Beyond Reality discussion

Please let us know what you are reading, or plan to read, in February. All genres are welcome here!

I finished The City & the City and can’t wait to discuss it!

Now reading The Desert Spear for a different group’s discussion.

Kathi wrote: "I finished The City & the City and can’t wait to discuss it!

Now reading The Desert Spear for a different group’s discussion."

Oh right, forgot that it's already February. I'm still at the first page of The City & the City and have not moved forward ;p

Also starting Children of Time which would take a while since it's in audio.

Wrapping up Parable of the Talents in an hour or so. Scariest book ever.

Last month I read:
- Uprooted by Naomi Novik - 4 stars
REVIEW: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
- Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick - 4 stars
REVIEW: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
- Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey - 3 stars
REVIEW: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
- Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan - 4 stars
REVIEW: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

And some non-SFF:
- The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith - 4 stars
REVIEW: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde - 4 stars
REVIEW: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

This month I'm reading:
- A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
- All Systems Red by Martha Wells
- The Forever War by Joe Haldeman

And some non-SFF:
- Queenpin by Megan Abbott
- Money Shot by Christa Faust

And whenever I have a chance I'm picking away at:
- Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders by Neil Gaiman
- A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin
- The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2016 edited by Rich Horton
- Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis — and Themselves by Andrew Ross Sorkin

I got diverted from The Madness Season by the need of some humor. Heading back to this one this weekend. And I've no clue what after that.

Still working on the short story collection Carbide Tipped Pens: Seventeen Tales of Hard Science Fiction. I highly recommend it. Some excellent stuff in there. That's actually part of my problem. I read something I really really like and when its over I don't want to move on to the next. :)

Still working on Faller. I love the concept. In general I like the characters. But for some reason I just have no desire to read it. And I can't explain why. But I don't want to give up. At least not yet.

I just finished The Prefect and Open and Shut. I hope to soon read Elysium Fire and Chasm City, followed by the other Revelation Space books. I almost feel like dropping everything else until I have read everything by Alastair Reynolds.

I am currently reading The Vital Abyss. Next I think I will read The City & the City.

It will soon be time to read Babylon's Ashes.

I still didn't get to Broken Angels and Woken Furies. Today must be the day to check out Altered Carbon on netflix.

Bill wrote: " Today must be the day to check out Altered Carbon on netflix."

We don’t subscribe to Netflix streaming, so I’ll be waiting to a month when we are going to be home more, join for a month (free trial), binge, then quit at the end of the month.

The book Altered Carbon is weak on world descriptions. The show has great visuals. The world in the show is much more sci-fi than I got reading the book. It may be hard to follow what is going on in the show if you haven't read the book. Some events in the show are also significantly different from how they happened in the book. I have watched 2 episodes so far.

Kathi wrote: "Bill wrote: " Today must be the day to check out Altered Carbon on netflix."

We don’t subscribe to Netflix streaming, so I’ll be waiting to a month when we are going to be home more, join for a mo..."

Huh, I kind of liked the first book in the Kovac's series. I am interested. But at the same time, I tend to prefer avoiding movie/tv versions of books I've liked.

I'm torn.

Random wrote: "But at the same time, I tend to prefer avoiding movie/tv versions of books I've liked."

As long as I don’t expect one to closely resemble the other, I’m OK.

I’m reading WAKING GODS by Sylvain Neuvel.

Just finished THE LONG SUNSET by Jack McDevitt, a new book in the long-running THE ACADEJY series.

Dark Side of the Moon by Jeramey Kraatz

I started Night of the Triffids (British Fantasy Award winner for Best Novel (2002)) and sequel to Day of the Triffids on which several movies have been based.

I just finished a memoir, Parched: A Memoir, which was okay, and next time I sit down to read I'm plunging in to Babylon's Ashes.

The Winter Olympics are distracting me from reading—I can read magazines with the TV on, but not a book, so I am getting behind. Still have about 20% of The Desert Spear to finish for a different group, and then I’ll be ready to start Babylon's Ashes, probably not in time for the beginning of our discussion.

Schooled in Magic by Christopher G. Nuttall

Finished Children of Time last night. Started Babylon's Ashes this morning.

I finished Blood and Fire (Star Wolf, #4) by [author:David Gerrold}, a fun space adventure which would make a fun movie.

I finished A Skinful of Shadows which I enjoyed and recommend; I am now reading Autonomous

Just started that Christine. Got stuck on a few recently and needed something dependably good!

Forging Hephaestus by Drew Hayes

I finished reading Murder by Munchausen by M.T. Bass (Murder by Munchausen Mysteries Book #1). I am reading Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection by Brandon Sanderson (Stormlight Archive 2.5). I plan to read The Darknet: Murder by Munchausen Future Crime Mystery by M.T. Bass (Murder by Munchausen Mysteries Book #2) next.

I finished Autonomous which I greatly enjoyed; now on vacation so am reading what is available from the library's digital collection. I've started Redshirts

This month I've finished:
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (great but a little bit preaching to the choir),
Athena's Daughters, Vol. 1 (short story collection that was hit or miss with quality), and
Green Arrow: The Longbow Hunters (excellent).

I'm making progress on Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence, and Time Traveled Tales.

And if Amazon will hurry up and deliver, I'll get a chance to start Green Arrow, Vol. 1: Hunters Moon and White Sand Volume 2.

I finished Redshirts which I greatly enjoyed and highly recommend. If you read the review on this site, you'll miss out on the "AHA" moment about 1/4-1/3 of the way through the book. Now I'm reading off topic: Compulsion

I finished Babylon's Ashes and picked up Written in Red - I have been meaning to read Anne Bishop for a long time, and I got the book in a book exchange. I ripped through almost half of it in one day! Will definitely be picking up the rest of the series :)

Besides _Children of Earth_, I read Rivers Solomon's An Unkindness of Ghosts, which was original and intriguing--a Noah's ark / slave spaceship story. I just joined Beyond Reality recently, so I'm also looking back at the lists from previous months to consider what else I might read. I'm also starting John Scalzi's The Collapsing Empire, which has been good so far.

I finished Compulsion and am starting Zeroboxer; not sure about this book since I have little knowledge of boxing and really don't like the sport.

I am about 200 pages into Babylon's Ashes and finding less reading time than I thought on my vacation—kayaking, snorkeling, beach time—but I have a 3 Hour plane trip tomorrow that should get me further.

I didn't exactly follow my plan. Here is what I read this month.

The Prefect
Open and Shut
The Vital Abyss
The City & the City
Babylon's Ashes
and half done Robots and Empire

I finished and loved Written in Red - so much fun!