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I have finished Swords Against the Shadowland. Not bad, but not as good as the Leiber originals. I'm happy to have read it, but if I do a reread of the Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories, I wouldn't include it.

Yrret wrote: "Wizard and Glass: The Dark Tower IV"

While I complained above The Stand was too long and boring, I really enjoyed The Dark Tower series :)

MI6 Spy Skills for Civilians: A former British agent reveals how to live like a spy - smarter, sneakier and ready for anything by Red Riley

I have started reading Lotus Blue. I have been friends with Cat for more years than either of us would care to mention, so I really should have got around to reading her book well before now.

Witch Hat Atelier, Vol. 9 by Kamome Shirahama

Have read three more of C J Cherryh's "Foreigner" series and nearing the end of the series.
Have just finished An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon. Difficult at times, difficult subject, brutal dystopian slave culture aboard a huge, wandering spaceship; shades also of Handmaids Tale in the relentless cruelty of humans to Othered humans under a tyrannical religion. But I still think about it. Which, to me, makes it a "good" book.

I always liked the Foreigner series. I need to get back to it one of these days.

Whew, I had a bunch of books all going at the same time that I managed to wrap up yesterday

Mists of Ages by Sharon Green - I can see why someone put this in the book exchange box. A thief is hired to do some espionage work...sounds good but she only gets to start on doing that work about 20 pages from the end. In the meantime she has a love/hate relationship with a gladiator that. She'll tell him she hates him and next thing you know she's making out with him and can't live without him, oh he's so amazing even though he's a jerk, and oh, we almost just died a moment ago so let's make out some more...This will go back in the book exchange :)

Star Trek: Nero - Just continuing working my way through whatever Star Trek graphic novels the library happens to have available. You find out what Nero was up to from the moment he came back in time till Spock did the same some 25 years later.

Sunbeam's Shine - little kid's unicorn book...this also came from the book box and will go back to find a home with an appropriate age group but couldn't resist, unicorns after all :) It was cute though.

Robot Dreams - ok, only about half the stories had robots in them, and several of those duplicated other collections, but there were a few good ones in there, but glad it's a library book, can only read so many short stories before they all start mushing into each other

Starting a bunch of new books today:

The Massacre of Mankind by Stephen Baxter (from library, the "sequel" to The War of the Worlds)

Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky (from book exchange)

Les survivants by Luiz Eduardo de Oliveira (Leo) (graphic novel)

Addison the April Fool's Day Fairy by Daisy Meadows (another book exchange quick read and return)

Michelle wrote: "I always liked the Foreigner series. I need to get back to it one of these days."
Call me crazy but I can see me starting the series all over again in the not too distant future!

Nothing wrong with that, Lynn! I do the same thing. I intend on re-reading Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe series before #23 comes out in December.

Carthage's Other Wars: Carthaginian Warfare Outside the 'Punic Wars' Against Rome by Dexter Hoyos

Currently reading:
The Path of Daggers
This is a re-read and I'm enjoying it.
The Revenant and the Tomb
Beginning seems intriguing.
The Red Wolf Saga: Complete Series Boxed Set
Enjoying the book so far.
Star Rider on the Razor's Edge
Good, energetic start.
Knights, Witches, and Murder: A Fantasy Thriller
I like the premise so far.
The Ballad of Mrs. Molony
I've read the other books in The Hat and loved them.
The King's Son: Vol 1
Haven't started yet, so no opinion on this one.

Finished The Massacre of Mankind. I decided it would fill my BINGO slot for beautiful cover. It was good though I wouldn't say I loved it, and the way it ended, it kind of needed another sequel :) I liked how he stuck to the science of the time, like the idea that Venus was a swampy, wet rainforesty kind of planet and not the scorching toxic inferno that it really is, and how history might have changed if say, England recovering from an alien invasion couldn't get involved in the events of Europe so Germany conquered France, etc. In fact without a WWI, there wasn't a reason for the Nazis to come to power and start a WWII

Have just enough time I hope to get my second Dune book this month - The Machine Crusade by Brian Herbert. I also plan to get to those short stories since I have a few days off next week, took some extra around Canada Day.

Finished the graphic novel version of The Handmaid's Tale, I read the novel back when it was a group read here. It was admittedly a little surreal to read the section about how things started on Gilead, and then putting down the book to see that on TV the breaking news is that Roe vs Wade was overturned...

Other Rhodes by Sarah A. Hoyt

Andrea wrote: "Finished the graphic novel version of The Handmaid's Tale, I read the novel back when it was a group read here. It was admittedly a little surreal to read the section about how things started on Gi..."
Absolutely. Very chilling.

I've just finished The Upper World by Femi Fadugba. A first novel from the author. YA - time travel set in street/gang life in South London ... quite a lot of physics explanation which I am not at all good at following! Nevertheless gripped by the action. Next book to be published 2023 I think.

Tinsel Rain by Moe Lane

My review of Venomous Lumpsucker by Ned Beauman

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I finished my Ardor Benn re-read half an hour before midnight on the 30th.