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

[Hampshire Nanny]

I just finished reading The Outskirter's Secret, second in the Steerswoman series by Rosemary Kirstein. EXCELLENT book and I'm champing at the bit to get to the next in the series. However, I just downloaded a couple of books from the library which I am now obligated to read before the return dates: The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury, as well as Commitment Hour and Vigilant, the 2nd and 3rd books in James Alan Gardner's League of Peoples series. All science fiction, but I'm sure I'll slip a cozy mystery in there to break things up.

[CRussel]

Originally Posted by Apache

I have been reading the Bruno Chief of Police Series in order because the newest book is out in the UK and will be released in the US on June 21, 2016. I will be finishing book eight this morning and starting the new one Fatal Pursuit immediately after. I love this series and it is rapidly becoming my favorite. All eight are wonderful and I fully expect number nine to be as good. I originally started this series because of MR Forum members recommendations. I thank all of you and highly recommend this series.
Apache

Great series. I hadn't realized that the new one was coming out this month. I've gone ahead and ordered it while recommending it to my library as well. Thanks for the reminder.

[Apache]

I was unable to wait and bought it from Amazon UK.
Apache

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by arcadata

Currently reading Book 1 in Stephen King's Dark Tower series - some years ago, I read up to Book 4 but ran out of steam, and never finished the series. Now that the movie is in production, I've decided to try again and this time, reach the end of the series. It's a tall order (8 books!)

It's not too bad. The 8 books total 1.3m words. That's the same as the first four books of Martin's "Song of Ice and Fire" series, and only about a third the length of the "Wheel of Time" series.

[Dngrsone]

Currently reading The Assembler of Parts by Raoul Wientzen.

I am liking it so far... I know I'll be crying by the end of it.

[DebSP]

Just finished "The Rosie Project" by Graeme Simsion. Very good.
Now I am reading the first book in the Inspector Ramsay series. "A Lesson in Dying" by Ann Cleeves.


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[orlok]

Started A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness last night, and finished the rest of it in one sitting this morning. A wonderful modern fairy tale that had me totally absorbed, and by the end, very emotional. Dealing as it does with such a difficult subject, it is moving and powerful and beautiful. And you will cry.

[HarryT]

Finished "Way of the Pilgrim", by Gordon R. Dickson. Shane Evert is a translator working for the alien Aalaag, who have conquered Earth and regard humans as no more than "cattle" to be exploited. When a single Aalaag warrior could destroy all life on Earth, how can they possibly be defeated?

I first read this book about 30 years ago (in fact I remember exactly when I read it - it was on a plane journey from Manchester, England, to Chicago - my first ever time on a plane!) and I remember being extremely impressed by it. For many years, though, I couldn't remember who the author was, so I was delighted to recently "rediscover" it in Gollancz's "SF Gateway" imprint. I'm happy to say that it stood the test of time, and I enjoyed it as much re-reading it as I did all those years ago. Very, very highly recommended.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by orlok

Started A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness last night, and finished the rest of it in one sitting this morning. A wonderful modern fairy tale that had me totally absorbed, and by the end, very emotional. Dealing as it does with such a difficult subject, it is moving and powerful and beautiful. And you will cry.

This looked so interesting that I bought it.

Here's the link for Amazon (USA):

https://www.amazon.com/Monster-Calls...ll+ness+kindle


Thank you!

[orlok]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

This looked so interesting that I bought it.

Here's the link for Amazon (USA):

https://www.amazon.com/Monster-Calls...ll+ness+kindle


Thank you!

Welcome! I see you have linked to the Kindle edition. Unusually for me, I ordered the hardback, as it is full of moody illustrations that really add something to the atmosphere. But I doubt it will dent your enjoyment at all.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by orlok

Welcome! I see you have linked to the Kindle edition. Unusually for me, I ordered the hardback, as it is full of moody illustrations that really add something to the atmosphere. But I doubt it will dent your enjoyment at all.

Actually, I would have ordered the book if I lived in the U.S., but I'm currently 'serving time' here in Peru.

[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

After a long time languishing unnoticed on my TBR, I picked up the first couple Wheel of Time paperbacks at the library for Shabbos/Yom Tov reading.

Currently 1/4 of the way through book 5, and as expected I am enjoying it a lot.

I really should have started it a long time ago, but aaaghhhhhhhhhh so many choices!!!
Still it gives me something to read when I can't use my Kindle. At this rate, I might be set for the better part of a year I know Shabbos reading time is less... available, but somehow I didn't expect to be this slow. An odd feeling, that.

[cromag]

Originally Posted by cromag

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Next up will be the new issues of Analog and Asimov's.

And I also wound up reading Buck Fever, by Ben Rehder. A mystery set in south Texas involving an honest game warden, a sheriff with a more flexible approach to ethics, a wealthy ex-lobbyist who is very rich and wants to get richer, etc. There is a Library Journal review that compares it to the work of Carl Hiaasen -- I think that may be a bit of an overstatement, but I enjoyed it.

It's the first in a series, and seems to be permanently free at Amazon and other retailers.

Right now I'm too busy to decide what I'll be reading next. Probably some short stories from the bottom of my TBR stack.

[drjd]

Originally Posted by drjd

Next up, The D.A. Takes a Chance, eighth book in this series by Erle Stanley Gardner.

Doug Selby joins back his office as the District Attorney after serving his duties in the Army, and immediately finds himself solving a series of murders and attempts to murders. He apparently finds his rival defense attorney involved in the cases deep up to his eyebrows playing with the witnesses and the evidences, and finally decides to confront him with the facts which will surrender him to back out and take an enforced retirement from his profession. Will he be able to pluck the thorn out of the life of Madison County?

Very interesting read, recommended.

Next will be the ninth and the last book of the D.A. series by Erle Stanley Gardner, The D.A. Breaks an Egg.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Next up: Hell's Foundations Quiver by David Weber.

Wow. That's an over-long book. OK, a world war is a complex thing, but even so!

And the names! The names! Arghhhhh...... Zhaspahr Clyntahn indeed. And they're all like that!

I did notice a handy list of characters at the end of the book. If I do get the next one (but it'll have to be at a very good discount) I think I will make a search/replace list for the names. I think calibre can do a search/replace from a correctly formatted file. If not, there'll be a plugin.

So why did I finish it? I'm not sure. Time invested in the series already, perhaps? A hope that the books will get past all this detail and on to some of fascinating things that must happen after the war?

Sigh. What next I wonder? I shall decide this evening.