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[Fbone]

Originally Posted by Fbone

Next, I'll continue the Craft Sequence series with Last First Snow by Max Gladstone.

This started off slow but gradually built up to a nice ending. Of course, we know who lives on since we've read their future in previous books. Great character development full of love and faith and relationships. Gladstone's originality is refreshing. His descriptions are creative without getting bogged down. Very underrated series I feel. Rated B- [3 stars].

Next is Titanium Noir by Nick Harkaway.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by Fbone

This started off slow but gradually built up to a nice ending. Of course, we know who lives on since we've read their future in previous books. Great character development full of love and faith and relationships. Gladstone's originality is refreshing. His descriptions are creative without getting bogged down. Very underrated series I feel. Rated B- [3 stars].

I also really like Max Gladstone's stuff, including his Craft series.

[Solitaire1]

Y - The Last Man - Book One: A trade paperback that collects the first ten issues of the series. The series was published by Vertigo Comics, an imprint of DC Comics.

Quick Overview: In the Summer of 2002 an event happens and every mammal with a Y chromosome die (with exception of one man and a helper monkey he was training). It's not long and drawn out, one minute everything is normal, the next minute all of the men are coughing up blood, and the next minute they are all dead. This series explores what the world would be like if something like that happened.

[astrangerhere]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

I also really like Max Gladstone's stuff, including his Craft series.

Have you read This is How You Lose the Time War?

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by astrangerhere

Have you read This is How You Lose the Time War?

Oh yes. I love well-thought-out time travel stuff.

[Rumpelteazer]

Earlier this week I finished Terminal by J.L. Bryan. It's the fourth book in the Ellie Jordan, Ghost Trapper series. Which is about Ellie, who works for a company helping people get rid of their hauntings.

This book she and her co-workers and friends had to deal with a ghost train. So far I'm enjoying this series. Each book has a different haunting, it isn't as if the same story is told over and over again. In October book 22 is going to be released, so hopefully Bryan can keep telling new stories and they won't repeat too much. I also like that there isn't a huge amount of romance. Normally when having a female protagonist romance is a big part of the story, but here it's just a small part of the overall story.

The books are quick and easy reads for me, so ideal as a palate cleanser or read when I don't know what I want to read next.

[mlewis78]

Recently I read The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters. It's about a an Indigenous family from Nova Scotia who go to Maine each summer to pick berries and their 4-yr. old daughter disappears. Alternate chapters are narrated by a brother and the girl when she is older and as she grows up. It's not a mystery.

I am currently reading Sargent's Women: Four Lives Behind the Canvas by Donna M. Lucey. I saw the Sargent and Paris exhibition at the Met Museum last Saturday and saw the paperback in the exhibition pop-up gift shop, but I bought it in Kindle format.

[DJUNGELSKOG]

I'm reading Rhytm of War by Brandon Sanderson.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Currently reading: Resurrection Men by Ian Rankin. The 13th in his Inspector Rebus series.

Wow - I've been lax about updating.

Resurrection Men was good. The series is very much into its stride now.

Then I read We Shall Rise by John Ringo et al. Uplifting stories set in the aftermath of his Zombie Apocalypse. An OK read.

Rosen's Almanc by Michael Rosen was next. I didn't really finish this - it has a small snippet for every day of the year. It did remind me of The Chaos by Gerard Nolst Trenité (a poem on on English pronunciation) and I was able to update my copy with a couple of minor corrections.

The Proto Zoa and The Adventure of the Demonic Ox by Lois McMaster Bujold. Both, as expected, a delight.

Then I read Elphie by Gregory Maguire. A prequel to Wicked. I didn't like the style, and the story didn't really add anything. I'm a bit surprised I didn't just abandon it.

And I also read (in hardback!) The Ascent of Woman by Melanie Phillips. An account of the suffrage movement in the UK. I found the lack of a solid timeline annoying - constant mentions of things that were going to happen years into the future, or that had happened years ago. This despite the overall book being a sequence from early suffrage in the 18th and 19th Centuries and finishing in the mid-20th. I would have much preferred a more time-based approach. (This was a book club book.)

And now I'm reading Major Bricket and the Circus Corpse by Simon Brett. The first in a new cosy murder mystery series.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

And now I'm reading Major Bricket and the Circus Corpse by Simon Brett. The first in a new cosy murder mystery series.

And it was just a little too unbelievable for me, even for a cosy mystery.

Next up: Breaking Silence by Mercedes Lackey and Cody Martin. Urban fantasy.

[drofgnal]

I finished Babylonia, and now I’ve started Nora Roberts’ ‘The Chronicles of the One’. For a romance writer she writes a pretty good pandemic tale. The three book series was 11.99 total one day last week on Amazon.

[nana77]

"This Is How You Lose The Time War", by Amar El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone (2019) was on month's readings from the Urania Collections (Mondadori); a wonderful reading indeed, imho, too.
Others was "Darkover Landfall", by Marion Zimmer Bradley (1972, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkover_Landfall), I'd liked much this too.
“Steal Across the Sky” by Nancy Kress (2009), I don't know why, but to me was a hard reading, perhalps I don't like telephaty/ESP themes (didn't liked much even, time ago, Ubik by Philip Dick).

On July usually there is an anthology, and it was "Infinite Stars" by Bryan Thomas (2017): a collection of short, or short-short stories with a space opera and military themes, seriously fantastic.

I'd liked almost all, specially Orson Scott Card part of "Ender's Game" (didn't knew it's a movie, also);
"The Game of Rat and Dragon (1955, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ga...Rat_and_Dragon, here is quoted as William C. Dietz the author)

Dragons can only be destroyed by very strong light, but they move too fast for conventional defense methods. Telepathic humans and telepathic cats (who perceive the dragons as rats) are able to sense the creatures within milliseconds. The humans and cats work together as teams to protect interstellar spaceships traveling via planoforming (a type of faster than light speed travel).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorkos...nity_(novella)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binti_(novella), nice sci-fi from Nigeria.
"How to Be a Barbarian in the Late 25th Century" is a sub-genre I wasn't to know, called sword and planet; nice and warm read too.
The complete list of included shorts is in there:
https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?632351

Month's reading includes a special which is a 542 pages book (at the moment isn't translated), stories build after 13 authors interviewed scientists and researches from IIT (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istitu..._di_Tecnologia), yet to start it right now .
Edith: typos and links.

[Quoth]

Reading the Ivy Tree by Mary Stewart. Can't imagine how it will end.