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[Anna]

Ugh, Dj, I'm trying to stay awake! :P

[Colin]

Dj wrote: "Now I gave this book four stars, but I suspect it wouldn't be something that most people in the group would be that enamored with.

Global Logistics and Strategy: 1940-1943 [bookco..."

Thank you for putting this up. I am going to get it and I don't think I would have ever known about it if you hadn't shown it.

[Dj]

Anna wrote: "Ugh, Dj, I'm trying to stay awake! :P"

In that case, I would suggest avoiding this book. Maybe even like the Plague. LOL.

[Dj]

Colin wrote: "Dj wrote: "Now I gave this book four stars, but I suspect it wouldn't be something that most people in the group would be that enamored with.

[book:Global Logistics and Strategy: 1940-1943|211424..."

It is part of the US Army official history of WWII, you can get free PDF copies here. https://history.army.mil/html/bookshe...

At times the complete series, of which this is book five, is called the big green wall, and currently, I am trying to climb over it. LOL. One book at a time. I think I have to go through twelve or so before I start getting to the ones that focus on battles.

[Colin]

Dj wrote: "Colin wrote: "Dj wrote: "Now I gave this book four stars, but I suspect it wouldn't be something that most people in the group would be that enamored with.

[book:Global Logistics and Strategy: 19..."

Thank you!

[Jacqueline]

So that would be run right at it then Dj? That’s how much people have been avoiding the plague. I reckon we need to change that saying.

[Jess]

I'm trying to finish the Dexter series! Halfway through book 5 right now

[Dj]

Jacqueline wrote: "So that would be run right at it then Dj? That’s how much people have been avoiding the plague. I reckon we need to change that saying."

Avoid it like you would your Mother-in-Law?

[Michelle]

That works, Dj!

[Jacqueline]

Dj wrote: "Jacqueline wrote: "So that would be run right at it then Dj? That’s how much people have been avoiding the plague. I reckon we need to change that saying."

Avoid it like you would your Mother-in-Law?"

That could work even though I'm trying hard not to be that Mother-in-Law.

There's always to avoid it like the truth. People seem to be avoiding that more than the plague.

[Dj]

Jacqueline wrote: "Dj wrote: "Jacqueline wrote: "So that would be run right at it then Dj? That’s how much people have been avoiding the plague. I reckon we need to change that saying."

Avoid it like you would your ..."

I have a book that has ways to help with that last.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake


Most of the first part of the book looks at why we believe the things we do and how hard it is to break out of that mindset. The author doesn't point fingers, at least at this point in the book, just sets up some examples.

[styx]

caraval and mythology timeless tales of gods and heroes

[Kyle]

I am about to finish Jane Eyre, then I will probably read The Moonstone, and Memoirs of a Geisha this month. Nothing is set in stone though. What I really want to read this year are books by Gabriel García Márquez and George Orwell. In the end, I'll settle for whatever rare and excellent titles I find in thrift stores. I prefer buying second-hand books.

[Mathew]

Kyle wrote: "I'll settle for whatever rare and excellent titles I find in thrift stores."

I do the exact same thing - I hope to find a book that is on my 'to read' list, but most often I just go with whatever is at the store, sounds good (and is only 50 cents!)

Right now I'm reading The Regulators (Richard Bachman aka Stephen King), it was my latest thrift store find. I think it was $1 (King demands a premium. Not the 50 cents most books cost)

Sometimes I make videos of us thrifting if you are interested - https://youtu.be/ErvscGxBqvU .

[DivaDiane]

I’ve been listening to the short “The Test” by Sylvain Neuvel. It’s probably a short story or novelette. The audio book is about 2+ hours long. It’s very confrontational, but quite good. Our new mod, Ryan, forced me to listen to it.

[Karen]

Been doing a lot of reading/listening due to being home sick for 3 weeks and I'm trying to keep up the momentum. However being back to work full time at a new job very close to home is cutting into my listening time. Guess I have to work at doing more eye reading.

Finished books are:
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
The Nickel Boys
Devil in Disguise
The Amazing Mrs. Pollifax
The Beginner's Goodbye
Grave Reservations
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"

DNF:
Someone Like Me

Currently reading:
Gideon the Ninth
The Silent Patient
The God of Lost Words

[Jan]

I've been rereading Patricia Briggs UF/PNRs. Enjoyed the Alpha and Omega series all over again. Now I've restarted Mercy Thompson from the beginning. I seem to have forgotten quite a lot so am finding the rereading quite fresh and enjoyable. This one is a long series though, so I may not last the course.
Alpha & Omega series intro novella
Cry Wolf Alpha and Omega series #1
Moon Called Mercy Thompson series #1

I've also started Portrait of a Scotsman for a historical romance BOTM. Suffragette meets self-made Scottish businessman. I'm enjoying it so far, but some reviews say the second half is disappointing. We'll see.

