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Hey, three days in and no post for May! Guess we've all been busy, perhaps reading something really good?

I finished A Knight of the Word.

A funny thing, I was in a used bookstore when I overheard two people talking. The guy had Running with the Demon in his hands and he was trying to figure out the next book in the series...I was like Oh! Oh! I know!!! I felt like that kid in class waving their arm around and jumping up and down in their seat. What a coincidence.

I also finished a really cute book called MIAOU about a cat who gets turned into a human, then helps a journalist by talking to all the neighbourhood cats to get stories to write, since people do and say all kinds of things in front of their cats not knowing they are really spies...

And talking of spies...I was at the doctor's a couple days ago and he was explaining something when his watch decided to give a second opinion...he took it off and put it in a drawer after that, there are spies everywhere...

I'm also 3 books into the Spiderwick series, it only takes about an hour to read each one.

Next up is Family by Emily Thompson, its a series I'm very fond of, I love the characters and I read one a year to keep the series going as long as I can.

Andrea! You are so funny! Fun stories. I love coincidences like that. I just finished Network Effect. I just love Murderbot!

Andrea wrote: "I finished A Knight of the Word.

I'm also 3 books into the Spiderwick series, it only takes about an hour to read each one."

I read all the Spiderwick books to my youngest (many years ago). We really enjoyed them.

I am beginning to build up momentum reading Aaronovitch's London series. I am about the finish the third one and have the fourth sitting on top of my bedside table's precarious stack.
Also reading.... because I cannot keep my nose out of them --
The Essential Rumi, Songs of Kabir, Engoldenment, and some Sawan Singh Ji. Plus, in kindle I am have begun the Knightmare Arcanist...just cracked it open...

Kivrin wrote: "Andrea wrote: "I finished A Knight of the Word.

I'm also 3 books into the Spiderwick series, it only takes about an hour to read each one."

I read all the Spiderwick books to my youngest (many ye..."

Even as an adult I'm enjoying them. I liked the movie too, not that I remember all that much about it now :)

I finished Dragonlance Classics - Vol 1. It featured a number of characters from the original trilogy by Weis and Hickman, but it's been too long since I read them for me to say where it fits in with them.

I also finished The Boats Of The "Glen Carrig", which is a nicely moody, atmospheric "weird" fiction story. Fairly slow-paced, but reasonably engrossing. Well worth a read, and it fills the pre-1945 slot in my Bingo.

Finished up the first five Spiderwick stories. Will see if the library has the 3 others today.

Also finished Family, this was the perfect year for reading this particular installment of the series since it involved Faeries (think it covered most other creatures up till now). Switching to another series I save to read one a year - Cast in Conflict by Michelle Sagara

I have started reading Spear Of Destiny which, despite the title, doesn't seem to be SFF. Easterman writes Dan Brown-style thrillers, although it could be said than Dan Brown writes Easterman-style thrillers, as Brown started some 15 years after Easterman.

I'm finishing up book 3 of the silo series Dust. The events that are happening in the silo are intense. I'm just about ready to start watching the Apple Tv series which started last week. I feel positive they won't mess it up but I can just sense the little but great details that will be left out of the show.

Kakuriyo: Bed & Breakfast for Spirits, Vol. 8 by Waco Ioka

My Status as an Assassin Obviously Exceeds the Hero's Manga, Vol. 4 by Matsuri Akai

Cloak of Masks by Jonathan Moeller

Jevon wrote: "I'm finishing up book 3 of the silo series Dust. The events that are happening in the silo are intense. I'm just about ready to start watching the Apple Tv series which started last..."

That was a great series. I hope they do it justice on the screen. I may have to get a free week of Apple tv to watch.

I finished The Silver Sphere Trilogy: A Science-Fiction Adventure by David Gittlin


Hilarious! Four stars: /review/show...

Mary wrote: "Kakuriyo: Bed & Breakfast for Spirits, Vol. 8 by Waco Ioka

My Status as an Assassin Obviously Exceeds the Hero's Manga, Vol. 4 by [author:Matsuri ..."

I've noticed that manga names have been getting longer and longer lately :)

Finished The Last Kingdom, which I didn't really like, and Thorn. Reading The Bone Knife and Royal Assassin—enjoying the latter so far.

Not sci-fi but some folks might be interested

Rocket Boys by Homer Hickam

Homer Hickam Jr. is an American author, a Vietnam War veteran, and a former NASA engineer. In this memoir, Hickam describes his coming of age in Coalwood, West Virginia, where he and some friends became amateur rocket scientists.

Great coming of age story. 4 stars

My review: /review/show...

Started Tress of the Emerald Sea and The Last Astronaut. Still reading The Golden Enclaves

I re-read Age of Myth and Age of Swords on Graphic Audio and then started Lock Every Door from Libby.

Practical Exercise by George Phillies

Finished Cast in Conflict, didn't have the same level of "the world is going to end, aaaah!" but continued to evolve the characters...it takes a while at the beginning where the characters never seemed to change but its finally happening here.

Angel Fire East by Terry Brooks is next up to complete the Word & Void trilogy. While one book follows another, it's not an overall story arc, so no idea what to expect in this one.

I also read Neptune, épisode 2, I believe someone else in this group was reading the Aldebaran series by Leo, well, this is the last in the series, sad to see it end.

