The currently reading thread has really gotten away from us lately! May is about to escape too, so here is a June thread fresh from the future.
My own reading list has hit ludicrous levels now that I have downloaded the Hugo voter’s pack, totally worth signing up for a supporting membership. But I haven’t even started on that yet.
Recently finished and loved Tobias S. Buckell’s Arctic Rising and Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Drowned Cities. Right now I’m trying to finish up John Joseph Adams’ anthology Armored, Arthur C. Clarke’s The Fountains of Paradise, and the graphic novel adaptation of At the Mountains of Madness before diving into the Hugo packet.
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Good call Josh. Can’t say my reading is anywhere near as prolific as yours – especially if I want to keep up with all the StarShipSofa podcasts!
I also just downloaded the Hugo voters’ pack and am currently half-way through Jo Walton’s Among Others and enjoying it very much. I wondered how much appeal it would have to non UK-based readers, as it is very much dealing with a specific time (late 1970s) and place. But it did win the Nebula, so it clearly chimes more broadly than I would have expected.
I have Adrift on the Sea of Rains in my hands right now and then I will follow it up with The Drowned World. After that it’s some non fiction (The Duel) or Solzhinytsin’s First Circle.
My reading has become increasingly erratic of late and I’m still ploughing through Heirs of the Blade, which is the seventh volume of the Shadow’s of the Apt fantasy series.
It’s good and I have a week off coming up soon, so hopefully I will actually finish it before the month is out.
I haven’t been able to read much in the way of novels for a really long time. I bet it’s getting tiresome hearing about it. BUT, we were in Italy recently and I started what I thought was a short story by Charles de Lint (urban fantasy), Spiritwalk. It turns out it’s a novel and I’m about 1/3 of the way through already, so I just might manage!
Going for two weeks at the beach soon, too! so there’s hope.
Reading Poetry for Dummies and Mike Allen’s Mythic Delirium, the most recent issue (poetry). And reading City of Dragons, by Robin Hobb aloud to my husband each night.
Gail Carriger “Souless” and enjoying every minute.
Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time like tears in rain.
Brandon Sanderson’s ‘Elantris’ So far its been good 
Go the Solzhinytsin, Gav! First Circle is fascinating, although I am not sure if it qualifies as “non-fiction” or not. My understanding is that it is heavily based on his life, but it is a fictionalised account. Brilliant in any event.
I just finished “A Fire Upon the Deep” by Vernor Vinge and “The Forever War” by Joe Haldeman. Maybe I read them in the wrong order, or maybe I just had unreasonable expectations but I was a bit disappointed in the The Forever War.
The whole family is slowly making our way through “Bone” by Jeff Smith – a couple volumes every couple of months. It’s great reading something in a serial format like this – gives you something to look forward to.
Meanwhile, I am now reading Robert Fagles’ translation of the Iliad. It is gripping, evocative, exciting and tragic. There’s a reason they are “classics” I guess.
Go the Solzhinytsin, Gav! First Circle is fascinating, although I am not sure if it qualifies as “non-fiction” or not. My understanding is that it is heavily based on his life, but it is a fictionalised account. Brilliant in any event.
Ah, no it was 1st circle OR non-fiction. I went for Non-fiction and knocked that on the head in a couple of days. Reading Adrift on… today. Will have a crack at First Circle after! 
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Finished Leviathan Wakes as part of my Hugo Voter Packet. A great, fast-paced romp/thriller space opera with elements of horror and police procedural thrown in for good measure. It is lifted out of “great fun to read on the beach” mundanity by the two main protagonists’ struggle with issues of transparency – just how much should you tell people when you have information that directly affects them?
Already started Embassytown as the next on the list
Still on Embassytown after several weeks. I have to say, much as I like China Miéville, I’m finding this one particularly hard to engage with. It’s well written, as usual, but I just don’t seem to be able to find anything about the characters that pulls me in, and the pace is too slow to compensate for it. Unless it picks up significantly in the second half, I don’t see this one topping my Hugo vote for Best Novel.
Has anyone else had trouble with it?
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