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

[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by CRussel

I hope it isn't a trend. I think he got all caught up in the graphical novel things, which interest me not at all.

That's pretty-much what I figured, too. I'm not interested in the graphic novels, either. More power to him, though, if there's a ton of interest in them.

Originally Posted by CRussel

I know he took a fair amount of heat in the twitterverse from folks waiting impatiently for this one.

That's why I didn't really delve too deeply into what the delay was all about. If I'm not involved in the discussion, I can avoid being influenced by the discussion. I learned that much from the GRRM situation.

Now I like to keep a "professional distance" from my favorite authors' day-to-day updates (if they provide them). What I don't read, can't anger me.

[HarryT]

Just finished "Seventy Years in Archaeology", the autobiography of Sir W.M. Flinders Petrie. Petrie can justly be called the man who changed archaeology from treasure hunting into a science, and he laid the foundations of modern Egyptology. The methods he invented for excavating and recording sites are still used by archaeologists today. A fascinating read (if you're interested in archaeology and Egyptology, at least).

[Dngrsone]

Finished The Three-Body Problem by Xixin Liu. Glad I pulled this to the top of the TBR.

Next is Carrie Brownstein: Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl. Still lots of good stuff in my TBR...

[CRussel]

Originally Posted by HarryT

I'm sorry, but "Kobna" is not a name .

Originally Posted by alansplace

https://www.goodreads.com/author/sho...oldbrook_Smith

I might tend to agree with you, Harry, but it appears none the less that it is the one he's chosen. And who am I to argue!

Whatever he calls himself, he's the absolutely perfect narrator for Peter Grant.

[orlok]

Originally Posted by CRussel

Currently reading The Hanging Tree, #6 in the outstanding Peter Grant series from Ben Aaronovitch. I had to take a trip to the UK to get it, but couldn't stand waiting until January.

Originally Posted by orlok

Shirley you jest?

Originally Posted by CRussel

No, and don't call me Shirley.

Originally Posted by Apache

I also took a trip to the UK to get this book.

Now I'm assuming you mean a virtual trip, and bought it on Amazon UK or similar? You're not telling me you both actually flew over to get the book. Right?

[issybird]

Originally Posted by orlok

Now I'm assuming you mean a virtual trip, and bought it on Amazon UK or similar? You're not telling me you both actually flew over to get the book. Right?

I think that's a safe assumption.

I admit, I've considered hopping in the car, heading across the border, finding a hotspot and downloading like crazy the works of all those authors who have been dead for more than fifty years, but while I could do it in a day, it still doesn't quite seem worth the effort.

[CRussel]

Originally Posted by issybird

I think that's a safe assumption.

I admit, I've considered hopping in the car, heading across the border, finding a hotspot and downloading like crazy the works of all those authors who have been dead for more than fifty years, but while I could do it in a day, it still doesn't quite seem worth the effort.

No, it doesn't. Especially since the sites in Canada that have those books don't actually enforce geo-restrictions.

And yes, to answer the question - I took a virtual trip. Actually, I have one of my Kobo accounts defaulted to the UK just for the odd book like this.

[Apache]

I was virtually in the UK too.
Apache

[orlok]

Phew. I like books, but on first impressions that seemed to be going to ridiculous extremes

[Dngrsone]

You like books?

Why, I like books, too! Imagine meeting another book-liker on the the intarwebs... crazy, man.

[orlok]

Originally Posted by Dngrsone

You like books?

Why, I like books, too! Imagine meeting another book-liker on the the intarwebs... crazy, man.

What a coincidence! And in a forum about reading. Can't believe there are two of us

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Next up: Grantville Gazette #68.

Which was the usual mix of enjoyable soap opera stories set in the 1632 universe.

Then I read F&SF, November/December 2016 edited by C. C. Finlay. A more mixed bag of stories than usual, but with one of two that I really liked a lot.

Next up: I'm not sure.

[Apache]

I am torn between finishing the Inspector Chen Mysteries by Qiu Xiaolong or starting David Weber's At the Sign of Triumph. (Safehold 9). It was just released today. I am leaning towards At the Sign of Triumph after I finish Red Mandarin Dress. (5 of 9)
Apache

[HarryT]

Two books completed:

"The Nano Flower", by Peter F. Hamilton. The third (and, so far, final) book in the Greg Mandel series of SF detective stories. The book is set 17 years after the second book. The husband of Julia Evans, the billionairess owner of Event Horizon has vanished, but 7 months later she receives a flower from him which proves to be of alien origin. Julia asks her old friend Greg Mandel, long retired from the detective business, to help her both track down her husband and find the origin of the flower. Absolutely excellent. If anyone hasn't read this series, I highly recommend it!

"Blood and Judgment", by Lars Walker. Bought from Baen in December 2003. A high-school English teacher and amateur actor rehearsing for the role of "Hamlet" is thrown, along with the rest of his acting company, into a world in which the play is real. Can they change the storyline to avoid the bloodbath that the play ends in, and find their way home? I didn't particularly enjoy this. Average at best. Not recommended.

[Rev. Bob]

I took advantage of a Halloween comic sale and have been plowing through the Marvel Zombies collections. I also bought the second chunk of Afterlife with Archie comics, but unfortunately it's a couple of issues shy of completing that next significant arc. (I think those are getting published quarterly, which feels positively glacial with a six-part storyline.)