[December] What are you reading?

[Mark]

I've got a The Collected Stories of Richard Yates which has a handful included that have previously slipped by me. I'll probably also find some other short story collections to squeeze in between gaming and writing. Huzzah!

 

[Hand of Evil]

Still reading Grey Seer a WFRP novel, found I have not had a lot of time to read these last few weeks.

 

[delericho]

Still reading my "Lankhmar" collection, which is really slow going. I've made it into the second 'book', "Swords Against Death".

I'm also still wading through the "Pathfinder Core Rulebook". I've read enough by now to conclude that it is a better game, on balance, than 3.5e, but it's not enough of an improvement to compel me to convert over wholesale. Unfortunately, that realisation has really robbed me of my enthusiasm to finish it off.

I did read Pathfinders #25 and #26 last month. Those were both very good.

 

[Klaus]

Wardstone Chronicles, volume 3 (The Spook's Secret).

 

[RangerWickett]

I'm considering starting Turn of the Screw. Mostly I'm trying to finish the first draft of a novel in time to give it to someone for Christmas.

 

[Wombat]

Currently I am reading George III and the Mad-Business. Interesting matter on several levels.

 

[Gregor]

"A Fortress of Grey Ice" by J.V. Jones. This is the second in her Sword of Shadows series.

 

[Eridanis]

"Nothing much," unfortunately. I'm ramping up to direct a production of Lion in Winter, and any free reading time I have is spent re-reading the play.

I did recently read P. Craig Russell's SANDMAN - DREAM HUNTERS adaption, though. Good stuff.

 

[bento]

Still working my way through Colleen McCullough's Masters of Rome series. Last month I read Caesar's Women in a couple of weeks, and last night I picked up book five - Caesar.

One thing that irked me about the series is that she sometimes leaves out certain events. CW ended with Caesar going off to his proconsul governship in Gaul, and this book picks up after he's been in the theater for five years. She also left out Sulla's war with Mithradates in Fortune's Favorite, after building up to it. I'm glad that a couple of new bios on Mithradates were published this year, so I'll read one of them once I finish this series.

 

[bento]

I'm also still wading through the "Pathfinder Core Rulebook". I've read enough by now to conclude that it is a better game, on balance, than 3.5e, but it's not enough of an improvement to compel me to convert over wholesale. Unfortunately, that realisation has really robbed me of my enthusiasm to finish it off.

Wading is a good way of describing it. Does anyone else find it hard to read a rule book that's close to an earlier rule book? I wish there was enough of a difference with 3.5 that I could tell the two apart. Instead it all kinda blurs together...