What are you reading at the moment?

[Norphy]

Currently:

 

The Consuming Fire (Interdependency Book 02) by John Scalzi

 

I like Scalzi in general, but the Interdependency books are very good.

[Brax]

The Riftwar Saga trilogy by Raymond E Feist.

 

This has just been reworked by the author with a lot of new stuff that he intended on putting in the original books but wasn't able to. £6.99 for the three books on Kindle.

Was about to post in this thread asking if anyone has read this! My favourite trilogy of books. Revised editions are very good. Looking forward to the TV show that's now in the works for it.

 

Another Book trilogy similar to Pug's story is Trudi Canavan's Black Magician Trilogy. Definitely worth a read.

Edited June 27, 2023 by Brax

[mikeprice]

Was about to post in this thread asking if anyone has read this! My favourite trilogy of books. Revised editions are very good. Looking forward to the TV show that's now in the works for it.

 

Another Book trilogy similar to Pug's story is Trudi Canavan's Black Magician Trilogy. Definitely worth a read.

 

Yup - read both - both are good

 

last hardback book I bought before being converted to Kindle was the last one in the series - the one where Pug comes to an end

Must read that again - have only read it once - read the others many times

[Andrew_C]

Splitting my time between:-

 

"Lords of Uncreation" - Adrian Tchaikovsky Final part of the 'Architects' trilogy

 

and

 

"A Curious History of Sex" - Dr Kate Lister Ever wanted to know where the word **** comes from, or when it became rude? Or which Italian (male) doctor discovered the cl**? Seems to be (and I'm only a couple of chapters in) the book for you.

[tdk1069]

Re-Reading The Dresden Files. upto Turncoat (#11) - Usually I take a break before I get this far in and forget to go back but I'm gonna make it to the end again this time I've read them all before and like them I just get distracted when reading the whole series again

[bigstan48]

The only book I've read fully is the Cuckoos Egg - about 30 years ago!!

Need to get back into reading - have about 3000 books in my Kindle collection.

Edited June 28, 2023 by bigstan48

[MartinT]

Red Rising by Pierce Brown.

 

Set on a future terraformed Mars where people are divided into castes and the elite 'Golds' rule, while the masses, the 'Reds', work underground without ever seeing the surface. One Red is prepped to infiltrate the Golds and create a rebellion. A rather superior and well-written Hunger Games / Divergent type story.

[azc]

I most recently read Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister.

 

Gillian McCallister’s Wrong Place, Wrong Time (2022) is a murder mystery thriller and time travel adventure. It follows Jen Brotherhood, a successful lawyer living in Liverpool, as she tries to prevent her son, Todd, from committing a murder. She finds herself in a time spiral the morning after her son is arrested. Moving backward in time, she finds clues that explain her son’s actions.

[LeMarchand]

Garth Marenghi’s TerrorTome: Dreamweaver, Doomsage, Sunday Times bestseller ("by" Matthew Holness)

 

"Garth Marenghi" presents three terrifying tales that combine into one towering novel of terror. Horror writer Nick Steen's unholy coupling with a possessed typewriter unleashes terrors from his own novels on his home town of Stalkford and he must vanquish three threats to humanity.

 

I don't normally listen to audiobooks, but as this one is read in character by Matthew Holness, I thought I'd give it a go. As well as being funny, it also skewers some of horror's excesses (the first tome seems to be a pointed jab at Clive Barker's recent working out of his kinks in "The Scarlet Gospels"). If you're a fan of "Darkplace", you should definitely give it a listen/read. If you're unfamiliar with "Darkplace" it's streaming on All4.

[mikeprice]

Recently I have been reading some WW2 historical account

 

Basically books about bits and pieces of the war that everyone has heard about but only as something that happened on the side with no details

 

Such as the activities of the Coastal Command and they MTBs and MGBs in the Channel and North Sea - and what "also happened" in the Channel around D-Day

I mean - clearly SOMEONE did something to stop the German forces attacking the supply routes to the invasion beaches - it is just that the films and documentaries all concentrate on the "Big Stuff"

 

Also - Coastal Command - I mean, I had heard that the U-Boats had big problems near the UK coast but why and how and by whom was not detailed

 

Well I have found several books hanging around on Kindle written by people who were there and seem to have written it all down because someone needs to write it down

Not proper authors - just people with ability to write and do research and get it all in a sort of order

 

And people who concentrate on what happened to who by who and making sure to name the people who contributed or whatever rank - and whichever side

 

and because they are not "proper authors" and looking for money making opportunities they do not need to all narrative devices or tell a story - Facts and People are the focus

 

 

 

 

It is very interesting - and reveals side of the conflict that are not normally highlighted

 

It is also rather depressing in some ways

 

for example - Coastel Command in the Med

 

survival rate for crew of long range fighter - Mostly Beaufighters - over 2 tours

 

3% !!!!

