What books are you currently reading?

[Aaron Bitman]

Aberzombie wrote:

Hmmmm....mayhap it's time to reread the Dragonlance Chronicles once again.

To anyone reading the Dragonlance Chronicles, I might recommend reading Dragons of the Dwarven Depths after Dragons of Autumn Twilight but before Dragons of Winter Night.

And in the middle of reading Dragons of Winter Night, after "Book 1" (the first 12 chapters) and "Book 2", I might recommend reading the short story "Finding the Faith" by Mary Kirchoff. You can find that short story in The Magic of Krynn (Volume 1 of Dragonlance Tales), or in Dragonlance: The Best of Tales Volume 1.

[Aberzombie]

Those are all great stories. One of these days, if I ever catch up with all my other reading (probably impossible), I might have to reread ALL my Dragonlance books. That could last me a good while.

[Bjørn Røyrvik]

"Heavenly Tyrant" was good and sets up for a third book, which I am looking forward to.

Currently reading Sara J. Maas A Court of Thorn and Roses. I bought it pretty much only to support a newly opened book store in town. It's OK. Very easy to read but so far nothing particularly memorable.
After this I will read Kindred Spirits, first of the Meetings sextet.

[Bjørn Røyrvik]

"Kindred Spirits" was OK. I think I enjoyed it more while I was reading it than I do after.

Currently reading Sheri Tepper's The Margarets. One part Star Trek with more grit, one part 70s social-critical SF in the vein of Soylent Green, one part fairy tale. So far it's quite good.

[Bjørn Røyrvik]

"The Margarets" was good. The climax and ending stumbled a bit compared to the meat of the story but on the whole I liked it.

Currently reading Final Stage: The ultimate science fiction anthology. A rather grandiose name but it has good authors (Asimov, Pohl, Harrison, Ellison, Tiptree and more) who were comissioned to write stories on certain topics. I've read a couple of them before, I think. So far so good.

[Tim Emrick]

I'm going to be spending most of August trying to cram the Starfinder 2E Player Core into my brain, so I'm limiting my other reading to fluff I've read before. At the moment, that's Bulfinch's Mythology: Age of Chivalry (which is mostly devoted to the Arthurian legends), but I've barely started it.

[Andostre]

I recently finished Green Rider, by Kristen Britain, which I enjoyed quite a bit. My wife saw me reading this fantasy classic, and she was inspired to check out the following book in that series from the library. That book is massive (unless it's large print... I'll have to check).

After that, I read The Gone World, by Tom Sweterlitsch. It's a good twist on a time travel/alternate timeline genre, but it's also sort of a crime procedural book. The descriptions of the murders the main character investigates are pretty graphic, as are a couple of the violent attacks described, so fair warning. I could have done without, but it definitely would have changed the weight of the story. Overall, I recommend the book.

[Bjørn Røyrvik]

"Final Stage" was good. I enjoyed some stories more than others but all were entertaining and interesting explorations of their themes. It is a bit dated, of course, and inevitably many of the plots have been done by others in the years since these were written so there isn't much new here now, but the book is worth picking up if you find it at a used bookstore and haven't read the stories already.

Currently reading Philip José Farmer's Tongues of the Moon, set in an alt.u. version of our world where the where the world is split between the Soviets in the North hemisphere and the Axis in the south and what happens on the Moon after the Earth nukes itself to oblivion.
So far it's interesting enough, but the book is most notable for being written without chapters and apparantly without paragraphs (at least none in the first 1/3 of the book). I don't know if the latter is intentional on the author's part or a failure of editing.

[Set]

Jade City by Fonda Lee was really interesting. Set in a very Japan-feeling nation, in a world where jade has special properties (and can only be found in that one tiny nation, or used effectively by it's inhabitants, leading to a funky sort of arms race), it's quite an involved setting, but also very cool and full of memorable characters.

It's a thick book, and the sequels, Jade Legacy and Jade War, are even weightier. I'm about a third of the way through the second, which is dense reading for me, since I can read two fluffy novels in a single night at work, while still getting all my (and two other peoples...) work done. :)

On that note, Glen Cooks Black Company books are pretty cool. I really like how the mercenary company's two relatively low-level (by setting standards) mages can get such effective use out of illusion magic. His Garrett, PI books, if Sweet Silver Blues and Bitter Gold Hearts (the two I read earlier this week) are any indication, very much light fluffy candy reading. Not really meaty enough for me.