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I have finished The Age of Heroes: A Historical Sci-Fi Epic. It's a historical novel (which quickly becomes alternate history) set at the end of the Bronze Age with aliens. It's not bad but it is very broad in scope, and that leads to a huge cast of characters. It will also fill the published in 2023 Bingo slot for me.

I recently finished reading Renegades by Marissa Meyer and enjoyed it. :-)
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I have started reading War Of The Animals (Book 1): The Shut Face Of Thunder

I finished Shadow of the Scorpion, and I have started Gridlinked, 3rd book in the Polity series and first book in the Agent Cormac sub-series. The first two books helped to set the world building, and to provide some background to the main character Ian Cormac.

The Galaxy, and the Ground Within for Bingo box "finish a series." I loved this whole series, and this was the best one for me!

I have started reading 101 Sci-Fi Movies You Must See Before You Die. It was published in 2009, so it's a little bit out of date now.

The Night House by Jo Nesbø

Mystery writer Jo Nesbo dips a toe into the horror genre here, and the creepy crawly story is appropriate for YA and adult readers.

Fun book, good for the Halloween season. 3 stars

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Finally get to post something here, finished reading The Poe Estate by Polly Shulman, this trilogy really grew on me, to the point where I think the third book was my favorite.

I started reading Steel and Stone yesterday, good cheesy throwback Dragonlance fun!

The House Across the Lake (mystery).
I started The Stardust Thief on Libby, but I think it jumped ahead a couple hours, so I'm kind of lost now, so I'm going to try to check out a hard copy. So I started Killers of a Certain Age in the meantime.

Villains Are Destined to Die Vol. 1 by Gyeoeul Gwon

Just started a re-read of Assassin’s Apprentice. Enjoyed the trilogy but never got round to the later trilogies. So that should be me got a while.
Had to go into attic to find the book and stumbled over some that I have absolutely no recollection of reading. Age getting to me maybe.

It gets to us all :)

Andy wrote: "Had to go into attic to find the book and stumbled over some that I have absolutely no recollection of reading. Age getting to me maybe.e..."

I generally remember I read it, but I may not remember in the slightest what happened inside of it. Also because I read a lot, I've discovered in just a year or two I can forget a lot about them. And then because I don't remember them, instead of deciding they weren't memorable and should give them away, I feel the urge to read them again to double check...so it takes me forever to part with books!

Finished The Elves of Cintra. Still around 14 more Shannara books to go! And less than four months to read the. Doable but I'm so easily distracted by grabbing everything I see at the library.

And talking of that, I found The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill at the library.

Villains Are Destined to Die, Vol. 2 by Gyeoeul Gwon

Villains Are Destined to Die, Vol. 3 by Gyeoeul Gwon

Villains Are Destined to Die, Vol. 4 by Gyeoeul Gwon

I've been listening to the full-cast recording of Red Rising by GraphicAudio and enjoying it for the most part although at one or two points I was annoyed by how heavily they leaned into the generic musical score.

Was Hans Zimmer not available, my goodmen? ;)

LOL, I've been listening to Hans Zimmer while reading.

Audrey wrote: "LOL, I've been listening to Hans Zimmer while reading."

Appropriate- today is his 66th birthday!

Cool. I was so bummed when James Horner died.

I expect James Horner was quite bummed too. �

I have been struggling to get through War Of The Animals (Book 1): The Shut Face Of Thunder. I'm about 40% through it, but there is a lot that happens that is not explained, and seems as though it shouldn't be able to happen. This book is targeted at the 10-18 age range, but I think 10-14 is a better fit, and even then I expect a lot of readers would get lost trying to follow it. I may DNF it.

I read The Black Widow: The Coldest War, which is a reasonably good story for the Black Widow, but I found the artwork to be very harsh - particularly the artist's (George Freeman) depiction of Natasha.

The Dark Lord's Daughter by Patricia C. Wrede

My daughter loves Patricia Wrede's books.

I'm reading a free fantasy book called Captain of the Guard, and it's pretty good!

Currently reading The Blade Itself from The First Law trilogy by Joe Abercrombie.

So, I have finished, The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden and I was very impressed with it.

Review here for the curious...

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In the Night Garden

Diving into my first time reading Gene Wolfe with book 1 & 2 of The Book of the New Sun: Shadow & Claw

Connor wrote: "Diving into my first time reading Gene Wolfe with book 1 & 2 of The Book of the New Sun: Shadow & Claw"

When reading those books I wished I had some sort of companion book to explains things as I went along :)

Tony wrote: "I have been struggling to get through War Of The Animals (Book 1): The Shut Face Of Thunder. I'm about 40% through it, but there is a lot that happens that is not explained, and se..."

