So what are you reading now?

[KimMH]

Just finished the novelization of the movie - my bookstore owner let me have it early because they're hard up to sell anything. You can very well imagine what kind of one-cow town I live in.

It wasn't horrid - I remember reading his Star Wars stuff in the 80s and am hoping he is required to write at the same level as he did 25 years ago. I confess I haven't read anything of Foster's that is NOT a tv/movie sci-fi tie-in. I am sure his hands are tied in many respects and of course he is writing to as wide an audience as possible. I do hope the work pays well if you can get it.

 

[Hoshi_Mayweather]

I finished reading the play M. Butterfly....

I couldn't get through 'Greater Than the Sum'...which was the current Trek novel I was reading.

 

[Nerroth]

I went through both Vanguard: Open Secrets and Mirror Universe: Shards and Shadows over the weekend.

 

[T'Ressa Dax]

I ended up starting Open Secrets Saturday after all. So far, so good. Haven't had a lot of time to read lately though, which means I'm not even at page 100 yet.

 

[veritech]

I'm reading the latest Star Wars book in the Fate of the Jedi Series . . . and then off to PAD's Treason!

 

[OmahaStar]

I finished Brian Keene's Ghoul, and Amazon has finally delivered the latest Charlaine Harris / Sookie Stackhouse book, so I'm just about to start on that. Hooray!

 

[dbush]

I just finished Q & A on the weekend. Thought it was a great read and well done by Mr. DeCandido. I got a little confused at the end. Guess I can't discuss the ending here...

Now reading the new movie novelization.

 

[DimesDan]

I finished Not the End of the World this morning on the Bus and will start Full Circle when I get home later today.

 

[Dancing Doctor]

I picked up Full Circle the other day, and I'm on page 154. It's okay so far, but a little plodding.

I'm still reading A Singular Destiny...again, and I managed to finally get The Federalist Papers, Aristotle and an Aardvark Go To Washington, and Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil.

Oh, and I picked up at a library book sale To Storm Heaven, Gemworld: Book 1, and some Voyager novel. I'm still not sure which order I'll read anything once ASD and FuCirc are finished.

 

[Manisphere]

I picked up Full Circle the other day, and I'm on page 154. It's okay so far, but a little plodding.

Hmm. Plodding, huh? I just started Full Circle last night.

 

[KRAD]

I just finished Q & A on the weekend. Thought it was a great read and well done by Mr. DeCandido. I got a little confused at the end. Guess I can't discuss the ending here...

You could always start another thread. Or send me a PM. Or something.

Anyhow, gladja liked it!

 

[JD]

I just finished the first Dresden book last night, and I really liked it. Right now I'm reading Empathy from Shards and Shadows, and then I was going to continue working on Full Circle, and Open Secrets.

 

[John Clark]

Right now, ST Destiny: Mere Mortals.

It's proving to be a page turner as expected

 

[Dancing Doctor]

I picked up Full Circle the other day, and I'm on page 154. It's okay so far, but a little plodding.

Hmm. Plodding, huh? I just started Full Circle last night.

It's an odd chestnut. In my opinion, it has long periods where there's backstory filling or referencing and bringing people up to date...and then there's this little burst of "OMG ACTION", followed by another period of "Meanwhile, back at Starfleet Command".

I will say that it appears to be better than Homecoming/The Farther Shore, but...

 

[Hoshi_Mayweather]

I picked up Full Circle the other day, and I'm on page 154. It's okay so far, but a little plodding.

Hmm. Plodding, huh? I just started Full Circle last night.

It's an odd chestnut. In my opinion, it has long periods where there's backstory filling or referencing and bringing people up to date...and then there's this little burst of "OMG ACTION", followed by another period of "Meanwhile, back at Starfleet Command".

I will say that it appears to be better than Homecoming/The Farther Shore, but...

That's how it is with me! (I got it from the library yesterday).

I'm on page 138 (Chapter 9)....

I'm not a big VOY fan, but I'm curious on how Beyer weaves this story.

 

[Sci]

I finished reading the play M. Butterfly....

That is one of my favorite plays ever. I mean, ever. My God do I love that play. I wrote a paper about it.

David Henry Hwang, the playwright, summed it so up beautifully:

"For the myths of the East, the myths of the West, the myths of men, and the myths of women -- these have so saturated our consciousness that truthful contact between nations and lovers can only be the result of heroic effort. Those who prefer to bypass the work involved will remain in a world of surfaces, misperceptions running rampant. This is, to me, the convenient world in which the French diplomat and the Chinese spy lived. This is why, after twenty years, he had learned nothing at all albout his lover, not even the truth of his sex."

As for me...

Just finished reading Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None for a college course. Picked up a copy of Fareed Zakaria's The Post-American World, and I find that I'm bouncing around between reading that and re-reading Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling. Need to get back to Team of Rivals at some point. I'll be picking up a bunch of books about the Argentine Dirty War again soon when I revise my research paper on that one....

 

[Dancing Doctor]

Hmm. Plodding, huh? I just started Full Circle last night.

It's an odd chestnut. In my opinion, it has long periods where there's backstory filling or referencing and bringing people up to date...and then there's this little burst of "OMG ACTION", followed by another period of "Meanwhile, back at Starfleet Command".

I will say that it appears to be better than Homecoming/The Farther Shore, but...

That's how it is with me! (I got it from the library yesterday).

I'm on page 138 (Chapter 9)....

I'm not a big VOY fan, but I'm curious on how Beyer weaves this story.

I'm not a big VOY fan either. Homecoming/The Farther Shore and the Spirit Walk books left me with a "Meh" feeling. And FuCirc is sort of the same. Maybe it's me, but I just don't really honestly care about Miral or the mission to save the Klingon Empire. Frankly, I agree with Ezri: "The Klingon Empire is dying...and I think it deserves to die."

 

[AeroSquid]

The Horatio Hornblower series, Roddenberry's inspiration for Kirk.

 

[mackula]

Just finished Before Dishonor and will be starting Greater The Sum tonite.

 

[FatherRob]

Just finished the outstanding Mere Anarchy collection a day or two ago. Have some time free this afternoon, and may zip through an older TOS book I missed, either "The Better Man" or "Sanctuary". A TNG book, "Requiem" is also in my sights as a possibility. I am wanting to get ahead in my review reading, so I need to see what else I have is due before July, so I may start reading out of that pile soon. For several months I have been in a reading funk, but now I am really dashing the books down quick - read the movie novelization in four hours, a review book (forthcoming) in four, and Mere Anarchy in about six. Just really feeling it at the moment. We'll see how long that lasts!

Rob+