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Location: Here on the perimeter, there are no stars
Device: Kobo H2O, iPad mini 3, Kindle Touch
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I'm following the two King books with one, maybe both, of the Clifford Simak books on my challenge list. I've started A Heritage of Stars, and may follow it with Time and Again.
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Location: 33.9388° N, 117.2716° W
Device: Kindles K-2, K-KB, PW 1 & 2, Voyage, Fire 2, 5 & HD 8, Surface 3, iPad
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The Grand Mouse 高貴的老鼠
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Norfolk, England
Device: Kindle Oasis
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SIgh. I'd hoped I'd remembered incorrectly, but later Hogan just isn't for me. Next up: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 2015. [EDIT: Also read freebie short story Bernado's House by James Patrick Kelly] Last edited by pdurrant; 01-12-2015 at 07:18 AM. |
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Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: Florida
Device: Kindle
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Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake.
It's how I spend bonding with my 13 year old niece who likes horror stories. Apparently she has good tastes in books. I find the story very appealing and I'm drawn especially to the ghost (never thought I'd ever say that!) |
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: UK
Device: Kindle Oasis 2, iPad Pro 10.5", iPhone 6
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Two books recently completed:
Wool by Hugh Howey. Excellent "distopian" SF about people living in a "silo" - an underground city - in the US, centuries after what appears to have been a nuclear or chemical warfare attack. Speculating about the outside world or expressing a desire to leave is strictly forbidden, the punishment being expulsion from the silo into the toxic outside world where life expectancy is only minutes. Very, very good indeed. Extremely highly recommended! Stars Over Stars by K.D. Wentworth. I bought this from Baen in 2001. A sequel to the earlier "Black on Black". Baen description: Quote:
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Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: In a high desert, CA
Device: Galaxy Note 9, Galaxy Tab A (2017), Likebook P78
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Finished the Mistborn trilogy... just in time for school to start.
Need to find something light and fast until I find out what my workload/reading list will be in class. |
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Tampa, FL
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I am engrossed in two books right now:
Darknet - Matthew Mather This is a follow-up, not a sequel, to his novel Cyberstorm from a year or so ago. It comes out in March, but I have an ARC of it thanks to Mr. Mather. 51% right now and struggling to find time to read, but I am really enjoying it. The Empty Quarter - David L. Robbins Currently at 46% on this one, and it just hit a huge plot line that should escalate things quite quickly, but I have moved it aside for the time being since I was so excited for Darknet. Hopefully I can finish these up in time to squeeze in a re-read of The Hobbit, but I have to be done with that by February 6th, so it will be close. If I can't get to it before, I will move Hobbit to after the Powder Mage series concludes. |
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#21488 |
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Join Date: Aug 2014
Location: Mauritius
Device: Kindle Paperwhite 4
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Death Masks (The Dresden Files #5)
by Jim Butcher - 2/5 I won't linger too much on the autopsy of what I read. This book died on me. It came as unexpected. Someone told me that Summer Knight was a disappointment and Death Masks its superior. The fact that for me the reverse was true shouldn't have been a surprise. But books' reputations cannot be counted on. They are unreliable. Fear not, you'll take something from reading Death Masks. I did too. But, such rewards were too few.I think that the presence of a character such as Shiro complicated matters. The two major happenings to Shiro were treated shallowly. I mean Dresden got over the first Shiro event by making out with his belle(more of that later, or that's what I'd say if I wanted to write uselessly about Jim Butcher's love litanies), and got over the second by bellowing out a big yee-haw! I thought Bob's complete and utter disappearance was a non sequitur. I thought the Dresden world got bigger. I thought the magic was nothing new. The little kids like Molly and "Ivy" added little. The one with the best role in the end was Marcone. I don't want to like a drug baron. But in the end, the things that can please me were simply in short supply here. Reading is, for the discerning, a gamble. That's how it should be. I'll be there when it pays off. |
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Southeast Michigan, USA
Device: Kindle Oasis; 11" iPad Pro (Books, Kindle, Kobo, MapleRead SE)
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Going through the unread books on my Sony, I've decided to read The Professor by Charlotte Bronte. I'm not reading the one from Sony though; I'm reading a copy downloaded from Feedbooks. (I couldn't find an epub version in the MobileRead library.)
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Sunshine Coast, BC
Device: Oasis (Gen3),Paperwhite (Gen10), Voyage, Paperwhite(orig), iPad Air M3
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Next up, another KU freebie, Protocol for a Kidnapping, a Ross Thomas book featuring Philip St. Ives, a professional go-between. These books were originally published under the pseudonym "Oliver Bleeck". Should be fast, fun read. |
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: PDXish
Device: Kindle Voyage, various Android devices
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I finished the Harry Potter series on Friday but rather than re-starting the James Potter series like I had anticipated I am going to take a break from the Potterverse with NOS4A2 by Joe Hill. Should be a good change of pace. I haven't read anything from Joe Hill before so this should also give me an idea of whether more is worth it or not. I really want some espionage/military/special forces thriller novels, but couldn't find anything on my wish list at my library. I would like something similar to the early Jack Ryan books or a Mitch Rapp or ??? I don't care much for Jack Reacher or James Rollins (Sigma Force). I have read the Ludlum Bourne books (couldn't get into Van Lusterbader.) Any suggestions that might be available at the library? I have a couple Baldacci titles (Camel Club, Split Second and The Innocent which are the starts of 3 different series) and Point of Impact by Stephen Hunter on hold but I am a ways down the list. These titles were from the FAQ thread, Espionage authors you (and I) should read, but I am hoping for something that is available sooner. |
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Location: Here on the perimeter, there are no stars
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Oh, Marcone's far more complicated than a simple "drug baron" - and Molly comes to play quite a major role in the series. You have to plant seeds if you ever want to harvest the fruit, and Butcher has a long plan.
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Location: Mauritius
Device: Kindle Paperwhite 4
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I'm looking forward to the rest of the books, despite this stumble.
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Location: 33.9388° N, 117.2716° W
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Surfin the alpha waves ~~
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: New Jersey
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The Saberhagen story, Young Girl at an Open Half-door was a great time travel short! I vaguely remembered the setting, but had completely forgotten the storyline and details. Today's me would rank it the best story in the magazine. It appears that this story was reprinted in a paperback anthology of Saberhagen's entitled My Best, but it doesn't look like it has ever been reissued as an ebook. Which is a shame. I haven't completely read the issue, but I rarely read magazines or anthologies in one go. Now, I've started Lovers & Fighters, Starships & Dragons, an anthology of stories by Tom Purdom -- on my ereader. The opening story, Fossil Games, was very good! |
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