What've You Been Reading?

[sweet_sparrow]

I don't have a whole lot of time right now as it's Crunch Time with the semester's end and several nasty deadlines - for this week! - looming over me (so my apologies if replies are incredibly slow and/or just fall to the wayside altogether in advance). Please can someone have a talk with Time and have it freeze it until I get/feel caught up on stuff? *whinge*

I've managed to get a neat amount of reading done this month - about 15 books in all and a slew of short stories I haven't bothered to keep track of. The most notable reading of the month is no doubt the two thirds of N.K. Jemisin's Inheritance trilogy that are out so far: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms and The Broken Kingdoms, both of which I really enjoyed.

Disappointments of the month were Emma by Jane Austen and Sabriel by Garth Nix, neither of which I finished. I may try them again at a later date.

What about you? What's your reading month been like? What stood out in any way?

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[ellarien]

I had a lot of reading time this month, and for once circumstances conspired to let me read brand-new books: Stephen Donaldson's Against All Things Ending, which was ridiculously slow but still quite enjoyable in an angsty way; The Towers of Midnight by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson, which was a very satisfactory penultimate entry in the long-running (twenty years and counting over thirteen books so far, I think) Wheel of Time series; and Cryoburn by Lois McMaster Bujold, which was a long-awaited return to the Vorkosigan series, but not one of the great books in that series. Then I took advantage of the included CD to embark on an e-reread of the whole series, and am currently up to Mirror Dance. That universe seems a little darker to me now than it did twenty years ago, and the characters less admirable, but it's still a good read.

[sweet_sparrow]

So... Basically, if you buy the right edition of Cryoburn you get the entire series legally as ebook along with it? That's really generous!

I'm glad you enjoyed it, even if the books are darker and less admirable now.

[ellarien]

Yes, exactly -- except that they accidentally left out Memory, but I didn't mind paying a few dollars for that one to complete the set. (And Diplomatic Immunity is there twice, once on its own and once as part of a pair.) Baen does this kind of thing occasionally, and this was a particularly nice one.