The Sword and Laser discussion

Just wondering once again as I do almost every month, what exactly is on everyone's reading quota as another month passes.

Hmmm on tap for September after I finished what I have started now
Hammered (Iron Druid 3)- Kevin Hearne
Kinslayer (lotus war 2)- Jay Kristoff- when it comes out
The Furies of Calderon - Jim Butcher
And some others Im thinking about including

Kenobi, Three, The Poe Shadow, Nexus, Post Apocalyptic Nomadic Warriors, Project Nemesis, Mr Penumbras 24hr Bookstore,Tinker, Low Town, Light...

I want to read everything at once so I can never make up my mind :(

Just grab WoT #1 on audio so I can eventually, in a hundred years or so, say I read the, all (got through the first eight or so then stopped and now don't remember a thing!). Aiming to read the second Chalion book, start the Vorkosigan saga (did I spell that right?) and maybe the second Alex Verus book as I loved the first and I'm having Dresden withdrawals having finally caught up with his last month. Oh, and my nutrition textbook. Really. I will study I promise!

And I just lost ten points for failing to proofread before posting :/

Devouring Glitter and Mayhem :-)

I recently, and surprisingly (I was expecting it was far too late for a quick 'what have I got to lose' application) been accepted onto an English Literature and Creative Writing degree course at a local university, so for the next two years (complications meant I skipped the first year) my reading will be mostly dictated by the course, starting a little later this month. However, since Philip K Dick's We Can Remember It for You Wholesale is going to be one of the first books we look at, that probably won't be a bad thing. And I'll do my best to keep up with the club picks too.

So right now, I'm finishing off Boneshaker then I'll start on this month's pick, all the while slowly working my way through the Norton Anthologies in order to be prepared for when the course starts. I'm all excited! :D

Going to be a busy a month for me. I'm slated to read:

The Demolished Man (S&L)
Red Seas Under Red Skies (Not A Book Club Club)
Steelheart (NABCC)

Finishing The Bonehunters (Malzan Fallen)
Starting Toll the Hounds Reaper's Gale (Edit: /wrongbookfail) (MF)

On Audio I'll be finishing Beyond the Shadows, but past that I'm not sure what else I'll listen to this month.

I just finished reading beta on a book, so I finally have time again to finish up on some other books! ... Not that I really manage to do that.

I'm still reading Toll the Hounds, but I'm getting there. I just took a bit more in Chronicles of the Black Company, it is after all three books. I'm at book two.

And my audiobook is almost untouched lately. Book two of the Wheel of Time series.

I WAS going to start another, but I'll wait a while.

Starting The Lions of al-Rassan, really loved Tigana. Thought it was about time I got to another of his titles.

I'm finally making progress in Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut! I think I'll finish it today. That will clear the way for me to read The Demolished Man in print. Once I'm done with that, I have a book called Honorgrail: The Attack of the Dragon Horde also in print, which was written by a former coworker of mine.

In audio, I'm currently listening to The Mongoliad: Book Two and plan to move right into The Mongoliad: Book Three when I'm done. After taking a fairly long (a month or 2) break between books 1 and 2, I think it'll be easier to keep the story consistency by moving directly. I also have a final prequel in that series to read (Seer: A Prequel to the Mongoliad) and then some of the Foreworld SideQuests.

I'm going to be having surgery in about a week. I expect that while my brain is completely muddled and while I'm in the hospital, I might try some easier stuff in audio, including Inferno and Hexed. Or I might just sleep. You know, either one. ;)

Chimera Vector by Nathan Farrigua.

Right now I'm finishing up Fool Moon and then I'll be moving on to Titus Alone. Not sure what I'll read after that.

Currently:
The Human Division by Scalzi. I wasn't convinced of this series before it was a club pick but have really gotten into it since then.

Next up:
A Fear Of Dark Water by Craig Russell. Maybe, I think I meant to read it in August too.
The Republic of Thieves by Scott Lynch. Hopefully, if I can get my library's copy first.
Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson. Contingency, if I don't get the Gentleman Bastards book.

Geoff wrote: "The Republic of Thieves by Scott Lynch. Hopefully, if I can get my library's copy first."

I'm pretty sure that won't be out until early October. We plan on reading/discussing it in The Not A Bookclub Club.

I believe October 8th to be precise.

