Reading White Trash Zombie series, Miss Fisher Murder Mystery series, just reread ST Vanguard Harbinger, TRYING to find Summon The Thunder, and AND recently read the Jane Yellowrock companion.
What are you reading?
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So do my wife and I. I also just started reading the ST Academy books. I know they wrote them for kids and teens, but I enjoy them, that is, once I overlook some mistakes, such as who Worf's brother is.
Sounds good. May have to look that one up.
Have you read THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE WHEEL by R.S. Belcher? It's an urban fantasy/horror novel involving a secret order of long-haul truckers who protect America's highways from supernatural threats: ghostly hitchhikers, treacherous truck stops, etc. Sounds like it might be right up your line.
A sequel, KINGS OF THE ROAD, is already in the works.
(Full disclosure: I edited the book for Tor.)
Started with The Silmarillion last week, took a bit to get through that! Just finished The Hobbit (and loved it as much as I did ~40 years ago) and will be starting on LoTR shortly...
http://www.nytimes.com/1974/11/17/a...-332-pp-new-york-alfred-a-knopf-895.html?_r=0
Noel Mostert's "Supership"
He traveled half the world on board a supertanker describing the live on board and also explaining and making clear how that whole industry works including all the flaws of the ship's designs and the greed and total lack of morale in the industry.
Its a bok I read now and then and every time its a fascinating read, not only the technical aspect but also the whole view of the crew of the supertanker, how the world is changing for them, the way they travel inside this luxurious monstrosity with all the dangers and how disconnected they are from the rest of the world when they move accross the seas.
Noel Mostert's "Supership"
He traveled half the world on board a supertanker describing the live on board and also explaining and making clear how that whole industry works including all the flaws of the ship's designs and the greed and total lack of morale in the industry.
Its a bok I read now and then and every time its a fascinating read, not only the technical aspect but also the whole view of the crew of the supertanker, how the world is changing for them, the way they travel inside this luxurious monstrosity with all the dangers and how disconnected they are from the rest of the world when they move accross the seas.
That sounds...amazing. How on earth did someone get that idea?
I'm close to finishing my first William Faulkner novel, The Unvanquished, and am steadily working on The Other War of 1812, about the...Georgian invasion of Florida.
Smokey and the Banshee?
That sounds...amazing. How on earth did someone get that idea?
The Brotherhood actually popped up very briefly, for just one chapter, in one of Rod Belcher's earlier novels, NIGHTWISE, and we decided to spin them off into their own book series because, yep, it seemed like too cool an idea not to run with.
Plus, as a rule, Rod is always just bubbling over with a neat ideas for new books and characters and series . . .. .
His next novel, QUEEN OF SWORDS, involves an 18th century pirate queen and, generations later, a respectable 19th century widow who is also a member of a secret order of female assassins dating back to the dawn of creation . . ..
The Handmaid's Tale
I admire your willingness to expose yourself to different viewpoints to that degree.I've been in the mood for analyzing different viewpoints from what I'm used to. So I'll be starting Rand's The Fountainhead as soon as my copy arrives.
Don't judge me.
Kor
As long as you continually remind yourself that Ayn Rand was on Social Security and Medicare at the end of her life, you should be fine. Also helps if you're not 15 years old when you read it, then you can see through its obvious bullshit.
I say these sarcastic things about Ayn Rand, but honestly, I read that book when I was 19 and I loved it. Made me a bit insufferable for a few years. You're probably not as impressionable as I was though.
Just started A Dog's Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron.
Finished The Black Widow by Daniel Silva. Much darker than his other books.
Finished The Black Widow by Daniel Silva. Much darker than his other books.
Re-reading Christopher Golden's Justice League novel "Exterminators".
Re-reading a book on Tolkien and mythic imagination.
