06-27-2013, 08:17 PM | #16996 |
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I just started Flowers for algernon today. Great book so far.
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06-28-2013, 01:11 PM | #16997 |
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I've begun to read The Glorious Cause by Robert Middlekauff. It is a history of the American Revolutionary War. I have actually tried to read this before in paperback but the e-version is less of a hassle to carry around.
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06-28-2013, 01:39 PM | #16998 |
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I finished American Gods by Neil Gaiman. Nice. I enjoyed that.
I started Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card and am enjoying that too. I'm looking forward to Player One: What is to Become of Us? by Douglas Coupland and Small Gods by Terry Pratchett. |
06-28-2013, 03:34 PM | #16999 | |
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I am going to read The End - Visions of Apocalypse edited by N.E. White. I read the Hugh Howey short from this earlier this year and thought I should finish it now. |
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06-28-2013, 07:13 PM | #17000 |
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Just finished Harbinger by David Mack. The first in the original Star Trek's Vanguard series.This book is mostly background info and character introduction. There's not much action but it does have enough mystery and intrigue to set the reader up for the next in the series. Several minor plot lines that involve interpersonal relationships add to the sci-fi theme. I believe there is eight titles in this series. I purchased the second with a 75% Kobo code but will read something else first. Grade C- [2 stars].
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06-29-2013, 04:38 AM | #17001 | |
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06-29-2013, 04:47 AM | #17002 | |
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I should note that both books have ended at logical places in the story, not at a cliff-hanger. A very good way to do a trilogy, not just one story split into three books. Next up: Transvergence by Charles Sheffield. The second omnibus in his "Heritage Universe" series, comprising books 3 and 4, Transcendence and Convergence. I bought this back in October 2002, so it's possible I've already read it. I did read the first omnibus some years ago. I don't think the novels are tightly linked, so I'll just plunge straight in. |
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06-29-2013, 08:11 AM | #17003 |
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I'm currently reading "Dragonne's Eg" by Mary Brown. This is one I bought in Jan 2000, and is part of my ongoing quest to catch up on all my old Baen Webscription purchases.
"Dragonne's Eg" is a fantasy set in Victorian times. A genteel but impoverished English schoolteacher is surprised to find that her uncle, a famous archaeologist, has left his house to her in his will, on the condition that she undertakes a quest to return a strange artifact, rumoured to be a dragon's egg, to its place of origin. About a quarter of the way through so far, and thoroughly enjoying it. |
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06-29-2013, 12:54 PM | #17005 | |
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Carolyn Keene (Mildred Wirt Benson) & Kerry Greenwood
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I really liked Cocaine Blues and decided by the end I was going to continue with the series. Calibre's 'get books' feature found a good deal on a bundle of the first 6 books in the series (it was a good deal even though I already had book one [free from Amazon]) at Diesel Books for $17.16. So now on to Mystery at the Ski Jump (Nancy Drew #29) by Carolyn Keene and Flying Too High (Phryne Fisher #2) by Kerry Greenwood |
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06-29-2013, 01:25 PM | #17006 |
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Just started Legend, the first book in the Legend trilogy by Marie Lu.
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06-29-2013, 01:47 PM | #17007 | |
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Love Kerry Greenwood. I se to have read all of them so started to reread. I have just finished Jane Gardam's Old Filth trilogy (not mystery thrillers): Old Filth, The Man in the Wooden Hat, Last Friends - great stuff - and now for a change of pace Robert Crais's hardboiled thriller The Monkey's Raincoat. |
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06-29-2013, 02:14 PM | #17008 | |
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06-29-2013, 07:41 PM | #17009 |
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I finished Stanley Weintraub's Final Victory about FDR's last election campaign. I would have liked more coverage of how Dewey got the Republican nomination. As usual, Weintraub's narrative style was very readable, but I didn't feel that it was on the par of Long day's Journey Into War.
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06-29-2013, 09:24 PM | #17010 |
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I am reading American Gun: A History of the U.S. in Ten Firearms by Chris Kyle. It is an enjoyable read for me.
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