Time to update our list!

Currently reading:

• Homestuck by Andrew Hussie (at its home site)
• Paranatural by Zack Morrison (at its home site)
• the Lone Wolf series of second-person adventure novels (AKA "game books") by Joe Dever (ebook format available for free from Project Aon (also in Spanish and Italian) -- currently on book 2, Fire on the Water)
• the My Little Pony comic series by various artists and writers (digital comic format snagged from the Humble Book Bundle a few days back)
• The War of the Wheel by RavenoftheBlack (posted in the M:EM)

Not actively reading but still in the middle of somewhere:

• American Gods by Neil Gaiman (paperback)
• The Warlord's Legacy by Ari Marmell (paperback)
• V for Vendetta by several people (digital comic on Comixology)
• Dracula by Bram Stoker (free ebook through Project Gutenberg)
• The Icewind Dale Trilogy by R.A. Salvatore (paperback compilation thingy {all three books as one})
• Twokinds by Tom Fischbach apparently? (at its home site)

EDIT: I should ask: should I be including the unfinished things which I read as more of it comes out, like the aforementioned Homestuck and Paranatural? If yes, then there's probably a few other things I could include; if no, then I'll need to take some of those things out of my list.

Started reading 12 Clocks bc Neil Gaiman recommended it, but it's not as fun as I thought it would be. Considering it probably takes 45 minutes to read and I've put it down several times, not sure if I'm going to finish.

I reread Stormfront over the holiday and thoroughly enjoyed it, especially seeing characters and their interactions from 14 years ago while knowing how they interact today.

Started The Magicians on Sunday, and I think it's the best urban fantasy I've read so far.

Finally started on Dresden Files - Skin Game. The second Rider book took me forever to finish, since practically the only time I've had the energy to read for fun lately is on the bus between school & home.

Love, love, love the Dresden files. Skin Game is, in my opinion, the second best in the series behind only Changes.

Last time I said I was reading Godel Escher Bach, but I was feeling sick and wasn't in the mood for anything deep so I switched to the last Wheel of Time book. Finished that (pretty good) now back to GEB. I also read a ton of SCPs in the meantime.

Is that the same SCPs I'm thinking of? Because if so you have chosen a worthy way to while away your time.

It is indeed my good dragon. I'm rather fond of Ronald Reagan getting cut up*.

*And if that sentence isn't a perfect hook to get people to check out SCPs I don't know what is.

I've got a couple of friends who read a fair amount of SCPs. I've had it on my favs, but as often as I'm on a computer, I don't like doing extended reading on one.

Just finished Charlie Stross's Merchant Princes series. The premise is that long ago a guy discovered that by staring at a particular knotwork design, he could move himself and anything he was carrying to a parallel universe, and repeating in the other universe would bring him back. His children used this (hereditary) ability to build a secretive cross-universe mercantile empire -- in our universe they traffic in drugs due to the high value/weight ratio, while the other got stuck in the Dark Ages and so fast communication and penicillin are priceless. (The plot and writing are really well-done, to be sure, but the setting and premise are the best parts, to me.)

Next up is a re-read of Worm, an absolutely fantastic apocalyptic superhero web serial. In all seriousness it's quite possibly one of the best things I've ever read.

Finally got around to reading Ready Player One. I'm about halfway through right now, and really enjoying it.

~SE++

On my list, but it keeps getting knocked back because I forget about it.

Heritage of Cyador

It's become one of my favorites to read again and again

On twitter I won some military science fiction trilogy called Andromeda's Fall, Choice, and War. It's OK. The story seems interesting, but the writer has this tendency to write in incomplete sentences. I think it's supposed to, like, give the book a terse, militaristic feel, but it's a little distracting because there's nothing pointing to why exactly it's being written like this, unlike scifi books like The Moon is a Harsh Mistress where how the story is being told is an important part of the story and you just kinda "get" it. I'll probably read the whole thing bc it was free though.

Friend of mine lent me a copy of that, for what it's worth I had the exact same reaction.

Some people can write near perfect dialogue and get away with that...frankly that is not an example of such. I finished the first book just because but didn't pick up any others.

This forum.

What a coincidence, me too! I wonder how many other people here a- oh.

A friend got me the Hyperbole and a Half book for Christmas (though we didn't exchange gifts until after the new year), and so now I've been reading through it and laughing most of the way.

I was liking Kafka on the shore until very close to the end. The end is definitively not good. And I feel I really liked only half of the story, and I dint care for the other half, but it is a different book and good enough.

Finishing now Persuader, a Jack Reacher novel, not one of the best.

I've been reading an abridged version of the Burton translation of the Arabian Nights, but I got some nice prospects for leisure reading over the holidays, notably...

The King in Yellow (The "Actual" play by Thom Ryng, not the collection of Chambers short stories, which I already had)
House of Leaves, by Mark Z. Danielewski
The Wanted Child, by Aneeka Richins

Not sure which to start with. King in Yellow, as a play, will probably be the fastest read.