Kevin's Watch

Finished the Ekaterina Sedia. I guess the main character was supposed to be sort of powerless and drifting in the beginning, along the lines of Terisa in Mordant's Need. But SRD did it so much better than this author did.

I've got a couple of other books of hers in my TBR pile, and now I'm debating whether to just skip 'em.

Reading another one of my Doctor Who Virgin New Adventures. This one is call Parasite. Very weird story.

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Rawedge Rim wrote:
So far the Way of Kings has been an outstanding set

I ordered this for my kindle today.. I have two sets of books ahead of it to read so it might be a bit before I get to it.

Way of Kings.. excellent book! Not yet finished but getting there.

Finished "Way of Kings" and about halfway through 'Words of Radiance".

So yeah.... I'm reading The Naked God right now, but that's not why I'm here. I'm just here to brag. I saw John Scalzi this evening and he read from his current work in progress The End of All Things.

Aside from his wife, we're the first ones to hear it.

So as you are scratching your head wondering, "wait... has Orlion even read Scalzi? Does he even have interest in him? I'm pretty sure he forswore him because of Redshirts alone because of principle..." remember: fairness does not exist in the universe and experiences that you would appreciate are wasted on those who would not.

Think on that and Despair!

Mwahaha!

Was it confusing to hear him read from the second half of a two-part story which is also the fifth book in a series you've not read?

I'm Murrin wrote:Was it confusing to hear him read from the second half of a two-part story which is also the fifth book in a series you've presumably not read?

Not as much as you would think.

I have recently read Old Man's War and Lock In so I wasn't completely out of place, so I had an idea of the setting. Aside from that, he did a very good job setting up the scene, so I had a good back ground (and I like you, I don't really believe in spoilers. If anything, it convinced me to read more in the series).

It is certainly very Heinleinly in the Starship Troopers mode, which I think is on purpose, so that's a good thing.

It was a very enjoyable evening. I'm glad I went.

Cool! I am somewhat jealous. Also, I need to read Old Man's War.

I still have The Last Colony and Zoe's Tale on my to-read pile, nevermind getting round to The Human Division.

Reapers Gale.

--A

Sadly, I've been reading S. M. Stirling's The Golden Princess (Jesus, the title alone...) the last couple of weeks. I checked it out from the library, so I feel compelled to finish it before starting on something else. Unfortunately, each subsequent Change novel gets harder to read as less and less happens, descriptions of flowers in fields and knots in belts get longer, and more and more back story has to be explained in complete detail in stilted dialogue. Even if I make it through this book, I'm done.

MsMary wrote:Reading another one of my Doctor Who Virgin New Adventures. This one is call Parasite. Very weird story.

Is there a good place to start reading Doctor Who? I know there are tons of books. I know virtually nothing about the tv shows or books.

Old Man's War. I picked up books 2 and 3 of the series at the used bookstore, but they didn't have the first one, so I ordered it from Amazon. Anyway, I'm about halfway through and I can see why it's gotten such good reviews.

Finished Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel today, and started listening to Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett on audiobook.

Toll The Hounds.

(For some reason I read RotCG in the wrong place I realised after RG.)

--A

I've started Cixin Liu's The Three-Body Problem.

I'm Murrin wrote:I've started Cixin Liu's The Three-Body Problem.

You'll have to let us know how that goes.

Only one chapter in so far. It was about the persecution of intellectuals during the Cultural Revolution, which was interesting.

I know almost nothing about the book, despite having listened to a couple of podcasts where Ken Liu spoke about translating it not so long ago.

Just started "The Shadow of what was lost" by James Islington

It has been twenty years since the end of the war. The dictatorial Augurs - once thought of almost as gods - were overthrown and wiped out during the conflict, their much-feared powers mysteriously failing them. Those who had ruled under them, men and women with a lesser ability known as the Gift, avoided the Augurs' fate only by submitting themselves to the rebellion's Four Tenets. A representation of these laws is now written into the flesh of any who use the Gift, forcing those so marked into absolute obedience.

Honestly I bought this on Kindle just because I liked the name and the picture on the book. Time will tell if this book is any good.

I have been remiss. Old Man's War was terrific. However, I took a break from Scalzi to knock off a few shorter titles from my TBR pile on the Kindle.

Just finished Khe by Alexes Razevich. She's an indie, but the book is well-edited and the story was pretty good. Khe is a native alien on a planet where the women (called doumanas) and the males live in separate communes, except for mating season once a year. Khe does not go into heat (they call it something else, of course), so she is unable to mate -- until a healer tries an experimental procedure on her. It works, but Khe also gains the power to encourage crops to grow better as a result of the procedure. And that draws the interest of the alien species that has been controlling things on the planet for something like a couple of hundred years.

I've just today started a novel by another indie author that tries to pull together Jesus' story and some of the backstory of the King Arthur mythos. It's an interesting idea (and has probably been done before by somebody...) but the book needs a lot of work in terms of editing. Lots of mis-punctuated dialogue, etc. I'll stick it out for the story, but I'm debating whether to tell the author that she needs to re-edit the thing. I probably should.

aliantha wrote:Khe is a native alien...

She's a native alien?