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Originally Posted by CRussel
Finished Radium Girls, and also finished Power Lines, the second in the Petaybee trilogy. I can't say I enjoyed the first, but I'm glad I read it. The second I quite enjoyed, though not as much as Powers that Be. Then I read Merchanter's Luck, by C.J. Cherryh, part of her Company Wars series in the Alliance-Union universe.
All very nice, but next up I start Taste for Death, by Peter O'Donnell, the fourth in the Modesty Blaise series. And I'm starting next month's New Leaf Book Club selection, The Three Musketeers. Which I'll be reading and listening to if I'm to get it finished in time. |
Ah, good old Modesty Blaise. One thing you can be sure of -- you'll get exactly what you expect and want when you read one of these. NOT great fiction, but certainly great fun. A personal 5-star read, within my own terms of reference. And, although I can certainly tell you all sorts of failings of this series, it fills a need quite nicely, thank you.
Currently reading and listening to next month's
New Leaf Book Club selection,
The Three Musketeers, by Alexandre Dumas,
père. I'm switching back and forth between two translations, the Pevear and the Hobson, for the reading portion, but the audio book, narrated by John Lee, is, unfortunately, using one or another of the Victorian translations. A rousing swashbuckler, with the Hobson translation currently being my preferred, but the Pevear is excellent as well.