March's Marvellous Missals, Mammoth Manuals and Miniscule Monographs

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I am about halfway through Necronomicon: The best Wierd Tales of HP Lovecraft. I am currently on chapter 2 (or section 2) of The Dunwich Horror, so that shouldn't take too long to finish.
 
Finished both Oldie Fear and Asprin&Lynn Catwoman: Tiger Hunt. Fear - was as strange and twisting as other books in that serie. Catwoman - I'm not usually comics reader and even less comics retold fan - it wasn't as bad as feared, but didn't contain anyhting new or unpredictable.
Now reading yet another historic fantasy by russian author - which turned out to be a sidestory to some novels which are waiting to be read on my shelf :eek: so there are a lot of things, that might become clearer as other books are read.
 
The Precipice (asteroid wars I) by Ben Bova. i think I bought book 2 in a 2nd hand book shop without realising it was a series (haven't read it yet). So I got the other 2 (or 3?) through ebay.
 
Well, I finished The Shadow Rising by Robert Jordan, and I think I am done with this series for awhile. I enjoy the story, but some of the writing really detracts from it for me personally.

I noticed the braid pulling was out of control in this book, which I hadn't really noticed in the 3 previous books. Jordan uses the word snarl, snarling, snarled, etc way too much. The interactions and thoughts between men and women make me feel like these adults are in middle school. And how many times do you need to describe Trollocs; how they fight and what they look like?

The one thing I did like was the history of the Aiel. Very interesting.

Not sure what fiction I will pick up next, but my non-fiction read right now is One Universe by Neil Degrasse Tyson, Charles Liu, and Robert Irion. A little dated (2000) but it has been a really interesting read so far.
 
I'm working my way through Nights of Villjamur by Mark Charan Newton. Not sure how I feel about it, really. I'm definitely not gripped but the atmosphere's good and I like the characters. Maybe something that would work better as a film? Hard to say.
 
Sorry GF, Toby Frost (Tobytwo) works on the premise that the British Empire fell due to the demise of tea-drinking.

With its resurgence comes the British Space Empire and heroes like Captain Isambard Smith, tea mug in one hand, civiliser (Civilise the H*ll out of them) in the other, facing such foes as the Ghast ant-men and the cute, furry and brutal Lemming-Men of Yuill.

It's Sci-Fi with a humorous bent with decent (if rather daft) storylines to boot, and well worth a look.
 
Finished that historic fantasy - which was mostly medieval novel with a little fantasy element - probably the main book have more fantasy in them. Still it was not bad.
Now for something easier (again) Liz Williams The Demon and the City. Somehow, fantastic urban mystery books tend to be first to be read in my TBR pile.
 
Haha that was genuinely hilarious :D
Alright, started off on this small collection of John Crowley stories called Novelty (Four Stories). The first story, The Nightingale Sings at Night, was rather silly, better off in a book for kids. Let's see how the rest turns out.
 
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Finished that historic fantasy - which was mostly medieval novel with a little fantasy element - probably the main book have more fantasy in them. Still it was not bad.
Now for something easier (again) Liz Williams The Demon and the City. Somehow, fantastic urban mystery books tend to be first to be read in my TBR pile.
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The urban fantasy i have read tend be very similar about vamps,werewolf,dasing action hero etc

Readiing the first book in Liz Williams series feels referesing,different. I like it for the Chinese Mythology,the setting that isnt NYC,Chicago,the different hero. I dont even see its urban fantasy/mystery cause im enjoying the fantastic parts most.

Is the second book better ? I think the first book show alot of potential that i hopefully see happen in the other books.
 
Part way through "Shades of Gray" by Jasper Fforde.

Not quite got my head around the details of how the colour "thing" works - can't believe Jasper F has been inconsistent, got to be me missing something. I understand that red's can only see red and so on.
There are also natural colours, and piped in synthetic colours. The piped in colours are made from excavated bits of coloured synthetic rubbish from the "previous" civilization.

So far so good. So how come our hero, who sees red, when he looks at a pile of synthetic rubbish can see only the red bits in it, but when he goes to look at a colour garden, which is all fed from pipes of synthetic colour, he can see the green grass and so on and give advice on how to correct a problem?

Presumably there's an answer in the bit I haven't got to yet!
 
Finished VLAD by CC Humphreys, a good story on the man not the myth, apparently its been proven that Bram Stoker knew virtually nothing about Vlad, but heard about an eastern european war lord who impalled 5000 turks and thought that by using Vlad it would add a little truth to his tale.

Started THE BURNING LAND by Bernard Cornwell this morning, ah, how i've missed Utred and Co.
 
Re-reading Turn Coat, by Jim Butcher, in anticipation of the release of Changes next month.
 
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