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[Dj]

Michelle wrote: "Blue Oyster Cult will be in my head for the rest of the day now."

On no, there goes Tokyo...Go, Go, Godzilla

I really wish a Godzilla movie would use BoC's Godzilla in it somewhere.

[Dj]

Brett wrote: "@Michelle - there are worse things."

Steel Guitar

[Dj]

I generally don't due reviews for Cookbooks since they aren't really things that you read, but look at to see if you feel like making that dish or not, so your not really reviewing the book but how well those recipes turn out and how much you like them. This cookbook isn't like this. Here various authors from mystery books (most of whom I didn't know) these writers explain where they recipes came from and sometimes how they are used in their books. One exception to the rule, one of the authors is actually a TV character (Castle) but it does hold mostly to the theme. So this is more of a read than most cookbooks and it is kind of enjoyable even if you don't ever make any of the recipes.

The Mystery Writers of America Cookbook: Wickedly Good Meals and Desserts to Die For

[Alexandra]

I discovered Keigo Higashino ans his mystery novels during the summer. They are clever and suspenseful, and a pleasure to read (as in "well-crafted story with a good ensemble cast". So I can highly recommend The Devotion of Suspect X. This morning I finished Salvation of a Saint, which was even better :)

My review is here ;)

[Woman Reading]

Steel's Edge by Ilona Andrews

Finishing up The Edge series on a strong note.

My Review -- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Jacqueline]

Dj wrote: "I generally don't due reviews for Cookbooks since they aren't really things that you read, but look at to see if you feel like making that dish or not, so your not really reviewing the book but how..."

Yes but he is a mystery writer on the show and they've actually written the books that they mentioned in the series.
Richard CastleHeat WaveNaked HeatHeat RisesFrozen Heat to name a few plus the Derek Storm books.

[Hans]

Something that stands out a bit from the usual mishmash of fantasy, crime fiction and horror I tend to read would be Abroad in Japan by Chris Broad.

Chris is a highly successful Youtuber whose channel Abroad in Japan I discovered about a year ago and I devoured almost all of his videos since. He's a British guy who has been living in Japan since 2012 and he has been making videos about his experiences there ever since. His videos hit the right spot between being informative, entertaining and humorous. Plus, the quality of his videos has improved immensely over the years and more recently can compete with any documentary.

Anyway, the book illustrates his early experience of moving to Japan and the culture shock that came with it, something he regularly talks about in his videos but not in such depth. I'm only two chapters in, but thus far it's wildly entertaining.

[Marc]

Dj wrote: "Marc wrote: "Finished the sequel to Lovecraft Country (Matt Ruff), Destroyer of Worlds. I really enjoyed it, but it feels like there's gonna be a book 3. Dunno though!

Anyway, a slight change in b..."

It wasn't a cliffhanger, just some loose ends that felt like it could form the basis for a book 3!

[Faith]

My review of Red River Seven by A.J. Ryan

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

[Alexandra]

I am reading The Night Circus. (Very late to the party, he he ;) ) I like it a lot, it's dreamy and magical, the imagery is amazing. It's a shame that circus isn't real...

[Jonathan]

Currently reading Pushing Ice

[Dj]

Jacqueline wrote: "Dj wrote: "I generally don't due reviews for Cookbooks since they aren't really things that you read, but look at to see if you feel like making that dish or not, so your not really reviewing the b..."

That was the justification they used to include his recipe in the book. Which was fine with me. I kind of consider it kind of like telling people they aren't Pigeons they are Rock Doves. The only time someone did that to me I told them they were Rats with Wings.
I figure if you want to include a fictional character in your book, that is up to you. LOL.

[Dj]

Hans wrote: "Something that stands out a bit from the usual mishmash of fantasy, crime fiction and horror I tend to read would be Abroad in Japan by Chris Broad.

Chris is a h..."

Sounds like it would be a good read.

[Dj]

Marc wrote: "Dj wrote: "Marc wrote: "Finished the sequel to Lovecraft Country (Matt Ruff), Destroyer of Worlds. I really enjoyed it, but it feels like there's gonna be a book 3. Dunno though!

Anyway, a slight ..."

Nice that is the way to do it. Makes people who enjoy your work less angst ridden with endings.

