Hugo awards announced then, eh. Best Novel list looks strong, though I haven't ready any of them yet. Novik and Chambers are both class though so will have to get to them soon.

Kernowgaz wrote:

Busy week for Mark Lawrence , One Word Kill our today( free on kindle if you have Amazon Prime or 99p if you sign up to Amazon First Reads ).

Also the last of his latest trilogy Holy Sister , really looking forward to that one.

One Word Kill is jolly fun.

Why did Amazon day I'll get it on 1 May? Is it out already? I'm confused.

Ah yeah I can read it, just the store giving a confusing message

On holiday. Have Norse Mythology (Gaiman) to finish off. Bought Child in Time (McEwan) and The Travelling Cat Chronicles (Hiro Arikawa), which looked interesting and it was buy a book and get another half price at the airport. 

I’ll probably only get through one book.

I just finished 3 body problem last week. Should get on part 2 then?

Vela wrote:

I just finished 3 body problem last week. Should get on part 2 then?

Yeah, the second book is brilliant. I've just started the final one.

acemuzzy wrote:

Finished Prince of Fools. Was kinda ok, but I hear the next two are better? And then I need a break from fantasy trilogies, and start reading some proper books...

What’s a ‘proper’ book? And what’s ‘improper’ about a fantasy trilogy?

hylian_elf wrote:

acemuzzy wrote:

Finished Prince of Fools. Was kinda ok, but I hear the next two are better? And then I need a break from fantasy trilogies, and start reading some proper books...

What’s a ‘proper’ book? And what’s ‘improper’ about a fantasy trilogy?

Why read about Tallowmen or magic or dragons or machiavellian hijinks when you can read about a man sad because of Brexit that's what I say hey hey.

Hope you are well, Elf. I still hate Sagat. X

Heh. I am well! Enjoying the sun in 29C heat in beautiful Mauritius. Reading Norse Mythology.

hylian_elf wrote:

acemuzzy wrote:

Finished Prince of Fools. Was kinda ok, but I hear the next two are better? And then I need a break from fantasy trilogies, and start reading some proper books...

What’s a ‘proper’ book? And what’s ‘improper’ about a fantasy trilogy?

Successfully triggered

Halfway through Children of Time and feel like it is starting to become a bit of a slog to read.

The constant switching between two stories and jumps in time just feel like the story never really gets a chance to take off or develop. Characters get dropped into certain situations, and you only have a couple of chapters to get familiar with it (same goes for the characters themselves), then it's onto the next. You never really get to know anyone, and it feels all very clinic (for lack of a better word).

I'll continue as I like the idea behind it but it takes a lot of my concentration to actually focus on the story and not let your mind wander onto something else.

Ive found it hard to get back into reading but this past 3 weeks Ive finished off Monkey, The Three Body Problem, and most recently The Remains of the Day. The latter being something I almost never read but it was a really nicely told story, painstakingly detailed by the main character.

I have a preorder down for the second part of Moby’s autobiography. Really looking forward to it.

The first part, Porcelain was one of the best things I read last year. I don’t usually go in for biographical books, just not my bag … but the Mrs bought me Porcelain for my birthday and it was outstanding. Moby’s no great author or anything, but his tone of voice is spot-on and his story is fascinating. He has a sort of bewilderment about the world around him, and it comes across beautifully. The book closes with the release of Play, and the upcoming second book is about how that world-shagging mega-hit album changed his (already pretty out there) life.

Nina wrote:

Halfway through Children of Time and feel like it is starting to become a bit of a slog to read. The constant switching between two stories and jumps in time just feel like the story never really gets a chance to take off or develop. Characters get dropped into certain situations, and you only have a couple of chapters to get familiar with it (same goes for the characters themselves), then it's onto the next. You never really get to know anyone, and it feels all very clinic (for lack of a better word). I'll continue as I like the idea behind it but it takes a lot of my concentration to actually focus on the story and not let your mind wander onto something else.

That jumping around can be offputting - but then that's used in a lot of stories - I found it annoying in Lord of The Rings. The generational thing with the spiders is more offputting - but once I bought into the fact that each new character introduced in the spider portion is the descendant of the previous section it knits it together better. It's a book of enormous scope and fitting in the advancement of the spiders requires lots of generations to pass in order to fit in with the science of the book.