Jan '09: What Are You Reading?

[Angel Tarragon]

Its 2009 in Australia and very soon to be in Finland (less than 30 minutes). So I thought I'd start up the new thread for '09.

My sister lent me her her copy of Nixonland and I'll be starting on it tomorrow.

 

[Mark Chance]

Happy New Year!

I've got way too much on my plate right now. Need to focus and get something finished. Currently reading: Frank Sheed's Theology and Sanity (a wonderful and witty read so far), Vision: The Life and Music of Hildegard von Bingen by various people (at least one of which I'm very skeptical about given his general flakiness and shoddy scholarship), Ben Mikaelsen's Touching Spirit Bear (the next book I'm teaching to my 8th graders), John Steinbeck's The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights (almost done!), and Andrea White's Surviving Antarctica: Reality TV 2083 (which isn't proving to be very well written). With my son, I'm reading Dean Koontz's The Good Guy (an excellent story by a genre fiction writer who transcends his genre).

Is that enough?

 

[Wolf72]

read two books by Jude Fisher Sorcery Rising and Wild Magic (well half through second one)

so far so good, everything in this world just seems like it's going haywire. Going to hit the Library soon to get the 3rd book.

 

[Wombat]

Just finished up Extraordinary Engines: The Definitive Steampunk Anthology. Next up on the docket is Grandes Horizontales : The Lives and Legends of Four Nineteenth-Century Courtesans, an intriguing sounding volume on many levels.

 

[Grymar]

Finishing up the Song of Ice and Fire books, about 100 pages to go in A Feast for Crows. I'm not sure what I'll read next.

 

[drothgery]

Currently re-reading Weber's Honorverse books. The last of Bujold's Sharing Knife books hits hardcover and the last of Moon's Vatta's War books hits paperback at the end of the month, though, so I re-read those series last month.

 

[EricNoah]

Working on The Travels of Marco Polo, and a sci fi short story collection by Stephen Baxter (Vacuum Diagrams).

Listening to Son of a Witch (sequel to Wicked)as an audiobook.

 

[megamania]

Still reading Alan Moore's Watchmen. ohhhh soooo looking forward to the movie release.

 

[delericho]

I have set aside "Twenty Years After" indefinately. I just couldn't maintain any enthusiasm for it.

As the New Year began, I was reading "Excelsior: Forged in Fire", a Star Trek novel that claimed to be about how Sulu gained captaincy of the Excelsior, but which was really about the adventures of Curzon Dax with the three Klingon captains. It wasn't bad, as Star Trek novels go, but suffered for not properly resolving its story - the end of the tale is covered in the DS9 series.

I'm now reading "Moonraker", the third James Bond novel. It's good. I should finish that tonight.

Next up is "A Sword From Red Ice" by J.V. Jones. I enjoyed the first two books in the trilogy, but I'm a bit concerned that it has been so long - will I still be able to follow what's going on?

Also, at some point I need to refamiliarise myself with "Star Wars: Saga Edition" - we're starting a new campaign this month.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

The Complete Roderick, by John Sladek.

Its another take on the "Pinocchio" story featuring an android- which predates ST:NG's Data, FWIW.