So what are you reading now? (Part 3)

[BrotherBenny]

I'm now reading Unspoken Truth and still working my way through Eyes of the Beholders.

Up next will be CSI Blood Quantum and then Naomi Novik's fourth and fifth books in the Temeraire series, Empire of Ivory and Victory of Eagles.

My long to-read pile is now getting even longer, as I have discovered several books that I would like to read, and cannot currently afford. These include:

The sixth Temeraire book Tongues of Serpents
Books 3 & 4 of the Shadows of the Apt series by Adrian Tchaikovsky, Blood of the Mantis and Salute the Dark
The Star Trek books Children of Kings and Seven Deadly Sins (which would mean that I was caught up, except for the STO book which I'm not a hundred percent sure I want)
And Veracity, an interesting scifi novel by a newcomer, if I remember correctly.

This is all in addition to the 40 or so books that I have yet to read in several series that I am in the process of collecting. However, since I have a child on the way (my wife does, I'm just along for the ride at this point) and want to increase my writing productivity, the likelihood of getting all these books and reading them has gone down from "slim" to "yeah right, you're not Spencer Reid!"

I read at the speed of 90 pages per hour as it is.

 

[Dancing Doctor]

I finished Well of Souls, and found it to be as well-written as I remember, and made me want more Enterprise-C stories.

I'm on Insider Baseball from Joan Didion's After Henry, and plan to reread Sword of Damocles soon.

 

[Cap'n Crunch]

I finished The Hound of the Baskervilles. I'm now reading Unspoken Truth. Up next is another Sherlock Holmes story, The Valley of Fear, then on to CSI: Brass in Pocket.

 

[Steve Roby]

Finished Children of Kings, which was a reasonably good read. Now reading Conman by Richard Asplin, which is off to a very good start.

 

[JD]

Has anyone here read the short story anthology Warriors? It's an anthology of short stories about warriors in different time periods and places. I just found out about this this morning, and I'm curious to check it out since it has stories by George RR Marting (who also co-edited it) and James Rollins who I like, and Naomi Novick and David Weber who I have been curious to check out.

 

[BrotherBenny]

Has anyone here read the short story anthology Warriors? It's an anthology of short stories about warriors in different time periods and places. I just found out about this this morning, and I'm curious to check it out since it has stories by George RR Marting (who also co-edited it) and James Rollins who I like, and Naomi Novick and David Weber who I have been curious to check out.

Naomi Novik's stuff is superb. Dragons in the Napoleonic War, nuff said.

 

[F. King Daniel]

I've finally finished the Janus Gate trilogy. I thought it was mediocre. Dispite the situation there was very little sense of peril or urgency. I did like the alternate future Sulu and Chekov quite a bit, as well as the very end of their story (even if I saw it coming). I think the second book was the best, and the first the weakest.
I think the Janus Gate would have been better as a duology. As it was it felt padded-out, overlong and boring in parts.

I'm now continuing the DS9-R with Mission Gamma #1: Twilight.
A strong start!

 

[Thrawn]

God that book is amazing.

 

[JD]

George RR Marting

Ooops, that was supposed to be Martin. Damn fingers.

 

[indianatrekker26]

I've finally finished the Janus Gate trilogy. I thought it was mediocre. Dispite the situation there was very little sense of peril or urgency. I did like the alternate future Sulu and Chekov quite a bit, as well as the very end of their story (even if I saw it coming). I think the second book was the best, and the first the weakest.
I think the Janus Gate would have been better as a duology. As it was it felt padded-out, overlong and boring in parts.

I'm now continuing the DS9-R with Mission Gamma #1: Twilight.
A strong start!

i might have to give janus gate another shot. Maybe 3rd time is the charm.
To me, it starts off with a bang, but as soon as kirk beams down to the planet, the book just drags so much.

 

[Snaploud]

I recently finished the last book in the Lost Fleet series. At least, I assume it's the last book. The major plot-lines were certainly wrapped up.

 

[DevilEyes]

As usual, I have one book that I read in paper/hard copy form, and another as eBook - depending on the situation...

