January: What are you reading for your penultimate year?

[Jhaelen]

I just finished 'The Windup Girl' by Paolo Bacigalupi which really deserves having won both the Nebula and Hugo Awards. It's a very refreshing scenario and setting.

Before that I read the most recent novel of William Gibson - 'Zero History' which I enjoyed almost as much as 'Pattern Recognition'. I was surprised to learn that he has only ever written nine novels - all of which I've read.

Before that (end of last year) I had read my first novel written by China Mieville - 'Perdido Street Station' which was ... intriguing. Now, I'm looking forward to reading 'The City & the City'.

 

[coyote6]

Finished First Lord's Fury and Side Jobs -- I am now all out of Butcher to read.

Also, spoiler:

Spoiler

Whatever the story is in Ghost Story, I want some Tales of the Justice League of Chicago.

Started Tarzan of the Apes, which I haven't read before, despite having read tons of ERB in junior high.

 

[Asmor]

Finished up The Shattering. Fantastic book.

Now reading Harvest Moon, though only for the story by Cameron Haley (which serves as a prequel to his excellent novel Mob Rules).

 

[Stumblewyk]

A friend has gotten me into the Dresden Files books, so I'll be continuing those. But I started off the year finishing an old Year's Best Science Fiction short story anthology, and I'm about to move onto The Passage by Justin Cronin. After that, I'll finally finish off my copy of The Hard Sci-Fi Renaissance short story anthology.

 

[Crothian]

I'm rereading the Dresden Files and just finished Fool Moon. I am enjoying the books more this time through and I think that's becasue of the series as a whole and how well they tie together.

 

[FunkBGR]

I finished First Lord's Fury and am waiting before starting the next Dresden book. I started on The Passage and am loving it. Those are on my Kindle.

I'm still working my way through some old school cyberpunk-stylin books I picked up from a local used book store though, so those have to get in there sometime.

 

[Ruined]

Looks like everyone's reading Butcher's books this year. I finished Storm Front (the first) last week, and I'll be starting Fool Moon shortly.

I'm also nearly through with Boneshaker by Cherie Priest.

 

[Krug]

Started on The Windup Girl. Very impressed with the world-building so far.

Finished Cory Doctorow's For the Win before this, which was about gold farmers in MMORPGs. The second half of the book was pretty tedious and kind of hard to digest, but he did get some of the stuff, like working environments in China, pretty much spot on.

 

[LightPhoenix]

Finally read World War Z; I may have to read through it again to catch some of the little bits I think I missed.

I'm actually debating a couple of different books to read right now, but I think I'll probably grab Dresden, since I liked the show and I hear good things about it here.

Comics-wise, I've started reading the D&D comic; it's surprisingly pretty good! I wasn't expecting much - I was totally wrong.

good books - very intense. I like most of the characters, who seem to be just trying to get by in a world turned upside down.

I haven't been liking the recent issues of The Walking Dead as much as the earlier stuff. The whole arc that's currently going on seems to me to be pretty weak, story-wise. I wish they'd get a move on.

 

[Wolf72]

I'm finish up Erikson's Dust of Dreams, book 9 of the Malazans. So far so good, but there's so much going on I end up rereading parts or racking my brain trying to remember who character 'x' is.

Waiting for next WoT book to come back to the local library ...

but I need a new series to start on, I'm thinking of BSG books or WoW (or both). Substitute teaching leaves lots of time to read during the day.