What are you reading in 2022?

[Cadence]

Listening to my wife read Maus with our 12yo. We had each read it a few times over the years, but this is his first time. Several of my wife's great grandparents and great-great-grandparents were fortunate to arrive in the US from Belarus and Poland in the last decade of the nineteenth century and first decade of the twentieth.

Never again.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

Finished re-reading The Hobbit. It will always be a book I love - it's been with me for so long.

I read Leigh Brackett's The Dragon-Queen of Jupiter. It's a short story, but like all her work punchy and enjoyable. Now I'm reading The King Of The Swords, by Michael Moorcock, the third Corum book.

 

[Richards]

I finished All the Lives He Led on a plane trip today, and it was...meh. I think my biggest problem was the main character was just so bland. A boring protagonist does not a compelling novel make. Now I'm about to start up a book called Cruise of the Undead by Lauren A. Hansen, apparently the first book in a "Zombies in Paradise" series. It's just like it says in the title: a 15-year-old boy is on a cruise liner with his parents when a zombie apocalypse starts and he ends up fighting for his life on a ship full of zombies. It's only 211 pages so it looks like a quick read.

Johnathan

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

Finished Moorcock's The King of The Swords. Quite enjoyable and psychedelic. The ending came together really fast, but I think that's indicative of the frenetic pace Moorcock wrote with back then.

Now I'm reading Edgar Rice Burroughs' Pellucidar. I only liked the first book, but considering how much I love his Barsoom series, I wanted to give the Pellucidar series a second chance.

 

[Guest 7034872]

I'm reading too many books to make it reasonable to list them, but specifically within the fantasy genre I did just at the end of 2021 discover a new-to-me fantasy author whom I admire unreservedly: Susanna Clarke. Her Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell is delightful (but you have to enjoy long books, because this is long): I'm still trying to think up some crazy way of building a usable adventure around that story. Just a few years ago she published another one, Piranesi, and that thing is simply extraordinary.

I'm not writing Word One about either novel's subject matter because I don't want to spoil any of it for those who haven't read her yet. Her books are some of the best reads I've had since Jorge Luis Borges or Italo Calvino.

 

[Zaukrie]

I just read Flower's Fang. The creatures being lion people and plant people was a nice change. I'm not sure it is a great book, but it is a good book. I own the second, but did not immediately pick it up.... But will read it.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

I've yet to get to Piranesi, but Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell is an astonishing work of literary craft. I've read books that might remind me of it in parts, but none that match it. I wish I had had an eReader when I read it, though, because it is heavy.

I'm reading too many books to make it reasonable to list them, but specifically within the fantasy genre I did just at the end of 2021 discover a new-to-me fantasy author whom I admire unreservedly: Susanna Clarke. Her Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell is delightful (but you have to enjoy long books, because this is long): I'm still trying to think up some crazy way of building a usable adventure around that story. Just a few years ago she published another one, Piranesi, and that thing is simply extraordinary.

I'm not writing Word One about either novel's subject matter because I don't want to spoil any of it for those who haven't read her yet. Her books are some of the best reads I've had since Jorge Luis Borges or Italo Calvino.

 

[Zaukrie]

I've yet to get to Piranesi, but Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell is an astonishing work of literary craft. I've read books that might remind me of it in parts, but none that match it. I wish I had had an eReader when I read it, though, because it is heavy.

I have the ebook, but have not started it yet. Assuming we go overseas this spring/summer, I'll read it on the plane and other times there isn't stuff to look at. That should get me part way thru....

 

[Guest 7034872]

I've yet to get to Piranesi, but Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell is an astonishing work of literary craft. I've read books that might remind me of it in parts, but none that match it. I wish I had had an eReader when I read it, though, because it is heavy.

That thing is so, so good. Not one wooden character in it and not one page the reading of which failed to enchant me and transport me to an England I've never seen but wish I could. Ms. Clarke has become my new fave.

I have the ebook, but have not started it yet. Assuming we go overseas this spring/summer, I'll read it on the plane and other times there isn't stuff to look at. That should get me part way thru....

I don't think you'll be disappointed.

 

[Zaukrie]

That thing is so, so good. Not one wooden character in it and not one page the reading of which failed to enchant me and transport me to an England I've never seen but wish I could. Ms. Clarke has become my new fave.


I don't think you'll be disappointed.

I was unable to finish the tv show (though, my wife finding it boring didn't help).