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

[Darqref]

Originally Posted by Dazrin

I've had the first book in that series since 2012, it's probably time for me to read it. I think my two older kids would enjoy it too from the description.

I had the chance to hear Phil and co do a stand-up audio version of one of the Agatha adventures at a con some years ago. One person per persona, so individual voices. After hearing such a story, you understand a bit more about his drawing.

[Uncle Robin]

Just starting on The Flanders Panel by Arturo Perez-Reverte. A promising sign that it grabbed my interest from the opening pages.

[Dr. Drib]

Currently reading the literary novel, Mister N, by Najwa Barakat.

[rainerm]

Just picked up Francisco Cantu's The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border. The book embodies a rare approach in that it goes about examining the scholarly from the vantage point of lived experience--in other words, it forces us to ask how accurately can lived experience be represented through scholarly terminology. His experience as a Border Patrol agent and his understanding/analyses of the experience(s) serve as the reference against which he judges the scholarly. This could easily have become an exercise in blindly rejecting the scholarly, but Cantu' is charitable, shrewd, and straightforward when necessary. Great read!

[JSWolf]

I'm finally reading The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Good SF short stories.

And now onto The Neutronium Alchemist by Peter F. Hamilton. Second in a trilogy. I read the first one about a year ago, when I said:



. Let's see how long I take to get back into the story!

I got back into the story, but wow, there are a lot of sub-plots making up the major plot. So many characters to track!

I enjoyed it, but it wasn't quick. 4/5

Next up was a recent purchase, Ballroom Blitz by Anton du Beke. A fun, quick read.

And then there was another recent purchase, thanks to the Amazon UK 'Spend £15, get £5' ebook offer:

Thraxas Meets His Enemies by Martin Scott. A splendid continuation that I read in one sitting.

Next I'll be reading another purchases from that offer: What Abigail did that Summer by Ben Aaronovitch. A fill-in Novella that I'd been waiting to go on special offer, but it didn't.

[BalooRJ]

I am reading the new translation of Alessandro Manzoni's The Betrothed upon recommendation of a professor friend. It is a fantastic novel, at first glance about a young couple in the Middle Ages near Lake Como in Italy who wish to be wed but are intimidated by a local don into fleeing their native village. In actuality, the Betrothed is the story of the Italian country and forgiveness of many characters that are fleshed out along the way. I am really enjoying it. Highly recommend for anyone on here who is also into long classic narrative fiction as this one is an underrated gem. The Pope says all newly married couples should read it.

I am also reading First Things by Hadley Arkes. The first few chapters were breezy, but some parts of the book seem a bit underdeveloped...granted I am not very far into it. I would have liked to have seen.

[Uncle Robin]

Originally Posted by BalooRJ

The Pope says all newly married couples should read it.

It actually sounds so interesting that I will check it out in spite of (not because of) this endorsement.

[Uncle Robin]

I'm trying something new this month - an entire month of reading books from one publisher. It should be interesting, at the very least

Dean Street December

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Next I'll be reading another purchases from that offer: What Abigail did that Summer by Ben Aaronovitch. A fill-in Novella that I'd been waiting to go on special offer, but it didn't.

And it was very good indeed.

And then I read Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson. Another good story with an interesting magic system.

And now it's The Valley of Creation by Edmond Hamilton. From my backlog.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

And now it's The Valley of Creation by Edmond Hamilton. From my backlog.

OK in an SF meets The Man Who Would Be King kind of way.

Next up: The Naked God by Peter F. Hamilton. The third and final part of his Night's Dawn trilogy. A massive tome!

[Thertzler]

I just started to read Charlie Kaufman's Antkind.
It's interesting so far but I have to say that it pretty much the most obnoxious and rambly protagonist I've encountered in any book since A Confederacy of Dunces, even if it's from a very different "angle" of obnoxiousness.
As long as it works for the story I guess I'm fine with it.

[CRussel]

I've been doing a re-reading of Dana Stabenow's Kate Shugak series, and they definitely have lived up to a re-read. I'm flipping back and forth between the eBooks and the Audible versions, superbly narrated by Marguerite Gavin. Currently reading Blood Will Tell, the 6th in the series, which I'm hoping is a back on track book. I thought the 5th in the series, Play with Fire, was a bit of a let-down, and I see from my earlier notes in Calibre that I thought so the first time I read it too.

Next up will be a bit of a break from Alaska to go all the way down to the Panama Canal, with The Path Between the Seas by David McCullough. I've had it on hold at the Library and it just dropped so I'll be reading it next.

[Apache]

Originally Posted by CRussel

Next up will be a bit of a break from Alaska to go all the way down to the Panama Canal, with by David McCullough. I've had it on hold at the Library and it just dropped so I'll be reading it next.

I read this a couple of months ago. An excellent read. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
Apache

[astrangerhere]

I started Jenn Shapland's My Autobiography of Carson McCullers last night and am finding it absolutely fascinating.