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

[WT Sharpe]

And now I think I'll take a break and listen to some classic jazz from Duke Ellison.

[alansplace]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

And now I think I'll take a break and listen to some classic jazz from Duke Ellison.

[alansplace]

Originally Posted by alansplace

The Tall Dolores was a quick and a very fun read with a great noir feel to it (I kept visualizing Bogart as Ed Noon)! I'll be reading more of these in the future. I'll probably pick the next one, The Spitting Image (Ed Noon #2) by Michael Avallone if I can get the Kindle Owners' Lending Library to work (I'll have to wait till the start of August to attempt to borrow it).

Originally Posted by alansplace

I went to the store this morning on my PaperWhite and found The Spitting Image. It had a read-for-free button, which I pressed and it said I still had a book out, so I pressed the 'return' button and it said that it was sending The Spitting Image. So the Kindle Owners' Lending Library still works!

I finally got around to starting The Spitting Image So far I've only just read the first chapter. I was drawn right in and am looking forward to the rest of it and then the rest of the series.

But for right now back to the titles I've currently been reading quite diligently!

[little and large]

Originally Posted by MickeyC

Just finished Ready Player One by Ernest Cline and it was a great and very fast read. Next up Drama City by George Pelecanos based the above reco by little and large

I'd say it's seriously good - hope you agree! Let me know.

[WT Sharpe]

I just started Friday the Rabbi Slept Late by Harry Kemelman. So far I'm enjoying it immensely.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

I just started Friday the Rabbi Slept Late by Harry Kemelman. So far I'm enjoying it immensely.

I've read them all in paperback. Most enjoyable.

[Hampshire Nanny]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

I've read them all in paperback. Most enjoyable.

I was disappointed when I got to the end of the series. The characters are very enjoyable and I would have liked to read more about them.

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

I've read them all in paperback. Most enjoyable.

Happily, quite a number of the Rabbi Small books are now available as e-books. Now if only the powers-that-be will get off their hind parts and digitize the Brother Cadfael books.

E-readers have spoiled me. It's rare for me to mess with a printed book these days (although I did just finish one that was unavailable as an e-book). They're so heavy, so hard to keep open, and it's so easy to lose one's place. Paper book lovers can have the smell. I'll take the convenience.

[CRussel]

Originally Posted by CRussel

Also finished L.E. Modisett, Jr.'s The Magic of Recluse. Overall, I enjoyed it quite a bit, though I admit to finding the reader quite annoying in parts (this was an Audible book.) All just in time to jump on a Kindle One Day Sale of all of Modesitt's books for $2.99 each. With most of them having equally cheap WhisperSync versions on Audible. Unfortunately, I only spotted the sale late last night, and it's gone already.

I'm way behind in this thread. Finished The Death of Chaos, the sequel to The Magic of Recluce (but not the next in published order). I think that will be enough of Modesitt for a while. Then read Master and Command, by Patrick O'Brian, the first of the wonderful Aubrey/Maturin series. And now reading Post Captain. I'm doing the O'Brian books as Audible books, all read by Patrick Tull.

Finally, I'm reading Unnatural Issue, #6 in the Elemental Masters series from Mercedes Lackey. I have been reading this series since the beginning, and it's "OK", and a couple of them have actually been pretty good. This one is moving along. Not the best of them (that has to be Reserved for the Cat), but better than the weakest, certainly.

[Hampshire Nanny]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

Happily, quite a number of the Rabbi Small books are now available as e-books. Now if only the powers-that-be will get off their hind parts and digitize the Brother Cadfael books.

Brother Cadfael books are available in eBook format as of 5 August. Publisher is MysteriousPress.com/Open Road. See Brother Cadfael at Amazon. If your library offers borrowing from Freading.com, you can get them there. Since Freading is all ePub format, I'm assuming that they're also available for Nook and Kobo. I'm currently reading book #1, A Morbid Taste for Bones which I downloaded from Freading and sent to my BeBook reader.

