What are you reading in 2022?

[Guest 7034872]

Arabian Nights. The Al-Qadim setting and the 5e Zakhara supplement got me all riled up.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

Depending on your translation, the Arabian Nights is a very saucy read. That was a surprise when I picked a copy at random from the library.

Arabian Nights. The Al-Qadim setting and the 5e Zakhara supplement got me all riled up.

 

[Guest 7034872]

Depending on your translation, the Arabian Nights is a very saucy read. That was a surprise when I picked a copy at random from the library.

Saucy indeed! Lusty, bloody, cruelty-ridden and completely casual about it. It is not something I would read to my kids at night.

 

[Richards]

I'm now reading another book by an author I've never read before, Kerry Schafer's Between, about an ER worker whose dreams start to come true: she meets people she recalls from her dreams and events she dreams about start to happen. It turns out the Dreamworlds are real and there may be creatures from them escaping into the "real world." It was an interesting premise and since my current 3.5 game deals with dreams as a prominent feature I thought I'd give it a shot. At only a couple chapters in, I can at least report that it's well written and is gripping my interest.

Johnathan

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

I finished re-reading Donaldson's Lord Foul's Bane. When I was younger, I never understood why Thomas Covenant so resisted the truth of the Land. But now, I think I get it. How his very survival was tied to the unflinching reality of his condition and rigid self-discipline. To believe in the land, he felt, would undermine that discipline. A beautiful and complex tale, with beauty offset by some true ugliness.

I read L.D. Lewis' novelette, A Ruin of Shadows. For just under 70 pages, it does a great job at making you feel like you're stepping into a world with history and age.

Now I'm reading Conan the Warrior, by R.E. Howard, edited by L. Sprague De Camp.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

I finished Conan the Warrior. The three stories within are visceral, pulse-pounding yarns. Also very racist, and while that comes with the territory, I find how abrasive it is varies from story to story.

Now I'm reading Ben Riggs' Slaying the Dragon.

 

[Alzrius]

Now I'm reading Ben Riggs' Slaying the Dragon.

Me too. While I've only made modest progress on it over the last week or so (mostly due to work), I've been able to put some real time into it recently, and I'm hoping to finish it off before Gen Con.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

I am about 100 pages through Harrow the Ninth. I really didn't expect this book to be written in second person. It's really jarring, and the book is really hard to follow. However, I loved the first book, so I'm going to push through.

 

[Ulfgeir]

Currently reading The Scorched Sky by Jon Ford. It is book 1 in a (planned) series called The Femme Fatales. Don't think the rest is written yet. It is however inspired by the old MMO City of Heroes.

 

[Eyes of Nine]

I am about 100 pages through Harrow the Ninth. I really didn't expect this book to be written in second person. It's really jarring, and the book is really hard to follow. However, I loved the first book, so I'm going to push through.

I'm not sure if it will help to say that I found it worth pushing through to the end, but I'll say it anyway