[Ellen]

Just finished reading Head On the second in the Lock In series. Another excellent Scalzi book.
Also reading . I stayed away from it when it first came out in 1979. I was working the night shift at my first nursing job and it looked way too creepy. Several of the stories I'm familiar with as they've been made into movies.

[Alan]

So far in the month of February I have finished 4 books.
The Trap of Time - Luis de Oliveira. This was a Goodreads Giveaway winner for me from several months ago. Couldn't really get into it. Since it was a Giveaway I pushed through to the end rather than DNF.

A Spindle Splintered - Alix E. Harrow. This was a book group read for SFF Hot From the Printers. A nice little retelling of Sleeping Beauty. The first thing that came to my mind was the old Rocky and Bullwinkle show and their Fractured Fairy Tales, only even more fractured with a feminist twist. The second installment in the series comes out around June.

The Stone Wētā - Octavia Cade. This was a SFF Hot From the Printers group BOTM from last year. I had started it but got distracted with other reads until finishing it up this month. Last month I finished The Ministry for the Future - Kim Stanley Robinson a CliFi book with its story of climate change and this was another CliFi story so it fit nicely in that theme.

For a change of pace I read the first Inspector Lynley book A Great Deliverance - a mystery by Elizabeth George. It was a selection for a mystery book group which I left to pare down my groups to be a little more manageable so I can concentrate first on SciFi and Fantasy which I like to primarily like, but I do love a good mystery.

Currently I am reading The Echo Wife - Sarah Gailey
a selection for a couple of Goodreads groups this month.
Upcoming
Ariadne - Jennifer Saint. A monthly selection
The Killing Moon - N.K. Jemisin. A monthly selection.
The Grace of Kings - Ken Liu.
Parable of the Sower - Octavia E. Butler.
Blood Music - Greg Bear a monthly selection for the Evolution of Science Fiction group

I hope to get back and finally finish (about a third of the way) Factoring Humanity - Robert J. Sawyer which has been lingering around for a couple of months. Not a bad read but got distracted with some other things.

There will likely be another mystery as I started a couple already, barely. Just have to see what the month looks like as the Ken Liu book is a chunk.

[Michelle]

Alan, I used to love those Fractured Fairytales. Actually, there wasn't any part of Rocky and Bullwinkle that I didn't love. Thanks for the nostalgic comment!

[Alan]

Michelle wrote: "Alan, I used to love those Fractured Fairytales. Actually, there wasn't any part of Rocky and Bullwinkle that I didn't love. Thanks for the nostalgic comment!"

I have a DVD set of the first season that I revisit from time to time. It is just like traveling thru time in the Wayback Machine.

[Michelle]

I hope it included Boris & Natasha!!

I finished an enthralling fantasy called Tuyo. The emphasis was on the characters rather than action. I loved it! The style reminded me of The Tally Master.

Speaking of action, after Tuyo I decided to continue the Saxon Tales by Bernard Cornwell with #4, Sword Song. Uhtred always delivers on action ;)

[Jacqueline]

Really enjoyed A Spindle Splintered. Can’t wait for the next one. It has the Evil Queen from Snow White apparently. Really enjoy Alix’s writing. Loved Ten Thousand Doors of January and The Once and Future Witches as well. And there’s another one I read recently as well of hers. A short story. A Witches Compendium or something along those lines. Long name. Very good it was.

[Ryan, Your favourite moderators favourite moderator]

I've been wanting to read a Rachel Neumeier for awhile now, Michelle. Seems I really need to make that more of a priority.

[Michelle]

I wrote a more in-depth review on it; if you click on my read books it should be at the top since I just finished it yesterday. I highly recommend it unless you like a lot of action and/or romance. The relationships were all either platonic or familial. I really loved it.

[Ryan, Your favourite moderators favourite moderator]

I enjoy a lack of action of both the violent and sexual kind.

[Leonie]

Michelle wrote: "I hope it included Boris & Natasha!!

I finished an enthralling fantasy called Tuyo. The emphasis was on the characters rather than action. I loved it! The style reminded me of [boo..."

Just read your review, Michelle, and the blurb sounds great. Now on my TBR list.

[Michelle]

I hope you like it, because I hate to lead other readers astray ;)

[Ryan, Your favourite moderators favourite moderator]

Floating Islands will be my first Neumeier but I'll definitely get to Tuyo before years end.

[Michelle]

I'm thinking that I need to look into her books from now on.

