mashiara Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 I finished This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper. An excellent read about complicated family relationships and mourning. Perfect for my current situation and mood. I'm going to start The Bloodletter's Daughter by Linda Lafferty next. What are you guys reading? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red snow Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 I'm giving book 2 of the Dresden files ago as the first was an easy read between trickier books. The guy gives away names far too easily though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guinevere Seaworth Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 I'm 10 chapters into The Bands of Mourning by Brandon Sanderson. Entertaining so far, but no new revelations yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
First of My Name Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 Fool's Errand is good, though less engrossing than the author's Liveships trilogy. It's amazing how Hobb can make a conversation as interesting and involving as a battle. (Good thing too, because with this kind of pacing, the book needs it). The characters are once again great though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Cartman Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 Started the last book of the Thrawn trilogy today. Bands of Mourning after that. Not sure what to read next. Maybe the Long Price Quartet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beniowa Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 I'm most of the way through City of Blades. Should finish it tomorrow I think. Quote You are not kidding. There was some rough stuff in this one. One thing different between Schafer and Hobb is, sometimes Hobb's brutalizing her characters don't always feel like it necessary or integral to the plot, but Schafer definitely does drive the plot as she's hammering her characters. REG, agreed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muwhahaha Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 Think I'm going to bail on Flex. Writing's a little cheesy - speaking of which, I'm starting Bands of Mourning - time to break out the crackers. Really enjoyed Sorcerer to the Crown. Just checked and it looks like this is going to be a trilogy so I'll be checking out the others for sure. Drake was good. Reminded me of Sandman Slim and Alex Verus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Marquis de Leech Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 Snow Angels by James Thompson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garett Hornwood Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 Finished Feet of Clay today and now I'm heading to my first re-read of A Storm of Swords. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedEyedGhost Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 4 hours ago, beniowa said: REG, agreed. I'm reading another author who's not very kind to his characters - Ian Tregillis. 31% through The Rising Poor Jax, that guy has been beat to hell and back. He was just found by the other rogues, so hopefully he'll get some much needed repairs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starkess Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 Started Ancillary Justice today. I only had about 10 minutes to read, so I am not really sure what to make of it. Not really that drawn in to the premise as established so far, but I've heard enough good things to give it a shot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Queen Alienor Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 I've started Alice Munroe's Too much happiness. Generally I'm not into short stories, but the first one was nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puntificator Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 Started Chains of the Heretic by Jeff Salyards and Kingfisher by Patricia A. McKillip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AncalagonTheBlack Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 1 hour ago, Puntificator said: Started Chains of the Heretic by Jeff Salyards heh,me too,just started and am looking at the map first . I've put aside City of Blades for now as it hasn't really grabbed me. CotH is the final book in this series ,right ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRevanchist Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 Finished Prelude to Foundation, and started Forward the Foundation. I liked Prelude to Foundation, although not as much as Robots novels. I think that I will spent the entire month in this series (and rightly so, having read so far both Robots and Galactic Empire, but not his most rated series). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beniowa Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 17 hours ago, RedEyedGhost said: I'm reading another author who's not very kind to his characters - Ian Tregillis. 31% through The Rising Hidden Content I need to get to that! I want to read the final Poseidon's Children and final Shattered Sigil then that one will be next. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jo498 Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 I cannot remember which "Foundations" I read and wich one I liked best. While some of them were quite good, I think I clearly preferred many "Robot" short stories as well as "Caves of Steel" and "Naked Sun". I just finished P. Anderson: "The High Crusade". This is fairly short and a lot of fun. Maybe it's a little bit too obvious a reversion of Twain's "Connecticut Yankee" but it's also better. Interestingly, I got an anniversary edition (1960-2010) that has a bunch of one page "appreciations" by Anderson's daughter and other authors. Among them Eric Flint who acknowledges Anderson's obvious influence on some of his books. As a friend (a history buff) recommended Flint's "1632" two years ago and it was free for kindle, I started reading it in summer 2013 or so but Flint falls so deeply into the progressivism trap Anderson had so cunningly subverted, and he also lacks irony and is so dully earnest in demonstrating how 20th century small-town Americans are so much better than 17th century Catholics wiht flintlocks that I stopped after a third or less. Next will probaby be another Nero Wolfe or the 2nd vol. of Black company (I ordered Vance's Green Pearl and Madouc but they will take a while to arrive). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puntificator Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 3 hours ago, AncalagonTheBlack said: CotH is the final book in this series ,right ? Yes, unfortunately. I really enjoyed the first two books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicomo Cosca Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 Just finished book 1 of The Stand by Stephen King (the Uncut edition) . I'm really enjoying this book, its both intriguing and suspensful. I love how Stephen introduced the characters and their individual problems and how the plague started to affect each one of them. I deffinetly felt the 'punch' of the crisis as it started to play out accross the various storylines and I like how 'the Dark Man' has been slowly been introduced over the course of this particular section. I feel its early to tell if this book is going to be my personal favorite King novel (I've seen that almost everybody feels its theirs), but then again I feel like I just read a gigantic and amazing groundwork for a potential riveting second part. So far my favorite King book is either Carrie or The Shining, followed by Salem's Lot, The Gunslinger (I'll reread soon so I can finally dive into The Dark Tower series) and finally Dr Sleep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Writhen Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 Just checked out Enchanters' End Game from the library. Looking forward to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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