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Pulpmeister · 03-15-2016, 01:52 AM

And the two other books in the Omnibus

Don Camillo and the Prodigal Son (1953) (Mondo Piccolo: Don Camillo e il suo gregge)
Don Camillo's Dilemma (1954)

were translated by Frances Frenaye

drjd · 03-15-2016, 05:32 AM

Finished today Cats Prowl at Night by Erle Stanley Gardner. Next up - Give 'Em the Ax (An Ax to Grind).

HarryT · 03-15-2016, 08:20 AM

Just finished "Trancendence", by Charles Sheffield (which my spelling checker insists should be spelt "Transcendence", which I agree with). This is the first half of the Baen omnibus called "Transvergence", and the third book in the "Heritage Universe" series. A direct continuation of the story starting in the first two books in the series. Excellent hard SF, very much along the lines of Clarke's "Rendezvous with Rama", with the theme of the exploration of ancient alien artefacts. Superb series which gets better and better with each book.

Dngrsone · 03-15-2016, 11:52 AM

I blew through Science Ink by Carl Zimmer... it may surprise some people how many PhDs and the like have tattoos. At any rate, I was eager to and have already read halfway through Please Don't Tell My Parent I've Got Henchmen by Richard Roberts. This is kind of depressing, since this just came out and these are my favorite books so far this year...

orlok · 03-15-2016, 05:49 PM

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The older translated version is not in ebook format, then?

Do you know if volume 2 and 3 are newer translations?

Thanks!

No I don't believe any of the original translations are in ebook format. I'm going to hunt down the pbooks if I can, as I don't fancy reading a "PC" translation.

KyBunnies · 03-15-2016, 05:51 PM

Anyone read Father Dowling series by Ralph McInerny? I am attempting to set up my 2017 reading challenge and I was looking at this author. Since I am almost finished with this year's challenge I am starting to look to next year.

KyBunnies · 03-15-2016, 06:09 PM

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Currently reading The Callaways series by Barbara Freethy. I finished book 1 earlier this morning and started book two.

I finished book 2 in this series. and started book 3. This series is part of my Indie 2016 challenge read.

I finished this series. It was a fun series with romantic suspense elements.

I am very behind in posting. However, I have finished several books.

The Weekday Brides series by Catherine Bybee
Whole Latte Life by Joanne Demaio
When I Found You by Catherine Ryan Hyde
Lake Manawa Summer series by Lorna Seilstad
The Duchess Hunt by Jennifer Haymore
Maybe This Time by Barbara Breeton
Kill or Be Kilt by Victoria Roberts (ARC copy)
Brainrush series by Richard Bard
A Lady Like Sarah by Margaret Brownley (first in the Rocky Creek Romance series)
Immortal Redeemed by Linda Thomas-Sundstrom (ARC copy)

I have started London Psychic series by J.F. Penn. I have finished the first book and it WOW'ed me. Can't wait to start the second book in this series.

The following books/series were part of my 2016 reading challenge:
The Weekday Brides series by Catherine Bybee - 4 star overall for series
Whole Latte Life by Joanne Demaio - 4.5 stars
Brainrush series by Richard Bard - 5 star overall for series.

eschwartz · 03-15-2016, 06:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Dngrsone

I blew through Science Ink by Carl Zimmer... it may surprise some people how many PhDs and the like have tattoos. At any rate, I was eager to and have already read halfway through Please Don't Tell My Parent I've Got Henchmen by Richard Roberts. This is kind of depressing, since this just came out and these are my favorite books so far this year...

Indeed -- the "Please Don't Tell My Parents..." series is one of my recent favorites. (I am not sure I am ready to declare them my absolute favorite...)

And I just started and I'm already done with them all... now I have to wait months/year for a new one...

It's one of the "worst" things about discovering an amazing new series.

...

Currently reading Three Days to Dead, by Kelly Meding.
Urban Fantasy, involves various malicious or ambivalent magical races (elves, goblins, were-fill-in-blanks, and of course the mostly-vampires). The main character (part of a group of "troubled youth" forcibly recruited into covert ops/magic police/foot soldiers of humanity) died and was resurrected in the middle of a confusing plot that will undoubtedly spell the end of humanity, etc...
As the title indicates, she has three days until she dies again, and first she has to figure out why she's back anyway. It doesn't help that her own people think she killed her own squad and are hunting her...