[Sarah]

I just finished Without Disruption by Carrie French, and it was delightfully thought-provoking. I think I'm going to re-read it soon, knowing what I know now about the matrix-like world she built for the novel. It's hard to really describe it without giving much away, but it is an excellent dystopian novel that made me question how we perceive personal happiness in the context of the world around us. The protagonist is bisexual, which I personally love, as a bisexual myself. I wrote a more detailed review here. The book's description says that it is "for fans of Aldious Huxley, Ray Bradbury, and Louis Lowry," and as a fan of all three of these authors, I would say it definitely lives up to that comparison. It reminded me most of The Giver universe, out of all the works I've read by those three authors.

[epidrom]

I recently finished The Salvation Saga from Peter F. Hamilton. Admittedly I was a bit skeptical at the beinning but the trilogy did catch speed after about 150 pages. A ypical Hamilton with his extensive descriptions :D But those details make his world bulding so immerse to me at least!

So if you haven't I reccomend it to you guys if you also liked his other (quite extensive) Sagas.

Cheers

[Ozsaur]

White Trash Warlock - not particularly fond of the title, but the whole idea gets explored in the book. Warlock is also used correctly, rather than to mean a male witch.

[Jacqueline]

Been a bit all over the place in the last few days.
Finished Magnus Chase The Ship of the Dead by Rick Riordan a couple of days ago and then Percy Jackson and the Staff of Hermes.

Then while I was doing something else (sewing I think) I finished listening to 488 Rules for Life by Kitty Flanagan who is a comedian here in Australia. The 488 Rules for Life started as a segment on a local comedy current affairs show. Quite a few of her rules make sense.

Then I was scrolling through my ipad books I found Killing Gravity by Corey J. White and read that too. It's not that long. Just under 200 pages I think. I can't find book 2 but do have book 3.

I've also been listening to Caught in the Act by Shane Jenek. It's the autobiography of one of Australia's best Drag Queens, Courtney Act. It's read by Shane and it's a balls and all raw account of his life growing up in Brisbane and then his first introduction to Oxford St in Kings Cross and the gay bars and life. That's where I'm up to. He's just got to Sydney's Kings Cross and is discovering himself as a gay man. Always loved Courtney Act. She's one of the most beautiful women in Australia. She's been on Australian Idol and Ru Pauls Drag Race. And Dancing with the Stars. Anyhoo.....not SFF but brilliant all the same.

Started reading The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion yesterday. I think this might take a while. Saw it on a list of books that every woman should read. It's pretty heavy and deals with the year after her husband dies. Her daughter is also really sick.

Just for a change of pace after a few chapters of that last one I scrolled through my ipad again and started Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower by Tamsyn Muir. A fun take on Rapunzel. The witch puts a different obstacle on each of the 39 floors under Floralinda's 40th floor room and one day the Princes just stop coming. 24 of them being eaten by the dragon on the first floor will do that I suppose. What happens next? Sometimes a Princess just has to rescue herself I suppose. With the help of a not very good "bottom of the garden fairy", Cobweb. I've read a few shorter fractured fairytales lately. I read one (A Spindle Splintered by Alix E. Harrow) for a prompt in Popsugar and then sort of got hooked on them. I found a few that were done by Amazon like the SFF Forward series as well. I remember the first year I did that challenge one of the prompts was "a book set in a library or bookshop" and I read a heap set in libraries and bookshops.

Also still actively reading The Girl and the Mountain by Mark Lawrence, Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky, and The Last Emperox by John Scalzi depending on my mood. I have somewhere around 28 on my currently reading list. I'll get back to all of them eventually. I think. I've been picking up books and reading 10-40% of them and then I put them down and even though I was enjoying them I haven't been in the mood to pick that book up again when I feel like reading again. I leave them on the currently reading list so that I remember what page I'm up to even though I've started Children of Time a couple of times in the last year or two.

I've started the Popsugar and Around the Year in 52 Books challenges again this year and have already read more books in just over a month than I read all of last year. Anyhoo.....back to Floralinda and Cobweb.

[Roly]

I am currently reading Space Junk - not sure if it appeared as an ad on my kindle, but as a fan of heist stories, and Han Solo / Cowboy Bebop / Indy / pretty much all the hunky heisters, this book was right in my wheelhouse. Love the sci-fi, the stupid hilarity, and the adventure. The character building is fun too, you grow to love Adam Jones, Daizy and Pants Team Pink. Cant wait to hit the sequel after this.

[Dj]

Ozsaur wrote: "White Trash Warlock - not particularly fond of the title, but the whole idea gets explored in the book. Warlock is also used correctly, rather than to mean a male witch."

That sounds like a bit of fun reading.

