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

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Richard Herley

In England, you can put in a request for a book; the library notifies you when it is available. Maybe something similar operates in France.

Works like that in America too.

[Gibbo]

Started reading Professor Jameson The Planet of the Double Sun by Neil R Jones

[desertgrandma]

"Passage to India".

I must be in the minority. I"m really enjoying it. I love the language, the setting, and watching the characters trying to interact......something, alas, I doubt they'll ever be able to do.
I also like the fact that back then you had to have an ability to carry on a conversation. There was nothing else to do! No TV's, no phones, no Kindles........

[Sparrow]

Originally Posted by desertgrandma

"Passage to India".

I must be in the minority. I"m really enjoying it.

Me too , just finished it and looking forward to hearing what others think later this month - should be interesting!

Just started Stephen King's 'The Stand'.

[desertgrandma]

Originally Posted by Sparrow

Me too , just finished it and looking forward to hearing what others think later this month - should be interesting!

Just started Stephen King's 'The Stand'.

Oh.......if this is your first reading, I envy you. Read slowly and enjoy every minute! My all time favorite..

[Gibbo]

Finished with Professor Jameson very short but I liked it the rest of the series are not out yet, and now I'm deciding between The City at Worlds End by Edmond Hamilton or The Stand

[LazyScot]

Almost finished The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon.

[Elsi]

Originally Posted by Elsi

I have read 10 books so far in October:

• 106. All Mortal Flesh, Julia Spencer-Fleming (2 Oct, Kindle)
• 107. MotherShip, Tony Chandler (4 Oct, Kindle)
• 108. I Shall Not Want, Julia Spencer-Fleming (6 Oct, Kindle)
• 109. Living Dead in Dallas, Charlaine Harris (8 Oct, Kindle)
• 110. Full of Grace, Dorothea Benton Frank (11 Oct, TP)
• 111. Daughter of the Sun, Barbara Wood (13 Oct, TP)
• 112. The Bookman's Promise, John Dunning (17 Oct, MMP)
• 113. Wolf Tower, Tanith Lee (19 Oct, TP)
• 114. Shakespeare's Landlord, Charlaine Harris (22 Oct, MMP)
• 115. The Birth of Venus, Sarah Dunant (26 Oct, TP)

I finished one more book before the end of October and have completed three books so far in November:

• 116. Staying Dead by Laura Anne Gilman (29 Oct, MMP)
• 117. A Dress to Die For by Dolores Johnson (1 Nov, MMP)
• 118. Say It With Poison by Ann Granger (3 Nov, MMP)
• 119. Soul Identity by Dennis Batchelder (5 Nov, Kindle)

The three mass-market paperbacks were owed from online swaps, and they've been mailed off. I was eager to get back to the Kindle, so I quickly read Soul Identity. I don't remember who suggested it, but I'm so glad that I heard about it here at MobileRead. It's a fantastic book. I've read a number of self-published books recently, particularly since many of these are available in eBook formats. I do have to say that this book stands out as one of the very best.

I'm currently re-reading Once a Hero by Elizabeth Moon which I picked up in the October 2008 Webscription bundle. As an experiment, I loaded onto my new Blackberry. I had been skeptical that I'd enjoy reading on the small screen, but it's not bad at all. And, one can be a bit more subversive with the small device than with a full-sized reader.

Also reading 4th of July by James Patterson (paperback), Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson (Sony) and Club Dead by Charlaine Harris (Kindle). I bought A Passage to India for the Kindle and read the first 2 or 3 "pages", then set it aside because I had something more interesting at hand. Will get back to it this week so I'll be ready for discussion next week.

[Tattncat]

Originally Posted by Elsi

I finished one more book before the end of October and have completed three books so far in November:

• 116. Staying Dead by Laura Anne Gilman (29 Oct, MMP)
• 117. A Dress to Die For by Dolores Johnson (1 Nov, MMP)
• 118. Say It With Poison by Ann Granger (3 Nov, MMP)
• 119. Soul Identity by Dennis Batchelder (5 Nov, Kindle)

The three mass-market paperbacks were owed from online swaps, and they've been mailed off. I was eager to get back to the Kindle, so I quickly read Soul Identity. I don't remember who suggested it, but I'm so glad that I heard about it here at MobileRead. It's a fantastic book. I've read a number of self-published books recently, particularly since many of these are available in eBook formats. I do have to say that this book stands out as one of the very best.

I'm currently re-reading Once a Hero by Elizabeth Moon which I picked up in the October 2008 Webscription bundle. As an experiment, I loaded onto my new Blackberry. I had been skeptical that I'd enjoy reading on the small screen, but it's not bad at all. And, one can be a bit more subversive with the small device than with a full-sized reader.

