What have you been reading this May?

[Michelle]

Robin wrote: "A book recommendation for you Michelle. :-)
Damn You, Autocorrect!"

Exactly!!! That's what we should be reading, Robin. Incidentally, it was that infernal kindle autocorrect that always gets the best of us.

[Andrea]

Robin wrote: "A book recommendation for you Michelle. :-)
Damn You, Autocorrect!"

Some of the samples from that book are epic, I wouldn't buy the book but reading people's favorites from their reviews made me laugh.

[Robin]

Well there is always...

Damn You Autocorrect! 2

(I do genuinely own both books :-) )

[Michelle]

Robin wrote: "Well there is always...

Damn You Autocorrect! 2

(I do genuinely own both books :-) )"

Somehow I'm not surprised :) Have you ever read the classic Mad's Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions?

[Robin]

Sadly no and now it seems I never will as it appears to be out of print... Hey Ho, such is life LOL :-)

[Andrea]

If we're talking about typos and other errors, I really loved this one - Non Campus Mentis: World History According to College Students - I'll never forget the image of the Notre Dame Cathedral having "flying buttocks", on the other hand these are college students so it's a bit depressing too. I assume a few might be auto-corrects coming from Word when they write their term papers, at least one hopes so :)

[Robin]

It looks like fun☺ Though some of the reviews I quickly skimmed seem to be taking a fun book rather too seriously LOL

[Audrey]

I was filling out paperwork for the pediatrician yesterday, and it was asking a question about physical activity that included "marital arts." Autocorrect didn't help there.

[Lynn]

I finished C J Cherryh's Rider at the Gate - first in her Finisterre series. Then I filled in with the audiobook version of Ben Aaronovitch Foxglove Summer, a series I am enjoying (secret magical department of the Met Police in London. Yes I know - how unlikely is that).
Finally I gave in and read my copy of Cherryh's sequel in her Finisterre series Cloud's Rider. Of course I enjoyed it. I am a hopeless Cherryh fan. Oh how bitter sweet when you read and enjoy the sequel in a series of just two!!!

[Andrea]

Audrey wrote: "I was filling out paperwork for the pediatrician yesterday, and it was asking a question about physical activity that included "marital arts." Autocorrect didn't help there."

Well...I suppose that could have been intentional, after all that can be a pretty good workout too...oh...pediatrician...hope that's a typo then!

[Audrey]

I really hope so! It reminded me of a Discworld book (Lords and Ladies?) where a guy is about to get married and orders a book on "marital arts" but gets a "martial arts" book instead.

[Peat]

Actually read most of the Nicholas Sansbury Smith - Hell Divers series.....just loading book 6, 7 and 8 into my phone....then got the Keith C. Blackmore - Mountain Man whole series loaded already......and for shits and giggles have Jason Anbach-Galaxys Edge Dark Operator[1-5].....and plus my yearly read/listen to NIV Holy bible is to begin...

Now looking at starting from scratch RA salvatore Drizzt dark elf books 30++....plus Terry Brooks Shannara series....better start from scratch im like a several trilogies unread.

keep thinking of the dave edding series...great fantasy tolkienish theme....epic...or raymond feist rift war series and prequels
and micheal moorcocks hawkmoon and elric.

yup so many worlds to vist

ohhh conan by crom needs some love too

[Andrea]

Finished Sal & Gabi Break the Universe, that was a lot of fun, a laughed quite a bit. It was also arguably SF since the main character's father is trying to use a machine to fix the holes in the universe that his son is creating through magic. And inexplicably there is a robot for some reason. And alternate universes (that robot makes me wonder if their universe is not ours).

Next up is back to the Enderverse with Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card

[Faith]

My review of The Maker of Swans by Paraic O'Donnell

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

[Audrey]

Finished The Mother Code (okay), started The Witch's Heart, and almost done with Daughter of the Moon Goddess (pretty good).

[Andrea]

Finished reading Ender's Shadow, and while it didn't have the same shocking impact that the end of Ender's Game did (even if you didn't read Ender's Game first, the twist is revealed earlier) it was definitely another emotional ride, a very different POV, different emotions, but still.

Also read the graphic novel version of The Giver, very well done I felt.

For my birthday I was given a gift card, and decided to use part of it for something I wouldn't normally buy for myself, made it feel more like a gift than just using my own money and I picked up - Star Trek Discovery: The Book of Grudge - it was very, very short, with very little text (probably took 15 mins to read), but it was also very cute. I like cats, and its rare when a cat gets to be a character in a TV show, so I couldn't resist.

Got a couple days left of May, very unlikely I'll finish Sal and Gabi Fix the Universe by Carlos Hernandez but should get about halfway done :)

And on the graphic novel side I've got the manga - H.P. Lovecraft's The Hound and Other Stories by Gou Tanabe. His At the Mountains of Madness was hard to see the images which I felt defeated the purpose of having a graphical version of something that Lovecraft intended to be hard to envision, but this one is working much better.

[Mary]

Isekai Skies by H.P. Holo

[Andrea]

Inspired by Tony, I thought I'd check if my library had the Aldebaran series, and as a bonus, I found it in the original French - La Catastrophe by Luiz Eduardo de Oliveira (Leo)