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Let us know about the books you are reading this month. Picks, pans, raves, recommendations—any and all genres welcome here!

I just started The Album of Dr. Moreau by Daryl Gregory. It seems the synopses of his more humorous stories undersell them as just quirky misadventures or character parades. However, I found he always delivers stories with more sophisticated humor and compassion for his characters than that. I hope this one is no different.

I’m reading the fourth book in the Bobiverse, HEAVENS RIVER.

MadProfessah wrote: "I’m reading the fourth book in the Bobiverse, HEAVENS RIVER."

Squee, another Bobiverse book! I didn't know there was another coming. :)

I am reading The Caves of Steel, but then I have to move on to The Broken Eye, but i also need to fit in Black Sun

Eclipse: The Girl Who Saved the World by George Phillies

I finished up Crooked Kingdom and Brandon Sanderson's Dark One, both of which I enjoyed. Now I'm finishing up my long postponed re-read of This Alien Shore and have started The Lathe of Heaven for my book club.

Boundless by Jack Campbell

School’s out (finally!!) and I just started my re-read of Three Body Problem.

Hoping to squeeze in a couple more books this month, but so far in June, I read:
Scarpetta by Patricia Cornwell, 9/10. A return to the excellence of her earlier Kay Scarpetta books—a convoluted, baffling mystery (or several) with personal links to Scarpetta and the people close to her. More importantly, supposedly intelligent characters finally have started communicating with each other and some of the supporting characters have stopped acting like complete jerks.
The Burning White by Brent Weeks, 10/10. Despite a rather hard turn into theology (way more overt than in the previous 4 books), I still gave this final book in the Lightbringer series a 10/10. There were so many intriguing characters with well-developed story arcs, relatively minor characters with surprisingly key roles to play, ethical dilemmas and plot twists galore. Highly satisfying.
The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon, 10/10. My comments about this book are in our group discussion folder.
But really, just so good!
The Adversary by Julian May, 9/10. The many subplots, all needing resolution, made for a rather cluttered and chaotic ending to this book as the culmination of The Saga of Pliocene Exile, but it was a wonderful, sprawling series, a rollicking good tale with a fair amount of food for deeper thought. I found Marc’s and Elizabeth’s stories the most difficult to follow, but maybe I will have more understanding if I read The Milieu Trilogy.
Next up is The Celts by Elona Malterre.

Glad you felt THE BURNING WHITE sticks the landing!! I’m waiting until my late July vacation to finally read it.

Right now I’m 30% through CATALYST GATE, the 3rd book in the Protectorate trilogy by Megan O’Keefe.

I finished The Three-Body Problem - will go post thoughts on the spoiler thread in a moment - and am about to belatedly start Black Sun for last month's discussion.

Finished Crown of Shadows and Dominion

Its funny how some things I so strongly remembered in so much detail, like the conversation at the end of Crown of Shadows and how much I had forgotten over the years.

Glad I did the reread.

And I've wandered off into another podcast recently basically all about spec fic. Its called Imaginary Worlds.

We hit 110 on Monday with no AC in sight. I stopped at a store on the way home to see if I could find some respite. I was sweating the entire time I was in there and they had cleared out many of their coolers because they just could not keep up with the heat and stuff was in risk of going bad.

I am so happy that bubble has moved elsewhere, but I pity the other people who are now suffering due to it.

I suspect by brain got cooked. I just could not think.

The Celts by Elona Malterre, 7/10, was a sort of odd book—the first half was somewhat “meh��, and the second half was more engaging and interesting. A retelling/reimagining of the story of Deirdre of the Sorrows and her lover Naisha/Naoise. There were times when scenes seemed contrived simply for the reader to learn about life in ancient Ireland, the various Celtic festivals, and Celtic mythology. But overall the author weaves the tapestry of life in the years of the last century before the Common Era into the story of love and sex, power struggles and battles, and loyalty and betrayal.

My last book this month is out of genre, The Scarpetta Factor by Patricia Cornwell.