What are you reading?

[Miss Chicken]

I am listening to Stephen King’s newest book The Outsider , narrated by Will Patton. Very good so far.

On my Kindle I am reading Seal Woman by Solveig Eggerz. It is about a German who soon after the end of WW2 answers an ad for women to go Iceland to work on farms. The book alternates between her previous life in Germany and her life in Iceland.

My paperback is The Tooth Fairy by Graham Joyce. This ‘fairy’ is nothing like a fairy found in children’s story

Yesterday I finished reading The Ship that Never Was by Adam Courtenay ( son of Bryce Courtenay). It is the true story of a group of 10 convicts who, in 1834, stole an almost completed ship that was being built at the shipyards at the Macquarie Harbour convict settlement on the West Coast of Tasmania. Despite only 5 of them being seamen they managed to sail the ship around the bottom of Tasmania, into the Southern Ocean and then across the Pacific to Chile.

 

[Owain Taggart]

Moriarty by Anthony Horowitz. Proving to be quite a good Sherliockian yarn.

 

[Miss Chicken]

Moriarty by Anthony Horowitz. Proving to be quite a good Sherliockian yarn.

I finished The House of Silk a couple of weeks ago and will be downloading the Kobo audiobook of Moriarty when I get a new credit. I might not get to it this month but I have it pencilled in for a July read.

 

[Owain Taggart]

I hadn't read House of Silk, but I think I will after this. How did you like it? He definitely has got the voice down. I'm still really early in the book, but there's already a moment that's made me smile.

 

[Miss Chicken]

I thought The House of Silk was very good. I have read many Holmes pastiches over the years and I feel that this book was one of the closest to the feel of the Arthur Conan Doyle books.

However I enjoyed his non-Holmes novel The Magpie Murders even more.

 

[Owain Taggart]

Good to know. I think I'll have to look into him some more, as this one is my first, but I'm liking what I see.

 

[Miss Chicken]

Anxiously waiting for my pre-ordered book The Singularity Trap by Dennis E Taylor to download from Audible. The site says there is about 20 more minutes to go. BUMMER - it looks like the wrong time was given and I will have to waiting a few more hours,

I really loved Taylor’s Bobiverse trilogy do I have high hopes for this book - not too high I hope

 

[TorontoTrekker]

Looks like it's been a few weeks since I last visited this thread... in that time I've finished The Collapsing Empire, which was as good as I thought it was going to be. I also read another Hugo nominee, Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty, which was also excellent, and Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds. I've yet to read a Reynolds novel that wasn't amazing - this one started slowly enough that I thought it was going to be the first, but then it picked up about halfway through. While I spotted the ending coming about 40 or 50 pages before the end, that didn't spoil anything for me.

I have two Hugo nominees still to read, but both of them are massive and so they're not candidates for my daily bus ride. So I picked an older novel, Survival by Julie Czerneda, which is the first book in a trilogy.

 

[Miss Chicken]

I have finished listening to The Singularity Trap by Dennis E Taylor, narrated by Ray Porter. It is a story about an asteroid miner who finds himself in a unique situation to save Mankind. This book isn’t as funny or geeky as the Bobiverse books but I think it is an excellent story. 4.5/5.

Now I am listening to another Stephen King novel. This time it is The Shining. I would like recommendations about which King book to buy when I get my next Audible credits. Not one of this big clunkers, however.

So far I have finished

Mr Mercedes
Finders Keepers
End of Watch
Thinner
Needful Things
The Outsider

 

[USS Firefly]

I have finished listening to The Singularity Trap by Dennis E Taylor, narrated by Ray Porter. It is a story about an asteroid miner who finds himself in a unique situation to save Mankind. This book isn’t as funny or geeky as the Bobiverse books but I think it is an excellent story. 4.5/5.

Now I am listening to another Stephen King novel. This time it is The Shining. I would like recommendations about which King book to buy when I get my next Audible credits. Not one of this big clunkers, however.

So far I have finished

Mr Mercedes
Finders Keepers
End of Watch
Thinner
Needful Things
The Outsider

Cujo
Misery

 

[Herbert]

On a bit of a World War 2 kick. My latest read is The Last 100 Days by John Toland
Excellent book. Can't recommend it enough

 

[dauntless]

The Day After Roswell.

If any of it is actually true, I'm Lord Lucan.

 

[Jedi_Master]

The latest biography by the virtuoso - Ron Chernow.
This one is about Ulysses Grant, and it's fantastic.

 

[Miss Chicken]

I just finished listening to “Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI” by David Grann. One of the best true crime stories I have read. Very tragic. 5/5.

I am not enjoying The Shining as much as I thought I would. I am about half way through.

 

[Nyotarules]

TITAN Orion's hounds

 

[Owain Taggart]

Finished Moriarty. That was excellent. Brilliant twist, that was! Moving on to Artemis by Andy Weir.

 

[Miss Chicken]

Finished Moriarty. That was excellent. Brilliant twist, that was! Moving on to Artemis by Andy Weir.

I will be interested to hear your opinion of ‘Artemis’. I stop reading it half way through but I plan to get back to it sometime.

I will start ‘Moriarity’ as my afternoon/evening listen after I finish ‘The Shining’.

I just finished my Kindle read ‘Seal Woman’. Excellent boks that covers a woman’s life in Germany under the Nazis and Iceland after the war. 4/5.

My morning listen is ‘Senlin Ascends’ by Josiah Bancroft. It is about a school teacher and his wife who are on their honeymoon to the mysterious Tower of Babel which is so tall its upper stories cannot be seen from the ground. The couple become separated and Senlin must explore the floors, and the strange worlds they contain looking for his wife. Excellent so far.

Now to go and decide on my next Kindle read.

 

[Owain Taggart]

I will be interested to hear your opinion of ‘Artemis’. I stop reading it half way through but I plan to get back to it sometime.

I certainly will! You'll have to let me know how you like Moriarty The way it ends really makes me want to know what happens next. It gives us an interesting prospect to look forward to.

 

[Miss Chicken]

I just finished ‘The Shining’. I thought it a little boring but I felt the same way about ‘Hell House’ by Richard Matheson and ‘The Haunting of Hill House’ by Shirley Jackson so I guess haunted house books just aren’t for me.

My Kindle read is ‘The Pharaoh Key’ by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. It is the 5th Gideon Crew book and I am hoping that the terminal Ill Crew might die by the end of this book as he is my least favourite major character in any book written by Preston or Child either together or separately.

 

[Solariabsg25]

Just picked up Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen, a novel of the unmade Douglas Adams Who script that he later cannibalised for Life, The Universe and Everything.