Hey!! Let's get some action going! What are we reading?

[mewmartigan]

Just finished the ice age book Shaman by Kim Stanley Robinson. It was good and it was nice to read a book where food/shelter are the most important thing as opposed to my usual epic fantasy/scifi fate of the world stuff.

speaking of that, time for book 8 of Malazan, Toll the Hounds.

[DrNefario]

Just finished The Prefect by Alastair Reynolds, which I'd put off far too many times, and which I really enjoyed. This is a standalone novel in the Revelation Space universe, about the cops in the Glitter Band of 10,000 orbital habitats. Lots of cool ideas. The Good Stuff.

After that I started on my newest purchase, Half the World by Joe Abercrombie, the follow-up to last year's vikingy fantasy Half a King. I decided to get the hardback, seeing as I got the hardback of the first one, and the ebook was kind of expensive. I'm enjoying it so far.

[Dngrsone]

Finished Founding Mothers and now working on Heart Collector by Jacques Vandroux.

[Hampshire Nanny]

Originally Posted by Hampshire Nanny

Currently reading Hyperion by Dan Simmons and The Iron Wyrm Affair by Lilith Saintcrow.

Hyperion is borrowed from the library and I don't take library books out of town, so I set it aside when I left town on Tuesday last and failed to pick it back up when I returned. I'm only going to be in town 2 more days before I head out on a 2.5 week business trip. So, I'm returning it to the library unfinished and I'll borrow it again when I'm going to be in town for a while.

Still reading The Iron Wyrm Affair -- reading it on my phone. Also reading The Virgin in the Ice by Ellis Peters, another in the Brother Cadfael series.

I'm listening to Longitude by Dava Sobel. It's a short non-fiction (191 pages, 4.3 hours) book about the challenge to be able to compute longitude at sea. Enjoying it very much as it is quite different from the audiobook I just finished, Peter and the Shadow Thieves by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson.

[CRussel]

Originally Posted by Hampshire Nanny

I'm listening to Longitude by Dava Sobel. It's a short non-fiction (191 pages, 4.3 hours) book about the challenge to be able to compute longitude at sea.

Great book. Made even more interesting when we were able to view a couple of the clocks at the Greenwich Observatory very shortly after. I have it in hardback still.

[WT Sharpe]

Just finished His Brain, Her Brain by the Editors of Scientific American magazine. This was a collection of essays that first appeared at various times in the magazine and each of which examines different aspects of differences between the brains of males and females. As I'll be eligible for Medicare in a couple of months, I thought it was time I learned a bit about how men and women differ.

And now, as the Wayward Pines series premieres on Thursday, May 14 at 9 PM on Fox, I thought I'd read the rest of the Wayward trilogy in anticipation of the event, so now it's on to Wayward (The Wayward Pines Trilogy, Book 2) by Blake Crouch. If anyone hasn't yet read the first book, The Pines, all I can tell you is that I very much enjoyed it and consider it to be the weirdest thing I've experienced since the Twin Peaks TV show. M. Night Shyamalan of The Sixth Sense fame is directing the TV version, and a trailer has just been posted. Since I haven't yet seen it, let's watch it together, shall we?

[treadlightly]

Whew! Made it through The Age of Innocence. Now on to something with a little more action, Along Came a Spider by James Patterson.

[orlok]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

And now, as the Wayward Pines series premieres on Thursday, May 14 at 9 PM on Fox, I thought I'd read the rest of the Wayward trilogy in anticipation of the event, so now it's on to Wayward (The Wayward Pines Trilogy, Book 2) by Blake Crouch. If anyone hasn't yet read the first book, The Pines, all I can tell you is that I very much enjoyed it and consider it to be the weirdest thing I've experienced since the Twin Peaks TV show. M. Night Shyamalan of The Sixth Sense fame is directing the TV version, and a trailer has just been posted. Since I haven't yet seen it, let's watch it together, shall we?

Thanks for this reminder. I'm pleased to say it premiers here on the same day, and I will be watching. My main concern, though, is having read the whole series, I'm not sure how mysterious I'm going to find it, as I know the underlying premise.

[Brazen_NL]

[Dazrin]

Originally Posted by Dazrin

I ended up re-starting Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson for the fourth time and this time I have stuck with it. So far so good.

This was good, not my favorite Sanderson work, but quite good. Not sure why it took me four times to actually read it though.

Next up is Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian, book 1 of the Aubrey-Maturin series. I have seen and enjoyed the movie version of The Far Side of the World and have wanted to try this for a long time.

[melmac]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

And now, as the Wayward Pines series premieres on Thursday, May 14 at 9 PM on Fox, I thought I'd read the rest of the Wayward trilogy in anticipation of the event, so now it's on to Wayward (The Wayward Pines Trilogy, Book 2) by Blake Crouch.

Great minds I planned on starting the second book this week too although I'll be doing it on audio

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Rogues is shaping up well. It was well worth the price and worth my time.

Indeed it was. An excellent (and big) collection of rogueish stories. I have skipped the GRR Martin one, since I'm not getting into his Song of Ice and Fire thing at all, not even a short, until it's finished!

Next up: to be decided. One that I bought back in 2005 I expect.

[Moe The Cat]

Just finished book five of the Malazan series. Now it's on to book six, The Bonehunters. I would say that makes me half way through the series, but the last five books have a much higher word count than the first five: Books 1-5 have 1,396,062 words while Books 6-10 have 1,932,492 words.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Next up: to be decided. One that I bought back in 2005 I expect.

I went for Higher Education by Charles Sheffield and Jerry Pournelle which I bought back in 2008. An OK coming of age story, but I find I've read it before.

So, onto Time Rider by Rick Mallory. My oldest bought unread ebook from May 2005.

[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

Now starting Katherine Addison's The Goblin Emperor. I've heard many good things and decided to give it a try (even though books featuring goblins/elves aren't my typical fare).

A rather "dull" and culturally over-dense book about "bridge-building" that I found just utterly delightful and quite unputdownable.

The elves, the goblins, the steampunk--all distractions to give the wonderful character of Maia time to grow, and time for the reader to grow to care about him. By the time you realize those fantastical trappings are largely irrelevant, you just don't care.

Next up: Kitschies short-listed SF, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by newcomer Becky Chambers.