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

[issybird]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

I may have to check that out too. I'm not reading a ton of SF/F these days. And the details surrounding the loss of the Fitzgerald have always been near and dear. Thanks!

John U. Bacon is a plagiarist. It’s one of those situations where I can’t help taking a moral stand, as in, never, never, never.

Just to be clear: I have a long list of plagiarists whose books I’d never, ever read and they include such luminaries as Doris Kearns Goodwin and Stephen Ambrose.

[John F]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

I'm in a bit of a choosing funk right now. Someone suggest something for me, please. Preferably not part of a series and preferably available as an audiobook. Other than that, the sky's the limit.

How about The Good Lord Bird by James McBride. I really enjoyed it, but that may be because I watched the TV series first.

[bizzybody]

Originally Posted by drofgnal

I love WWII fiction, I'll be checking these out.

How about alternate history? Most WW2 fiction also tends to fall into that too.

There's The Seventh Carrier series by Peter Albano

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...eventh-carrier

The Yonaga, a Japanese aircraft carrier built on the converted 4th ship of the Yamato Class battleships (IRL there were only 3, Yamato and Musashi completed as battleships, the third was completed as the carrier Shinano), got stuck behind a glacier in her secret Alaskan port for 42 years. Finally breaking out in 1983, her crew is determined to carry out their orders - attack Pearl Harbor.

I've not read the other 10 books in the series. I read the first book years ago and it turned out to be pretty good, despite the premise of a huge ship somehow being hidden in Alaska for 42 years - getting missed by aircraft doing weather observations, searching for sites for oil drilling and mining, hunters, Inuit tribes, then by the late 70's missed by weather and mapping satellites.

The book was in part inspired by the Japanese WW2 holdouts who surrendered at different times between December 1st, 1945 and December 18th, 1974. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_holdout

The last two confirmed holdouts had joined the Malayan Communist Party (along with some other men) after the war ended in 1945, only quitting in 1989 and returned to Japan in 1990.

It's highly unlikely there were any more after that as they would be getting up there in years, surviving in wild and harsh conditions if they didn't mix in with others like the ones who joined the Malayan or Chinese Communist parties.