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[Graham44]

Originally Posted by Graham44

I'm trying to re-read The Winter People by Bret Tallent, it's your typical horror story about monsters that hide within a raging blizzard and feed upon the local residents, the sort of horror story I like. However this is my fourth attempt at reading it and I just can't get into it for some reason, I'm really going to try and persevere this time and see if I can finish it!

I'm persevering and it's getting better, it's never going to be in any of my top ten or even top one hundred books, but it's ok if a little formulaic and predictable (at least so far).

[Karellen]

Currently reading Patriot Games by Tom Clancy

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Which was excellent. A fitting tribute to Terry, written by someone who knew him well in the last quarter of his life.

What I had forgotten was how moving the last couple of chapters were. Highly recommended.

I'm glad to say that everyone at the book group liked the biography of Terry Pratchett which was my choice for the book group this year. Even though none of them have read any of his books!

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

And now I'm reading What Price Victory? by David Weber et al. the most recent anthology of short stories in his Honor Harrington universe.

Which was a good collection of stories by various authors, including one by David Weber himself.

Next up: Wind and Truth by Brandon Sanderson. The fifth in his Stormlight Archive series.

[Uncle Robin]

Just started Sense and Sensibility for the May prompt at the MR Users TBR Reduction Challenge - ~215 years counts as 'something old", I think

[Renate]

Originally Posted by Uncle Robin

Just started Sense and Sensibility for the May prompt at the MR Users TBR Reduction Challenge - ~215 years counts as 'something old", I think

Unfortunately, Rowan Atkinson has ruined Jane Austin for me.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0526721/

[Uncle Robin]

Originally Posted by Renate

Unfortunately, Rowan Atkinson has ruined Jane Austin for me.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0526721/

Ha! I very nearly referenced the Yorkshireman with a large beard in my post, but decided against it as I already did when reading Persuasion

[jackm8]

I'm finishign Alright, Alright, Alright: The Oral History of Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused. Some interesting anecdotes, it's just that it becomes repetitive, as nearly all of it is presented through interview answers of people involved in it. Reports of drug use are honestly off-putting, even though the author tries to brush it aside.

[rumplestiltskin]

Just finishing "The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I" by Douglas Brunt. Quite entertaining and enlightening so far.

[nana77]

Hi, I like a lot sci-fi, had finished from Robert Kurvitz "Sacred and Terrible Air", and it's one of the most beatiful books I'd ever read.

[Uncle Robin]

1/3 through Northanger Abbey to finish Austen's big six and loving it. The rant about the contempt in which novels are held was hilarious.

[Graham44]

Reading Among the Fallen by N.S. Dolkart (book 2 of the Godserfs series) - The first book follows the story of five refugees fleeing the island of Tarphae which has been struck by a deadly plague.

Among the fallen continues the story but now our heroes have parted ways (temporarily I hope!) to pursue their own quests, be that leading an army of dragon touched, displacing the lands old religion with one that has up to now been forced underground or even searching for the secrets of academic wizardry - just the usual day in the life of a fantasy adventurer

One of my favourite characters in the series up to now is Bandu, a girl that was abandoned in the wild, her only friend before meeting the other characters is a wolf who she thinks is a dog - four foot, this leads to an amusing first encounter for our heroes on board a boat after Bandu smuggles four foot aboard but he escapes. After causing chaos and nearly getting stabbed Bandu defends four foot and berates the others - '' 'wicked man' the ragged girl cursed ... 'wicked man' " ........." 'Four-foot is good' the girl shouted .... 'four-foot only bites wicked people .... I talk to him only if you throw sharp things away' " (Bandu is talking about swords but does not know what they are called)* - the way Dolkart writes Bandu's speech makes her an amusing character to read about (but she also has a lot of depth) - but all of the characters in the book are well written and thought out, they all bring a lot to the story and you find yourself rooting for them all.

If you like fantasy books with a lot of adventure/ adventuring in I can certainly recommend Silent Hall (book 1) and Among the Fallen (book 2) I haven't read A breach in the Heavens (book 3) - but I certainly will!

*This is actually from the first book Silent Hall

[Uncle Robin]

4/5 for Northanger Abbey literally LOL in many places, thus securing it 5th place of the 6 Austens I've read. Now into Flying Blind by Alice Campbell. I've enjoyed most of hers, looking forward to this one.

[Fbone]

Originally Posted by Fbone

Next, my latest purchase, A Singular Destiny by Keith R.A. DeCandido.

The writing came across as juvenile fiction. Low reading level. Very simple plotting and very little danger. The main characters were good but not up to their potential. The ending/reveal was sudden and incomprehensible to the reader. Rated D+ [2 stars].

Next something a little older, The Ophiuchi Hotline by John Varley.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Next up: Wind and Truth by Brandon Sanderson. The fifth in his Stormlight Archive series.

Which was good, and reaches some resolutions and revelations. And is the end of the first half of this series! Wow.

Next I read The Beast of Littleton Woods by T E Kinsey, the 12th and latest in his Lady Hardcastle series. A fun read.

Next up: Agatha Christie by Lucy Worsley. A biography. Good so far.