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

[Talysia]

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Just picked up Cecilia Dart Thornton's The Ill-Made Mute.

 

[Pyan]

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

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

Thank goodness for that, Teresa...given that Reading is a large town near London, I thought it might be a rather racy novel about an innocent country girl and her fall from grace....

 

[SpaceShip]

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LOL Py - good one!

 

[cadre]

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Currently reading through The Citadel of the Autarch by Gene Wolfe and listening to the Men at Arms audiobook by Terry Pratchett, read by Nigel Planer.

 

[Mark Robson]

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



Thank goodness for that, Teresa...given that Reading is a large town near London, I thought it might be a rather racy novel about an innocent country girl and her fall from grace....

A good job that Teresa used overpowering and not Amorous then!!!

 

[Switchback]

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just found sunne in summer today, so i will be reading that now....

 

[Allegra]

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Having an interesting time reading Pratchett's Interesting Times.
Also finished Harlan Coben's Just One Look in a flash - once in a while you crave fastfood and the thing with fastfood is that it's tasty you can't help but to gulp down!

 

[Switchback]

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**sunne in splendour

 

[mosaix]

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A Short History Of Tractors In Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka

 

[Pyan]

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That's in my TBR pile, Mo...can you give me a nod (when you've finished it) whether it should be promoted or sunk?

 

[the smiling weirwood]

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I received, and finished reading, Scott Lynch's Red Seas Under Red Skies just yesterday. It was amazing. His characterization was as superb as the first book and his plot twists were absolutely delicious. A more entertaining and rollicking adventure/suspense/cloak-and-dagger/pirate/love story I have never read.

 

[Hari Seldon]

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Just finishing off Tim Power's On Stranger Tides. Excellent pirate fantasy.

Next up:
Bujold's Curse of Chalion, Paladin of Souls, The Hallowed Hunt.
Moer's The City of Dreaming Books, 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear, Rumo & His Miraculous Adventures.
Abercrombie's First Law Trilogy
Gemmell's Lion of Macedon.

This will most definitely spill into May. The hardest decision is which to start first.

 

[murphy]

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Just read a couple of Charlaine Harris' books, very short and sweet stories. Now reading Elizabeth Moon's Victory Conditions the finale of the Vatta books. Next up will be David Drake's When the Tide Rises. My week for military SF.

 

[GOLLUM]

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Just finishing off Tim Power's On Stranger Tides. Excellent pirate fantasy.

Next up:
Bujold's Curse of Chalion, Paladin of Souls, The Hallowed Hunt.
Moer's The City of Dreaming Books, 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear, Rumo & His Miraculous Adventures.
Abercrombie's First Law Trilogy
Gemmell's Lion of Macedon.

This will most definitely spill into May. The hardest decision is which to start first.

I agree about Tim's book, it is one of the best pirate fantasies I've read but don't forget Gene Wolfe's Pirate Freedom.. Abercrombie's first 2 books were very good. Bujold is always good value and I've got a couple of Moers, Nesa has read those ones so she might log a comment or two...

Cheers...

 

[Quokka]

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Any SFF reading has had to be put on hold at the moment, I've still got the second book of Outlaws of the Marsh about here somewhere and hopefully before April is out I'll have gotten back into it as it's been a good read so far. Reading Bass Guitar for Dummies at the moment which is pretty much how I felt ordering it from the local book store but it came highly recommended and it looks like it'll be just what's needed to give me some basic music theory.

 

[Marky Lazer]

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Wow! Is it a new month already?

Okay:
Sir Thomas More's Utopia
Terry Pratchett's Small Gods
Irvine Welsh's If you like schoolm you'll love work

 

[mosaix]

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That's in my TBR pile, Mo...can you give me a nod (when you've finished it) whether it should be promoted or sunk?

Will do.

 

[Connavar]

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I agree about Tim's book, it is one of the best pirate fantasies I've read but don't forget Gene Wolfe's Pirate Freedom.. Abercrombie's first 2 books were very good. Bujold is always good value and I've got a couple of Moers, Nesa has read those ones so she might log a comment or two...

Cheers...

Funny i struggled much more with Stranger Tides.

Maybe im wierd but i thought The Drawing of The Dark was alot better cause of much more interesting main character,humor. The magical,supernatural feel of the beer and celtic myths i liked much more.

 

[elvet]

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Started Sunrunner's Fire yesterday. It's a bit of a departure from previous books in that the first 9 years of narrative is condensed into a few chapters.

 

[murphy]

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Started Sunrunner's Fire yesterday. It's a bit of a departure from previous books in that the first 9 years of narrative is condensed into a few chapters.

Is that a Melanie Rawn book?