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.

 

[Mannahnin]

My favorite seasonal read might be Zelazny's A Night in the Lonesome October.

It's divided into one chapter for each day of October, and I know some folks online who make it an annual shared read. Sometimes folks will post a video reading a given chapter aloud. I've read it aloud to partners as well. It's a fun and spooky story, and packed with references to Victorian-era fiction and characters.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

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.

I always go all-in on the Halloween season - movies, books, even my gaming sessions get spooky adventures when I can work them in.

However, I'm not one of those people that starts talking about Halloween on August 1st. I figure Labor Day has to finish up first, and you should be able to feel summer slipping away. Part of what makes the Halloween season special is that it is finite.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Currently reading Project Hail Mary (from the author of The Martian). Just as amazing as I'd hoped, fortunately.

 

[Autumnal]

Karl Edward Wagner deserves more fame than he got. I’m always glad to see people reading his work.

 

[Reynard]

Currently reading Project Hail Mary (from the author of The Martian). Just as amazing as I'd hoped, fortunately.

It's so weird that people love that book so much. I listened to it and essentially don't remember a single thing about it. I mean, it isn't bad per se, but completely forgettable for me.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

Karl Edward Wagner deserves Moore fame than he got. I’m always glad to see people reading his work.

I've read his Kane stories, but have slept on his horror works until now.