[December] What are you reading?

[Zombie_Babies]

Still working on Bukowski's You Get so Alone blah blah blah. Poetry, what can I say? It's ok - certainly an interesting look at the dood. I may actually have some time to read it this week, too. Bonus!

 

[Kramodlog]

Moving on to Embassytown, by China Miéville.

He hasn't released any novel this year. I wonder if this means he is working on a Bas-Lag novel.

 

[trappedslider]

I just started reading John Birmingham's Without Warning the premise is that a wave of energy wipes out 99% of the US and Canada and the repercussions it has for the world at large.

 

[Nellisir]

Finished Worldmakers; moved on to The Absent One.

Found The Six Wives of Henry VIII at the used bookstore, along with _another_ Henry VIII book by Alison Weir, but passed on it. I realized I have The Children of Henry VIII on my shelves, and frankly it's not like I'm that enthralled with dead English monarchs or Henry VIII in particular that I need a whole shelf of books about it. Also found The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley, which is a mystery (but was shelved in general fiction), and has apparently won whole bucketfuls of awards. And Catching Fire. Not sure if I should read the book or see the movie first. Leaning towards movie.

 

[Zombie_Babies]

Finished You Get So Alone and moved on to Pulp. I actually enjoyed the poems more than I thought I would. Pulp thus far has been pretty funny. I like an author that takes a style and tells it f-you.

 

[EricNoah]

Still chipping away at The Daedalus Incident. Next on my list is Ghost Spin: http://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Spin-Chris-Moriarty/dp/0553384945

On audiobook, flipping between Iron Druid book 3 and The Yellow Admiral (Aubrey/Maturin series).

 

[Kramodlog]

Will attack Embassytown by China Miéville.

 

[Nellisir]

Finished You Get So Alone and moved on to Pulp. I actually enjoyed the poems more than I thought I would. Pulp thus far has been pretty funny. I like an author that takes a style and tells it f-you.

I never got into poetry. Too little exposure, perhaps. What are a few authors/collections/whatnot that you'd recommend?

 

[Zombie_Babies]

I never got into poetry. Too little exposure, perhaps. What are a few authors/collections/whatnot that you'd recommend?

Welp, uhh ... I'm not terribly into poetry, either. I actually didn't order that book intentionally. Er, I did but didn't know it was poetry. Bukowski, though, was an ... interesting poet and actually pretty highly regarded and considered influential. I don't know enough about poems to really say whether or not that's deserved. All I know is that his stuff was as far from what I understood as conventional to make it interesting. I hesitate recommending it, though, because I'm pretty sure you'd get a lot less out of it if you weren't familiar with his personality/style beforehand. He carries the same attitude in his poetry that he does in his novels so I think that helped me enjoy them more. Oh, and he was a potty mouth who wrote about all sorts of stuff people tend to get squicky about. Anyhoo, it was a decent enough book and different enough to warrant consideration if conventional rhyming stuff isn't exactly your cup o' tea.

 

[Nellisir]

Finished The Absent One. Took a little while to get into, but then I enjoyed it. I'm not sure how to describe it overall; it's a typical scandinavian mystery, but with some dark humor injected. 4/5 Not sure what I'll read next.