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Veteran Posts: 112 Location: Las Vegas, NV | This is what December looks like for me: The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney (finished) Heat Wave by Richard Castle (non-genre, finished) Ironside by Holly Black (currently reading) The Ladies of Grace Adieu & Other Stories by Susanna Clarke (currently reading) So You Want to Be a Wizard by Diane Duane (currently reading) Lords of the Sith by Paul S. Kemp The Time Machine by H.G. Wells War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells Perdido Street Station by China China Mieville The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu Dune by Frank Herbert comics: Preacher Vol. 2 by Garth Ennis & Steve Dillon Storm Season by Brian Michael Bendis, Kelly Sue DeConnick & Emanuela Lupacchino Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together (Scott Pilgrim #4) by Brian Lee O'Malley Scott Pilgrim vs. the Universe (Scott Pilgrim #5) by Brian Lee O'Malley All subject to change, naturally, but who can tell? Edited by devilinlaw 2015-12-02 4:49 PM | ||
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Extreme Veteran Posts: 536 Location: Great Lakes, USA | I am currently reading Earthman Come Home - James Blish. I am planning on reading the following: Far North - Marcel Theroux Earth Ascendant - Sean Williams Apex - Ramez Naam The Prefect - Alastair Reynolds Surface Detail - Iain Banks Grand Conjuction - Sean Williams The Carhullan Army - Sarah Hall That's the plan. But, I have yet to actually stick to the plan. | ||
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Uber User Posts: 595 Location: New Zealand | I have particular plans for December. I want to read a bunch of 2015 books I have heard mentioned as excellent award prospects, or I have seen on WWEnd's award worthy list, as I want to see whether or not I agree. Also I want to read a bunch of zombie books. Potential Award worthy books: Silver on the Road Zero World Sorcerer to the Crown A Darker Shade of Magic The Dark Forest Zeroes Last Song Before Night The Affinities A Borrowed Man Forgotten Suns The Fold The Philosopher Kings Radiance Wylding Hall Signal to Noise Superposition The Watchmaker of Filigree Street Updraft Zombie Books: World War Z The Sentinel The First Days Zone One Cell Rot & Ruin Also if I get the time I will try and knock off the final trilogy for the Triumvirate challenge, the Eden Moore Trilogy by Cherie Priest. I know it seems a lot of books for one month, but I am on holiday for most of December, so with careful planning and plenty of reading time I should make it. | ||
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Elite Veteran Posts: 1008 Location: UK | I havent a lot of books on the agenda this month,since I finished all my RYO challenges last month,only a handful left on my shelf. I did however start my 1970s Defining Books challenge,which I had intended to start in January.But I may be having my knee replacement op sometime in January,so I want to try to read as many as possible beforehand,as I know from experience I cant concentrate on reading for about 2 months post-op,due to pain and reaction to the strong painkillers,which make me spaced out! lol.What with all the pre-Xmas chores,shopping etc I cant be sure just how many I will actually read,but wth.here's the wish list John Brunner - The Jagged Orbit - completed Kelley Armstrong - Visions - completed Keith Laumer - Dinosaur Beach - completed Robert Silverberg - A Time of Changes Clifford D Simak - A Choice of Gods Robert A Heinlein - Time Enough for Love T J Bass - The Godwhale Cordwainer Smith - Norstrilia Ursula LeGuin - The Word for World is Forest P K Dick - A Scanner Darkly John Varley - The Ophiuchi Hotline C J Cherryh - Faded Sun:Kesrith Octavia E Butler - Kindred Arthur C Clarke - Fountains of Paradise Edited by dustydigger 2015-12-04 5:35 AM | ||
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Uber User Posts: 526 Location: UK | I also finished my 2015 challenges in November, but I still sort of feel the weight of the other challenges directing my reading. I'm currently reading The Magician King by Lev Grossman, the sequel to Magicians, which I read back in May and which is one of my favourite books of the year. It's only now I'm out from under the challenges that I felt free to read it. It doesn't count towards anything. I just wanted to read it. (Also, I was waiting for some movement on the ebook price.) Then I start to think that I'd like to get started on the Tie-in challenge, so maybe I'll read Space: Above & Beyond next. And perhaps I could get to the 70s before the end of the year. I'm in the middle of I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, which I should finish in a few days, and that'll just leave me with Keith Roberts' Pavane and Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut to finish off the 60s (although I'm thinking of swapping the latter for The Jagged Orbit.) And I also want to fill in some gaps in the A-Z Series challenge, to give myself the option of cutting it down to one of the lower targets. My Kindle Lending Library book for December is another of the Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off finalists - What Remains of Heroes by David Benem - so I'll want to fit that in somewhere, too. | ||
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Uber User Posts: 369 Location: Middle TN, USA | I guess it is time to finish off my 2015 challenges: Heart-Shaped Box - (12 of 12 and Clear the Shelves) I have really just been struggling to finish this one, I own it and I started it back in August and have yet to get through 1/2 of it! Time Traders - (Clear the Shelves and 50's) Time Out of Joint - (This is the 1959 book of my 50's challenge, but I chose to do the 20 books so it is not the last book in the challenge) Armada (Audiobook Challenge) Altered Carbon (Audiobook Challenge) Unholy Night (Just for Christmas. A Christmas Challenge perhaps, has anyone checked the Database?) | ||
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Extreme Veteran Posts: 305 | Impressive lists! I'm trying to finish off met challenges also. I've had to rearrange some books as I haven't found the ones I wanted through the library. Our state library system is going through a complete overhaul and no one is willing to guess how long it will take... So I can ask for only one interlibrary loan at a time and it takes several weeks to arrive. Sigh. I made a commitment not to spend as much on books this year and I'm trying to stick with it. So between what's available from the library, audio and ebooks on Hoopla and books on my shelves I hope to read: Radiance A Darker Shade of Magic Dark Orbit Satin Island First Light: the Red Natural History The House of Shattered Wings Bohr Maker Extremes Long Way to a Small Angry Planet Luna: New Moon And two novellas in Ian Sales' Apollo Quartet: Then Will the Great Ocean Wash Deep Above All That Outer Space Allows Not sure I can get to them all but I have vacation time coming up! | ||
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