Reading in April

Oh, nice. I think I'm gonna go listen to Amnesiac now. Thanks for the inspirato.
 
Briar King is will written so I expect I will stick with it. It's just a literary style I don't care for when they jump from one character to the next each chapter. It interupts the flow.

Right now, I've temporarily put it down to read Elmore Lenord's Mr. Paradise, which is a one week loan from the library. Once finished (probably tomorrow) I'll be all set to finish Briar King.

Susan
 
Reading Golden Fool by the wonderful Robin Hobb. What can I say about Hobb that hasn't been said before? She really knows how to write a good book.
 
In the middle of reading The Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft. Really quite scary.
 
I finally finished Little, Big by John Crowley, for the book club.

Not sure what I will read next. I have an Elizabeth Moon SF book to read,Winning Colors , and a non-genre book the Dante Club by Matthew Pearl for other book groups this month, or I may just start one of the recent ones I picked up.
 
I FINALLY finished Traitors Moon by Lynn Flewelling. I have no idea why such an easy book took so long to read! I have now started the Firebirds Vengeance by Sarah Zettel. So far so good, glad to be exploring such a fascinating trilogy! I shall be going quite quickly with this one mark my words as I have the bank holiday and the Last light of the sun waiting for me...beckoning...
 
Almost done with Heroes Die by Matthew Woodring Stover. Not too shabby. A good concept and fairly well written but almost goes too far with some the cheesier action sequences, which I guess kind of made sense in the context they were in. I'll have to try and track down the sequel, although I don't think either of the Caine books has had a proper Australian release.

Also been reading some H. P. Lovecraft. Not exactly the greatest stories ever written (The ones I've read at least, which seem to be his shorter earlier works and I've been told his later and longer stories are better) but he introduces some memorable concepts and his works have a certain distinct atmosphere that kind of hooks you. A lot of it comes across as ideas Lovecarft just randomly scrawling ideas and imagery across the page, in an admittedly memorable fashion.
 
I had been too busy to post in March...Oops, my bad!! hehe

So...I will attend to bring you up to date!

i had been sooo full of Fantasy, I decided to pick up and read a few other books...

Christopher Golden wrote a few young adult books which caught my I, so I read them!! They are of Jenna Blakes' "Body of Evidence thrillers!! Really good i must add and equally entralling!(8 books altogether!.

Tried to finish up with Serpent Mage(fourth book of Death Gate cycle).

Been reading some short story books:

Peter Straubs' "Houses without Doors". Not bad, I liked the first two stories and after that it kind of went downhill from there!!

And the following short story book is Legends 3. I am in the throws of reading Robert Jordans' "The Wheel of Time: New Spring". I must say that his writing is somewhat eratic, but i find I am enjoying this storyline!

I have never read any of his books, but I might just pick one of his books up!
:D

Any comments are help is welcome!!;)
 
Well so far this month ive picked up The Briar King, Conquistador by S.M. Stirling, Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson and The Darkness that Comes Before by R. Scott Bakker. I'm in the middle of Darkness right now and boy am I enjoying it.. Theres a lot of character setup right now since it is the start of the series but it shows a lot of potential.

John
 
Since I couldn't decide what to read next, I picked two books. :)

I am reading a new SF book, and the non-genre book for one of my local book groups The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl. One of those historical mystery type books that seem to be so prevalent recently. It is set in Boston in the 1860s, and based in part on a true club of famous writers who did work together to translate Dante into English.
 
I don't think either of the Caine books has had a proper Australian release
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You're correct there. It's specialty shops or overseas orders to get hold ofthem.

Conquistador by S.M. Stirling
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Can you comment on thi when you're done (or anyobdy else read it?). I saw it in the shop the other day and thought it had potential to be quite good or quite bad.
 
To take a break from fantasy, I'm reading a classic, Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. A surprisingly good and entertaining book--I'm really enjoying it!

Next I'll either read Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay if it comes in the mail soon enough (bought a copy on ebay), or The Black Jewels trilogy by Anne Bishop, which I meant to read last month but never got around to.
 
So far not much fantasy. I read William Gibson's Pattern Recognition which I really liked. At first I had a slight problem with the style and than it went on smoothly. Really fascinating.

Then I re-read Coraline by Gaiman - and it is still as brilliant. I am not often re-reading books, but I am very happy about it this time.

And then I am trying to read Little, Big by Crowley for the Book Club, but that goes on slowly.
So to have something I enjoy more I read Fire Watch by Connie Willies as well.

:)
 
Finished The Broken Crown by Michelle West and have started the second of the series, The Uncrowned King. Pretty interesting so far.
 
I just finished Coraline by Gaiman as well and I also love it! I've got American Gods on the stack somewhere also. Reading Island by Aldous Huxley at the moment.
 
I finished up all three of Jean Rabe's DragonLance world based Dhamon Saga. It wasn't too bad of a series...

I just started Greg Keyes' Newton's Cannon...and it is one seriously messed up twist on our own history... Newton, Franklin and others dabbling with a mix of alchemy, magic and science! Wonder what the appended Principia would look like! This seems like it is going to be one heck of a series.
 
Still on Erikson's Memories of Ice (well it's a huge book - 1000+ pages). I've found the trick to reading Erikson, I think - totally suspend all hopes of following the plot. That way, when things do tie in (which they do, from time to time, though I suppose there will be enough loose ends left for the series to go on) you feel pleasurably surprised. Seriously though, I'm really enjoying this for the sheer power of Erikson's vision, although I haven't the foggiest clue where it is all going.
 
Finished The Scar, and ended up quite enjoying the story :D

Now reading Summon the Keeper by Tanya Huff and finding it very entertaining :)
 
I'm halfway through GRRM's A Game of Thrones. I must say he does fantasy better than he does SF short stories (I loved "A Song for Lya", but the other stories in the book of that name, not so much).

I realize I'm in for a long read if I want to see the story though, but I've been short on "what to read" inspiration lately, so why not? He's keeping the pages turning well enough.
 
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