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What Are You Reading December 2015?
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devilinlaw
Posted 2015-12-02 4:48 PM (#12034)
Subject: What Are You Reading December 2015?



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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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daxxh
Posted 2015-12-03 2:00 AM (#12045 - in reply to #12034)
Subject: Re: What Are You Reading December 2015?



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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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Weesam
Posted 2015-12-03 2:34 PM (#12048 - in reply to #12045)
Subject: Re: What Are You Reading December 2015?



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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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dustydigger
Posted 2015-12-04 5:32 AM (#12049 - in reply to #12048)
Subject: Re: What Are You Reading December 2015?



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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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DrNefario
Posted 2015-12-04 7:38 AM (#12050 - in reply to #12034)
Subject: Re: What Are You Reading December 2015?



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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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Badseedgirl
Posted 2015-12-04 8:10 PM (#12054 - in reply to #12034)
Subject: RE: What Are You Reading December 2015?



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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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Dlw28
Posted 2015-12-04 10:42 PM (#12056 - in reply to #12034)
Subject: Re: What Are You Reading December 2015?



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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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