I'm now reading The Copper Scroll by Joel C. Rosenberg (Book #4 in the series).
What are you reading?
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Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz. looks like I have another book series to get though.
Dead Heat by Joel C. Rosenberg (book #5 in the series).
Philosophy for Life and Other Dangerous Situations
Finished Path of The Dragon by Daniel Abraham. Awesome read! Some really good fantasy, which reminded me of Skyrim at certain points. I also liked it better than Leviathan Wakes.
I am alternating between reading to the Kindle version, and listening to the Audible version of Oblivion by favourite Icelandic author, Arnaldur Indridason. The audio version is narrated by Sean Barrett.
Just finished All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr. The best book I have read this year.
Working my way through Blackout/All Clear by Connie Willis, a 2 novel set that won the Hugo, Nebula and Locus Awards. Premise: time travellers investigate WW2, and things go awry.
Anyone else read them?
My take so far - for time travellers they are shockingly underprepared, and OH&S would have a fiedl day with their travel/retrieval procedures, and they tend to whine a bit. But the detail of life in wartime is very well done.
I am curious to see what others think.
Anyone else read them?
My take so far - for time travellers they are shockingly underprepared, and OH&S would have a fiedl day with their travel/retrieval procedures, and they tend to whine a bit. But the detail of life in wartime is very well done.
I am curious to see what others think.
Reading Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore. Rather fun read, and I have a paperback version that glows in the dark. Made me laugh when I realized what was going on after I had turned off the light.
Finished the Nebula Awards Showcase (which I think covered 2009 rather than 2011!) Just writing a review up for my blog now, it was interesting, there were several stories I really liked, a couple I downright hated and one I couldn't even bring myself to read. I read the first couple of pages and just decided it wasn't for me. That's rare.
Just started Agent 6, the final part of Tom Rob Smith's trilogy that began with Child 44.
Also nearly finished a final proof read of another novel I'm planning to self publish in the next few months! Enjoying it very much (but then I am probably biased!
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Just started Agent 6, the final part of Tom Rob Smith's trilogy that began with Child 44.
Also nearly finished a final proof read of another novel I'm planning to self publish in the next few months! Enjoying it very much (but then I am probably biased!
)
I got my paws on an advance copy of Luke Skywalker Can't Read: And Other Geeky Truths by Ryan Britt and it is so far (I'm about 100 pages in) fantastic.
I'm beta-reading the new Dwarves In Space novel at the moment. Poor Jack McDevitt is still waiting in the wings.
Starting Here There be Dragons by Sharon Kay Penman, about a Welsh prince fighting the Normans.
"Artisan Breads" by by Jan Hedh
Just finished "Colonel Sun", the first Bond novel not written by Ian Fleming. Kingsley Amis, who finished the work on "The Man with the Golden Gun" after Fleming's death, wrote it under the pseudonym of Robert Markham. He did a great job recreating Fleming's style.
I'm close to the halfway point on Infinite Jest, but while it's great stuff it's also the literary equivalent of trying to eat an entire side of bacon by oneself. So I'm taking periodic breaks with other books.
One overdue read was William Gibson's Pattern Recognition. Pretty nifty -- it depends heavily on the protagonist, who manages to be likeable despite being an early version of what our era would call an annoying hipster -- it's a sort of contemporary version of the "cyberpunk" espionage epic which he pioneered, except extremely affluent and hyper-privileged in its sensibility and setting (and with occasional moments of weird cod-libertarian thinking that seem to slip through the cracks of Gibson's otherwise perceptive prose). One thing I've noticed about Gibson novels is that he struggles with the payoff, though; he builds intriguing mystery / thriller arcs which feel like they should have a less anti-climactic, scattershot resolution. Pattern Recognition is no exception. Still worth the read, though.
One overdue read was William Gibson's Pattern Recognition. Pretty nifty -- it depends heavily on the protagonist, who manages to be likeable despite being an early version of what our era would call an annoying hipster -- it's a sort of contemporary version of the "cyberpunk" espionage epic which he pioneered, except extremely affluent and hyper-privileged in its sensibility and setting (and with occasional moments of weird cod-libertarian thinking that seem to slip through the cracks of Gibson's otherwise perceptive prose). One thing I've noticed about Gibson novels is that he struggles with the payoff, though; he builds intriguing mystery / thriller arcs which feel like they should have a less anti-climactic, scattershot resolution. Pattern Recognition is no exception. Still worth the read, though.
