So what are you reading this year 2021?
Eyes of Nine
Everything's Fine
Ooooh. I like his stuff; but it's not for everyone. I'll be interested to hear your reaction after you are done...
Ralif Redhammer
Legend
Finished reading Wagner's The Dark Crusade. I liked it a whole lot more than the previous collection of Kane short stories I re-read a little bit ago. I think the difference is that in this tale, Kane isn't really the center of the story, but one of a number of players. And moreover, Kane makes mistakes here. In the short stories, it frequently ended up just being story after story about how much smarter, stronger, and more powerful Kane was.
Now I'm giving the first Black Company novel, by Glen Cook, a re-read.
Now I'm giving the first Black Company novel, by Glen Cook, a re-read.
trappedslider
Legend
Picked up The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter by Kai Bird along with a few other books from the library
KahlessNestor
Adventurer
Still reading Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow.
Still reading The Battle for Spain by Antony Beevor.
Still reading Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
Still reading An Artificial Night by Seanan McGuire.
Still listening to Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson.
Still reading Critical Role: Tal’dorei Campaign Setting by Matthew Mercer.
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 Matchlock and the Embassy: A Thirty Years’ War Story by Zachary Twamley.
Still reading The Black Ice by Michael Connelly.
Still reading Rise of the King by R. A. Salvatore.
Still reading The Sorcerer of the North by John Flanagan.
Still reading Ghost Story by Jim Butcher.
Still reading ReDawn by Brandon Sanderson and Janci Patterson.
Still reading Critical Role: Vox Machina – Kith and Kin by Marieke Nijkamp.
Finished listening to Sunreach by Brandon Sanderson.
Still reading Half-Off Ragnarok by Seanan McGuire.
Still reading The Battle for Spain by Antony Beevor.
Still reading Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
Still reading An Artificial Night by Seanan McGuire.
Still listening to Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson.
Still reading Critical Role: Tal’dorei Campaign Setting by Matthew Mercer.
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 Matchlock and the Embassy: A Thirty Years’ War Story by Zachary Twamley.
Still reading The Black Ice by Michael Connelly.
Still reading Rise of the King by R. A. Salvatore.
Still reading The Sorcerer of the North by John Flanagan.
Still reading Ghost Story by Jim Butcher.
Still reading ReDawn by Brandon Sanderson and Janci Patterson.
Still reading Critical Role: Vox Machina – Kith and Kin by Marieke Nijkamp.
Finished listening to Sunreach by Brandon Sanderson.
Still reading Half-Off Ragnarok by Seanan McGuire.
I just started The Official Prisoner Companion, a behind-the-scenes book on the making of Patrick McGoohan's 17-episode TV show, The Prisoner. My oldest son saw it in a used book store and knew I'd like it (and he was so right!) so he picked it up for me as a Christmas gift.
Johnathan
Johnathan
I'm now halfway through The Scorpion's Tale, a suspense novel by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. It's part of the Agent Pendergast shared universe, featuring archaeologist Nora Roberts and FBI Agent Corrie Swanson, both characters from previous books in his series. They were both featured in a previous novel, Old Bones, so it looks like Preston and Child are using these two as the start of a new series-within-a-series. Which is fine, but I tend to prefer Agent Pendergast over these two. Still, this has been a decent read thus far.
Johnathan
Johnathan
Mercurius
Legend
Re-reading Eye of the World by Robert Jordan, although stalled out a bit over the last week. Will get back into it shortly but I got distracted by...
The Road to Corlay by Richard Cowper. Really enjoying this. Beautiful prose, and a nice sf-fantasy mode that isn't focused on violence or action. I think you could categorize Cowper as at least a cousin species to the British New Wave, though this trilogy was written at the tail-end of that era, in the late 70s and early 80s. Probably enjoyable to readers of Le Guin, Crowley, Zelazny, etc.
The short version: it is 3000 AD, 1000 years after the Drowning which saw Britain not only split into multiple islands (and the Seven Kingdoms), but fall back into a theocratic Medieval state. I'm only about 60 pages in, but it seems to be about the emergence of a new mystical religion that is repressed by the Church Militant.
The Road to Corlay by Richard Cowper. Really enjoying this. Beautiful prose, and a nice sf-fantasy mode that isn't focused on violence or action. I think you could categorize Cowper as at least a cousin species to the British New Wave, though this trilogy was written at the tail-end of that era, in the late 70s and early 80s. Probably enjoyable to readers of Le Guin, Crowley, Zelazny, etc.
The short version: it is 3000 AD, 1000 years after the Drowning which saw Britain not only split into multiple islands (and the Seven Kingdoms), but fall back into a theocratic Medieval state. I'm only about 60 pages in, but it seems to be about the emergence of a new mystical religion that is repressed by the Church Militant.
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