What are we reading?

[vyshka]

I finished American Gods this week while in Raleigh, and also read the short story The Butcher of Anderson Station. I am still working on Playing the World. I also started The Martian on the flight home yesterday.

[Staggerwing]

I also started The Martian on the flight home yesterday.

This one?  The Martian

It's in my Kindle backlog. How's it so far? Should I bump it up the list?

[Gusington]

Just about to start the Imperial War Museum's Photographic History of WWI. Which I picked up in London when I was there...in 2003 :/

Better late than never, should be a quick, leisurely read. After that it is Enemy on the Euphrates: The British Occupation of Iraq and the Great Arab Revolt (1914-1921) by Ian Rutledge.

[Martok]

Am now over halfway through Winter's Heart, the ninth book in The Wheel of Time.  The pace is noticeably slower, but still not dragging nearly as much as I feared/remembered -- and I'm enjoying it in any case.  :) 

[OJsDad]

Read Invasion California, the sequel to Invasion Alaska.  Better than the first, but still questionable on the story line. 

[JasonPratt]

Am now over halfway through Winter's Heart, the ninth book in The Wheel of Time.  The pace is noticeably slower, but still not dragging nearly as much as I feared/remembered -- and I'm enjoying it in any case.  :)

Momentum! You have it!  :D

[JasonPratt]

Just received word from my friend Marie Brennan, mentioned upthread, that her first "Memoirs of Lady Trent" novel, The Natural History of Dragons, is a finalist (along with Neil Gaiman and a few other authors) for this year's World Fantasy Award.

For those who don't know, this is one of the sci-fi fantasy awards trifecta along with the Hugo and Nebula Awards; the main difference being this is only for the fantasy genre. It's also the one she always wanted most since she started writing (not that she'd turn down a serious chance to win one of the others of course. ;) Her career basically started with winning the Isaac Asimov Short Story Award one year long ago.)

I am no kidding so happy for her I'm close to crying. We grew up as baby author-siblings together, and even if I haven't made it and never will, I (just about ;) ) don't care as long as she's made it.  O:-)

Go little author-sis, gooooo! {sniffle!}

(...I guess I should clarify, not actually her brother, we just learned writing novels together.)

[vyshka]

I also started The Martian on the flight home yesterday.

This one?  The Martian

It's in my Kindle backlog. How's it so far? Should I bump it up the list?

It has been decent so far, but I can't say it is good enough yet to warrant a jump in the queue.

[airboy]

Finished King David's Spaceship.  Finished a modern Catholic apolgetic (something that explains Catholic theology).

[JasonPratt]

^^ Kreeft? I usually like his work and I know he writes a lot on the topic.

[Martok]

Just received word from my friend Marie Brennan, mentioned upthread, that her first "Memoirs of Lady Trent" novel, The Natural History of Dragons, is a finalist (along with Neil Gaiman and a few other authors) for this year's World Fantasy Award.

For those who don't know, this is one of the sci-fi fantasy awards trifecta along with the Hugo and Nebula Awards; the main difference being this is only for the fantasy genre. It's also the one she always wanted most since she started writing (not that she'd turn down a serious chance to win one of the others of course. ;) Her career basically started with winning the Isaac Asimov Short Story Award one year long ago.)

I am no kidding so happy for her I'm close to crying. We grew up as baby author-siblings together, and even if I haven't made it and never will, I (just about ;) ) don't care as long as she's made it.  O:-)

Go little author-sis, gooooo! {sniffle!}

(...I guess I should clarify, not actually her brother, we just learned writing novels together.)

Cool news!  I wish her luck! 

[vyshka]

I also started The Martian on the flight home yesterday.

This one?  The Martian

It's in my Kindle backlog. How's it so far? Should I bump it up the list?

So I finished this yesterday (book 20 for the year). I'd bump it in the queue if you are not reading something else you really enjoy.

I am still working on Playing at the World, and the next fiction book I have started is The Crystal Shard by R.A. Salvatore. I've never really read D&D fiction before so we'll see how it goes. It is the 1st book in the Icewind Dale trilogy and I loved the game, so hopefully the books are good as well.

[W8taminute]

I just finished book 15 in the Horus Heresy series: "The First Heretic"

Now onto "Prospero Burns"

[MetalDog]

I also started The Martian on the flight home yesterday.

This one?  The Martian

It's in my Kindle backlog. How's it so far? Should I bump it up the list?

So I finished this yesterday (book 20 for the year). I'd bump it in the queue if you are not reading something else you really enjoy.

I am still working on Playing at the World, and the next fiction book I have started is The Crystal Shard by R.A. Salvatore. I've never really read D&D fiction before so we'll see how it goes. It is the 1st book in the Icewind Dale trilogy and I loved the game, so hopefully the books are good as well.

I just recently (in the last six weeks) re-read Icewind Dale.  I enjoyed it.  It read very much like a D&D adventure.  And the characters are good, if a bit stock.

[JasonPratt]

As usual for stories originally based on RPGs, the Icewind Dale characters get better as they go, not only within the trilogy but on beyond it, too.