So What Are you Reading?: Generations

[bdub76]

Finished Gone Tomorrow.

There isn't a whole to this novel. I'm not exactly sure how they're going to make this into a good season. I don't want to spoil it though.

Almost done with Whisper in the Darkness.

It's an enjoyable read, and it's been adapted.

Starting Atmosphere for book club tonight.

 

[JD]

I've read the first two stories in Tales of The Dominion War so far, and I really enjoyed them both.
I've read some of the stories in this once before, one of the only things I did remember is the twist in the first story What Dreams May Come by Michael Jan Friedman, and I think I enjoyed it more knowing the twist going in. Knowing Ben-Zoma was screwing with Sejeel when he was describing his dream made that whole scene pretty fun.
I liked Night of the Vulture by Greg Cox too. I had assumed when it started that (*) would just feed off a battle between Starfleet and Dominion forces, but what we got was actually a lot more interesting than that.

 

[Steve Roby]

Put a tiny dent in the virtual to be read pile: Dale Bailey's In the Night Forest, which I see I bought several years ago. It's a relatively new fantasy novel about an obscure 19th century British fantasy novel that seems to be being replayed in the lives of some modern day people. Think folk horror, Alan Garner, etc. It's also very much about loss and grief, which made it a lot less appealing a few months after I bought it.

It's a good book, a bit more literary in its approach and writing style than a lot of people expect from fantasy as a genre these days, and it's also no longer than it needs to be. It's not the endless beginning of an endless series. I may check out more of Bailey's work eventually, but there's still a pretty massive virtual TBR pile and a similarly massive physical TBR pile to get through. Good thing retirement is on the horizon.

 

[Greg Cox]

I liked Night of the Vulture by Greg Cox too. I had assumed when it started that (*) would just feed off a battle between Starfleet and Dominion forces, but what we got was actually a lot more interesting than that.

As I've mentioned before, that story started out as a deleted chapter from my Q Continuum trilogy, which I later nipped and tucked to make it a standalone story on its own -- complete with a new ending.

Waste not, want not.

 

[JD]

I'm glad you saved it, it was a good story.

 

[bdub76]

Finished Whispers in the Darkness. It's a good story. I recommend.

Slowly making my way through Atmosphere.

I'm about a quarter of the way through The Three Imposters. The prose is pretty modern, which is surprising based on when this was written.

And I'm chipping away at East of Eden.

 

[youngtrek]

Read in August:

“Moonraker” by Ian Fleming (originally published in 1955; Fleming’s third James Bond novel) (edition I have is the James Bond Classic Library, Fine Communications, 1997)

The “Moonraker” newspaper strip adaptation from The Daily Express, March 30 to August 8, 1959, by Henry Gammidge and John McClusky (as reprinted in The James Bond Omnibus Vol. 001, Titan Books, 2009)

“Star Trek: Picard: To Defy Fate” by Dayton Ward (Gallery Books, 2026)

This brings my GoodReads Reading Challenge to 30 of 75 books read in 2026 (40% of my goal).


— David Young

 

[Greg Cox]

Blood Muse: Timeless Tales of Vampires in the Arts, edited by Esther M. Friesner and Martin H. Greenberg.

Picked it up from Esther at Shore Leave in July.

 

[Brendan Moody]

My August reading:

1. Una McCormack, Brinkmanship
2. Samuel R. Delany, Flight from Neveryon
3. Tana French, The Witch Elm
4. Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
5. Sue Grafton, Kinsey and Me*
6. Hernan Diaz, In the Distance
7. Una McCormack, The Crimson Shadow*
8. Stephen King and Peter Straub, The Talisman*
9. Melinda Taub, The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennet, Witch*
10. Tana French, The Searcher
11. Sue Grafton, W is for Wasted
12. Robin Hobb, Blood of Dragons
13. Una McCormack, The Missing
14. Gordon S. Wood, The Purpose of the Past
15. Tana French, The Hunter
16. Jane Austen, Emma
17. Una McCormack, Enigma Tales*
18. Janice Hallett, The Killer Question
19. Eleta Preloc, The End of This Day’s Business
20. Tana French, The Keeper

 

[Commander Troi]

What do the asterisks denote?

