What literary delights are you delving into this December?

Started reading Prayers for the Assassin by Robert Ferrigno, but had trouble accepting some of the premises mentioned. I could accept that many Americans would convert to Islam, but could absolutely not accept that they would put up with Taliban-like behavior on the part of the Imans. So I switched to Elizabeth Bear's Undertow. Will probably go back later to Assassin.
 
Aleksei said:
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.
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I just picked up the Skewed Throne. What did you like about it?
 
Connavar of Rigante said:
What did you think of Night Watch? Did you like it?


Im a fan of the series.
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Yeah, I like it too :) There were really many twists in the first book but I enjoyed it. I liked how Light and Darkness were 'defined' in the book and how the characters struggle though the 'darkness' in them.
 
I'm going to mix up my reading delights this December by choosing a well-known author and a new author in the sci fi realm.
1984 - George Orwell (clearly the well-known)
The Anomaly - Adam Danczyk (found this on an independent bookstore's website... we'll see how it goes)
 
I just finished reading Vacuum Diagrams by Stephen Baxter, and now I am reading Way Station by Clifford D. Simak.
 
Still going with part 1 of the Serpentwar Saga but now nearing the end.
 
Working my way through Epicene at the moment. Quite enjoying Ben Jonson's work, Volpone was quite a good play, too. And Jonson looks like Tom Baker. Really, image search on google sometime and you'll see what I mean :D
 
I'm just finishing up the first of Iain Banks' "Culture" novels, Consider Phlebas, and just got Charles Stross' new one , Halting State.

If the rest of the Culture books read as this one, I'm undecided. A romp, to be sure....But a bit unfocused.
 
Labrynith - Kate Mosse. I think I like her other book better, Sepulchre better. This one is all over the place and somewhat confusing at times, however maybe it will all come together at the end, at least I hope so.
 
I read two Ian R. MacLeod stories today.

"Past Magic"
"Starship Day"

Both were excellent.
 
After finishing Colin Greenland's Take Back Plenty - which remains a favourite sf novel - I'm currently reading an excerpt from Herodotus' The Histories titled Xerxes Invades Greece and is one of the Penguin Epics set.
 
My adventure turning back the clock with Andre Norton continues: this time with Night of Masks.
 
oh a lot actually but I fear it won't contain a lot of fiction.
-Educational Thought and Ideology in Modern Japan
-Education of the rising sun
and so on and so on like 5-6 other titles on Japanese education.
Then also My coursebook on Literary science, which contains a few texts of Eco and some other fairly okay stories.
Then some Mencius in of course the original Classical Chinese version.

If and when it Arrives and if I find the time I'll start on "A Dark sacrifice" By the lovely lady above.
 
Well, despite my schedule having kept me from quite finishing Salmagundi (which I'm still dipping into), I've now begun The Woman in White, by William Wilkie Collins....
 
Am re-reading 'The Blade Itself' by Joe Abercrombie, so as to be up to date when I finally get the next book and also the last volume.
 
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