What are you reading, Septembre 2018 edition

[delericho]

Currently reading "The Quarry" - Iain Banks' last novel (though not the last I have to read).

Next up will be the "Star Wars Sourcebook" from that 30th anniversary reprint. And one of these days I'm going to get around to reading some Shakespeare...

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

Finished Hambly’s Dragonsbane, and wow, was it wonderful. Deep and thoughtful, with magic, dragons, and dragonslayers. The praises of this novel, I think, should be much louder.

Also finished Scott Lynch’s In The Stacks. The short story is pretty enjoyable, and it was nice to see him write outside of the Gentlemen Bastards world (even if wait for the next book is starting to enter Martin/Rothfuss territory).

Now I’m reading Fonda Lee’s Jade City.

 

[Janx]

I now be reading what be the latest rag from that scallywag Drew Hayes, Superpowered Year 4.

Happy International Talk Like a Pirate Day

 

[jasper]

Just finished Target Rich Environment Vol 1, by Larry Correia, Robert A. Heinlein : In Dialogue with his Century Vol 1: Learning Curve 1907-1948 by William H. Patternson Jr.
Working on Waterdeep Heist, Inferno Squad, and Aurora Rising Complete Collection by G.S. Jennsen

 

[vpuigdoller]

Read Timeless by RA Salvatore last week, was fun. Now I started Saga of Old City by Gary Gygax which I was very lucky to find at thrift store. Enjoying it so far.

 

[Blue]

Reading Wintersmith (Terry Pratchett's Discworld in the Tiffany Aching stories) and Brother in Arms (part of Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga).

 

[Kierann]

Started Terry Pratchett's "The Wee Free Men". Didn't get a chance to get too far but I'm liking it.

My favourite book!

 

[Richards]

I started a book I picked up at a library book sale for fifty cents because it was supposed to be a new take on zombies. It's called The Silent Army by James Knapp and it's got several things going against it. First of all, despite being a standalone novel, it seems like it's a continuation of his first book (which I haven't read). But more importantly, it's written from the points of view of three or four rotating characters, and each is written in the first person narrative. Each section starts with the person's name as a header so you know whose turn it is, but if you pick it up in the middle of a section (if you didn't make it to the end of a section the last time you put it down), it gets very confusing and I find myself frequently backtracking to see who "I" is now.

I'm over halfway done so I'm going to plow through it just to find out what happens with the main plot (somebody's stolen a dozen handheld, brick-sized nukes and is threatening to destroy a city and send in a bunch of "revivors" - the zombielike animated bodies of people who have given over control of their consciousnesses to a corporation/government for a set amount of time in order to climb the social status ladder once their time is up - to take out any opposition afterwards).

Anyway, I'm underwhelmed.

Johnathan

 

[Zaukrie]

Finished Hambly’s Dragonsbane, and wow, was it wonderful. Deep and thoughtful, with magic, dragons, and dragonslayers. The praises of this novel, I think, should be much louder.

Also finished Scott Lynch’s In The Stacks. The short story is pretty enjoyable, and it was nice to see him write outside of the Gentlemen Bastards world (even if wait for the next book is starting to enter Martin/Rothfuss territory).

Now I’m reading Fonda Lee’s Jade City.

I second Dragonsbane for sure.

 

[Blue]

Finished up Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett and Mirror Dance by Lois McMaster Bujold. I've been reading Discworld/Tiffany Aching and rereading the Vorkosigan Saga somewhat interleaved.

Brother in Arms + Mirror Dance (very linked in my head) are perhaps my favorites in the Vorkosigan series so far. I need a word for that - they are not my favorite in the entire series, and I don't want to give faint praise of "My Nth favorite", even if you can easily compare books at very different parts of a long series. Maybe Favirst as a port-mantrue of Favorite and First. For a series that kept getting better, every book could be the favirst.

I've enjoyed the Tiffany Aching books, but this was not my "favirst". I quite liked Miss Treason and "Boffo", and it was solid. Just not quite blowing the others away. Considering the company it keeps, The Wee Free Men and A Hatful of Sky, that's not an insult that it wasn't over that bar. I think one point is that with all of the book I've enjoyed Granny Weatherwax in, she seems a bit ... mild? ... to Tiffany. Granny will take her dearest friends to task when they are being stupid, I could do with more acerb from her.