I just finished "Shadowplay" by Tad Williams. Like most of his stuff, I like it, but it's highly abridgeable. You could cut it down by half and miss no plot whatsoever. Interesting characters, though, if you care to read about what they think and feel about anything and everything.
One thing I like about Williams is that you never have any idea which of his characters is going to live or die. He'll develop a character for a 1000 pages, then kill them off BAM without a single paragraph's forewarning or foreshadowing. That's kind of frustrating, but it's also realistic and it adds to the authentic feeling of his worlds.
I started reading "Zima Blue," a collection of short stories by Alasdair Reynolds. I'm about half done, and so far they're mostly bleh, except for "Zima Blue" itself, which is one of the coolest stories I have ever read. (Hopefully, it'll be featured on Escape Pod someday!)
My mother bought a copy of HP7, which will be passed around the family until everyone has read it. My turn will come eventually, but my wife has already read it, which will make the waiting just a bit more anxious.