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[drjd]

Originally Posted by drjd

Finished [I]Next up in the line, The D.A. Draws a Circle, third one in the series.

Finished this book yesterday. The series is becoming more interesting now. The DA has at least once appeared in the court for a preliminary hearing. However he is still better in field work, investigating murders with his friends, the sheriff and a reporter.

Next up 'The DA Goes to a Trial', 4th book in the Doug Selby series by Erle Stanley Gardner.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Which was good fun, although I prefer her more fictional stuff.

Next up: A recent purchase, Last First Snow by Max Gladstone. Splendid stuff.

Most enjoyable.

And now Serenity by Josh Whedon and someone else.

[Dngrsone]

I am about halfway through The Bone Clocks, and I am getting frustrated... the book is a series of vignettes, loosely tied together around one character, though each section is from a different first-person POV.

My problem is that just when things are getting interesting, the section stops and it goes to the next person (with several years intervening).

I stopped and then binge-read Playing for Keeps by Mur Lafferty, which I've been meaning to reread.

I will give Bone Clocks one more chance, then I will move on to something different.

I haven't got much Sci-Fi in my TBR, so I may go looking for some.

[cromag]

Originally Posted by cromag

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Next, I'll probably start Mirabile, by Janet Kagan, a fairly recent purchase.
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Nope, change of plan. I got caught up in some long overdue library maintenance and during the process I got distracted by another book, The Accidental Prophetess, by Michelle Lam. It's a bit more expansive than your typical "cozy" mystery, but it has many of the same characteristics. It goes over the top a few times, but that's not too unusual for a "cozy."

It was a fun, fast read.

Next up will be the new issues of Analog and Asimov's. But I will be getting around to Mirabile ... soon.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

And now Serenity by Josh Whedon and someone else.

While was an enjoyable novelisation of the movie.

Then I read The Raven in the Foregate. A nice quick Cadfael mystery by Ellis Peters.

And now I'm reading the first of Lindsey Davis's Flavia Albia novels.

[din155]

Originally Posted by din155

Just started listening and I get the quirky part. Reminds me of Nights Dawn series by Peter H Hamilton.

Finished The Lives of Tao by Wesley Chu. A little slow at a few places but very interesting plot. Recommended if you are interested in Alien Human interactions without space Opera elements.

Starting The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest To Understand, Enhance and Empower the Mind selection for this months book club.

[Dngrsone]

Okay, normally I wouldn't count this as a book read, but I just finished reading the entire archives of El Goonish Shive, the webcomic by Dan Shive. COnsidering he's been doing this comic for nearly fourteen and a half years (assuming an consistent three udpates a week, that puts it around 2200 individual pages); I think it counts as novel-length.

Still working on The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell, for what it's worth.

[drjd]

Originally Posted by drjd

Finished this book yesterday. The series is becoming more interesting now. The DA has at least once appeared in the court for a preliminary hearing. However he is still better in field work, investigating murders with his friends, the sheriff and a reporter.

Next up 'The DA Goes to a Trial', 4th book in the Doug Selby series by Erle Stanley Gardner.

Finished The D.A. Goes to a Trial. The smooth writing style of Erle Stanely Gardner is all the way fascinating. A very good plot of complex murder mysteries solved by the good sleuthing of Doug Selby, the DA. Much recommended for Erle's fans.

Next up in the line, The D.A. Cooks a Goose. Fifth book in the series.

[Rev. Bob]

I'm getting ready for the new ID4 movie by reading first the Complete Omnibus (which is the novelization of, prequel to, and sequel to, the original movie) and then Crucible, which is the prequel to the new movie.

One annoying thing about the Omnibus is that Silent Zone, the prequel, has a little opening sequence which takes place right after the big battle. This was apparently considered sufficient reason for the Omnibus to place it in the middle, after the movie novelization. Thankfully, if one has a copy which lacks DRM, this is easy to correct... or, at least, easier than the novelization's utter lack of chapter divisions.

