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

[John F]

I've got a great recent line up...

Read:

Small Wars by Lee Child
Go Set a Watchman

I'm reading: At the Water's Edge by Sara Gruen

And on deck:

Make Me by Lee Child
X by Sue Grafton
The Girl in the Spider's Web
and maybe Candide

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Next up: Grantville Gazette #61

Which was the expected fun. I do like the painters serial.
I also finished the last of the Jeeves short stories. All excellent.

Next up: The Language of Power by Rosemary Kirstein. The fourth (& currently last) in her Steerswoman series.

[Hampshire Nanny]

I'm still reading The Rose Rent, the 13th Brother Cadfael mystery by Ellis Peters. I find that although these are fairly short books, they actually "read slow", if you understand what I mean.

Library called yesterday to let me know that they had The Aloha Quilt ready for me to pick up. It's the 16th book in Jennifer Chiaverini's Elm Creek Quilters series. I should be starting it today some time.

[Dngrsone]

Now reading New Amsterdam by Elizabeth Bear. I just got a dead-tree book in the mail that I enjoy reading on a regular basis, so I will be splitting my time between two books again...

[CRussel]

Originally Posted by CRussel

I've been going through a "re-read" patch. Primarily, I think, because I got burned out with several "meh" books that I'd had high hopes for. (And at least one series that started out great, but got seriously boring.) So I've been re-reading some old favourites. First, a complete re-read of Stieg Larson's Millennium Trilogy. What a pleasure that was! Then I read the new one, NOT by Stieg Larson, The Girl in the Spider's Web. Not bad, but not quite as good as the Stieg Larson books. Now I've started re-reading the Phryne Fisher series from Kerry Greenwood, starting with Cocaine Blues. Enjoying it the second time just as much as the first. These are seriously fun books.

And finished Cocaine Blues. Excellent. I enjoyed it even more this second read, as I picked up pieces that I'd missed the first time through.

Moving on to Flying Too High, the second in the series. This one introduces Mr. and Mrs. Butler as Phryne starts to build her Melbourne circle of associates.

[Dazrin]

Originally Posted by Dazrin

Bummer, that isn't available yet, so instead I will be reading Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter which my library decided to advertise as "just returned" when I logged in. Should be ... interesting.

Finished this today and enjoyed it quite a bit more than I was expecting. I will have to find the second book sometime.

Guards! Guards! is still on hold and not available so I will need to find something else to read in the mean time.

[Dngrsone]

Well, finished New Amsterdam. Started reading Why We Eat What We Eat: How the Encounter Between the New World and the Old Changed the Way Everyone on the Planet Eats by Raymond Sokolov. That's a mouthful, ain't it?

I have a problem. The book I ordered has a different subtitle: "How Columbus Changed the Way the World Eats" and was the 1993 paperback. What I got was the 1991 hardcover. Don’t know what the differences (if any) are between the two publishings. :/

At any rate, I'm reading the one I got and also reading the ebook Three, last of the Codename: Chandler series...

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Next up: The Language of Power by Rosemary Kirstein. The fourth (& currently last) in her Steerswoman series.

Which was enjoyable, and I suspect we can all see where the plot is going now.

But we'll all have to wait! Apparently there are two more books planned, but not yet written. Sigh. I thought the series was finished, when I bought them....


Next up: F&SF, September 2015.

[din155]

Listened to the His dark materials Trilogy (Golden compass for those who watched the movie). Was a fun read. I would say the first book was the best out out of three. Ending seemed a little rushed but I still enjoyed it.

Next I finished reading Candide by Voltaire. Best satirical book for me after a long time. Poking fun at everything from philosophy, religion, nations, races and self. It was a mobileread selection for this month and I would happily recommend it.

Still thinking of what to pick next...

[Hampshire Nanny]

I've been plodding along in the Brother Cadfael series, recently finishing #13, The Rose Rent. I say "plodding" because even though I really enjoy these books, I find that they "read slow". Some books are just like that. Whereas, I flew through The Aloha Quilt by Jennnifer Chiaverini and New York to Dallas by Nora Roberts writing as J. D. Robb.

Now I'm reading Jade Dragon Mountain by Elsa Hart. I saw a recommendation online -- could have even been here at MobileRead -- and put a hold on it at the library. It's a mystery set in the early 18th century in China. So far, it's pretty good. I borrowed the next Brother Cadfael book (The Hermit of Eyton Forest) from the library, so I'll be starting it very soon.

[CRussel]

Originally Posted by din155

Listened to the His dark materials Trilogy (Golden compass for those who watched the movie). Was a fun read. I would say the first book was the best out out of three. Ending seemed a little rushed but I still enjoyed it.

Next I finished reading Candide by Voltaire. Best satirical book for me after a long time. Poking fun at everything from philosophy, religion, nations, races and self. It was a mobileread selection for this month and I would happily recommend it.

Still thinking of what to pick next...

Not available as a eBook, unfortunately, but there is an excellent audio book of Pullman's Tiger in the Smoke, the first in his Sally Lockhart historical mystery series. Highly recommended.

[din155]

Originally Posted by CRussel

Not available as a eBook, unfortunately, but there is an excellent audio book of Pullman's Tiger in the Smoke, the first in his Sally Lockhart historical mystery series. Highly recommended.

Thanks CRussel. Looking forward to read it as soon as I get the library copy.

I started reading Shift (Wool Trilogy book 2) by Hugh Howey. Hoping it is as exciting as Wool.

[orlok]

I'm reading my first non-ebook in a couple of years, Trigger Mortis by Anthony Horowitz, the latest in the James Bond canon. I was browsing the bookshop (Waterstones) as you do, and saw it there in all its hardback glory, and decided for once to buy the pbook version. Not bad so far, though I'm not sure it captures Fleming's voice as well as his Sherlock Homes books capture Doyle's.

[HomeInMyShoes]

^I was browsing the bookshop and picked up The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro. After twinging my wrist I put it back on the shelf. There's a book that needs to be available as an eBook.

Currently reading more Jasper Fforde.

[issybird]

Originally Posted by HomeInMyShoes

^I was browsing the bookshop and picked up The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro. After twinging my wrist I put it back on the shelf. There's a book that needs to be available as an eBook.

Hah! I gave up waiting for it as an ebook and am listening to the audiobook, all 66+ hours of it, as you know. But I decided I'd like the hard copy to see the pictures and notes, so yesterday (when I could park near the university library instead of packing that back-breaker out to the perimeter of campus) I borrowed it.

Just as an FYI, this is far from hagiography, as I know you feared. Early days and Moses was already portrayed as mendacious and corrupt. He learned the lesson of how to get things done a tad too well.

I'm on part four of ten. My tactic is to break it up with other listens, but while I think it could and should be shorter, at the same time it's endlessly fascinating. Perhaps not so much to someone who didn't have an interest in urban development (I don't) or the politics of New York, city and state (I do).