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Old 01-05-2017, 06:38 AM   #25141
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Any particular titles on tap? I really like Elseworld stories...
Well, I'm about halfway through the big Elseworlds: Batman, Vol. 1 omnibus, but that's my go-to title for when I run into an unexpected delay somewhere and don't have my regular e-reader at hand. So, I've set it aside for this week.

Aside from that, I've got Batman: Red Rain downloaded - something I've read before, but years back when it first came out - as well as the new edition of Gotham by Gaslight that includes the sequel, Master of the Future. I've also got Punisher Kills the Marvel Universe lined up, which is essentially a Marvel Elseworlds story, as well as Batman: Black and White, which may or may not be canon. (I forget, especially with all the reboots.)

Basically, I picked up a cheap Elseworlds bundle at comiXology a couple of years ago, and I've been nibbling away at it once in a while ever since. This is the last of it.

Thursday turned out to be an unusual mix. Spider-Man: Blue, Siege: Battleground, Captain America: Theater of War, and the Guardians of the Galaxy: Tomorrow's Avengers collection of four "Infinite Comics" that each spotlight a team member. (Not to be confused with the bigger volumes with the same title that are big compilations of the older GotG comics.) That leaves the Serenity material and the Elseworlds stuff for Friday and Saturday, with a couple of other GNs remaining. I'm not sure which I'll add to Serenity Day, though; it depends on whether I bite on a deal I'm eyeing at Amazon.
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Old 01-05-2017, 01:06 PM   #25142
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Finished The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson, which was a very fun read. Now working on the eighth Foreigner book, Pretender by C. J. Cherryh. I think this is the last one in the series I have read previously.
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Old 01-05-2017, 06:01 PM   #25143
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Well, I tried to read The Girl on the Train, but it was just too depressing.
Me too. I bought it based on a co-worker's recommendation. But I just could not get into it.
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Old 01-05-2017, 07:07 PM   #25144
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Stalking the Zombie
by Mike Resnick 2 1/2 Stars

A collection of short stories about John Justin Mallory, a PI transported to a fantasy Manhattan. The stories would have been fine by themselves in their original magazine publications, but put all together it got a little repetitive.
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Old 01-06-2017, 03:06 AM   #25145
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Next up: Grantville Gazette #69
Which was a quick, fun read as usual.

It started off with "Drumline" a nice 'fiction from Grantville' in a light wrapper by David Carrico, who also had "Etude, Part 3" in the issue - another installment about the Organ building Bach family.

Kerry Offord and Rick Boatright gave us "Dr Phil Rules the Waves", another splendid Dr Gribbleflotz story, although he was in the background, and it concentrated on his Theramin-building employee.

The weakest story in the issue for me was "Good German Axes" by Tim Roesch. A blacksmith's family dynamics.

"A Szekler in a Kilt" was an interesting look at the situation in Transylvania by Gábor Szántai. The flow could have been improved.

Finally, "The Long Road Home, Part 2" was more about Sergeant Hartmann from Nick Lorance.

(There were three more non-fiction articles I mostly skipped.)

Next up: Impervious by Laura Kirwan. A recent freebie that people hereabouts recommended.
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Old 01-06-2017, 07:22 AM   #25146
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I've got Batman: Red Rain downloaded - something I've read before, but years back when it first came out - as well as the new edition of Gotham by Gaslight that includes the sequel, Master of the Future.

That leaves the Serenity material and the Elseworlds stuff for Friday and Saturday, with a couple of other GNs remaining. I'm not sure which I'll add to Serenity Day, though; it depends on whether I bite on a deal I'm eyeing at Amazon.
Today turned out to be Elseworlds day. In addition to those two Batman volumes, I went with an Iron Fist story that brings in the previous Iron Fist, then capped it with the graphic novel adaptation of Harlan Ellison's original teleplay for "The City on the Edge of Forever," from the first Star Trek series. That was quite well done, with wonderful artwork and excellent likenesses. The script's not hard to find, but this adaptation really brings it to life.

So, Saturday should be the Serenity material as well as Batman: Black and White, which will take me over 30 books for the first week of the year.
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Old 01-06-2017, 09:12 AM   #25147
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I normally prefer speculative fiction. but right now I'm reading a self-help kinda book called Resisting Happiness, by Matthew Kelly. Our church was giving them away for free so I couldn't resist.

