New year, new books... What we're reading in January.

[demigod.bran]

im currently reading a series to do with the Warcraft game. its a simple read but very exciting. the 1st book is called day of the dragon. trying to fit it in with my current work situation but is not working. lol.

[sci-fi girl]

I've just finished the 2 first books of the farseer series. Can't wait to have the others!!!

[HoopyFrood]

*Dances* Finally got Lisey's Story! Brought it along with me to university, even though at the moment I don't have much time for reading. However, I'm going to try and get a few snatches of it when I can. Wooo!

[Allanon]

i got lisey's story bought for me for christmas

[Brown Rat]

Finished Campbell's Scar Night. Starting Magic Study by Maria Snyder.

[Saolta Oiche]

Originally Posted by demigod.bran

im currently reading a series to do with the Warcraft game. its a simple read but very exciting. the 1st book is called day of the dragon. trying to fit it in with my current work situation but is not working. lol.

Wehey, I have got that book, read it a while ago and quite enjoyed it. I had completely forgotten it was a Warcraft book, a cool read. Was it part of a trilogy or something?

If so I might have to get the others.


And talking of such books when I got Day Of The Dragon I also got a Dragonlance one, think it was Kaz The Minotaur: Heroes, was cool, and another one of similar type, a book about cursed armour. That was pretty cool.

[demigod.bran]

Originally Posted by Allanon

i got lisey's story bought for me for christmas

is that a stephen king book cos im sure iv had that for christmas too. lol. havent had a chance to get to it yet.

[Nesacat]

Am currently reading How To Live Forever by Colin Thompson. It's my book to read in between work while at work. Thus far it's a pretty interesting read about a boy whole lives with his mother and grandfather in a ginormous, seemingly endless museum.

The boy's father vanished in the museum before he was born and when his grandfather falls ill the child goes in serach of his father. He finds himself in a world where books are houses, wise men are really not wise and the cat probably knows all that needs to be known.

[Allanon]

Originally Posted by demigod.bran

is that a stephen king book cos im sure iv had that for christmas too. lol. havent had a chance to get to it yet.

yes it is, not too sure of the story because i refuse to read blurbs and things like that (i think it ruins it). but i'm gonna give it a go. i like most king books

[iansales]

Finished Galactic Effectuator by Jack Vance. Not one of his best. Have now started Travel Arrangments, a collection of short stories by M John Harrison.

[dwndrgn]

I've just decided to put aside my first unfinished book of the year. R. Dennis Baird's The Talon of Light. I'm a bit annoyed by the whole thing. This could be a great story. All it needs is a good editor - someone to correct all the silly mistakes, go over obvious sticky spots in the narrative and all the fun stuff an editor does. I truly think this could have been a very good book if it had been fleshed out and then turned over to an editor before being rushed to print. A shame really. Anyway, now I'm going to finally finish Memories of Ice before I get on to anything else because I've gotten to the good bits where I don't want to read anything else at the moment.

[nixie]

Rereading Erikson's Memories of Ice at moment

[that old guy]

Finished these all recently. I was on vacation the week of Christmas and had some free time. Plus I think some were actually finished in late December.

The War of the Flowers Tad Williams

Wasn't as enamored of it as some seem to be here, but it was still pretty good. Much preferred it to the Outland series, which I never even got around to finishing.

Julius Caesar [Unabridged] by Grant, Michael [Audiobook] Michael Grant

Disappointment, kind of what a biography would be like as written by the National Enquirer. And it ended abruptly at his death, no analysis.

Thirty-Three Teeth Colin Cotterill

Hysterically funny detective novel set, in of all places, Laos just after the communist takeover in the mid-70s. Recommended, if you like off-beat detective stories.

The Coming Fury - audiobooks Bruce Catton

This took me about three months to finish as a book on tape. Not bad if you're into that sort of thing. Which I am. Probably a Southerner wouldn't like Catton.

Ordeal of the Union Volume I Fruits of Manifest Destiny 1847-1852 Allan Nevins

Volume I of an eight volume history of the Civil War. I'll probably still be reading this series a decade from now. The stuff in the volume on the economics of slavery and how warped the farming methods (among other things) of slaveowners became was fascinating. I'd never read about this before.

A Spot of Bother Mark Haddon

Very much a disappointment compared to A Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. Rather conventional.

Currently reading:

The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

Just about done, and its better than I expected. I was expecting something rather silly, and this definitely is not. I'll give it a very good.

Ordeal of the Union Volume II - nevins

See above, I'm about 1,000 pages into this if you take Volume I and where I am in II. And I'm still not even up to the Buchanan Administration, LOL.


Too bad I don't get more vacactions. This is about what would normally be three months of reading for me, not three or four weeks.

[mosaix]

Diary Of An Ordinary Woman by Margaret Forster.

[PenDragon]

Originally Posted by that old guy

A Spot of Bother Mark Haddon


Very much a disappointment compared to A Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. Rather conventional.

It would be hard to top "Dog" in terms of style though, that was pretty unique.