It's February Already! What We're Reading...

[Culhwch]

I almost forgot it was the first today!

I'm still soldiering through Pratchett's Thud. I've moved, and now I catch the bus to work rather than the train I find I have much less time to read. This month I may try to rectify that...

 

[Mark Robson]

Just finished Control Shift by Nick Manns yesterday - a fun ghost story set in modern day England. Not yet picked up another yet. I'm still reading several text books on the air war of World War I as research for my new series, so I might just abandon my more traditional reading for a while and concentrate on those.

 

[Kitera]

Still reading Eldest....I haven't decided what books to read after that though. But maybe one of the Dragonlance books.

 

[nixie]

Still re-reading Erkson's House of Chains

 

[Allanon]

just finished dragons tongue, very good. now reading bloodstone then going to read a book a friend gave me called daemonic

 

[Stormpirate]

Still working through Soul Music. I've had to do a lot of reading for school, which is cutting into my personal reading time, so haven't made much headway on it.

 

[Circus Cranium]

The Ruins by Scott Smith

 

[HoopyFrood]

We have a Pratchett theme going it seems...

I'm reading the same thing I read every month, Pinky...Ahem, sorry, drifted off into "Pinky and the Brain" then! I mean, I'm still reading Equal Rites...

 

[dwndrgn]

I just finished Poison Study by Maria Snyder and while I felt there could have been a great deal added to the story it was very engaging and I'll be picking up the next one, Magic Study soon.

 

[Avoiding Reality]

I've got the last 20 pages of Banewreaker by Jacqueline Carey that I'm going to finish in a minute, finally. I've been trying to finish it for ages. It's a good book, but it's really hard sitting reading it when you know all the people you like are going to die - it's like Lord of the Rings, only from Sauron's point of view, to put it basically. It's very interesting to read if you've just watched/read LotR though.
Only it's a duology so I won't really have finished it...but I'll leave Godslayer for a little while.

 

[Lenny]

At the moment I'm still reading The Swords of Night and Day by Gemmell. I'm about 4/5 of the way through.

 

[Adasunshine]

Still reading The Illearth War by Stephen Donaldson

xx

 

[Ian Whates]

Currently reading Steve Cockayne's The Good People. Excellent 'YA' fantasy -- the sort that can be enjoyed by any age group. Reminds me a bit of Alan Garner at his best, seasoned with a bit of E.E. Nesbit and a hint of C.S. Lewis.

Set during 2nd World War, told from the view-point of a young boy living in a large country house, involving an imaginary (or not) kingdom and a hidden faery race. Tragedy and trauma in the 'real' world combined with conflict and drama in faery. Very well written. Great stuff!

 

[Culhwch]

I've got the last 20 pages of Banewreaker by Jacqueline Carey that I'm going to finish in a minute, finally. I've been trying to finish it for ages. It's a good book, but it's really hard sitting reading it when you know all the people you like are going to die - it's like Lord of the Rings, only from Sauron's point of view, to put it basically. It's very interesting to read if you've just watched/read LotR though.
Only it's a duology so I won't really have finished it...but I'll leave Godslayer for a little while.

My library never has the more interesting sounding books I see on here... Might have to look for this one in the bookstores.

 

[chrispenycate]

Just discovered Wen Spencer's "Dog Warrior" that I got for christmas, and had lost in my suitcase, and not yet even looked at properly (salivates slightly)

 

[j d worthington]

Another that's neither sf nor f (and that includes horror), but has (very) a tangential connection in this case: Poems, by Alan Seeger (1918), a minor American poet who, like Rupert Brooke, died in the First World War, having entered before America itself. An interesting coincidence is that he was killed on 4 July, in 1916.....

 

[Seanie]

I'm reading The Crown Of Silence by Storm Constantine (book 2 of The Magravandias Chronicals), thumbs up from me so far

 

[Foppish Knight]

Just started The Darkness that Comes Before, by Bakker. Not too impressed, yet, but I'm open-minded.

 

[Nikitta]

I'm still on Beyond Ragnarok. Unfortunately, I've just found out that it seems to have my least favoirite subplot (guy and girl meet, hate each other at first, but end up falling in love through shared hardship). Gah! WHY?! *cries* It's otherwise such a good story, but then something like this had to be added?! NOoooooo!

*ahem*
*regains self control*

In my shoulder-bag for reading when waiting or otherwise bored is Sphere (Michael Crichton).

 

[Talysia]

I'm re-reading All she was Worth by Miyuki Miyabe, and after that Wrong about Japan by Peter Carey.