Also reading 4th of July by James Patterson (paperback), Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson (Sony) and Club Dead by Charlaine Harris (Kindle). I bought A Passage to India for the Kindle and read the first 2 or 3 "pages", then set it aside because I had something more interesting at hand. Will get back to it this week so I'll be ready for discussion next week.

My October-November reads:
Lora Leigh's -- Dawn's Awakening, Megan's Mark, Shifter (Anth), Tanner's Scheme, Hot Spell (Anth.), Beyond the Dark (Anth), Mercury's War, Harmony's Way, Wolfe's Hope, The Man Within, Tempting the Beast, Soul Deep, Kiss of Heat, Jacob's Faith, Elizabeth's Wolf, Aiden's Charity, the Magical Christmas Cat
Jules Verne -- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Einstein's Theory of Relativity
Lynn Kurland -- With Every Breath
Megan McKinney -- When Angels Fall
Stephenie Meyer -- Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse (3rd time all three) & Breaking Dawn
Stephenie Meyer -- The Host
Christopher Paolini -- Eregon, Eldest (3rd time both) & Brisingr
Currently reading - A Passage to India
Up on deck:
Gaston Leroux -- the Phantom of the Opera
Sherilyn Kenyon -- One Silent Night
I may have left off a few on the reads, I'll do better from here on out.

[tcv]

I blew through a series of Star Trek books, thanks to JSWolf.

Death in Winter
Resistance
Q&A
Before Dishonor

All of these were Mobipocket formatted book.

Yesterday I read Commodork, a DRM-less PDF.

So, I'm between things now. I am probably going to pick up another ST book.

[RWJ]

Tattncat, what did you think of The Host? I read the Twilight books out of morbid curiosity and found them readable, if somewhat troubling in their "message" to obsessed teen readers.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by Gibbo

Started reading Professor Jameson The Planet of the Double Sun by Neil R Jones

I read that in an edition published by ACE, about 30-odd years ago. ACE published 4 or 5 in that series.

Ridiculous, wonderful fun!


Don

[Tattncat]

Originally Posted by RWJ

Tattncat, what did you think of The Host? I read the Twilight books out of morbid curiosity and found them readable, if somewhat troubling in their "message" to obsessed teen readers.

The Host was incredible, she came up with the most interesting characters and plot. I enjoyed it, probably better than the Twilight Series although they were good too. I like the many tie-ins that were in the Twilight books.

What can I say, I love series books -- Robert Jordan's Wheels of Time, The Hobbit, etc.

[LazyScot]

Originally Posted by Elsi

I'm currently re-reading Once a Hero by Elizabeth Moon which I picked up in the October 2008 Webscription bundle. As an experiment, I loaded onto my new Blackberry. I had been skeptical that I'd enjoy reading on the small screen, but it's not bad at all. And, one can be a bit more subversive with the small device than with a full-sized reader.

What are your thoughts on Once a Hero -- I've not read it. Should I add it to the wish list pile... errr... mountain? (Must learn to read faster.)

[Todd A Fonseca]

Fans of the x-files might like Gary Val Tenuta's Ezekiel code.
full review below:

After taking over as director of a homeless shelter, seminarian dropout Ezekiel “Zeke” Banyon stumbles upon a mysterious document listing a strange series of phrases and numbers in his predecessor’s office. He and Angela Martin, a recently hired employee of the shelter, become fascinated with the odd phrases and codes. They set out on a journey which leads them to believe that the English Alphabet may in fact be a cipher of some kind; that built into the very fabric of the language itself are coded messages that have been there for centuries. But where did this code come from? What message does it contain? What are the implications to humanity?

Zeke and Angela soon find they are not the only ones interested in discovering the secret of the code. Other more nefarious and conspiratorial organizations’ power and future are in Zeke’s hands. Some want to protect him while others want him destroyed.

Gary Tenuta’s Ezekiel Code has elements of Dan Brown’s “The Da Vinci Code” as well as the adventure of Preston and Child’s “The Ice Limit”. Mostly, however, this novel is like an entire season of the X-files packed into one book. Tenuta covers a lot of ground and topics including: acoustic levitation, out of body experiences, area 51, ancient Catholic Church and Jesuit secrets, Mayan calendars and predictions, Isis and the great pyramids, Gematria, parallel universes, the Illuminati, conspiratorial organizations, parallel universes, electronic voice phenomenon, and more. This requires a fairly high suspension of disbelief factor by the reader and Tenuta does a good job integrating these diverse concepts into the story.

While English Gematria, which is the assignment of numerical equivalents of words usually associated with Hebrew, is the main concept driving the Ezekiel code, the pace of the novel can occasionally be interrupted by its frequent appearance. Regardless, I found myself engaged throughout the story and googling a number of the curious and fascinating concepts raised in order to learn more about them. Gary has clearly done considerable research in writing this novel. Fans of the X-files will enjoy The Ezekiel Code.