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

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Next up: Weir of Hermiston by Robert Louis Stevenson. The next in my read-through of all his stuff, thanks to a bundle from Delphi Classics.

Unfinished, and clearly in need of polishing, although with some good bits. It's also more incomplete than I realised. We barely get past the setup for the drama to come. 2/5

Then I read Electric Dreams by Philip K. Dick. A collection of his short stories, the ones adapted for a TV series of that name. I generally skipped the foreword to each story. They really should have been afterwords. 4/5

Next up: Another random pick, Galaxy's Edge Magazine, Issue #5 from November 2013.

[Cyclops]

Now reading The Rainbow Trail by Zane Grey, the sequel to Riders of the Purple Sage

[Bookstooge]

Originally Posted by Cyclops

Now reading The Rainbow Trail by Zane Grey, the sequel to Riders of the Purple Sage

So how did you enjoy Zane overall?

[astrangerhere]

Its been a tough few reading months for me as I have been so snowed under at work. But I feel like I am pretty much back on my horse now.

I'm currently:

• Finishing up Will Eisner's Contract with God Trilogy in hardcover
• Reading book 5 of Anthony Powell's Dance to the Music of Time roman-fleuve - Casanova's Chinese Restaurant on my Kobo.
• And, I've put Jane Austen's Lady Susan on my phone to listen to on my irregular commutes, which *might* commence a re-reading of Jane Austen.

[Cyclops]

Originally Posted by Bookstooge

So how did you enjoy Zane overall?

It was...ok. not what I'd call a typical western. More of an adventure. But not bad at all.

[Cyclops]

Originally Posted by Bookstooge

So how did you enjoy Zane overall?

My Goodreads review of Riders...

https://www.goodreads.com/review/sho..._review_page=1

[CRussel]

Just finished my second reading of Sharon Lee & Steve Miller's Fair Trade, the 24th novel in the Liaden Universe®, and the third in the Jethri sequence. (I originally read this as an eARC in January.) An excellent book and a good continuation of the Jethri story, but leaving plenty of room for the fourth book in this sequence which is due Fall of 2023. Not nearly soon enough for me, but then authors do, occasionally, have actual lives.

Just starting a book I'm quite looking forward to: Sonia Purnell's A Woman of No Importance, the story of Virginia Hall, a Baltimore socialite who talked her way into Special Operations Executive, the spy organization dubbed Winston Churchill's "Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare." She became the first Allied woman deployed behind enemy lines and--despite her prosthetic leg--helped to light the flame of the French Resistance, revolutionizing secret warfare as we know it.

[Bookstooge]

Originally Posted by Cyclops

My Goodreads review of Riders...

https://www.goodreads.com/review/sho..._review_page=1

Thanks. Yeah, I found that half of Grey's stories were more "men's adventure" than straight up western. That's probably what led to my disillusionment with him

I just read another Blandings Castle book. I think I am enjoying them more than the Jeeves & Wooster series.
Blandings Castle & Elsewhere

[Uncle Robin]

Originally Posted by Bookstooge

I just read another Blandings Castle book. I think I am enjoying them more than the Jeeves & Wooster series.

Blandings is AWESOME - I wish the whole series was on Kobo. A trip to Blandings is medicinal in today's exactly antithetical world.


Meanwhile, I'm finally back into David Hurwitz's Beethoven's Orchestral Music: An Owner's Manual. Right now I'm following the instructions in the book to listen Beethoven's 5th by the Pittsburgh Symphony under Manfred Honeck. When I'm finished listening THEN I'm allowed to read on

[Cyclops]

Originally Posted by Bookstooge

Thanks. Yeah, I found that half of Grey's stories were more "men's adventure" than straight up western. That's probably what led to my disillusionment with him

I just read another Blandings Castle book. I think I am enjoying them more than the Jeeves & Wooster series.
Blandings Castle & Elsewhere

Hmm I have a couple of Jeeves and Wooster books on my shelf, not read anything by Wodehouse yet.

[Bookstooge]

Originally Posted by Uncle Robin

Blandings is AWESOME - I wish the whole series was on Kobo. A trip to Blandings is medicinal in today's exactly antithetical world.

I am very thankful I found this series after going through the Jeeves&Wooster omnibuses. Appropriately spaced out, Blandings is some of the funniest stuff I've ever read

Originally Posted by Cyclops

Hmm I have a couple of Jeeves and Wooster books on my shelf, not read anything by Wodehouse yet.

If you try 2 of the books, chances are whatever you feel about them will carry over for Wodehouse overall. My only word of advice would be to space your readings of him out. His humor goes a long way imo...

[Bookstooge]

The King in Yellow Tales edited by Joseph Pulver. I'm a big KiY fan but this stuff made me quit the book at the 50% mark

[kyrilson]

Originally Posted by kyrilson

Next up is City on Fire by Don Winslow.

This one was alright. Basically about a mobster war between the Italians and Irish families. It wasn't as good as Winslow's prior books. The characters were not as fleshed out as I'd like, but the ending was solid. Rating 3/5 for me.

Next up is Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree. Have heard good things about this fantasy novel from reviewers I watch on booktube so I'm checking it out.

[Fbone]

Originally Posted by Fbone

Next, a recent purchase, Way of the Wolf by E.E. Knight.

This one was interesting. Somewhat tense and scary ... at least for my taste. Lots of violence. Some drug use, profanity and one sex scene. In summary, very realistic behaviors with resulting outcomes in a post-apocalyptic world with aliens. That's what, I think, made this book interesting to me. Writing and dialogue competent. Rated B- [4 stars].

Next, something much lighter, The Hypnotists by Gordon Korman. Library loan.

[Bookstooge]

Originally Posted by Fbone

This one was interesting. Somewhat tense and scary ... at least for my taste. Lots of violence. Some drug use, profanity and one sex scene. In summary, very realistic behaviors with resulting outcomes in a post-apocalyptic world with aliens. That's what, I think, made this book interesting to me. Writing and dialogue competent. Rated B- [4 stars].

Next, something much lighter, The Hypnotists by Gordon Korman. Library loan.

If you liked the first Vampire Earth book by Knight, the rest are of the same quality with the usual variance book by book.

I remember Korman from the early 90s. I assume it is the same guy anyway. Wrote about 2 kids in middle or highschool and their hijinks?