Something that only struck me after I got a few chapters into Silent Zone is that it actually makes sense that the aliens would keep attacking during early July. First, the early-July Roswell incident is ID4 canon, so that's another "historical" data point. Second... well, the aliens are coming from a specific place or direction, right? It's only logical to attack us at the point in our orbit when we cross that path. I mean, sure, there's the obvious July 4th patriotic marketing at the meta-level, but it was neat to realize that there's a reasonable in-world explanation.

[CRussel]

So, I've been iin a bit of a rut lately, reading genre of various sorts and the last several have been rather less than satisfying. So I decided to shift off that rut and pulled up a book that's been in my TBR for more than a year -- Jennifer Worth's Call the Midwife (retitled to match the series). It was, of course, the series that got me to buy the book in the first place.

Much to my delight, the book is every bit as enjoyable as the TV series! Different, in that the grittiness of Poplar and the Docks is much more prominent and compelling. But still the same sense of hope and uplift as the series has. I will definitely be reading the rest of the series, but at the current price, I'll need to wait until my library has them. I will not pay Penguin's inflated eBook price!

Next up, 1635: The Eastern Front, by Eric Flint. I kind of lost track of where things were in the Ring of Fire, and got totally turned off by a couple of Virginia deMarco books. But I'm slowly getting back into it, and simply avoiding any books she's had anything to do with.

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by CRussel

So, I've been iin a bit of a rut lately, reading genre of various sorts and the last several have been rather less than satisfying. So I decided to shift off that rut and pulled up a book that's been in my TBR for more than a year -- Jennifer Worth's Call the Midwife (retitled to match the series). It was, of course, the series that got me to buy the book in the first place.

Much to my delight, the book is every bit as enjoyable as the TV series! Different, in that the grittiness of Poplar and the Docks is much more prominent and compelling. But still the same sense of hope and uplift as the series has. I will definitely be reading the rest of the series, but at the current price, I'll need to wait until my library has them. I will not pay Penguin's inflated eBook price!

I don't think that £13.99 for three books is particularly inflated. £4.66 a book, which seems to me like a reasonable price for a good book, which these certainly are.

The good news is that it does go on sale from time to time. I see that I bought the omnibus for £7.47 a couple of years ago.

[Fbone]

Originally Posted by HarryT

I don't think that £13.99 for three books is particularly inflated. £4.66 a book, which seems to me like a reasonable price for a good book, which these certainly are.

The good news is that it does go on sale from time to time. I see that I bought the omnibus for £7.47 a couple of years ago.

The cost is significantly higher in the US. Approximately $39 for the trilogy.

As you said, they do occasionally go on sale as low as $1.99.

[CRussel]

Originally Posted by HarryT

I don't think that £13.99 for three books is particularly inflated. £4.66 a book, which seems to me like a reasonable price for a good book, which these certainly are.

The good news is that it does go on sale from time to time. I see that I bought the omnibus for £7.47 a couple of years ago.

Unfortunately, the US price is significantly higher at $13/ea. And they're not couponable, as if Kobo ever had coupons any more. But I'll watch for a price break, cause I would like to have the others.

[Apache]

Originally Posted by CRussel

Next up, 1635: The Eastern Front, by Eric Flint. I kind of lost track of where things were in the Ring of Fire, and got totally turned off by a couple of Virginia deMarco books. But I'm slowly getting back into it, and simply avoiding any books she's had anything to do with.

I am finishing up 1635: Music and Murder by David Carrico. I have really enjoyed this one and highly recommend it. At $4.99 it is well worth buying.


http://www.baen.com/1635-music-and-murder.html
Apache

[pwalker8]

Originally Posted by Apache

I am finishing up 1635: Music and Murder by David Carrico. I have really enjoyed this one and highly recommend it. At $4.99 it is well worth buying.


http://www.baen.com/1635-music-and-murder.html
Apache

Interesting. I had lost interest in that series after around the 4th or 5th book, i.e. when the quality of the books became more fanflic (yea, writing good books is both a talent and a skill). I might have to give it a try.