January Reading

[mekare]

Whew the first month of the year has passed the midway mark already! What have you been reading? Or what are you planning on reading this month? Is anyone interested in a February group read?

I finished two books I started last year: Jin Yong‘s Legend of the Condor Heroes and an audiobook of a German columnist. So all in all a pretty good start!

Comments

[luvbarryfefe]

I would love to do a February group read. So far this year, I've read several YA novels, including the classic mystery, I Know What You Did Last Summer by Lois Duncan. I can say this is the rare time when I actually prefer *the movie* lol

[fred_mouse]

I'm in for a February group read. I've been mostly reading library books; I discovered a local mystery/crime writer late last year, and now I'm working through their first series, from the late 1990s (ish). The first one is very much showing its age; I'm a couple of chapters into the second one. I've finished two books, but I can't actually remember what either of them are right now - I'd have to go look up what they are. I'm also attempting to get through Gideon the Ninth again, although I've only made it through a couple of chapters in as many weeks.

[kalloway]

I'm down for a February group read! I've gotten so many new books recently. ^^;;

[bearshorty]

I finished three Penric and Desdemona novellas by Lois McMaster Bujold- the travel ones. It was fun. Now I'm on a Hugo winning Downbelow Station but I think I just want something lighter.

[rekishi]

I read the Teixcalaan duology and the Peter S Beagle book released last year about a dragon exterminator. So three! And some fanfic.

[illariy]

Ooooh, yes, I am 100% in on a February group read.

Congrats on finishing two books! I would love to hear which audiobook that was and if you would recommend it. I am German and would like to read/listen to more German books so it is not a problem if it is in German.

In fact, the last book I finished this week was "Schmelzpunkt" (literal translation: melting point but I don't think it has been translated yet) by German author Wolf Harlander. It was a thriller or near future sf about the climate crisis and dead animals showing up in the arctic. It was fun to have a Inuk protagonist for once but I don't know how accurate the portrayal of life there was, given that the author is German. I think the author's book "42 Grad" (42 degress Celsius) was much stronger so I wouldn't necessarily recommend this one but it's not bad or anything.

Now I have only 4 books left in my physical TBR pile of books I bought, 1 of which is for uni, 1 is for work, 1 is a crafting book and 1 is a signed memoir from a Holocaust survivor for which I am not in the right state of mind to read it. This means I am going to allow myself to finally buy the "Dune" gateway collection by Frank Herbert on Kindle, which I have been planning to do since November 2021. I have the first book in paperback but no more space to get the others as physical books. Can't wait to read more in that universe! :D :D :D I am still waiting for a belated Christmas gift card to come in till I buy the book. If that takes longer, I am going to start reading any book on my "free" physical TBR just to see if I can declutter anything after reading or DNF a book.