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So what are you reading now?

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Actually, yeah. Good story, and it was cool to see Vaughan and the others in a comic.

^_^;

Honestly, I bought it because I recognized the authors.
 
I finished Yoda: Dark Rendezvous, and started a 2nd reading of Vanguard: Reap the Whirlwind as a prep for Open Secrets.
 
I'm about to start "The White Tiger" by Aravind Adiga. I've been looking forward to it since I've heard good things about it.
 
Glad to hear you're enjoying Reap the Whirlwind. You might be pleased to hear, then, that as of tonight I have finished the manuscript for book five in the series, Precipice, slated for publication in November. :)

I am giddy with anticipation! I've ordered Open Secrets from the UK last week so I'll be getting my teeth (or rather, eyes) into it next week if all goes well.

Just a quick sidebar to this thread, has Vanguard been set up with a built-in book limit? I've really enjoyed the serialized aspect of the books, and there definitely seems to be a grand plan in the offing.
 
Just a quick sidebar to this thread, has Vanguard been set up with a built-in book limit? I've really enjoyed the serialized aspect of the books, and there definitely seems to be a grand plan in the offing.
Although there is a "grand plan" to the saga, it was also designed from the outset to be flexible enough to support stories not directly related to its serial meta-narrative. As long as the books continue to sell well enough to merit continuation, we'll find stories to tell.
 
After finishing FC I've moved back to Over a Torrent Sea. Did a good bit of it today while enjoying the sun in our back garden. After I finish it I'll do Mere Anarchy and that should leave May free for non-Trek reading.
 
I finally got my copy of Mere Anarchy today. I hope to start reading it in the next few days.
 
I'm between Trek books right now, so reading the short story Anthology Don't Forget Your Spaceship, Dear edited by Jody Lynn Nye. Includes 3 stories by Trek authors -
Just Wait Until You Have Children of Your Own by Esther M. Friesner
Mother Knows Best by Josepha Sherman
DOn't Put That in Your Mouth, You Don't Know Where it's Been by Diane Duane

Mostly reinterpreting mother's words to apply to SF situations.
 
Just finished A singular Destiny. and have been reading Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
 
I'm reading Treason now and so far it's just as scattered as PAD's usual style, that is to say...erm...interesting :vulcan:
 
Elsewhere, reading Factory Lives, a collection of 19th century working-class biographies (I needn't tell you what a barrel of fun that is) and just finished Paul Auster's City of Glass (good book, up until the last quarter or so).

May I ask why you didn't like the ending?

I've finished Effi Briest. What a sad story. I wonder what Fontane wanted to say with it? I sense a pattern of 'if you're nobility/gentry, you'll always be unhappy in the end, also if you're petty bourgeoisie and try to move up' theme in his works. It was nice to immerse into this sunken 19th century world of Prussian gentry and to experience the corresponding mindset. I think it's that sort of mindset that eventually doomed the Weimar republic 50 years later.

I've started Mere Anarchy and am currently in the second part. It's quite captivating.
 
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