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

[CRussel]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

I think it's only available direct from NESFA

https://www.nesfa.org/book/dreamweavers-dilemma-2-2-2/

$9.95, and I paid full price.

Thanks, I'd have never found that, and I'm sure I'll quite enjoy it.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

So now I am going to read City of Blades!

Which was great. On to City of Miracles

[issybird]

I read The Artificial Silk Girl by Irmgard Keum, a contemporaneous novel set in Berlin at the end of the Weimar republic, it's the purported diary of a young woman just barely above the street level. It's funny and penetrating but marred by what is obviously a poor translation.

Moved on the The Oppermanns by Lion Feuchtwanger, another contemporaneous novel set in Berlin at the end of Weimar, this time about an affluent Jewish family.

I'm obviously on something of a roll; this makes three novels in a row from 1930s Berlin. I'm taking suggestions! And I will cast my net a little wider, to central European countries in the German sphere of influence and to take in the 1920s as well.

[Tarana]

Since I last posted, I finished In The Heat Of The Moment and In Harm's Way by Viveca Sten. These are books 5 and 6 of Sandhamn Murder Mysteries. A very excellent series that I recommend if you like murder mysteries. Taking a breather from the series to read Greenthieves by Alan Dean Foster. So far, its a running commentary by an annoyed robot.

For listening, I have finished Orbs II and Orbs III and currently on the final of the series Orbs IV by Nicholas Sansbury Smith and Anthony Melchiorri. Action adventure scifi. I thought the 1st 3 books were good, not great, action adventure. I'm just slogging book 4 so far. I honestly don't like dystopian fiction and this is just downright depressing so far.

[issybird]

Originally Posted by issybird

I'm obviously on something of a roll; this makes three novels in a row from 1930s Berlin. I'm taking suggestions! And I will cast my net a little wider, to central European countries in the German sphere of influence and to take in the 1920s as well.

Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin has been on my radar for awhile; I need to bump it up the list.