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

[MikeOxlittle]

Currently reading:

A Drink Before The War by Dennis Lehane
The Road by Cormac McCarthy

[maianhvk]

I just finished Wintertide of Michael J. Sullivan and I think I will read something from Alex Flinn, something easy and shorter and requires less thinking to prepare myself for the next book in Riyria Revelations

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by MikeOxlittle

Currently reading:

A Drink Before The War by Dennis Lehane
The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Excellent. Welcome to MR!

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by maianhvk

I just finished Wintertide of Michael J. Sullivan and I think I will read something from Alex Flinn, something easy and shorter and requires less thinking to prepare myself for the next book in Riyria Revelations

Maybe something you can sink your teeth into?

[MikeOxlittle]

Originally Posted by kennyc

Excellent. Welcome to MR!

Thank you.

Looking forward to discovering more books to read. Great site.

[mldavis2]

Finished "Let the Great World Spin" by Colum McCann. Interesting and mixed opinions from readers. I gave it 4/5 stars.

Now into Kurt Vonnegut's "The Sirens of Titan."

[GeoffC]

Originally Posted by MikeOxlittle

Currently reading:

A Drink Before The War by Dennis Lehane
The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Two good choices ....



Welcome to Mobileread ....

[GeoffC]

I'm working my way through a Smashwords freebie - Short Tales of Mercia (Eng-alond and the Danegald) .... a slow read, but at least it doesn't suffer from my last couple of freebies from SW ....

[jgaiser]

Finished Neal Asher's Gridlinked last night. I did like it and will probably take a look at the next in the series.

The ending *was* a little strange. A lot of 'huh?'. The author does have a more detailed ending on his webpage that explains a lot.

Now on to God's War by Kameron Hurley, a recent freebee from B&N.

[maianhvk]

Originally Posted by kennyc

Maybe something you can sink your teeth into?

obviously I always eat or drink while reading

A drink before the war by Lehane is that good? what genre is it?

[FlorenceArt]

Originally Posted by maianhvk

A drink before the war by Lehane is that good? what genre is it?

Personally I wouldn't say that. It's his first book I think, and reading it after the later, and much better, Mystic River and Shutter Island, I was rather disappointed. As to genre, I'm no expert* but I would say thriller or crime something or other...


*TBH I just despise the whole idea of putting books into neat little boxes that have nothing to do with the quality of the book but only with some check-list of ingredients it seems.

[BearMountainBooks]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

Just finished this month's Book Club selection, Hal Spacejock by Simon Hayes; one of the most enjoyable books I've read in quite a while. I love robots with personality, and Hal's sidekicks—the dilapidated but spirited Clunk and the ship's snarky computer—are a real hoot.
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Hey, I didn't know it was the book club selection! Cool. I'll have to find the related thread. It was a good read. I found it light, funny and enjoyable.

[edbro]

Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks

Hey, I didn't know it was the book club selection! Cool. I'll have to find the related thread.

That thread won't start until the 20th of the month.

[poohbear_nc]

I'm having a ball reading classic mysteries now released as ebooks from Langtail Press and in pbook from Rue Morgue press.

John Dickson Carr (aka Carter Dickson) really did cover the entire breadth of "locked room mysteries" and "impossible murders" - sometimes going to great extremes to explain the inexplicable. The solution to the murder in "The Crooked Hinge" is the most extreme attempt yet to explain how a man could be murdered in plain view of witnesses - none of whom saw the murderer.

Spoiler:

The murderer lost his legs when the Titanic sank, and had prosthetic legs he could remove and scuttle about below eye level.

I shall continue on, with a liberal helping of Nero Wolfe to add spice to this heady experience.

[BearMountainBooks]

Originally Posted by edbro

That thread won't start until the 20th of the month.

No wonder I couldn't find it.

I started reading "A Modern Witch" By Deborah Geary. It's a bit of chick-lit, paranormal, probable romance cozy kind of thing. Only problem for me is it has too many character POVs. As y'all know (or might know from the few books I've complained about) I'm kind of a one or two point of view person. I think there's 4 or maybe 5 characters introduced with their own life points so far--they then meet in various places. Makes it impossible for me to grab a character and hang on. I tend to skin through a character or two trying to get back to the main storyline. The book is done well for that sort of thing; all the characters know each other so there's a common reference point. But it's making me long for a single POV. Or to just be able to read through one person's story rather than skipping around.