What are you Reading? Ocher October 2019 edition

[Ralif Redhammer]

I haven't seen an official date, but he did announce that the manuscript was done six months ago:

There's a date for book 4? Like, it's at the publisher date? Because that's been teased to us forever. I'd be very happy to hear there was a date.

 

[Mark Chance]

Next on my list is Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell.

 

[Umbran]

This weekend, a friend handed me a hardcover copy of Fall; or, Dodge in Hell, by Neal Stephenson.

Classic Stephenson - 880 pages, weighs in at like 2.5 pounds. This thing would break your foot* if you dropped it from countertop-height. It'll take me a while to get through, but... it is Stephenson, so it is apt to be good.



*The original phrase I know is, "would kill a small animal," but that seems unnecessarily brutal imagery.

 

[Blue]

Just started The Boneless Mercies by April Genevieve Tucholke based on a recommendation earlier this year from there "What are you reading?" threads. Who do I have to thank?

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

Me, maybe? In any case, I read it a month or two ago and thought it was amazing.

Just started The Boneless Mercies by April Genevieve Tucholke based on a recommendation earlier this year from there "What are you reading?" threads. Who do I have to thank?

 

[Richards]

There's a date for book 4? Like, it's at the publisher date? Because that's been teased to us forever. I'd be very happy to hear there was a date.

The Rising Shadow site has a release date for "The Thorn of Emberlain" of 17 September 2020. I'm not sure how accurate that is, but here's where I found that:

The Thorn of Emberlain (The Gentleman Bastard Sequence, #4) by Scott Lynch

Johnathan

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

Finished reading The King of Elfland's Daughter. Such a gorgeous, lyrical read! Of the Appendix N tales, it's definitely up in the top tier.

Also finished reading Algernon Blackwood's The Wendigo. I've got really mixed feelings on this one. It's got a plethora of casual racism against any number of ethnicities (including French-Canadians?!). But the story itself is really horrifying and eerie.

 

[Janx]

Merciful gods, I have finished Dracula.

Returned to reading the last book of the Custard Protocol, which I paused so I could read a ton of horror books for a discussion panel.

 

[Richards]

I started up Andy McDermott's The Valhalla Prophecy. I've read several others in this series; each is pretty much standalone but features the same museum archaeologist team, Nina Wilde and Eddie Chase (they're kind of like Indiana Jones set in modern times). The others I've read were enjoyable - once the action starts up they're pretty fast-paced adventures.

Johnathan

 

[bhyeti]

"Lord of the Rings"...again.