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

[Cinisajoy]

Still reading The Compleat I hate to cook book.
Though why does someone that hates to cook have a double boiler?

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by John F

Jon, you have reached a new low: highjacking​ a fellow member's request for recommends.

Actually, it's not a low to give the correct library. BPL is not Brooklyn. It's Boston.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Cinisajoy

Please let us know if it was worth all hype.

I've finished The Collapsing Empire and yes, it was worth reading. It's the first in a series. I'm looking forward to the next book.

[John F]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Actually, it's not a low to give the correct library. BPL is not Brooklyn. It's Boston.

Sure Jon. Whatever you say. Yup. Yeah. uh-huh.

[Cinisajoy]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Actually, it's not a low to give the correct library. BPL is not Brooklyn. It's Boston.

I would think it could be either. Or it could stand for the Brownwood Public Library.
Or any other B town.
So folks if you live in a B town with a public library, recommend that book to them.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by John F

Sure Jon. Whatever you say. Yup. Yeah. uh-huh.

Boston Public Library is the second library in the US and the first library to take ownership of BPL. So give it up and just give in. You know I'm right that BPL belongs to Boston Public Library.

However, we can go with BrPL if you want.

[MickeyC]

Just finished Rather Be the Devil by Ian Rankin and it was a typically good Rankin read.

Next up is Trouble is my Business by Raymond Chandler which, so far, is a very good noir-ish read.

[John F]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Boston Public Library is the second library in the US and the first library to take ownership of BPL. So give it up and just give in. You know I'm right that BPL belongs to Boston Public Library.

...

Sure Jon. Whatever you say. Yup. Yeah. uh-huh.

Everyone else, please recommend it at the Brooklyn public library.

[Cinisajoy]

Still reading the Compleat I hate to cook book.
I learned an old word. Collywobbles.
Though I must say a box of chocolates at a picnic in the summer in Texas would not be a good idea unless you are making uncooked Smores.

[astrangerhere]

Originally Posted by astrangerhere

Still working on The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories.

Started listening to Ron Rash's Serena. I understand that the film adaptation was poor, which is sad. I think Jennifer Lawrence would have torn this role apart.

Reading a short a day out of the Oxford book, and then finishing my evenings with Margot Lee Shetterly's Hidden Figures: The Untold True Story of Four African-American Women Who Helped Launch Our Nation into Space.

[kansaskyle]

I enjoyed Uprooted, and gave it four stars. It was a good fantasy read, almost feeling a bit on the young adult side, but there were a couple saucy scenes that some parents would probably want to avoid with younger readers.

I'm on to The Thief, which is a Japanese novel by Fuminori Nakamura. I don't recall where I saw it recommended, but it is supposed to be good.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Next up: Some classic SF, Ring Around the Sun by Clifford D. Simak

Which had a too many ideas in it (I prefer one impossible thing per story!). And some rather dull philosophising.

But a good read nevertheless.

Spoiler:

Interesting to see that the Long Earth idea of the recent Terry Prachett/Stephen Baxter series was already considered in this book many decades earlier.

Next up: A Plague on Both Your Houses by Susanna Gregory. An anachronistic title, seeing as the story is set in 1348 and that line wasn't written until 1594.

But otherwise it's shaping up into a nice mystery set just before the Black Death killed almost half the population in England.

[HarryT]

Two books recently finished:

"Four and Twenty Blackbirds", by Mercedes Lackey. The fourth and final book in her "Bardic Voices" series, and the best by far, to my mind. This one has no "bards" in it (thank goodness!), and is basically a detective story, with a small-town constable on the track of a serial killer who is killing women. Excellent. Can easily be read as a standalone novel.

"Gently Down the Stream", by Alan Hunter. The third book in the "George Gently" series. This one has Gently on the track of the killer of a businessman whose body is found in a burnt-out yacht on the Norfolk Broads. One of the few occasions I've managed to correctly work out who the murderer is before the end of the book . Excellent. Completely different to the TV series of the same name.

[kansaskyle]

I finished The Thief, which is a Japanese novel by Fuminori Nakamura. It was a short read, and I rated it three stars. It was interesting reading a crime novel from a Japanese perspective.

It was a different kind of book that seemed to have some philosophical stuff in it regarding a mysterious tower that two of the characters saw/experienced in different ways. All of that was layered over the story of a Robin-Hood-like pickpocket who got caught up with a hardcore gangster.

Next up is the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.

[drjd]

Originally Posted by drjd

Now reading Lady, Here's Your Wreath by James Hadley Chase.

Finished Lady, Here's Your Wreath by James Hadley Chase. Originally published in 1940. I reread this book after about 25 years, in the ebook form this time. It is a strong story of hard boiled crime action drama. Typical James Hadley Chase style.

Now I've started another Chase novel 12 Chinks and a Woman. Another action packed crime thriller of probably 1940s.