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

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Next up: Into the Thinking Kingdoms by Alan Dean Foster. Middle part of a trilogy. I read the first part in 2020, so some details escape me, but clearly a set up for the current book, where we drop straight into an ongoing quest. I suspect it's really one story in three volumes.

This middle part is an enjoyable fantasy epic journey. I'll follow it up with the third part, rather than wait another five years.

so next up: A Triumph of Souls by Alan Dean Foster.

[Dr. Drib]

Just bought Liars, by Sarah Manguso. It's priced at £0.99 from Kobo.UK.

However, the preview function for that title is not working and has no text. But because the book's premise (and price) intrigued me, I went over to Amazon and read the preview online and was HOOKED.

But don't buy it from Amazon [U.S.], because the price there is $13.99 !!!!!

Amazon [quoted]: Liars is a tour de force of wit and rage, telling the blistering story of a marriage as it burns to the ground, and of a woman rising inexorably from its ashes.

[varia]

Just started The South Bank Murders (Detective Rob Miller #5) by Biba Pearce.
It's my first jaunt into a Police Procedural series. Not bad so far.
My other side read is a translation of A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies, by Bartolome de las Casas originally published in 1552. Though it's short, I won't read it in one sitting. It's heavy reading.

VariaM

[astrangerhere]

Originally Posted by astrangerhere

Currently:

• Audio - Plot it Yourself by Rex Stout
• DTB - The Letters of Shirley Jackson - these are fabulous. I have about one more sitting before I finish them and have really enjoyed them.
• Kobo - A Century of Fiction in The New Yorker: 1925-2025 edited by Deborah Treisman. The highlight so far has been re-reading Susan Sontag's stellar look at the early days of the AIDS epidemic - "The Way We Live Now" from 1986.

I finished (and loved) The Letters of Shirley Jackson.

Right now I've got:

• Audio - One Aladdin, Two Lamps by Jeannette Winterson
• Paper - Pedro the Vast by Simón López Trujillo, translated by Robin Myers
• Kobo - Continuing A Century of Fiction in The New Yorker: 1925-2025