What Are You Reading?

[AnaKhouri]

Swiped my stepdad's copy of The Exorcist because I have never read it. Gonna start the new year out right!

[Pixelated]

I finally finished The Lightless Sky by Gulwali Passarlay, the Star Wars novel The Last Shot by Daniel Jose Older and The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. Both Passarlay's and Zusak's novels were very, very touching.

Currently reading A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas (not terribly impressed with it at the moment, but it might improve) and re-reading Ruled Britannia by that master of alternative history, Harry Turtledove (spoiler: the Spanish Armada makes it to England ...)

[greek_jester]

I know. Isn't it great? Having temped at the local Magistrate's court when I was younger, there earlier books were giving me flash-backs about all the red tape and "make do and mend" attitude to equipment. It was the early 2000's and we still had computers attached to green-on-black text monitors!

[TheSHAD0W]

Now reading the latest novel in Charles Stross's Laundry series. Great stuff.

[Nunavut Pants]

I just finished "Dreamfall" by Joan D. Vinge. I had read her two earlier books "Psion" and "Catspaw", and recently stumbled across this third book following the same characters.

The protagonist is an interesting mix of hopeful and hopeless, cynical and naive.

Not something to read stand-alone; a lot of the world-building (worlds building?) is done in the first book, and there's a lot that is just sketched in. Still, a decent read for anyone who has read the first two.

Moving on to some Lawrence Watt-Evans now.