What are you reading this year 2020?

[Eltab]

My Public Library opened this weekend - hooray !
(But the virus terms and conditions makes it sound like they do not really want any people to show up.)

This upcoming weekend I'm going to try to pick up a few books anyways. This does mean, if I succeed, I won't be on my electronic gadgets as much ... which is probably a good thing overall.

 

[Cadence]

Got a kindle for Christmas and have read 30 or so of the Prey, Flowers, and Kidd books by John Sandford that I hadn't read before (well, except for three the Library doesn't have e-copies of and I need to ask them why). The early Prey books are the ones I like least, and recent events make much of that series seem more problematic. Kidd was better than I was expecting.

Follow the author on Twitter, so finally read "True Porn Clerk Stories". Enjoyable read.

Re-reading the first 9 Garrett novels by Glen Cook. In book 6.

Re-reading (for me) LotR to my 10yo. Just started the Two-Towers. (We've already done Narnia, original reading order except the last and Earthsea - with heavy editing in some parts of books 4-6 - in previous years).

 

[dragoner]

Still chugging through Andre Norton stuff, just finished Catseye, Lord of Thunder before that, and am now on to Dread Companion. She is a solid writer, her common themes are of "Lost Terra" and "Alien Ruins" are pretty catchy, she also likes telepathy, esp w/animals, which is ok, but not great.

 

[Nellisir]

Finished Bait of Dreams by Jo Clayton. Pretty decent. Nice worldbuilding, which I've realized is definitely a metric of mine.
Read Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr, by John Crowley. Good book. Kinda...meditative? Reflective? I'm of the opinion that any "best fantasy list" without Little, Big is crap list, and this isn't Little, Big, but it's pretty cool.

Also found and am reading The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith, Vol. 4: Maze of the Enchanter. I gotta say, I expected more. His writing is...not florid, not ornate exactly, but similar. Leaning hard on the thesaurus. It's decent writing. But very little tension or excitement or suspense, really. None of the stories are sticking with me. But again, really good worldbuilding.

 

[Nellisir]

I also read Locksley, by Nicholas Chase. A Robin Hood book that tweaks things quite a bit. Not bad.

 

[the Jester]

Currently reading the Scar, by China Mievelle, and Shadow Captain, by Alistair Reynolds. I'm enjoying both, though definitely liking the Reynolds book more. I'm also sorta-reading, sorta-just-looking-at the Art & Arcana D&D coffee table book.

 

[Nellisir]

Currently reading the Scar, by China Mievelle, and Shadow Captain, by Alistair Reynolds. I'm enjoying both, though definitely liking the Reynolds book more. I'm also sorta-reading, sorta-just-looking-at the Art & Arcana D&D coffee table book.

I'm not sure I've seen Shadow Captain, and I like Alistair Reynolds a lot. I'll look for it.

Oooo...sequel to Revenger. Cool.

 

[the Jester]

I'm not sure I've seen Shadow Captain, and I like Alistair Reynolds a lot. I'll look for it.

Oooo...sequel to Revenger. Cool.

Yeah, these two are stylistically different than most of his work- much lighter on the science, and much more character focused and less space opera-ish.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

I finished Saberhagen's Changeling Earth. Which is sort-of the conclusion to the Empire of the East series? I dunno, it looks like he wrote a fourth volume 33 years later. Anyway, I dug it. It's a wild blend of post-apocalyptic sci-fi and fantasy, one that is pretty influential (see The Shannara Chronicles, Bakshi's Wizards, The Broken Empire, and so on). Not to mention, its influence on D&D with a demon-lord Orcus.

I figured out how to take Kindle books out from my library, so I'm continuing to give Stephen King a try, after decades of embargo. I'm reading his Night Shift collection.

 

[dragoner]

I'm not sure I've seen Shadow Captain, and I like Alistair Reynolds a lot. I'll look for it.

Oooo...sequel to Revenger. Cool.

There is a 3rd Bone Silence it is still hard SF, just more YA oriented, and future fantastic.