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May 27, 2017 06:42AM
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No SF&F at the moment. Now reading Epitaph by Mary Doria Russell (ebook) and The Neon Rain by James Lee Burke (audio book).
Clyde wrote: "Randy wrote: "I just started Rocket's Red Glare."Oh my, that does look interesting."
Pretty good so far... I'm halfway through now, so the USAian story is next up.
Sarah Hoyt had mentioned it on Instapundit a few days ago, the day before release. I'm surprised it wasn't in the Oyster's post on her blog today.
Robert Aickman’s The Wine-Dark Sea. Very interesting old-school ghost stories, written in a more modern style, that is, without all of the digressions and verbosity. He manages to say a lot through omission.
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In which four children, the youngest seven, sail out to camp on an island. They have contact every day with some adults. One can imagine the sort of reaction people might have nowadays.
I always mix up Swallows and Amazons with Linnets and Valerians because they're both on my wish list and I haven't read either. Just finished re-reading a much-loved book from my childhood where kids spend most of a summer without direct adult supervision, While Mrs. Coverlet Was Away, and it's depressing to think that the children's antics would get Mrs. Coverlet put away (or at least in legal trouble) nowadays.Since I've had kids I've always got a boatload of books going at once; current s-f is The Witches of Karres, by James Schmitz. I'm a chapter or two in and enjoying it so far. Don't think I've read much by him, but in my head he's got a similar vibe to H. Beam Piper, only less warm.
On an alien invasion trip:All You Need Is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka and Dark Victory: A Novel of Alien Resistance by Brendan DuBois
As You Wish, a mostly-biographical book by Cary Elwes' (Wesley) on the making of The Princess Bride, and so far I am enjoying it considerable. While he is giving his experience of something, he'll often have sidebars by someone else in the production giving their view of either the same event or related issues, which I like, and I also enjoy his "voice" (or the voice his co-writer gives him, whatever), which matches the ones in interviews but also works well in print (not always the case!).
A Net of Dawn and Bones and Count Taka and the Vampire Brides while I wait for Vathara to finish the sequel to A Net of Dawn and Bones. Very much comfort reads; some tough times coming up soon, so sort of...storing up good will.
Wanted something short to fill in before the September book of the month...The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Grant Moves South, 1861-1863 by Bruce Catton, The Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Kay Penman, and Dead Six by Larry Correia.All big books, so I may be a while on them.
Back to older stuff i missed when i was younger (and have caught on sale the last couple of years)...The Broken Sword
Finished The Maze in the Heart of the Castle, a fantasy by Dorothy Gilman, author of the Mrs. Pollifax mystery series. It's sort of a story extolling a philosophy, and a philosophy while I thought excused a bit much deus ex machina plotting, but on the whole I liked it.
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When she was actually writing, it was not so great.
I read The Tightrope Walker when it came out and remember enjoying it, but I did not remember that The Maze in the Heart of the Castle was in it. Guess I need to re-read that next.
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