What are you reading this year 2020?

[Ralif Redhammer]

Saberhagen's The Broken Lands is finished - a fun post-apocalyptic fantasy read. Having read the First Book of Swords a while ago and not been that impressed, I wasn't sure if I would like this. But I did, and now I'm thinking about re-reading the Swords series again.

Now it's Ian Mortimer's Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England.

 

[Tyler Do'Urden]

I think I don't like reading ebooks as much as paper books.

Absolutely. Except for work reference manuals and game rules/adventures, I don't do ebooks (and gimme PDF, none of this Kindle stuff!). Gotta have my dead tree.

That said, I hardly finished any books last year; probably my worst reading dry spell ever. All I can remember actually completing from start to finish was Neal Stephenson's "Fall: Or, Dodge in Hell", and Colin Wilson's classic study of existentialism, "The Outsider". (And I highly recommend both!)

This year? Still plowing through and trying to process lots of game rulebooks, and I've probably got more financial planning books to read, as well as needing a crash course in blockchain, so probably not much time for fiction. But I think my next fiction will be tackling the annotated volumes of H.P. Lovecraft; those look fascinating...

 

[Blue]

About half way through Leviathan Awakes, the first book of The Expanse. I have not watched the show, so this all coming at me fresh. So far I'm quite enjoying it.

(Oh, and @Nellisir, kindly watch putting spoilers? I was lucky I had gotten past the introduction of what you are talking about, but that was a twist not given until a third or the way more through the book.)

Of other books-made-shows interest, here's a recent interview from the author of the Witcher books about his take on the series (and the games). It's a refreshingly direct interview:

https://io9.gizmodo.com/i-do-not-like-working-too-hard-or-too-long-a-refreshin-1841209529

 

[Umbran]

On vacation I got through Simon Green's Hex and the City, John Scalzi's Consuming Fire, and P. Djèlí Clark's The Haunting of Tram Car 015.

 

[Eyes of Nine]

Just finished TJ Bass' Half Past Human and I can heartily disrecommend it.

 

[Nellisir]

(Oh, and @Nellisir, kindly watch putting spoilers? I was lucky I had gotten past the introduction of what you are talking about, but that was a twist not given until a third or the way more through the book.)

Um. I'm sorry, I guess? The book has been out for 9 years. There are seven sequels. There's a tv show on its fourth season. And...you think THAT'S a spoiler?

Oh boy. Buckle up.

Edit: I edited my post above so no one accidentally finds out about the hyborean space goblins.

Edit-Edit: I'm still restless reading, so went back and read Book 5 of the Expanse and am halfway through Book 6. I'll read Book 7 next so I doodle doodle catch up to the doodle doodle beginning of doodle doodle just having fun here Book 8.

 

[KahlessNestor]

Finished in early January the Eberron Mark of Death trilogy and now started a book in spanish i got as a gift during the holidays called La tia Julia y el Escribidor by Mario Vargas Llosa. I'm liking it so far.

I am still stuck on that Mark of Death. Kindle doesn't have the third book!

 

[Janx]

Finished A Plague of Giants by Kevin Hearne

The first 8 pages were weak, but then it picked up and got good.

Started Sisters of the Wild Sage by Nicole Givens Kurtz
It's a a weird west short story collection, just started the first one. I like it.

 

[vpuigdoller]

I am still stuck on that Mark of Death. Kindle doesn't have the third book!

I bought it on audible and listened to it on audio. Yah its a bummer it is not in kindle format.

 

[carrot]

Currently in the middle of Cast in Wisdom The latest in the Chronicles of Elantra series by Michelle Sagara. This used to be an interesting collection of books. (Its been steadily going downhill for a while though). I'm still hopeful it will pick up, but so far it feels like pages and pages of waffle between vague plot points.