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New year, new thread. Between my gf and myself I got The Expanse RPG; Deep Magic; and The Compendium of Forgotten Secrets: Awakening for RPG books so far, so that's what I've been occupied with. Really impressed by all of them.

I enjoyed those books.

I've read a few things, mostly been noodling around. Got Obama's memoir for Christmas, and expecting a few more books, but went really light on it this year. I've got so much "to be read" it's kinda insane, plus 30+ years of Analog magazine to go through if I want (it's recent years, not the...

Two? TWO???? Oh man. That's it. You're done now. It never gets better. You'll be chasing the high for the rest of your life. ;)

That's a GOOD book.

No, but maybe one of these will be helpful? https://www.enworld.org/threads/locations-in-the-abyss.154911/ https://www.enworld.org/threads/layers-of-the-abyss.35735/ https://www.enworld.org/threads/the-abyss-infinite-or-666-layers.29580/...

I couldn't sleep and started Don't Look Back, by Karin Fossum, a Norwegian author. VERY readable. Flows right along. Biggest hassle was putting down the book to try and sleep again. In the general category of "things that are written", I actually got a pile of Christmas cards addressed...

Found, and read, Kill the Dead, the second Sandman Slim book by Richard Kadrey. Decent, not spectacular. I don't mind looking for more but I'm not going to go nuts about it. 3/5 I've got non-SF/Fantasy books piling up, so going to try and switch gears for a bit and read those. We'll see how it...

Agreed. It doesn't seem bad, I guess, but I don't run or play a game currently so it's just homework for me. 12 volumes. Sheesh. Mike Carey's Felix Castor series is only 5 books and pretty similar in tone, if you like that genre. I liked the series.

Read Sandman Slim, by Richard Kadrey. Good solid read, 4/5. I bought it and a sequel at the book sale this fall, but I can't remember where I put the second one so probably reading something else. Edit: Found the other book, have started it. Also finished up the X of Swords crossover (I've read...

Bit of a slowdown recently. Read Rhialto the Marvellous, by Jack Vance, and Sister Pelagia and the Black Monk, by Boris Akunin. Boris Akunin is apparently a very popular Russian mystery writer, and I suppose it says something that he apparently wrote Sister Pelagia as a three-book diversion from...

The Stars My Destination is SO GOOD. I read Soon I Will Be Invincible, by Austin Grossman. It's a "superhero" novel, in that the world depicted has superheros, with superpowers, and magic, and alien races. It's got all the cliches: capes, fancy helmets, accidental origins, the works - but with...

Excellent/cool! I picture it on a cliff or bluff overlooking the beach, though, with switchback stairs descending down. When the borders are closed the stairs simply bring you back to the hotel.

Read To Die in Italbar, by River Zelazny. I didn't realize it's set in the same universe as Isle of the Dead, which I happened to read a few weeks ago. Apparently Zelazny didn't think much of it, but I thought it was decent enough. 4/5 Also read The Eyes of the Overworld, by Jack Vance. I've...

Read Year Zero, by Rob Reid. I'm not sure if I've read it before, so I decided to grab it yesterday. (At a $1.50 for trades, why the heck not?) I also skimmed the Skaith books. Turns out I read those - I thought I had book 1, but I actually had an omnibus. It's cool to have the MMPBs though...

Book sale haul. Better selection this time than last time. Might go again next weekend; still lots of interesting stuff in Mystery and other section. Not shown is the AMAZING haul of games I scored at a going-out-of-business sale 😔 at a game store I pass by periodically. I stopped on a whim...

Ha! Nice!! Someday I'll post mine, and you can all weep with me. You've got some good stuff coming up though. Looking specifically at Robin Hobb, Jack of Shadows, Witch World, and The Diamond Age. So new books are added at upper left. I can understand that feeling "right". I'm nowhere near...

So an acquaintance was cleaning out her house, and asked if I was interested in her (deceased) husband's books. <sigh> 413 (yes, my gf & I counted) mass-market paperbacks, and three fairly large boxes of Analog magazine. Dude was really into military SF. Lots of names I recognize but haven't...

Yeah, guess what got almost zero attention in the story and probably detracted from it overall? The fact it was set on another planet in the future. I DID read the story.