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

[Yapyap]

Last three books I read:

Wool omnibus by Hugh Howey - excellent!
Discount Armageddon by Seanan McGuire - also excellent; great fun.
The End of the World by Derek Landy - re-read; still as fun as it was the first time I read it in February.

After a run of three very enjoyable reads in a row, I'm almost hesitant to pick up anything new again... haven't yet decided what my next read is.

[CRussel]

Originally Posted by alansplace

Wow! Liam (and Wy) certainly didn't disappoint. Too bad there's only two more books in this series as I'm really enjoying them and am very tempted to just keep on reading them till I've read the entire series. But I again, made myself not do so.

The latest Kate Shugak includes Liam and Wy, so hopefully more purely Liam books are coming. I enjoy them, though I'm not sure which series I prefer -- probably the Kate Shugak if I have to choose.

Finished reading 1635: The Eastern Front and moved right into 1636: The Saxon Uprising, both by Eric Flint. These are mainline books in the Ring of Fire series and I enjoyed them, though both tended to drag a bit in spots. You should read both back to back, since they're really one really long book, split in half.

Time for a break, now. Maybe a Monster Hunter book. That should be fun.

[alansplace]

Originally Posted by CRussel

The latest Kate Shugak includes Liam and Wy, so hopefully more purely Liam books are coming. I enjoy them, though I'm not sure which series I prefer -- probably the Kate Shugak if I have to choose.

Yeah, but I just read Shugak book 11 and the newest one (the one you're talking about) is book 19. So my plan is to read Shugak 12, 13, 14 and 15. Then read Campbell 3. Then read Shugak 16, 17 and 18. Then read Campbell 4. Then finally read Shugak 19!! Whew!!!

[CRussel]

Originally Posted by alansplace

Yeah, but I just read Shugak book 11 and the newest one (the one you're talking about) is book 19. So my plan is to read Shugak 12, 13, 14 and 15. Then read Campbell 3. Then read Shugak 16, 17 and 18. Then read Campbell 4. Then finally read Shugak 19!! Whew!!!

But what a pleasure to have those books to look forward to.

[alansplace]

Originally Posted by CRussel

But what a pleasure to have those books to look forward to.

How very true!

[tecweston]

Just Finished:

- A Letter of Mary by Laurie R. King - I didn't like this one as much as the first two (and I didn't like the second one as much as the first), but at least this one didn't introduce supernatural elements into the mix. It starts out feeling like its going to be The Da Vinci Code with Sherlock Holmes, but soon it turns into a standard murder mystery and the Jesusy stuff gets set aside.

Currently Reading:

- Ashes by Ilsa J. Bick (9%)

- Moby-Dick, or The Whale by Herman Melville (28%)

[karinlib]

I read the Farseer and the Tawny Man series, one right after the other. I could not put Robin Hobbs books down.

[Rumpelteazer]

I finished Paul Christopher's The Sword of the Templar (#1 Templar series) yesterday. The story itself is okay, an action packed thriller, where the two main characters find a templar sword when one of their relatives dies, when someone tries to steal the sword and burns down the house they want to find out why. It turns into a wild trip around the world. It's a quick read.

However, Christopher's showing of of his knowledge (or good use of dictionaries and encyclopaedia) and info-dumping got irritating after a while. Also, the ending was very rushed and left some questions unanswered. I don't know if that was intentional to get people to buy the next book but I don't like it when that happens.

[orlok]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

Look forward to your opinions. I have it; but haven't got to it yet. It was more or less an impulse buy because the authors seemed so disparate—unless you count both having a propensity for rambling about ideas/concepts only they fully comprehend.

I'll try not to give away too much about The Long Earth, but spoilering it just in case .

Spoiler:

Finished it now, and while I quite enjoyed it, it was more travelogue than novel. Travels in a distinctly different universe, though, I'll give it that, and whilst the concept is certainly not original, it has been well constructed.

It felt much more like a set-up for a series than a stand-alone and self-contained story, and there will obviously be sequels - almost nothing has been explained yet, including the motivations driving the main protagonists.

I gave it 3 stars on Goodreads, and will more than likely read the next one - I just hope more actually happens in the sequel...

[DrNefario]

I finished off Hornblower and the Hotspur, and therefore the Young Hornblower omnibus, not long before my library loan expires.

I've also managed to fit in a couple of the shortlisted Hugo novellas, "Countdown" by Mira Grant and "The Ice Owl" by Carolyn Ives Gilman. "Countdown" is backstory for the Newsflesh books which I'm really not a fan of. I found it less irritating than the novels because it wasn't narrated by an annoying idiot. "The Ice Owl" was a nice setting but a bit of a nothing story.

[CRussel]

Originally Posted by DrNefario

I finished off Hornblower and the Hotspur, and therefore the Young Hornblower omnibus, not long before my library loan expires.

While I enjoyed the Hornblower books, I enjoyed the Patrick O'Brien Aubrey/Maturin books far more. The depth of the characters, and the scientific and historical details (beyond the simple battle stuff) is far more compelling, IMHO. Highly recommended, though I'm not sure they're available from the library yet. (Haven't looked, I already have them all in both audio and pBook format.)

[lectus]

I am reading "Act of Terror" by Marc Cameron.
Here is the link to the Goodreads blurb.

Lectus
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[alansplace]

Originally Posted by alansplace

Wow! Liam (and Wy) certainly didn't disappoint. Too bad there's only two more books in this series as I'm really enjoying them and am very tempted to just keep on reading them till I've read the entire series. But I again, made myself not do so.

Next I'm reading the first of the 4 Molly Fyde books, Molly Fyde and the Parsona Rescue by Hugh Howey. This is my first non-Wool Hugh Howey book.

"Wow! I've gotta' hurry and read the next one to find out what happens next!!" was my initial reaction as I finished reading Molly Fyde and the Parsona Rescue. But upon consideration I've decided to read next, On Basilisk Station by David Weber, which is Honor Harrington #1. I'll get back to Molly Fyde a couple books down the road.

Oh, by the way I found these two fantastic covers on Hugh Howey's web site in the Fan Art section.

[maianhvk]

I just finished LOTR, my first time. Great book, although I feel exhausted now.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by alansplace

"Wow! I've gotta' hurry and read the next one to find out what happens next!!" was my initial reaction as I finished reading Molly Fyde and the Parsona Rescue. But upon consideration I've decided to read next, On Basilisk Station by David Weber, which is Honor Harrington #1. I'll get back to Molly Fyde a couple books down the road.

Oh, by the way I found these two fantastic covers on Hugh Howey's web site in the Fan Art section.

Great finds. Now I can replace the Wool 1-5 Omnibus cover witht he much better one before beginning to read it. I plan on reading it after Crocodile on the Sandbank which is not an easy read because I feel like I spend more time highlighting errors then reading. Whoever made this eBook should be fired. It's that chock full of errors.

As for Wool, I went through the mess it was Calibre conversion from Word and fixed it up so it's a lot nicer now. After I read it and if I catch any errors and after I've fixed them, I'm going to try to contact the author and see if he wants a copy of my improved ePub.