[April] What are you reading?

[AuroraGyps]

while I wait to get Swordspoint, by Ellen Kushner, the next selection for the Book Club.

I'm also reading Swordspoint for the club. I only read the first book picked and then got busy w/ other things or couldn't get the next few books chosen. Luckily, I collect books that Canty has illustrated, so I just looked to the right of my PC and grabbed the book. Actually, I have a copy from the 1st printing and the re-release that has short stories included.... they have two different Canty covers.

Next will be something from one of the few series I'm in the middle of:
Thieves' World #8
Asprin's Myth books #3
Harry Dresden #3

 

[Creamsteak]

What are the average reading habits around here?

I tend to read 100-200 pages of a book in one sitting, and tend to read for 2-6 consecutive days. Then I tend to be done with the book, and not pick up another one for a month or so.

 

[Seonaid]

For me, it really depends on my mood, the book(s), and my obligations, but for the most part I'll read as much as I can (between a few pages and the whole book) in a sitting, and then pick up another one right after (that day, or the next). Recently, I've had to read only a few pages before bed, but I did just finish two books in a day this weekend.

 

[Tetsubo]

A History of Engineering in Classical and Medieval Times: Important technological achievements 600 B.C. to A.D. 1450 by Donald Hill

 

[Tetsubo]

What are the average reading habits around here?

I tend to read 100-200 pages of a book in one sitting, and tend to read for 2-6 consecutive days. Then I tend to be done with the book, and not pick up another one for a month or so.

I read about 40 - 60 pages a day at work during breaks. At home I read gaming books, magazines or online. I have been known to just read a book cover-to-cover in one sitting however, though I haven't done it in years.

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

What are the average reading habits around here?

I tend to read in the 25-35 page range during lunch breaks, and about the same inthe evenings. Weekends I either read more (around 200 pages) or none at all, depending on what I have going on. When I finish a book, I usually start another one right away, but it usually takes me a day or two to get into it. Unfortunatly, compared to the amount that I read during college, I'm currently reading a fraction of what I used to (I used to regularly read 4-5 novels a week, now I read a novel every 2 weeks). Game books are another story altogether, I usually sit down for an hour or so every night and read something game related, sometimes spending even more time than that.

 

[EricNoah]

Novels -- I read in 3-4 hour spurts until a book is done if I'm really into it. This often makes for unintentionally late nights.

If it's something that can be read out of sequence (short stories, D&D books, collections from The Onion, etc.), I read 15-30 minutes before going to sleep while in bed.

 

[Duncan Haldane]

I'm currently reading the newest from my favourite author (not counting Tolkien, as he's just in a different category), The Swords of Night and Day by David Gemmell.

I read the first novel he published twenty years ago when it first came out (Legend, but called something else in the US), and I get my hands on his newest as soon as I can.

I interrupted my reading of the latest Terry Brooks novel, Jarka Ruus (?), which I bought for about 1/3 of normal price. Somehow I always seem to get his books cheaply.

What will I read after that? I don't know. I'm thinking of ordering the complete Sandman comic series from Amazon, but that will take a while to arrive. I've read most of them beofre (when they were coming out originally a friend lent them to me), but I would love to own my own set.

As for reading habits, I'm always reading. On the bus to work, during lunch breaks, before sleep, and other occasions. But the speed I get through them depends on the author.

Duncan

 

[BadMojo]

Elfshadow by Elaine Cunningham right now. I'll probably continue on with Elfsong by the same author, followed by Issola by Steven Brust.

 

[Liminal Syzygy]

Onto The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon.