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[Michele]

Allison wrote: "You all heard Michele invite me to stay for the summer, right? ;-) "

For sure!! We can drink wine and talk books - bliss :)

[Michele]

Trike wrote: "Finished the 800-page Bookburners: The Complete Season 2 which was a solid entry. I am amazed that numerous authors can turn in short stories which create a cohesive whole novel. ."

I have never heard of this.

I am now intrigued...

[Krystal]

I'm currently reading King of Scars and also working my way slowly through The Red Sphinx: A Sequel to The Three Musketeers

Also just finished The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society which, aside from the ridiculous title, was not so bad for a war book.

My review is here:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I need variety in my reads so I kinda flirt with multiple genres at once XD

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

Michele wrote: "Allison wrote: "You all heard Michele invite me to stay for the summer, right? ;-) "

For sure!! We can drink wine and talk books - bliss :)"

Sold! :D

Krystal, I've heard good things about Guernsy Literary! Glad it wasn't too bad (for a war book!) haha! I understand, I also need to mix things up from time to time.

[Jacqueline]

I loved Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. I thought I wouldn’t because I usually don’t like books that are just letters but this one I did. And 84, Charing Cross Road. And even though the movie was a little different I loved it too.

[MadProfessah]

I’m reading WITCHMARK, the Nebula-nominated Gay Romance, Murder Mystery, Fantasy Novel by C.L. Polk.

[Krystal]

Jacqueline wrote: "I loved Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. I thought I wouldn’t because I usually don’t like books that are just letters but this one I did. And 84, Charing Cross Road. And even though ..."

I loved it FOR the letters! Would have been too dreary for me otherwise.

[Jacqueline]

I’ve always hated them and then at the beginning of last year I picked up 84,CCR because it was short and everyone was raving about it and it was beautiful and then I bought GLAPPPS not realising it was all letters and decided to push on regardless since I’d bought it and it was just gorgeous. I did try to read other letter books during the year and hated them but those two stuck. Not a fan of diaries either so probably wouldn’t read Brigit Jones Diaries even though I adored the movies.

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

Thomas wrote: "In contrast to my introduction to the Discworld (thank you for the positive feedback, it looks like I have many enjoyable hours of reading there), I have just finished the first Belgariad novel by ..."

The Belgariad is very much "of its time" I think. My friend read them recently to her ~10 year old children and they loved it, but I think perhaps once you get a certain frame of reference it's hard to read it with those fresh eyes. Good to at least know the references! Eddings was pretty pivotal for a lot of current authors, for better or worse :)

[Kaa]

I finally got around to finishing Trail of Lightning, and I liked it a lot. It does have a bit of YA feel to it, but I liked the writing style and Maggie is just the right kind of angry to make me very, very fond of her. I don't know that it's convinced me to keep trying YA, but I will at least keep reading this series.

Now I just have to finish the rest of my "Currently Reading" and get through Semiosis before it's due back to the library May 1.

[Beth]

HeyT wrote: "So I've discovered I have a tendency to read on in urban fantasy despite finding the first book mediocre […] I feel like someone needs to make a banner and call an intervention on my self-destructive reading habits. "

I have a series or two like this! It's pretty easy to tell if it's genuine enjoyment, or sunk cost fallacy, that's keeping me going. One person's trash fire is another's treasure, and sometimes they're both at the same time. ;)

[~ Giulia ~]

Michele wrote: "MadProfessah wrote: "I love Tana French. I think she’s the best British mystery author currently writing."

I liked her first book, right up until the end when I was like, "Wait, what? That's it??" and then I was annoyed."

I just finished In the Woods and that was my reaction too

[~ Giulia ~]

I read The Dark Forest. I think that overall it's at the same level of the first book. Where the first book was all about figuring out what was happening, the second is about preparing for it. The third will probably deal with the aftermath? I cannot wait to find out.

[Trike]

I’m listening to Spinning Silver and if I hadn’t enjoyed Uprooted so much I would have bailed on this long ago. Last night I was like, “Surely I must be halfway done by now?!” Nope, 12 hours still to go. Ugh.

[HeyT]

Today I finished listening to A Fistful of Fire which was surprisingly better than the first book but still pretty mediocre. I then checked out book three in audio even though I doubt the next one will be anything greater.

I'm about half way through Rise of Empire in print and liking it so far. I've just had so much fantasy before my eyes lately that I feel like I'd benefit from mixing it up genre wise.

[Hank]

Trike wrote: "I’m listening to Spinning Silver and if I hadn’t enjoyed Uprooted so much I would have bailed on this long ago. Last night I was like, “Surely I must be halfway done..."

Funny, I had the opposite reaction. I liked it better than Uprooted although I do/did wish the narrator could differentiate her character's voices better.

[colleen the convivial curmudgeon]

Trike wrote: "I’m listening to Spinning Silver and if I hadn’t enjoyed Uprooted so much I would have bailed on this long ago. Last night I was like, “Surely I must be halfway done..."


Spinning Silver was my "most disappointing" book from last year, because it didn't hold a candle to Uprooted, imo.

[Anna]

From what I've seen, people who loved Uprooted didn't love SS, but those who hated it, have liked SS much better. We can have an in depth discussion about this in just a few days, when the May group read threads open!

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

Haha I'm so glad Spinning Silver is not like Uprooted! This is going to be a fun discussion next month I think :)

Listening to Leviathan now. It's cute. I had no preconceptions about it, so I was surprised to find a pseudo-steampunk book for younger readers, but it's entertaining.

[Trike]

Anna wrote: "From what I've seen, people who loved Uprooted didn't love SS, but those who hated it, have liked SS much better. We can have an in depth discussion about this in just a few days, when the May grou..."

Thunderdoooooommme!

[Travis]

Moved over from the wrong folder...

I finished all four of the Rain Wilds Chronicles, which I didn't enjoy as much as the other Elderlings series, but they still dragged me in and wouldn't let me go until I'd finished.

I also finally read The Dispossessed, which is just as amazing as you all have been saying it is.

Now I'm taking a quick break from SFF with The Sparsholt Affair before turning to next month's fantasy selection, Spinning Silver. I really, really didn't like Uprooted, so if the pattern holds, this one will be a winner!

[Hank]

Trike wrote: "Thunderdoooooommme!"

Pretty sure I won't make it out of the cage but...lets go! :)

[AndrewP]

Anna wrote: "From what I've seen, people who loved Uprooted didn't love SS, but those who hated it, have liked SS much better. We can have an in depth discussion about this in just a few days, when the May grou..."

As someone who hated "Uprooted' I'm not touching 'Spinning Silver' with a ten foot pole :)

[YouKneeK]

Travis wrote: "Moved over from the wrong folder...

I finished all four of the Rain Wilds Chronicles, which I didn't enjoy as much as the other Elderlings series, but they still dragged me in and ..."

I almost replied to you in the other thread until I saw Trike’s reply, because I didn’t notice which topic you had posted in either. :)

You seemed to get through Rain Wilds really fast! (potential spoilers for whole subseries) (view spoiler)[How did you feel about Sedric by the end? My feelings about him fluctuated a lot throughout that series, more than for any other character. Most of the time I felt like he was too easily influenced by the people around him rather than having any convictions and personality of his own, but I did really like the way he stood up to Hest at the end. In the third book, I was initially excited to see Hest get some POV pages because I was curious what was going through his head, but I ended up not thinking his POV was much fun to read. (hide spoiler)]

[YouKneeK]

Anna wrote: "From what I've seen, people who loved Uprooted didn't love SS, but those who hated it, have liked SS much better. We can have an in depth discussion about this in just a few days, when the May grou..."

I’m only at the 63% mark, but that fits me so far. I’m enjoying Spinning Silver, but I’m not loving it the way I did Uprooted. On the other hand, work is aggressively trying to monopolize my time lately, so I might be enjoying it more with fewer distractions.

[Jacqueline]

I’m about 80% through The Cloud Roads by Martha Wells. I don’t love it as much as Murderbot but I am enjoying it. I picked it up again after 5 or so months when I only had my iPad with me when I went on the plane to visit number 2 son. It’s becoming my plane travel book. I’ll get back to it once I get my library books finished this time though.

Around 2/3 of the way through The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin. I started it early last year on my iPad and got about 1/5 of the way through and then put it down. I was enjoying it but my iPad gets too much for me sometimes. I got it from the local library here at the beach. It’s taken me 6 weeks to get this far. Anyway I’ve picked it up again this morning and I’m determined to try and finish it. I was going to see Endgame today but I am exhausted from all the travelling from the last few weeks and I have a bit of a headache and I just want to sit and drink lots of tea, scratch my dogs head, and read (which isn’t aggravating the headache for some reason). He’s not into me ignoring him with my head stuck in a book but he’ll get used to it. Got up this morning and he was sitting up in my reading chair on the back verandah looking out the window.

I also have Dark Matter by Blake Crouch that I have to start and finish before it’s due back as well. I’m a bit behind in my reading this year but I am still reading. I’m not doing Around the Year and Popsugar this year so the push to read for 104 prompts isn’t there.

[MadProfessah]

Tana French does even more interesting things in her second book, THE LIKENESS. One way I interpreted the ending in IN THE WOODS is that there are multiple mysteries and maybe not ALL need to be solved in every book.

[Jacqueline]

OK...my dog isn’t impressed with my reading and was sitting on my reading chair. He’s just spent the last hour and a half laying on my feet while I built some LEGO models. I bought 3 lots yesterday. This afternoon was R2-D2 and C3-PO in the escape pod and a storm trooper on a big green beastie. This morning was little Ani in a Naboo fighter. I still have Big Ani in a Jedi Starship to do. I have an X Wing (from the new series that my eldest gave us), a Tardis/control room one and a Mini Clubman as well but they’re bigger. I bought my eldest a huge Saturn V rocket for his birthday. Number 2 son has a ton of Star Wars models he’s finished. They’re right into LEGO.

[Gabi]

I finished the first two books in the Expanse series: Leviathan Wakes and Caliban's War. I'm glad I picked them up. I wasn't sure with the first book, but story and Detective Miller caught on to me about halfway through. No hope for Holden, though. He's exactly the kind of character I never liked in any world. So the second book was great, since the POV changed to more female charas, among them grandiose granny Avasarala who deserves three stars for just being there.

[Jacqueline]

Leviathan Wakes is in my Currently Reading pile. I got it out of the library last year sometime and read a few chapters and didn’t feel like reading anymore and then had to take the book back. I bought it later on but still haven’t got back to it. I’ll probably have to start it again because I’ll have forgotten what’s happening lol I’ll get back to it eventually.

[Travis]

YouKneeK wrote: "Travis wrote: "Moved over from the wrong folder...

I finished all four of the Rain Wilds Chronicles, which I didn't enjoy as much as the other Elderlings series, but they still dra..."

Yeah, the first two took me a bit of time to read, but I must have read the last two in just a couple of days. All of Hobb's books do that to me. Even if I'm put off by aspects of the plot or characters, I still cannot put them down!

(view spoiler)[Fully agree with your comments about Sedric and Hest. Sedric never became a full character, as though overwhelmed first by Hest and then by Carson. And as far as villains go, Hest seemed a bit too one dimensional (though it was a nice little turn when he got eaten by Icefyre!). (hide spoiler)]

[YouKneeK]

Travis wrote: "Yeah, the first two took me a bit of time to read, but I must have read the last two in just a couple of days. All of Hobb's books do that to me. Even if I'm put off by aspects of the plot or characters, I still cannot put them down!"

I very much agree with everything in your spoiler tags. I have to admit I laughed when (view spoiler)[Hest was eaten (hide spoiler)].

I hope you enjoy the final subseries once you read it!

[Matthew]

22 pages worth of comments in the thread, but I've already seen a couple of books I'm interested in checking out. Yup, I'll be back, got to make some notes. :)

*bookmarks thread to read in its entirety when he has more than 5 minutes online*

[Travis]

YouKneeK wrote: "I hope you enjoy the final subseries once you read it! "

I'm saving those for summer reading. Really looking forward to returning to the Six Duchies!

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

Matthew wrote: "22 pages worth of comments in the thread, but I've already seen a couple of books I'm interested in checking out. Yup, I'll be back, got to make some notes. :)

*bookmarks thread to read in its ent..."

Careful, it can be quite hard on your TBR! haha

Travis, I hope you have a good break from Hobb, and that the next subseries improves!

[Pam]

Read The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2804228573.

[Pam]

Read book 6 in Louise Cooper's Indigo series, Avatar, and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2784951271.

[CBRetriever]

Pam wrote: "Read book 6 in Louise Cooper's Indigo series, Avatar, and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...."

I really, really wish that was available in a Kindle version. I have them in paper, but my copies are brittle. I'm working on Jo Clayton's Diadem series.