1) I've read 4 out of 7 novellas from Seven Deadly Sins anthology - Cardassian, Klingon, Mirror Universe and Romulan, and I'm just starting the Pakled story. So far they've all been good (particularly the Cardassian one), though the Romulan one started a bit slow and didn't grip me until the last couple of chapters. Full review after I finish the book.

2) on the eBook front, I've been reading the Mirror Universe fiction from the Glass Empires-Obsidian Alliances-Shards and Shadows anthologies in chronological order.

Age of the Empress seemed OK, though not bringing anything new, until halfway through. It lost me with T'Pau's line that Humans, despite their ruthlessness, don't have a tendency for indiscriminate murder. Um, really? Forgive my skepticism, but the real human history offers more than enough evidence to the contrary. And that was just the beginning, as the rest of the novella was doing its best to establish Hoshi and the Humans as not such bad guys after all, in comparison with all those aliens who are even worse. This is not the Federation, it's the Terran Empire we're talking about! Terran Empire has been portrayed on screen as the worst of the worst, not flawed antiheroes who are still nicer than the rest of the galaxy and that we should root for!

Next up was Nobunaga, Dave Stern's short story, which I liked better, because of its non-linear, what-is-real-and-what-is-not structure, and because it restored some of the dread and creepiness to Empress Hoshi and the Terran Empire. It felt a bit unfinished, especially with T'Pol's role being so ambiguous, and I would love to read a sequel.

Ill Winds about MU Robert and Sarah April didn't grip me, probably because I am not familiar with the prime universe Aprils. But Margaret Wander Bonnano's The Greater Good was excellent, with its portrayal of MU Kirk, Pike and the Talosians, and an effective ending.

Now reading The Sorrows of Empire (the novella).

 

[Csalem]

Finished reading 'Titanic Scandal' and have started the first Anita Blake novel based on some conversation on this board a few weeks/months ago.

 

[ares93]

i'm reading TNG: losing the peace but i have the new STO book and the destiny series on the way. felt kind of bad for downloading the destiny books since they were do damn good. well i guess 8 bucks i piece isnt so bad after all so i bough em.

anyone know where you can buy ST ebooks? built myself a makeshift reading pad i'm quite eager to use.

 

[Dancing Doctor]

^Amazon, BarnesandNoble.com all have the ebooks.

I finished After Henry and forgot that I had put Sword of Damocles in my laptop bag, so I started Joan Didion's The White Album.

 

[Dayton Ward]

Somebody's reading Mission to Horatius....

 

[T'Bonz]

Aw, they're cute.

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Just finished a book on MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus). Fascinating, if scary stuff.

I'm reading "With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa" by Eugene Sledge. Anyone who is watching HBO's The Pacific will know who Sledge is.

Next up is a book by Leckie, also in The Pacific.

 

[Rosalind]

Since the last time I posted in this, more than a month ago, I:

-- started and finished The Complete Adventures of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie by May Gibbs. this was great fun to read and finally getting an understanding of the gumnut babies.

-- finished The Complete Short Stories of Hercule Poirot by Agatha Christie, this I think I started about a year ago, been reading the stories on and off since, a great look into this great detective and fun times were had reading these stories.

-- finished Galileo's Dream by Kim Stanley Robinson, which I started about September last year, and could only read it during my weekly train ride because it's the only reading material and there's no other distraction. I found half of the book fascinating and fantastic, but the other half I really had to force myself to read through. I'm glad I read it because I gained a much greater insight into Galileo than before and I've gotten a lot more interested in the person than just the scientist. But this book really bored me at times.

I've also started reading:

-- The Wind in the Willow by Kenneth Grahame
-- The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights, this is a new translation by Malcolm C. Lyons. I remember reading the whole thing when I was little, but I can't remember any of the stories in it now, so it's a brand new book to me.

 

[Steve Roby]

Just started The Armageddon Factor: The Rise of Christian Nationalism in Canada by Marci McDonald. Or, as one commentator put it, the book that our prime minister, Stephen Harper, doesn't want us to read. We really don't need an American-style Christian right wing here. But that's what Harper's building.

 

[S. Gomez]

In addition to a re-reading of the Sherlock Holmes stories (in the excellent New Annotated Sherlock Holmes), I've also been perusing a collection of the ghost stories of M.R. James. Very good stuff, nice and creepy without a lot of gory horror.