Rob wrote: "Geoff wrote: "The Republic of Thieves by Scott Lynch. Hopefully, if I can get my library's copy first."

I'm pretty sure that won't be out until early October. We plan on reading/discussing it in T..."

Yes, I've just realized that I'm a month early. Oh well, I'll just have to read Sanderson this month.

That's never a bad thing in my estimation. :-)

I finished Gone Girl yesterday. It was good. Now reading Shift Omnibus by Hugh Howey.

I finished Shattered Pillars, which I highly, highly recommend, and, on a whim, started Osiris by E.J. Swift.

Finally got ahold of The Curse of Chalion, so I'll be finishing that up in the next couple days. Then it's on to MaddAddam, the final book in Margaret Atwood's post-apocalyptic series. Can't wait!

terpkristin wrote: "I'm going to be having surgery in about a week. I expect that while my brain is completely muddled and while I'm in the hospital, I might try some easier stuff in audio, including Inferno and Hexed. Or I might just sleep. You know, either one. ;) ..."

I'll be thinking of you! I hope this it works better this time. I sent you some audiobooks but I have another list with some really light titles - Roald Dahl!

Judas Unchained on Audible and still trying to catch up on the August club pick The Curse of Chalion

Now doing Up Jim River on Audible, Earth dreams on paper, and Snipers on the Kindle. After Snipers I'll start a re-read of The Demolished Man.
Next up after that will be
The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944.

Clyde wrote: "Next up after that will be
The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944. "

I really liked these first two books, haven't picked up the third yet, probably for Christmas.

Ctgt wrote: "Clyde wrote: "Next up after that will be
The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944. "

I really liked these first two books, haven't picked up the third yet, probably for Christmas."

I read Atkinson's An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943. It is hands down the best history I have read of the war in North Africa. I have a special interest in it and in The Day of Battle because both cover the areas and times when my father was in the thick of it.

The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis

Should be finishing up The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi this week

much like molly, I also just started the curse of chalion. I regret not reading it with the group. I am enjoying it so far. sneaking it in between antitrust law:policy and practice, family law, and selections of international economic law. guess which one I like the most....

I am shooting for
Little Brother Corey Doctorow
William Shakespeare's Star Wars by Ian Doescher
Gateway by Frederik Pohl (I had planned this before I found out he died)
The Diminished Man by Alfred Bester
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin
Come on all you ghosts by Matthew Zapruder

I have a paperback reading list around 2 feet high including Foundation and Rendezvous with Rama, but my younger sister (16) is desperate for me to get into the Alex Scarrow Time Riders series with her. The young adult teenager angst may not be my style, but the imagination and storytelling ability of Alex Scarrow cannot be overlooked. Err, aside from the totally original alt history scenario that the Germans win WW2 and invade the USA. That's never been suggested before...

some interesting reading going on. Adam if you like Little Brother there is a free novella just published on Tor.com by doctorow set in the same world (and there is the decent sequel Homeland too).

I am hoping to get through at least:-

Ghost Story - Peter Straub
Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein
The Uninvited - Liz Jensen


as well as some short and also non genre fiction. Reading the predictably depressing Eleven Kinds of Loneliness so will probably need to read something in which at least one of the characters has at least some small chance of happiness real soon.

Just finished up The Demolished Man. Going to finish up Milkweed with Necessary Evil, and will be using my audible credit for the month on Mistborn: The Final Empire

After I finish a couple of current reads, I've got a lot of short stuff on my list.

Federations
Shadows of the New Sun: Stories in Honor of Gene Wolfe
Lightspeed Magazine August 2013
Lightspeed Magazine, September 2013

And for my book club:

Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

I am aiming to finish reading Rise to Rebellion, The Winter King, 1Q84, Let Him Go: A Novel, Creation, and Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two. And then tackle Knight Of Swords, Touched with Fire, and The Agony and the Ecstasy. And I am not sure if I can finish all that...

Paladin of Souls, next in the Challion series

Abbadon's Gate by James SA Corey
Tyrant's Law by Daniel Abraham.
American God's by N.G. (never really read it).
Perhaps I am Number Four after that because I got it for cheap on a kindle sale.

I'm still working on The Magic Mountain, slow going but it's so good. Here's a(nother) plug to come on by The Thomas Mann Group and join us if you are interested in reading and discussing one of the classic novels of the 20th century. You would have a little catching up to do, but the reading pace is pretty relaxed.