 

that's all

some type were better - but none over 50% - even for only one Tour

 

The worst was the U-boat hunting aircraft

Phrases like - U-XXX was sunk - no survivors

or worse still - sunk and men seen in the water - not survived (note - if there was a ship in the area they would attempt a rescus of German crew - but clearly the U-Boatrs avoided populated areas on their way to and from their patrol - so......

 

 

 

It all really brings home the sacrifices made my these people!!

 

 

 

anyway - some of the titles

 

The Battle of the Narrow Seas: The History of Light Coastal Forces in the Channel and North Sea, 1939–1945 - Peter Scott

 

The Strike Wings: Special Anti-Shipping Squadrons 1942-45 Roy Conyers Nesbit

 

Deep Sea Hunters: RAF Coastal Command and the War Against the U-Boats and the German Navy 1939–1945 Martin W. Bowman

 

The Armed Rovers: Beauforts and Beaufighters Over the Mediterranean Roy Conyers Nesbit

[LeMarchand]

Just finished Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo. It's a Grishaverse novel set in the same world as "Shadow and Bone" but pretty separate. The TV show melds the main trilogy with this duology and makes a few changes. As of the end of Season 2 the show has covered some of the start of this book. This novel sees The Crows, a criminal gang in Ketterdam (think a magic-infused 18th Century Rotterdam) hired to extract a scientist from an impenetrable fortress. I'm hoping that the heist in S2 wasn't their equivalent of this, as the heist in this book is much bigger in scope. Though given the lacklustre "battle" at the end of the season, maybe they shouldn't attempt the heist.

 

Well worth a read if you like a bit of light fantasy. Although marketed as YA, and most of the characters are stated to be younger than their show counterparts, it never feels like a YA novel. I was given the fancy "Collectors Edition" at Christmas and have only just got around to it. I put it down and ordered the matching second part.

[Norphy]

I found the novelization of Star Trek movies 2 to 4 in an omnibus in the Kindle store just recently (Link). I've read Wrath of Khan and am about halfway through Search for Spock.

 

These things are nuts and I'm thoroughly enjoying them.

[azc]

Currently reading Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic, a novel written by Terry Jones.

[Vegas]

Just finished 'A Gentleman in Moscow' by Amor Towles and now reading his 'Rules of Civility', both great reads.

[pooley]

Just finished the Red Rising trilogy by Pierce Brown, a good read, somonewhat predictable at times but nothing that deters from the enjoyment.

[MartinT]

Just finished the Red Rising trilogy by Pierce Brown, a good read, somonewhat predictable at times but nothing that deters from the enjoyment.

 

I loved the first one, haven't got the 2nd and 3rd yet.

[MartinT]

I finished Upgrade by Blake Crouch, a superb view of the near future where genetic modification of humans has been banned, but that hasn't stopped one person from introducing an 'upgrade'. A tremendously well-written and researched thriller.

 

His other excellent novels are Wayward Pines (also a TV series), Dark Matter and Recursion.

[6Foot2]

In the process of reading "The Quiet American" [Graham Greene]

 

It's taking a while, only because I'm reading it in small slices. It's in the car and I read a few pages while I wait for 5Foot2 after I've been sent away mid-shop: "Here, take these bags to the car."

 

[pete]

Currently reading "Legends & Lattes" by Travis Baldree. So far it's enjoyable.

 

"Orc adventurer finishes her last job, hangs up her axe and opens a coffee shop"

[LeMarchand]

AdventureMice: Mermouse Mystery and AdventureMice: Mice on the Ice. Two from Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre. Only of interest to Reeve completists like me or those with kiddies in the suitable age range.

 

Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo. The conclusion of the "Crows" duology sees the gang trying to recover from the setbacks of the last book. Thoroughly enjoyable, but not quite as epic as its predecessor. For those who want to know how this fits in with the (now cancelled) show: It's a curious mix as Pekka Rollins' fate at the end of the book has already been dealt with in the show (the show has him in a worse place) whilst Matthias is part of the gang mid-way through the first book but Jesper and Wylan only get to kiss quite some way through this one. Anyway, well worth a read if you're into the Grishaverse - but if you've read the first part, I can't imagine you haven't read this one too.

[Andrew_C]

Just finished Jasper Fford's "Early Riser". Whelp - that's weird... Entertaining, but weird.

 

And I'm reading it again (again). It really does grow on you...

[LeMarchand]

Utterly Dark and the Tides of Time by Philip Reeve

 

Utterly keeps the promise she made to her mother and returns to the sea, but soon finds herself in an even stranger place... the 1970s.

 

Reeve seems to ramp up the scariness in this one, and one sequence where Utterly learns that she needs to think carefully before making a wish is pretty bleak. A fun, but not essential, read.

[pete]

• Garth Nix - Old Kingdom series
  
• Grady Hendrix - The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires:A Novel
  

[Andrew_C]

The **** Party Manife 1984. Re-reading it as I got "Julia" for christmas and want to remind myself of the detail. Yes, it is STILL depressing.

[sigma]

My Garden In Winter - E A Bowles, pub 1915

The Winter Garden - Stanley B Whitehead pub 1948

 

I’m currently obsessed by winter gardens.