09-23-2013, 05:19 PM | #17746 | |
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Richard Castle & Mike Carey
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Next I'm giving a try to the first of the Felix Castor series by Mike Carey, The Devil You Know. Last edited by alansplace; 09-23-2013 at 05:24 PM. Reason: oops... |
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09-24-2013, 12:27 AM | #17747 | |
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Now for King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard - another classic I have never read before. This one is from HarryT's omnibus (volume 1 at least). |
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09-24-2013, 07:41 AM | #17748 | |
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Then I read AI Unbound by Nancy Kress. A freebie from Phoenix Press with absolutely terrible formatting. Fixed fonts and point sizes all over the place. The two AI stories were interesting. Next up: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Sep/Oct 2013. |
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09-24-2013, 08:28 AM | #17749 |
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Starting Hell To Pay, my seventh George Pelecanos novel in the past month, after getting a nudge in the Detective Novels, Mystery Favorites thread.
Also reading Edwidge Danticat's latest, Claire Of The Sea Light. |
09-24-2013, 09:34 AM | #17750 |
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I am currently reading The Best of Connie Willis, an anthology that includes many of her Hugo and Nebula award short stories and novellas. Excellent stuff so far ("A Letter from the Clearys", "Fire Watch").
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09-24-2013, 09:35 AM | #17751 |
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I'm loving Lawhead's Hood (about 60% in now), but I just got Doctor Sleep, Stephen King's new book, and I can't decide if I'm going to finish Hood first or if I'll read Doctor sleep first.
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09-24-2013, 09:57 AM | #17752 |
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Just finished "Wheels of Fire", by Mercedes Lackey, Mark Shepherd, and Holly Lisle. The first book in the "The Otherworld" Baen omnibus, from Feb 2000. This is a part of my ongoing "read my Baen backlist" project.
Urban fantasy. Elves and motor-racing. Not exactly my standard reading matter, but enjoyable enough. |
09-24-2013, 11:25 AM | #17753 |
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I'm reading Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. I emailed it to my kindle and forgot I had. Then, when I finished Redshirts and went to my kindles home page I saw it. I had been reading it online here and there...
...the only down side is, I think the book is still unfinished. BOb |
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Changing my mind (again)...to Kerry Greenwood!!
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Charlie Russel's post reminded me that I hadn't read a Phryne Fisher mystery for a while, so I've now dropped The Devil You Know and begun reading Murder On The Ballarat Train (Phryne Fisher #3) by Kerry Greenwood. Last edited by alansplace; 09-24-2013 at 06:11 PM. Reason: oops... |
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09-24-2013, 03:43 PM | #17755 |
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I was halfway in Seanan McGuire's "Discount Armageddon" when I lost my ereader. I've tried continuing on my phone, but the screen's to uncomfortable for longer bouts or reading. So I'm waiting for my new ereader to continue.
After recommending Sarah Rees Brennan's "Demon's Lexcion" in another thread, I decided to reread it, so that's what I'm doing now. When I'm feeling lazy, I'll reread old favourites, taking the time to enjoy the language when I'm not itching to know what happens next :-) |
09-24-2013, 04:09 PM | #17756 |
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09-24-2013, 06:30 PM | #17757 |
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Just finished On Basilisk Station.
I originally complained about how slow it started. It picked up as it went and the ending was satisfying enough so that I'm on to the 2nd novel in the series The Honor of the Queen. |
09-25-2013, 12:35 AM | #17758 |
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Thanks, Moe! I lost a Bebook Neo, and after some advice here I've ordered a Pocketbook Touch Lux.
The Bebook had started to get some annoying glitches (I usually had to try several times before suceeding when connecting it to a PC), but now that it's gone I find I was fond of it, warts and all :-/ |
09-25-2013, 11:34 AM | #17759 |
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Finished "The Thirteen Problems" by Agatha Christie. This is a collection of "Miss Marple" short stories, and was her 16th book, and the 2nd featuring Miss Marple, originally published in 1932. The US title is "The Tuesday Club Murders".
As in some of her other short story collections (e.g. Partners in Crime), Christie employs an overarching narrative, making the book more like an episodic novel. There are three sets of narrative, though they themselves interrelate. The first set of six are stories told by the Tuesday Night Club, a random gathering of people at the house of Miss Marple. Each week the group tell tales of mystery, always solved by the female amateur detective from the comfort of her armchair. One of the guests is Sir Henry Clithering, an ex-commissioner of Scotland Yard, and this allows Christie to resolve the story, with him usually pointing out that the criminals were caught. The next set of six occur as part of a dinner party Miss Marple is invited to at the request of Sir Henry Clithering, as a result of her skill in the Tuesday Night Club. This employs a similar guessing game, and once more Miss Marple triumphs. The thirteenth story, Death by Drowning, takes place some time after the dinner party when Miss Marple finds out that Clithering is staying in St Mary Mead and asks him to help in the investigation surrounding the death of a local village girl. Miss Marple solves the murder by the end. All the plots are ingenious, and most would have made excellent full-length novels. Very good indeed. |
09-25-2013, 12:08 PM | #17760 | |
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