I listen to A Night in the Lonesome October every October. It's the diary of Jack the Rippers dog from October 1'st to October 31'st.
I read Mur Lafferty's Station Eternity and then Chaos Terminal. I enjoyed them buuuuuuttttt... Station Eternity had hints that there may have been a breadcrumb mystery to solve outside of the narrative. After reading the second book, I think it was just plot holes, or else tokens that the author thought were wrapped up that I didn't catch. Either way, having lost what I thought was a clever puzzle to solve, I'd say both books were pulpy.
I'm currently reading "The Coming Insurrection" by "The Invisible Committee"
Just finished The Waiting by Michael Connelly and haven't started the next book yet.
How is the series? I have The Black Echo (first Harry Bosch) book but haven't gotten around to reading it yet.
I'm enjoying "The Overstory" by Richard Powers for my fiction fix.
Just got in the mail today, currently on chapter 3, "The art of receiving and giving" by Betty Martin. This one I'm going to have to read piecewise.
I'm currently on Children of Dune. I've listened to the core six a few times on audio book but figured I'd actually put the time into reading them. Its honestly pretty close to a first time experience. There was so many little things sprinkled throughout that I totally missed in audio book.
Currently reading There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm, which involves a department of the SCP Foundation dealing with entities that delete memories, communication, etc. I don't intend to go down the SCP rabbit hole, but I'm finding the book inventive and enjoyable so far.
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Read Dark Harvest by Norman Partridge. Short, fun, mindless Halloween action horror.
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Dark Harvest looks interesting.
What's There is no Animemetics Division? Series of web novels?
Finished Lawrence Block's Evan Tanner series, and am now on the 2nd book of his Matthew Scudder series. The Scudder books will be a re-read for me up until about book 4 or 5. I hope to finish them all this time around.
I’m currently reading Five Tales by Herman Melville. I also have a Herman Melville short stories book waiting for me at my library.
No Shortcuts: Organizing for power in the new gilded age by Jane McAlevey. If you are a leadership type I suggest it. Organizing labor is important given the times we are in.
Interesting, will check it out. How are you liking it so far?
Iron Coffins by Herbert Werner
It's a memoir by one of the handful of Uboat Captains who survived WWII.
That's an interesting topic. How are you liking the book?
Hey Dressy!
Hope you are well, bet you can't guess what I've been listening to ;p So as always Deathlands has been on rotation and I am just finishing number 25 and still enjoying it.
Other than those I listened to a couple of Goosebumps books. They were fun, I'm not sure how old your son / daughter (?) is but I would suggest giving one a try if they are interested in reading some light horror. They weren't to graphic but still enough to instill a good, slightly unsettling image in parts that I imagine someone younger would find a little scary but in a good way if they were interested in horror as a genre. I remember enjoying them a lot when I was around the age of 10 and may be a little bit simplistic for say a teenager but it was an engaging story and well written.
I also listened to "The Others" by Jeremy Robinson which is the second book in the Infinite series of books. It was a really good book that I couldn't stop listening to and blazed through really quickly. It reminded me a lot of Dean Koontz stories in the way it was written, it had supernatural elements as well as a group of people vs government type agencies vs a supernatural element sort of interplay similar to the way his stories often go. I'm looking forward to what the rest of the Infinite series holds and enjoyed it a lot more than the first book!
So, after reading this, I finally decided to buy the first Deathlands book right away, it's about time I at least check it out.
Well, it turns out they aren't available anywhere. Not even as ebooks. Only audiobooks are available. Amazon (not my place of choice to buy ebooks) also has only book 48 and 49 available, rest are audiobooks only.
On a positive side, one less series to worry about!
Thanks for the recommendation. He is around 10, and likes horror / spooky stuff. Will get first book or two and see if he likes them.
Infinite series seems pretty interesting. Will check them out in a few months, hopefully they have better availability than Deathlands 😀
Just finished the latest Jack Reacher novel. Standard Reacher Murder She Wrote with a giant as protagonist plot template. I find the Reacher novels helpful if I’m having a rough week and need a low cognitive load book. Working on Candle & Crowe now, which is the third book in Kevin Hearne’s Ink & Sigil series set in his Iron Druid universe. It’s also good for a bit of cheerful escapism, but not a pulp novel.
I really like Jack Reacher books. There's something about the matter of fact, purely mechanical approach to utter brutality that's just a fun ride.
Exactly. Just practical, sometimes preemptive violence.
Am I the only one irked by the improper grammar on this weekly post going back months? How has it not been corrected yet? In a community full of readers.
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