Who likes [books]? I like books! Let's read!
The old thread reached it's limit so let's start a new reading thread and talk about books we love and what we're currently reading. I'm currently reading "Mother of Winter" by Barbara Hambly and I'm enjoying it so far. I read the Darwath trilogy waaaaay back in the day and I recently found out there's a couple more books set in that universe so I picked em up.
I also wanted to mention that I caved and ordered the new Kindle Voyager and an Oberon Design case because I am a consumer whore. I'm super excited and cannot wait!
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Between study breaks, it was a great distraction.
Ending kinda got me.
A good mix of magic, fun writing, and sexy times.
1: Bossypants - Tina Fey (Very very funny)
2: The Slow Regard of Silent Things - Patrick Rothfuss (This one felt like cheating)
3: Life After Life - Kate Atkinson (Such a cool book! Set in London during the early 1900's. Each time the main character dies she goes back to birth. When she gets to that spot again she gets a really bad feeling and then does something different. Very cool progression.)
4: The Man In The High Castle - Philip K Dick (It doesn't get much better than PKD)
5: White Teeth - Zadie Smith (This book is hilarious, moving and the prose is fantastic. Great story of a family through three generations)
6: Queen of the Tearling - Erika Johansen (I wasn't super into it at the beginning. It felt very juvenile with juxtaposed with an attempt to be "mature". Eventually though the story pulled me around. Fun read!)
7: All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr (Beautifully written novel set in World War two. It maybe ended slightly prematurely... The novel not the war.)
8: Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel (This one is so good! A pre/post apocalyptic tale about a traveling troup that performs Shakespeare and classical music. So great, especially because it focuses on characters more than shock value. Best one on the list.)
9: The Bone Season - Samantha Shannon (My least favorite one on the list. Alternate universe London in which some people are "clairvoyant". These people are deemed unnatural and sent to a penal colony run by vampires from another dimension. Definitely a beach book.)
Man, almost immediately I wished I had a physical copy instead, so I could more easily reference maps / character lists.
Super good reads so far, a little ways into book 5. An unfortunate part of reading it from a single giant ebook means I frequently have no idea what book people are talking about when they refer to it by name, heh.
Pretty quickly came to appreciate all the bits dealing with the malazan soldiers waaaaay more than any other parts, so book 5 introducing an entirely new non-malazan continent has been....slow going.
Getting started in the first book was definitely rough. Lots of locations and characters with a ton of evident history being presented super quickly. Absolutely worth powering through, though, and while it was a bit frustrating, it was mostly frustrating in that I wished I understood it all already. Absolutely love the world building of the series.
It sounds like some people mix in the Esselmont books as they fit in (presumably?) timeline wise with the main Erikson ones? Or something like that, I haven't seen it actually detailed out. Is that just a good option, or generally 'better'?
I just read the Esselmont books after the Erikson books and had a good time, so you can do that if you want. Whenever I eventually reread the series I might give reading them all together chronologically a try and see how it works out.
Return of the Crimson Guard wraps up some Malazan Empire business after the main books go do their own thing.
Those are the only 2 I'd mix in, and you don't really have to. The rest of Esslemont's stuff can be left for after.
Yep. If you want to be fancy and mix them together, toss in Night of Knives after book 5, Return of the Crimson Guard after book 7. Technically publishing order would put Stonewielder between 9 and 10, but screw that.
Just finished Blood and Bone last week, actually. I was pleasantly surprised - I'd gotten the impression it wasn't a very good book, but I really enjoyed it.
It's fascinating and I love his writing, but I will say the book has been pretty triggering at times and should probably come with a massive TW. I've found it such a page turner that I got through it, but there was some rough stuff in there for me.
Also the Little People freak me out.
I know it's supposed to be "ichi kyu hachi yon" (the letter Q sounds like the number 9) but honestly everyone I know who's read it calls it IQ 84.
I've over halfway through re-reading all of animorphs and looking back at it.
I could have finished Infinite Jest by now if we're just going page-number.
I just took a break and started reading Metro 2033. It's good. All them Russian names for things though...
Really makes me want to track down another copy of those books I loaned out ages ago. A Pushkin collection, some Turgenev and Checkhov.
I miss them
I can't decide between "One Q Eighty-four" or "Q-teen Eighty-four".
Hey, hey, we need to have some kind of contest before you just start claiming titles.
Okay how we doing this? Total number of items we are personally in charge of? Total book acquisition budget? Circulation totals?
Fair enough.
As Co-Resident Librarian I approve of this thread.
looking at you, Reamde
If you look at the alternating colors of the letters on the cover it's "Read Me" so you could always go with that
failing that, "Reem-duh"
Wait no, this is much better, staple removers at dawn!
I need to get on that
I'm currently working through the Malazan books.
I'd tried a couple years ago and lost momentum about 150 pages into Deadhouse Gates, but so far I've kept up steam and am about 75% through the third one.
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I don't know what is wrong with me
I have not heard of it but I'll check it out on Amazon right now and possibly wishlist it if it looks interesting.
edit: wishlisted! Say, in the recommended section I saw a graphic novel called Saga which I'd seen recommended before when buying The Sandman. Does anyone know if it's good?
I consider The Terror one of the most enjoyable books I've read in the last ten years, so fingers crossed it's on the good side.
It sounds super interesting.
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This novel, written by John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats, is one of the best I've ever read
It is barely over 200 pages so I had to limit myself on tearing through it just one day