What are you reading in 2025?

[The Soloist]

I was searching back through the thread for references to Foundation and spotted this, which I must have overlooked before. How did you like it, and did you read the other two? I love the series unreservedly. Up there with LotR for my favorite fantasies.

Loved the first half of book one. I'm stuck at the beginning of the fairy section. Should resume reading in September.

 

[Mannahnin]

Loved the first half of book one. I'm stuck at the beginning of the fairy section. Should resume reading in September.

Nice. All the fairy stuff in the Lyonesse books heavily informs how I see and run Fairie in games. The one long campaign I ran of 5E was split half and half (via portal travel) between the Feywild and an enormous, decadent city populated by also-Vancian miscreants and aristocrats. When the PCs had to travel across the Feywild in a couple of different quests, it was heavily inspired by Vance's picaresque adventures in these books. Lyonesse and the Forest Tantravalles are big parts of why I want to run Dolmenwood.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

I finished reading Scott's Trouble and Her Friends. Really enjoyed it, with all its 90s vibes. The epilogue left me feeling somewhat unsatisfied, but upon reflection, I wonder if that was the point...

Now I'm reading Karl Edward Wagner's In A Lonely Place. The spooky season is here.

 

[prabe]

Now I'm reading Karl Edward Wagner's In A Lonely Place. The spooky season is here.

I don't normally do anything different, reading wise, for "spooky season," but I have me some Stephen Graham Jones I could read, and that might serve as a motivation/excuse. Trilogies always feel like a commitment, even when I can just read them through.