So what are you reading this year 2021?

[Ralif Redhammer]

Neuromancer is still a razor-sharp read. As for WoT, yeah, that middle stretch slog is a real momentum-killer.

Well, last year I set out to read the Neuromancer series and the Wheel of Time series. Finished the First easy, didn't finish the second. Got bogged down by Wheel of Time but managed to eek out finishing Book 11. Started Book 12 (the Gathering Storm) over Christmas and it's actually moving a LOT faster (or at least a lot more fun reading it) and already 2/3 of the way through. Figure I'll actually finish the WoT series this year, if the last few books are like Book 12, probably within the next month.

I finished reading Moorcock's The Knight of the Swords. Beautifully written, and melancholy.

Next up is Barry Strauss' The Battle of Salamis. I know relatively little about the event, so I'm looking forward to giving it a read.

 

[HawaiiSteveO]

Ballad of Song Birds and Snakes, Suzanne Collins - pretty fun light read after finishing Rhythm of War..!

 

[Eyes of Nine]

And because I can't walk into a used bookstore and NOT buy a book, and because I had exactly $1.85 in my pocket and it was exactly $1.85 after VT tax (TAXING BOOKS IS BLASPHEMY YOU HEATHEN HIPPY LOTUS ICE CREAM EATERS!!!!); I picked up Hawkmistress, by Marion Zimmer Bradley. A Darkover novel.

My "retirement dream job" is to open a used bookstore. (I'll also have a bike shop and a cafe all in one set of 3 spaces next to each other - and my wife will have a thrift store on the end) We'll be depending on you and 10,000 others' $1.60

 

[corwyn77]

I picked up The Expanse and Savage Rifts and Cyberpunk 2020 in the last month so I'm skimming those, plus reading Doctor Sleep and The Gripping Hand.

Also going through GURPS Monster Hunters for an upcoming game.

 

[KahlessNestor]

Neuromancer is still a razor-sharp read. As for WoT, yeah, that middle stretch slog is a real momentum-killer.



I finished reading Moorcock's The Knight of the Swords. Beautifully written, and melancholy.

Next up is Barry Strauss' The Battle of Salamis. I know relatively little about the event, so I'm looking forward to giving it a read.

I've not read the book, but I know the Battle of Salamis. Important naval battle. I'll have to look up the book.

 

[KahlessNestor]

Still reading Exploring Eberron by Keith Baker.

Still reading Searching for Bobby Fischer.

Started reading White Night by Jim Butcher.

Started reading The Companions by R. A. Salvatore.

Still reading Rhythm of War by Brandon Sanderson.

Still reading Hillbilly Elegy by J. D. Vance.

Still reading Killing Crazy Horse: The Merciless Indian Wars in America by Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard.

 

[Marc_C]

The books I got for Christmas...
Piers Anthony Macroscope
EL Doctorow Ragtime
Barry Hughart Bridge of Birds

Just finished Murderbot Diaries vol 1 All Systems Red and super enjoyed it.

Bridge of Birds. Such a classic!

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

My previous knowledge of it pretty much begins and ends at "Athenian Navy defeats the Persians." So far, I'm digging the book, as it sets the scene and brings the world to life.

I've not read the book, but I know the Battle of Salamis. Important naval battle. I'll have to look up the book.

Gods, retiring and opening a used bookstore does sound lovely. My vague plan for retirement is to volunteer or work part-time at a library. After taking a transatlantic cruise, that is.

My "retirement dream job" is to open a used bookstore. (I'll also have a bike shop and a cafe all in one set of 3 spaces next to each other - and my wife will have a thrift store on the end) We'll be depending on you and 10,000 others' $1.60

 

[Nellisir]

My "retirement dream job" is to open a used bookstore. (I'll also have a bike shop and a cafe all in one set of 3 spaces next to each other - and my wife will have a thrift store on the end) We'll be depending on you and 10,000 others' $1.60

I've got...a considerable number of books around. And my gf has friends who a) run an independent bookstore (hybrid of new & used books), and b) might be downsizing. I'm not looking to buy them out or take over their business directly (they're in north-central PA; I'm in New Hampshire and OMG we are STARVED for good used bookstores here), but seriously looking into it something bookstore-related is on my list for 2021. I live near Concord NH. Capitol city. Very nice. No used bookstores. Two bookstores total. The downtown one I used to work at is now a bagel place. I've been toying with the idea of doing something mobile. Much cheaper to get a street vendor license than a storefront. And if I could set up in front of, or near, the state house a couple days a week it'd be gold.

Edit: I'm not rich, and the startup costs of a business terrify me. Plus, I'm not overly "business-minded", so starting small and minimizing costs are key. I'm at least going to hit flea markets and the like this year, selling some of what I have around (both books and other).

Edit edit: And as long as I'm rambling, I was in Manchester VT the other day (meeting my ex to get my daughter) and wandered into the Manchester Woodcraft store. Almost died from envy. Woodshop in one part of the building, store in the other. Nothing in the store I couldn't make. I might want that more than a bookshop. (Incidently, the name Wicked Good Books is TAKEN by some place in Salem MA and I'm most wroth about it.)

 

[aco175]

My son received those D&D books aimed at young people- Young adventurer's guides or such that I will most likely read. I tend to put the golf magazines away until March when the snow starts to melt where I live. I would like to collect all the Casca books again and read those. I also think there are a few new ones from another author since Barry Sadler died.