RIP (Read In Progress) Wednesday

[falkner]

How is that TBR pile looking this week?

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[marycuntrarian]

Literally just went to the library yesterday. I got some compilations of Blacksad comics, Sputnik Sweetheart, and a Jeff Vandermeer book. I should really crack into something.

[mxroboto]

Ahh the Blacksad comics are so good!

[marycuntrarian]

I haven't read them yet but they look so much like how my partner's homebrew D&D campaign looks hehe

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Blacksad is interesting. I hope you enjoy it!

[marycuntrarian]

It looks like it, I think I will! :)

[rekishi]

I'm trying to decide what to read next. I finished "Royal Gambit" by Daniel O'Malley on Sunday and have been diving into fanfic since then. I think I just picked "A fine and private place" by Peter S. Beagle now. I've had A Day today where I need something along his style for comfort.

[althea_valara]

I started reading the third Murderbot book. I had been listening to the audiobooks via the library, but then Humble Bundle offered a bundle of the books at a price I couldn't pass up, so I grabbed them. The audiobook narrator is REALLY GOOD, but it's still fun to read the .EPUB version! I haven't touched it in a few days, so hopefully I will go back to it soon.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

I agree that the narrator for Murderbot is excellent.

[silversea]

Reading Shorefall by Robert Jackson Bennett and am enjoying it so far. It's been months since I read Foundryside so I forgot a few things but it's not a huge deal. Really need to get better about reading series.

I have Ballad of Sword and Wine vol 1 by Tang Jiu Qing and Jane Austen's Bookshelf by Rebecca Romney next on my library loans, hopefully I can finish them before the due date.

[petrea_mitchell]

I missed the last few threads, so a catch-up:

• Went through a couple more Crossroads Adventures books, Deryni Challenge (Katherine Kurtz's Deryni series) and Prospero's Isle (L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt's Enchanter series by way of The Tempest). Like most of the rest of the series, they're reasonably true to the worlds they're borrowing but I still feel like the writers weren't familiar enough with gamebooks, and the best bits are the introductory essays. In fact the mini-biography of Fletcher Pratt at the beginning of Prospero's Isle may be the best thing I've read in the whole series.
• Táltos by Steven Brust, which is usually listed as an aside to the main Dragaera series, but would actually have been a great place to start.
• Brokedown Palace by Steven Brust, which really is a side story with minimal links to the main series. Also a very unusual sort of fantasy where the focus is mainly on a family quarrel and a time of change. There's conflict and some fighting but it doesn't feel like the point of the book.

And now I'm working my way through the Aldiss Award shortlist, starting with Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon by Wole Talabi. It starts with a bang, promises a heist plot, and then hardly talks about the heist in the ensuing 2/3 of the book that I've read so far.

[spiralsheep]

I remember reading some of Kurtz's Deryni books a long time ago.

[mxroboto]

Almost done with Emma Bull's Bone Dance. It hasn't been my absolute favorite ever but I've really enjoyed it and the worldbuilding is so vibrant I'll be sad to see it end.

A bunch of library holds came in all at once so I am spoiled for choice! I think I'm gonna juggle Ursula K LeGuin's Lathe of Heaven and Emily Bender & Alex Hanna's The AI Con.

[drawnecromancy]

Going down for once ! I started reading a book series my dad recommended to me ages ago, La Compagnie des Glaces. I don't think it was ever translated in english ! It's about a future where trains have become the only way of subsistance of humanity during a new ice age. I don't particularly like trains, but the trains in this series are AWESOME. It's also full of 80s misogyny but I'm not exactly surprised by that one. It's still incredibly fun and quick to read, lol

[pedanther]

I've been focusing on Ghost Empire this week, and I'm nearly finished. It's grown on me, but it's been the kind of book that I prefer to read a bit and then digest that bit and then read another bit, so it's been taking a whiile.

[selenicseas]

I just finished a book yesterday, but I still have 19 unread books on my bookshelf at the moment. And like...40+ ebooks I've obtained over the years through HumbleBundles and such.

[cornerofmadness]

working on what moves the dead by T. Kingfisher, it's a retelling of the fall of the house of usher and is very good so far

[flockofcrows]

I recently finished The Haunting of Ashburn House by Darcy Coates and enjoyed it despite guessing the twist early on. Now I'm slowly making my way through Gallows Hill by the same author and loving it so far.

[spiralsheep]

I've been reading Jane Austen juvenilia and satisfying my curiosity about Japanese iyashikei literature.

[chroniclesofreading]

There was a book meme I did called Library Loot. A weekly event that encourages bloggers to share the books they've checked out from the library. My book check outs this week totaled about ten. Out of the 10 books, I managed to read three. I am currently reading NoS4A2 by Joe Hill. My next read will be The Surgeon by Tess Gerritsen, Carrie by Stephen King, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Tales by Washington Irving, Flesh and Blood by Chris Priestley, Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle, The Last Magician by Lisa Maxwell, and The New Couple in 5B by Lisa Unger.