January: What are you reading for your penultimate year?

[Asmor]

Well, it's Jan 2nd, no one else has started a thread yet, and people are posting in December's thread! OH NOES!

So it's the penultimate year. Time to start working on that bucket list before Quetzalcoatl (holy crap, I spelled that right on the first try!) bathes the world in cleansing flames.

So what are you/i] reading?

 

[Asmor]

Got bored with Paradise war and stopped about 1/3 the way through. Just started reading The Shattering (the WoW novel). Barely scratched the surface on it so far.

 

[Umbran]

I'm reading, The Buntline Special, by Mike Resnick, which is basically a Weird West Retelling of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral. So far, it is not Resnick's best work, but it is loaded with inspiration for my Deadlands game...

 

[TanisFrey]

I just started an old classic novel, The Lord of the Rings.

 

[Croesus]

On New Year's Day I finished Berlin at War by Roger Morehouse. Very good history of the experiences of Berliners' during WW2. The author found a number of interesting bits that really flesh out the accounts. For example, "Hindenburg lights" were simply three candles, one at head height, one about waist height, one near the floor. If a candle went out, you knew that the oxygen level in your bomb shelter was getting low.

Just started All the devils are here : the hidden history of the financial crisis by Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Those Silly Mayans by Alan Smithee- it's about how they got the date wrong because they were reading their calandars upside down.

Besides my scrip to F&SF Magazine, I have a pile of books to rad through by OSC, Asimov, Stirling and others...I haven't decided which to grab next.

 

[Shade]

After years of interest, I finally have started Imaro by Charles Saunders. So far, so good.

 

[Villano]

I'm reading The Tangled Skein by David Stuart Davie. It's a "Sherlock Holmes meets Dracula" novel and it's pretty fun. The best part is that the author tried to capture Doyle's style and didn't just churn out a modernized version (i.e., full of cursing, nudity, and gore). It feels like a missing Holmes story.

 

[coyote6]

Chasing the Dime, by Michael Connelly. Not enjoying it as much as the Harry Bosch novels of his that I've read.

 

[Hjorimir]

I just finished Lamentation by Ken Scholes, which was utterly fantastic (and I highly recommend it).

I'm next going to dive into The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson and on deck after that is The Crown Conspiracy by Michael J. Sullivan.