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

[John F]

I'm on the last book of The Wheel of Time.

[PurpleStar]

Originally Posted by John F

I'm on the last book of The Wheel of Time.

Congrats! I've still only re-read the first four books.

[CRussel]

Originally Posted by CRussel

Well, that was fun. Ridiculous, but fun. On to another book from this month's Baen Bundle - Eight Million Gods. I read this when it originally released, but it was a loan, so I was glad to pick up a copy in the bundle. And it's time for a re-read.

Devoured. And enjoyed. Ms. Spencer has a very weird mind sometimes, but I quite enjoy her books.

Also, read The Martian based on recommendations here. And enjoyed it quite a bit. Thanks!

[Crusader]

Originally Posted by missimpossible

Hey, thanks for this! I just finished The Shining Girls and I didn't know anything about Beukes' other works. I'm pretty tempted to check this out! I liked The Shining Girls a lot, though there were some aspect I think could have been done better (thought the ending was a little abrupt).

I really enjoyed it. Like The Shining Girls this one had me hooked and had so much to contemplate. The supernatural aspect isn't explored to the depth I'd like and leaves quite a few questions, but that's something I enjoy in her work.

[HarryT]

Just finished "Dead Man's Folly" by Agatha Christie. This was her 58th book, and was originally published in 1956.

Famed crime novelist Ariadne Oliver is invited to plan a "Murder Hunt" at a stately home in the SW of England. She is uneasy about the situation she discovers there, and asks her old friend Hercule Poirot for help. Despite Poirot's presence, the murder soon becomes real, and Poirot investigates.

Not one of Christie's better books, to my mind. It's all a bit of a caricature of an "English Country House" murder and really didn't work for me.

[FinancialWar]

Just finished Fifty Shades of Grey Audiobook. My first I finished in years. No time to read, only have time to listen.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Next up: Curse of the Pharoahs by Elizabeth Peters. The second in the Amelia Peabody series, which I picked up cheaply in January this year.

Which was fun, especially when one knows what's next door to the tomb they're excavating.

(BTW, I read Eight Million Gods a while back and really enjoyed it too.)

Next up: My most recent purchase (I think): Neptune's Brood by Charles Stross. Set in his Saturn's Children universe. Looking very good so far.

[alansplace]

Originally Posted by alansplace

I've finally finished reading Inamorata. The premis was quite interesting but it took 75% to 80% of the book to get to the interesting/exciting part. It seemed to me that it was a short story that had been padded and stretched into a novel.

There's a movie called The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants that's recently been playing on several of my cable movie channels. So I've decided to read the book it was based on, Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Sisterhood #1) by Ann Brashares.

Originally Posted by alansplace

Just after I started reading Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (just 10% read), I received an email announcing the release of "Second Suicide: A Short Story by Hugh Howey". So I invested the 99 cents at Amazon and got a copy. It was well worth the minimal expense and the interruption to read it. In fact I'd like to see Hugh expand it into a novel.

Now back to Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants!

I completed reading Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and was highly entertained by it. Like most books I've read that have a movie that has been based on them, the original book far outshines the resulting movie. That's not saying that the movie is not good (the one based on this book certainly was), just that the book is almost always much better, as was the novel Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.

Now on to another novel, but I've not yet decided which book on my TBR list to start reading next.

[Yapyap]

Originally Posted by Yapyap

And now, since I have some catching up to do after a month of little reading time, I'm going for a double in my this year's sub-challenges (two of which were "read at least 12 paper books" and "read at least 12 Doctor Who books") and I'm reading a paperback of Dan Abnett's The Silent Stars Go By, an Eleventh Doctor, Amy & Rory adventure. Enjoying it a great deal so far.

And continued enjoying The Silent Stars Go By. Very definitely my favourite Eleventh Doctor adventure I've read so far, and one that cements my realisation that while I gave up watching New!Who mid-season six due to not caring about the season arcs and a lot of what was going on on-screen, my problems didn't stem with Eleven or his core team and I can still read and enjoy their written adventures.

After that, I read The Outlaw Demon Wails (sixth in Kim Harrison's The Hollows series) and .... well, with this book, I can finally say I'm really glad I've persisted with the series even through all the things I disliked. My favourite book in the series so far and one that gives me hope for the remaining ones. Even if it did still have too many epithets ("the young-seeming elf", "the scarred man", "the uncomfortable man", "the older rock star" all in a matter of a few pages, to refer to people we've known by name for 4-6 books and whom the first-person narrator is familiar with ... urgh, no, please).

Last night I started Heaven's Queen by Rachel Bach, the third (and, I believe, last book in the Paradox series/trilogy). I enjoyed the first two books a great deal although the second left me with some doubts as to whether I will like the third one, but so far, so good.

[Rev. Bob]

Having finished (and thoroughly enjoyed) Tom Holt's latest, I'm starting the eighth of Simon R. Green's "Secret Histories" (aka "Drood") books, Property of a Lady Faire. From there, I'm torn. Do I proceed to his short story collection, stay in the same vein with Jim Butcher's Skin Game, or veer off onto Sparrow Hill Lane with Seanan McGuire?

Decisions, decisions...

[Rumpelteazer]

I'm currently reading "Shadows of Night" by Deborah Harkness, the second book in her All Hallows trilogy. I'm only about 35% in, but I like it so far.

However, I can understand the mixed reviews. The travel back in time so Diana (one of the two main characters) can learn how to be a witch has yet to happen after a third of the book. Also the search for the book Diana and Matthew are after hasn't continued, which was another reason to travel back in time. From the description it seems this book has another quest and will return to the original one in the final book.

I do like this book, but I also wish Harkness would have stuck with one quest. I hope Diana and Matthew are able to do in the past what they set out to do.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Next up: My most recent purchase (I think): Neptune's Brood by Charles Stross. Set in his Saturn's Children universe.

Still looking very good, but now I'm also reading a loaned paperback: Don't Panic by Neil Gaiman (2002 edition), about Douglas Adams and The HitchHikers' Guide to the Galaxy.

[ccowie]

Finished The Rise and Fall of Great Powers by Tom Rachman. What a fabulous book! This book was brilliant in every way; great characters, smartly written, no loose ends. A very very good book I'd recommend to anyone.

[orlok]

Originally Posted by alansplace

...I received an email announcing the release of "Second Suicide: A Short Story by Hugh Howey". So I invested the 99 cents at Amazon and got a copy. It was well worth the minimal expense and the interruption to read it. In fact I'd like to see Hugh expand it into a novel.

Thanks for the heads up . Just bought it for 77 pence from Amazon UK.

[BelleZora]

I finished Tom Holt's Lucia in Wartime, a continuation of E.F. Benson's Mapp & Lucia series. I absolutely loved it. He captured the characters wonderfully and it was delight to return to the village of Tilling.