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I read The Passion of Cleopatra (and all the Anne Rice books excepting the religious or erotica ones) and I recall that I liked it and the sequel, The Reign of Osiris. They weren't the best Rice books I read (I loved The Vampire Lestat the best of all) but I was happy with them. I just finished Sycamore Row by John…
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Three Californias Triptych by Kim Stanley Robinson is really good. These are three independent novels written about Orange County in the future. The first is dystopic, and was good. The second is modern/futuristic, very good, and it is very character-centric. I'm finishing that one up tonight. I am looking forward to…
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Currently reading: Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by JK Rowling ***** Also reads: Collateral by Ellen Hopkins ** Imperfect Sword (The Lost Stars book 3) by Jack Campbell **** Everything Happens for a Reason **** & No Cure for Being Human ***, both by Kate Bowler The Witches of East End trilogy by Melissa de la Cruz…
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I finished the Murderbot series, read a dime western, and now reading Witches of East End by Melissa de la Cruz. It is pretty good so far. I guess there is a tv show made from the series (two seasons available on Hulu)?
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I am going to finish up The Armor of Light by Ken Follett tonight I think. I have 5 hours to go. Next up is the Murderbot novel, it is book 5 in the series (of the 7 that are currently written it is the only novel length one). I really like that series better the second time through, all the stories connect better than…
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I have been reading the Murderbot novellas by Martha Wells that I read last in 2019 and not all together as a set. They are a continuing storyline with characters that recur but reading them as they were released far apart is quite different than reading them all together as a set. They are short, 150 pagers, except for…
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I don't know very much about the library funding, except that it costs a lot of money to run a library cooperative. The scope of the money escapes me, I know they rely on funding from Federal and local taxes to operate, as well as Friends of the Library and such like that with used book sales, but that is small compared to…
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Started Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins (a Hunger Games novel) today that I got from the public library. I mention the public library because I support those and have written to my Congressmen before in support of library funding, and again now as the Institute of Museum and Library Services was disbanded by the…
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I read a series of those novellas from Kindle Unlimited again, artificially bumping up my book count for the year. They could have been compiled into one omnibus in my opinion, not count separately. The theme for this was The Far Reaches (of space, it was sci-fi) and the authors were: James S.A. Corey - How it Unfolds (5*)…
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Never going to get smaller! I'm finishing book 2 of the Helen trilogy, Cold Vengeance, part of the Agent Pendergast series by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. Book 1 of the trilogy (Fever Dream) was really good, 4*. I'm thinking book 2 is also 4*. I am going to read book 3 next, Two Graves. This series started out with…
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I read the Every Day trilogy by David Levithan, it was YA, kind of fantasy but not sword and sorcery or anything remotely similar to that type of fantasy. The teenager woke up every day in a different body, inhabiting another person's life for a day. It was a cool series. I'm finishing book 2 of Jack Campbell's sci-fi…
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I finished Run by Blake Crouch and I'm now reading a series of shorts that Crouch published with Amazon, they are novellas by famous authors that he chose to each write a story in a theme. Each story is stand alone but part of the theme. One of the authors is Veronica Roth, who wrote the awesome series Divergent (You…
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I am now reading Upgrade by Blake Crouch. It’s hard to put down, I like him better than Michael Crichton which he reminds me of.
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Oh yes, the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon was awesome! The show is the show, obviously shortened and changed for television, as the books are extremely long. Outlander, 33 hours Dragonfly in Amber, 39 hours Voyager, 44 hours Drums of Autumn, 45 hours The Fiery Cross, 56 hours A Breath of Snow and Ashes, 58 hours An…
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Maybe they will make a blu-ray disc set of the series that can be purchased (for far less than subscribing)? It sounds like it would make a great show! That is cool that it is filmed near his home. I don't have STARZ and I have been waiting for Outlander season 7 to come out forever. I loved the books. I don't have…
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I loved that book, I didn't know it was a series. I'm not very tuned in to the new shows. What channel is it on? Streaming service I mean? I might have access to it and might like to watch it? (I had to drop Netflix but still have Prime and Hulu/Disney, those are the only ones left). Oh, I looked and it's on Apple. I'm not…
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I am currently 8 books ahead of schedule on my reading goal for the year so I am tackling a large one, Noble House by James Clavell is over 1000 pages. I hope I can get it done by the end of the month, with a couple of small books squeezed in along the way.
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I've also got Babel on my list, I have both the audio and e-book versions ready in my pile. I'm taking a break from sci-fi and reading a dime western, Catfish Charlie by Johnstone.
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Just finishing up The Lost Fleet: Beyond the Frontier space opera series by Jack Campbell with book 5, Leviathan. It is quite a bit better than I expected it to be.
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Coconut Breeze oolong today. I love it.
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I found this article in yesterday’s Reminder newspaper. I was recently asked about “immersion reading” and studies related to it (reading a text along with the audiobook), I think that the study mentioned below from 2013 Emory University that looked at MRI scans as people read is interesting. Might point to a benefit from…
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Magic Lessons was the book I was looking for in Practical Magic, the continuation of the story started there. It tied together the entire series with references to the prequels. I am glad that I read them in Publication Order, and not Chronologically. I thought I might have forgotten what happened in book 1 during the gap…
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The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman was much better than Practical Magic, and I am looking forward to Magic Lessons next up.
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After two of the Lost Fleet space opera novels (which is a series I intend to continue), I am breaking it up by reading a stand alone thriller by Lincoln Child originally published as Utopia, later renamed Lethal Velocity. I don't know why publishers or authors rename books, that makes it more difficult to find them in…
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The da Vinci Code was a bit disappointing, kind of convoluted in its cryptography and far fetched that the characters would decipher all the vague clues to the mystery, and also far fetched in terms of the religious aspects, although I do admire the author for being bold enough to be so challenging to the status…
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I met a distant relative on Goodreads that seems to read about 3x as many books as I do, somehow (must be an extreme speed reader?). I am not a speed reader, I have to have an audiobook and follow along with text to enjoy and remember what I read (and I still lose most of it). I am a turtle-slow reader. However, my…
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Since I am probably the only person left that never read The da Vinci Code, I am starting with book 1 of the Robert Langdon series with Angels & Demons by Dan Brown. I'm almost done with it.
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The more you read, the more stuff you learn. Some of it isn't very practical... I just read Practical Magic and it wasn't very practical. It was an ok book but the end was abrupt it seemed to me, I wanted more story but no, it just ended. Maybe the sequel will have the answers I seek, but I am going to read something else…
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Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman is my current read (started today). I chose to read the series in the order that it was published, rather than chronologically.
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WooHoo! 75,000 pages! I hit it last night. I'm starting to start a new one, The Foxglove King (The Nightshade Crown 1) by Hannah Whitten, that I picked up on a sale a while ago. I have book 2 from Kindle Unlimited and would like to get it read to clear the slot in my KU list, I have had it checked out long enough. As to…
