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​

​

* Ok.​

​

Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes​

​

* 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​

​

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.