I've also been reading various Harry Potter fancfiction recently, and actually discovered some pretty good (publication-quality) stuff.

Hampshire Nanny · 03-15-2016, 06:45 PM

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This morning I finished reading Concealed in Death by Nora Roberts writing as J. D. Robb. It's #38 in the series (of 42 so far, 2 more titles & release dates have been announced). I plan to catch up in the next month or so.

Now reading Fool Moon by Jim Butcher -- Dresden Files #2. So far, so good.

I've been away from my online forums (fora?) for a while, but haven't stopped reading. Finished Fool Moon, then read Bookishly Ever After by Isabel Bandeira, a cute YA novel and then Festive in Death by J. D. Robb, the 39th Eve Dallas mystery. After that, I read Beside Still Waters, a cozy mystery by Debbie Viguié.

Currently reading Obsession in Death by J. D. Robb and I'm listening to The Revolving Door of Life by Alexander McCall Smith, a 44 Scotland Street novel.

Dazrin · 03-16-2016, 01:00 AM

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Next up: I forgot my Kindle at home today so Odd Apocalypse by Dean Koontz (Odd Thomas book 5) will wait till Monday. For now I am reading Thing Explainer by Randall Munroe which didn't work on my old Kindle even though it is a Kindle book, it does work in the app though so I have been reading it as filler material for a while.

Edit: Decided to start The Helmsman by Bill Baldwin, the first in this space opera/military sci-fi series. I am enjoying it so far.

I really enjoyed The Helmsman, I will have to find the next one soon.

Now I think I will start Odd Apocalypse.

Dngrsone · 03-16-2016, 11:39 AM

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Originally Posted by eschwartz

Indeed -- the "Please Don't Tell My Parents..." series is one of my recent favorites. (I am not sure I am ready to declare them my absolute favorite...)

And I just started and I'm already done with them all... now I have to wait months/year for a new one...

It's one of the "worst" things about discovering an amazing new series.

...

Currently reading Three Days to Dead, by Kelly Meding.
Urban Fantasy, involves various malicious or ambivalent magical races (elves, goblins, were-fill-in-blanks, and of course the mostly-vampires). The main character (part of a group of "troubled youth" forcibly recruited into covert ops/magic police/foot soldiers of humanity) died and was resurrected in the middle of a confusing plot that will undoubtedly spell the end of humanity, etc...
As the title indicates, she has three days until she dies again, and first she has to figure out why she's back anyway. It doesn't help that her own people think she killed her own squad and are hunting her...

I've also been reading various Harry Potter fancfiction recently, and actually discovered some pretty good (publication-quality) stuff.

Yeah, I saw it coming, but I at least there's only three books to reread when the next one comes (if it ever does)... unlike, say GoT, which will take me a month just to prepare for the new book.

That premise sounds pretty interesting... though I'm not normally a fan of urban fiction per se, I'm always up for a good story, with good characterizations.

Right now, I'm reading Bloodsworth: The True Story of the First Death Row Inmate Exonerated by DNA Evidence by Tim Junkin. What's with non-fic authors and paragraph-sized titles?

Ooh, I just remembered, my library called; I have to go check out and read a dead-tree book...

eschwartz · 03-16-2016, 12:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Dngrsone

Yeah, I saw it coming, but I at least there's only three books to reread when the next one comes (if it ever does)... unlike, say GoT, which will take me a month just to prepare for the new book.

*groan*
Don't remind me -- I'm not usually a reread-to-prepare-for-the-next-book person (I may reread anyway but not for that)... but for GoT I'm going to have to make a special exception!

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That premise sounds pretty interesting... though I'm not normally a fan of urban fiction per se, I'm always up for a good story, with good characterizations.

I am a general fan of urban fantasy.

This one is shaping up to be about average, which is to say I'm enjoying it a lot even if it isn't anything particularly extraordinary.

Dngrsone · 03-16-2016, 02:48 PM

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Originally Posted by eschwartz

*groan*
Don't remind me -- I'm not usually a reread-to-prepare-for-the-next-book person (I may reread anyway but not for that)... but for GoT I'm going to have to make a special exception!

