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

[Dngrsone]

So, After just reading a female First-Person narrative in the form of Drity Martini, I didn't want to read the same sort, so I read The Card Catalog by Carla Hayden, a non-fic on the history of cataloguing library collections.

Now I am reading All You Need is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka

[drjd]

Finished reading The Case of the Fabulous Fake by Erle Stanley Gardner. A perfect read for a quite weekend. Typical Perry Mason and one of his headstrong clients headed for disaster. Love it.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Next up: Asimov's SF, May/June 2018.

Which I enjoyed, as I did Analog SFF, May/June 2018. It also included the third and final part of a serial, so I read that too.

I'm re-reading Needle by Hal Clement, and as I bought the third part of Zahn's most recent Cobra trilogy in January, I'm also starting on the first part of the trilogy, which I bought back in June 2013, Cobra Slave.

[CRussel]

Originally Posted by CRussel

Finished Radium Girls, and also finished Power Lines, the second in the Petaybee trilogy. I can't say I enjoyed the first, but I'm glad I read it. The second I quite enjoyed, though not as much as Powers that Be. Then I read Merchanter's Luck, by C.J. Cherryh, part of her Company Wars series in the Alliance-Union universe.

All very nice, but next up I start Taste for Death, by Peter O'Donnell, the fourth in the Modesty Blaise series. And I'm starting next month's New Leaf Book Club selection, The Three Musketeers. Which I'll be reading and listening to if I'm to get it finished in time.

Ah, good old Modesty Blaise. One thing you can be sure of -- you'll get exactly what you expect and want when you read one of these. NOT great fiction, but certainly great fun. A personal 5-star read, within my own terms of reference. And, although I can certainly tell you all sorts of failings of this series, it fills a need quite nicely, thank you.

Currently reading and listening to next month's New Leaf Book Club selection, The Three Musketeers, by Alexandre Dumas, père. I'm switching back and forth between two translations, the Pevear and the Hobson, for the reading portion, but the audio book, narrated by John Lee, is, unfortunately, using one or another of the Victorian translations. A rousing swashbuckler, with the Hobson translation currently being my preferred, but the Pevear is excellent as well.

[Dngrsone]

Finished All You Need is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka. Interesting premise, sort of a Groundhog's Day meets Halo or something.

Haven't decided what to read next, though... plenty in my TBR, just have to see what inspires me.

I am next in line for The Three Musketeers at the library, good thing I have the better part of a month.

[latepaul]

Originally Posted by Dngrsone

Finished All You Need is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka. Interesting premise, sort of a Groundhog's Day meets Halo or something.

I can recommend the movie version, The Edge of Tomorrow, or Live, Die, Repeat depending on where you live. Emily Blunt in particular is good. I enjoyed both the book and the movie, although they are different in tone and details of the plot.

[Dngrsone]

Originally Posted by latepaul

I can recommend the movie version, The Edge of Tomorrow, or Live, Die, Repeat depending on where you live. Emily Blunt in particular is good. I enjoyed both the book and the movie, although they are different in tone and details of the plot.

Huh, never made the connection... of course, the book is better.

I am reading Zombies versus Aliens versus Vampires versus Dinosaurs by Jeff Abugov. As the title implies, this book is to literature what Sharknado is to cinema.

[astrangerhere]

My hold on Nnedi Okorafor's Who Fears Death will be available for pickup tomorrow, so I will be getting into that immediately.

[latepaul]

Originally Posted by Dngrsone

Huh, never made the connection... of course, the book is better.

One of the very few cases where I prefer the movie. Just.

So I've just finished The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness, which is just a huge amount of fun and a quick read. It's about the other group of kids in town, the ones who are not trying to stop an apocalypse, or being "the chosen one", just try to figure out love, friendship and hoping to graduate, assuming the High School doesn't get blown up first.

[drjd]

Originally Posted by CRussel

Ah, good old Modesty Blaise. One thing you can be sure of -- you'll get exactly what you expect and want when you read one of these. NOT great fiction, but certainly great fun. A personal 5-star read, within my own terms of reference. And, although I can certainly tell you all sorts of failings of this series, it fills a need quite nicely, thank you.

This series definitely fills one with an undefinable feeling of satisfaction. Great fun, indeed. I'm also planning to take up the second book of the Modesty series Sabretooth , despite being a strain on my eyes due to it's smaller print size.

Currently reading Chai Chai by Bishwanath Ghosh, a delightful travelogue which reveals the lives of people in towns of India beyond railway station yards, in an effort to discover what lay beyond the platform as one travelled across the cities. Very interesting read.

[Dngrsone]

Okay, now I am reading Before Mars.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

I'm re-reading Needle by Hal Clement, and as I bought the third part of Zahn's most recent Cobra trilogy in January, I'm also starting on the first part of the trilogy, which I bought back in June 2013, Cobra Slave.

I've finished both those, and I've started on Through the Eye of a Needle and Cobra Outlaw

And shortly I'll be on to the latest Vorkosigan Novella, The Flowers of Vashnoi

[CRussel]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

I've finished both those, and I've started on Through the Eye of a Needle and Cobra Outlaw

And shortly I'll be on to the latest Vorkosigan Novella, The Flowers of Vashnoi

Ah, I missed that release. There goes my good intentions for today!

Meanwhile, interspersed with reading The Three Musketeers for the New Leaf Book Club, I just finished Freedom's Landing, an old Anne McCaffrey novel that I had somehow missed when it released in the mid-80's. Not bad.

[melmac]

Originally Posted by MickeyC

Just finished John Sandford’s latest book, Twisted Prey and it was one of his best.

Thanks for posting I had completely forgotten that I had preordered the audio. I'm now 3/4s the way through and agree definitely one of his best here's hoping the ending holds up

[mewmartigan]

Just finished The Reality Dysfunction by Peter F. Hamilton. I liked it quite a bit, 1300 pages went by quickly. Starting book 2 now, The Neutronium Alchemist.