January: What are you reading for your penultimate year?

[NewJeffCT]

Since I have a long commute to work (about 60-70 minutes each way), I have taken to listening to audio books over the past month.

I just finished Max Brooks' World War Z, which I thought was very interesting. I'm wondering how they will make it into a movie now that it is in production. And, just found out that Max Brooks is the son of Mel Brooks & Anne Bancroft. No wonder the audio book was chock full of stars doing the readings (Mark Hamill, Jurgen Prochnow, Rob & Carl Reiner, Alan Alda and several others)

I'm starting a refresher on the Harry Potter series now, as my daughter just finished the first book (the actual book, not the audio). I just started the audio version of Chamber of Secrets this morning and got up to the part where Harry & the Weasley boys were de-gnoming the garden.

 

[coyote6]

The Connelly novel finished much stronger than the middle part.

Now I'm reading Butcher's First Lord's Fury.

I will probably end up reading it when I should be sleeping or preparing to GM this weekend, if his previous novels are any guide.

 

[Nylanfs]

Just finished the Dresden novel Proven Guilty by Jim Butcher, not sure what I'll read next. I typically read 2-3 books a month. Plus I'll grab a book from Baen's free library to read at work while my CAD prog is busy thinking about the simple command I just gave it.

 

[Diamond Cross]

My friend had to move so he gave me a nice collection of Antiquarian books. These are books from the 1800a on Gypsy history and lore.

 

[Nylanfs]

Those would be interesting to read.

 

[Eridanis]

I got very little reading done this past year, but two books I absolutely tore through in December were Monster Hunter International and its sequel, Monster Hunter Vendetta. I found them very entertaining: the title says it all. (Modern-day monster-hunting mercenaries. THey get paid by the government when they slay vampires, werewolves, etc.) The author is a big gun nut, and he apparently does a good job with that aspect of the storytelling; I'm not knowledgable at all in that realm, and those kind of details just were part of the background for me in a very well-paced and entertaining spin on a pretty basic premise.

I can't even start to tell you what's on my to-read pile, but WAY OF KINGS keeps looking at me, imploringly. I think I'll put it away until book 2 comes out, at least. 2010 brought new books by Connie Willis, Steven Brust, Guy Gavriel Kay, and Naomi Novik, and I've not even touched them yet. Nor have I cracked the books Robin Hobb, Julian May, and Glen Cook have put out in the past few years. I need to clone myself just so I can get my genre reading done!

 

[Shade]

Finished The Walking Dead books 2-5; awaiting book 6 to be returned at the library.

 

[NewJeffCT]

Finished The Walking Dead books 2-5; awaiting book 6 to be returned at the library.

I read a compendium of issues 1-48 back in December, which I think covered books 1-8. I read book 9 the other day.

good books - very intense. I like most of the characters, who seem to be just trying to get by in a world turned upside down.

I'm anxious to see how closely the TV series will follow the books - if so, it will make for one intense show.

 

[TanisFrey]

I just started an old classic novel, The Lord of the Rings.

It is very inserting to reread this book for the first time since the movies came out. Yes, I read it in the past before the movies came out. But it is very interesting to see what was chopped up a dozen times and given to other character in the movie. What was left out.

Like in the movie Frodo tells Ganduf about golum following the fellowship while in the book this occurs at night on the great river between Frodo and Strider. And the whole opening sequence that Gladeril does the narration for can be found in the chapter titles Shadows of the Past, and during the chapter Council of Elron.

 

[beldar1215]

Currently reading two things, John Carter of Mars and a Zombie anthology. Not sure what will be next.

Beldar