What have you been reading this June

[Robert]

Audrey wrote: "Oh, I love Heir of Novron. My favorite."

Good to hear! I felt the second book in The Rise of Empire, The Emerald Storm (largely set on that sailboat) was a bit off for the series.

[NekroRider]

I stayed up last night and finished Snowblind by Ragnar Jonasson. Classic case of saving books for when they "click", since I had tried to read it before and couldn't get into it. This was the right moment though. Definitely a very slow burn. Solid atmospheric mystery in remote northern Iceland, will be reading more in the series.

Took me a bit to decide on my next read, but thinking of going with a more overdramatic mystery in the form of Everyone Here Is Lying by Shari Lapena.

[Michelle]

Robert wrote: "I've been reading through a lot of Riyria Revelations, now I just have Heir of Novron to finish.

Currently I am on a different tack, reading The Black Prism. It's my..."

Heir of Novron was terrific!

[Faith]

My review of Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky

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

[Mary]

Bearskin by Heather Strickler

[Jannelies (living between hope and fear)]

I finished Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky


I'm happy to say I rated it five stars!
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Robert]

Michelle wrote: "Heir of Novron was terrific!"

Wow, that certainly seems to be the consensus! I'll get to it this summer I'm certain.

[Audrey]

Finished The Midnight Library and started Starling House

[NekroRider]

Finished Everyone Here Is Lying was a really fun mystery/thriller if you enjoy over the top drama.

Now reading The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, almost done the first story: Silver Blaze. It has seemed a fairly straight forward crime so far but interested to see where it's gonna end and if there'll be a twist.

[Barbara]

Eruption by Michael Crichton and James Patterson

The Mauna Loa volcano in Hawaii is getting ready to erupt, and because of a dangerous hidden substance, it could kill everyone in the world.

Exciting thriller. 3.5 stars

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

[Carolyn]

Jannelies wrote: "I finished Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky


I'm happy to say I rated it five stars!
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show..."

Jannelies, I also loved Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky

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

[Barbara]

I liked Service Model too. 🙂

[Jannelies (living between hope and fear)]

Carolyn, thanks, I loved your review.
Barbara, did you review it already?

[Barbara]

Jannelies wrote: "Carolyn, thanks, I loved your review.
Barbara, did you review it already?"

I did Jannelies. Service Model 🙂

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

[Gary]

I finished reading Royal Assassin (Book #2 of the Farseer Trilogy) by Robin Hobb. This fantasy novel follows FitzChivalry, who’s the bastard son of the deceased King-in-waiting of the Six Duchies. Things look very bad for him at the end of the novel, probably looking up for the third book of the trilogy. I also finished Komarr (Book #11 of the Vorkosigan Saga) by Lois McMaster Bujold. Miles finds the woman of his dreams, but there are significant barriers for him to win her over. I am reading Solaris by Stanisław Lem. I plan to read Thinner by Stephen King next.

[Michelle]

Gary wrote: "I finished reading Royal Assassin (Book #2 of the Farseer Trilogy) by Robin Hobb. This fantasy novel follows FitzChivalry, who’s the bastard son of the deceased King-..."

You have great taste in books, Gary

[Tony]

I finished Childhood's End, which I quite enjoyed. It feels less dated than many of its contemporaries.

I have started Once Dead, which is a spin-off from The Second Ship and the novels that follow it.

[Mary]

Cecily by Alida Leacroft

[Andrea]

Finished Kris Longknife's Assassin on my eReader. I'll finally be able to get to the last book in the Burton and Swinburne series now The Rise of the Automated Aristocrats

I also moved to the next Kris Longknife book - Defender

And I discovered my library had a Magicians based graphic novel! - The Magicians: Alice's Story

[Andrea]

Finished Defender (too much time dealing with the protagonists sex life, too little exploring the culture of the alien planet they were on) and also finished Alice's Story (well done I felt)

Next library book - Amos Daragon: Le Sanctuaire des Braves III by Bryan Perro the very last of the Amos Daragon series

[Jerri]

Am reading Chain of Good by Cassandra Clare

[Audrey]

Finished The Midnight Library and Starling House.

