January Reading Thread

[Dave Vicks]

Anyone like Alex Phebys MORDEW?

 

[BAYLOR]

Reading this morning

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When I see this , I think Gene Kelly and Singing in the Rain .

 

[HareBrain]

Anyone like Alex Phebys MORDEW?

I wanted to, but didn't get on with it. From memory, I think just not enough happened of any interest.

 

[Randy M.]

When I see this , I think Gene Kelly and Singing in the Rain .

"W--who are you?" she said shakily.
"Me? Why, I'm your worst nightmare! I'm the guy who sings in the rain!" [tap-tap-tap, tappity-tap-tap]

 

[Dave Vicks]

OSCAR WILDE, by Andre Gide, 2 essay's.

 

[Dave Vicks]

Up next SONGS OF DEAD DREAMER, by Thomas Ligotti, 1985.
Horror stories.

 

[Bick]

Reading Harlan Ellison's The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World.

I just started this collection myself. I have a fair few of his books as HB first editions.

 

[Vince W]

I just started this collection myself. I have a fair few of his books as HB first editions.

Lucky you. I’m jealous.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

Some time ago I read the first three volumes in the Homecoming series by Orson Scott Card. (The Memory of Earth [1992], The Call of Earth [1992], and The Ships of Earth [1994], all in one Science Fiction Book Club edition bought at a thrift store.) At another used book (and other stuff) store I found the last two volumes (Earthfall [1995] and Earthborn [1995]) in separate paperbacks. I have just started the first one.

Overall plot of this pentalogy: Forty million years from now, the computer running a colony planet where folks from Earth have lived for a very long time deduces that this world, like Earth, is doomed to eventual nuclear war. It selects certain people to journey to where the starships that brought the original colonists are kept in stasis, having children along the way. (This journey takes up the first three books. The last two will be the voyage to Earth and the arrival.)

Openly inspired by themes in the book of Mormon (God selects certain people to leave the Middle East and travel to the New World), it's not bad.

After finishing the Hal Clement collection (it was OK) I have started Earthborn. The first four books in the series take place over several years, but not so long a time that they didn't deal with the same characters. This final volume takes place many centuries later, and the only character from the first four to remain is around because of suspended animation.

 

[vanye]

Cassandra Clare, The Lost Book of the White

This is the second book in The Eldest Curses series. I do not usually read horror, but the first book was really charming with likable characters, so naturally I picked up the sequel. lt‘s not quite as good as the first one, though. Maybe it’s because the characters are familiar now and thus have lost some of their shine. But still a good read and if I like the book although I am usually leery of the genre …

 

[Dave Vicks]

Reread of ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE, by Robert M. Pirsig.1974.

 

[Danny McG]

Reread of ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE, by Robert M. Pirsig.1974.

A teenage favourite of mine back in the day

 

[Dave]

I finished The Green Mile, and I'm now some way into Duma Key, both Stephen King.

 

[Elentarri]

Children of Memory by Adrian Tchaikovsky

This installment of Children of Time has an anthropology group inspecting a failing colony planet, and corvids! Not uplifted corvids, just the usual evolution, only on a toxic planet. The results are interesting and entertaining to say the least. I'm not sure I "approve" of the big reveal near the end, but it certainly is different and interesting. It also opens another can of worms. I wonder if Tchaikovsky will write a fourth novel in this series?​

 

[Dave Vicks]

HEY ! IT'S THAT GUY.GUIDE TO CHARACTER ACTORS. 2005,by Tara Ariano & Adam Sternbergh.

 

[Dave Vicks]

GRIMSCRIBE,by Thomas Ligotti, 1991.
Horror stories.

 

[vanye]

Mike Resnick, The Widowmaker

Just couldn’t get into this one. Too episodic for my taste. And implausible to my mind. But I finished it.

 

[Dave Vicks]

CHAOS ,by Patricia Cornwell, 2016.
Kay Scarpetta thriller.

 

[Hugh]

Tony Hillerman "A Thief of Time"
More reservation weirdness sorted out by the Navajo police. This one involves both Jim Cree and Joe Leaphorn. Eighth in the series. Usually I like to wait a good few months between volumes, but this time I'm too gripped and I've already ordered the next. (It's hard to resist when you see a copy going secondhand much cheaper than all other options....)

 

[AE35Unit]

Finishing January with some Dean Koontz, an early one, The Vision, originally published in 1977