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

[carld]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

Just finished "Dr. Offig's Lessons From The Dark Side, Vol. 1." This is by P.S. Gifford.

If you enjoy short-short stories for a teen market, then this will be a good read. Plenty of sentiment, some clunkers, and some nice jewels. His writing is very good and evocative of real emotion, and with a nice story-sense overall.

I bought "Dr Offig's" with high expectations a few months back and didn't care for it. I'll have to give it another try.

I finished "The Madness Season," very enjoyable, and am about half-way through "Her Wiccan, Wiccan Ways" by Traci Hall (still free at Amazon), which is okay for a teen paranormal romance, and not my usual fodder.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by carld

I bought "Dr Offig's" with high expectations a few months back and didn't care for it. I'll have to give it another try.

I finished "The Madness Season," very enjoyable, and am about half-way through "Her Wiccan, Wiccan Ways" by Traci Hall (still free at Amazon), which is okay for a teen paranormal romance, and not my usual fodder.

I think the problem with it (and I must emphasize "problem" is not really the correct word), is that the stories really are for a teen market. The book is definitely marketed correctly, but it's just a little too young in outlook for me.

However, I was so impressed with his writing that I purchased one of his adult books of short horror fiction. I really do expect to read thematically adult stories, if not with severed body parts and flying guts, then at least stories that explore the nature of evil in adult situations.

Don

[MelC]

Originally Posted by DixieGal

I love Notaro's books. Don't you think the sarcastic impressions of women are directed mainly at herself and her close friends? I find her hilarious ... and feel like we are living parallel lives! We both have that sort of odd view of looking at the world through clown colored glasses.

I really liked Idiot Girl and the Flaming Tantrum of Death but found this first book of hers was not as funny. A lot of it probably has to be that she is closer to my age in the Tantrum and so I found the first one kind of juvenile - lots of getting hammered, puking etc. Not so funny to me anymore. In general though I still find her a pale imitation of Jen Lancaster who I think has a sharper wit particularly in her first one, Bitter is the New Black.

Mel

[MelC]

Originally Posted by Peadar Ó Guilín

Sounds like fun!

I'm reading "To Say Nothing of the Dog" by Connie Willis.

I remember really liking this when I read it. Actually went on a bit of a Connie Willis binge after that although I think I settled on this one being her best.

Mel

[MelC]

Finished Shadowfires by Dean Koontz. This was one of his earlier works written under a pseudonym which he has rereleased. Typical fare from him and light reading but I have to say that one aspect of the book really revealed to me that I have truly been assimilated into the current culture.

SPOILER ALERT:

One key aspect of the book involves the male hero and the female heroine being separated and the hero realizing that the woman is in danger and he needs to contact her and warn her. I had the hardest time getting over mentally yelling in my head - JUST USE YOUR CELLPHONE!! Cellphones not being prevalent at the time this was written this was not an option of course.

I'm now reading Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman.

[pilotbob]

Not sure what to read next? Come join us in the Mobile Read Book Club. July's ebook selection is up for vote now. Vote for one of 5 books in the Humor genre. At the end of the month we will all discuss the selected book.

Very informal. Vote here:

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=49885

BOb

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Ned

Is that a made up book? Amazon search reveals neither Drinkwater nor Scamford

The last name has a typo.

DRINKWATER: A Sobering Tale About A Medieval Knight by Otto Scamfer

http://www.amazon.com/DRINKWATER-Sob...KC/ref=ed_oe_k

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by radamo

Now I am reading:
The Coffin Dancer - Jeffrey Deaver

Coffin Dancer is second in the Lincoln Rhyme series. It is a serious page turner.

RA

I have read The Coffin Dancer and it was so good. I'm going to have to get the 3rd book on my reader sometime soon.

[benham]

The entire Rhyme series is very good. The standalones have been very good as well.

[pilotbob]

Just finished Star Trek SCE Wildfire. Moving on to SCE Breakdowns.

BOb

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Trekkiemelissa

I'm currently reading His lady mistress. Its one of those free harliquin romances than I had gotten from amazon. I'm at 69% right now. Next book will be either a star trek or danielle steel book. I already have those on my kindle too

Have you read any of the TNGR books? If not, I can give you a list of what order to read in.

[ficbot]

Finished Bones by Jonathan Kellerman and something by Darrell Bain. I think that's 8 or 9 for my summer challenge...

[pshrynk]

Originally Posted by ficbot

Alas, no Connie Willis in ebook I looked for her newest when I could not find it in print at my bricks and mortar store and came up empty.

I quite agree! She should be at WorldCon, so I'll bug the snot out of her until she agrees to get e-published.

Or until Security tackles me and drags me off to The Room...

[JSWolf]

Where is Worldcon this year?

[birdbrainbb]

Originally Posted by Elsi

The HBO series contains a lot more sex -- well, explicit sex -- than the books. I've read the first three books in the series on my Kindle and am ready to purchase and read the fourth. My mother-in-law gave me books 5 and 6 in paperback, so I'm not going to be able to justify buying the electronic versions; I don't think these qualify as "keepers".

Actually, the books get more and more explicit as the series progresses. There aren't MORE sex scenes, really, but they're more descriptive than in the earlier books (so descriptive they embarrassed me; I tended to skim through them). Though one book doesn't have sex in it at all!

Anyway, I've finished reading the available Southern Vampire Mysteries/Sookie Stackhouse books, and I moved on to John Ringo's There Will Be Dragons. I liked it! It was long (about 700 pages equivalent in pbook), but I honestly didn't notice. Now I'm reading For Love of Mother Not, which is turning out to be pretty good, too.