As a palette cleanser between chapters in The Magic Mountain, I'm reading Darwin Elevator. I'm less than a hundred pages in and so far it's serving its function by entertaining me with something lite and easy.

Got Demolition Man out of the way-meh. Started Paladin of Souls because I really liked Chalion and I've seen it said around town here that it's even better. I also have the first book to the Vorkosigan Saga from the humble bundle and Dust hanging out on the nook.

I'm reading 'a feast for crows' and listening to 'The Count of Monte Cristo' on Audible

Clyde wrote: "I read Atkinson's An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943. It is hands down the best history I have read of the war in North Africa."

I was woefully unfamiliar with that aspect of the war. Hope you enjoy the second just as much as I did.

BTW also really enjoyed The Last Valley: Dien Bien Phu and the French Defeat in Vietnam, a fascinating book if you have an interest in the Vietnam time frame.

Sorry folks, didn't mean to hijack the thread, I'm done.

I was reading Shift Omnibus Edition but it was really dull so I quit. Going to finish the Farseer trilogy. On to Assassin's Quest.

Just finished Feed, and just started Deadline, and will continue on to Blackout. I'm really hoping to finish Greywalker too this month, but it might be far fetched. I'm skipping the SL book this month as it doesnt particularly interest me.

Finished The Great North Road by Peter F. Hamilton and totally loved it, I was so caught up by the story and characters. I want to digest it for a while so I'm doing some rereading, listening to Dune Messiah and going to start Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner because I want to read the newest book in that series.

Just finished The Lions of al-Rassan another great GGK book. Starting a re-read of The Shining.

For book clubs:

Here's the Deal: Don't Touch Me
The Native Star
Warrior

With the kids:

My son requested that we start a book club just him, my daughter, and me because we can not find a book club where he would fit in. So, that started this month. We are starting off with the entire Harry Potter series (my daughter & I have already it, but we're just now getting my son interested in it).
Lord of the Flies with my daughter for her English class
The Canning Season & Touching Spirit Bear with my son for his required reading (we decided that since I am reading his sister's required books for English with her, it is only fair that I read some of his required reading books, as well)

Just for me:
The Walking Dead, Book One
Sweeney Todd The Graphic Novel: Original Text: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Nice Girls Don't Date Dead Men
The Help
I'm also rereading the entire Mercy Thompson series

I'm reading Stone of Farewell right now. I'm hoping to have that finished soon. My "plan" is to read Into the Woods: Tales from the Hollows and Beyond, First Lord's Fury then, if I have time, I want to reread The Sword of Shannara trilogy. I'm also looking at a couple of new authors for me and I've downloaded samples to my Kindle. The longer I'm in this group the longer my wishlist gets at Amazon.

just about to finish Make Room! Make Room!.. then i plan to read Redshirts, The Affirmation and possibly my first Dean Koontz From the Corner of His Eye

After the last podcast w/ Jim Butcher as well as receiving my Audible credits, I'm starting on the Codex Alera series w/ Furies of Calderon. About time I read this. Also going to pick up The Demolished Man for the club pick.

Jeff wrote: "After the last podcast w/ Jim Butcher as well as receiving my Audible credits, I'm starting on the Codex Alera series w/ Furies of Calderon. About time I read this. Also going to pick up The Demoli..."

The first two books are fairly trope heavy but I really love books 3 & 4.

I finished a William Henry Harrison bio (it was short). I started Thunderball. I've been sick this week, so I've made great progress in The Way of Kings and am greatly enjoying it.

I started reading The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy but just could not get into it. I don't think I was in the right mindset for it. I ultimately have gone back to the Malazan world and I am now reading Midnight Tides

I just finished I Am Not A Serial Killer, and that was after I lemmed The Demolished Man after a third of the book. I'll probably finish the audiobook for Control Point tomorrow or Sunday, and then start on the audiobook for The Alloy of Law.

The next book I'll read will probably be either Gardens of the Moon or Heroes Die. Haven't decided which yet.

Hm, so many articles to read for my masters, but when I get tired of reading about fishes it's dinosaurs I turn to instead with, The Dinosaur Heresies: New Theories Unlocking the Mystery of the Dinosaurs and Their Extinction. And I'm just starting to listen to Terra, he has a wonderfull reading voice, and the story is great.

If I have time I want to read through Robin Hobbs The Realm of the Elderlings.