[Jan05] What are you reading?

[dvvega]

Finished Book 1:Across the Nightingale Floor of the Otori Trilogy and into Book 2:Grass For His Pillow. Written by Lian Hearn (pseudonym) for an Australian author (well actually living in Australia, born in England I believe).

Looks like Book 1 will be turned into a movie ... will be very interested in how its done.

 

[lrsach01]

The Dragonbone Chair by Tad Williams...its part of his fantastic Memory, Sorrow and Thorne trilogy. I've read it before, but I was stuck without a book prior to Christmas (my wife's law...I'm not allowed to purchase a new book 2 weeks before a holiday...she likes the easy gift thing). I now have William's Shadowmarch and Terry Brooks' latest on the night stand.

 

[RichCsigs]

Thumbs up to Dragonbone Chair! Memory, Sorrow and Thorn is a great trilogy.

 

[jester47]

Reading Vance's Dying Earth series in the one volume edition. Just finished chapter 3 of Eyes of the Overworld.

Got a bunch of non-fiction after that, God after Darwin, and The Alphabet Vs. The Goddess. Looking forward to finishing Blood Meridian, and Best of the Realms. Then I get to start on my unstarted/unread fiction pile. I am greatly looking forward to that! Perdido, Urth, and numerous others.

Aaron.

 

[ivocaliban]

Last read: A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick

Currently reading: Swords Against Death by Fritz Leiber

Next up: A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin

Thank you SFBC!

As for non-fiction I've been weeding my way through 1421: The Year China Discovered America by Gavin Menzies and Chronicles, Vol. I by Bob Dylan.

 

[Desdichado]

Rereading Unfinished Tales by J.R.R. Tolkien.
Reading The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane by R.E. Howard.
Next up, a biography of Alfred the Great, a book on the Harappa/Mohenjo-Daro civilization of the pre-Aryan Indus Valley, and one on ancient Sumer.

 

[John Q. Mayhem]

I'm reading the Song of Susannah, Johnathon Strange and Mr. Norrell, Guardians of the Flame: Legacy, and I just finished rereading the first Black Company trilogy.

 

[Tetsubo]

The Origins of Species, by Charles Darwin.

 

[Mark]

Medieval Costume and Fashion by Herbert Norris

 

[nimisgod]

Continuing the Black Company series. I'm on the 1st book of the Glittering Stone. Trying desperately not to finish two books in one day...