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[Fbone]

Originally Posted by Fbone

Next, a purchase from 2014, Green for Danger by Christianna Brand. A mystery set in a military hospital during the Blitz.

This had too much romance in it for my tastes.The author used the character's last name just as often as their first. I couldn't keep track of who was in love with who. And frankly I didn't care. Writing skill was definitely of good caliber but the whole thing fell apart for me. Rated C- [2 stars].

Next read TBD.

[Dazrin]

Originally Posted by Dazrin

Now I can start Interesting Times. Looking forward to it.

Interesting Times is by far the best Rincewind book I have read. Very enjoyable.

Next up: Death's End by Cixin Liu, the final book in the Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy that starts with Three-Body Problem.

[mewmartigan]

I finished up Rogue One: Catalyst. It was pretty good and I'm all set for opening night now.

I am starting the Rain Wild Chronicles by Robin Hobb now. I have enjoyed her previous works and look forward to this one.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

And now I'm reading Old Venus. A collection of new stories set on the old concept of Venus as a possibly inhabited hot swampy world.

Which was fun, on the whole. One or two of the stories I had read before as I think they must have been placed in magazines after publication in book form.

Now for something completely different: The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwall. I think I got this as a free special offer back in March, but it looks like I forgot to note it down in my records. Now noted.

[Apache]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Now for something completely different: The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwall. I think I got this as a free special offer back in March, but it looks like I forgot to note it down in my records. Now noted.

This series and the Sharpe series are my favorite series by Bernard Cornwell. I hope you enjoy it.
Apache

[Dngrsone]

I got about a third of the way through Bourne Ultimatum before I had to put it aside... mayhaps I will try to continue reading later.

Meanwhile, I read The Misbegotten Son: A Serial Killer and His Victims - The True Story of Arthur J. Shawcross by Jack Olsen.

The narrative was well-written, and the story intriguing, to say the least: this guy was all kinds of whacko, to the point where he was virtually undiagnosable by the psychs.

Unfortunately, the scan done on this book was horrible. Almost as criminal as Shawcross himself, in fact, and this was a major impediment to my enjoying the read.

Meanwhile, I am into the third book of the Gap cycle, A Dark and Hungry God Arises: The Gap into Power by Stephen R. Donaldson.

[drjd]

Originally Posted by drjd

Next up, one more cozy mystery by Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Album.

Finished The Album by Mary Roberts Rinehart. Very good thriller.

Next up, Nobody's Son by Sean Stewart.

[timebug]

Just finished the two most recent 'Peter Diamond'
stories by Peter Lovesey. I love these books, and I
would say the burly Superintendant from Bath, is my
favourite fictional copper. Missed out on the first of
these whichw as published some time ago, as I had
a lot of things happening in my life; stumbled upon
bothj of these and had to get them, of course!
The titles are 'Down Among The Dead Men' and
'Another One Goes Tonight' in release and reading
order,and they are the 15th and 16th respectively
in the series. If you are not familiar with Diamond
give them a try!

[Nyssa]

Originally Posted by Nyssa

And this will be a much longer journey than I anticipated. The language (specifically the Tia slang terms and colloquialisms) had me at arm's length for a little while, but I think - 4 chapters in - that I am ready to settle down quite nicely for the rest of the ride. Now if I could only find the time for a good old fashion hour or two long reading session.

I've abandoned The Windup Girl for now and am reading The Handmaid's Tale instead.

Six chapters in and it is certainly intriguing. How did they get where they are, especially from where they were? How are the stations determined, and so forth?

[Loosheesh]

Originally Posted by Loosheesh

My next-up list has more 2011 purchases: Comes a Horseman by Robert Liparulo, The Masqueraders by Georgette Heyer, and The Pirate’s Daughter by Margaret Cezair-Thompson.

Of this list, I only completed The Masqueraders, another fun Heyer read. I put aside both The Pirate's Daughter (I read the Wikipedia article on Errol Flynn and didn't care to continue the book) and Comes a Horseman (too graphic and edging on horror, which is not my thing).

After that, I also read Cousin Kate, a very meh/flat offering from Georgette Heyer, and two audiobooks - Favorite Stories of Christmas Past (enjoyed it a lot) and More Favorite Stories of Christmas Past (not as enjoyable as the first one but still good).

My next-up reads are what I hope to complete before year-end:

1. The Center of Everything by Laura Moriarty (I've already started this and it's in the first person present tense; I can already tell our relationship may be quite brief )
2. The Plot Against America by Philip Roth (I'm curious how I'll fare with this one; the vibes are not good)
3. Redemption by Laurel Dewey
4. Silence by Thomas Perry
5. Terra Incognita by Ruth Downie (I really should put this book out of its TBR misery; I've begun it more than once, IIRC)

[CRussel]

I was having a really hard time trying to decide what to read. I started 4 or 5 books, read a few pages, and put them down. Just not right now. So, in the end, I decided on a Georgette Heyer, The Foundling. Nothing like a good Heyer Regency to get you past the reading blahs.

I was an avid reader of Science Fiction all through Jr. High and Sr. High. After that only rarely did I read any SF. Anyway just recently while waiting for the book I wished to read to become available through my local library I read The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke Volume 3. I found that I quite enjoyed the 'Tales from the White Hart' stories. Or rather reading them again as I recalled the general gist of them from long ago.

One in particular caught my attention, The Next Tenants. To provide a brief summary Harry Purvis recounts the story of time spent on a Pacific atoll where he and a team of British scientists were there to monitor the first test of a thermonuclear device by the US. While there Harry unexpectedly encounters a scientist that is teaching termite colonies to make and use tools. The reasoning being when mankind self districts termites would be a good choice to inherit the Earth. This story reminds me of another story of a similar theme that I would like to read again if I could identify the title and author. This mystery tale involves a scientist that plays god to an ant farm. When the scientist dies the ant colony wonders what has happened to god and so starts to build a tower (like the Tower of Babel) to investigate what has happened to god.

[Cinisajoy]

Binge reading the J D Robb In Death series.

[DrNefario]

Originally Posted by Hamlet53

This story reminds me of another story of a similar theme that I would like to read again if I could identify the title and author. This mystery tale involves a scientist that plays god to an ant farm. When the scientist dies the ant colony wonders what has happened to god and so starts to build a tower (like the Tower of Babel) to investigate what has happened to god.

I've read something like that, recently. Was it one of the strands in Clifford D Simak's The City?

[BenG]

There were ants in City but the situation was different.

I just finished The Big Sheep by Robert Kroese a SF mystery that's a little Philip Marlowe and a little Philip Dick.

Next up is Colson Whitehead's Underground Railroad and perhaps a few short stories from Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edagawa Rampo, the first Japanese author of Western-style mystery stories, who took his pen name from Edgar Allen Poe.