LOL

Hit the library, and I have two books to read-- The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore and Kicking and Dreaming: A Story of Heart, Soul and Rock & Roll by Ann & Nancy Wilson with Charles R. Cross.

I am starting with Wonder Woman, though I will likely also read Bloodworth at times when toting the hardcover around is impractical.

drjd · 03-17-2016, 12:44 PM

Just finished Give 'Em the Ax (An Ax to Grind). Next up : Crows Can't Count, again by Erle Stanley Gardner. I am devoting this entire month to Erle's novels.

KyBunnies · 03-17-2016, 12:53 PM

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Originally Posted by KyBunnies

I finished this series. It was a fun series with romantic suspense elements.

I am very behind in posting. However, I have finished several books.

The Weekday Brides series by Catherine Bybee
Whole Latte Life by Joanne Demaio
When I Found You by Catherine Ryan Hyde
Lake Manawa Summer series by Lorna Seilstad
The Duchess Hunt by Jennifer Haymore
Maybe This Time by Barbara Breeton
Kill or Be Kilt by Victoria Roberts (ARC copy)
Brainrush series by Richard Bard
A Lady Like Sarah by Margaret Brownley (first in the Rocky Creek Romance series)
Immortal Redeemed by Linda Thomas-Sundstrom (ARC copy)

I have started London Psychic series by J.F. Penn. I have finished the first book and it WOW'ed me. Can't wait to start the second book in this series.

The following books/series were part of my 2016 reading challenge:
The Weekday Brides series by Catherine Bybee - 4 star overall for series
Whole Latte Life by Joanne Demaio - 4.5 stars
Brainrush series by Richard Bard - 5 star overall for series.

I have finished London Psychic series by J.F. Penn. This was an amazing series. I highly enjoyed it and recommend it. Not quite mystery but not quite paranormal.

Also finished the following:
Trust Me by Margaret Watson (4-star author read/review request)
The K2 Virus by Scott Rhine (ARC copy 5 stars

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03-15-2016, 01:52 AM	#23671
Pulpmeister Wizard Posts: 2,825 Karma: 29145056 Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Perth Western Australia Device: kindle	And the two other books in the Omnibus Don Camillo and the Prodigal Son (1953) (Mondo Piccolo: Don Camillo e il suo gregge) Don Camillo's Dilemma (1954) were translated by Frances Frenaye

03-15-2016, 05:32 AM	#23672
drjd The Couch Potato Posts: 34,509 Karma: 230999999 Join Date: Aug 2015 Device: Kobo Glo, Kobo Touch, Archos 9, Onyx Boox C67ML Carta	Finished today Cats Prowl at Night by Erle Stanley Gardner. Next up - Give 'Em the Ax (An Ax to Grind).

03-15-2016, 08:20 AM	#23673
HarryT eBook Enthusiast Posts: 85,556 Karma: 93383099 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis 2, iPad Pro 10.5", iPhone 6	Just finished "Trancendence", by Charles Sheffield (which my spelling checker insists should be spelt "Transcendence", which I agree with). This is the first half of the Baen omnibus called "Transvergence", and the third book in the "Heritage Universe" series. A direct continuation of the story starting in the first two books in the series. Excellent hard SF, very much along the lines of Clarke's "Rendezvous with Rama", with the theme of the exploration of ancient alien artefacts. Superb series which gets better and better with each book.

03-15-2016, 11:52 AM	#23674
Dngrsone Almost legible Posts: 1,457 Karma: 4611110 Join Date: Dec 2013 Location: In a high desert, CA Device: Galaxy Note 9, Galaxy Tab A (2017), Likebook P78	I blew through Science Ink by Carl Zimmer... it may surprise some people how many PhDs and the like have tattoos. At any rate, I was eager to and have already read halfway through Please Don't Tell My Parent I've Got Henchmen by Richard Roberts. This is kind of depressing, since this just came out and these are my favorite books so far this year...

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03-17-2016, 12:44 PM	#23684
drjd The Couch Potato Posts: 34,509 Karma: 230999999 Join Date: Aug 2015 Device: Kobo Glo, Kobo Touch, Archos 9, Onyx Boox C67ML Carta	Just finished Give 'Em the Ax (An Ax to Grind). Next up : Crows Can't Count, again by Erle Stanley Gardner. I am devoting this entire month to Erle's novels.