So what are you reading this year 2021?

[KahlessNestor]

Still reading Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow.

Still reading Night of the Hunter by R. A. Salvatore.

Still reading The Battle for Spain by Antony Beevor.

Still reading Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life by Jordan B. Peterson.

Still reading Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

Still reading Changes by Jim Butcher.

Still reading A Lone Habitation by Seanan McGuire.

Still listening to Lux by Brandon Sanderson.

Still reading The Battle for Skandia by John Flanagan.

Still reading Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson.

Still reading Critical Role: Tal’dorei Campaign Setting by Matthew Mercer.

Sill reading Discrimination and Disparities by Thomas Sowell.

Still reading The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien.

Still reading Midnight Blue-Light Special by Seanan McGuire.

Still reading The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors by Dan Jones.

Still reading The Deed of Paksenarrion by Elizabeth Moon.

Still reading Black Widow: Red Vengeance by Margaret Stohl.

Still reading Royal Assassin by Robin Hobb.

Started reading Sly Flourish’s The Lazy Dungeon Master by Michael E. Shea.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

I finished Barker's Books of Blood, volume 1. For being some of his earliest works, the stories still hold up. I think they're at their best when they have a wry and oh so dark sense of humor, like The Yattering and Jack (which apparently was adapted into a Tales from the Dark Side Episode in 1987, something I had no idea about until now).

Now I'm reading Clark Ashton Smith's Hyperborea.

 

[Zaukrie]

Read Atomic Habits in a few hours. Lots of obvious advice, but some real nuggets also. I wouldn't pay full price, but at a discount it's a decent book on habits.

 

[Eyes of Nine]

Read Atomic Habits in a few hours. Lots of obvious advice, but some real nuggets also. I wouldn't pay full price, but at a discount it's a decent book on habits.

I've got a friend who swears by this. Maybe I'll get it sometime. I've been meaning to look at used bookstores - I'm with you wouldn't want to spend full pop on it...

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

I finished reading Clark Ashton Smith's Hyperborea. CAS has become one of my favorite pulp/Appendix N-ish authors. Hyperborea is weird and beautiful and horrific all at once.

Now I'm reading P. Djeli Clark's Ring Shout.

 

[Zaukrie]

Reading Stephen King's Memoir on Writing, or some such title. Getting ready to write a novel starting next month.

 

[KahlessNestor]

Still reading Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow.

Still reading Night of the Hunter by R. A. Salvatore.

Still reading The Battle for Spain by Antony Beevor.

Still reading Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life by Jordan B. Peterson.

Still reading Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

Still reading Changes by Jim Butcher.

Still reading A Lone Habitation by Seanan McGuire.

Finished listening to Lux by Brandon Sanderson.

Still reading The Battle for Skandia by John Flanagan.

Still reading Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson.

Still reading Critical Role: Tal’dorei Campaign Setting by Matthew Mercer.

Sill reading Discrimination and Disparities by Thomas Sowell.

Still reading The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien.

Still reading Midnight Blue-Light Special by Seanan McGuire.

Still reading The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors by Dan Jones.

Still reading The Deed of Paksenarrion by Elizabeth Moon.

Still reading Black Widow: Red Vengeance by Margaret Stohl.

Still reading Royal Assassin by Robin Hobb.

Still reading Sly Flourish’s The Lazy Dungeon Master by Michael E. Shea.

Still reading The Black Echo by Michael Connelly.

Started reading Matchlock and the Embassy: A Thirty Years’ War Story by Zachary Twamley.

 

[Zaukrie]

Plot and Structure

Or, the long title:

Write Great Fiction - Plot & Structure: Techniques and Exercises for Crafting and Plot That Grips Readers from Start to Finish​

Skimmed/read it one night. I didn't read the exercises or all the basic plots (I'm not writing a love story!)......there are some real nuggets in here for sure. I'll be going back over this one with a highlighter.

I also finished Stephen King's Memoir on Writing (or somesuch title). Some good stuff. I wasn't sure at first how much biography I wanted, but when I look back at my life, I can see how it shaped me to want to write about glass ceilings (which seems to be a them in all three books I've started, in very different genres).

I have Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life and Steering the Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story next up in terms of "how to write" books. And I'm reading Aurora for fiction (which, frankly, as I read, I think.....I write this well. But my characters aren't this good).

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

I finished Clark's Ring Shout. Crackling good, cinematic action, with plenty of emotional heft. And seeing racists get their due is tops in my book.

Now I'm reading Brian Lumley's second Titus Crow novel, The Transition of Titus Crow.

 

[Mallus]

I'm reading a mystery about a flock of philosophical sheep who solve a murder. Of a shepherd, obviously. Leonie Swann's Three Bags Full. Take a shot of Douglas Adams, a shot of Richard Adams, toss a few cubes of Agatha Christie, shake vigorously...