What literary delights are you delving into this December?

[Adasunshine]

Otherwise known as the What Are You Reading thread...

Well, I've just finished the His Dark Materials Trilogy by Philip Pullman and now I'm back to the Ladies of Grace Adieu: and Other Stories by Susannah Clarke

xx

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

Continuing to explore my recently acquired box of vintage Norton, I've polished off several of the Witch World books, and am moving on to some of the planetary adventures. So now I'm re-reading Judgement on Janus.

 

[Talysia]

Still reading China Miéville's Iron Council.

 

[Connavar]

Started reading Dune by Frank Herbert earlier today. I read couples of pages in a coffè shop after i bought the book.

Now that im home im gonna spend time with it and see what its about.

I have left the hype of the book at the door and only hope for a good tale.

Also read Paycheck by Philip K Dick on the bus home. As usauall PKD a very interesting world and story.

 

[Overread]

Currently reading:
Empire of Ivory - Naomi Novik - will finish this at some point this morning
Path of Blood - Diana Pharaoh Francis
Pyramids - Terry
Sea Dragon Heir - Storm Constantine - pacing this one - the second book is hiding from bookstores
Memories of Ice - Steven Erikson
Storm of Swords - George R.R.Martin
well thats all for now

 

[Lady of Winterfell]

Currently finishing up A Game of Thrones by George RR Martin. I'm about to take a long car ride, so I will be reading The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman, along with A Clash of Kings from GRRM.

 

[Culhwch]

At a loose end. I've been reading Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan, but I'm not all that into it. But I have nothing else much I want to read...

 

[murphy]

Reading Sharon Shinn's Heart of Gold. A tale of racial tensions in an alternate reality between the blue people and the gold people, with an albino or two thrown in.

 

[jneni]

Just finished Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko.

Now reading The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood.

 

[Nesacat]

[Sea Dragon Heir - Storm Constantine - pacing this one - the second book is hiding from bookstores[/quote]

Yes it's awful, awful. I've finished it too and the 2nd book is nowhere to be found. I read the first ages ago.

 

[Connavar]

Just finished Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko.

Now reading The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood.

What did you think of Night Watch? Did you like it?


Im a fan of the series.

 

[Ian Whates]

[Sea Dragon Heir - Storm Constantine - pacing this one - the second book is hiding from bookstores
Yes it's awful, awful. I've finished it too and the 2nd book is nowhere to be found. I read the first ages ago.

Nesa and Overread, why don't you both contact Storm at Immanion Press - Contact Us and tell her this (mentioning how much you enjoyed Sea Dragon Heir)?

You could always suggest that if she were considering reprinting some more of her own books through Immanion, the Magravandias Chronicles would be a good place to start.

You never know...

 

[Overread]

Nesa and Overread, why don't you both contact Storm at Immanion Press - Contact Us and tell her this (mentioning how much you enjoyed Sea Dragon Heir)?

You could always suggest that if she were considering reprinting some more of her own books through Immanion, the Magravandias Chronicles would be a good place to start.

You never know...

when I picked up Sea Dragon Heir it was sitting in the new books pile - so I think it might already be doing the re-runs, but very slowly - that or my local bookshops fail (and considering that not one had a single Temmeraire book - even the new one - I am like to argue the latter)

 

[Nesacat]

Thanks Ian. I really would like to read the rest of the books. The first was very good and I've not been able to find the 2nd either here or in the UK where I got the first one.

 

[Overread]

hmm strange - I just did a run through Amazon (I have been avoiding the place) and waterstones websites and whilst both have stock of book 1, there is nothing for the remaining books - even in waterstones branches

 

[elvet]

While waiting for Revelation and Restoration to arrive, I've started Swordspoint, by Ellen Kushner. It's subtitled 'A Melodrama of Manners', and though I'm just a bit into it, the beginning grabs you right off the bat. It sort of reminds me of the Altriste books.

 

[Marky Lazer]

For school I have to read: Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller. That means 1984 has been put on hold again...

 

[Nesacat]

Oh that is a good one Marky. Tell me how you go please.

 

[Aleksei]

Finished three books last week;

the Anvil of Ice, by Michael Scott Rohan,
The Skewed Throne, by Joshua Palmatier,
Majestrum, by Matthew Hughes.

I had never read any books by those authors before and I will definatly be buying more of their books.

 

[Stenevor]

Read 3 good books last week

This Immortal - Roger Zelazny
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
Rubicon - Tom Holland

Last night I made a tentative start to One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and liked what I read. It needs quite a bit of concentration though.