Fantasy Book Club discussion

What is everyone reading as the month reaches double digits? For me I just started reading Hart's Hope by Orson Scott Card today. It is written in a style like a Fairy Tale or Myth. I love the book so far.

It's only around 10:30pm EDT, 9/30/13 here, but I'll be continuing The Search for Wondla in the morning.

I'm almost caught up. Work since July has kept me scrambling to keep up with my book club reads.

Currently reading:

The Thousand Names (audiobook edition during daily commutes/exercise times)
Mission of Honor (ebook edition)
About This Life (trade paperback for a real-world library non-fiction book club)

For October:

Check out my current-month shelf, which includes:

Best Served Cold (ebook or hardcover ... I've got both)
The Shadow of the Torturer (part of trade paperback omnibus edition)
The Rose and the Thorn (ebook edition)
Ysabel (hardcover ... for next month actually)

Some excellent choices there, not unlike my to read list.

This month I've got Catching Fire and The Many-Coloured Land going on

Hollow World and The Rithmatist are currently on the backburner temporarily.

I read Hart's Hope as a teenager - I think it was one of the first books I read where the smut was integral to the plot, and I remember wishing Scott had found a different way of getting his point across. It made the book so ugly to me, that I couldn't re-read it, though the plot was interesting.

Post about the book when you're done - I want another opinion.

I don't know what I'm going to read - but I just finished Pratchett's Snuff and seriously, I was laughing out loud on the metro. and sniggering.

Found a book by a favorite old author of mine which I have never read before. Going to make this one my target of the month. "The Arrows of Hercules," by L. Sprague de Camp.

Today I started The Crown Tower. Oh my goodness, I am so excited! I loved the Riyria Revelations but I forgot just how much I love the characters. I'm also continuing Heartless and Dead Ever After (audio) from last month.

currently reading All Flesh is Grass with a short story from The Complete Robot between books.

I also plan to read Embassytown, Eye of Cat, Equal Rites & Mort. If anytime left i might start reading Conquerors' Pride

Finished The Bone Palace by Amanda Downum and went straight into the third (and final so far) in the series, Kingdoms of Dust. Highly recommended, especially if you want something a little off the beaten path.

Read Where'd You Go, Bernadette for my book club yesterday and Hillbilly Gothic for myself today.

Now it's back to Fool's Fate, which has me absorbed but can only be read when I have longer stretches of time, and How to Raise an Amazing Child the Montessori Way. It's an eclectic month.

Oh, and towards the end of the month I will be re-reading Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow, both for my book club and the new movie.

Just finished City of Fallen Angels, book 4 in the Mortal Instruments. Going to start Throne of Glass.

And finished Kingdoms of Dust -- I really recommend this series -- and am about to revisit the Overlook Hotel in The Shining.

I'm reading The Gates (Samuel Johnson #1). It's pretty entertaining, though I thought it took a little while to get interesting.

I'm listening to Joyland on audio. Perfect for October.

I am reading The Summer Tree. This is my first book by Guy Gavriel Kay.

I am reading Royal Assassin, Elric: The Stealer of Souls, The Lies of Locke Lamora and Mistborn Trilogy Boxed Set :)

I'm reading A Monster Calls. 18% in, and it's just OK so far. :-/

I'm almost finished with Song of Susannah, book #6 in the Dark Tower series. I'm loving the series so far and hope the next and final book won't disappoint.

Michelle (The World is Quiet Here) wrote: "It's only around 10:30pm EDT, 9/30/13 here, but I'll be continuing The Search for Wondla in the morning."

I loved that book and have the second one ready to read next.

@Dawn I love the Wondla books too :) I've read #1 twice and I've read #2 one whole time and I'm in the process of reading it a second time. Can't wait for book #3 next summer! :)

Finished A Monster Calls (meh!) and I'm going to start rereading The Wild Road by Gabriel King later tonight.

Finished The Shining and am eager to find out what happens next to Danny Torrance in Doctor Sleep.

