Literature What are you currently reading?

[Emma JC]

I have seen a couple of the Harlan Coben mini-series on Netflix. They are quite clever.

Thank you for the heads up - we will watch them.

Emma JC
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[Lou]

I really liked her „Patternmaster“ series and would suggest to you giving it a try.

That sounds good. My library has all of them and I put them all on hold.

 

[Chryssie]

Why didn’t you start with he first book in the series?

If you like this one, and then start to read the older ones, you might have spoilers now…

I was given a bunch of books! I guess spoilers are just going to have to spoil! I have often read books out of order!

 

[Lou]

This one’s likely interesting for @Lou …

Just read the first 12 books in the „Starship’s Mage“ series and found them to be fun, light, „Guilty pleasures“ to entertain me.

I read the first book, and while it did not totally convince me, it was a nice page-turner with an interesting premise … in the future, faster-than-light travel is possible through literal *magic* by a small group of people who have different magical capabilities.

As I still found the book entertaining, I signed up for Amazon‘s „Kindle Unlimited“ program that allows free access to a subset of their books (which this series is a part of) for € 9,99 per month, and read the next 11 books in the series (each individually priced around € 4,99) in the two weeks since then… and, even better, book 13 in the series is scheduled to come out next week. Not sure if I will continue the „Kindle Unlimited“ access after that, as I had not, in the past, found many books that were part of it that interested me.

Also have started Kurt Vonnegut‘s „Player Piano“ , which is, while quite different, as it was already written 70 years ago, a very enjoyable read.

I can't find them. and not going to join Amaon's kindle unlimited, like you I found its selection too limited.

 

[Andy_T]

Disappointed. I thought you knew every SF book out there …

 

[HappyRoxy]

Thank you for the heads up - we will watch them.

Emma JC
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Will be interested to know what you think, over in the TV thread.

 

[Chryssie]

Finished another Harlan Coben novel called "Promise Me." This is an older book published in 2005. It was really good. I think there might be more books about the main character, Myron, a former basketball star who feels compelled to help people. This story is about missing teenage girls. Great characters and plot twists.
In looking at this author in the library catalog, I found that the other one I read was #2 of a series so I reserved the first one and got the email today that it is ready to pick up.

 

[HappyRoxy]

Finished another Harlan Coben novel called "Promise Me." This is an older book published in 2005. It was really good. I think there might be more books about the main character, Myron, a former basketball star who feels compelled to help people. This story is about missing teenage girls. Great characters and plot twists.
In looking at this author in the library catalog, I found that the other one I read was #2 of a series so I reserved the first one and got the email today that it is ready to pick up.

I have a feeling I might have read that one. A long time ago. Did it involve a woman being murdered with a rock to the head in the woods?

 

[Chryssie]

I have a feeling I might have read that one. A long time ago. Did it involve a woman being murdered with a rock to the head in the woods?

Nope no rock to the head in this one! There is killing though.

 

[Raven]

I just started What Should I do with my Life? - Po Bronson.

I gave up halfway as I didn't find this book very interesting. I think I only paid 0.99 for it, though. I went through and deleted a few other books on my kindle which took longer than I would have thought!

I started again on a book called Queenie. It is written by Candice Carty-Williams and she became the first black writer to win Book of the Year at the British Book Awards. It is set in south London where I grew up. I have read such good reviews so I will try and read some more tomorrow.

 

[Emma JC]

read a Robert Parker's - Stone Throw (Jesse Stone) - it was good

Emma JC
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[Chryssie]

read a Robert Parker's - Stone Throw (Jesse Stone) - it was good

Emma JC
Find your vegan soulmate or just a friend. www.spiritualmatchmaking.com

Wow I haven't read a Robert Parker book in decades! I always enjoyed them though!

 

[Lou]

Finished another Harlan Coben novel called "Promise Me."

I used to read Harlan Coben all the time. Don't know why I stopped. Maybe I ran out of them. I'll have to check my library.

nope. he is still writing. now where to start?

 

[Chryssie]

I used to read Harlan Coben all the time. Don't know why I stopped. Maybe I ran out of them. I'll have to check my library.

nope. he is still writing. now where to start?

I am now reading the book that preceded "The Match" which is called "The Boy From the Woods" which introduces Wilde. These are new books and I have a lot of older ones to find!

 

[Emma JC]

Wow I haven't read a Robert Parker book in decades! I always enjoyed them though!

Robert died in 2010 and his estate has allowed a number of other authors to continue the various series and although I haven't read them all I have found that the other authors stick close to Bob's style of writing. Very interesting information about him / personal life etc on Wikipedia.

Currently reading Twice in a Lifetime by Melissa Baron - finding it a bit sloggy but it is kinda woowoo sci-fi romance.

Emma JC
Find your vegan soulmate or just a friend. www.spiritualmatchmaking.com

 

[Chryssie]

I finished "The Boy From the Woods." It was really good also. Now I know Wilde and the other characters better and I hope there will be more in this series.

 

[Emma JC]

I am now reading the book that preceded "The Match" which is called "The Boy From the Woods" which introduces Wilde. These are new books and I have a lot of older ones to find!

I read both in the past week - had read The Boy From the Woods in 2020 - they were good but a bit complicated trying to keep track of what was happening to whom and with whom.

Emma JC
Find your vegan soulmate or just a friend. www.spiritualmatchmaking.com

 

[goinggreenladybuglog]

I'm reading The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern. It's a magical story about a mysterious circus that only appears at night.

 

[Lou]

I'm reading The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern. It's a magical story about a mysterious circus that only appears at night.

I read that too. Long time ago. I liked it a lot,

 

[Andy_T]

Oh, I had forgotten to mention that I recently read a great new series by Naomi Novik, the „Scholomance“ trilogy.

The premise is that there are people who are able to do magic, and so-called „maleficaria“, monsters that can be tiny or huge, who want to devour their magic and will stop at nothing to get it. Mages band together in „enclaves“ with magic protections or try to survive on their own if they can not get admitted into one of these enclaves, and all magic children join a special school, the „Scholomance“ where they have to fight such monsters every day until the day of their graduation, when they face the biggest horde of monsters as final test, with only a part of the kids coming out of the graduation alive. The target of the training is to learn enough magic to be able to fight the lesser monsters, build up mana (magical energy) by physical activity and enter into a group of partners who watch out for each other at the graduation to make it out alive.

The heroine is a young woman who is in the unenviable position that her magical capabilities would make it very easy for her to become a dark sorceress and who is shunned by most others, although she tries to do her best to never succumb to evil.

As any Naomi Novik book I have read so far, I feel the books are very funny, well written, and I strongly endorse them.