Hey!! Let's get some action going! What are we reading?

[ucfgrad93]

I'm currently reading Masters of the Air by Donald L. Miller.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by ucfgrad93

I'm currently reading Masters of the Air by Donald L. Miller.

It's an excellent TV series on Apple TV.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Next up: Set in Darkness by Ian Rankin. The 11th in his Inspector Rebus series.

I didn't buy the return of the villain, but otherwise good.

Next I read The Janus Stone by Elly Griffiths. The second in her Dr Ruth Galloway series.

It was a quick read and I enjoyed it, but I did feel that the number of coincidences was a little too high.

Next up: Ocean under the Ice by Robert L Forward and Martha Dodson Forward. (Wow - I bought this one back in 2008!)

[astrangerhere]

Originally Posted by astrangerhere

This is what I've got going now:

Paperback:
Selected Letters by Virginia Woolf (2008 edition collected by J. Trautman Banks)

Kobo:
Orbital by Samantha Harvey

Audio:
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Frazer - this is a re-read via audio for me. I recently received The Selected Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder and wanted a refresher on her life before I set on her letters.

I finished Orbital and Prairie Fires yesterday.

Now I've got:

Paperback:
Selected Letters by Virginia Woolf (2008 edition collected by J. Trautman Banks)

Kobo:
Laura by Vera Caspary

Audio:
The King's Speech by Michael Logue and Peter Conradi

[poohbear_nc]

Originally Posted by astrangerhere

I finished Orbital and Prairie Fires yesterday.

Now I've got:

Paperback:
Selected Letters by Virginia Woolf (2008 edition collected by J. Trautman Banks)

Kobo:
Laura by Vera Caspary

Audio:
The King's Speech by Michael Logue and Peter Conradi

Laura makes for an interesting read if you've already seen the movie - a different take on Waldo Lydecker's character and motivations. If you haven't seen the movie - you're missing a masterpiece of B&W cinematography. The camera loved Gene Tierney's face.

[Renate]

Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

Laura makes for an interesting read if you've already seen the movie - a different take on Waldo Lydecker's character and motivations. If you haven't seen the movie - you're missing a masterpiece of B&W cinematography. The camera loved Gene Tierney's face.

I love B&W noir (which is a bit redundant). Waldo was quite a baddie. Thanks, I just wished the book at my library.

[astrangerhere]

Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

Laura makes for an interesting read if you've already seen the movie - a different take on Waldo Lydecker's character and motivations. If you haven't seen the movie - you're missing a masterpiece of B&W cinematography. The camera loved Gene Tierney's face.

We'd both seen it, but we threw Laura on the projector last night for just this reason.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by astrangerhere

Audio:
The King's Speech by Michael Logue and Peter Conradi

If you (or anyone reading this) has not seen the movie version of The King's Speech, I suggest doing so as it's an excellent movie

[Quizlit]

Just Finished The Hollow Man by John Dickson Carr, famous locked room mystery
Also Hotel Du Lac by Anita Brookner and The Forever War by Joe Haldeman

[astrangerhere]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

If you (or anyone reading this) has not seen the movie version of The King's Speech, I suggest doing so as it's an excellent movie

I saw it when it came out, years back. The book was decent, but not too much depth. It was meant to be based on Logue's diaries and papers, but I think I would have preferred the actual diaries to the somewhat simplified summary the book felt like.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by astrangerhere

I saw it when it came out, years back. The book was decent, but not too much depth. It was meant to be based on Logue's diaries and papers, but I think I would have preferred the actual diaries to the somewhat simplified summary the book felt like.

That a shame that the book was too lightweight.

[Uncle Robin]

Currently 11% into Vincent van Gogh: A Life in Letters a curated compilation by Nienke Bakker, Hans Luijten and Leo Jansen. An interesting way to get to know more about him, in his own (mostly) translated words. I say mostly, because the compilation includes one of the six surviving letters he wrote in English.

[astrangerhere]

Originally Posted by astrangerhere

I finished Orbital and Prairie Fires yesterday.

Now I've got:

Paperback:
Selected Letters by Virginia Woolf (2008 edition collected by J. Trautman Banks)

Kobo:
Laura by Vera Caspary

Audio:
The King's Speech by Michael Logue and Peter Conradi

I finished Laura yesterday and tacked on Kenneth Grahame's short The Headswoman after that. Now I've got:

Hardcover: Private Rights by Julia Armfield

Paperback: Selected Letters by Virginia Woolf (2008 edition collected by J. Trautman Banks)

Audio: Pirate King by Laurie R. King. I must say, this is quite the dip in form in King's Russel-Holmes books.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Next up: Ocean under the Ice by Robert L Forward and Martha Dodson Forward. (Wow - I bought this one back in 2008!)

It was an irritating book. Fascinating in parts and deadly dull in others.

Next I read The Patience of the Spider, an Inspector Montalbano novel. Very good, but the plot was obvious to me long before it was obvious to MOntalbano.

Next up: The Day the Rabbi Resigned by Harry Kemelman. Only of the later books in his Rabbi Small mysteries.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Next up: The Day the Rabbi Resigned by Harry Kemelman. Only of the later books in his Rabbi Small mysteries.

And it was very good.


Next up: Flying Finish by Dick Francis. His sixth novel, first published in 1966