[nesfa-reading-group] Next reads?
Boogalouis
boogalouis at gmail.com
Sat Jul 13 14:03:01 EDT 2019
I’ll be creating an online poll, hopefully Monday, for us to use fot our voting process. Anyone else with suggestions, including ones not already suggested, please send them in.
Louis
The bastard child of absurdity and the sublime
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> On Jul 13, 2019, at 12:33 PM, Wes Brodsky <WesBrodsky at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Hello Everybody;
>
> My preferences:
> Robinson,Kim Stanley 2018 Red Moon
> Corey,James S. A. 2011 Leviathan Wakes
> Gladstone,Max 2019 Empress of Forever
> Gaiman+Pratchett 1990 Good Omens
> Bear,Elizabeth 2019 Ancestral Night
> Ellison,Harlan 1975 Deathbird Stories
> Valente,Catherynne M. 2018 Space Opera
> Watts,Peter 1999 Starfish
>
>
> Wes
>
> From: reading-group [mailto:reading-group-bounces at lists.nesfa.org] On Behalf Of James Boggie
> Sent: Friday, July 12, 2019 11:30 AM
> To: NESFA Reading Group
> Subject: Re: [nesfa-reading-group] Next reads?
>
> Hello all,
>
> I am very interested in Consider Phlebas, Red Moon, and Red Rising. Lovecraft Country is cool too. I would try Jade City, mostly because I like Fonda Lee. I am not especially interested in any of the other books.
>
> James
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 12, 2019, 9:42 AM David G. Grubbs <dggrubbs at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was looking at the lists of books we've read and realized that we haven't had that online discussion about what to read for September.
>
> We had a long list, but I think we should read Jade City by Fonda Lee. It won the World Fantasy award two years ago and was near the top for the Nebula and the Locus awards.
>
> It is described as "The Godfather with magic and kung fu". I gotta read it, so maybe we can all read it.
>
> I took the list we discussed last week, added all the other suggestions we haven't read from the previous two times we chose books and tossed the ones we have read. The rest fall into these categories:
>
> I also wouldn't mind reading:
> Lyons,Jenn 2017 The Ruin of Kings
> Robinson,Kim Stanley 2018 Red Moon
> Brown,Pierce 2014 Red Rising
> Corey,James S. A. 2011 Leviathan Wakes
> Gladstone,Max 2019 Empress of Forever
>
> Wouldn't complain about, but not as interested:
> Novik,Naomi 2018 Spinning Silver
> Gaiman+Pratchett 1990 Good Omens
> Bear,Elizabeth 2019 Ancestral Night
> Morgan,Richard K. 2018 Thin Air (Though I'd want to read "Black Man" first.)
> Faber,Michel 2000 Under the Skin
> Hand,Elizabeth 2019 Curious Toys
> Ellison,Harlan 1975 Deathbird Stories
> Matheson,Richard 2019 Other Kingdoms
> Valente,Catherynne M. 2018 Space Opera
> Watts,Peter 2018 The Freeze-Frame Revolution
> Watts,Peter 1999 Starfish
>
> I don't care about these. Maybe others do, but I would give them down votes:
> Piserchia,Doris 1977 Earthchild
> Ruff,Matt 2016 Lovecraft Country
> Griffith,Nicola 1993 Ammonite
>
> Of the ones we discussed, I have already read these and don't want to read them again:
> Doctorow,Cory 2017 Walkaway
> Watts,Peter 2006 Blindsight
> Banks,Iain M. 1987 Consider Phlebas
> Egan,Greg 1992 Quarantine
>
> Of the ones we discussed -- I will read these soon for the other book club:
> Roanhorse,Rebecca 2018 Trail of Lightning
> Bujold,Lois McMaster 2001 The Curse of Chalion
> Okorafor,Nnedi 2015 Binti
> Wells,Martha 2017 All Systems Red
>
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