Since my last post I finished All Systems Red and read the Star Trek: TNG comic book miniseries Shadowheart written by Michael Jan Friendman with art by Steve Irwin and The Amazing Spider-Man: One Moment in Time written by Joe Queseda, with art by Paolo Rivera. After that I started Jinn's Dominion the third book in Shannon Mayer's The Desert Cursed series. After about 5 chapters, I decided to take a break and am now reading the collection of the Star Wars: Age of Rebellion comic book anthology miniseries.
After the Funeral: The Posthumous Adventures of Famous Corpses by Edwin Murphy It's amazing (and disgusting) how many skulls of famous people were purloined by crazy phrenologists.
After recently finishing Chernow's Hamilton biography only a decade after first buying it, I've recently started on George Takei's To the Stars autobiography. This one only took me three years after first buying it!
Since my last post I finished Star Wars: Age of Rebellion and Djinn's Dominion, and read Justice League Dark (2011 series) Vol 2: The Books of Magic, and Captain Marvel (2014 series) Vol. 2 Stay Fly. Right now I'm reading Spider-Man: Hostile Takeover by David Liss, the prequel novel for the Insomnic Spider-Man game.
I just finished The Wager by David Grann. It is about a shipwreck, followed by a mutiny, back in 1840. They were wrecked on a barren island off the southern coast of Chile. One of the survivors was John Byron, who was a 16 year old midshipman when he left England. He was the grandfather of the poet. I think that the grandfather was a lot tougher than the grandson. I need to get back into the habit of posting in this thread.
I've been reading The Dresden Files: Peace Talks by Jim Butcher for a couple weeks now, and this week I took a break from that to read the digital collection of the ST:VOY comic Seven's Reckoning which was written by Dave Baker and illustrated by Angel Hernandez. I've also been listening to the digital version of the Graphic Audio adaptation of Boneshaker by Cherie Priest. So far I'm really enjoying Peace Talks and Boneshaker, but Seven Reckoning was only OK. My biggest complaint was that it was the first Voyager comic in ages, and it was so focused on Seven that we only got a couple scenes with Tuvok and The Doctor and didn't see B'Elanna, Tom Paris, or Neelix at all. Tom Paris not being in it really stood out since there were several scenes set on the bridge and there was only one panel where his station was visible and there was someone else there.
How can you take a break from The Dresden Files: Peace Talks? I couldn't stop reading that book untill I finished the book. Man I miss those books, I hope that Jim Butcher hurry up with a new one
I am reading the complete Sherlock Holmes omnibus, with every Sherlock Holmes story written by Arthur Conan Doyle in it. So in a couple of months I can solve or commit the perfect crime
It was only a couple of days, I would not have read anything that would take longer than that. I can't say if you feel similarly with TREK novels featuring half or so of the main casts.....but if they steadily churned out Uhura novels with cameos by Mr. Scott, I'd buy them regularly.[/QUOTE] I get a little annoyed, but at least with the books there's a fairly a lot more, so you have a good chance of finding one with everyone. My main issue with Seven's Reckoning was that it had been ages since we got a Voyager comic, so it would have been nice to see everyone again after all that time.
Yesterday I finished Iron, Fire and Ice: The Real History that Inspired Game of Thrones by Ed West. It was a terrific read, I especially liked the chapter in which Tywin Lannister was compared to Edward I of England (Longshanks]. 5/5
I'm about 50 or 60 pages from the end of Peace Talks, and holy crap it took an insane turn at the end here. Definitely not where I expected it to go when I started it. I had originally planned on reading some other stuff before the next Dresden Files book, Battle Ground, but with where things appear to be going, I think I'll probably be diving right into that after I finish Peace Talks.
Mrs. Jeffries mystery novels. Set in Victorian England. Great murder who done it. And I can mostly figure out who did it.
"Defend the Realm" by C. Andrew and "Introduction to Mathematical Statistics" by R.V Hogg and A.T. Craig
Under a Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan. After reading The Last Green Valley, his latest, I felt compelled to read his other big hit, and they're both really good reads.