What is a "shut face"??? I'm just confused by the title LOL

Connor wrote: "Diving into my first time reading Gene Wolfe with book 1 & 2 of The Book of the New Sun: Shadow & Claw"

I really liked The Book of the New Sun. I have an old ratty hardcover from decades ago when I used to buy from the Science Fiction Book Club. Those were the days!

So, having finished The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden, I was thinking of reading His Majesty 's Dragon : Temeraire.

When I mentioned this book before, I got quite a bit of reaction in the thread along the lines of 'I keep meaning to read that ' and ' I must read that again.'

Anybody fancy a buddy read?

I know James (Oldman J E) and Kyle (K G Duncan) would be up for that. Anyone else interested?

I have to say, I have never done one before, since I have always considered reading (like writing) to be a solo activity. So, I have not the faintest idea how one goes about such a thing.� I'm guessing there is expertise available in the group however...

Let me know what you think.

Robin wrote: "So, having finished The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden, I was thinking of reading His Majesty 's Dragon : Temeraire.

When I mentioned this book before, I got quite a bit of reaction in the t..."

Sure, Robin! I fall into then "been meaning to" group.

OK, thanks Michelle, let's see how this develops over say 24 hours then set something up?

Ok with me!

Andrea wrote: "What is a "shut face"??? I'm just confused by the title LOL"

That has yet to be explained in the book, so I'm afraid I can't provide an answer 😆

On that subject, I have put aside War Of The Animals (Book 1): The Shut Face Of Thunder. I'm not sure if I will return to it. I have started reading PORTAL (The Portal Series, Book1): An Alternative History Adventure

Hello everyone, sorry for the late message, but that's how it is tonight. On the science fiction front, I am re-reading Ballard's novels and studying him in order to produce some articles for my blog.
I'm currently on High-Rise

If you'd like to suggest something on Ballard, I'd be very grateful ;-)

Michelle wrote: "Connor wrote: "Diving into my first time reading Gene Wolfe with book 1 & 2 of The Book of the New Sun: Shadow & Claw"

I really liked The Book of the New Sun. I have an ..."
I have never read it. I will give it a chance, I am very curious. :-)

I found a free pdf of "Learning from Shogun".


I know Clavell's Asian Saga is a marginal fit here, but I don't belong to another group where it would fit better & thought it might interest some. His books certainly feature some heroic figures. Dirk Struan, the main character of the second book, Tai-Pan, is possibly one of my favorite heroic characters of all time.

Anyway, I thought half a dozen experts in Japanese culture weighing in on how influential Clavell's book was & how accurate he was might be of interest to others.

I was always a fan of James Clavell. I read ³§³óÅ�²µ³Ü²Ô a few times. But I love historical fiction. Bernard Cornwell especially.

Really enjoyed Shogun, both the book and the TV mini series.

Michael wrote: "Hello everyone, sorry for the late message, but that's how it is tonight. On the science fiction front, I am re-reading Ballard's novels and studying him in order to produce some articles for my bl..."

I've read three Ballards, High-Rise being one of them. Another was Concrete Island and the third (or in fact was the first I read) The Drowned World

I read The Drowned World because as a group we had read the Drowned Worlds anthology and wanted to read what inspired it.

To be fair...I don't much like reading Ballard, his stuff is pretty dark and disturbing, lots of people going all feral and stuff ;)

Jim wrote: "I found a free pdf of "Learning from Shogun".


I know Clavell's Asian Saga is a marginal fit here, but I don't belong to another ..."

Thanks for the link. I read all Clavell's stuff (Shogun, Taipan, Noble House, King Rat) when I was in high school. I spent a lot of summers buried in his books. It's been years since I've read them. Might be due a reread.

Andrea wrote: "Connor wrote: "Diving into my first time reading Gene Wolfe with book 1 & 2 of The Book of the New Sun: Shadow & Claw"

When reading those books I wished I had some sort of companion b..."

I am in the same boat so far haha. Having a bit of a tough time understanding/picturing what is going on and where it is happening. Lots of book-specific language and jargon I feel.

OK, so I will shortly be reading His Majesties Dragon: Temeraire by Naomi Novik

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Which I will be doing as a buddy read, which is a first for me. I opened a thread here if anyone else wants to join you will be most welcome...

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The way I read everyone will likely have finished before I got past chapter two :-)

It's on sale in the U.S. kindle store today for $3.99.

Apologies that I made you spend with my buddy read Michelle�

But that's a good deal because it was $7.99 last year when I looked it up!

Bargain!

Finished The Ogress and the Orphan. It was good and had a unique storytelling style, but it just didn't click with me. Even though there were a lot of things I would otherwise love like a huge emphasis on libraries/books, the cats are good guys, its got that fairy tale vibe...but I just can't say what it was that for me it was just a good book and not a totally amazing one.

And you guessed it, back to Shannara with The Gypsy Morph by Terry Brooks

Not counting that one, there's still 15 books/short stories to go...