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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Checking my read books on my Kindle, I notice I forgot to log one: A Second Chance by Jodi Taylor.
The third of her "Chronicles of St Mary's" time-travel books. But they're just not good enough. I'm abandoning the series, and discarding the other two that I have and the prequel.
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Yeah, that's the same place I abandoned the series. With two or three bought that will remain unread. So promising, initially, but so not good enough to waste my time on as the series continued. Sigh.
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Next up: Alliance of Equals by Miller & Lee.
The next installment in their Liaden series. I'm just 1/3 into it, and it's excellent as expected. They somehow seem to have avoided having long books where nothing much happens, a fate that befalls many long-running series.
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Agreed. This remains one of my favourite series. I just know that when I pick up a Lee&Miller book I will not be disappointed.
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Originally Posted by MickeyC
Just finished another VERY cozy mystery, The Dark Vineyard , by Martin Walker. And, in it, there is a very funny scene when the townspeople get together for their annual ceremony of stomping the grapes when they ripen.
They put them all in a large vat and the men takes turns stomping on them while the women comment, very candidly, on the hairy legs they are looking at. A great laugh
WARNING: Do not read this book if you are hungry as there is a scene where Chief Bruno is cooking dinner for several of his friends and it is mouth watering. If this had been a pBook, I'd have probably chewed up the pages.
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Agreed. An excellent series, and one of the better books in that series. Though none of them have been duds yet.
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Originally Posted by Luffy
I've started reading The Deeds of Paksenarrion, by Elizabeth Moon.
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You've got a good read in front of you. She takes the Paks world further than she probably should have in (much) later books, but those first Paksenarrion books are a pleasure. I'm almost ready for a re-read.
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Originally Posted by CRussel
Meanwhile, started reading a book from the latest Baen Bundle -- Women of Futures Past, edited by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. This is a collection of shorter works from some of the giants of the past and present. The very first one is The Indelible Kind, by Zenna Henderson. An author I didn't know, and a real winner of a story. Next up was a McCaffrey Pern story I had never read. This bodes really well and I'm quite delighted by getting this book in the monthly bundle, when it really wasn't why I was buying it. |
Still going strong. So far, this is the surprise winner of the Best of the Monthly Bundle award.
