Rob’s Comments (group member since Jul 06, 2012)

Rob’s comments from the The Sword and Laser group.

My guess is if my book counts it's because I listened to more than 3 hours of it after January 1st. My hard to say for certain.

When I go to the page in the email I got it says: "You're making progress only 2 more listens to go"

I supposedly finished my first and I definitely started it before the new year. I guess we'll see after I finish my next 2 if it said I'm complete or not. Either way I should pretty easily hit this with my normal listening 1x speed.

Conal wrote: "A new short story by Michael J Sullivan in the Legends of the First Empire series is free on Audible right now (not sure how long this will be available). Pile of Bones

https://www..."

Thanks. The website shows me a counter of 60days

Mark wrote: "Tatiana Maslany is amazing. Each of the Clone Club members is recognizable in the audio book. These books also have a prose version, but audio is the only way to go here."

yeah, I was only somewhat interested until I saw she was narrating then I pretty much bought it immediately.

Mark wrote: "I think my favorite read of 2019 was Orphan Black: The Next Chapter by Malka Ann Older and others. I listened to the audio version, ten chapters released weekly an..."

I totally bought that and haven't listened to it yet. I should have done that today (or at least done some of the chapters) while waiting for my new book to come out.

Deborah wrote: "Grace Hopper: Queen of Computer Code"

I was all excited until I found that's a children's picture book. I should see if someone has a full biography on Grace Hopper.

There is Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age, but that's not just about her/a full biography. Maybe: Grace Hopper: Admiral of the Cyber Sea

I just finished The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies and really enjoyed it. I'm always on the lookout for nonfiction books about computers, video games and security.

Interestingly (to me) Elizebeth Smith-Friedman thought computers were terrible. Very different from Turing.

Adelaide wrote: "Ninth House (2019): Leigh Bardugo's excellent fantasy novel about magical secret societies at Yale."

That one is on my radar for this year. I have another of her older books that I already own though so not sure if I'll do that book/series first since it's complete and I own the first book or Ninth House.

Now you're just being mean..

I love Wil Wheaton and he'd probably have been a good choice if they were adapting this for the first time. RC Bray's narration was fantastic though. That's a real shame.

It's sort of how you can't get the Frank Mueller version of the The Gunslinger anymore.

lol

Sky please show yourself out..

Brooke wrote: "and finished an ARC of the new Murderbot novel, Network Effect; "

so jealous!

I had no idea Ian Flemming wrote Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Or that there was a book the movie was based on for that matter.

I think the movie is on Disney+ and I was thinking of rewatching it, but I'm so behind on stuff who knows if I'll actually do that.

Normally someone starts one of these threads in early December. I've been somewhat distracted lately and am about 3 months behind on my book reviews so I was only thinking about it this morning. I do plan to write-up a "Review" for 2019 on Goodreads at some point and run my stats for the year.

If/when I do I'll probably share that here again in case anyone besides me is actually intested. lol.

In the meantime I was thinking about my top reads for last year. If I exlude re-reads, my favorite reads last year were:


1) Tiamat's Wrath
2) Underlord
3) The Burning White
4) The WoW Diary: A Journal of Computer Game Development

Those were my 5 star reads. There are probably some others in the 4.5 bucket, but I probably won't find those until I dig closer into my end of year stats/review.

How about you guys? What were your favorite reads last year?

Stephen wrote: "I am glad someone else is watching SW Resistance because I am a bit sad it is going to be over after this season."

Personally, I won't be sad. The show has been sort of a waste of potential to me. Plus, just when I thought it was getting good, they go back to annoying me with Kaz.

Not to mention I want more with (view spoiler)[Torra's mother. Her episode was great. Then..nothing. No back story, nothing. Just a 1 off maybe. Seems like another waste. (hide spoiler)]

Welcome Calvey, I think your friend has great taste!

As we're now about a week into the month. I'm going to lock this thread. Please feel free to create as many new threads to discuss this book as you'd like.

Can we not turn this thread into yet another discussion about genres please?

Poll! You have until Jan 31st to vote.

https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/1...