Fantasy Book Club discussion

I don´t know if I´ll be here on time to set the thread so I´m setting it now.
Happy New Year to all, I hope you´ve made your 2016 challenges and that you´ll make and sprint toward the new ones.

Share what you´re reading this month in here (but not before January! xD) Happy reading

Hi and Happy New Year!♡

I'll be finishing Theft of Swords by Michael J. Sullivan.

Happy New Year! I know you can finish that book :)

I am reading The Blood Mirror by Brent Weeks and will finish it soon.

I'm currently reading Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch *-*

I plan to read His Majesty's Dragon.

Believe I'll start the year with The Dragonbone Chair

Finishing Magician (been chipping away on that for a while), The Price of Spring, and The Waking Fire (which is just wonderful)

Then have plans for doing the series reads with the sister group His Majesty's Dragon, and Daughter of the Forest.. and chipping away at some series I need to finish up with Wyrd Sisters, and The Black Lung Captain.

I'm contemplating ditching the Rincewind books of Discworld. I haven't been keen on them

Just finished the shattered sea trilogy which was pretty good. Started the chronicles of the unhewn throne with the emperors blades. Up to 150 pages. Loving it so far

I needed something "relaxing" after Garden of the Moon, so I am reading my favorite author's (Sanderson) first book "Elantris". Should finish mid-Jan, and going to try Abercrombie's first trilogy (heard so many good things from you guys about "The Blade Itself").

God, I'm still at the first chapters of december's group read! The Fifth Season. Couldn't make much time for reading it and now I'm planning on giv it a try.

Elantris and Fifth Season would count toward the previous reads challenge!

I'm on The Liar’s Key

Finished Red Seas Under Red Skies, started reading Rogues! Also hoping to finish the Turkish translated version of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. *-*

Wow. Rogues is on the challenge too. Shall I shut up about the challenges?

I'm currently reading the Age of Myth by Michael J Sullivan. My next book will either be Warbreaker or the the Last Empire.

Dwayne wrote: "I'm currently reading the Age of Myth by Michael J Sullivan. My next book will either be Warbreaker or the the Last Empire."

There's about 15 stars in that comment.

Finished Sagas of Conan and am starting Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts 1 & 2 -- wasn't on my agenda, necessarily, but it was lent to me on New Year's, so here we go.

I've started Prince of Fools by Mark Lawrence! A friend recommended that I read it, so diving into it!

I'm reading Shadows of Self and will continue the Mistborn series with The Bands of Mourning and Secret History once I finish.

Virginie wrote: "I'm reading Shadows of Self and will continue the Mistborn series with The Bands of Mourning and Secret History once I finish."

The Alloy Era books are some of my all time favorites. I love the Western/Steampunk feel to them.

Tnkw01 wrote: "The Alloy Era books are some of my all time favorites. I love the Western/Steampunk feel to them. "

I have to admit, I was a bit worried before starting The Alloy of Law. I didn't know how the Mistborn world would feel when fast-forwarded to a western setting, but Sanderson pulled it off wonderfully. It's lighter than the first trilogy and action-packed. A very fun read so far, and I think The Alloy Era books will be in my favorites too :)

I didn't enjoy Alloy as much.

Jes, I'm reading book two, The Liar's Key

I've started in on Warbreaker and will also be diving into Daughter of the Forest once I find it in my book stash. I'm also hoping to start the Eye of the World Series with New Spring.

Helen wrote: "I didn't enjoy Alloy as much.


We all have different tastes and that's a good thing.

For anyone reading Daughter of the Forest- we are doing a Sevenwaters series read in the sister group! Pretty please discuss with us!

Finished Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts 1 & 2 (it read fast) and started an anthology: Fearsome Magics, edited by Jonathan Strahan

Reading The Facefaker's Game

Finished The Bands of Mourning last night and Secret History will probably join it before the day ends.
I need a break from Sanderson before I dive into The Stormlight Archive. I think I'll give The Blade Itself a try.

Margret wrote: "For anyone reading Daughter of the Forest- we are doing a Sevenwaters series read in the sister group! Pretty please discuss with us!"

They're also reading His Majesty's Dragon series.

Haha sorry! I should've mentioned that!

I finished Firefight last night, which was great and have already jumped into the last book in the trilogy, Calamity.

Finished Fearsome Magics, which had some excellent stories in it, and am about half way through Seanan McGuire's Every Heart a Doorway, which is frankly brilliant.

And finished Every Heart a Doorway, which remained brilliant, and started another TOR novella, Cold-Forged Flame by Marie Brennan.

And me again ... Continuing my novella-reading streak, I finished Cold-Forged Flame and started The Drowning Eyes by Emily Foster. Which has pirates!

I've read the last half of Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch, Chess by Stefan Zweig, Harry Potter and The Cursed Child and The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis. I believe i made a quite fast start this year, hope i can manage my pace. ^-^

Great job Ceridwen! I wished I wouldn't have started off with such a big book (The Dragonbone Chair) but I am absolutely loving it. Maybe I'll try some smaller ones so I can get some under my belt. But, also, I'm such a slow reader. Anyway, still that's great.

Joseph wrote: "And me again ... Continuing my novella-reading streak, I finished Cold-Forged Flame and started The Drowning Eyes by Emily Foster. Which has pirates!"

Are these found on the Tor website?

Tnkw01 wrote: "Are these found on the Tor website?"

I'm sure you can find excerpts, at least, but I bought them from Amazon -- digital copies are somewhere between $0.99 and $2.99.

Ok, thanks. I know sometimes they have free stuff.

Yes if you live in North America they have one free ebook a month

And more novellaing -- finished The Drowning Eyes (another one on the shorter edge of the scale) and started The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe by Kij Johnson, which is a riff on one of my all-time favorite Lovecraft stories.

Here is my review of Ship of Destiny, although it took a long time for me to finish this book, but I loved every part of it.

Just FYI, March's poll is up, and the race begins!!

Margret wrote: "Yes if you live in North America they have one free ebook a month"

Oh, I didn't know, that' s pretty cool. I wish it were not geographically limited though, so I could enjoy it as well :/

Virginie wrote: "Margret wrote: "Yes if you live in North America they have one free ebook a month"

Oh, I didn't know, that' s pretty cool. I wish it were not geographically limited though, so I could enjoy it as ..."

Audible is like that also. There are a lot of audiobooks that are available in Europe and/or Australia/New Zealand and not in the USA. Just not fair, (I'm pouting). :(

Tnkw01 wrote: "Audible is like that also. There are a lot of audiobooks that are available in Europe and/or Australia/New Zealand and not in the USA. Just not fair, (I'm pouting). :( "

I don't listen to audiobooks so that's not a problem muhahaha. But availability has always been a huge problem for me. Try finding "original version" of books and not translated ones in France... It's not impossible with ebooks but I wish I could just use the library :( (now I'm pouting too).

Virginie wrote: "Tnkw01 wrote: "Audible is like that also. There are a lot of audiobooks that are available in Europe and/or Australia/New Zealand and not in the USA. Just not fair, (I'm pouting). :( "

I don't lis..."

LOL!! I like to use the library too sometimes.

Not to get into a pouting match.. but being a Canadian sucks for everything but books. (I can't get some audible stuff but whatever)... for example.. I was trying to order stethoscope parts but pretty much nobody will ship the tubing to Canada???? I could order a whole new one for 4x the price though.... It's like that with tons of stuff and that's just one example

A guy from work and I thought of a matching-type site where instead of finding your soul mate, you find an American shipping buddy so you can actually get things that Americans can get.

Currently reading The Black Lung Captain very fun steampunk/airship pirate-tastic read