What are you reading? [March 2017]

[Nellisir]

I just pulled out Mind of the Raven, by Bernd Heinrich (about, duh, ravens) to read,

2/3rds of the way through it. It's not...fascinating, but pretty easy to just keep chugging along.

and am partway into The Adventures of the Peerless Peer, a Sherlock Holmes-meets-Tarzan book "edited" by Philip Jose Farmer.

Finished. About what you'd expect, given that the mcguffin is a bacteria "weaponized" to eat sauerkraut.


I got and reread Cibola Burn - was prepared to be all caught up on The Expanse (book) series, but Babylon's Ashes is out in a hardback form, damn it. The Expanse (tv series) is seriously amazing, BTW. Check it out.

I have a few books that I've borrowed or been loaned, I'm going to try and get some of those done soon.

 

[Kramodlog]

While the series has increasingly gone off the rails, it’s hard to argue with Interview with a Vampire and The Vampire Lestat. Absolute Modern Gothic/Vampire classics.

You're just saying that because Lestat is in Atlantis in the last book.

 

[jonesy]

I'm currently reading The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair. Midway through, and the plot feels quite convoluted and the dialogue jumpy. I find myself having to go back to reread earlier passages, and cringing at some of the exchanges between characters. It might be better in the original french, I really don't know.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

Can’t argue with that, but it was an earlier book that made me tap out, when vampires were shooting laser beams out of their eyes.

You're just saying that because Lestat is in Atlantis in the last book.

 

[Kramodlog]

Can’t argue with that, but it was an earlier book that made me tap out, when vampires were shooting laser beams out of their eyes.

When was that? I left that series way too early it seems.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

Maybe the Vampire Armand? It was definitely while Lestat was sleeping. Vittorio the Vampire was pretty good, though. I think that was the last in the series that I honestly enjoyed.

Tangentially-related, I keep meaning to re-read Cry to Heaven. I remember loving that one back in the 90s.

When was that? I left that series way too early it seems.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

Finished King of Thorns, by Mark Lawrence. I think I waited too long in-between reading the first and the second in the series, but once I got into the book, all was fine and dandy.

Now I’m reading Leckie’s Ancillary Sword, the second Imperial Radch book.

 

[Kramodlog]

Now I’m reading Leckie’s Ancillary Sword, the second Imperial Radch book.

Its most exciting part is a tea set. I didn't want to finish reading the series after that one and a I decided I would only read the first books of trilogies/series from now on. Unless it was really really good.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

Heh, it is a rather nice tea set! I had heard that the second book wasn’t as good as the first, which is why I went to the library for it rather than buy it. Also grabbed a new-ish translation of The Odyssey, which I haven’t read in many years.

Its most exciting part is a tea set. I didn't want to finish reading the series after that one and a I decided I would only read the first books of trilogies/series from now on. Unless it was really really good.

 

[Garamal]

All the time) At home I have a book to read before going to sleep or on weekends and during the day while commuting I can read another one that doesn't need a lot of concentration