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

[mewmartigan]

Finished the Harry Potter books....hadn't read 6 and 7 before. Glad I have, they were good.

Now I am going through Brandon Sanderson's Reckoners series. I enjoyed Steelheart and Firefight. Now halfway through Calamity.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Next up: The 4.50 from Paddington by Agatha Christie. An excellent Miss Marple mystery. Most enjoyable so far.

And it was indeed excellent.

Next up: No Wind of Blame by Georgette Heyer.

[orlok]

Just finished List of the Lost by Morrissey. As I said in my GR review, this was a very literary read. and needs a lot of focus. I had to reread sentences again and again to get the meaning, but felt it was worth the effort. I read it in a day, and have to say Morrissey is either a genius or a nutcase, and I'm veering towards genius.

[WT Sharpe]

Just finished Black Hole by Charles Burns, a very strange and hallucinogenic 368 page graphic novel. A not too shoddy tale of shoddy outsider teenagers and the unpleasant physical mutations they suffer as a result of a strange, sexually transmitted virus. This one might make it to the big screen. Some web sites are claiming that Neil Gaiman is writing the screenplay.

[DiapDealer]

Just started Wesley Chu's The Lives of Tao. A spy vs spy type thriller with ancient aliens, humor, and an immense, world-spanning secret war thrown in for good measure. What's not to love?

It's book one of a completed trilogy, by the way.

[Tarana]

Finished The Gold Seekers and The Gallant by William Stuart Long (Vivian Stuart). Both great books. I highly recommend these historical fiction novels. Both have villians you get to hate throughout the book. After a couple of lackluster cozies, I have moved on to The Orient Express by Agatha Christie and will spend the last 2 days of the month reading Asimov's and Lightspeed magazines. I'm so behind on those!

[Cinisajoy]

Reading "Chicken Soup for the Couple's Soul.
It is short stories about _____.

[cromag]

Originally Posted by cromag

"And now for something different!"

I was going through my TBR backlog and happened upon Enter the Janitor, by Josh Vogt. Basically, the Janitors are part of an organization that cleanses the world of corruption -- they kill supernatural monsters. I've only just started, but it looks like fun.

Originally Posted by Dngrsone

It's in my pile. Do let me know if it's any good.

I've just finished Forever Odd by Dean Koontz. Not sure what direction I will go next.

Originally Posted by Dngrsone

Finished Enter the Janitor by Josh Vogt ; good read, weird take on the good vs. evil thing, and kept me guessing most of the time. I have the sequel queued up, but as has been my habit lately, I will read something different in between.
...

Ha! You beat me to the post.

I liked it, too. I especially liked the way the author made it a non-religious conflict -- no holy water or crosses.

Right now things have busied up, again, so I'm planning on reading some short stories.

[Dngrsone]

Originally Posted by cromag

Ha! You beat me to the post.

I liked it, too. I especially liked the way the author made it a non-religious conflict -- no holy water or crosses.

Right now things have busied up, again, so I'm planning on reading some short stories.

Heh... some of those asterisks tripped me up, particularly the "***" ones. Took me a while to figure a couple of them out.

About a third of the way through the Ellen DeGeneres book; not very compelling, so I may switch out and read that sequel.

Though I've been eyeballing this hacking bundle over at Humble...

[DrNefario]

I finished Chains of Command by Marko Kloos yesterday, the brand-new 4th book in his Frontlines mil-SF series, published by Amazon's 47North imprint. I enjoyed it. I don't think I found it quite as gripping as some of the earlier installments - I seem to have taken about a week to read it, which is longer than the previous books - but I thought the story was better than book 3, and I can now see how the series might go forward.

Next up I'm thinking Deep Wizardry by Diane Duane, the second Young Wizards book. Should be a quick light read.

[Strether]

Originally Posted by DrNefario

I finished Chains of Command by Marko Kloos yesterday, the brand-new 4th book in his Frontlines mil-SF series, published by Amazon's 47North imprint. I enjoyed it. I don't think I found it quite as gripping as some of the earlier installments - I seem to have taken about a week to read it, which is longer than the previous books - but I thought the story was better than book 3, and I can now see how the series might go forward.

I just finished the first of the series yesterday, having discovered it on Kindle Unlimited. It reminded me a bit of one of Charles Sheffield's juveniles, with a lot of David Weber (lots of battles) thrown in. I did enjoy it enough to download the second one.

Jim

[cromag]

Originally Posted by Dngrsone

Heh... some of those asterisks tripped me up, particularly the "***" ones. Took me a while to figure a couple of them out.
...

Hmm, don't know what it says about me, but I had no trouble with those **** asterisks.

[drjd]

Originally Posted by drjd;3307619Finished [I

(1959) - Pass the Gravy[/I], the case of missing alcoholic uncle, and Kept Women Can't Quit (1960) - An armored car is robbed while the two guards are inside having donuts and coffee and ogling the waitresses; and when Police Detective Frank Sellers catches one of the robbers, he is accused of pocketing the loot for himself. Naturally, he puts the pressure on detective Donald Lam to solve the case for him, gratis, and get him off the hook.

Next up : Bachelors Get Lonely (1961) by Erle Stanley Gardner.

Just finished Bachelors Get Lonely (1961) by [I]Erle Stanley Gardner. For the first time, Donald is offered by Bertha to spend his time as he would wish.

‘Just what you’re supposed to be doing as a gentleman of leisure,’ Bertha said, ‘going to the races and the ball games…. Dammit, it makes me mad to think of me slaving here in the office while you’re getting your expenses paid going around to ball games, horse races, cocktail lounges and high-class restaurants.’

‘Expenses come high,’ Donald said, ‘going to horse races, ball games, taking dames out to—’

'Dammit to hell,’ Bertha screamed, ‘you’re not a millionaire! You’re just a lousy punk who’s got it made and would be interested as hell in an income of two hundred and fifty to five hundred and fifty on that lot. Don’t think you’re going to play Prince Charming to a bunch of these tramps that—.....'

Spoiler:

But the case turns into two incidents involving a Peeping Tom in a Motel. Bertha, who has warned Donald to steer clear of the dangerous jobs and stick to aiding solid, sane citizens like Carson. And all Carson wants is the name of the informer in his office who is passing on confidential material to a business rival. When the rival is murdered at the Motel, it looks as though Bertha has picked the wrong client....

Next up, (1961) - Shills Can't Cash Chips by Erle Stanley Gardner.

[HarryT]

Just finished "The Silver Crown", by Joel Rosenberg. This is the third book in the "Guardians of the Flame" fantasy series, and forms the final third (actually the final 40%) of the Baen omnibus also called "The Guardians of the Flame", which I bought in 2003. Excellent fantasy; the series started out fairly average, but it got better in book 2 and even better in book 3. Highly recommended.

[Dngrsone]

Halfway through Ellen's book and had to put it aside. Working on the third Odd Thomas instead.