December - What are you reading?

[Mercutio01]

Just starting The Girl Who Played with Fire after recently finishing the first book in the series.

I tried several times to read that series and couldn't get past the first book. I just wasn't interested.

I'm reading the second book in Codex Alera, and am almost done the Books on CD version of Poe's Children for my commute. After Christmas I will hopefully be reading Cold Days.

I'm also reading this month's issue of Poetry Magazine and the current issue of Frogpond in preparation for submitting some of my own work before the end of year.

 

[Votan]

Captain Vorpatril's Alliance is my current book and it has been extremely well written. Ivan is a refreshing change of pace from Miles and the pacing has been excellent so far. You can just see the comedy of errors developing.

Recently completed: Cold Days (improved over the last book and finally actually seeking character growth out of bad choices).

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

In Cold Days now. It's good, though I think it would have been improved by not "kitchen sinking" the book. Seems like Harry interacts with every major power or being that previously appeared in the series, and several of those appearances are just redundant. Dresden Files isn't an ensemble series; it really only needs a handful of the "regulars" in each episode to work.

 

[Crothian]

I finished Teller of Tales the biography of Arthur Conan Doyle. It is a fantastic read on the man.

 

[the Jester]

I'm concurrently reading the following:

-The Percy Jackson and the Olympians series- fantasy for younger readers, but I was out of anything more my style and my gf had these around. I finished book 3 (the Titan's Curse) a few days ago; next is (IIRC) Battle of the Labyrinth.
-(Re-reading) The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins. Nonfiction, about evolutionary biology, traces back our most recent common ancestor- he creates the term "concestor"- with first all humanity, then our nearest relatives in the fossil record, then our next nearest, etc, until it reaches the common ancestor of all life.
-Ohh, forgetting the title. Some 1960's novel about the tensions in the Middle East written right around (just before?) the 6 Days War. Couldn't tell you the author either. Free book from the library; I wanted something new to read very badly and the rest of the giveaway shelf were very poorly suited to my tastes (e.g. a book on quilting). I think it's in my car at the moment.
-Vecna Lives! This is a 2e module, the one with the infamous "Vecna kills the Circle of Eight" encounter at the beginning. I've always had my own version of Vecna, so I never actually owned or read this module. Last weekend one of my D&D players gave it to me while we were gaming, then made a wry "Hope that wasn't a bad idea!" remark.

 

[ggroy]

"Galaxy Quest"

(novelization)

 

[Super Pony]

The Scar - By Sergey and Marina Dyachenko (English Translation)
The Warrior's Apprentice - Lois McMaster Bujold (Audible audiobook version...probably doesn't count as reading )

 

[Mark CMG]

I've decided rather than jumping into The Saxon Tales during the holidays I'd pick up some R. E. Howard to pass these weeks and get back into Cornwell in January. I think The Hour of the Dragon will suit me for the time being.

 

[Stumblewyk]

Currently smack-dab in the middle of Cloud Atlas. Once that's done with, I'll have to wrestle Cold Days out of my wife's hands.

 

[Janx]

Currently smack-dab in the middle of Cloud Atlas. Once that's done with, I'll have to wrestle Cold Days out of my wife's hands.

Finished Freaknomics, working on Cold Days now.

Nice thing about eBooks in the same library, bought it once, reading it on mine, while wife reads it on hers.