[Georgann]

Read Nice Dragons Finish Last for my Indie Author Bingo square. It was a solid 3 star read. I would've read on but this is the only one our library system carries, so...

[Andrea]

Finished the Amos Daragon book and with it, that entire series which came out to about 20 books or so :)

Now time to return to the Fall of Babel which I started earlier, because it was just such a big heavy book I had put it off for a bit to read some lighter weight things.

[Tony]

I have finished Once Dead which has a plot that could have been a James Bond film and reads like a spy thriller, although it does have one major SF element. One issue with reading a prequel series is that some of the suspense is lost - you know the hero will survive and that the villain's world domination plot will fail - but that's a fair bet for most novels in that genre anyway.

I have started reading Complete Stories of Oz which is only the Oz stories by Baum, not any of the others. It will fill the 1000+ pages Bingo slot.

[NekroRider]

I finished The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes this morning. Really enjoyed all the stories and the adventure/action story vibe. Where things left off may motivate me to start Return of Sherlock Holmes perhaps before I originally intended.

I've now started the horror novel Seed by Ania Ahlborn. Only a chapter in but love the atmosphere and story so far.

[Robin]

spoilers... he didn't drown in the Reichenbach Falls...

[Robin]

seriously though, I have one of those compendium editions, all the short stories and all the novels of Sherlock Holmes in one volume. I read it from cover to cover years ago and loved it. Not long after, ITV here in the UK began a serialisation of all the Sherlock Holmes stories starring Jeremy Brett and Edmund Hardwick. Still the definitive TV adaptation for me, much as I love what Cumberbatch/Freeman/Moffat and Gatis did with the updated version.

[NekroRider]

Robin wrote: "spoilers... he didn't drown in the Reichenbach Falls..."

Haha don't worry not spoiling that part for me. I was super into the Cumberbatch Sherlock when it was first coming out but fell off after they took that several years long break and never resumed watching after. I probably will restart it once I've finished all the stories. Over the years I've read Hound of the Baskervilles (was my first one), Study in Scarlet, Sign of Four, Adventures of Sherlock, and Memoirs of Sherlock. Will eventually read them all.

[Tony]

I watched a few of the Cumberbatch episodes when they were on TV, but I do have the whole series on Blu-Ray, so I will get around to bingeing it one weekend.

[Robin]

The earlier Sherlock series are the best and the most connected to the books. Unfortunately, both Moffat and Gatis love complexity and they let that get in the way when writing the later series. They are worth watching but they stray a long way from the original notion of simply updating Holmes and Watson for the modern world.

[Andrea]

Robin wrote: "seriously though, I have one of those compendium editions, all the short stories and all the novels of Sherlock Holmes in one volume. I read it from cover to cover years ago and loved it. Not long ..."

Jeremy Brett is the definitive Holmes for me as well, he has this edge of insanity/mania that's just perfect. PBS has recently been replaying Poirot with David Suchet (the definitive Poirot for me), I keep hoping one day they'll do the Brett Holmes again too.

[Robin]

Yeah, there was an interesting spell there where Brett's Holmes, Suchet's Poirot and Joan Hickson's Marple were all on TV at the same time and all were absolutely perfect as their respective characters.

[Audrey]

I was looking at getting Sherlock from Amazon the other day, and they don't offer it for Region 1 anymore. That was weird to me. I had checked them out of the library a couple times, so I know there used to be some.

Most of the Oz books are so bad. He just phoned in a first draft on most of them.

[Mary]

Baum didn't want to write Oz books. Even the first one, he was writing for the money.

[Michelle]

Mary wrote: "Baum didn't want to write Oz books. Even the first one, he was writing for the money."

I didn't know that!

[Audrey]

Mary wrote: "Baum didn't want to write Oz books. Even the first one, he was writing for the money."

You can really tell.