[Dj]

Alexandra wrote: "I am reading The Night Circus. (Very late to the party, he he ;) ) I like it a lot, it's dreamy and magical, the imagery is amazing. It's a shame that circus isn't real..."

Interesting thought. I suppose they could make it an amusement ride or a VR game

[Jan]

Jonathan wrote: "Currently reading Pushing Ice"
It's a while since I read that one, but I remember really liking it at the time. Quite a long story that ended up in a very different place from where it started, or from what I had expected. Hope you enjoy, Jonathan.

[Alexandra]

Dj wrote: "Interesting thought. I suppose they could make it an amusement ride or a VR game"

That would be cool!

[Nicky]

So I'm reading Our Hideous Progeny. I started a couple days ago and I'm at 32% now. I've finished part 1 which was a sort of set-up/introduction to the whole story, and it was actually surprising how much backstory I got to read. It was really interesting to see where the FMC was coming from and what the motivations behind her feelings and actions were. I think it's a solid base for anything that will happen later in the book. I like that.😁
I also love how the author manages to punch the reader in the gut with the chapters' endings - they are so good at ending scenes and sections that it's an art in itself. I could learn so much from them. The endings are the hooks for subsequent chapters, and I must say these hooks are what keep me reading. I'm continuously curious after what'll happen next. (I have an inkling, though.🧟)
With the drip-feed of information, this book almost reads like a mystery. There are old letters lost and found, people with secrets, scientific rivalries, 🧬and a fictitious display of mysoginy in the work place. I'm loving the slow reveal of small mysteries and how they make up the grander storyline.

[Marc]

Just finished Dan Simmons Carrion Comfort. It's kinda like a vampire story, only the vampires aren't blood sucking fiends like we all know, but more a vampire who can possess you, controlling your body, and depending on your drive (how determined you really are), can easily (or over time if you are self confident and determined, it's harder) almost 'kill' you and make you a permanent puppet (body alive, but you gone). They feed mostly off of conflict/violence, but they aren't immortal, just long lived, they can die of old age and they do age. Not a spoiler, all that is identified pretty early in the book. It's a multiple character story, told from both protagonists and antagonists' perspectives. Long big book though. I liked it! And yeah, it's the same author who wrote Hyperion.

Now reading Stephen Graham Jones 'Least of my Scars'. Dunno what that's about! a much shorter book, hopefully will get through it and close my horror book month with Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

[Oleksandr]

Marc wrote: "Just finished Dan Simmons Carrion Comfort. It's kinda like a vampire story, only the vampires aren't blood sucking fiends like we all know, but more a vampire who can possess you, controlling your ..."

A side note, I'm curious, will there be any fiction about vampires more based on real folk tales from the Balkans or Slav lands, after all Brem Stocker created a sexy Dracula from a story that was much more gruesome

[Jan]

Marc wrote: "Just finished Dan Simmons Carrion Comfort. It's kinda like a vampire story, only the vampires aren't blood sucking fiends like we all know, but more a vampire who can possess you, controlling your ..."

I haven't read that one, but I do remember liking another of his 'non-Hyperion' books a few years ago. Summer of Night It was horror, but not vampires. In 1960 small town USA, a group of kids contend with an evil thing lurking in their town. If anyone's looking for a creepy read for Halloween, it might do the trick.

[Cynda]

I have finished the last of the three HG Wells novels I wanted to read. I have just finished The Invisible Man. Horror and Science Fiction. Here is my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

This year I read/read
The Island of Dr Moreau
The Time Machine
The Invisible Man

[Cynda]

I reread The Island of Dr Moreau in preparation for reading the fantasy The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. It was not necessary to reread the novel by HG Wells but it did make me more confident knowing the connections between the novels.

[Colin]

Just finished Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree. This is the prequel (about twenty years earlier) to Legends and Lattes and tells the story of Viv as an impetuous (reckless?) young orc who improbably becomes involved with a bookstore, a baker, and a necromancer. This is cozy fantasy, a quick and enjoyable read. If you liked Legends and Lattes, you will like this. It is also fun in the way books, bookshops, and reading are woven into it, so if you like books about books, this is also a good pick.

[Hans]

Colin wrote: "Just finished Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree. This is the prequel (about twenty years earlier) to Legends and Lattes and tells the story of Viv as an impetuous (reckless?) y..."

