What're You Reading for September?

[Guest 85555]

On a Rome kick right now

Non-Fiction
Roman Social Relations
Ancient Rome on 5 Denarii a Day
Caligula: A Biography

Fiction
Roman Blood

 

[Shade]

I've nearly finished the third Malazan book, Memories of Ice. I plan to read Karl Edward Wagner's Midnight Sun: The Complete Stories of Kane that I finally scored off eBay, then resume the Malazan series.

 

[Krug]

Karl Edward Wagner's Bloodstone, one of the Kane novels. Very well-written sword and sorcery.

 

[AdmundfortGeographer]

I'm on a Paleo Nutrition kick, just finished all about the same time in the past day to two:

• The Paleo Diet
• The Paleo Solution
• Primal Body, Primal Mind
• The Cholesterol Delusion

I'm hunting down even more and getting some cookbooks to keep me going.

In the fiction realm I'm slowly working through two Warhammer books focusing on dwarves. The good, ol' Gotrek and Felix books, plus the Dwarves omnibus. I've really missed dwarves given this kind of attention in fantasy books, especially with excellent focus on believable dwarven culture that isn't just "short grumpy humans underground".

 

[megamania]

Fourth Deadly Sin and The Rage (reading one at work and one at home).

 

[IronWolf]

Re-reading The Two Towers.

 

[Arkhandus]

This month, I've started reading The Book of Lost Tales I in the "History of Middle-Earth" series, having finished re-reading The Silmarillion last month and finishing The Children Of Hurin earlier in the summer. Also read the Brightest Day: Green Lantern TPB at the start of the month, and will finally read Blackest Night: Black Lantern Corps. Volume II this month. Still need to find copies of one or two other Brightest Day TPBs though. Need to start visiting a different comic book store for 'em, unfortunately, since Atomic Comics just went out of business.

Wondering how long Barnes & Noble will be around now, since it's the only decent bookstore chain in the area now and they have at least some graphic novels/trade paperbacks for sale.

 

[Stumblewyk]

Just finished Handling the Undead. I honestly liked it a lot - it was much deeper than just "Oh crap! Zombies!" and actually not-so-bluntly addressed how we handle our deceased from a psychological, social, and physical point of view, not to mention challenging society's perception of Death as a state and entity. And from the viewpoint of the parent of a deceased child, I found the sections about Gustav and Anna to be simultaneously horrifying and sincere.

Just started Side Jobs, the Dresden Files short story anthology. I like it so far. Kind of bite-sized, semi-serious glimpses into the Dresden-verse.

Once Side Jobs is done, I'll be ripping through The Dead Town by Dean Koontz. I detest Koontz as a writer, but his Frankenstein novels entertain me for some reason. They're like junk food books - I know they're terrible, but I keep reading them.

 

[Tinker Gnome]

Coldheart Canyon by Clive Barker
Sister of the Sword by Paul B. Thompson & Tonya C. Cook

 

[Richards]

I'm currently halfway through S. M. Sterling's Dies the Fire, where all of a sudden all modern technology stops working at once, to include the fact that suddenly gunpowder no longer burns. After all planes fall out of the sky at once, humanity comes to the sudden realization that we're pretty much screwed, and all of a sudden those guys from the Society for Creative Anachronism have a leg up on the type of survival skills it's going to take to keep alive once the easily-available canned food runs out....

Johnathan