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

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by Tarana

I did not know that Elizabeth Peters was an egyptologist. That explains the interesting locals. I started with Deeds of the Disturber, but did not finish because while I enjoy the writing, it was too complex for me at the time (long story). I did not give up on it, because I enjoyed it and will return to it perhaps in the spring.

Her real name was Barbara Mertz, and she wrote a number of non-fiction books about Egyptology under that name. She also wrote "gothic" novels under the name Barbara Michaels.

[Apache]

Originally Posted by CRussel

You know, I never quite got Silverberg. I tried several of his in my youth, and they just didn't work. Then I tried one again 15 years or so ago, and it still didn't work. Gave up and decided he just wasn't my cuppa.

I did the and feel the same.
Apache

[Dr. Drib]

I'm currently reading "The Pilo Family Circus," by Will Elliott.

Very wonderful nastiness and much horribleness.

And who can't resist the nasty smile of a clown with rotted teeth and a grin that stretches from ear to ear (literally)?

--- Think about THAT the next time you take the kiddies to see some clown - you clown, you!

[orlok]

Just started The Last Sherlock Holmes Story by Michael Dibdin (he of Inspector Aurelio Zen fame) which was his first novel. At 14% I am really enjoying it and like the style. It is based on a manuscript supposedly only revealed 50 years after Watson's death, and deals with Holmes's investigation into Jack the Ripper.

[mewmartigan]

I just started Sand by Hugh Howey. I borrowed it through Kindle Prime and just now realized that you can only read borrowed books on an actual Kindle. I tried to send it to my android phone and the option is greyed out. So I'll have to remember to bring my kindle everywhere until the book is done, haha.

[Waylander]

Just started The Templar Legacy by Steve Berry. I like this kind of thing by writers like Scott Mariani, so hopefully this will be a success.

[CRussel]

Originally Posted by mewmartigan

I just started Sand by Hugh Howey. I borrowed it through Kindle Prime and just now realized that you can only read borrowed books on an actual Kindle. I tried to send it to my android phone and the option is greyed out. So I'll have to remember to bring my kindle everywhere until the book is done, haha.

Life is hard that way. But Alf is your friend.

[HarryT]

Alf is NOT intended for use in removing time-limiting DRM on books you've borrowed. That's just stealing .

[Yapyap]

Originally Posted by Yapyap

Last night I picked up The Explorer by James Smythe

And done. I'm not really sure how I feel about that book. There was a lot to appreciate about it, but in the end, I didn't feel entirely satisfied with what I was given.

Also, I think I'm at a period in my life where I crave more excitement than introspection in my leisure reading.

[CRussel]

Originally Posted by HarryT

Alf is NOT intended for use in removing time-limiting DRM on books you've borrowed. That's just stealing.

I agree, and I wasn't suggesting changing time limits. There are no time limits involved here. There's no time limit on Kindle Prime borrowed books, only a device restriction of what kind of device is allowed. You borrow until you're done, and when you return it, you can borrow another. I view DRM removal to allow one to read it on K4PC, for example, as not stealing. BUT that applies only if one returns it and removes it from Calibre and/or the devices it's on. I agree - using Alf to bypass the time limits is beyond the remit of what the tools are for.

[Tarana]

Now for something completely different: The Unfinished Clue by Georgette Heyer.

I did not know, until the English Mysteries group at Goodreads chose a Heyer novel, that Georgette Heyer wrote mysteries. I'd long ago read most of her Regency novels. I don't think they were available at my bookstores back in my early 20s.

Currently reading Twelve Drummers Drumming by C C Benison and listening to Loyalty in Death by JD Robb. OH, and listening to A Christmas Carol read by Tim Curry in the morning with my coffee (my short story/novella goal).

[speakingtohe]

Originally Posted by Tarana

I did not know, until the English Mysteries group at Goodreads chose a Heyer novel, that Georgette Heyer wrote mysteries. I'd long ago read most of her Regency novels. I don't think they were available at my bookstores back in my early 20s.

Currently reading Twelve Drummers Drumming by C C Benison and listening to Loyalty in Death by JD Robb. OH, and listening to A Christmas Carol read by Tim Curry in the morning with my coffee (my short story/novella goal).

Heyer, Sayers and Allingham mysteries are always a delight.

Helen

[mewmartigan]

Originally Posted by CRussel

I agree, and I wasn't suggesting changing time limits. There are no time limits involved here. There's no time limit on Kindle Prime borrowed books, only a device restriction of what kind of device is allowed. You borrow until you're done, and when you return it, you can borrow another. I view DRM removal to allow one to read it on K4PC, for example, as not stealing. BUT that applies only if one returns it and removes it from Calibre and/or the devices it's on. I agree - using Alf to bypass the time limits is beyond the remit of what the tools are for.

Eh, the book is only 250 pages and I will be sitting at Hyundai waiting for a brake job tomorrow so I shouldn't need it on any other device in this case.

[samhy]

I finally started Wool by Hugh Howey. I like it so much!

[ProjeKtWEREWOLF]

I've just finished 'Fall of the Governor' by Robert Kirkman. It's the third Walking Dead novel. It was shallow and a bit unnecessarily gruesome but fun. The first in the series is my favourite.
I have just begun 'patient zero' by Jonathan Mayberry. So far so good; basically a Jack Reacher zombie story......nice.