What is resistance? It's that sluggish feeling of not wanting to do something that you know is good for you. It's the inclination to do something that you unabashedly know is not good for you. It's the desire and tendency to delay something you should be doing right now.

It is resistance that stands between you and happiness. In these pages you will learn not only what it is, but how to recognize and conquer it in your own life.

Matthew Kelly is a Catholic motivational speaker and author. He doesn't shy away from the God issue, which I like very much. I'm only halfway through, but so far it gives practical advice and doesn't feel preachy.
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Old 01-06-2017, 10:26 AM   #25148
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My 2017 is getting off to a slow start (progress against target-wise) as I'm reading Game of Thrones (a gift from my eldest). At 800 plus pages going is slow, and I'll have some catching up to do in subsequent months to make my 6-and-a-bit books per month challenge.
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Old 01-06-2017, 12:54 PM   #25149
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Hey!! Let's get some action going! What are we reading?
Decided to read Storm Front, the first in the Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher. I've heard a lot of good things about this series.
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Old 01-06-2017, 05:35 PM   #25150
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Decided to read Storm Front, the first in the Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher. I've heard a lot of good things about this series.
Dresden Files is very good! I'm reading the 14th book Cold Days now.
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Old 01-06-2017, 05:48 PM   #25151
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I normally prefer speculative fiction. but right now I'm reading a self-help kinda book called Resisting Happiness, by Matthew Kelly. Our church was giving them away for free so I couldn't resist.

What is resistance? It's that sluggish feeling of not wanting to do something that you know is good for you. It's the inclination to do something that you unabashedly know is not good for you. It's the desire and tendency to delay something you should be doing right now.

It is resistance that stands between you and happiness. In these pages you will learn not only what it is, but how to recognize and conquer it in your own life.

Matthew Kelly is a Catholic motivational speaker and author. He doesn't shy away from the God issue, which I like very much. I'm only halfway through, but so far it gives practical advice and doesn't feel preachy.
For another take on happiness, to broaden your understanding, you might like this TED Talk I happened to see this morning.

Dan Gilbert: The surprising science of happiness

http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_gilbert...y_are_we_happy
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Old 01-07-2017, 05:31 AM   #25152
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Next up: Impervious by Laura Kirwan. A recent freebie that people hereabouts recommended.
It was OK. It seemed that everyone had some childhood trauma to explain their bad behaviour. And I wasn't really taken with any of the characters, or the magical setup. All in all, just "OK". I won't be bothering with the others in this series.

Next up: F&SF for Jan/Feb 2017, edited by C C Finlay.
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I just finished reading A Man of Good Hope by Jonny Steinberg. Amazing, compelling and painful to read. I started this morning at about 9.30 not sure I was in the mood for a book with a heavy topic so I thought maybe I would just read a few pages and see how it went. I finished the book at 17.30 late afternoon. I never put it down for more than ten minutes at any time. It is really one of the best books I have read in a while.

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In January 1991, when civil war came to Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, two-thirds of the city’s population fled. Among them was eight-year-old Asad Abdullahi. His mother murdered by a militia, his father somewhere in hiding, he was swept alone into the great wartime migration that scattered the Somali people throughout sub-Saharan Africa and the world.

This extraordinary book tells Asad’s story. Serially betrayed by the people who promised to care for him, Asad lived his childhood at a skeptical remove from the adult world, his relation to others wary and tactical. He lived in a bewildering number of places, from the cosmopolitan streets of inner-city Nairobi to the desert towns deep in the Ethiopian hinterland.

A Man of Good Hope is the story of a person shorn of the things we have come to believe make us human—personal possessions, parents, siblings. And yet Asad’s is an intensely human life, one suffused with dreams and desires and a need to leave something permanent on this earth.
Next up: The Keeper by Marguerite Poland
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Just finished Linear Shift by Paul Koehler and liked it. Although technically a SciFi novel, it felt more like a thriller. I'd give it 3 and half or maybe four stars.
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Seeing that Rev B was doing the Elseworld thing, I got inspired to read an elseworld graphic novel, or, the first part of 2 anyway.

Robin 3000 #1 and its successor, #2 next week, will comprise my graphic novel for the month.

Too bad it was such a blase read.
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