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Originally Posted by shootingMaNs
Things have finally calmed down to the "hurry up and wait" stage around here, and I got a lot of reading done. I read and loved John Scalzi's Old Mans War, The Ghost Brigade, and The Last Colony. I then re-read The Forever War by Joe Haldeman(with an interesting forward by John Scalzi). I then moved on to Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein, and Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card.
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I have John Scalzi's book 1 and 3 in paper and haven't picked up book 2 yet. I loved the story and their "brain-pals". I am trying to wait and not read book 3 until I find
The Ghost Brigade (in paper) and read it. Have you read Scalzi's Agent to the Stars?
I'm still finishing up the loaned-to-me paper version of Henning Mankell's The Fifth Woman, about 650 pages. It is a slowing moving thriller and I had trouble staying with it. I think if I had had more time for a length days, I would have really enjoyed the investigation by Swedish Inspector Wallander. It reminds me of the detective stories of Dutch author Baantjer and his books using Amsteram Police Detective-Inspector DeKok and his "side-kick" Vledder.