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

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by phenomshel

I can't either. Light the blowtorch for us both, DG!



Oh yeah, forgot about that. I'll just stand over here in Kenny's shadow, then...

[Latinandgreek]

Originally Posted by phenomshel

This English class is killing my leisure reading. I still have Aunt Dimity's Death going on the Droid X, and After Hours on the Sony. The only thing I 'm making any progress at all with is the third in the Phryne Fisher series - I picked up the first three books in an omnibus ebook edition and have been really enjoying them on the iPad.

For English, I have read Toni Morrison's Recatitif, a couple of excerpts of graphic fiction pieces (which I didn't enjoy, apparently I don't do symbolism), and an excerpt from The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan. I did my midterm essay on the Amy Tan piece.

For Week Six in English, we're discussing mysteries, though . I already have permission from the professor to interview a couple of my author buddies as "scholarly sources", LOL. This will be the easiest paper I've ever written! (I say that and it will turn out to be the most difficult...)

I hear you! I've been there before - don't worry, your leisure reading will be even more pleasant once you get some more time on your hands. Good luck with your classes

As for the "easy" papers, I have found that papers on topics that I care about are sometimes made harder, because I want them to turn out just perfect...

[kennyc]

I just finished reading the first story in "The Best Science Fiction of the Year" Edited by Gardner Dozois http://www.amazon.com/Years-Best-Sci.../dp/0312608977

Story was by Utriusque Cosmi - Robert Charles Wilson. -- great story. Involved things even bigger than the universe.

[pilotbob]

Finished reading _The Well of Ascension_ which was Mistborn book 3. This was a really good series... I would rate all 3 books 4 out of 5 stars.

Next read is Hal Spacejock 1...

After that, I was going to read all the join Hugo/Nebula award winners that I have yet to read... but I see that Terry Brooks has a new (2009) Landover book out.. .that I knew nothing about. that is one of my favorite series so I'll be reading that after Spacejock.

BOb

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by pilotbob

Finished reading _The Well of Ascension_ which was Mistborn book 3. This was a really good series... I would rate all 3 books 4 out of 5 stars.

Next read is Hal Spacejock 1...

After that, I was going to read all the join Hugo/Nebula award winners that I have yet to read....

BOb

Novels, right?

Great idea!

[pilotbob]

Originally Posted by kennyc

Novels, right?

Yes, I will probably stick to the Novels only.

BOb

[DixieGal]

Originally Posted by Latinandgreek

I hear you! I've been there before - don't worry, your leisure reading will be even more pleasant once you get some more time on your hands. Good luck with your classes

As for the "easy" papers, I have found that papers on topics that I care about are sometimes made harder, because I want them to turn out just perfect...

Ah, but the cool thing about being an English major is how easy the papers become after the first year. You basically tweak last year's paper and re-submit it. By the time you graduate, the dept thinks you have an avocation for your favorite topic.

[DixieGal]

Hey Bob, whete's the nominee list? How did I miss it? Nevermind, I'll google.

[kennyc]

http://dpsinfo.com/awardweb/hugos/10s.html
http://www.sffchronicles.co.uk/2011/...ons-announced/
http://dpsinfo.com/awardweb/nebulas/
And
http://dpsinfo.com/awardweb/nebulas/

[pilotbob]

Originally Posted by DixieGal

Hey Bob, whete's the nominee list? How did I miss it? Nevermind, I'll google.

I'm talking about the winners. Here is the list I am following:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of..._Nebula_awards

1966/1965 Novel: Dune by Frank Herbert [1] [2]
1970/1969 Novel: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin [3] [4]
1971/1970 Novel: Ringworld by Larry Niven [5] [6]
1973/1972 Novel: The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov [7] [8]
1974/1973 Novel: Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke [9] [10]
1975/1974 Novel: The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin [11] [12]
1976/1975 Novel: The Forever War by Joe Haldeman [13] [14]
1978/1977 Novel: Gateway by Frederik Pohl [15] [16]
1979/1978 Novel: Dreamsnake by Vonda McIntyre [17] [18]
1980/1979 Novel: The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke [19] [20]
1984/1983 Novel: Startide Rising by David Brin [21] [22]
1985/1984 Novel: Neuromancer by William Gibson [23] [24]
1986/1985 Novel: Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card [25] [26]
1987/1986 Novel: Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card [27] [28]
1993/1992 Novel: Doomsday Book by Connie Willis [29] [30]
1998 Novel: Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman [31]
2002 Novel: American Gods by Neil Gaiman [32]
2004 Novel: Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold [33]
2008/2007 Novel: The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon [34] [35]
2010/2009 Novel: The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi [36] [37]


BOb

[SneakySnake]

I started reading Dr Nikola's vendetta on the plane. nikola

And searching for a link, I discovered that there are more. AND (luck would have it) I am reading the first in the series. AND the author is Ozzie! I never knew that!

[jgaiser]

Re: Discworld love or not. Reading is like listening to music. What I like, my roommate is just not interested in. Still I listen to what she does and I try to get her to listen to some of my stuff. Can't stand romance novels and she loves them. Trying to get her to start using my Nook so I can loan her some of my YA novels, which she loves.

Re: Bob's Hugo/Nebula Book read. Now that's a challenge to try. I've read some in paperbacks, but it might be fun to work my way through the list.

[Steve Anderson]

Finally reading Fever Pitch, about a quarter in. Can't believe I've never read it since I'm such a dork for soccer (sorry, football). I was looking for something lighter after The Warsaw Anagrams, a compelling but grim historical mystery about an elderly Jew trying to solve the murder of his nephew from within the Warsaw Ghetto -- I reviewed that over at Noir Journal, by the way.

[BenG]

Originally Posted by pilotbob

After that, I was going to read all the join Hugo/Nebula award winners that I have yet to read.

BOb

Over at Tor.com author Jo Walton is revisiting the Hugo Awards year by year and discussing the winners and nominees and who should have been nominated.

http://www.tor.com/features/series/revisiting-the-hugos

[DixieGal]

Thanks Bob and Kenny! By hook or crook, I ran and got almost all of the 2010 nominated works. You know, readables, not comics and art and those. My TBR is becoming overwhelming.

Bob, that list of winners really takes me back. I think that Paladin of Souls is the only one that I've missed over the years. One surprise to me is that The Gods Themselves was '70's. I thought it was earlier. I owned that book since I was a kid.

Thanks again, guys!