So, what book is everybody reading?

[Reciprocity]

I have two books I'm reading at this time.
Robert Jordan's
Lord of Chaos


Tony Hillerman's
Skeleton Man
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[semillama]

1. I just finished the Liveship Traders trilogy by Robin Hobb

and I'm going out right after work to pick up the first book in the Fool trilogy.

After that, I'm going to work my way back through the Wheel of Time series, prior to picking up the latest installment.

[yellowdogintexas]

2. I take it you liked Robin Hobb? I loved that whole long nine book

series!!! The Fool trilogy is really good too.

[semillama]

4. yeah, this group turned me on to her

Never would have picked it up otherwise. Really glad I did!

I just started "Fool's Errand" last night. Poor Fitz. You just know from the first page the excrement is going to hit the air conditioning...

[yellowdogintexas]

3. "The Visitant" an interesting mix of Native American Archeology

and forensic anthropology.

Before that, I read Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister,
Angels and Demons
and The Kite Runner.

[politicat]

5. I just finished these:

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I've been listening to and

I'm working my way through right now.

I can recommend all of them, though City of Light is a bit of an obvious mystery (though there's a twist I wasn't expecting.) I really liked The Fool's Tale, which is something of a historical, though, as the author states, it's more a tale of three people, not a tale of a time and place.

I'm really enchanted with Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, and it is one of my favorites, though it is awfully bittersweet (but then again, so much of Regency era literature is...) The Confusion is, for me, the stepping stone I need to finish so that I can get back to Daniel Waterhouse and Isaac Newton in The System of the World. (I really don't like Jack and Eliza.)

Edited to get links right.

[XemaSab]

6. Currently between reads

The last new book I read was Pelican Blood.

Holy shit, what a book!

Not sf/fantasy, but DUDE... VERY VERY intense book about a birder who decides that he may as well start killing people.

The bastard child of Trainspotting, Serial Mom, and Kingbird Highway.

Right up my alley. :D

[XemaSab]

14. The last book I read was Flashman

:rofl:

It's the faux memoirs of a dude who drinks and wenches his way from Scotland to Kabul in the mid-1800's, and winds up a decorated military hero in spite of the fact that he's a total coward, and runs away at the first sign of conflict.

[LWolf]

7. Finished "widdershins" by deLint last week.

It did not disappoint; if you read "Onion Girl" and you were waiting to see where Jilly goes next, pick it up.

[LWolf]

8. I also read a series by Elizabeth Haydon.

the series is "Symphony of Ages."

On the positive side: I thought the characters were reasonably well developed, the plot intriguing. On the not-so-positive side: it read, in many respects, like a "fantasy romance." Not that I think there is something wrong with romance, but if I wanted a Harlequin, I'd just pick one up for a dime at a garage sale. To be honest, the "romance" was the weakest part of this series, leaving some impatience with the characters involved.

Let's see if I can give something of the plot:

Boy travels through time, meets, despoils girl, leaves her unwittingly behind. Girl runs away and becomes both a prostitute and an energy worker, of a sort. Runs away from her abuser, runs into a demon killer controlled by a demon, and a giant, both of questionable repute. They take shelter under the earth, traveling a forgotten way, and resurface an age and a continent away to find that history has left them behind. They make places for themselves in the new world. Meanwhile, girl, unknowingly, has landed in boys' world and time. Boy thinks girl long dead. They meet. They don't recognize each other. They fight. They find themselves unaccountably attracted, but there is too much drama and too many politics to ever get together, until they finally do. However, the drama never leaves them in peace. Meanwhile, the demon-killer and the giant have their own adventures making a place and life in the new world, and they keep getting together again to finish old, and fight new, enemies/battles.

[davidinalameda]

9. Just finished Abarat and now re-reading Half-Blood Prince

[Reciprocity]

10. Great book!

The latest news on the movie is that it will be in theaters on Nov. 21, 2008.

[malmapus]

11. Just finished Soulforge, started Brothers in Arms

Margaret Weis / Tracy Hickman

[semillama]

12. I read New Spring by Jordan

I was going to go and re-read the Wheel of Time, but I can't find my copy of Eye of the World. I was jonesing for a book to read, so I decided to read the Memory, Sorrow and Thorn series instead.

[Bridget Burke]

13. Re-reading "The Briar King" by Greg Keyes.

Next, I'll re-read his "Charnal Prince." Thought I'd catch up since Amazon is sending me the 3rd volume (of 4)--"The Blood Knight." A truly original fantasy series--or is it Science Fiction? Real characters, interesting cultures & a bit of humor. But when things get dark, they get Really Dark.

Keyes has a background in languages & anthropology. His earlier series ("Age of Unreason" & "Chosen of the Changeling") are also pretty fine.

However, Gwyneth Jones' "Midnight Lamp" is also on the way. I'm really interested in knowing what happens to the characters I met in "Bold as Love" & "Castles Made of Sand." Can rock & roll save the World? Or England, at least? (These books are only available in English editions.) Soap Opera (complex relationships) & Science Fiction. Or is it Fantasy?

[davidinalameda]

19. good couple of books

I liked them

[RiDuvessa]

15. I just finished Skeleton Man about a week ago.

I enjoyed it immensely.

[skyblue]

16. Surrealistic stuff by Kobo Abe or Haruki Murakami is what I want to

read, but currently I'm occupied with too many other hobbies keeping me real busy.

[LWolf]

17. Some books by Tamora Pierce

recommended for my students. I always read them before I make them available. So I picked up 4 and read them this weekend; the "Circle of Magic" series about 4 magekids. They were good, and appropriate for my students' age level (11 - 14).

[semillama]

18. Rereading Tad Williams "Memory, Sorrow and Thorn" series

Really good stuff. Heartbreaking in the way that Tad Williams is a master of doing. If you haven't checked out this trilogy, do yourself a favor and pick it up. It's a classic.

[davidinalameda]

20. When Darkness Falls

the third book in the Mercedes Lackey/James Mallory "The Obsidian Trilogy"

very good series and I highly recommend it

[Reader Rabbit]

21. Just finished Jane Yolen's "Alta" series

I never knew they existed before I happened upon one at the local library. Good stuff!

[Reciprocity]

22. Well now I'm re-reading HP's The prisoner of Azkaban.

[Lisa]

23. the new Lemony Snicket book, "The End" (n/t)

[shimmergal]

24. Just finished Sharon Shinn's

The Thirteenth House.

Neat world, character interaction, and shape-shifting heroine; a bit light on social aspects of the society, but great fun to read. Looking forward to the rest of the series.

[Broken_Hero]

25. Right now...Tommyknockers...

I've been stalling on it for months....I should just get it over with...:( I got JRR Tolkiens The Similirrion on my plate next.