What Are You Reading? 3

[pip]

Started The Death of Kings by Bernard Cornwell . Enjoying it so far. Placenames are a bit fun getting around but its a good story so far.

 

[pip]

I've just read a bit on the Amazon website. I think when the time comes, I'll need to re-read the previous one to bring myself up to speed!!

Finished Broken Homes yesterday and for any issues at the start it really gets going . The ending is bloody brilliant.
Did a quick review here with a tad more detail but its well worth picking up .
http://pipbookview.wordpress.com/20...-ben-aaronovitch-slow-start-but-a-great-read/

 

[Dotsie]

I'm re-reading Oryx & Crake by Margaret Atwood. The third book in the trilogy is out soon (or recently), so I wanted to refresh my memory cos the first two are really good.

 

[pip]

I'm re-reading Oryx & Crake by Margaret Atwood. The third book in the trilogy is out soon (or recently), so I wanted to refresh my memory cos the first two are really good.

Pretty sure its out this week . I saw a few posters for it.

 

[Tonyblack]

Started The Death of Kings by Bernard Cornwell . Enjoying it so far. Placenames are a bit fun getting around but its a good story so far.

Pip, you may find this map that I have constructed, useful. I have added the place names of all the books so far as well as their current names and the books they appear in.

 

[Tonyblack]

I'm reading A Study In Scarlet, the Sherlock Holmes book by Conan Doyle.

 

[pip]

Started The Death of Kings by Bernard Cornwell . Enjoying it so far. Placenames are a bit fun getting around but its a good story so far.

Pip, you may find this map that I have constructed, useful. I have added the place names of all the books so far as well as their current names and the books they appear in.

I got this off you a while back and have looked at it for a few other books. Might open it later on when a few of the names have sunk in.

 

[Tonyblack]

Couldn't remember if I'd given it to you and the Hookton site that the link had been on is no longer in existence.

 

[pip]

No worries.

 

[=Tamar]

I reread Dream Park by Larry Niven & Steven Barnes. (1981) Not as pleased with it as I'd expected. Times have changed, and I have changed with them. Probably because I don't do gaming of any kind, I got bored stiff about 80 pages from the end and finished it mostly to look for more typos (I count ten in all, not bad by today's internet standards but back then (30 years ago!) they still had copyeditors). I found one major howler that Niven should have been ashamed of. The later books in the series aren't as annoying, having been written in a more modern sensibility, I guess.

 

[Ponder]

Eat and Run by Scott Jurek

 

[pip]

Finished Death of Kings (brilliant ) and am now reading Blood Song , a debut fantasy by Anthony Ryan . Very good so far (100 pages in )

 

[Catch-up]

Between recovering from a big trip, dealing with a variety of crises, getting the girls settled into the school routine and having lots of relatives visiting.... I haven't been able to read anything.

 

[The Mad Collector]

Read Coraline by Neil Gaiman last night and am now most of the way through Soul Music

 

[Sister Jennifer]

^Nice.

Good luck getting time to read Catch-up.

needed cheering up. I read Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams over the weekend. It did the trick

 

[Quatermass]

^Nice.

Good luck getting time to read Catch-up.

needed cheering up. I read Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams over the weekend. It did the trick

What, ending like it did?

 

[Sister Jennifer]

I know the ending is bleak. I know Douglas Adams is said to have regretted writing it that way. I know, I know. But I like it. Besides Zaphod comes to the rescue in the next book.

 

[Quatermass]

I know the ending is bleak. I know Douglas Adams is said to have regretted writing it that way. I know, I know. But I like it. Besides Zaphod comes to the rescue in the next book.

I prefer the radio series ending. But to each their own.

 

[Catch-up]

Thanks Sister J. Hoping to get more time soon, but also having trouble getting my mind settled enough to read. Nothing wrong or anything, just have a massive to do list bouncing around in there.

 

[The Mad Collector]

Rereading Speaking for Themselves the personal letters of Winston and Clementine Churchill. A touching releationship spiced with international politics and two world wars between 1908 and 1964.