Happy New Year! Whatcha readin'?

[Tolen Mar]

Happy New Year everybody, hope your respective winter holidays went well for you all. A new year, a new month, and now for the new books...

I have whittled my pile of reads down, having finished the traveller stuff, and having gotten through the Silhouette Core rules as well.

So now I'm reading their WWII superscience game 'Gear Krieg.' Imagine walker type mechs during WWII. Very pulpy. If only I had the RPG book to go with it; right now I have only what details I can pull out of the miniatures rulebook.

Finished 'The Eagle's Brood' by Jack whyte, and I'm going to put a hold in for 'The Saxon Shore,' which is book 4.

I saw a Harry Turtledove book about Atlantis, I may pick it up soon.

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

Almost done with Axis by Robert Charles Wilson. It is pretty good, but not as compelling as the first book.

 

[Storm Raven]

I picked up a number of Bellairs' Johnny Dixon books, I'm going through those right now. They are all quick reads, and I can knock one out just about every day. After that, I have a handful of Isaac Asimov books and a big pile of Arthur C. Clarke stuff to work through.

 

[GlassJaw]

Narnia series.

 

[BadMojo]

I just finished Erik Scott de Bie's "Depths of Madness". It had some rough bits where it seemd like the editor got a little enthusiastic, but it was a very interesting entry in the series of "dungeon" books. Almost a fantasy/horror book.

Last night I started Steven Brust & Megan Lindholm's (aka Robin Hobb) "The Gypsy". Two of my favorite authors. The book itself kind of defies a label.

 

[WayneLigon]

Right now, I'm reading Patricia Brigg's 'Iron Kissed', the third Mercy book. Moon Called and Blood Bound are the other two books (for some reason I keep wanting to call all of them '*-Called' after the manner of the first one but that's incorrect). I went into that directly from her fantasy novel Raven's Shadow. Raven's Strike (the second book; she usually writes duologies) should be in my mailbox today though Captain's Fury or Charlene Harris' new Harper Connoley mystery might be next.

 

[Darkwolf71]

The Blade Itself (The First Law: Book One) by Joe Abercrombie. Random book I picked up at the store a few weeks ago. I'm only into the second chapter, but it seems very well written.

I finally got my copy of Game Night. (Shipping nightmares around the hollidays. ) So, I'm in that as well.

 

[Mark Chance]

When not looking for a new job, I've got the following on my reading list:

King Solomon's Mine by H. Rider Haggard
The Black Throne by Roger Zelazny and Fred Saberhagen
Salamandastron by Brian Jacques
Inca Gold by Clive Cussler
True Evil by Greg Iles

I had been reading Stalkers, a collection of novellas edited by Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg. The quality of the entries has varied enormously. Also, it is probably the worst edited hardback I've ever read. The typos are frequent and glaringly obvious. Makes me wonder what Gorman and Greenberg got paid for.

 

[Klaus]

Legacy of Wolves, by Marsheila Rockwell. It's an Eberron novel in the "The Inquisitives" series (standalone stories focusing on Eberron's detectives).

I just finished Night of the Long Shadows, by Paul Criley, also a "The Inquisitives" novel.

Both are very entertaining.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Found a copy of Strange Fruit: The Biography of a Song in my moms collection of books shes giving to Good Will. Haven't started reading it yet, but I intend to over the weekend.