What are you reading in 2022?

[Eyes of Nine]

Heh... To be honest, I actually found myself humming Kim Wilde's "Kids in America".

The day they passed out those comic books at school, this girl Stacy admitted to me that she'd never learned to ride a bike - which in our town at the time was only slightly less heinous than admitting you were a card-carrying Communist, lol. So the two of us ditched out at recess to head over to a buddy's house (he lived a block from the school) and I borrowed his bike to teach her. That song was playing on a radio in one of the nearby houses at the time.

Was it too early to begin humming "Stacy's Mom" after you finished "Kids in America"?

 

[Eyes of Nine]

And on another note, I think I need to go finish the Expanse books...

 

[KahlessNestor]

Heh... To be honest, I actually found myself humming Kim Wilde's "Kids in America".

The day they passed out those comic books at school, this girl Stacy admitted to me that she'd never learned to ride a bike - which in our town at the time was only slightly less heinous than admitting you were a card-carrying Communist, lol. So the two of us ditched out at recess to head over to a buddy's house (he lived a block from the school) and I borrowed his bike to teach her. That song was playing on a radio in one of the nearby houses at the time.

And thus began a great love story. She became your childhood sweetheart, got married, and now have 2.5 kids and a dog and a white picket fence.

 

[Zaukrie]

I almost stayed up all night, but there was just too much Lies left to finish..... Plus I'm old.... But, ya, my opinion of Lies of Locke Lamora is unchanged on another reading, it is great.

 

[Zaukrie]

Just finished rereading Lies of Locke Lamora....so good. Now I need to hunt down the rest, as I gave my copies away when we moved, thinking we'd never buy a house again and space would be limited to new books....

 

[KahlessNestor]

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 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 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 Critical Role: Vox Machina – Kith and Kin by Marieke Nijkamp.

Still reading Half-Off Ragnarok by Seanan McGuire.

Still reading The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan.

Still reading Cytonic by Brandon Sanderson.

Still reading Defending Elysium by Brandon Sanderson.

Still reading To Rescue the Republic: Ulysses S. Grant, the Fragile Union, and the Crisis of 1876 by Brett Baier.

Started reading The Essential Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson.

Started reading Concrete Blonde by Michael Connelly.

Still reading Fizban’s Treasury of Dragons by Wizards of the Coast.

Still reading My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson by Alfred Habegger.

Started reading The Last Duel by Eric Jager.

Started reading Killing Floor by Lee Childs.

 

[HawaiiSteveO]

Boy's Life - Robert MCammon I try and read this once a year.

We ran like young wild furies,
where angels feared to tread.
The woods were dark and deep.
Before us demons fled.
We checked Coke bottle bottoms
to see how far was far.
Our worlds of magic wonder
were never reached by car.
We loved our dogs like brothers,
our bikes like rocket ships.
We were going to the stars,
to Mars we'd make round trips.
We swung on vines like Tarzan,
and flashed Zorro's keen blade.
We were James Bond in his Aston,
we were Hercules unchained.
We looked upon the future
and we saw a distant land,
where our folks were always ageless,
and time was shifting sand.
We filled up life with living,
with grins, scabbed knees, and noise.
In glass I see an older man,
but this book's for the boys.

 

[Scottius]

This year I've made it a point to actually start working my way through my collection of old school fantasy/sci Fi paperbacks I've been building up for the last couple of years.

So far I've made it through the anthologies Flashing Swords #1, The Years Best Fantasy Stories #2, and a novel Beyond Rejection by Justin Leiber (Fritz Leiber's son). Now I'm a bit past halfway through another anthology from DAW Books named Amazons.

Gaming book wise I've been reading Mutants In The Now which I discovered via the recent article here on ENWorld. Others include The Sabbat book for Vampire 5e, the Runequest Starter box, and Prowlers & Paragons.

 

[Mezuka]

Sadly, for now, I've lost the taste for novels. I only read rpg books. Maybe it will come back. I have dry spells.

 

[Scottius]

Sadly, for now, I've lost the taste for novels. I only read rpg books. Maybe it will come back. I have dry spells.

I went through that for a while as well. I have slowly been getting back to reading more fiction again and have found short story anthologies a nice way to do it.