So What Are you Reading?: Generations

[JD]

I'm up to the fifth story in Constellations, Chaotic Response, and I had one minor complaint about the second and third stories. In both stories we see one of the lower ranking bridge crew members, Sulu in the second story, The Landing Party, and Chekov in the first Offical Record, that goes disastrously wrong. The ways things went wrong were very different, but with the two stories back to back it made the similarities between the two really standout.

 

[Denise]

Great book!

Finished it, and I loved it. (The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley)

 

[bdub76]

Finished:

Radium Girls​

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* Ok.​

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Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes​

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* Ok. Not as good as Adventures. Too many endings where the villain ends up dying on some ship.​

Currently reading:

* You Like it Darker​

* North and South​

* 11/22/1963​

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TBR:

* Hester​

* Picture of Dorian Grey​

* Carmilla​

* The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde​

* The Personal Librarian​

* The Notebook (before April 2026)​

 

[Denise]

Now reading The Possession of Alba Diaz by Isabel Canas.

 

[somebuddyX]

MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

* The Notebook (before April 2026)

I highly recommend it.

 

[JD]

I took a short breaking after finishing Dave Galanter's The Leader in Constellations to read Star Trek: Red Shirts #2.
The last three stories in Constellations, As Others See Us by @Christopher L. Bennett, See No Evil by Jill Sherwin, and The Leader by Dave Galanter have all been very good. As Others See Us was a really interesting Prime Directive Story, that included some debates that will make you take another look at it. It's kind of scary to think that See No Evil was written almost 20 years ago, because it feels even more timely now, as our US government is erasing parts of history they don't online, and forcing museums to remove exhibits that cover parts of history that they don't like. The Leader was a nice look at Kirk and his leadership qualities, and the effect his actions and choices have on those around him.
Red Shirts #2 was pretty good, we got some nice movement on the plot, a some more shocking deaths. I'm definitely curious to see how many of them will be left by the end, because they're killing them off pretty fast here.
I'm going to work on a bit more The Return of the King, and then I'll decide if I'm going to go back to Constellations or if I want to read one or two more comics first.

 

[Smiley]

Chain of Attack was pretty average for me. It got the characters right, and it felt a lot like how TOS would have done a Voyager show compressed into one episode. The Final Nexus failed to connect with me, and I decided to drop it at 67% rather than continue the slog.

Next up are the TMP novelization and several of CLB's follow-ups.

 

[bdub76]

Finished You Like It Darker except for the one story that's the sequel to CUJO. That book I'm getting from the library before I start it. Overall, I thought You Like It Darker was a good collection of short stories and novellas. I really prefer the short medium as I can usually knock out a short story at lunch at work, so I picked up some Harlan Ellison short story collections to read. I'm currently reading: "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman. It's definitely more about ideas than character development. I was recommended Shatterday collection and Stalking the Nightmare collection. I'll read these off and on at work.

Meanwhile, I'm about 2/3rds of the way through North and South. It's an overall enjoyable read. I'm a little more than half way through 11/22/1963. I'm really liking this novel. It's long, but it's well done.

Going to read some more short story collections before starting another novel. I'm thinking The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Our book club book for this month is James, and I read it earlier this year. But I haven't read Huckleberry Finn since I was a kid, and I'm fairly certain I didn't read the actual novel as a kid.

 

[Greg Cox]

Cackle by Rachel Harrison. Was in the mood for something witchy as Halloween approaches, and I liked both her vampire and werewolf novels.

 

[bdub76]

I highly recommend it.

There is also a sequel book called the Wedding.

And he's doing a collaboration with M. Night Shyamalan next month.

Official Website

In stores on October 14, 2025 - available to preorder now! A one-of-a-kind novel that grapples with the supernatural mysteries of life, death, and human connection—an unprecedented collaboration between the globally bestselling author of love stories like The Notebook and the renowned writer...

nicholassparks.com

I'm going to the musical next year, so I want to read it first.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

* The Notebook (before April 2026)

I highly recommend it.

There is also a sequel book called the Wedding.

Are we talking about the same opus? Because I'm talking about Roland Allen's fascinating treatise on the history of bound notebooks from repurposed ledgers in Renaissance Venice to the modern Moleskine.

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Just finished the first Girl Genius omnibus. Next up is Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Again, a used British edition.

 

[I am not Herbert]

Are we talking about the same opus?

Going to go out on a limb here and say "no." I too assumed you were talking about the Nicholas Sparks joint. Hbquik, you should read both back to back and look for gnostic intertextual connections, which you can then publish in a monograph called "The Notebooks." Or Notebookz, if you're looking to capture that male 18-34 demo

 

[Jedi Marso]

Recently finished a re-read of Winds of War and War and Remembrance. Winding down a re-read of The Caine Mutiny, and plan to press right on into the duology The Hope and The Glory.

I'm on a Herman Wouk reading kick.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Never heard of Nicholas Sparks.

 

[Avro Arrow]

Never heard of Nicholas Sparks.

The Nicholas Sparks novel is quite famous though, and was the basis for the also-famous movie of the same name, starring Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams. It’s not unusual that that version would be the first one people thought of. (I also assumed that was the one being referred to.)