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pdurrant · 07-07-2015, 02:59 PM

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Now for some shorter humorous works: Chicks and Balances, edited by Esther Friesner. The latest collection in the "Chicks in Chainmail" series from Baen.

Which was good fun. I liked almost all the stories.

Next up: 1636: The Cardinal Virtues by Eric Flint & Walter H Hunt. A new mainline author for the 1632 series. Looking good so far.

bizzybody · 07-07-2015, 05:25 PM

Waitwaitwhut? An actually NEW book in the Chicks in Chainmail series? Not like Chicks Ahoy that was just an omnibus of the first three anthologies?

Must get that one.

Dazrin · 07-08-2015, 01:21 AM

I finished Three Parts Dead by Max Gladstone last week and then had a long weekend of driving and playing so no reading was accomplished. It was certainly an interesting setting and magic system and really tickled my "world building" side but it didn't really have the right tone for me overall. It was good, just not great.

Today I started At All Costs by David Weber this morning, Honor Harrington book 11.

bizzybody · 07-08-2015, 02:11 AM

Not spoiling anything to say that At All Costs is a good entry in the series.

CRussel · 07-08-2015, 12:03 PM

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Not spoiling anything to say that At All Costs is a good entry in the series.

Agreed, after what was probably the worst in the series, War of Honor, this was a welcome improvement. Still a LOT longer than it needed to be, it was still better than War.

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Finished Riot Act, the second Charlie Fox book from Zoe Sharp. And much as I liked the first, I liked the second even more, so I went right on to #3, Hard Knocks. Excellent, and getting better. We see Charlie growing into her role and coming to grips with how she got there, and in a way that feels right, at least to this readerly eye.

The next omnibus is available on KU, and I'll be starting on that next I think. The first book the next omnibus is First Drop, which is actually #4 in the series, but the first one that got picked up in the US.

Well, I seem to be on a Charlie Fox binge. I keep thinking I should read something else, but keep getting sucked in to the next one. I finished First Drop, #4 in the series, and the first in the omnibus Another Round of Charlie Fox. I would rate First Drop a bit below the two before it. I think the Florida venue didn't really fit all that well. On the other hand, I did it again and started the next, #5, Road Kill. I think I'm hooked.

Hampshire Nanny · 07-08-2015, 01:03 PM

I've recently read four volumes of the In Death series by Nora Roberts writing as J. D. Robb: Strangers in Death, Salvation in Death, Promises in Death, and Kindred in Death. These were in an omnibus (books 26-29) which I borrowed from my library via Overdrive. Thank goodness for the 3-week checkout period.

I'm now reading Kris Longknife: Furious by Mike Shepherd (aka Mike Moscoe).

pdurrant · 07-08-2015, 02:06 PM

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Next up: 1636: The Cardinal Virtues by Eric Flint & Walter H Hunt. A new mainline author for the 1632 series. Looking good so far.

Well, that was interesting. It certainly advances the plot in France, which is good. I wasn't quite as engaged with the characters as usual, but I still enjoyed the ride.

Next up: My most recent purchase, Penric's Demon by Lois McMaster Bujold

Dazrin · 07-09-2015, 01:35 AM

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Today I started At All Costs by David Weber this morning, Honor Harrington book 11.

Not spoiling anything to say that At All Costs is a good entry in the series.

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Agreed, after what was probably the worst in the series, War of Honor, this was a welcome improvement. Still a LOT longer than it needed to be, it was still better than War.

Thank you for the encouragement on this one. The last was a bit of a slog. For this one I read something that made me expect one of the twists that just came up. Fortunately it is near the beginning of the book so it isn't much of a spoiler, I just wasn't at all surprised about it.

My library just let me know that To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis, the third installment in her Oxford time travel series after Fire Watch and Doomsday Book, was available, so I will be taking a short hiatus to read that before finishing At All Costs.

pdurrant · 07-09-2015, 07:32 AM

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Next up: My most recent purchase, Penric's Demon by Lois McMaster Bujold

Well, that was excellent. I do like her fiction - it's just a shame that I've read it all now, until the next Vorkosigan book comes out next year. I hope she does another book in the five gods universe. This story reminded me how interesting it was.

Highly recommended, even at the asking price (£2.99).

Next up: The Lost Steersman by Rosemary Kirstein. Another recent purchase. I liked the first two, I hope I like the third.

Fbone · 07-10-2015, 04:39 AM

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Next will be Star Wars: Allegiance by Timothy Zahn, a recent Kobo purchase.

This is a nice edition to the Star Wars universe. The plot mostly involves Mara Jade when she still worked for the Emperor and a group of deserting Stormtroopers. Han, Luke, Leia and Chewbacca have minor supporting roles. No droids in this book. The author did reveal reasons for those desiring to leave the Empire to join the rebels. And those in the Empire that tried to work honestly and respectfully. Different take on the Empire. Rated C [3 stars].

Next will be another recent purchase Death at La Fenice by Donna Leon.

HarryT · 07-10-2015, 05:09 AM

Just finished "Down in the Bottomlands" by Harry Turtledove, bought from Baen in 2001. A trio of "alternate history" novellas, the genre that Mr Turtledove excels at. The first part of the book, and the one which gives the book its title, is a murder mystery set in a world where the Mediterranean sea, blocked off from the Atlantic Ocean by a range of mountains (as has indeed happened at various times in geological history), is a wildlife preserve, rather like the Grand Canyon, but much larger and much deeper. The second two stories are set in a world where a man from our world finds himself in a version of North America ruled by the descendants of Vikings, where southern Europe is an Arab state. An excellent collection. Highly recommended.

