Kevin's Watch

Patricia Briggs, Moon Called.

Pratchett's Thief of Time which will, I hope, end my brief Pratchett binge.

--A

Iain M Banks, Surface Detail

Just started Wool by Hugh Howey for the KW Book Club (all welcome!). Seems good so far.

u.

Finished Yellow Blue Tibia. It's an odd one; I wasn't sure about it in the first half. It went some strange places but all came together in the end.

Spiral Jacobs wrote:Iain M Banks, Surface Detail

I just re-read that the other day. It's a good one.

As for me, I was mistaken. Looks like Pratchett is not done with me. Busy on Going Postal, which means I have to read the sequel after that.

--A

Shift Omnibus (books 6-8 of the Silo Saga, prequel to Wool), by Hugh Howey.

Wool turned out to be a bit of a page turner (or whatever the kindle 2.30am equivalent is!) Howey isn't a brilliant writer or philosopher, but he certainly spins a compelling 'yarn'.

I've started reading The Somnambulist by Jonathan Barnes.

Finished Making Money and reading Unseen Academicals.

--A

Finished The Mirror of her Dreams, now listening to A Man Rides Through

I was listening to the MYTH books by Robert Asprin but stopped because the narrator of books 4 and on is terrifyingly bad.

The next one I start will be Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age by Steve Knopper.

Menolly wrote:Patricia Briggs, Moon Called.

Her stuff is pretty good. Altho was ticked that in her next-to-last book, her monster was not exactly indigenous to the Pacific Northwest, and she didn't have a compelling reason for it to be there.

Shaun, let me know what you think of the post-Wool books. Someone else recommended them to me.

aliantha wrote:

Menolly wrote:Patricia Briggs, Moon Called.

Her stuff is pretty good. Altho was ticked that in her next-to-last book, her monster was not exactly indigenous to the Pacific Northwest, and she didn't have a compelling reason for it to be there.

I have the next three in the Mercy Thompson series, with the rest available to me once I return these. But my source doesn't have the Alpha and Omega books. Shall I try to find them at the library? And would it be better to try to read them in some sort of intermingled order? Or are they not really tied together?

Re-reading Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch.

--A

I'm reading Hyperion by Dan Simmons. I like the Canterbury Tales in Space concept, and I just finished the first "tale," the one with the priest. That ending was brutal .

Picked up a bunch of other sci-fi and fantasy books at a sale, including A Canticle for Leibowitz, a couple of Marion Zimmer Bradley novels, both of which I have heard good things about. Also the first couple of books from a sci fi series called Chung Kuo, from the looks of it a kind of alternate future where the ancient Chinese Empire came to dominate the world. Anyone know anything about these? I've heard exactly nothing about them. It's a seven book series, and a big commitment with so many other series on my to read list. There's the rest of the Black Company, a Covenant re-read before The Last Dark comes out....just like to know if it's a commitment worth making.

Cambo wrote:I'm reading Hyperion by Dan Simmons. I like the Canterbury Tales in Space concept, and I just finished the first "tale," the one with the priest. That ending was brutal .

Picked up a bunch of other sci-fi and fantasy books at a sale, including A Canticle for Leibowitz, a couple of Marion Zimmer Bradley novels, both of which I have heard good things about. Also the first couple of books from a sci fi series called Chung Kuo, from the looks of it a kind of alternate future where the ancient Chinese Empire came to dominate the world. Anyone know anything about these? I've heard exactly nothing about them. It's a seven book series, and a big commitment with so many other series on my to read list. There's the rest of the Black Company, a Covenant re-read before The Last Dark comes out....just like to know if it's a commitment worth making.

Hyperion and the books that follow it are good, Canticle is still great IMO even if a bit dated.
I only know OF the series you mention...cuz someone here or another board mentioned it recently, so I wiki'd it. You should go look there...looks like even a bigger chore than you think.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chung_Kuo_(novel_series)

Vraith: I'd definitely read the 7 book series first and they'd have to be really something exceptional to get me onto the 20 book ( ) re-release.

Finished Wool by Hugh Howey today. An enjoyable read. We'll be discussing it in the book club so I won't preempt that.

u.

Read Moon over Soho by Ben Aaronovitch this weekend, now busy on Whispers Underground.

And I see a new one is going to be published soon, so I have that to look forward to.

--A

Reading Embassytown by China Miéville.