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Happy New Year! Please tell us what you are reading, or plan to read, in January.

Happy New Year, everyone. I finished Regeneration by Julie E. Czerneda last night. I really enjoyed it, I think Czerneda has some problems with pacing in this series, but her character and world building are both amazing. She's on my list to read more from.

In the meantime, I have started reading Macroscope by Piers Anthony and Among Thieves by Douglas Hulick.

Currently reading: Bathing the Lion by Jonathan Carroll.

Just finished book 3 in the Witches of Eileanan series, The Cursed Towers. Next up is a John Grisham book, then I'll come back to this series.

Here is my review of Water sleeps a black company book.

just started Swan Song by Robert McCammon. Not sure what's after that but there's no lack of reading material thanks to this group and my substantial to-read list.

Started reading The City and the Stars and continuing my re-read of Dune for the new year (in SF anyway).

currently reading Cosmonaut Keep with a short story from Destination: Universe!.

Plan to read The Last Theorem and maybe Solar Lottery. The Man Who Japed

I finished and reviewed Katherine MacLean's Missing Man and made extensive edits to the library entry.

I started reading Beholder's Eye book 1 of the Web Shifters trilogy by Julie E. Czerneda a favorite author.

I'm reading The Golem and the Jinni. I'm a little under half way at the moment, but any interest I had is falling off and I haven't been able to bring myself to pick it up again in over a week. I may just give up and try again later.

I've got Veil of the Deserters and City of Stairs both waiting in the wings for me.

After traveling for two weeks, I'm looking forward to some reading time alone this month! Working through Daggerspell for the first time but took a break and jetted through Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened, which was fun.

I'm still in short story mode until I catch up on all my schoolwork, working my way through the 2014 Campbellian Anthology. Some real gems here.

Happy new Year to you all! My Christmas vacation was dedicated to an astonishingly good fantasy book, The Curse of the Mistwraith, which got me completely hooked and now I'm reading The Ships of Merior. I think my January reading reading time will stay dedicated to Janny Wurts's Light and Shadow series. Very intense.

Alissa. There was a whole discussion of the series. I beleive Janny joined in.
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I am reading The Girl with All the Gifts and next I want to finish the trilogy with Harpist in the Wind.

I am waiting for The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack to be delivered to my doorstep.

I have The Curse of the Mistwraith on my shelf, I have to give it a try in 2015.

Christine wrote: "I am reading The Girl with All the Gifts and next I want to finish the trilogy with Harpist in the Wind.

I am waiting for [book:The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Ja..."

Mistwraith was a surprise book, indeed. The story is strong and quite grim, very twisty. The second book is promising, too, and I'm in love with the writing style. I hope you'll like it as much as I did!

@Ken thank you! I've posted a little, and I hope Janny will come by.

I just started Armageddon's Children. I read a lot of science fiction but almost no fantasy so I'm not sure what to expect from it.

I finished The Lost Island which I don't recommend and also finished The Bell at Sealey Head which I did enjoy. I am now reading [book:The Flight of the Silvers|18079705 which I am enjoying

Chris wrote: "I just started Armageddon's Children. I read a lot of science fiction but almost no fantasy so I'm not sure what to expect from it."

You are kinda jumping in midstream. While this is a origin story it does use a lot of history of Brooks Shannara series and combines it with his Word and Void series (Which was quite good).
This series, for me, was the straw that broke the camels back. I did not enjoy it at all and could not finish the final book in the trilogy

Finished the Malazan Book of the Fallen series by Steven Erikson yesterday and am now starting Grunts by Mary Gentle.

The Book of the Fallen series was a bit of slog at times but found the story interesting till the end.

Grunts so far is quite comical and a very easy read. Am enjoying it.

Ken wrote: "You are kinda jumping in midstream. While this is a origin story... This series, for me, was the straw that broke the camels back. I did not enjoy it at all and could not finish the final book in the trilogy "


I appreciate the heads up. I've never read anything by Terry Brooks before, so if I don't end up enjoying Armageddon's Children I'll keep in mind that it might not be representative of his better books.

If you want to read Brooks, you need to go back to the start. The Sword of Shannara. Its a pretty mush self contained story.
It was pretty good when I read it back in the early 80s.
For me Brooks is hit and miss. When he is on his game his is exceptional.
You can try Running with the Demon also.
I really enjoyed this one, he stepped out of Shannara and tried something new and it worked.

Thanks, Ken. I'll check those books out for sure.

Right now I'm reading Contract of Defiance (interstellar sci-fi by Tammy Salyer) and Sea Glass (fantasy romance by Maria V. Snyder). Both fun in rather different ways.

My first 2015 read is The Empress of Mars by the late Kage Baker. Each page reminds me of how much I miss this amazing writer.

I'm in the last stages of editing my current work in progress, and as a result I plan to start reading The Earl of Brass by Kara Jorgensen in the next week or so.

I just finished Dr. Bloodmoney, a PKD i had not attempted before, and I liked it a lot. I will sometime this month start the mammoth Ilium by Dan Simmons.

