What Else Are You Reading in 2023? Showing 551-600 of 1,880

[Ozsaur]

Almost done with Gobbelino London & A Contagion of Zombies, the second book in the series. Lot of fun, and I love the characters.

[Alexandra]

Just finished The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England, and it was a both wonderful and entertaining way of looking at history. I'll be reading the rest of the series :)

My review ;)

[Michelle]

I love the Gobbelino series!! There's another in the hopper :)

[Ozsaur]

Michelle, I'm thoroughly enjoying the Gobbelino series, but I'm trying to spread out reading them, instead of mainlining the whole thing all at once!

[Michelle]

Ozsaur wrote: "Michelle, I'm thoroughly enjoying the Gobbelino series, but I'm trying to spread out reading them, instead of mainlining the whole thing all at once!"

That's what I did! I would alternate each book with serious historical fiction, fantasy and science fiction.

[Meredith]

Ozsaur wrote: "Almost done with Gobbelino London & A Contagion of Zombies, the second book in the series. Lot of fun, and I love the characters."

There is definitely a Gobbelino London fan club in this thread. I have book #4 ready to read soon. And Kim Watt is talking about book #6 which I think she's (nearly?) done writing.

[Michelle]

Yes! I did a happy dance when I found out.

[Ozsaur]

Gobbelino Fancats Unite!

[Dj]

Colin wrote: "Dj wrote: " Silent Victory: The U.S. Submarine War Against Japan

This book can double as a weight training aide..."

Silent Service does go into the Torpedo issues and the fact that it seems most of the fixes came from the commands involved in the Pacific as opposed to the Bureau of Weapons. A book going into greater detail could be well worth the read though.

[DivaDiane]

Alexandra, MoQ and I will be reading The Time Traveller’s Guide to Medieval England soon, if you’d like to join us? We could make a thread in the group. Otherwise, we were just planning on discussing in PM.

[Kirsi]

Lately I've been reading books I've earmarked for a reading challenge I'm doing, and most have been a little meh to be honest. However, I started The Bookish Life of Nina Hill yesterday, and I have a feeling I'm going to enjoy it. Extremely relatable bookworminess.

I'm also slllowly working my way through the audiobook version of VenCo, and while it's okay, I keep pushing it aside and picking up other books instead. Not a good sign, but I'm still giving it a chance.

[Eric]

Ozsaur wrote: "Gobbelino Fancats Unite!"

When you are done playing with Gobbelino, be sure to check out Kim M. Watt's Baking Bad. The first of the Beaufort Scales Mysteries (seven books, I believe) I've enjoyed the first four, so far. Also, Watt has some delightful short stories for free download from her website: kmwatt.com

[Michelle]

We need a Kim M. Watts Appreciation Society 😺

[Eric]

Michelle wrote: "We need a Kim M. Watts Appreciation Society 😺"

Her characters take on a life of their own. Cats, Green snake and Dragons (Beaufort Scales Mysteries).

[Ann-Marie]

I finished Wool Omnibus yesterday, I liked it quite a bit and I will definitely check out the tv series in May.

[DivaDiane]

@Anne-Marie, you should read the rest (Shift and Sand) and also check out the 3 short stories which take place in-between and after the whole trilogy.

[Ann-Marie]

DivaDiane wrote: "@Anne-Marie, you should read the rest (Shift and Sand) and also check out the 3 short stories which take place in-between and after the whole trilogy."

I have the audio for book 2 on hold at my library!

[Alexandra]

DivaDiane wrote: "Alexandra, MoQ and I will be reading The Time Traveller’s Guide to Medieval England soon, if you’d like to join us? We could make a thread in the group. Otherwise, we were just planning on discussi..."

I've read this one last year :) It does sound lovely - so if you want to create a thread, I'll be happy to follow the discussion and (hopefully) contribute.

