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

[coderserdar]

wilkie collins - mr wray's cash box

a good tension story, there is no murder but good details in book

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by coderserdar

wilkie collins - miss or mrs

a good mystery about marriage and the crimes about the past

Originally Posted by coderserdar

wilkie collins - fatal cradle

a small mystery story, but i advise you to read this

Originally Posted by coderserdar

wilkie collins - the fatal fortune

a short good mystery too

Originally Posted by coderserdar

wilkie collins - a fair penitent

Originally Posted by coderserdar

wilkie collins - mr wray's cash box

a good tension story, there is no murder but good details in book

Wow - going on quite a Wilkie Collins marathon! But there's no need to do a separate post for each book - you can just do them all in one post.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Sirronde's World 1: The Span by Diane Duane

A good (novella?) set in her "Door Into..." universe, but perfectly understandable even if you haven't read those books (I haven't).

Next: Sirronde's World 3: Parting Gifts by Diane Duane

What happened to part 2, you ask? I can only think that the rights haven't reverted yet from wherever it was first published.

[coderserdar]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Wow - going on quite a Wilkie Collins marathon! But there's no need to do a separate post for each book - you can just do them all in one post.

ok paul..
i will start to jack higgins books
i like higgins so much
while reading his books i feel like wandering on belfast, ireland

[tecweston]

Just Finished:

- A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin - fantastic. Can't wait to read the next book but I'm going to finish "1Q84" first. Also, I know the next two books in the series ("A Feast for Crows" and "A Dance with Dragons") take place concurrently, and I found a chapter sequence for one long megabook, so I'll be reading both books at the same time. That way I don't have to wait 1000 pages to find out what happened to my favorite characters.

Currently reading:

- The Land of Mist by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (42%)

- 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami (35%)

- Analog Science Fiction and Fact Jan/Feb '12 (27%)

eBooks I will be reading as soon as I finish these:

- 11/22/63 by Stephen King

- The Night Eternal by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan

- A Feast for Crows and A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin

- God, No: Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales by Penn Jillette

- The House of Silk: A Sherlock Holmes Novel by Anthony Horowitz

eBooks I'm on the waiting list for at my library:

- Plugged by Eoin Colfer

[pilotbob]

Well.. I finished _Eye of the Needle_ by Ken Follett. My introduction to Follett was with _The Pillars of the Earth_ which is one of my favorite books.

Eye of the Needle is a World War II spy novel with a plausible story line. It reads well and has plenty of action. About half way through I didn't want to put it down. I usually don't read books this fast but I just wanted to find out what happened here. I rated it 4 of 5 stars on LibraryThing.

My next read is _The Help_. I hope it lives up to the reviews.

BOb

[Traye]

I'm still reading Ready Player One. I'm not really feeling it at the moment. I was growing up in the 80s and I like the references but I dunno, it's not grabbing me. I'll persevere a bit longer though.

[poohbear_nc]

Just finished Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor. A beautiful whimsical mix of arch British humor, comedy of manners, observations on aging - which can veer in a sentence from laugh-out-loud comedy to black comedy to tears.
If you like Barbara Pym's novels, you'll enjoy Elizabeth Taylor's works.

N.B. The Kindle edition was obviously NOT proof-read. There are OCR errors (most annoyingly - numbers substituted for letters) and line spaces omitted within a chapter when the narrative shifts between different characters - very disconcerting.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Sirronde's World 3: Parting Gifts by Diane Duane

Another excellent short. It makes me want to read the series, but I won't do that until/unless she writes the final book.

Originally Posted by ATDrake

Elizabeth Ann Scarborough's The Healer's War which quite deservedly won a Nebula Award and which I think I bought during Fictionwise's 60% off sale for last year's Black Friday/Cyber Monday.

Well, whatever I paid for it, it was money well spent.

Well, since I bought it for $2.89 in the May 2011 big sale at fictionwise, I think I'd better read it too.

So, next is The Healer's War by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

[ATDrake]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

So, next is The Healer's War by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

It's a good read, but sort of a downer. You might prefer to start with one of Scarborough's lighter humorous fantasies, which ISTR you also picked up in the May FW sale, such as Song of Sorcery, which I'm sure you'll enjoy.

As for me, currently between books. It's end of semester crunch time and everything I'm actually reading is basically course-related lookup.

But I do have a backlog of Stross, Hambly, and maybe some Alan Dean Foster fantasies which I intend to make my way through once I've some more leisure time. I should go load up a few more short story collections on the Kindle for quickie break reading at the bus stop.

[Kevin8or]

Originally Posted by tecweston

I know the next two books in the series ("A Feast for Crows" and "A Dance with Dragons") take place concurrently, and I found a chapter sequence for one long megabook, so I'll be reading both books at the same time. That way I don't have to wait 1000 pages to find out what happened to my favorite characters.

I'd be interested in a link, if you have one, to that chapter sequence.

[tecweston]

Originally Posted by Kevin8or

I'd be interested in a link, if you have one, to that chapter sequence.

Sure.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...pli=1&hl=en_US

[TCSimpson]

Guess I did this wrong last time. Finished Prince of Thorns by Mark Lawrence and rated it 5 stars. Actually, I think it's the best fantasy book of 2011. Also just finished and Beyond Shadows by Brent Weeks and I would rate that four stars. Currently reading Sanderson's Mistborn and Sam Sykes - Tome of the Undergates.

[maianhvk]

Originally Posted by TCSimpson

Guess I did this wrong last time. Finished Prince of Thorns by Mark Lawrence and rated it 5 stars. Actually, I think it's the best fantasy book of 2011. Also just finished and Beyond Shadows by Brent Weeks and I would rate that four stars. Currently reading Sanderson's Mistborn and Sam Sykes - Tome of the Undergates.

All the titles I wanna read!

[caleb72]

Originally Posted by TCSimpson

Guess I did this wrong last time. Finished Prince of Thorns by Mark Lawrence and rated it 5 stars. Actually, I think it's the best fantasy book of 2011. Also just finished and Beyond Shadows by Brent Weeks and I would rate that four stars. Currently reading Sanderson's Mistborn and Sam Sykes - Tome of the Undergates.

At $14.85 at Amazon it would want to be good. I've put it on my wish list for a time when it becomes reasonably priced.