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

[CBG]

Just finished Vince Flynn's Separation of power - a great page turner, as always, it only took me two days. Now onto Tim Willocks' The religion. This one should take me a while longer....

[CRussel]

Originally Posted by Moe The Cat

Charlie, have you seen the 1983 film, starring Charles Martin Smith?

Oh, yes. And I liked it. But the book is much funnier and more irreverent.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Next up: Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson. Looking good so far.

Yes, it was excellent. I whooshed through it, reading it late last night and finishing it off this morning on the way to work.

Now reading: Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb. It's looking OK as a low-tech society with magic/psychic powers coming of age story.

[CRussel]

Originally Posted by CRussel

Next up, another Miss Silver. This one is #4 In the Balance[/I], also published as Danger Point. I had to break down and buy this one - I took a look at the books lined up to release at DPC and it wasn't even in the queue, so I used a coupon at Kobo. It's certainly not absolutely required to read the Miss Silver books in order, but I like the orderliness of doing so.

Abandoned. Not often I do that to an author normally as good as Patricia Wentworth, but Miss Silver's client in this one is just too irredeemably stupid and weak. And I'm just tired of stupid, weak female protagonists. So this one gets 1 star and marked abandoned.

Next up, Under a Graveyard Sky, by John Ringo, so no worries about woosie and weak females.

[CRussel]

Originally Posted by CRussel

Abandoned. Not often I do that to an author normally as good as Patricia Wentworth, but Miss Silver's client in this one is just too irredeemably stupid and weak. And I'm just tired of stupid, weak female protagonists. So this one gets 1 star and marked abandoned.

Next up, Under a Graveyard Sky, by John Ringo, so no worries about woosie and weak females.

OK, I absolutely loath anything zombie. So I'm just going to have to pretend that Ringo's Black Tide Rising series is about something else. Cause I really enjoyed Under a Graveyard Sky, and I'm going to move right on to To Sail a Darkling Sea.

[Mel Comley]

I've just reread Linda Prather's Eternal Beauty- the second book in the Catherine Mans' series. Great read, creepy and can totally see this book as an episode of Criminal Minds. I'm waiting impatiently for the third book in the series, I've heard on the grapevine it's due out at the end of this year. Fingers crossed.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by CRussel

OK, I absolutely loath anything zombie. So I'm just going to have to pretend that Ringo's Black Tide Rising series is about something else. Cause I really enjoyed Under a Graveyard Sky, and I'm going to move right on to To Sail a Darkling Sea.

Well, they're not really zombies, of course. They just have most of the attributes of zombies.

I really like this series too. I'm looking forward to the third volume, which is coming out in July (well, August, but the ebook will be available mid-July). I just hope that Kobo are still doing their wonderful coupon contests. I picked up the top three of this month's bundle for just £5.42 by using 75% off coupons from Kobo.

[CRussel]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Well, they're not really zombies, of course. They just have most of the attributes of zombies.

I really like this series too. I'm looking forward to the third volume, which is coming out in July (well, August, but the ebook will be available mid-July). I just hope that Kobo are still doing their wonderful coupon contests. I picked up the top three of this month's bundle for just £5.42 by using 75% off coupons from Kobo.

Yes, they're not really zombies. But they certainly have most of the attributes of zombies.

I have to agree, I hope there are coupons available. There isn't enough in the next couple of months Webscription to make it worth the buy. So I will be looking to buy individual books with coupons.

[mewmartigan]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

I really like this series too. I'm looking forward to the third volume, which is coming out in July (well, August, but the ebook will be available mid-July). I just hope that Kobo are still doing their wonderful coupon contests. I picked up the top three of this month's bundle for just £5.42 by using 75% off coupons from Kobo.

I have had this series on my radar for a while...they seem to be coming out quick. The first book isn't even in paperback until a month before the third one hits!


I just finished the Han Solo Adventures by Brian Daley and now I am debating whether to jump into Malazan with Gardens of the Moon.

[rraod]

I just finished the non-fiction book "The Day We Lost the H-Bomb" by Barbara Moran on my Nook/Kindle.

This book is about one of the worst Nuclear Weapons Disaster, the US SAC's B-52 (with 4 thermo-nuclear bombs on board) and a KC-135 tanker colliding with each other while midair refueling over Palomares, Spain on 17th January 1966 during the Cold War.

While the book explains the recovery of H-Bombs by US, the author also filled in the history of SAC formation during and after the Second World War. More of a history kind of book but informative.

Currently I am reading "The Angry Hills" by Leon Uris.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Now reading: Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb. It's looking OK as a low-tech society with magic/psychic powers coming of age story.

And it grew on me as the book went on. I'll move onto the others in this series fairly soon.

But for now, something completely different: The Mammoth Book of Time Travel Stories edited by Mike Ashley

I do already recognise one of the stories in here (but it is a very good time travel story), and I'm looking forward to finish it and reading the rest. Time travel is a fascinating topic for fiction.

[pilotbob]

Just finished Startdust by Neil Gaiman.

Good book. Now I'm off to watch the movie.

[Dazrin]

Originally Posted by Dazrin

Next is Molly Fyde and the Parsona Rescue by Hugh Howey, book 1 of his Bern Saga.

Well that was a fun read. I don't think I have disliked anything by Mr. Howey that I have tried.

Next up is probably NOS4A2 by Joe Hill or Snuff by Terry Pratchett. I will see how I am feeling when the time comes. Mostly waiting on my library holds right now.

[CRussel]

Shaman's Crossing, by Robin Hobb. Once again I've tried and abandoned a book by Robin Hobb. I think that's enough.

No idea what I'm going to read next, but I know it won't be by Ms. Hobb.

[WT Sharpe]

Just finished the May MobileRead Book Club Mystery/Thriller selection, The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith (aka J.K. Rowling). It was quite enjoyable, well plotted, and I really enjoyed the chemistry between the protagonists. The only downside was that it seemed to me to be a bit padded.

Now it's on to the Mystery/Thriller that was nominated, got my vote, but lost: Cocaine Blues by Kerry Greenwood, the novel in which he introduced Miss Phryne Fisher to the world. Oddly enough, a few days ago I inadvertently watched the TV episode produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation for their "Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries" series while looking through Netflix for something worth watching.