GWJ discussion

I struggle to believe that the GWJ Goodreads group isn't discussing anything. So tell us what are you reading?

I'm currently reading 4 books:

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel - so far it is fantastic (about halfway through it)

The Year's Best Science Fiction edited by Gardner R. Dozois - I read this when it comes out every year, have since the early 90s. A lot more hit-or-miss for me this year than usual.

The Stars in Shroud by Gregory Benford - Picked this up in some e-book bundle. Pretty good so far (about 1/3rd of the way into it).

The Ottoman Centuries by John Patrick Douglas Balfour - big heavy history book, been struggling through it; I have some problems with it that I will save for my "review" (well, post-read random nonsense I try to write after I finish a book).

I find it difficult reading more than one book at a time. If a story gets boring in one book and exciting in another then I start dreading the idea of ever going back to the prior book even though the boring part could only be a few pages long.

Currently reading The Wishsong of Shannara - Terry Brooks. It's a lot like the previous 2 books in the trilogy, but I love it none the less.

Franco Moretti's "Graphs, Maps, Trees" and Espen Aarseth's "Cybertext" are getting a lot of my attention right now.

We're working through Game of Thrones on Audible.

Erik wrote: "Franco Moretti's "Graphs, Maps, Trees" and Espen Aarseth's "Cybertext" are getting a lot of my attention right now.

We're working through Game of Thrones on Audible."
How is GoT on audio? Is it easy enough to keep up?

> How is GoT on audio? Is it easy enough to keep up?

Yeah, I think so, though we'll often restart from the beginning of a chapter rather than pick back up from right where we left off.

Dead tree: Blue Remembered Earth - Alastair Reynolds (rereading)
Kindle: Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (rereading)
Audible: Proven Guilty - Jim Butcher (read the book)

The sort of sequel to BRE comes out later this month, so I'll probably read that next.

About to start Heinlein's "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress".

I'm reading that and 9 other books....

Any GWJ’ers still out there? Im reading “League of Princes #2: Hero’s Guide to Storming the castle” with my kids, and reading “Navigating without a Map or Compass” by myself... the latter is a bit of a slog, unfortunately...

I'm out there! Just joined the group actually. Struggling with getting back to reading habits, so most of the books I get through are still audiobooks. Currently listening to The Lies of Locke Lemora and theoretically reading Every Heart a Doorway, though I haven't cracked it yet.

I also exist. I've just finished "Lies Sleeping", the 7th Peter Grant book, and I'm going through Ian Mortimer's "Time Traveller's Guide to {Medieval / Elizabethan / Restoration} Britain" books, which are fascinating (the conceit is they're like a tourist guide for visiting those periods so they tends to be more human / social history rather than just talking about the monarchs and wars). Then I'm going to read "Elysium Fire" by Alastair Reynolds.

I'm still here. I'm still reading too many books at once.

Just finished yet another Fred Rogers bio. I find that bios of people I look up to really help buoy my
spirit. Also poetry.

I mean, you could click through to my activity if you want to know more about the weird stuff I read, but that’s the gist.