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

[Nyssa]

I feel rediculous!!

I'm in the middle of rereading In Enemy Hands, Book 7 of the Honor Harrington series by David Weber. I'm so emotionally invested that I'm having trouble finishing because/even though I already know whats going to happen. To make matters worse, I've already read books 8 & 9 as well, so I really know whats going to happen. So why can't I just finish this book!?!

[xg4bx]

The Remaining by DJ Molles

"In a steel-and-lead-encased bunker 20 feet below the basement level of his house, a soldier waits for his final orders. On the surface, a plague ravages the planet, infecting over 90% of the populace. The bacterium burrows through the brain, destroying all signs of humanity and leaving behind little more than base, prehistoric instincts. The infected turn into hyper-aggressive predators, with an insatiable desire to kill and feed. Some day soon, the soldier will have to open the hatch to his bunker, and step out into this new wasteland, to complete his mission: SUBVENIRE REFECTUS.

TO RESCUE AND REBUILD."

[maianhvk]

I just began Water Margin (Outlaws of the Marsh, All Men Are Brothers, etc.) by Shi Nai'an. A BIG read and can't be rushed.

[Fbone]

Originally Posted by Fbone

After a few duds ...

I'm going to try A Stranger in Mayfair by Charles Finch. Victorian mystery by a young Oxford grad.

An American who graduated from Oxford. I believe a few Americanism appeared in the novel. Is the word "gotten" Victorian English?

Writing was solid and the story did have a few twists. The detective was completely mystified (like this reader) until the very end although the murderer's identity was the least developed and a bit implausible. Grade C [3 stars].

Next will be some type of sci-fi presently undetermined.

[CRussel]

Originally Posted by Nyssa

I feel rediculous!!

I'm in the middle of rereading In Enemy Hands, Book 7 of the Honor Harrington series by David Weber. I'm so emotionally invested that I'm having trouble finishing because/even though I already know whats going to happen. To make matters worse, I've already read books 8 & 9 as well, so I really know whats going to happen. So why can't I just finish this book!?!

Sometimes that happens in a series. There's one book in the Dana Stabenow series I won't read because I know what happens and I don't like it. In Enemy Hands has some rough spots. You don't HAVE to read it. Just let go and read something later in the series. Really. It's OK.

[Apache]

I finished The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt and it is one of my top five biographies.
I just started Craig Johnson's As The Crow Flies.
Apache

[John F]

Currently reading: Darkest Mercy by Melissa Marr
On deck: The Doomfarers of Coramonde by Brian Daley (Kobo coupons work on this one)

[covingtoncat73]

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Everywhere but No Place wasn't turning the pages. I'll come back to it after I finish ALVH, which is proving to be quite good, actually.

I read the first Walking Dead graphic novel on my tablet last night. It was good but. Short. Shorter than American Vampire.

I'm listening to The Lost Gate on audio from the library. The story is up my alley and the reader and production values are good. I only just realized it is an Orson Scott Card book. :P

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by covingtoncat73

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Everywhere but No Place wasn't turning the pages. I'll come back to it after I finish ALVH, which is proving to be quite good, actually.

The movie preview looked pretty good. I have the book. Just need to fix the formatting and load it on my 650 to read. They've used CSS to simulate blockquotes and botched it and it's bad because blockquotes are used in a LOT of places in the book.

[Nyssa]

Originally Posted by Nyssa

I feel rediculous!!

I'm in the middle of rereading In Enemy Hands, Book 7 of the Honor Harrington series by David Weber. I'm so emotionally invested that I'm having trouble finishing because/even though I already know whats going to happen. To make matters worse, I've already read books 8 & 9 as well, so I really know whats going to happen. So why can't I just finish this book!?!

Originally Posted by CRussel

Sometimes that happens in a series. There's one book in the Dana Stabenow series I won't read because I know what happens and I don't like it. In Enemy Hands has some rough spots. You don't HAVE to read it. Just let go and read something later in the series. Really. It's OK.

Thank you for your support CR. I had to finish the book, though, and I have.... Damn Weber, making me cry...again!

I should get through books 8 & 9 okay...its book 10, War of Honor, that will be the test. I didn't make it all the way through last time due to emotional overload.

This time, however, I'll also have 6 short stories/novellas to read before I even get there, so hopefully those will allow me to take a breath or two.

[covingtoncat73]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

The movie preview looked pretty good. I have the book. Just need to fix the formatting and load it on my 650 to read. They've used CSS to simulate blockquotes and botched it and it's bad because blockquotes are used in a LOT of places in the book.

There sure are a lot of block quotes. They display alright for me, though.

[alansplace]

Originally Posted by alansplace

I've just finished reading Trouble in Paradise, the second Jesse Stone novel by Robert B. Parker. It was just as good a read as the first one, so I enjoyed it a lot.

I've seen a few (all positive) comments and conversations about Wool by Hugh Howey ($.99 or you can get the Wool Omnibus Edition for $5.99 [all 5 of the books]) so I've begun reading the first one.

The Wool Omnibus Edition was really interesting and engaging. I'd planned to read the 5 parts one at a time but was unable to stop after the first one, so I just kept reading till I'd finished all 5. I enjoyed it a lot and plan to get a copy of the 6th book in the series, First Shift - Legacy.

Now I'm reading Dana Stabenow's 9th Kate Shugak book, Hunter's Moon.

[orlok]

Originally Posted by alansplace

The Wool Omnibus Edition was really interesting and engaging. I'd planned to read the 5 parts one at a time but was unable to stop after the first one, so I just kept reading till I'd finished all 5. I enjoyed it a lot and plan to get a copy of the 6th book in the series, First Shift - Legacy.

I took it up with exactly the same intention, and have read straight through without stopping (still on Part 3). More of a murder mystery in an unusual setting, rather than the out-and-out sci-fi I was expecting (a good thing), and I will also get Part 6 when I'm done with the Omnibus.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

And now I'm going to re-read The Lord of the Rings. I've finally got around to watching my set of the extended edition DVDs, and I've got irritated again by all the changes to the characters, many of whom behave in ways that I thought they didn't in the book (particularly Théoden, Fangorn and Faramir). So I need to re-read to check that it's the film that's distorting them, and not my memory!

I'm half-way through "The Fellowship of the Ring". I find I like the bit with Tom Bombadil more each time I read it.

And I find that I like the book much more than the film, and that the BBC Radio adaption used an amazingly large amount of verbatim dialogue.

[xg4bx]

By the Blood of Heroes by Joseph Nassise. its a mix of alternate WW1, steampunk and zombies.