July 2017: What are you reading?

[Jo Zebedee]

Water and the Wild by Jo Zebedee - Took me a while to get going, mainly because I didn't find Simon all that engaging to begin with, but once we got onto Amy and her family it was all gravy. Gravy made from people's sweet salty tears.

My kind of cooking thank you - and for the review

 

[tobl]

i need an opinion.i'm currently Reading the special circunstances series by John ringo and i'm in a bind. i normally like John ringo but honestly i can't decide if i like it or not... opinions?

 

[Brian G Turner]

Couldn't take my Kindle to work as I'd lost my locker key, so picked up a couple of paperbacks I'd started and dropped out from.

One was The Poet by Michael Connolly. Read the first 2 chapters a few months ago and just wasn't interested. However, thought I'd give another try after enjoying the Bosch TV series. Started chapter 3 yesterday and realized the story really started there. And it's really got me hooked.

 

[Allegra]

Couldn't take my Kindle to work as I'd lost my locker key, so picked up a couple of paperbacks I'd started and dropped out from.

One was The Poet by Michael Connolly. Read the first 2 chapters a few months ago and just wasn't interested. However, thought I'd give another try after enjoying the Bosch TV series. Started chapter 3 yesterday and realized the story really started there. And it's really got me hooked.

I really liked The Poet. I think it's one of his best Bosch. His legal thriller series about defence lawyer Micky is also quite good, The Lincoln Lawyer is the topper, much, much better than the movie.

 

[Danny McG]

Got the full monty of Michael Connelly books - a few of the characters from his various series pop up in each others books so I can't miss out on buying them as they come out

 

[Parson]

I really liked The Poet. I think it's one of his best Bosch. His legal thriller series about defence lawyer Micky is also quite good, The Lincoln Lawyer is the topper, much, much better than the movie.

The Lincoln Lawyer is like pop corn, you start and before you know it the book is done.

Just picked up Fields of Fire to listen to by Marko Kloos. Book 5 of the Frontline series. I'd compare this too Pringles. Tasty, but you know there are better things, but before you know it you've finished a tube.

 

[ratsy]

Started the audio book of Still house Lake by Rachel Caine. @Parson We can compare notes after.

I finished the Slaughterhouse Five audio book and have to say I really liked this book. It's a take it as it is, or believe on it's message kind of book.

About 30% into The Copper Promise for my actual reading, and it's a lot of fun

 

[Parson]

Started the audio book of Still house Lake by Rachel Caine. @Parson

Will look forward to it.

 

[nixie]

Suzanne Jackson, The Beguiler.

 

[thaddeus6th]

As well as Emperor's Edge, I'm also reading King John, a biography by Marc Morris.

For an Englishman, it's a masochistic book. That said, it does remind me that things could be rather worse.

 

[Lex E. Darion]

Just finished The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. Not one I'll re-read but it was very interesting and well written. Now to watch the TV show and see how it matches up.

 

[Danny McG]

Kicking off on another before this month finishes.
Pied Piper by Nevil Shute 1942.
Maybe a tenth of the way into it but getting a feeling that I've read it at sometime - a long, long time ago.
However it's such faint memories I'm finding it hard to be sure, maybe speed read ahead at school (wasn't that awful when you got like three chapters ahead of the droning and struggling kids taking turns reading aloud, suddenly your name was called and teacher got angry 'cos you couldn't find your place?)

 

[TitaniumTi]

I binged on Yellowstone supervolcano books this week. I started with Harry Turtledove's Eruption, which captured the tedious side of surviving a disaster. (I should have consulted the reviews.)

The second supervolcano book I read, Outland by Dennis Taylor, was much more entertaining.

I'm now reading Under Milk Wood, an old favourite.

 

[HareBrain]

I'm now reading Under Milk Wood, an old favourite.

The other day I was walking along an otherwise quiet street and Richard Burton's narration of UMW was blaring out from an upstairs window. Quite a weird experience.

 

[Lucien21]

Finished "Ash and Quill - Rachel Caine" the third in the Great Library trilogy. It is a fun series about a library that rules the world and a group of rebels who want to free the world from their tyranny. As I was reading it I was starting wonder that the series wasn't moving fast enough to wrap up or was going to have to finish up very quickly then..... To be continued in book 4. It seemed that this trilogy has suddenly expanded to 5 books when I wasn't paying attention. Just as well i'm enjoying it, but now have to wait longer to see the ending.

"The Ghost Line - Andrew Neil Gray and J. S. Herbison" a short little novella about a ship that was abandoned 20 years ago, a ghost ship drifting between Earth and Mars. A Husband and Wife team board it to try and salvage it but find that the ship is not as dead as they thought.

 

[Perpetual Man]

I've finished another 25 comics, and the review copy of thaddeus6th's Traitor's Prize, which is well worth a read.

Now started one of those guilty pleasure books, you know they are not as good as the originals, you know the authors are probably milking the cash cow, but you just can't stop reading them.

The Winds of Dune by Brian Herbert and Kevin J Anderson This also happens to be the last book in my current to read pile I'll have to make another from the hidden not so immediate pile

 

[Luiglin]

Currently reading the Mastersworks collection First Book of Lankhmar ... time for a journey with Fritz Lieber's creations, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

I finished the Harlan Ellison collection Slippage. Still the same intensity, but the author has also picked up an elegant style over the years. Many of the stories are pure horror. The teleplay for the new Twilight Zone series "Crazy as a Soup Sandwich" is pure comedy, if somewhat dark. The most interesting one in the book may be "The Man Who Rowed Christopher Columbus Ashore." It's also the most subtle and mysterious and strangest.

Next up is What Makes This Book So Great by Jo Clayton, a collection of brief essays from her blog for Tor.com, mostly about various SF/F books. Each one is only a few pages long, so it should be quick, light reading.

 

[anno]

Hunting moles in Railsea and finishing 'Behind the Locked Door' best George Harrison book I've read really...

 

[Bick]

Now reading Rogue Herries, by Hugh Walpole. More commments as they come in the Walpole thread in Literary Fiction.