What Are You Reading/Looking Forward To?

[lea_hazel]

What are you reading right now?

What upcoming books are you looking forward to, and when do you plan on getting/reading them?


What I'm reading right now has nothing to do with fantasy, although just recently I finished the first two books of a trilogy based on Mesopotamian mythology. Hebrew-language fantasy is rather thin on the ground, what with the tiny market and all, but I really hope someone picks these books up for translation. Among the flurry of popular mythologies for English-language fantasy, the ancient Middle East is pretty far from sight. You will occasionally find a contemporary fantasy with a Djinn or so in it, but not much more.

At the top of my to-read pile are a bunch of non-fantasy books that have been sitting on my shelf for ages, but at the end of this semester I'm buying a bunch of new books, and probably at least half of them will be fantasy. I'm very looking forward to Acacia, an epic/political fantasy that received rave reviews from all my favorite bloggers. A billion people or so have plugged Marjorie Liu's contemporaries, so I'm finally picking up the first book of her Dirk & Steele series (see above, Djinn). And, of course, there's a new Jacqueline Carey and a new Robin Hobb, both of which I'm waiting on the paperback for.

Those are just the top of the list. There's a whole bunch of other fantasy on my radar. As you might be able to tell, I'm actively trying to expand my horizon.


ETA: I forgot to ask: Does anyone know of a community for mystery/detective books on DW? I searched the interests and checked the comm promotions, but couldn't find anything.

Comments

[rydra_wong]

I just finished The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms! I wolfed it down within two days, and that was only because I was being very dutiful about not fucking up my sleep patterns by staying up all night to read.

I'm still trying to decide whether some elements of the plot worked for me, but I enjoyed it hugely and most of it worked liek whoa. The worldbuilding's excellent and I loved the protagonist, not to mention various things which I will not mention for reasons of spoilage. I wouldn't hesitate to rec it.

[starlady]

Everyone I know who read it seems to have liked it a lot; I am one chapter in and quite happy so far. I've really enjoyed her short stories already.

[ex_pippin880]

I started reading THTK because of the comments in this thread. I am halfway through and I gotta say, it has got a lot to make up in a short amount of time to stop me wanting to punch the book in the face.

Why would I want to end this amazingly fun roll of being-given-debut-novels-and-getting-very-angry-at-the-awesome-potential-made-boring, though! I mean, I do so much love getting (riled) up every ten minutes to go "THE SHITPLOTOCALYPSE IS BACK". :|

Why am I so fussy and bitter aaaaaaaah.