[Feb 2016] What Are You Reading?

[Gilladian]

Reading The Forest by Edward Rutherfurd. I'm amazed I'd never read him before. It's very good - historical fiction bordering on nonfiction.

I read a middle-grade adventure called Emilie and the Hollow World by Martha Wells that I liked. Steampunkish fun. I'll look out for the sequel.

And a YA novel, Hired Girl by I can't remember who. Historical fiction, 1911 Pennsylvania and Baltimore. Country girl flees bad family life to big city. Excellent characterization, good plot, just fun and thought provoking, about prejudice and maturity and self-worth.

 

[Nellisir]

Read Cuckoo's Calling and Silkworm, by R. Galbraith, aka JK Rowling. Both really good. 4/5. Working on Homeward and Beyond by Poul Anderson, and The Best From Fantasy and Science Fiction 14th Series (1965?), both short story collections.

 

[Jhaelen]

I just finished 'End of the World Blues' by Jon Courtenay Grimwood. I'm still not sure what to think of it, and I still don't know why this is labeled as a Sci-Fi novel. There's definitely no science in it, at all. It's just a thriller with a weird (and ultimately pointless) parallel story taking place in a supposedly far-future japanese anime-style setting.

Anyway, next up is another Christopher Priest novel: 'The Adjacent'.

 

[Nellisir]

Reading Sand, by Hugh Howey. He's got a gift for world-building.

Edit: Finished Sand. 5 out of 5, no question. Worldbuilding, characterization, plot, story...excellent book.

 

[Nytmare]

I'm nearing the end of Song of the Beast by Carol Berg, and I'm honestly surprised that it's as popular as it is. I really enjoy the style, but the dialog, plot, and just the way the world works really bug the hell out of me. Anyone else have any of those problems?

 

[dragon1]

The Rule of Two (Star Wars)

 

[Zaukrie]

Just finished magician king. Even better than the first book.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

Agreed. I just finished the last one, The Magician's Land, and it concluded the series nicely.

Currently eyeing Finn Fancy Necromancy for my next read.

Just finished magician king. Even better than the first book.

 

[Nellisir]

Reading City of Blades by Robert Jackson Bennett. It reads like Glen Cook's Black Company meets NK Jemisen's A Hundred Thousand Kingdoms in some of the best ways possible. It's #2 in a series, but works all by itself, and I am absolutely reading #1 (City of Stairs) after this.

 

[megamania]

Rich Wulf's "Rise of the Seventh Moon..... part III of the Heir of Ash Eberron series