03-14-2011, 06:04 PM | #8626 |
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Finished Elizabeth Peters' Borrower of the Night, 1st in the Vicky Bliss series which was a rather good read.
Though it started off somewhat slowly (at certain points I was pretty blank on exactly what the characters were doing and why because I'd vaguely skimmed the library catalogue blurb and couldn't remember what the book was supposed to be about) it did pick up and become a quite entertaining untangling the aristocratic family mystery/historical treasure hunt novel. It was almost a non-murder mystery, which was fairly refreshing, given that I was expecting the characters to trip over and/or provide freshly-killed corpses every few chapters the way that most mysteries consider de rigueur*. Fun enough for me to pick up the other books from the library (I currently have 2 more out and will shortly figure out which comes where in the series, something that HC has not seen fit to print in the front of the book, so I guess I'll be comparing copyright dates). I should mention that the PDF e-book edition of this had a small number of typos, which must be rather irritating for people who paid for that version and can't fix them short of copy-pasting hand-assembed replacement images of the "corrected" text on top of the mistakes. Incidentally, this seems to mark the halfway mark for the 100 books in 2011 challenge for me. The list says it's #50 of the new reads (re-reads I mark with roman numerals or alphabetical suffixes, depending on whether I do them in paper or e-). * Some authors seem to think that the sleuthiness of their sleuth is judged by the size of his/her inadvertent body count. Bonus points if extra people were killed because they were getting too close to the truth. Doubleplus bonus points if the killer who seems about to get away with it all due to a lack of concrete evidence is accidentally killed by the sleuth who's just figured everything out and stupidly gone to accuse the killer without proper backup while the killer is trying to kill the sleuth to get rid of the final piece of evidence. Last edited by ATDrake; 03-14-2011 at 06:06 PM. Reason: 50th book of the year. |
03-14-2011, 11:29 PM | #8627 |
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I stayed up late yesterday to finish Riyria Revelations' first book. 2am. and I'm definitely going to the next one in the series love it, Iridal
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Borrower of the Night Street of the Five Moons Silhouette in Scarlet Trojan Gold Night Train to Memphis (there's a story about the song in this one...ask me when you get to it and I'll explain.) The Laughter of Dead Kings. |
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03-15-2011, 05:26 AM | #8629 | |
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03-15-2011, 06:09 AM | #8630 |
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03-15-2011, 06:14 AM | #8631 | |
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Next, another from the October 2010 webscription: Monster Hunter Vendetta by Larry Correia This is his second novel, following on from Monster Hunter International. I enjoyed the first, and hope the second is equally enjoyable. Last edited by pdurrant; 03-16-2011 at 05:43 AM. |
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03-15-2011, 06:19 AM | #8632 | |
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The Hunger Games was superb! I'm going to start the next one in the series (Catching Fire) tonight. |
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03-15-2011, 08:46 AM | #8633 |
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Having enjoyed Aldiss's Greybeard (see here http://sfaddict.blogspot.com/2011/03...oud-beard.html I'm going to read a similar book by J.G.Ballard, The Wind from Nowhere, his debut novel from 1962!
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03-15-2011, 09:16 AM | #8634 |
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Finally getting around to reading The Long Ships by Frans G. Bengtsson.
Here's a review by Michael Chabon: http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2...he-long-ships/ |
03-15-2011, 09:56 AM | #8635 |
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Started a short(ish) story by Ted Chiang - The Lifecycle of Software Objects.
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03-15-2011, 10:05 AM | #8636 |
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With more of the classic mystery titles finally acquiring (legitimate) ebook versions, I've been indulging in Ellery Queen, John Dickson Carr, and Elizabeth Ferrars. And marveling continuously at these authors' command of language, and the breadth of their vocabulary (I've changed my Kindle default dictionary to the Chambers Dictionary - has much more coverage of older British & Scottish vocabulary and idioms)
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03-15-2011, 10:20 AM | #8637 | |
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I just finished Agatha Christie's Mysterious Affair at Styles. Surprising things that lady could do to plots! It was a quick but engrossing read. Last edited by januaryman; 03-15-2011 at 10:23 AM. |
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03-15-2011, 11:18 AM | #8638 | |
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I'm reading "Rats Saw God" (in p-book) by Rob Thomas. I had high hopes for this book, as I LOVE Thomas' t.v. series Veronica Mars and Party Down. So, far, it is not disappointing! |
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03-15-2011, 11:40 AM | #8639 |
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Finished The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society this morning. A quick read and a delightful book. It's a shame it's author didn't live to see how enthusiastically the reading world received her book.
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03-15-2011, 11:51 AM | #8640 | |
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I LOVE that series. Remains one of my favorites!!! |
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