What Have You been Reading this October?

[Clare]

Just finished Mari Why I needed to Return from The Future

by Winfried Sedhoff

[Clare]

I'm currently reading Sugar: The World Corrupted: From Slavery to Obesity

by James Walvin

[Pierre]

A failed installation of optical fiber at my place caused a interruption of my home Internet access for nearly 2 weeks. This left me a lot of time for reading, so that I finished Cibola Burn. Using a free wi-fi connection at the local library I was able to download the next volume, Nemesis Games, to my tablet, and I am very close to the end. Next in line will be Babylon's Ashes, the reading of which will stretch into November.

[Luffy Sempai]

My review of Garlic Artichoke Murder:-

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Luffy Sempai]

My review of The Jungle Books:-

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

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So, I finished European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman. The sequel to The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter, a gaslight fantasy that allied daughters of Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde, and Rappaccinni with female creations of Drs. Moreau & Frankenstein, now added much of the cast from Dracula to the story. So, I had to finally read Dracula. In keeping with Halloween, I suppose, if a bit tedious, but horror always bores me. These books are forcing me to catch up on old novels.

Anyway, in European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman, it's Stoker's Dr. Seward & Van Helsing who are the bad guys, having conducted fiendish longevity experiments on Lucy and Mina, and now his own daughter, who the other monstrous women simply must rescue. And interesting twisting of Stoker (as it was of the previous classics from which it derives its characters.)

The authorial conceit of the series is that these are penny dreadfuls written by one of the monstrous women to fund their adventures, and all the characters get to inject post facto editorial comments on the story. This results in some humor and intentional spoilers (not just to this book, but to the not-yet-published 3rd book planned for the series. :)

[Andrea]

Finished Servant of the Bones, not one my my favorites of hers, or maybe just seemed to similar to the stories of the vampires, kind of Interview with the Spirit.

I also read The Sandman: The Dream Hunters by Neil Gaiman. I thought the fact it was illustrated by Yoshitaka Amano was a perfect match. Also, though it is based on an existing Japanese tale, even Gaiman was so surprised at how well it matched up to his Sandman world (there's a gryphon like creature guarding the gates, there is a skinny and a fat man and the first murders the other like Cain and Abel, there's a companion bird though he tweaked it and made it a raven, etc). I enjoyed it.

[Gary]

I finished reading Falling Free by Lois McMaster Bujold and The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie . I am reading Blood of Cayn (Book 3 of the Cayn Trilogy) by Jason McDonald. I plan to read The Reckoning by John Grisham next.