Books! What's on your To Be Read pile?
May. 11th, 2011 10:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kraitI've managed to whittle my Books-To-Be-Read Pile down to fewer than 10 books, in preparation for the Foreigner group-read -- don't want to have too high a backlog before diving into Cherryh, because that usually results in massive sequel-reading sprees. :D
The top of the list:
Hodgell, P.C. Seeker's Bane. -- Fantasy.
Gentle, Mary. Grunts. -- Fantasy/Satire.
Neumeier, Rachel. Lord of the Changing Winds. -- Fantasy.
Benford, Gregory. In Alien Flesh. -- Science Fiction.
Lowachee, Karin. Gaslight Dogs. -- Fantasy (Urban/Historical).
Lynch, Scott. Red Seas Under Red Skies. -- Fantasy.
Holmes, Jeannie. Blood Law. -- Urban Fantasy.
Plus a couple more lying in places I can't see from the bed.
It looks like my fantasy urge has returned at last! I was starting to think it never would. (Maybe the last two things I read -- a sci-fi and a mystery -- were bad enough to drive me back into the arms of fantasy again.)
Foreigner folk, two questions:
First, any notions on when you'd like to start? I have located my copy, after a day of panic when it wasn't on the shelf I remembered it being on, and then wasn't in the box I remembered putting it in. :D
Second, any particular day of the week that you'd like to do the discussions on? All I ask is "not Friday", but I'm willing to nominate Thursdays or Sundays if no one else has a strong preference.
Okay, third question: what are we going to call this thing? I keep switching amongst "read-along", "read-together", "group-read" and "that thing we're planning, where we read and discuss a book, which I refuse to call it an online book club". Is there a real term for this sort of thing? Is there a term you've made up, and think superior to my vacillations? :D Anybody want to coin one, or dig through other languages to find one?
STILL have not found my camera cable! I swear I cleaned this room a few days ago; how did it get this cluttered and messy!?
The top of the list:
Hodgell, P.C. Seeker's Bane. -- Fantasy.
Gentle, Mary. Grunts. -- Fantasy/Satire.
Neumeier, Rachel. Lord of the Changing Winds. -- Fantasy.
Benford, Gregory. In Alien Flesh. -- Science Fiction.
Lowachee, Karin. Gaslight Dogs. -- Fantasy (Urban/Historical).
Lynch, Scott. Red Seas Under Red Skies. -- Fantasy.
Holmes, Jeannie. Blood Law. -- Urban Fantasy.
Plus a couple more lying in places I can't see from the bed.
It looks like my fantasy urge has returned at last! I was starting to think it never would. (Maybe the last two things I read -- a sci-fi and a mystery -- were bad enough to drive me back into the arms of fantasy again.)
Foreigner folk, two questions:
First, any notions on when you'd like to start? I have located my copy, after a day of panic when it wasn't on the shelf I remembered it being on, and then wasn't in the box I remembered putting it in. :D
Second, any particular day of the week that you'd like to do the discussions on? All I ask is "not Friday", but I'm willing to nominate Thursdays or Sundays if no one else has a strong preference.
Okay, third question: what are we going to call this thing? I keep switching amongst "read-along", "read-together", "group-read" and "that thing we're planning, where we read and discuss a book, which I refuse to call it an online book club". Is there a real term for this sort of thing? Is there a term you've made up, and think superior to my vacillations? :D Anybody want to coin one, or dig through other languages to find one?
STILL have not found my camera cable! I swear I cleaned this room a few days ago; how did it get this cluttered and messy!?