[Nathan]

I've just started reading Terry Pratchett's Reaper Man. I went to the Discworld Emporium in Wincanton this weekend just gone and got myself a stack of collector edition books. I didn't realise at the time that it was also Terry Pratchett's birthday (when he was alive) and they hold an event at one of the inns there, it was really interesting! I will go back when I need more books, or maybe to pick up some of the graphic novels

[Jacqueline]

Finally finished The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin this afternoon. Started it in Feb last year on my iPad but wanted to read the physical book (we all know how much I hate reading off screens). Found a copy at the library here at the beach about 8 weeks ago. It’s taken me that long to actually feel like reading it.

Only gave it 3 stars. It had the potential to be brilliant but it came up lacking. While visiting a fortune teller 4 kids were given the exact day of their deaths. The premise of how would you live your life if you knew when you would die is a good one but as I said she didn’t quite get there for me. The stories of the kids seemed rushed. Especially Daniel’s. The first two were ok and I bonded with them more than the other two even though I was getting to like the eldest girl in the end. Don’t get me wrong....I did enjoy it but it wasn’t as good as it could have been. Definitely glad I finally finished it but I’m also glad I didn’t buy my own copy.

[Matthew]

I'm currently about 20% of the way through Weapon of Flesh and trying to decide what to work on after that's done. It's a series, so yeah, the obvious is to keep going on the series, but who wants just one book on the kindle at a time? :p

Going to try to make it through a few pages of this thread today and find some recommendations (1062 messages?!? Ack!) for books to add to my "want to read" file.

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

Matthew wrote: "I'm currently about 20% of the way through Weapon of Flesh and trying to decide what to work on after that's done. It's a series, so yeah, the obvious is to keep going on the series..."

Oh my! That's a heck of a trek! You can also go to our "Recommendations and Lost Books" folder and see if any of the topics appeal to you, and if not, start your own for Matthew-specific recommendations!

Or, you can see how hilarious and varied we are in the past 5 months of this thread lol. Your call!

[Alondra]

Just started , after trying A Darker Shade of Magic and not really feeling it.

Also started the Southern Watch series with Called; but I have the first 3 books on Kindle ( ), as a set

[Michele]

Nathan wrote: "I've just started reading Terry Pratchett's Reaper Man. I went to the Discworld Emporium in Wincanton this weekend..."

Wait wait, what, this is a thing???

[Michele]

Recently finished Footfall, a good old rock-em-sock-em alien invasion novel, and The House Next Door, a *serously* creepy piece of work. Kept me up very late.

And gawd help me, I just bought A Game of Thrones #1. That's my time booked for about the next three months!

[YouKneeK]

I finished Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik yesterday. I enjoyed it, although I did enjoy Uprooted a lot more. I really don’t have a lot to say about it, and there will probably be lots of discussion about it this month anyway since it’s one of the group reads, but my full review is here.

Last night I started The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter. It’s the first book in a five-book series, so I’ll read the whole series if I enjoy the first books enough to keep going with it. So far it seems interesting, but I haven’t read much of it at all.

[Alondra]

Michele wrote: "Recently finished Footfall, a good old rock-em-sock-em alien invasion novel, and The House Next Door, a *serously* creepy piece of work. Kept me up very late.

And gawd..."

..at least by the time you finish book 5; you will only have to wait a few less years than the rest of us, for book 6!! Yay!

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

Lol, Michele, between Emporia and ASoIaF, sounds like you're gonna have a great summer!

YouKneeK, I can't wait to talk more about Spinning Silver!!! Damn these pesky rules I'm definitely going to break a little. I have a friend who just finished the Long Earth series and she loved it, I hope you feel similarly!

lol, Alondra. What didn't grab you about A Darker Shade?

[Alondra]

Allison wrote: "lol, Alondra. What didn't grab you about A Darker Shade? ..."

I don't know, I just wasn't interested and my mind wandered. I picked up Red Mars instead.

[colleen the convivial curmudgeon]

I was going to start Raising Steam yesterday, but it seems to be the one Discworld book we didn't have in our library.

So I read Namesake, Volume 1 and Namesake, Volume 2 instead - some graphic novels I've had sitting around for awhile. I liked them. They take this idea that "namesakes" of famous stories - like Alice and Dorothy - sometimes get pulled into their namesake worlds to continue to stories.

This time, though, a young woman named Emma gets pulled into Oz, and she's not your usual Dorothy.

Unfortunately I have to continue the rest of the series online, which is a bit annoying, but at least it's free...


This morning I started The Heart Forger, sequel to The Bone Witch. Not very far in yet.