Fantasy books, stories, ＆c

I've just finished "The Sparrow" by Mary Doria Russell. A sci-fi story where it's the Jesuits who are sending the first mission to contact an alien species. It was a really great book, some of the best sci-fi I've read in recent years. The author really knows how to write great characters you care about, despite the fact that you know it'll all end in disaster from the very beginning.

I've now started "Gardens of the Moon", the first book of the "Malazan Book of the Fallen" series. The series is somewhat infamous for being very complicated and difficult to read, so we'll see how it goes. The author definitely likes to use some very obscure vocabulary, good thing I have an ebook reader with a built-in dictionary.