What are you reading this year 2020?

[KahlessNestor]

Well, this is a rarity for me. I abandoned The Way of Kings today, about a third of the way through. Honestly, the individual parts are good, but there's just too much going on. It's like trying to have a pile of cookies after already having eaten two slices of pie and a big slice of cake. I feel like it would've been the stronger book had it been more focused; I started skimming through whole chapters.

So, next up is the (much shorter) Black Amazon of Mars by Leigh Brackett.

Oh, man. Missing out. I really love those books.

 

[KahlessNestor]

Currently reading Going Postal by Terry Pratchett.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

I know, I know... It's really weird that it didn't click for me. I've loved everything else I've read by Sanderson. I don't know if my tastes are changing away from sprawling fantasy wristcrackers (and this as someone that's read the whole of the Malazan Book of the Fallen and Wheel of Time series), or it's just what I'm in the mood for at this moment. Maybe I'll give it another try again later.

Oh, man. Missing out. I really love those books.

 

[dragoner]

Now it is on to Vonda McIntyre's Superluminal.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

William Morris' House of the Wolfings proved to be another bust. Sometimes you go to read the inspiration for one of your favorites, and it's like drinking directly from the source. This was not one of those times. Too much of it was someone proclaiming their vision of the future in verse, followed by someone else recounting (also in verse) what actually happened. The archaic language didn't help matters.

So I've put that one down (it was a free eBook, so no harm done other than to my time) and am reading Saberhagen's The Broken Lands.

 

[Eyes of Nine]

reading Midnight Riot, first book in the Rivers of London series. Another fine book I wish I'd written.

Around July, I expect to be reading Peace Talks by Jim Butcher.

Sometime between now and then, I assume I'll read some other books.

I also reading Midnight Riot! Great stuff. I also expect to be reading Peace Talks around July.

 

[Nellisir]

I read Tiamat's Wrath, book 8 of The Expanse series, the other day.

I'll admit that when I read Book 1 of the Expanse I thought "Eh. [creature-feature plural of that moment] in space. Jumping on the it-of-the-moment bandwagon screws up a decent read; solid, but light."

I was wrong. It's still a fast read, but it's a really good, solid, enjoyable series that hits the mark. And the show is AMAZING.

 

[vpuigdoller]

Finished in early January the Eberron Mark of Death trilogy and now started a book in spanish i got as a gift during the holidays called La tia Julia y el Escribidor by Mario Vargas Llosa. I'm liking it so far.

 

[trappedslider]

just finished up The Second Sleep: A novel by Robert Harris. It was good,gave off a Canticle for Leibowitz vibes as I read it.

Spoiler

1468. A young priest, Christopher Fairfax, arrives in a remote Exmoor village to conduct the funeral of his predecessor. The land around is strewn with ancient artefacts--coins, fragments of glass, human bones--which the old parson used to collect. Did his obsession with the past lead to his death?
Fairfax becomes determined to discover the truth. Over the course of the next six days, everything he believes--about himself, his faith, and the history of his world--will be tested to destruction.

 

[Zaukrie]

My wife and I are starting The Artist's Way. I've been doing the morning pages for a week, but we are just going thru the book this week, and starting the exercises next week. Also, still sort of reading the first Malazan book, but just can't seem to stick with it.....
I think I don't like reading ebooks as much as paper books.