April's Astonishing, Astounding (and Sometimes Overpowering) Adventures in Reading

[Teresa Edgerton]

Yes, the alliteration is a little odd, but here's the April Reading Thread ...

 

[SpaceShip]

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Been just sooooo busy - so am still reading Pratchett's "Feet of Clay". Will dash in a min and get on with it - halfway through!

 

[Urien]

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I'm on an F. Paul Wilson (-athon). Finished The Keep, reading the Tomb, and also have The Touch and Reborn. Got the lot at a local market the other day for 5 of our British pounds.

I always feel guilty buying second hand books, but seeing the four together was too tempting.

 

[Razorback]

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Just finished Komarr, by Lois McMaster Bujold. It’s better than the prior book (Memory), but not as good as the earlier books in the series. For my taste, it’s too much soap opera and not enough space opera. She’s still a good writer and storyteller, but the ending of this one seemed rather perfunctory or contrived compared to her earlier works. I only rate this one a 5 out of 10.

 

[Lady of Winterfell]

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Still reading The Other Boleyn Girl. I've been so busy lately I've only been able to read a little over 100 pages, but enjoying it so far.

 

[Overread]

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Right here we go again - and this time I really mean to finish these whole lot before the next month!
A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow - GRRM
A Companion to Wolves - Sarah Monette and Elizabeth Bear
Guards! Guards! - Pratchett
Memories of Ice - Steven Erikson
The Crystal Singer - Anne McCaffrey
The Glass of Dyskornis - Randall Garrett and Vicki Ann Heydron
Post Captain - Patrick O'Brian
Sea Dragon Heir - Storm Constantine
White Fang - Jack London

 

[Lady of Winterfell]

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White Fang, haven't read that in years, but remember it being a great read.

 

[Call me Gytha]

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Recently assigned Confessor as my first "postponed" book Really enjoying JV Jones SFRI though only about a fifth through.

 

[chopper]

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chunking quickly through Tad Williams' Memory Sorrow & Thorn books. aside from the over-internalising, i'm finding it as good as i remember it from years back. a new point to note, however: is it just me, or does pretty much every chapter end with somebody hitting somebody else over the head?

 

[GOLLUM]

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Cool title Teresa...

Amongst other things perusing my unabridged copy of Bullfinch's Mythology and still wading through the wonderful Gormenghast.

 

[ravenus]

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I finished Black House by Paul Theroux, which is a nominal ghost story mixed with the John Banville style existentialism writing. The story is a about an opinionated anthropologist and his wife who return from Africa after a 10-year stay and put up in an archetypal haunted English home in a none-too-friendly village. I wouldn't say it's some brilliant achievement but it IS well-written and reasonably engaging in most parts.

 

[Culhwch]

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Finished Pratchett's Mort yesterday. Very enjoyable, but that's a given. About halfway through Brook's World War Z.

 

[kaneda]

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I'm reading the innocent mage by Karen Miller this month and then should be moving onto memories of ice by erikson.

 

[Shamu]

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I'm reading Empress by Karen Miller right now. I think it's titled slightly differently outside of the UK.

 

[Taltos]

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ATM reading Stross The Atrocity Archives - have to agree with the foreword, that Stross has improved over the time as previously read Jennifer Morgue was better.
After that, probably Glasshouse, if I don't get Butcher Proven Guilty while this book is not finished - sheeeeesh, 3 and half months is slow delivery time, even in this country

 

[Connavar]

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Im reading The Drowning Pool from 1950 by Ross Macdonald.

This line from the book was so well put,creative and funny that it cracked me up

"Her breasts were pointed like a dilemma "


Just finished Stick a great read by Elmore Leonard.

 

[Switchback]

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Continuing through my re-read of the Wheel of Time (book 8 now) and scouring the bookshops for Penman's Sunne in Splendor.

 

[Jen526]

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Currently reading Chaz Brenchley's Bridge of Dreams. Enjoying it very much.

 

[Urlik]

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dipping into Clarke's The Other Side of the Sky.
just reading a short story or two each day.
I'm hoping to find my History of the Runestaff and Chronicles of Castle Brass (both by Moorcock) as I really want to read those again, but haven't seen them since we moved a few years ago

 

[Pyan]

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Off work sick at the moment, and not doing much apart from reading and sleeping....

In the last three days:

• Ringworld - Larry Niven
• Flight of the Dragonfly - Robert Forward
• Moving Pictures - Terry Pratchett
• Triplanetary - E.E. "Doc" Smith
• Space Cadet - RAH

All good "comfort" reading....