Apache · 07-10-2015, 05:59 AM

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Just finished "Down in the Bottomlands" by Harry Turtledove, bought from Baen in 2001. A trio of "alternate history" novellas, the genre that Mr Turtledove excels at. The first part of the book, and the one which gives the book its title, is a murder mystery set in a world where the Mediterranean sea, blocked off from the Atlantic Ocean by a range of mountains (as has indeed happened at various times in geological history), is a wildlife preserve, rather like the Grand Canyon, but much larger and much deeper. The second two stories are set in a world where a man from our world finds himself in a version of North America ruled by the descendants of Vikings, where southern Europe is an Arab state. An excellent collection. Highly recommended.

I will have to give this one a try, although I feel that Mr. Turtledove's characters are to one dimensional.

I recently finished The Dying Season by Martin Walker. This is number eight in his excellent series Bruno Chief of Police. The Dying Season is another excellent book in the series and highly recommended. Fantastic Fiction list this book as number nine, but I list it as eight because they list Bruno and the Carol Singers as number six. Technically this should be number 5.5 since it is a short story.

I am now rereading the first book in H. Paul Honsinger's Man of War Series, To Honor You Call Us. I will then proceed to read For Honor We Stand, the second book in the series. I am doing so to catch up on the characters in the series before I start his newest book in the series, Brothers in Valor.
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/h/h-paul-honsinger/
I highly recommend this Military Science Fiction Series.
Apache

Dngrsone · 07-10-2015, 07:46 AM

Read the autobiography Size Matters Not: The Extraordinary Life & Career of Warwick Davis the second edition in dead-tree format.

Pretty engaging; Davis was in a lot more films than I knew.

... now I can return it to the library; Dngrswife borrowed it like a year ago and then lost it in the house. :/

HarryT · 07-10-2015, 07:58 AM

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... now I can return it to the library; Dngrswife borrowed it like a year ago and then lost it in the house. :/

Will it not cost you more in library fines after a year than the book is worth?

elaysee · 07-10-2015, 06:19 PM

I just read Jordan Ellenberg's How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking, and greatly enjoyed it. Ellenberg has a good writing style, a nice way with humor, and tells some good stories and draws relationships among them as he surveys subdisciplines. If you're wondering if this could be for you, probably the last book I read in this general area was Nate Silver's The Signal and the Noise, but I thought this was better.

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07-07-2015, 05:25 PM	#22517
bizzybody Addict Posts: 294 Karma: 7742186 Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Idaho, USA Device: Various PalmOS PDAs, Android Phones, Sharper Image Literati	Waitwaitwhut? An actually NEW book in the Chicks in Chainmail series? Not like Chicks Ahoy that was just an omnibus of the first three anthologies? Must get that one.

07-08-2015, 01:21 AM	#22518
Dazrin Wizard Posts: 2,730 Karma: 75825105 Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: PDXish Device: Kindle Voyage, various Android devices	I finished Three Parts Dead by Max Gladstone last week and then had a long weekend of driving and playing so no reading was accomplished. It was certainly an interesting setting and magic system and really tickled my "world building" side but it didn't really have the right tone for me overall. It was good, just not great. Today I started At All Costs by David Weber this morning, Honor Harrington book 11.

07-08-2015, 02:11 AM	#22519
bizzybody Addict Posts: 294 Karma: 7742186 Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Idaho, USA Device: Various PalmOS PDAs, Android Phones, Sharper Image Literati	Not spoiling anything to say that At All Costs is a good entry in the series.

07-08-2015, 01:03 PM	#22521
Hampshire Nanny Guru Posts: 615 Karma: 8064562 Join Date: Aug 2009 Device: Sony PRS-505, Kindle 3 KB, iPad2	I've recently read four volumes of the In Death series by Nora Roberts writing as J. D. Robb: *Strangers in Death, Salvation in Death, Promises in Death, and Kindred in Death. These were in an omnibus (books 26-29) which I borrowed from my library via Overdrive. Thank goodness for the 3-week checkout period. I'm now reading Kris Longknife: Furious* by Mike Shepherd (aka Mike Moscoe).

07-10-2015, 05:09 AM	#22526
HarryT eBook Enthusiast Posts: 85,556 Karma: 93383099 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis 2, iPad Pro 10.5", iPhone 6	Just finished "Down in the Bottomlands" by Harry Turtledove, bought from Baen in 2001. A trio of "alternate history" novellas, the genre that Mr Turtledove excels at. The first part of the book, and the one which gives the book its title, is a murder mystery set in a world where the Mediterranean sea, blocked off from the Atlantic Ocean by a range of mountains (as has indeed happened at various times in geological history), is a wildlife preserve, rather like the Grand Canyon, but much larger and much deeper. The second two stories are set in a world where a man from our world finds himself in a version of North America ruled by the descendants of Vikings, where southern Europe is an Arab state. An excellent collection. Highly recommended.

07-10-2015, 07:46 AM	#22528
Dngrsone Almost legible Posts: 1,457 Karma: 4611110 Join Date: Dec 2013 Location: In a high desert, CA Device: Galaxy Note 9, Galaxy Tab A (2017), Likebook P78	Read the autobiography Size Matters Not: The Extraordinary Life & Career of Warwick Davis the second edition in dead-tree format. Pretty engaging; Davis was in a lot more films than I knew. ... now I can return it to the library; Dngrswife borrowed it like a year ago and then lost it in the house. :/

07-10-2015, 06:19 PM	#22530
elaysee Groupie Posts: 167 Karma: 1319590 Join Date: Jun 2012 Device: iPad/MapleRead	I just read Jordan Ellenberg's How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking, and greatly enjoyed it. Ellenberg has a good writing style, a nice way with humor, and tells some good stories and draws relationships among them as he surveys subdisciplines. If you're wondering if this could be for you, probably the last book I read in this general area was Nate Silver's The Signal and the Noise, but I thought this was better.

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