[Marc]

Well, tried to read babel-17, but Delany is definitely a weird writer, empire star was weird, so I decided to read a more straight forward book instead, in part to clear my head, and am now reading Alexei Panshin's Rite of Passage. so far, straight forward! then I'll go back to babel-17

[Ozsaur]

Eric said, When you are done playing with Gobbelino, be sure to check out Kim M. Watt's Baking Bad (Beaufort Scales Mystery #1) by Kim M. Watt Baking Bad.

Oh yes, I will absolutely try out Beaufort Scales series. It sounds like so much fun!

[Meredith]

Michelle wrote: "We need a Kim M. Watts Appreciation Society 😺"

Co-signed!

[Anna]

Yes, you can absolutely start a thread for Watt, and name it something fun out of her books! (Like The Ursula Vernon/T. Kingfisher Reading and Admiration Society is named after "The Rose MacGregor Drinking and Admiration Society" by T. Kingfisher.)

[Michelle]

Anna, you would probably like the Gobbelino books! They're from the cat's point of view.

[Bobby]

Started Morning Star. Took a break after reading the first two Red Rising books to read Elatsoe for the book of the month.

[Anna]

Michelle wrote: "Anna, you would probably like the Gobbelino books! They're from the cat's point of view."

They're on my TBR, but I was extremely bored by the two dragon books I've read by her, so they've moved down quite a bit on my list :( I'm not sure if it was the audio narration, but they were my bedtime audiobooks for months, because I kept falling asleep immediately when I pressed play :D

[Michelle]

Anna wrote: "Michelle wrote: "Anna, you would probably like the Gobbelino books! They're from the cat's point of view."

They're on my TBR, but I was extremely bored by the two dragon books I've read by her, so..."

Oh no 😂

[Eric]

Anna wrote: "Michelle wrote: "Anna, you would probably like the Gobbelino books! They're from the cat's point of view."

They're on my TBR, but I was extremely bored by the two dragon books I've read by her, so..."

Audio cannot read between the lines and that is where Watt's humor and wit lies. In my opinion. 🙃

[Meredith]

I feel like the two series are different. Both have a lot of humor. Beaufort are more at the silly end of the humor spectrum, Gobbelino are more smart-funny and have some slightly darker elements too.

[Anna]

Meredith, that actually sounds great, and I was originally more interested in Gobbelino anyway, but Beaufort was available on audio on Storytel, so availability made the choice for me. I haven't given up on the author, in fact if I still had Storytel, I'd probably start the third Beaufort book eventually :D It just means that since Gobbelino is an eye-read, it's going to be a fairly long while before I get to it, with all the more urgent eye-reads I've been neglecting.

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

Can I just say I 100% support anyone who wants to make an appreciation society for a prolific author. LIVE HAPPY! let us join in your joy!

[Meredith]

Alright, I'll bite, Kim Watt Appreciation Society:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

hell yea! Brownie points for Meredith. You may cash them in for a crisp high five

(I'm excellent at high fives, I have a fail proof method)

[Meredith]

Allison wrote: "hell yea! Brownie points for Meredith. You may cash them in for a crisp high five

(I'm excellent at high fives, I have a fail proof method)"

High five accepted!
*dances around living room singing 'We are the Champions.' *

[Eric]

I completed the four books of The Riyria Chronicles, which start with : The Crown Tower. 3.5 star reads, save book four which was 4 stars. These are prequels to The Riyria Revelations, which I have not read, so decided to read the author in his chronological order versus publication order. Fun medieval fantasy.

[Ann]

Just finished The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi this is a fun one, the first half focuses on relationships with family and chosen family the second half gets to the adventure on the sea facing magical creatures.

[Marc]

Finished Rite of Passage by Alexei Panshin. A very good book! I wonder if I read it as a kid though, parts seemed vaguely familiar. FYI (not a spoiler), it's about a young girl on a space ship that travels between solar systems as she's about to undergo a rite of passage that all 14 year olds must go through, with no guarantee of survival. The earth is gone, destroyed by us humans who took warring against each other a little too far... Why? you gotta read the book! A quick read, only a little over 250 pages.