 

[Brendan Moody]

Books I was rereading rather than reading for the first time.

 

[Greg Cox]

The Hammer Horror Omnibus (Volume One), by John Burke.

Long out of print, a new edition of four Hammer horror movie novelizations: The Gorgon, The Curse of Frankenstein, The Revenge of Frankenstein, and The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb.

Volume Two is being reprinted in January.

 

[youngtrek]

My August reading:

1. Una McCormack, Brinkmanship
2. Samuel R. Delany, Flight from Neveryon
3. Tana French, The Witch Elm
4. Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
5. Sue Grafton, Kinsey and Me*
6. Hernan Diaz, In the Distance
7. Una McCormack, The Crimson Shadow*
8. Stephen King and Peter Straub, The Talisman*
9. Melinda Taub, The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennet, Witch*
10. Tana French, The Searcher
11. Sue Grafton, W is for Wasted
12. Robin Hobb, Blood of Dragons
13. Una McCormack, The Missing
14. Gordon S. Wood, The Purpose of the Past
15. Tana French, The Hunter
16. Jane Austen, Emma
17. Una McCormack, Enigma Tales*
18. Janice Hallett, The Killer Question
19. Eleta Preloc, The End of This Day’s Business
20. Tana French, The Keeper

Wow! Twenty books in a month. (I feel so inadequate…) (Seriously. Around how much time per day do you spend reading? And are you retired or something like that? Loads of time available to be reading each day? Or are you just a very fast reader?)


— David Young

 

[bdub76]

Wow! Twenty books in a month. (I feel so inadequate…) (Seriously. Around how much time per day do you spend reading? And are you retired or something like that? Loads of time available to be reading each day? Or are you just a very fast reader?)


— David Young

That's really fast. I'm 3-4 a month, and then a bit more during the holidays.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Indeed. On wonders when he had time to eat and sleep.

 

[Daddy Todd]

The Curve of the World by Vonda N. McIntyre. Quite good. I suspect Vonda would’ve done more work on this, had she not passed after completing this draft, but what she left us is very, very good.

 

[korblborp]

i used to manage at least three books a week

 

[Steve Roby]

I read sixteen books in August, most of them mentioned in posts above, but only managed to listen to one Big Finish audio, so I'm going to work on rebalancing my leisure time.

Starting September with something a bit different: The Bakersfield Sound: How a Generation of Displaced Okies Revolutionized American Music by Robert E. Price. When Nashville started draping country music in pop overproduction in the late '50s and '60s, Bakersfield, California kept country music country, with Buck Owens and Merle Haggard the biggest names from the scene, though I've got some Wynn Stewart on the stereo now. Hadn't heard of him until recently but I'm liking this. There's a few fun rockabilly rave-ups mixed in with the classic country.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

All My Secrets: A Historical Romance Set in Gilded Age …

Bestselling author Lynn Austin returns with a luminous …

www.goodreads.com

 

[Una McCormack]

My August reading:

1. Una McCormack, Brinkmanship
2. Samuel R. Delany, Flight from Neveryon
3. Tana French, The Witch Elm
4. Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
5. Sue Grafton, Kinsey and Me*
6. Hernan Diaz, In the Distance
7. Una McCormack, The Crimson Shadow*
8. Stephen King and Peter Straub, The Talisman*
9. Melinda Taub, The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennet, Witch*
10. Tana French, The Searcher
11. Sue Grafton, W is for Wasted
12. Robin Hobb, Blood of Dragons
13. Una McCormack, The Missing
14. Gordon S. Wood, The Purpose of the Past
15. Tana French, The Hunter
16. Jane Austen, Emma
17. Una McCormack, Enigma Tales*
18. Janice Hallett, The Killer Question
19. Eleta Preloc, The End of This Day’s Business
20. Tana French, The Keeper

Ohhhh first time for Mansfield Park?! And Emma too! So excited for you.