Babylon Black by Kit Sun Cheah

I finished Planetside last night and I really liked it a lot. It was a conglomeration of science fiction/military sci-fi/mystery/smattering of police procedural. I'll be reading the rest of the trilogy.

I'm currently reading Esrahaddon.

Sadly, I just added The Spear Cuts Through Water to my DNF pile. The brutality and violence finally defeated me. It's too bad, b/c the way it was written was simply wonderful and like nothing I've ever read before.

Michelle wrote: "I'm currently reading Esrahaddon."

Yay!

Audrey wrote: "Michelle wrote: "I'm currently reading Esrahaddon."

Yay!"

For sure, Audrey!

You'd think being down with covid would give me plenty of reading time, but really, it's mostly sleeping. I'm making progress in both Vietnam At War: The History 1946-1975 and Spear Of Destiny, which is enjoyable buy way more brutal than I expect from a Daniel Easterman book.

You want to be just sick enough to have a legitimate excuse to read or watch TV all day but not too sick to do either.

Right, when I was sick a little while back I also did more sleeping than anything, disappointed I couldn't catch up on reading.

Andrea wrote: "Right, when I was sick a little while back I also did more sleeping than anything, disappointed I couldn't catch up on reading."

When I'm sick, I watch the cooking channel. No story to follow. 🙂

Barbara wrote: "Andrea wrote: "Right, when I was sick a little while back I also did more sleeping than anything, disappointed I couldn't catch up on reading."

When I'm sick, I watch the cooking channel. No story..."

For me it was always the original Star Trek series that I have on dvds 😁

I finished Spear Of Destiny - fast-paced and an interesting premise, but the plot armour was pretty thick on the protagonists at times.

I have started ElfQuest 1: Fire & Flight, the first compilation of the ElfQuest comics, which was one of the best independent comics of the 80s.

Finished Royal Assassin and liked it, although not as much as the first book. Reading Plain Kate.

One time I got really sick the only thing I could read was Garfield comics, my sister had collected a bunch of the books. Was good since you could stop anywhere and didn't require much reading or functional braincells.

Finished Angel Fire East, I expected something that would more clearly tie into the ancient history of Shannara but worked ok if you just took it on it's own (and the Gypsy Morph will be back...based on the title of one of the later books!)

Sorry everyone, but brace for more pirate puns. Library provided me with the next book in the Vampirate series - Black Heart

And working my way through the Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles, finished The Nixie's Song and started on A Giant Problem

Andrea wrote: "One time I got really sick the only thing I could read was Garfield comics, my sister had collected a bunch of the books. Was good since you could stop anywhere and didn't require much reading or f..."

I re-read children's books.

Cli-fi that's almost sci-fi


Blue Skies by T.C. Boyle

Global warming is real and T.C. Boyle highlights some of the unfortunate consequences in this seriocomic, climate fiction novel. California is getting drier, Florida is getting wetter, and we observe the effects through the eyes of a family split between the coasts.

Compelling story with interesting characters 4 stars

My review: /review/show...

I finished Esrahaddon a few minutes ago. It was so good! What an incredibly complex storyline runs throughout all four series. I don't know how Michael Sullivan keeps track of all of the threads!

Now I'm starting Gobbelino London and a Menace of Mermaids. These books are always a lot of fun.

I have finished reading ElfQuest 1: Fire & Flight. It is an excellent collection and showcases why this comic won so many awards.

My review of The Ferryman by Justin Cronin

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I read Vampire Weekend. I picked it for AAPI Month, but it was just 3 stars for me. Being a vampire in this book was depressing and boring.

I haveBeneath the Elven Moon: Book One of the Horizon Urban Fantasy Series started reading

The Flame Bearer the 10th book in The Last Kingdom series by Bernard Cornwell.

Yrret wrote: "The Flame Bearer the 10th book in The Last Kingdom series by Bernard Cornwell."

Oooo, good one! I loved that series. Have you read his Sharpe series? That's another excellent one.

Finished Indomitable by Terry Brooks, which is a novella in the Legends II anthology. Slowly, bit by bit, I'm getting through that anthology depending on other series I've read like Pern, American Gods, A Song of Ice and Fire, but still got a bunch of others still to go

Also finished Wires and Nerve by Marissa Meyer, a graphic novel that is part of the Lunar Chronicles. Actually kind of enjoying it :) I have part II to read soon.

Memories of Ice by Steven Erikson. Would love to read along if there's a group

I tried to read The Three-Body Problem for our BINGO O1, but I just couldn't get into it. It has a fairly high rating, and won a Hugo Award, but it just wasn't for me.

Georgann wrote: "I tried to read The Three-Body Problem for our BINGO O1, but I just couldn't get into it. It has a fairly high rating, and won a Hugo Awa..."

I read it but it was a slog. Not for me, either.

Finished Vampirates number 4, explained several mysteries alluded to in the earlier books. Still not a great series, not a terrible series, just an ok read, very quick.

I'm finishing up a couple other things I started before, but next up will be back to Shannara with Ilse Witch by Terry Brooks...as I typed it out I realized what I had always thought was "isle" like island, is actually ilse which is...a name?

Not the first time Brooks confused me with his choice of words/spelling :) In one book the creatures were "shadowen" but I kept seeing it as "shadow men"

My review of The Never-Ending End of the World by Ann Christy

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Georgann wrote: "I tried to read The Three-Body Problem for our BINGO O1, but I just couldn't get into it. It has a fairly high rating, and won a Hugo Awa..."

I love this book. 🙂