OK guize let's see. I was never waiting for this month just because of one thing! This school! OK studying is OK but these people have started our weekly tests! Moreover for me after enjoying these holidays it's difficult to come back on studies. That's my problem that whenever I start studying or going school after enjoyment in my holidays it's difficult for me to consontrate. It always takes a long time. I have not liked our new social teacher. She always make children do everything from the book which is quite frustrating sometimes. Other than that this month has been good for me.
After finishing the Sherlock holmes and Hary pottter series which I have liked the most I am not getting which book to start on. If someone knows of any interesting book then please tell me.
Today we are going out of Delhi to my ant's house hopefully I'll be able to study. Social test is sometimes a headache!
OK enough rambling! I know it was kinda long but... anyways. Hope You all will have a better April than me.

@Cito unfortunately WoT has scheming all the way through, though as I said it is less interesting in books 6-10 because the plot stops moving forward. Game of thrones is a rather different beast because there each faction is scheming against each other and usually amazingly nasty stuff happens.
My lady actually finds Martin a bit too! grim, just in terms of pretty much anyone nice in the series winding up very dead, I will say having read some of Martin's other fiction that he does have a liking for really grim and dismal, though occasionally tragically beautiful endings.

One disagreement we always have is I wish Jordan had actually killed more! character simply because he keeps on introducing people to the point I didn't care about many of them, and my lady thinks Martin kills off too many people .

@vaibhavbhandari, we've got several topics about book recommendations kicking around in the offtopic room, so feel free  ask in one of those or indeed post a new one. Heck I write reviews myself so I'm always up for discussing book recommendations, though manifestly its difficult to recommend something without being %100 sure of what you might like or might be looking for, though amusingly enough if you enjoy Harry potter and Sherlock Holmes you might try the October Daye series by Seanon Mcguire, since those are about a half fae detective in San Francisco, and are extremely good.
There is also the Dresden files series by Jim Butcher which are about a wizard who is a detective in chicago, though those are more action and imho not as good as Mcguire's stuff, though fun for a quick blast.

As for me on friday I got some of my poetry publically performed and people are talking about publication. The performance was sort of interesting, since I had to take some recordings I've previously made of my poetry and a set of external speakers and play them through my victor stream which was sort of interesting.  I've also been invited to join a writer's group which was rather nice, so hopefully things might be moving forward a little bit in  of what I want to do with my life general post phd, although that seems like a long way off at the moment .

Hope things pick up for you Orko.

I've heard good things about the iron druid books, but I'm a little wary of what I've heard about all the action and "badassery" to quote one review.
The last urban fantasy I tried was richard cadry's sandman slim novels, which, despite a few interesting concepts featured a main character who was sassy to the point of being so bloody obnoxious I frankly wanted to see him lose, and plots which were mainly excuses to go from big action set piece to big action set piece with about as much description as a hollywood shooting script, I'm a little wary of any urban fantasy that doesn't bill itself  having actual characters rather than collections of quips and anxt, since if you've seen one overpowered idiot arsehole his way through every bad guy in a forceably nihilistic world with a confident quip on his lips and a supposedly tragic past, you've seen them all .

that's why I like Seanon McGuire's stuff, she actually writes characters you can like who aren't just endlessly arsy, and also characters who actually grow and change and aren't covered in guilt all the time.

As regards Dresden, I sort of view them as fun, but yes, they did get a bit much towards the end. Dresden himself rather irritated me, firstly for being what my brother dubbed "the winy wizard" since honestly he spends so much time complaining about himself its not funny! then for the fact  everything seemed overpowered,  Dresden himself.

by the time he'd become the half divine faery demon powered angelic wizard of shape changing legendary guardianness, my interest was waning, it was sort of like watching power rangers, that quite aside from either Dresden or Jim butcher's constant sexism, ---- someone getting murdered, that's terrible, women! are getting murdered oh no! where is a man to protect them!
And the less said about his, aahm, friend who he absolutely does not have romantic feelings towards at all Karin murfy the better .

Interestingly enough I did have a conversation about the sexism with my Russian friend, who is probably the least sterriotypical woman you can  is a black belt in karate, does several other martial arts and whacks people with a broad sword and who's usual atittude to out and out sexism is to want to hit it many times!
She thought the comments were more butcher being tongue in cheek at Dresden's attitude than expressing an authorial opinion, though with the number of scantily clad women and ocasional moments of damselism I'm not sure.

All That being said there were a lot of things I liked in Dresden, many of the secondary characters, and yee gods some of the antagonists (the black denarious just rock!). I also loved sir Michael, aka Ned flanders from the Simpsons as an avenging holy knight (I actually liked him far more than his daughter), and the group of tabletop rping werwolves! .

Also the political shenanigans and changes actually did! get  particularly interesting with the alterations in the fae court, and one thing I will say is butcher is one writer who can! write a well described action sequence.
I also would personally love a t shirt with "don't disturb the wizard while he's wizarding!" on it .

In general I tend to view the Dresden books as fluff. They're light, fun, have lots of things going boom and are a nice break from high tention stuff, though imho still not as good as Mcguire.Hmmm, at some point I might reread and review them.

Oh yeah and stuff about me, well not a lot other than a sleepless night (hence the verbosity), trying to write a review of the Conny Willis I just finished, and vaguely  games etc, plus having work to do this morning.

So same old really.