This month I've been rereading Halo: Primordium. Good book but just as depressing as I remember. I've also started working my way through the OpenLDAP Admin manual trying to wrap my head around LDAP.
So what have you all been reading? What did you think of it?
I'm reading "So You Want to Be a Game Master" by Justin Alexander and "The Way of Kings" by Brandon Sanderson.
I also have "Needful Things" by Stephen King and "The Great Hunt" (The Wheel of Time book 2) by Robert Jordan sitting at roughly 50%, but they currently are in pause; unfortunately reading more than 2 books simultaneously is difficult if you also have to work.
Rereading Mort by Terry Pratchett. Also And Another Thing by Eoin Colfer.
Swastika Night (1984 but with Nazis and written before WWII)
The Gnostic Gospels (not quite as interesting as The Origin of Satan, but by the same author)
Sh!t Went Down (one page per day of historical events)
Acquired this month: Gaza Writes Back, A Rome of One's Own, The Ugly American, If We Burn
Over December I read Scott Hawkins’ Library at Mount Char, T. Kingfisher’s Paladin’s Faith, Ben Aaronovich’s Moon over Soho, and I just finished Neil Gaiman’s Norse Mythology last night.
Mount Char was a wild ride. I’m still processing it a bit. I enjoyed it a bunch though.
Kingfisher is amongst my favorite authors right now, and while I’m not typically a Romantacy person, the World of the White Rat books all have a lot of great Fantasy and the romance portions are integrated well.
I started Rivers of London a while ago, but dropped off so I’m trying to pick it back up. It’s good, especially if you’re a Dresden Fan. There’s quite a few similarities in style.
Norse Mythology has always been interesting to me, and Gaiman’s integrates a bunch of disparate sources to make a pretty good set of stories.
Light novel named To Be the Eminence in Shadow. Compared to other JP novels out there, this translated version truly has distinction of people in dialogues (that means you can clearly notice who is speaking), which is very pleasing to say the least
Just started Rise of Empire, Volume 2 of The Riyeria Revelations. I'm normally a pretty picky reader (Sanderson has spoiled me...) but this series is just plain solid so far. It's not great in any area, but it does well in most. Vol 1 felt a bit like a mix of LOTR and Wizard of Oz. Just a quest to find a thing and picking up folks with necessary skills along the way. The character development could use some fleshing-out, but that seems to be happening a bit more in vol 2. Overall, I recommend this series (so far), good fun.
