mashiara Posted January 1, 2013 Share Posted January 1, 2013 Happy New year everyone! May 2013 bring us all lots of great books to read and enjoy.I'll be starting the year with The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides. It almost gave me a fit when my MiL, who's staying with us for the holidays, picked that one book to read and take back with her to the States, but fortunately she gave it up after two dozen pages and now I get to read it.The book I'm really really looking forward to this month is of course A Memory of Light, but it won't get to me until at least a week after it comes out, maybe later, so I'll have to wait a bit longer. But what's a little bit of extra waiting for a WoT fan, right? Right?So, what are you guys reading this new year? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sci-2 Posted January 1, 2013 Share Posted January 1, 2013 Feeding my insomnia with Great and Secret Show. Loving it so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Olenna Posted January 1, 2013 Share Posted January 1, 2013 I need to finish the current biography I'm reading about Edgar Cayce. It's good but slightly slow. Then I plan to read Dreamsongs and Workd War Z. After that I plan to start digging into some classics that I have on the kindle. I need to get back into exercising my brain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gillio Posted January 1, 2013 Share Posted January 1, 2013 I'm half-way through Dorothy Dunnett's Niccolo series.For Christmas, My son bought me Kobo vouchers, so I'll be checking here for recommendations once I've finished the series Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cseresz.reborn Posted January 1, 2013 Share Posted January 1, 2013 My plan:Fazekas-Szerényi: Biológia II. (Ember, bioszféra, evolúció)Harry Potter and the Philosopher's StoneHarry Potter and the Chamber of SecretsHarry Potter and the Prisoner of AzkabanHarry Potter and the Goblet of FireHarry Potter and the Order of the PhoenixHarry Potter and the Half-Blood PrinceHP7: I will not re-read this book -- once was more than enough for me.- boring- a huge disappointment- predictable- lame- there's no emotional connection to the characters- boring- gigantic plot holes- cheesy dialogue- boringJo (or her ghost writer(s)) was bored with the series and wanted to get it done and over with as quickly as possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreamSongs Posted January 1, 2013 Share Posted January 1, 2013 Finishing Dreamsong's Vol 1 and starting Vol 2. Then, Warriors.Hoping to read The Winds of Winter before the end of the year is out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datepalm Posted January 1, 2013 Share Posted January 1, 2013 I'm trying to read more in translation and possibly dust off my ability to read fiction in languages that aren't english, so I started Silence of the Grave, set in and translated from, I assume, Icelandic. Murder mystery/police procedural type thing, where everything is simply awful all the time, but in Iceland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry. Posted January 1, 2013 Share Posted January 1, 2013 My first two 2013 reads will be books with 2013 copyrights:Leah Stewart, The History of Us (on-sale on the 8th). Interesting so far, about a woman who has to raise her sister and brother-in-law's three young children after they die in an auto accident. About 40 pages into this 367 page novel.Tamas Dobozy, Siege 13. This collection was originally scheduled to be published in February 2013, but Amazon shipped it last week, so I'll be reading some of these stories before going to sleep and probably finish it after the Stewart later in the day today.George Saunders' latest collection, Tenth of December, comes out on the 8th and I have that on iBookstore pre-order (nice to have store credit for 2-3 books after this).Pre-ordered the WoT, but I don't know when I'll get around to reading that. Maybe I'll skim it and read it the weekend after, but it depends on my mood. Buying it more to send to someone than out of a pressing desire to read it.Might also buy Jim Harrison's upcoming collection of novellas, The River Swimmer, when it is released next week.After that, no clue at all at the moment as to what I'll read. At some point, I want to resume working on my Serbian and German, in case I do land a decent job shortly and can travel later this year on the money I still have in reserve in case I can't find full-time work readily. Burning desire to travel the southern and central lands of the old Habsburg Empire that needs to be scratched and all and I hate the thought of being one of those stereotypical dumb monolingual American tourists :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garett Hornwood Posted January 1, 2013 Share Posted January 1, 2013 Even though I read 27 whole books last year, I'm going lower with my 2013 goal of 20. Quiet a few books I read last year were short and I'm not going to be reading that many short. But for the month of January...Today I'm starting Renegade: The Making of a President by Richard Wolffe about Barack Obama's 2008 Presidential campaign.Next on tap would be The Gathering Storm by Jordan and Sanderson in continuation of my first read through of The Wheel of Time series. It'll also be my first exposure of writing by Sanderson, so know idea about what to expect.Right now I think that'll be as much as I'll get to this month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagilki Posted January 1, 2013 Share Posted January 1, 2013 Re-Reading the First Law books at the moment. Will most likely pause that once I get AMoL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkynJay Posted January 1, 2013 Share Posted January 1, 2013 Reading a YA book called Falling Kingdoms to end the last year/start this one. Pariah by Dan Abnett showed up at the library, so it got bumped ahead of Kate Elliot's Cold Magic for a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Durckad Posted January 1, 2013 Share Posted January 1, 2013 Started up Prince of Thorns last night. I probably should not have started reading a new book so late at night, I was falling asleep throughout the first few chapters. Hopefully that was just me not the book. :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newsun Posted January 1, 2013 Share Posted January 1, 2013 Currently reading Shogun, The Boy in the Suitcase, and a book on the ACLU from its early days to 1960 or thereabouts.Depending on when my order gets here I'll be reading Lolita, Madame Bovary, A Memory of Light, and Nightside the Long Sun in January as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickg Posted January 1, 2013 Share Posted January 1, 2013 Im finally going to catch up on WoT, but I have only made it through The Great Hunt. So i am pretty much locked in for the next month or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alytha Posted January 1, 2013 Share Posted January 1, 2013 Still reading Karavans by J. Roberson, but I'm not quite so happy about this anymore, due to, on the one hand, an awfully contrived attempted rape scene, which was there only so the hero could save her, and, on the other, said hero being 100% male wish-fulfillment. He's just a superstar. And the author is far too much in love with him, otherwise I wouldn't mind so much.My parents ordered an e-reader for me for christmas, but it has disappeared in the mail :(As soon as we have that sorted out, first priorities are Cold Days and Memory of Light.Unread physical books I have lying around are The Halfmade World, Legacy of Kings and a couple of short story collections. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterbound Posted January 1, 2013 Share Posted January 1, 2013 Getting through the new dresden book, Cold Days. These may have ran their course, or maybe I just don't find them as amusing as I once did, but i'm a bit underwhelmed with this outing. Moving onto Day by Day Armageddon: Shattered Hourglass after that. Maybe I'll finish WoT next. Don't know, can't really stand the fucking books, but I've invested enough time in them, might as well see it through. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guinevere Seaworth Posted January 1, 2013 Share Posted January 1, 2013 I'm halfway through The Curse of Chalion and I love it so far. I zipped to the library yesterday and got the next two books, The Paladin of Souls and The Hallowed Hunt.A Memory of Light, re-read of The Hobbit and a classic or a non-fiction book are all going to be squeezed in for January reading. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cuthbert Allgood Posted January 1, 2013 Share Posted January 1, 2013 Can't decide between starting Dreamsongs Vol I-II or Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness / Dispossessed... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burnt hound Posted January 1, 2013 Share Posted January 1, 2013 Waiting for A Memory of Light (so close now) and Snuff by Terry Pratchett (the paperback). I feel that 2013 will be starting rather nicely with these two novels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beniowa Posted January 1, 2013 Share Posted January 1, 2013 I had a slightly disappointing year for reads in 2012 so I'm going to make an effort to read more non-SFF this year. Right now I'm reading John Saturnall's Feast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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