Holiday reads

[Ross Warren]

On my hols I read:

Silent Voices by Gary McMahon - His best novel to date IMO

Blood Ocean by Weston Ochse - Supreme prose but didn't really grab me and the characters were a little indistinct.

Wild Justice Edited by Ellen Datlow - Mixed bag of a themed antho with Michael Marshall Smith's story the standout.

The Acceptable Face of Tyrany by Gary Fry - Well written and inteligent creepiness from a consistently good proponent of the short form.

Osama by Lavie Tidhar - An exeptional novel that just engrossed from start to finish.

And half way through The Alchemist of Souls by Anne Lyle which I'm enjoying immensely

[Jason Whittle]

I've just finished reading Osama, and it's magnificent. Nowadays when I read it's always with a critical eye, and it's very rare for a novel to actually transport me into its world. Osama did that.

I was about fifty pages from the end when I went to a panel at Eastercon in which Lavie Tidhar was speaking; throughout it I was poised to clap my hands over my ears in case he revealed any spoilers!

[joemynhardt]

I'm reading Game of Thrones. Quite good so far. Can't even remember what I read the holidays. Going back to work yesterday made me forget all the nice things I did this holiday. Ugh.