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

[Strether]

Originally Posted by CRussel

Now, reading shorter works from Liaden Universe Constellation, Volume 2. I've read all of these at one time or another, but I'm still looking forward to the re-read. I'm also going to read a full length book at the same time -- the first of the Harry Hole books from Jo Nesbo -- The Bat.

Very frustrating not to be able to find out what's in this volume. At one time or another, I've bought Liaden Unibus 1 and 2. Is what you're reading different from the contents of these? Neither the Baen nor Amazon sites identify the stories.

Jim

[Nyssa]

Originally Posted by orlok

Well I wasn't really that impressed, I'm afraid. It was ok as a YA read, but didn't really develop into much of a story/plot, and was a little predictable, I thought.

Now reading Audition by Ryū Murakami, a suggestion from HIMS. So far, so good .

Sorry to hear you didn't enjoy it after all.

[orlok]

Originally Posted by Nyssa

Sorry to hear you didn't enjoy it after all.

I didn't consider it time wasted . Just won't be holding my breath for any more by the same author.

Almost finished Audition, and am now contemplating either the new Bond by William Boyd, Solo, or the new Robert Goddard, The Ways of the World .

[ucfgrad93]

I am currently reading Unnatural History on my Kindle.

[CRussel]

Originally Posted by Strether

Very frustrating not to be able to find out what's in this volume. At one time or another, I've bought Liaden Unibus 1 and 2. Is what you're reading different from the contents of these? Neither the Baen nor Amazon sites identify the stories.

Jim

Ah, but it IS posted on the Baen Bar, because I posted it there. Also, I think Wikipedia has been updated. Finally, the TOC is on the Baen eBooks site (click View Sample Chapters).

Unfortunately, there's no point trying to post it here since fixed width fonts still don't allow building columns and there's no table capability.

Constellation II has everything that wasn't in Constellation I, plus the following stories that weren't in either Unibus:
Daughter of Dragons, Dragon Tide, Shadow Partner, Persistence, Misfits, Hidden Resources, Moon on the Hills, Skyblaze

[Strether]

Originally Posted by CRussel

Constellation II has everything that wasn't in Constellation I, plus the following stories that weren't in either Unibus:
Daughter of Dragons, Dragon Tide, Shadow Partner, Persistence, Misfits, Hidden Resources, Moon on the Hills, Skyblaze

Thanks, Charlie. That's twice today you've corrected me.

In addition to those stories above that you rightly say are missing from either Unibus volume, I didn't find Sweet Waters. I'll have to decide whether it's worth the purchase of Constellation II. Cheaper than buying the stories separately, I suppose.

I'll send you a fresh cinnamon roll as soon as they come out of the oven!

Jim

[CRussel]

It is in Constellation One

[ladyashk]

I've been watching 'Call the Midwife' on BBC, and have started reading the books themselves - The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times

[Rumpelteazer]

I finally started A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin (#4 A Song of Ice and Fire). I'm only 150 pages in but liking it, after all the bad reviews I had prepared for having to force myself to read it. I'm not going fast (150 pages in 2.5 days) but that has more to do with it being the week before Christmas and I'm so busy working extra and being too tired to read as long at night as I usually would.

[bfisher]

I've started to read The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism, the new book from Doris Kearns Goodwin (Team of Rivals). The first bit was a tad slow, as it covered familiar ground of the young life of TR and Taft, but it picked up as it started to detail how their paths began to cross. There is a parallel story of McClure's Magazine, the development of muckraking journalism, and TR's relationship with the press, which would probably make a book in itself. I think it is a bully story.

[Yapyap]

Originally Posted by Yapyap

I started Johannes Cabal, the Necromancer by Jonathan L. Howard today.

So far, I'm not incredibly gripped yet - it has all the ingredients I should like, but something in the writing isn't quite working for me. Still, I'm only 25% in and not disliking it either, so that's something.

Well over halfway into it now and enjoying it quite a bit - enough so that unless it takes a deep nosedive in the end, I foresee sticking the next books onto my wishlist to wait for some Kobo coupons.

[pilotbob]

I finished up _The Book Thief_ ... it was ok... a bit sad and depressing.. 3 of 5 stars for me.

I started _One Was a Soldier: A Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne Mystery_ by Julia Spencer-Fleming. I really enjoy this series. It is light Mystery / Crime series that is set in a small town and centers around the Police chief and an Episcopal priest. She always seems to get caught up in the mystery and can't keep out of things.

I'm sure I will enjoy it.

BOb

[MickeyC]

Just finished God Save the Child by Robert B Parker. Read it based on recos in this thread and it was very good. Great news is I have all the rest of Parker's books in front of me.

And just starting The Dinosaur Feather by S. J. Gazan. The Wall Street Journal rated it as one of the top ten mysteries of 2013.

[orlok]

Originally Posted by cassidym

Great news is I have all the rest of Parker's books in front of me.

You lucky b*gger!

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by Geralt

Suchet will always be THE Poirot.

If not him, the only alternative is this:

Spoiler:

Yet another contender, found just this morning. (Kindlekitten, this one's safe for you to view.)

Spoiler:

Click to enlarge.