Finished Augustus. It was ok. It was better than the other Augustus biography I read but not by much.
Started on a Torchwood book written by Captain Jack himself
Exodus Code

I finished Among Thieves yesterday. I liked it, even though it was a bit of a slow start. At the beginning, the book was too much confusion, with lots of stumbling around trying to figure out what was going on. However, by the time things start to come together, the stakes are so high that it was hard to stop reading. I'm looking forward to seeing where the series goes.

Now, I'm working on Blindsight and Macroscope.

I'm reading Changing Vision book 2 of the Web Shifters series by Julie E. Czerneda

Nick wrote: "I just finished Dr. Bloodmoney, a PKD i had not attempted before, and I liked it a lot. I will sometime this month start the mammoth Ilium by Dan Simmons."

never read Dr. Bloodmoney either but do fancy it. Ive just started Legend and its been very enjoyable. Im not big on this type of fantasy but so far so good.

Conrad wrote: "Finished the Malazan Book of the Fallen series by Steven Erikson yesterday
The Book of the Fallen series was a bit of slog at times but f..."

I am reading that also. Its my Spring Summmer read. I am only through 7 books. They are definatly a slog. They are definatly very good too

I just ripped through Tana French's The Likeness in three days. I'm usually not a big mystery reader, but I really love her books. Even though there's nothing at all paranormal about them, they somehow seem a bit supernatural.

The end of a Niven SF classic now, but I intend to read more Heinlein, but also more William Gibson (maybe the new one), Neal Asher, maybe some 90's sci-fi and a few literary novels.

I am sitting here staring at Gibson's new one.
Unfortunatly I have to read next months book Kraken, first on to then Gibson's book.

I finished The Flight of the Silvers: The Silvers Series which I highly recommend and then on to The Time Weaver which I finished, but don't strongly recommend (I'm not a fan of romance novels even when they contain dragons). Today i WILL start on a non SciFi book, Mean Streak

Here is my review of red under red skies the 2nd book in gentlemen bastard sequence.

I finished Macroscope by Piers Anthony today. It was better than I expected, but I felt like it lost a lot of momentum in the final 25% of the book. Also, some issues of embedded racism and sexism throughout that severely marred the experience.

I just started Mars Crossing by Geoffrey A. Landis as my next book.

Ready to start on older science fiction book, October the First Is Too Late.

Finished Daggerspell last night, very impressed. A bit simple for my taste but for a book that's almost as old as I am, it holds up well.

Working on finishing up American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies in the Founding of the Republic, which I started last summer. When I finish this one I'll have a clear "currently reading" slate for the first time in a few years!

Shel wrote: "I just ripped through Tana French's The Likeness in three days. I'm usually not a big mystery reader, but I really love her books. Even though there's nothing at all paranormal abo..."

I loved this one! My sister gave me an ARC of it back in the day and now I am a big fan...

I am finishing upA Deepness in the Sky
and plan to start Burning Paradise

Lindsey wrote: "When I finish this one I'll have a clear "currently reading" slate for the first time a few years! "

I wish. I am sitting here thinking I will never end up reading all the books I have, I still keep buying.
Right now for me it triage. Which one do I want to read the most.

I just finished Greywalker - I enjoyed it enough that I'm definitely going to read the next in the series - though the pacing was a little haphazard (multiple threads coming together that sometimes felt more sloppy than complex), and the main character, while exceptionally well drawn, was not always very sympathetic.

Also read The Warded Man, which I also enjoyed a lot. Cleaner writing, if a little less directly up my preferred allies than Greywalker.

I fell asleep last nite 5 pages before finishing Changing Vision. Ill will finish later and then start The Merro Tree by Katie Waitman a Sci-Fi I think.

Reading Blood Song Blood Song by Anthony RyanAnthony Ryan. Excellent so far. Will remind readers of the King Killer Chronicles in the way that the story is told.

Lindsey wrote: "Finished Daggerspell last night, very impressed. A bit simple for my taste but for a book that's almost as old as I am, it holds up well."

I really loved that whole series by Katharine Kerr. I have the newest related books on my shelf and that might lead me to a reread of the series. Yes, they are simpler than some of the current popular fantasy titles, but they tell a good story and I like her style.

Kathi wrote: "Lindsey wrote: "Finished Daggerspell last night, very impressed. A bit simple for my taste but for a book that's almost as old as I am, it holds up well."

I really loved that whole ..."

I read the first few books back when I was in high school, and I remember really loving them. I should get back to the series and see if they stand up to my good memories.

I finished October the First Is Too Late yesterday.

5/10

Somewhat dated (written in 1966) but that is not the main problem I have with this book. It's short, as many SF books were at that time, but it's short at the expense of understanding. I can see that the driving force of the story is to lead us to the decisions that Richard (the narrator) and John Sinclair ultimately have to make, but in the drive to get us there, so much is left unexplained and unexplored. I feel like this was but a chapter in a much larger story.

As a sidelight, I liked the music-math connection that was so prominent in the story, and the power of music that springs form and therefore touches our emotions.

Now I'm back with the Witches of Eileanan, The Skull of the World.

Shel wrote: "Kathi wrote: "Lindsey wrote: "Finished Daggerspell last night, very impressed. A bit simple for my taste but for a book that's almost as old as I am, it holds up well."

I really lov..."

I read the first eight and meant to reread the lot when it was finally complete.

Here is my review of soldiers live for the black company series