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by Hampshire Nanny

Brother Cadfael books are available in eBook format as of 5 August. Publisher is MysteriousPress.com/Open Road. See Brother Cadfael at Amazon. If your library offers borrowing from Freading.com, you can get them there. Since Freading is all ePub format, I'm assuming that they're also available for Nook and Kobo. I'm currently reading book #1, A Morbid Taste for Bones which I downloaded from Freading and sent to my BeBook reader.

That's great! I can't believe they've been available for 9 days now and I haven't bought any yet. I "read" the first three as Blackstone audiobook apps for iPad. At $9.99 each, the price is certainly compatible with print books, but unfortunately, last time I checked, the Blackstone apps are only available for A Morbid Taste for Bones, One Corpse Too Many, and Monk's Hood. Blackstone does offer other books in the series, but as regular audiobooks, not as apps, and certainly not at that greatly reduced price.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Which Next: The Bloodline Feud by Charles Stross, an omnibus of The Family Trade and The Hidden Family, the first two books in his Merchant Princes series.

Excellent! Most enjoyable. An interesting take on parallel worlds and what someone might do. I'm looking forward to the rest in the series.

Next: Another Agatha Christie: After the Funeral.

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

E-readers have spoiled me. It's rare for me to mess with a printed book these days (although I did just finish one that was unavailable as an e-book). They're so heavy, so hard to keep open, and it's so easy to lose one's place. Paper book lovers can have the smell. I'll take the convenience.

I agree completely. I read the Rabbi Small books before I'd switched to ebooks, but after abebooks had arrived, so I could track them all down!

[bfisher]

Originally Posted by Hampshire Nanny

Brother Cadfael books are available in eBook format as of 5 August. Publisher is MysteriousPress.com/Open Road. See Brother Cadfael at Amazon. If your library offers borrowing from Freading.com, you can get them there. Since Freading is all ePub format, I'm assuming that they're also available for Nook and Kobo. I'm currently reading book #1, A Morbid Taste for Bones which I downloaded from Freading and sent to my BeBook reader.

They are also available on Overdrive now. I just noticed that the Ottawa public library has the first four Cadfael books available. I read those two decades ago in pbook. Time for a reread

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Next: Another Agatha Christie: After the Funeral.

Her 53rd mystery, and a very good one. The clues were there! A lot of red herrings too, but I should have seen the solution before it was pointed out.

Next up: The Traders' War by Charles Stross. The second omnibus in his Merchant Princes series, comprising The Clan Corporate and The Merchants' War. I really enjoyed the first omnibus, and I'm looking forward to this one.

[Rev. Bob]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Next up: The Traders' War by Charles Stross. The second omnibus in his Merchant Princes series, comprising The Clan Corporate and The Merchants' War. I really enjoyed the first omnibus, and I'm looking forward to this one.

I've got a pair of long series in my stack that you'd recognize: David Drake's RCN and The General sagas, both at 10 books each now. The latter's got 2 new novels, which has sparked 2-in-1 releases of the previous 8 books. I actually have some overlap in that series; I own both #6 and the 5+6 omnibus as ebooks. The omnibus is much better-formatted; the standalone version of 6 lacks the bold and bold-italic tags that make it clear who's "speaking" a lot of the time. If the standalone versions of 7 and 8 are similarly flawed, I may have to buy THAT omnibus when it comes out in a month or two. I'd have to coupon it, though; I just couldn't justify paying full price to fix the formatting...

And no, I haven't started reading either series yet. The RCN books are on my Glo, but I'm still prepping the General books. I've got the autograph pages and higher-res covers added in, and I've cleaned up some atrocious formatting, but I still need to tidy up the metadata and TOC structure. The work, it never ends...but admittedly, I've been dragging my feet so I could handle book 10 as part of the same batch. If 7 and 8 aren't worthy, I may even reshelve the project until that omnibus comes out.

As for what I am reading - I just finished Ben Bova's Mars, Inc., which was a decent money/political book about funding a private Mars mission. Light on the actual SF, though; its focus is the wrangling, not the mission. I've started Death Warmed Over, first of Kevin J. Anderson's "Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I." series and (last I checked) free on Amazon, with books 2-3 marked down to $2.99 each and book 4 due out Real Soon Now. That's another "e-signed" series in my collection, and since the local book club needed a book for this month, it was a prime opportunity.