Hey!! Let's get some action going! What are we reading?

[AlexGrama]

Originally Posted by alansplace

I Just finished re-reading Year 6, 'Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince' and tomorrow I'll begin re-reading Year 7, 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows'.

You make me thirsty for some wizardry. Daaammnn.

[Latinandgreek]

Originally Posted by AlexGrama

You make me thirsty for some wizardry. Daaammnn.

I was just thinking the same thing!

I'm re-reading 'Spring Snow' by Yukio Mishima. It's an old favourite. I've had a bad week, and re-reading old favourites is like comfort food to me. The beautiful prose never ceases to amaze me.

[alansplace]

Originally Posted by AlexGrama

You make me thirsty for some wizardry. Daaammnn.

Originally Posted by Latinandgreek

I was just thinking the same thing!

I'm re-reading 'Spring Snow' by Yukio Mishima. It's an old favourite. I've had a bad week, and re-reading old favourites is like comfort food to me. The beautiful prose never ceases to amaze me.

Kim Harrison (A Perfect Blood, book 10 in The Hollows series) and Jennifer Estep (By a Thread, book 6 in the Elemental Assassin series) both have February releases. They promise to be good reading while I'm waiting for Jim Butcher's 'Cold Days', book 14 of THe Dresden Files series to be released later this year.

[Latinandgreek]

Originally Posted by alansplace

Kim Harrison (A Perfect Blood, book 10 in The Hollows series) and Jennifer Estep (By a Thread, book 6 in the Elemental Assassin series) both have February releases. They promise to be good reading while I'm waiting for Jim Butcher's 'Cold Days', book 14 of THe Dresden Files series to be released later this year.

Thanks, I am always happy to get recommendations!

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Infected:Bloodlines by Andrea Speed

A good second book in the series. I liked this one too, though it's even more obviously an AIDS allegory in this book.

And I liked it so much I've gone straight onto:
Infected:Life After Death by Andrea Speed

[AlexGrama]

Originally Posted by Latinandgreek

I was just thinking the same thing!

I'm re-reading 'Spring Snow' by Yukio Mishima. It's an old favourite. I've had a bad week, and re-reading old favourites is like comfort food to me. The beautiful prose never ceases to amaze me.

In the end I bought Jim Dale's Harry Potter audiobooks. BTW, great listening.

I can't afford spending all that time re-reading HP again.

[alansplace]

Originally Posted by Latinandgreek

Thanks, I am always happy to get recommendations!

Okay, Patricia Briggs has new release in March, I think the 4th (if you count the original novella) of the Alpha and Omega series, 'Fair Game'.

[CRussel]

Originally Posted by AlexGrama

In the end I bought Jim Dale's Harry Potter audiobooks. BTW, great listening.

I can't afford spending all that time re-reading HP again.

Jim Dale's readings are excellent, if pricey.

[alansplace]

Originally Posted by AlexGrama

In the end I bought Jim Dale's Harry Potter audiobooks. BTW, great listening.

I can't afford spending all that time re-reading HP again.

Originally Posted by CRussel

Jim Dale's readings are excellent, if pricey.

Gee, I never realized that Jim Dale was British as well as not knowing that he reads the Potter audio books. Of course I don't own any audio books.

[orlok]

Don't you fellows get the Stephen Fry readings of the HP audiobooks?

[CRussel]

Originally Posted by alansplace

Gee, I never realized that Jim Dale was British as well as not knowing that he reads the Potter audio books. Of course I don't own any audio books.

I love audio books. Got hooked with Books on Tape when I had a 1 hour drive each way to work every day. Now I have no commute at all, but I still use audio books for workouts and swimming, and when I have to take a trip for business. Listening to a well read book is a different, but equally pleasurable experience to reading it, IME. But the quality of the reader is critical.

[alansplace]

Originally Posted by orlok

Don't you fellows get the Stephen Fry readings of the HP audiobooks?

I haven't purchased an audio book since the media they were on was cassette tapes.

Originally Posted by CRussel

I love audio books. Got hooked with Books on Tape when I had a 1 hour drive each way to work every day. Now I have no commute at all, but I still use audio books for workouts and swimming, and when I have to take a trip for business. Listening to a well read book is a different, but equally pleasurable experience to reading it, IME. But the quality of the reader is critical.

I really didn't like the ones I bought way back when. Too difficult to handle interruptions for one thing and not being read at the speed I'd prefer is another. Of course I don't commute any more either.

[CRussel]

Originally Posted by orlok

Don't you fellows get the Stephen Fry readings of the HP audiobooks?

Essentially no, though it is possible to do so. At Amazon.ca and at Amazon.com, they are not available directly, only from third party sellers. And quite expensive in all cases. But I've heard the Jim Dale version, and it's actually quite good, though I'd love to have the Stephen Fry version, if only because I love Stephen Fry and I'm sure he'd be an excellent reader.

[orlok]

Originally Posted by CRussel

Now I have no commute at all, but I still use audio books for workouts and swimming...,

HOW do you manage that?! Do you have a waterproof player?

Originally Posted by CRussel

But I've heard the Jim Dale version, and it's actually quite good, though I'd love to have the Stephen Fry version, if only because I love Stephen Fry and I'm sure he'd be an excellent reader.

They are very good, from what little I have heard. My eldest daughter has them all, and loved them to death. I'm quite surprised that they decided to have two different readers for the books. Maybe to allow for the differences in the UK and US versions (e.g. Philisopher's Stone vs. Sorcerer's Stone)?

[HarryT]

Just finished "Death at the Bar" by Ngaio Marsh, the 9th book in the "Inspector Alleyn" series. In this book, a prominent London barrister is murdered in a village pub while on holiday at a small fishing village in Devon with his cousin, a prominent actor, and other friend, an artist. Chief Inspector Alleyn is called in to investigate.

After my slight disappointment with the previous book in the series, "Overture to Death", "Death at the Bar", published in 1939, really comes up the highest standards again, in my view. The characters are interesting, and the twists and turns in the plot clever and unexpected. The identity of the killer had me guessing right up to the final "exposee", with some very clever misdirection and "red herrings".

One of the nicest things about this series is the ongoing character development across the series. This book in particular is where we see much more of the deep friendship that exists between Chief Inspector Alleyn and his "Watson", Inspector Fox.

Thoroughly recommended!