[Stephen]

The Last Graduate. Picks up where A Deadly Education left off. Excellent. (I’m about halfway through.)

[Bonnie]

Deedee wrote: "Next, I read the entire The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection. There are 27 stories, all first published in 1999. A couple of the stories I wound up skimming, but the majority (including Kage Baker's novella) are well worth the time to read.

Oo, that was one of the best of those collections!

The Wedding Album - David Marusek
10¹⁶ to 1 - James Patrick Kelly
Dapple: a Hwarhath Historical Romance - Eleanor Arnason
Border Guards - Greg Egan
Scherzo with Tyrannosaur - Michael Swanwick
Hothouse Flowers - Mike Resnick
Son Observe the Time - Kage Baker

and Drumroll, one of my top short stories ever :

Daddy's World - Walter Jon Williams

[Beth]

Caught in the Act looks really cool, Jacqueline. Unfortunately if it has an audio, it isn't available on the service I use.

A couple of completions within the last week:

Fever Dream - for the Dozen Roses game. It was an interesting mix of parental (specifically motherly) fears regarding their children, and a weird story like Annihilation. It didn't evoke the feelings it intended to, for me. (review)

City of the Lost - this was a recommendation by a GR friend. At this point I don't recall if it was direct or indirect (i.e. through their review of it). I had a tough time with it for a few reasons... I'm not a mystery or thriller reader, I'm a baby when it comes to body horror, and the beginning was rather slow. In the end the characters and their relationships won me over. I'm looking forward to more. (review)

[Ozsaur]

Dj - White Trash Warlock was a good book, but not as humorous as I expected. That's not a criticism. It was still entertaining.

[Dj]

Ozsaur wrote: "Dj - White Trash Warlock was a good book, but not as humorous as I expected. That's not a criticism. It was still entertaining."

Fair enough. I am not a big fan of humor just for humor's sake. After a while it gets old. But reading the blurb on the book I thought it might be worthwhile especially after your comments on the book.
So thanks

[Alan]

The Physics of Sorrow - Georgi Gospodinov translated from Bulgarian I have only read a few pages. Lots of time shifting. Added to my current reading as an upcoming selection on the 15th of February for the 21st Century Literature group. Was available from the library.

[Jacqueline]

Yeah there is an audiobook Beth. I’m listening through BorrowBox from the library. It uses Bolinda I believe.

[Alan]

Occasional readings in The Jack London Science Fiction Megapack: The Complete Science Fiction and Fantasy of Jack London. Read one of the stories for The Evolution of Science Fiction group.

[Ozsaur]

I hope you like it, Dj!

[Tamara]

Stephen wrote: "The Last Graduate. Picks up where A Deadly Education left off. Excellent. (I’m about halfway through.)"

I enjoyed both of those books, too. By the second one, I was getting a little tired of the heavy messaging, but that was, I think, my only annoyance. I've found the books of hers that I've read to be inventive and engaging and sort of rebellious, in a non-usually-rebellious way. This series seems to have a lot of heart in it.

[Jessica]

I'm finishing Dune and about to start Dune Messiah. So... good! I'm glad there are plenty to continue.

[Jessica]

I want to give White Trash Warlock a try now.

[Jamie]

I finally found the Culture series, by Iain M. Banks, all of it, not just one or two random later books in the series (I REALLY dislike reading series out of order). So, this week I am working my way through the Culture series. So far I've finished
Consider Phlebas - so far my least favorite
The Player of Games
Use of Weapons - my favorite so far

and I just started the audiobook of Excession.

[YouKneeK]

Since my last post I’ve finished both of the February group picks. I did Ariadne in audio and The Echo Wife in print. As usual, I won’t comment on them here since they’re current group reads.

In Audio, I started A Memory Called Empire. I’m a little early for the Feb 15 re-read, but I doubt I’ll finish before Feb 15. I don’t vote in the re-reads anyway, so I may not participate in the discussions unless I have something to say. I had a rough start with it, but it got better. In print I usually enjoy books with made-up terms and cultures and stuff, but I find those things much more difficult in audio when I can’t see the words in front of me to absorb and retain them properly. This book has quite a bit of that in the beginning, so I was struggling a little, but before the end of my first listening session things picked up and started making more sense and then I was interested in the story. The narrator (Amy Landon) has a weirdish reading style in my opinion, something about her cadence I think, and also her shifts in tone within the same sentence. It’s less noticeable at a faster speed, though.

In print, I’ve started The Stand. My timing couldn’t be better, because this is a 1348 page book and work has gotten busier so I have less reading time. I may be reading it forever. I’ve only managed about 50 pages, but so far I’m interested in it. It’s probably good that I didn’t read it earlier in the pandemic though!