I'm looking forward to this one. I read Legends & Lattes a couple of months ago and although I'm usually more into Dark Fantasy and Grimdark, I absolutely adored it. The book was so wonderfully wholesome and cozy and while I don't need to read stuff like that all the time, every once in a while it's a nice break. Also a perfect winter read I presume.

[Brett]

Finished Don't Fear the Reaper. Good overall. Some parts were confusing. Review Chainsaw, because Reaper assumes detailed knowledge.

Just started Andrew Wilson's Flame Thrower. He was in command of a troop (3) of Churchill Crocodile flamethrower tanks - a terror weapon - starting in Normandy just after D-Day. Pretty matter of fact, slightly philosophical, very British.

[Stephen]

Just started Rise of Empire (the Riyria Revelations, 3-4) and what fun it is!
If only the series did not have such an impossible name to remember or pronounce.

[Nicky]

Stephen wrote: "Just started Rise of Empire (the Riyria Revelations, 3-4) and what fun it is!
If only the series did not have such an impossible name to remember or pronounce."

I tapped out halfway through book 2. I loved the Riyria Chronicles, though! The Rose and the Thorn, The Death of Dulgath and The Disappearance of Winter's Daughter were especially amazing to me. Since the Chronicles were written far later than the Revelations, the characters feel more fleshed out.

[Stephen]

It's one of those books where the writing and world building are not flashy, but you fall into it look a warm bath that you keep wanting to go back into!

[Nicky]

Stephen wrote: "It's one of those books where the writing and world building are not flashy, but you fall into it look a warm bath that you keep wanting to go back into!"

Hmm. It depends how you'd define "warm bath". Because for me personally, that flashy and inventive world building should be the warm bath: the setting and world in which Riyria takes place (Euro-centric medieval fantasy) are by far not enough to inspire me to read more of the heroes' tales. 😓 It is Royce and Hadrian themselves who drew me into the universe, and it's them for whom I'd return - but I've read their best arcs in the Chronicles, and the Revelations are simply not as immersive.

Sure, the familiarity with the series makes it easier to read than, say, an entirely new author in my collection whom I've never read before. And it is fun to revisit tales that you enjoyed previously.💜

But when a series is as Euro-centric medieval as Riyria, I can't help but read other, more inventive fantasy books first.😅
Maybe Nolyn, Farilane and Esrahaddon are less stereotypical, but I doubt it. I do want to read them some day, but that won't be for the near future.

[Economondos]

Colin wrote: "Just finished [book:Bookshops & Bonedust..."

Just picked that up yesterday. Looking forward to reading it even more after your post. Thanx.

[Colin]

Economondos wrote: "Colin wrote: "Just finished [book:Bookshops & Bonedust..."

Just picked that up yesterday. Looking forward to reading it even more after your post. Thanx."

You are welcome!

[Stephen]

Nicky wrote: "Stephen wrote: "It's one of those books where the writing and world building are not flashy, but you fall into it look a warm bath that you keep wanting to go back into!"

Hmm. It depends how you'd..."

Yes it's Eurocentric and even cliche'd, but you know, not everything has be the opposite either - I think there is room for both. I see the familiarity of the setting and the simplicity of the language as a kind of generosity to the reader.

[Nicky]

Nicky wrote: "So I'm reading Our Hideous Progeny. I started a couple days ago and I'm at 32% now. I've finished part 1 which was a sort of set-up/introduction to the whole story, and it was actua..."

So I read till 75% and I'm just gonna butt in and say this book is amaze-balls. Gotta finish today. Gotta. I have to know how it ends.

[DivaDiane]

Nicky, it does sound amazeballs!!

[Ann]

Listened to a few audiobooks...
Jade City it was ok, there's quite a bit of machismo going on, gets a bit boring after a while. I won't continue the series.

Her Majesty's Royal Coven and The Shadow Cabinet loved both the narrators and the stories. Can't wait for the next one to come out!

[Nicky]

DivaDiane wrote: "Nicky, it does sound amazeballs!!"

It was. I just finished an hour ago. 😆 Today I read 160 pages. Yesterday 90. That's what I call an immersive and engrossing story!

