FIrst Actual Post!

[ann_leckie]

Hey! Glad you stopped by! This is the first actual post. There's no real content here yet.

What's everybody reading? Anything good? Or watching?

Comments

[sylvanauctor]

I read *Unkindness of Ghosts* basically as soon as you recommended it to me and it was very good! Thank you! Also, The Collapsing Empire, recently

[bluebaron]

Currently: finishing a reread of Ms. Jemisin's Inheritance trilogy, catching up on Drunks & Dragons (podcast), and thinking about reading the Witcher books.

[ann_leckie]

Oh, I'm so glad you enjoyed Unkindness of Ghosts! It was fabulous, wasn't it?

How did you like The Collapsing Empire? I have it on my Kobo but haven't gotten to it. (I'm reading an advance copy of "This Is How You Lose the Time War" by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone. It's really good.

[cassyblue]

My hold of Transcendent 3 came into the library and I know what I'm doing tonight.

[sylvanauctor]

It was fabulous!

I really liked The Collapsing Empire. The third person narrator is so entirely Done with all of the bureaucracy of the empire, in a way that I loved, and I thought the speaking-science-to-power plotline was very cool.

[mawgs]

I have recently read a very good book about a not very tall at all tower and some gods. I enjoyed it immensely and plan to post some fanart in February. But also like Sylvanauctor, I read The Collapsing Empire and am almost done with The Consuming Fire. I am really enjoying it and love Scalzi’s writing style.

[kiranovember]

I am reading Lies Sleeping by Ben Aaronovitch, the new Rivers of London novel. I am also reading The Origins of Satan by Elaine Pagels for my Satanic chapter's book club.

[okrablossom]

I just finished Nicole Kornher-Stace's Latchkey and really enjoyed it.

[ann_leckie]

Ah, the Inheritance Trilogy is excellent. What sort of podcast is Drunks and Dragons?

I only have the vaguest idea what Witcher is--it's a game? I think?

[ann_leckie]

Oh, I enjoyed Transcendent 2 a lot, I imagine 3 is just as good!

[ann_leckie]

Hmm, what can this mysterious book be??? (I'm glad you enjoyed it!)

[ann_leckie]

Oh, I've enjoyed the Rivers of London books so far! I need to get my hands on Lies Sleeping.

I read Pagels' Gnostic Gospels as well as the Origin of Satan a while back, and they were both really good.

[ann_leckie]

Oh I don't think I've read anything of hers! I'll have to check that out.

[bluebaron]

Yes! I'm looking forward to getting my hands on a copy of How Long 'Til Black Future Month? in the new year.

Drunks and Dragons is an actual-play Dungeons and Dragons podcast. It's not too rules-heavy and there's a lot of backlog (they put out episode 293 yesterday) so it was a good thing to listen to when I was working over the summer and now I'm hooked!

I think the Witcher game was based on the books, which have been on my to-read list for a while. I just picked up the first one in a bookshop when I was visiting family last month, so maybe it'll finally happen.

[okrablossom]

It's a sequel. The first book is _Archivist Wasp_ and came out a few years ago. Very excellent world-building and use of ghosts (IMO) :)

[zz9pzza]

Just finished "Lies sleeping" by Ben Aaronovitch.

I should be revising for my 3 yearly neworking recertification...

[irondoe]

I'm in the middle of The Bear and the Nightingale and I'm 2? 3? episodes away from finishing the first season of Star Trek Discovery.

[ann_leckie]

Oh, I've heard Star Trek Discovery is really good. I haven't seen it yet, because I don't want to pay CBS for a subscription I have no interest in, and I don't want to add yet more discs to the pile of them already in the house. I'm hoping that someday soon it's available to stream from the places I usually get that sort of thing!

[ann_leckie]

I should be doing something else, too! (Answering business emails, and some interview questions.) You should go revise! I should go do emails.

Bleah.

[irondoe]

I live in the UK which means it's on Netflix here. It's interesting, I grew up with Next Generation and this definitely isn't that. It's a bit... weird, but I've watched enough Star Trek to know you never judge a show by season 1. A German friend of mine is doing academic papers on it though! Hope you get to see it soon, if I was still in the US I wouldn't pay CBS for it either.

[averytree]

I ALSO just read Unkindness of Ghosts! What a book. It knocked my socks off.

[averytree]

I just finished "The Breath of the Sun" by Rachel Fellman, a fantastic fictional story about queer mountain-climbing women. The only thing I can think of to compare it to is "The Left Hand of Darkness"- in contains two protagonists from very different cultural backgrounds setting out on a long, cold, epic winter journey together. It's very good.

[ann_leckie]

Oh, that sounds really cool! I'll have to check it out.

[cgbookcat1]

I'm 1/3 of the way through and also loving it!

[estelendur]

I've been reading a lot of short stories! I added Strange Horizons, Samovar, Uncanny Magazine, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and Tor.com to my RSS feed reader, have been picking up physical copies of Fantasy & Science Fiction Magazine, and picked up a miscellaneous anthology. So I've been reading an awful lot of stuff and not remembering what most of it is. I will say that Gorse Daughter, Sparrow Son is probably the most beautiful Sleeping Beauty I've ever read.

I also read Winter Tide, by Ruthanna Emrys, and adored it.