Reading Doctor Sleep now... :)

Just finished Blood Song
and rereading The Way of Kings

Michelle (The World is Quiet Here) wrote: "@Dawn I love the Wondla books too :) I've read #1 twice and I've read #2 one whole time and I'm in the process of reading it a second time. Can't wait for book #3 next summer! :)

Finished A Monst..."

How nice to see somebody discovering The Wild Road! I hope you enjoy it - truly original with interesting magic.

Life, The Universe And Everything by D.Adams :)))

I'm reading The Silvered by Tanya Huff. I've really enjoyed her Valor novels and this one starts out great so far! It recently won the 2013 Aurora award for best novel!

@Janny I love The Wild Road! I originally read it in 2012 and it's really special. :)

But I am taking a brief interlude from my reread of The Wild Road to read When Did You See Her Last?. LOVE Lemony Snicket!

I just got The Curse of Chalion, Fallen Dragon, and The Unremembered brand new, which I'm all reading right now, not all at once.

Michelle (The World is Quiet Here) wrote: "@Janny I love The Wild Road! I originally read it in 2012 and it's really special. :)"

there's a nice sequel too.

Yes, I read that too, Helen. I didn't like it as much as the first, but I've been thinking maybe I was a bit unfair; I'll probably end up adjusting my rating lol ;)

Helen wrote: "Michelle (The World is Quiet Here) wrote: "@Janny I love The Wild Road! I originally read it in 2012 and it's really special. :)"

there's a nice sequel too."

Several, actually, but I think the last one only came out in the UK?

Just finished Tehanu, which was excellent despite a somewhat slow first half. I'm now starting Red Seas Under Red Skies.

Janny, can you tell me the name of the(se) book(s)? Amazon, Wikipedia, and GR are not returning any results for sequals to The Wild Road except The Golden Cat. Thanks :)

*sequel

Googled and discovered that the authors name is actually Jane Johnson. Two other books came up on her page The Knot Garden and Nonesuch. Said still available in the US.

I saw those too, but they aren't about Tag & co. :-/

I jumped ahead and started reading The Final Descent by Rick Yancey, even though I had other books I also wanted to read. It's final book in the series, so I'm excited and sad at the same time.

This month I read The Good, The Bad, and The Undead by Kim Harrison, I'm working on Shadow of Saganami by David Weber, and I've just started Touch of Power by Maria V. Snyder. I finished This Immortal by Zelazny and The Shallows by Nicholas Carr, and I'm working on Irreparable Harm by Melissa Miller. I'm planning on starting book 3 of the Hollows (Harrison) by the end of the month. I'm working on Mean Streets too, but I don't know if I'll get that one done this month. :)

Michelle (The World is Quiet Here) wrote: "Janny, can you tell me the name of the(se) book(s)? Amazon, Wikipedia, and GR are not returning any results for sequals to The Wild Road except The Golden Cat. Thanks :)"

The other poster (thanks Helen) beat me to it.

The Knot Garden
Nonesuch

are the ones, yes, they are sequels to The Wild Road and in particular, I loved The Knot Garden perhaps best of them all.

But no mention of Tag in the descriptions :-(

Goodreads has' Gabriel King' as the writer of two series': The Wild Road (2 books) and The Knot Garden (2 books). Though they have use of wild roads, they are not strictly linked, I'm guessing. :-/

Reading Nocturnes by John Connolly the past few days. Some pretty creepy stuff :)

Finished Catching Fire last night. It felt like to me Collins had a different ending worked out for this book, and then suddenly changed her mind and rewrote it. I don't know how I really feel about that ending, but it was still a good read.

Finished Doctor Sleep -- the first new Stephen King I've read in years, and which I enjoyed, and am about to jump into the 19th century with William Morris' The Well at the World's End, Volume I.

Just finished Hollow World last night. Beautiful book. I think Sullivan fans will be looking forward to it in April.

And on that note, I'm not done with him. Just started The Rose and the Thorn

How come you have it? Is it very different to the other books?

Journey to Altmortis and The Rose Rent next will be Rogues in Hell and not sure what else.

I am studying as well so a bit of historical fiction and factual stuff.

I'm reading Inheritance (The Inheritance Cycle #4). I've been meaning to get to this a while, and I realized how much I missed this series, so yeah.