[Brett]

Going blind into an 1897 contemporary of Dracula called The Beetle. I got Bookshops and Bonedust this morning, but it's still spooky season and I've had this on my shelf for like a year.

[Michelle]

Oh my gosh, I can post to threads again! GR had my account screwed up for days. I could only make a quiet "like"; I couldn't post to threads or leave comments. I could leave reviews, but I guess that's because reviews help book sales. I've been on this site for 12 years, and all of a sudden the one-and-only email address I have had for 25 years was invalid. I never thought of myself as particularly chatty or opinionated, but let me tell ya: when you can't comment it's frustrating 😖

So! Now that this is off my chest I feel better! I'm currently reading #2 in R.K. Lander's Elven Worlds series, Flight of the Shirán: Elven Worlds 2

[DivaDiane]

That’s horrible, Michelle! I hope they don’t do that to me. I’ve been here since 2008, but I did change emails about 5 years ago.

[Nicky]

Michelle wrote: "Oh my gosh, I can post to threads again! GR had my account screwed up for days. I could only make a quiet "like"; I couldn't post to threads or leave comments. I could leave reviews, but I guess th..."

I'd lose my mind if that were to happen to me. Glad to see it sorted. ☺

[Alexandra]

Michelle wrote: "Oh my gosh, I can post to threads again! GR had my account screwed up for days. I could only make a quiet "like"; I couldn't post to threads or leave comments. I could leave reviews, but I guess th..."

Wow, this sounds really horrible and annoying. I am glad things are better now :)

[Alexandra]

I am reading Shadowline by Glen Cook, book 1 of Starfishers trilogy. I have read *a lot* of his books, but it was quite long ago. This is not Cook's best, but his "not best" might be better than many other authors', so I am enjoying it anyway (with some reservations). It's very grimdark, of course, and everyone is awesomely horrible.

[Nicky]

I just finished my review for Our Hideous Progeny. You can read the entire thing here, but here's a quick summary of my review.

The story starts off slow, maybe a little bit dull, and nothing much is going on, which makes the narrative drag somewhat. While I don’t normally like that, it was rather fitting for this book, since it creates a very solid foundation for what was to come. It was this solid foundation that made me truly curl my toes and grab the edge of my dining room table, when certain ass-hats came to throw a wrench in the works and ruin what was ultimately Mary’s dream.[...]
While content-wise the story was good, but nothing ground-breaking, the book is so much stronger thematically. [...]The story was centred around the position of women in science, featuring Mary in an almost activist-y role. It was aggravating to see how her knowledge and intelligence was constantly undermined, ridiculed and shoved aside, and how her position became more and more vulnerable each day. It was maddening to see how men were favoured in high societies, just for gender reasons, and although I myself have not experienced this first-hand, I felt the rage in Mary’s narration, and it has been long since I lived through a fictional character so vicariously.[...]
The reason I’m not giving this a full 5 stars, is the far-fetched display of Mary’s connection with her scientific creation. [...]Ultimately, it was a wild ride especially in the second half of the book, and the blend of historical accuracy and fictional elements was perfectly executed.

[Michelle]

Stephen wrote: "Just started Rise of Empire (the Riyria Revelations, 3-4) and what fun it is!
If only the series did not have such an impossible name to remember or pronounce."

I love that series!

[Stephen]

The author just posted a free short story about the back story of the character Royce on his bio page for anyone who might be interested.
I haven't read it yet - will let y'all know how it is!

[Michelle]

I bought the anthology just for that story

[Stephen]

Ah well, you can read the other stories!

[Marc]

Jan wrote: "Marc wrote: "Just finished Dan Simmons Carrion Comfort. It's kinda like a vampire story, only the vampires aren't blood sucking fiends like we all know, but more a vampire who can possess you, cont..."

I'll add that book to my to-buy pile! sounds like a great book to read for next year's october horrorfest! thank you!

[Marc]

Finished Stephen Graham Jones 'Least of my Scars', a very disturbing book. Jeez two disturbing books I've read, that one and Tender is the Flesh. FYI, LOMS is about a serial killer. Won't say much more than that!

Finishing off my horrorfest with a classic, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. That penguin edition, oh so much intro before the book actually starts, 60+ pages of her life, plus a bibliography, now I finally am really starting the actual story...