Now back to babel-17!

[Kaia]

I just finished Luck in the Shadows by Lynn Flewelling. It was really good - very exciting fantasy adventure. I stayed up way too late on several nights because I needed to find out the outcome of a particular section.

Right before that, I read the first volume of Paper Girls, Volume 1 by by Brian K. Vaughan, which I also enjoyed. I was introduced to the story through the recent tv adaptation. Since they canceled it after one season, though, I thought I might be able to at least learn the end of the story by reading the books. The books (graphic novels) are definitely different than the tv version, but both are good.

[CBRetriever]

Kaia wrote: "I just finished Luck in the Shadows by Lynn Flewelling. It was really good - very exciting fantasy adventure. I stayed up way too late on several nights because I needed to find out th..."

I'd suggest continuing on with the series as they're all pretty good

[Kaia]

CBRetriever wrote: "I'd suggest continuing on with the series as they're all pretty good"

Thanks, CB! That's good to know.

[Marc]

OK, finished Babel-17 by Samuel R Delany. Thought it was less weird than Empire Star, though I had to re-read the last 10 pages, I missed something or didn't fully understand the ending. I did see some synopsis on wikipedia on the book, and I didn't see what they said how the book ended, they seemed to have missed something too!

Anyhoo, the book itself is set in the distant future, humans have spread out to multiple galaxies. THere was a war going on between the Alliance and the 'invader'. The protagonist was a young woman who was famous across the galaxies as a poet, but she earlier worked as a code breaker. She was tasked to break a code called Babel-17. The novel is basically her trying to solve it, and associated issues related to Babel-17.

It may be too, if you read it, go back and re-read the last 10-15 pages, you may miss something (or not!)

Now, I'm going back to Ursula K Le Guin and some short stories in the Hainish universe...

[Brett]

The Dragon Republic was brutal.

Starting on No Ordinary Time (the Roosevelts and the home front) and The Black God's Drum. Latter is only 108 pages - I wish P. Djeli Clark would write longer books. The premises are too good for just novellas.

[Brett]

^^ NOT is by Doris Kearns Goodwin.

[Oleksandr]

Marc wrote: "The protagonist was a young woman who was famous across the galaxies as a poet,..."

Note that her name intentionally rhymes with the first part of "... it is my country" slogan

[Wayne]

Just finished The Uplift War I liked the first two books but this one was on whole other level..wow.

Gonna start Anathem now. Stephenson is one of my favorites so I have high hopes going in.

[Oleksandr]

Wayne wrote: "Just finished The Uplift War I liked the first two books but this one was on whole other level..wow."

Much better I presume? For levels go in both directions :)

[Norm's ✧ Bookshelf]

I just finished Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi yesterday. It is a YA sci-fi fantasy based in a dystopian future USA. I really liked it but found myself a bit let down by the ending as it felt rushed.

I am currently 30% into The Flight of the Aphrodite by S.J Morden and it's kind of, well... meh. There are too many moving pieces, it doesn't have great character development, and includes a lot of politics. None-the-less the story is interesting enough to keep me reading.

I have The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler on my list of books to read next. The idea of a sentient society of Octopus really tickles my fancy.

[Brett]

The Black God's Drums was fun. That universe needs more than one novella. Starting on The Burning God.

[Faith]

My review of Infinity Gate by M.R. Carey

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

[bob]

Harpo speaks, by Harpo Marx. Extreme poverty and extreme wealth, all told through the lens of someone who seemed to have enjoyed both. The book really reads modern, even as it describes NYC before WWI.

[Michelle]

bob wrote: "Harpo speaks, by Harpo Marx. Extreme poverty and extreme wealth, all told through the lens of someone who seemed to have enjoyed both. The book really reads modern, even as it describes NYC before ..."

Harpo was always one of my favorites.