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[kcf]

While, it's technically still June where I am, I'll go ahead and get things started. I finished The Winds of Khalakovo a while ago, but haven't gotten a review written yet - it's another promising debut from the folks over at Night Shade Books. I just got a reviewup for Sharps by K.J. Parker - which is excellent. I'm currently reading Range of Ghosts by Elizabeth Bear, which is good. Next up should be The Forge of Darkness by Erikson, whcih I'm told is in the mail.

[RedEyedGhost]

I'm currently enjoying Caliban's War by James S.A. Corey.

[Starkess]

Working my way through The Escapement by KJ Parker. Not sure what I want to happen in the end, but that's okay because, knowing Parker, I certainly wouldn't get it anyway...

[Larry.]

I'm reading novels that would get me teased some more by Arthmail

OK, I'm reading a biography of George F. Kennan that won this year's National Book Critics Circle Award.  A third done and it's great so far.

Will finish the Erikson omnibus of his SF novellas later.  First two were very good.

Will eventually return to the new Delany.

Might actually read the second Rothfuss before I ship it to a friend.  Have delayed reading it for 16 months now

Don't know what else I'll read, as I haven't been reading as much the past six weeks or so.

[Rorshach]

Just finished The Double by José Saramango, and started on The Bonfire of the Vanities.

[Wormwood]

Just started The Desert of Souls by Howard Andrew Jones.

[Galleymac]

Juggling "Harbour" by John Aqvide Lindkvist and "Eutopia" by David Nickle.

[Reposado]

Just finished the new jim crow after hearing about it everywhere. if you haven't heard, it's about the drug war and its effect on african american culture.

didn't really get much out of it myself, but most of the points made i'd seen many times in articles. i doubt there was even one thing in there that was new to me. but it's good that these ideas are getting some traction and making some noise outside of internet circles.

yet, there were tons of logical leaps and lack of understanding of basic economics that limited the work.

probably 75% "yeah true, i've heard that before"
15% groans
and 10% interesting points of view. overall the wire told this story better

ETA
next up, a re-read of Kay's Under Heaven, before the new one comes out. yeah they're only marginally connected but i've only read Under Heaven once, and i'm grateful for the excuse

Edited by Lanza Rota, 01 July 2012 - 07:11 AM.

[Contrarius]

I'm on a mini rereading binge. Listened to Pride and Prejudice with Kate Reading narrating -- that's the third or fourth time through the book for me. Now listening to Still Life by Louise Penny-- only my second time through this one. Then will be Prince of Thorns, since it is finally available at Audible. Yippee, I've been waiting for this one!

[Zcrow]

Started Caliban's War; forty pages in and loving it.  Also starting Cold Copper Tears by Glen Cook.  Should be done listening to Night Circus today and will either listen to Railsea or Sandman Slim next.  Don't really know anything about Slim but figured I may give it a shot.

[TheEvilKing]

Currently reading Salute the Dark by Adrian Tchaikovsky and Ciaphas Cain: Hero of the Imperium by Sandy Mitchell.

[Datepalm]

Started Existence by David Brin and might go through the Songs of Love and Death anthology.

[Sci-2]

My new goal is finish books I already have:

Humanity by Johnathan Glover, nonfiction work on 20th century ethics in the face of genocide, the Bomb, etc.

God of Small Things.

Still working on Kafka on the Shore.

Revisiting Vellum, at this point I'll likely end up reading it straight through.

Firethorn.

Still working on the Great Lover

Not sure if any of these will actually be finished by the end of the month, but here's to hoping.

[Peadar]

I have just started Crimea by Orlando Figes.

The author claims that most of the other histories of this massive war that are available in the English language almost completely leave out contemporary accounts written in other languages. Not this one.

[Guinevere Seaworth]

I'm 2/3 way through the Heris Serrano omnibus by Elizabeth Moon.  The first book was meh, but the second was a vast improvement and I'm curious what the final book will be like.

[NewsToTom]

Eight books in June, up to 73 on the year. No progress on War and Peace, unsurprisingly. I did get on an Alain de Botton kick, reading The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work, Religion for Atheists, Status Anxiety, and half of his architecture book before I got tired of reading him. The only other read of general interest was Fahrenheit 451, which I didn't much care for.

Possible July reads include Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep and its sequels, Anathem, or War and Peace, but more likely no more than one of the above.

[Procrastimancer]

Finished Rob Reid's Year Zero. That was a fun read, but it is so enmeshed with current pop culture (and, as another blogger pointed out, pop-culture from the Napster era) that I fear its relevance will likely fade quick. Until then, it's a good book and funny, so I hope people read it.

I dropped The Fade by Chris Wooding to read Year Zero and since I've finished that, I have come back to it. Still enjoying it.

[Grack21]

This month im starting my READ EVER SHAKESPEARE PLAY YOU BARBARIAN project.

[Drowned Crow]

Just finished Rasputin's Bastards by David Nickle. Very good book, much like his first novel Eutopia.

[Sis Who Swears]

Just finished Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies by Hillary Mantel. I read them both twice, I loved them both but I enjoyed Wolf Hall better the second time around once I had a better idea of what was going on and was more used to the writing style. Now I want more stories from that period!