What August tome are you tackling this month?

[Mouse]

Reading The One Kingdom by Sean Russell. (Still) and Robin Hobb's Shaman's Crossing, which I'm actually enjoying. I know a few people on here didn't like it that much!

 

[Rosemary]

Finished Sara Douglass' The Hanging Wall. Though it is a novel, it reads like a short story. There is not much substance to it. I'm now taking a fantasy mini-break , having just started Princess Charming a chick-lit murder mystery set on a cruise ship.

I hope The Hanging Wall doesn't put you off reading Sara Douglass...Her other triologies are really good....

 

[elvet]

I hope The Hanging Wall doesn't put you off reading Sara Douglass...Her other triologies are really good....

Nope. I'm looking forward to reading the Axis trilogy .

 

[Carolyn Hill]

C.S. Friedman's Crown of Shadows (It took me awhile to recover from the first two lengthy books in the Coldfire trilogy, but now that I've recovered, I'm enjoying this third book.)

 

[j d worthington]

The Lovecraft Papers, by HPL scholar Peter H. Cannon, a reissue of two small press books: Pulptime, which brings together HPL and an aging Sherlock Holmes during Lovecraft's stay in Brooklyn; and Scream for Jeeves, which is a blending of Wodehouse and Lovecraft in a set of three short stories.

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

[Scream for Jeeves, which is a blending of Wodehouse and Lovecraft in a set of three short stories.

I don't know if I am intrigued by that combination, or absolutely horrified.

 

[iansales]

Finished van Vogt's Planets for Sale. He wasn't one for plausibility... Fancied something different, so it's Ursula Le Guin's Searoad next.

 

[Carolyn Hill]

it's Ursula Le Guin's Searoad next.

"Foam Women, Rain Women," one of the pieces in Le Guin's Searoad, inspired me to make a small wall-quilt. Her prose rolls like the waves and marches like the women . . . lovely Le Guin language.

 

[j d worthington]

I don't know if I am intrigued by that combination, or absolutely horrified.

"Amused", I think, would be the proper response, as the stories are written by someone with a wide knowledge and love for all three writers, who also delights in wordplay and subtle (and not-so-subtle) in-jokes. While not as witty as Wodehouse, of course, they are decidedly fun and there's more than a twinkle there... and for the Lovecraftian, they can give an entirely new spin on some of that canon, as well.

In other words, finished the re-read... now on to Brian Stableford's Empire of Fear, then I'll probably go for the Dunsany Tales of War (I hope).

 

[Nesacat]

Finished Ramsey Campbell's Cold Print and am now reading Eat, Drink and Be Married by Eve Makis and Terry Pratchett's Thud. Am probably going to read Shadown Bend again as well.

j.d. ... I'm not sure how Jeeves would fit in the mythos but I suspect he'd do it very well and probably run herd on all the Elder Gods to boot.

 

[nixie]

Now reading the second volume (books 3 & 4) of Gene Wolfe's book of The New Sun.

 

[iansales]

"Foam Women, Rain Women," one of the pieces in Le Guin's Searoad, inspired me to make a small wall-quilt.

Is that good or bad?

Can't say I'm enjoying Searoad all that much at the moment. I'm not a big fan of folksy US fiction--"must of" just brings out the angry grammarian in me, for example Still, it is Le Guin...

 

[Carolyn Hill]

Is that good or bad?

That's good. (Must of not made myself clear. )

 

[iansales]

That's good. (Must of not made myself clear. )

Arrrgghh

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

I'm reading Ahab's Wife (subtitle: The Stargazer), by Sena Jeter Naslund. It's an odd and interesting book, as might be expected of something influenced by Melville. The one thing that bothers me is the way the narrative keeps skipping back and forth in time; that part feels disorganized rather than artistic. (Although I suspect it was a series of artistic choices that only ended up feeling disorganized.) However, the prose is quite good, and a reader might learn a lot more than he or she ever expected about 19th century America.

So, on the whole, I'm liking it quite well, but at this point the scales could tip in either direction.

 

[Status]

I just finished reading "British History for Dummies" I was quite impressed by the way it was written, helped me remember things better and a joy to read.

I've got lined up 2 to read and don't know which one to read first. Any suggestions would be welcome.

"Song of the Earth" by John R. Dann and "The Runes of the Earth" by Stephen R. Donaldson. I've read the first 2 sets of Donaldson’s a long time ago and was surprised to see this on in the book store and had to get it! I've not read the other one in the series by Dann though, should it be read first?

 

[cornelius]

finally started Erikson! yaay for me!

 

[Joel007]

Finished the Dark Elf trilogy by R A Salvatore (interesting struggle of morals and loss of innocence). Soon to attempt the Icewind dale trilogy. But first, the Antipope by Robert Rankin

Then Pawn of Prophecy by David Eddings!

 

[Taltos]

Finally managed to finish a book in this month P.J.Farmers "To Your Scattered Bodies Go" - nothing spectacular but very readable
Continuing with G. Benfords "Foundation's Fear" - so far it's not exactly what I expected

 

[dwndrgn]

Read Alan Garner's The Owl Service over my holiday and can't decide if I liked it or not. It was an interesting Welsh 'legend'. Has anyone else read it and have any thoughts on it?

I'm currently re-reading HP and the Half-Blood Prince, just because most of my free time is consumed with all of our home renovations and I need something light and good to read betweentimes...