So what are you reading now?

[Brendan Moody]

^Not only that, but Card loathes Star Trek and has indicated that he thinks Star Trek books are mere cookie-cutter merchandise, so I don't so him wanting to contribute.

All the talk of Faction Paradox in this thread reminded me that I'd never bought Erasing Sherlock, the last FP novel published by Mad Norwegian Press. I'd been avoiding it because I didn't get the impression I'd enjoy and because its being out of print meant that the cheapest copies were going for twice the cover price. But I finally gave in to my need for a complete set and ordered one of the last new copies from Amazon.ca. I've read about 40 pages so far. There are some flaws and the book isn't terribly innovative, but I've been liking it more than I'd expected.

I also recently reread Charles Palliser's marvelous literary mystery Betrayals. In terms of Trek my most recent reading was Over a Torrent Sea, and my next will be either Mere Anarchy or Full Circle depending on which Amazon delivers first.

 

[Cap'n Crunch]

Since I last posted, I've read the Sherlock Holmes stories up to The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle, The 4400: The Vesuvius Prophecy, and I'm now half way through A Singular Destiny. I've decided to read a Sherlock Holmes story between other novels. When I'm done with ASD, I'm going to read The Adventure of the Speckled Band, then The Art of the Impossible.

 

[Steve Roby]

Went out yesterday hoping to find a copy of Over a Torrent Sea. No luck. So I bought the two latest Hard Case Crime books, Lawrence Block's Killing Castro and Roger Zelazny's The Dead Man's Brother; A Grave in Gaza, the second Palestinian mystery novel by Matt Beynon Rees; and Star Wars: X-Wing: Rogue Squadron by Michael Stackpole. I've just started reading Rogue Squadron.

 

[shanejayell]

Finished The Art of the Impossible last night. VERY good book, especially liked seeing Curzon Dax not do too well. *lol*

 

[ronny]

Finished The Art of the Impossible last night. VERY good book, especially liked seeing Curzon Dax not do too well. *lol*

I loved The Art of the Impossible. Up until A Singular Destiny came out it was my favorite KRAD book, and it's still a close race.

 

[Kirks_Flying_Wig]

I bought Shards and Shadows today and dove straight into The Greater Good (it was a tough choice with what to start with; that or The Black Flag!) Non-Trek-wise, I'm reading Them by Nathan McCall and Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama.

 

[Rosalind]

finished Myriad Universes last night. actually I finished book 1 last week, and book 2 last night.

 

[ronny]

I'm reading Over A Torrent Sea but I'm having the pager week from hell so it's slow going.

 

[captcalhoun]

Went out yesterday hoping to find a copy of Over a Torrent Sea. No luck. So I bought the two latest Hard Case Crime books, Lawrence Block's Killing Castro and Roger Zelazny's The Dead Man's Brother; A Grave in Gaza, the second Palestinian mystery novel by Matt Beynon Rees; and Star Wars: X-Wing: Rogue Squadron by Michael Stackpole. I've just started reading Rogue Squadron.

RS is good, but i prefer Aaron Allston's Wraith Squadron trilogy...

the best of Stackpole's 5 RS books is The Bacta War

 

[Stevil2001]

I preferred the Rogue books to the Wraith ones, personally. But all the X-Wing novels are very good!

 

[JAG]

I loved the Rogue books.

Just started Brad Thor's The last Patriot. I have Titan Over a Torrent Sea on order and will pick it up tomorrow, for the weekend.

 

[Turtletrekker]

All I have to say about the Wraith books is-- Kettch. Greatest. Pilot. Ever.

"Yub, yub!"

 

[DimesDan]

I finally have my copy of A Singular Destiny and am at chapter eight, tis a nice read and one thing I've realised, I like the fact you used Aventine and not Enterprise KRAD and I'm enjoying Sonek Pran as well

 

[BrotherBenny]

I have finally finished reading Empire in Black and Gold, it having taken me two weeks to read during my commute to and from Grethor every day.

Now I get to read something a little lighter and definitely faster, A Singular Destiny....whoo hoo!!!

 

[William Leisner]

I finally have my copy of A Singular Destiny and am at chapter eight, tis a nice read and one thing I've realised, I like the fact you used Aventine and not Enterprise KRAD

The Enterprise is off doing other things...

 

[captcalhoun]

i just started SCE Wildfire yesterday.

 

[justcorbly]

Finished Torrent Sea last week.

I'd be interested in what folks are reading that does not fit into the genre realm. As for me, I'm reading C.J. Sansom's Winter in Madrid, set in Spain in 1940. I just finished Half of a Yellow Sun, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a story from Nigeria's civil war in the 1960's. It's one of the most affecting novels I've read in a long time. Adichie is a powerful writer.

 

[RikerLover]

I'm current reading Don't Bet Against Me by Deanna Favre. I'm getting some whole new insights into Brett.

 

[Stevil2001]

I just finished The Return of Superman last night. Definitely my favorite of the death of Superman trilogy. Now I've started Hitler Moves East: A Graphic Chronicle, 1941-43 by David Levinthal and Garry Trudeau (of Doonesbury fame). It's a photographic history of Hitler's attempted invasion of Russia... except that the photographs are of toy soldiers, toy tanks, and so on. But it's done in a style where at times it almost looks real; things are just a tiny bit off. It's a cool effect.

Graduate school reading for the week:
- Sybil, or The Two Nations by Benjamin Disraeli (finished yesterday)
- The Cripple of Inishmaan by Martin McDonagh (will start today)
- The Dream Keeper and other poems by Langston Hughes (will start Monday... maybe)

 

[Stevil2001]

I just finished The Return of Superman last night. Definitely my favorite of the death of Superman trilogy. Now I've started Hitler Moves East: A Graphic Chronicle, 1941-43 by David Levinthal and Garry Trudeau (of Doonesbury fame). It's a photographic history of Hitler's attempted invasion of Russia... except that the photographs are of toy soldiers, toy tanks, and so on. But it's done in a style where at times it almost looks real; things are just a tiny bit off. It's a cool effect.

Graduate school reading for the week:
- Sybil, or The Two Nations by Benjamin Disraeli (finished yesterday)
- The Cripple of Inishmaan by Martin McDonagh (will start today)
- The Dream Keeper and other poems by Langston Hughes (will start Monday... maybe)