonus - I didn't instantly hate the female cop.

Also finished Fluke, which I liked, but not as much as I've like other books by Moore. I really enjoy his imagination - the inside of his head must be a strange place! A Dirty Job and Lamb are my favorites, but I have a huge soft spot for The Stupidest Angel.

Finished Robin Hood (no illustrations with the free Kindle edition, sadly).

I might move on to the freshly released L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories. I'm intrigued, since word is the game basically plays itself as a visual story--and I got the book free through a "free e-reader of the day" type site. Has anyone picked this up?

Stephanie wrote: "Finished Robin Hood (no illustrations with the free Kindle edition, sadly).

I might move on to the freshly released L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories. I'm intrigued, since word is..."

I haven't read it, but I watched my boyfriend play the game. It was highly enjoyable. Much so than it normally is to watch someone play a game. Granted, that I lived in LA for 3 years didn't hurt much. It has made me want to rewatch Chinatown. I should do that.

Just bought a biography on the Buddha by T.N.H. and, more central to the raison-detre of this club, Kevin Hearne's Hexed, the second in a trilogy that narrate's the life of a 2,000+ year old Irish Druid living in modern day New Mexico rubbing shoulders with werewolves, vampires, witches, and vegans.

I am reading The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov, i have already read Foundation but not the sequels included in this edition. I have been reading a lot of fantasy lately, it will be good to read some Sf again.

I'm reading and loving Welcome to Bordertown.

Yesterday I picked up at the library Who Fears Death, Huntress, Lockdown and Summer Sisters.

Denae wrote: "I haven't read it, but I watched my boyfriend play the game. It was highly enjoyable. Much so than it normally is to watch someone play a game..."

Yeah, it's a very watchable experience, apparently--not so much on the gameplay, though. ;)

Stephanie wrote: "Machavelli wrote: "I am reading The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov, i have already read Foundation but not the sequels included in this edition. I have been reading a lot of fantas..."

I LOVE the Foundation trilogy. My favorite is the second book: Foundation and Empire.

I Just finished The Wise Man's Fear and it seemed like it was the first book all over again but i still couldn't put it down

I just finished The Magicians. It was really pretty decent until the last part, where it just... fell apart at the seams. I genuinely dislike authors handing the idiot ball to characters so profoundly and consistently.