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

[MickeyC]

Originally Posted by orlok

My understanding is that it doesn't stand for anything. It's just the letter before each of those in "IBM".

Exactly

[BenG]

I finished Death's End by Cixin Liu, the final volume of his Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy. It was my favorite of the three. The story plays out on a grand scale, grander than even the previous books.

Next up is Lavie Tidhar's Central Station which I recently heard about on Gary Wolfe's and Jonathan Strahan's Coode Street podcast.

http://jonathanstrahan.podbean.com/e...at-boundaries/

[Apache]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

Starting Any Other Name - Tenth in Craig Johnson's Walt Longmire series.

An Obvious Fact was released a couple of weeks ago and is excellent. The books are so much better than the Netflix series. Casting Lou Diamond Phillips as Henry is as much a miscast as casting Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher.

I am currently rereading River God by Wilbur Smith. I plan to reread the entire series since Pharaoh was just released September 22, 2016 in the UK. And it will be released on October 18, 2016 in the USA.
Apache

[Fbone]

Originally Posted by Fbone

Next, is another library book Airborn by Kenneth Oppel.

The typical YA steampunk with lots of improbable action. Easy and quick read. It was fun, though, nothing special. Rated C+ [3 stars].

Next is The Rithmatist by Brandon Sanderson. My first with this author.

[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by Apache

An Obvious Fact was released a couple of weeks ago and is excellent. The books are so much better than the Netflix series. Casting Lou Diamond Phillips as Henry is as much a miscast as casting Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher.

The show deviates enough from the books that I'm able to separate them and enjoy both. The books are, of course, better, but I consider them both "comfort food."

[CRussel]

I might give the books another try. I admit, I was initially enamored with the TV series, but got fed up with it in about 1/2 a season. And somehow that put me off the books too.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

And on to the third: Rule in Amber

Which was another good romp.

Next up: A Wizard's Holiday, by Diane Duane. The seventh in the series. Again, this is the revised "New Millennium" edition.

[HarryT]

Finished "Sunday the Rabbi Stayed Home", by Harry Kemelman. This is the third book in the "Rabbi Small" series of detective stories. The usual mix of detection set against a background of the internal politics of the Rabbi's congregation. Very enjoyable.

[CRussel]

Finishing up Sheepfarmer's Daughter, first of the Paksenarrion books from Elizabeth Moon. After this, I've got a couple of library pBooks that need to be read before they need to be returned. I'll start with Eric Wright's A Fine Italian Hand - it's due first.

[richvalle]

Originally Posted by orlok

Well you've all convinced me. To Say Nothing of the Dog added near the top of my TBR.

It's not my normal reading but I really enjoyed her 'Bellweather" book.

[Loosheesh]

Originally Posted by HarryT

Finished "Sunday the Rabbi Stayed Home", by Harry Kemelman. This is the third book in the "Rabbi Small" series of detective stories. The usual mix of detection set against a background of the internal politics of the Rabbi's congregation. Very enjoyable.

I'm about to start the next book, Monday the Rabbi Took Off ... I should start tonight seeing as it's Monday

[cromag]

Originally Posted by cromag

White Elephant was fun. There were some very original twists and I liked the way some seemingly unrelated events were finally linked. It also has the advantage of being a reasonably short novel, so it's easy to squeeze into my schedule. On the other hand, the heroine of the story (and series) comes across as more than a bit naive. I guess I'd give this a solid 3 Stars.

Then I read Dead Jitterbug and Dead Boogie, the 6th and 7th books in Victoria Houston's Loon Lake Mysteries series. They were both very good -- I'd say that Boogie was a bit better than Jitterbug, but that might also reflect some personal taste. Boogie was a more "linear" story that hung together nicely; Jitterbug wove several plot lines in and out and finally together. Still, both were good entries in a reliably good series.

I also read some short stories from my somewhat lengthy TBR file.

Right now I've started reading the latest issues of Analog and Asimov's SF magazines. They're off to a good start.

Well, the non-reading aspects of my life have kept me very busy. I've made time for the important things -- like reading and posting in the games in the Lounge -- but I haven't been keeping up here.

As always, I've been reading a lot of short stories and the latest issues of Analog and Isaac Asimov's science fiction magazines.

I had the first four books in Tony Dunbar's Tubby Dubonnet Series as freebies. The first two were described as "Hard-Boiled but Humorous New Orleans" mysteries. Whatever humor there was in the first book was very wry humor at best. It was very well written with good characters and a complicated plot, but not quite what I was looking for. If I didn't already have the remaining volumes I would have left it there. I liked the second and third books better, but the fourth one was just a bit too bleak. I needed a break.

Again, the writing was very good, the characters were well realized and the plots were complicated but logical. I just needed something a bit lighter.

Crooked Man (Tubby Dubonnet, #1)
City of Beads (Tubby Dubonnet, #2)
Trick Question (Tubby Dubonnet, #3)
Shelter From The Storm (Tubby Dubonnet, #4)


Next, I read the fourth and fifth books in the Professor Simon Shaw Murder Mysteries by Sarah Shaber. I was ready for a change in tone. I liked them both. They both were a bit different from the first three.

In The Bug Funeral the professor is asked to investigate a woman's apparent memories from a previous life ... by the woman ... who doesn't believe in reincarnation.

In Shell Game the professor has to investigate the murder of a colleague who was studying a controversial archeological find which involves political complications.

The Bug Funeral (Professor Simon Shaw, #4)
Shell Game (Professor Simon Shaw, #5)


And finally I read the first three books in the Jolie Gentil cozy mystery series. I had already read the fourth story, Any Port in a Storm, and enjoyed it. They are good stories in terms of the writing, plots and characters, and the small town setting on the Jersey shore is familiar.

I read these in the collection (I hate the term "boxed set" when it comes to unboxable ebooks) First Four Jolie Gentil Mysteries, by Elaine Orr. This set is available at Smashwords but not at Amazon. Amazon has the first three collected as Ocean Alley Adventures. The four book set is a better bargain if you're starting from scratch.

Appraisal for Murder (A Jolie Gentil Cozy Mystery, #1)
Rekindling Motives (A Jolie Gentil Cozy Mystery, #2)
When the Carny Comes to Town (A Jolie Gentil Cozy Mystery, #3)
Any Port in a Storm (A Jolie Gentil Cozy Mystery, #4)


I'm not sure what I'll be reading next. I'll try to check in before December.

[BenG]

I put everything aside for a bit to reread Ted Chiang's short story The Story of Your Life when I saw that it is being made into a movie with Amy Adams.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFMo3UJ4B4g

Looks like the movie has added more plot to the story.

[drjd]

Originally Posted by drjd

Next up, Dirty Little Secret, a detective fiction by Jon Stock.

Finished The Dirty Little Secret by Jon Stock. Nice cozy mystery.
Next I am taking up Wars of the Anunnaki by Chris H. Hardy, a mixture of historical facts and fiction.

[KyBunnies]

Looking for psychological crime / mystery books. Would like one where the lawyer figures out who the criminal was/is and how they committed the crime.