What are you currently reading?

[Christine]

[Christine]

[Greg]

Just finished Remnant Population by Elizabeth Moon. Also finished Chanur's Venture. Currently reading Nightmare Journey, Lines of Departure, The Charm School,
and Pandemic by Sigler, Scott (2014) Paperback.

[Christine]

[Christine]

[Karin]

I enjoyed a swashbuckler, not a genre I usually read, at 4 stars, The Redemption by MaryLu Tyndall.

my review

[Christine]

[Ági]

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan

[Christine]

[Woman Reading]

Finlay Donovan Digs Her Own Grave by Elle Cosimano

My review : https:://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7602995441

[Christine]

[Emily]

House of Sky and Breath

I have just finished this. Disappointing read. There is a gap in the vocabulary with Maas opting for profanity rather than descriptive writing. It gives a sense of trying to reach a word count by adding unnecessary swearing that reads like a novice is writing. Maas seems to be falling into trashy erotica with each new novel. It was a difficult read because the writing grated against the underdeveloped plot.

[Christine]

[Christine]

[Christine]

[Blakie]

Just started “Great Big Beautiful Life” by Emily Henry and it’s promising.

[Greg]

Just finished The Rowan book 1 of the Tower and the Hive series by Anne McCaffrey and a book I have read before. I have started reading many books this year but have only finsihed 7. Of those, 4 were books I had read before. Don't know what that signifies.

[Blakie]

Just started Moloka’i and can’t put it down.
~Blakie

[Greg]

And I just finished The Deep Blue Good-By book 1 of the Travis McGee series by John D. MacDonald and was one of the many books started that I mentioned in post 118. Had this one on my To Read shelf since October 2015.

[Greg]

In the process of getting my Currently Reading shelf squared away I have switched some books back to Want To Read and then finished reading Nightmare Journey last night. And as of this morning I had only two books left: A Lesson In Dying and Pandemic. But then I couldn't help myself and added Eruption about an hour ago. Oh well.

[Christine]

[Christine]

[Ági]

[Ági]

[Christine]

[Christine]

[Rosalyn]

Rollicking good fun, think Knives Out but set in wintry Australia. The dry humor kept the book buoyant, but this was a lighter murder mystery on the whole, with medaled pigeons, a kooky surfer dude proprietor, bumbling village cops, and the...

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



me @ benjamin stevenson:



Even better than the first in series! Told with his signature humor, Stevenson takes the murderous hijinks on the road, with a new cast of potential victims to pick off. I liked the backdrop of the Australian outback, the variation of which I had no idea about prior to reading this book. The exotic and isolated location adds to the atmosphere in a unique way; no misty, shadowy mysterious moors, but bright, unforgiving sun and desert, eventually laying bare all the secrets of each suspect. It’s not all just stupid fun either; Stevenson touched upon...

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





Shapiro obviously knows his stuff, and I appreciated the introduction into events and movements of the early Jacobean era and how it influenced Shakespeare’s plays during the titular year. I dock a star because there were times where the book...

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I made it all the way to 75% before admitting to myself that I don't care who the culprit is. The surly male detective trope is overdone. Just because you're naturally gifted at something like detective work doesn't give you an excuse to be a rude person. Also, the tinge of...

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





This book should've been called Suppression instead, my goodness! I understand it was the social norm of the time to be super reserved, but everything could've been resolved quicker if the two former lovers talked honestly to each other. This was a quiet, melancholy book, complete with windswept English beaches, emerald cliffs, a frigid and stark November, lots of quiet contemplation, held breaths, stolen glances, feigned indifference. I give it a 3 star because...

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





This was my first foray into Margaret Atwood's work and oh my goodness, I was hypnotized and drawn in by her writing just as much as I was by our mysterious titular character. Her description of a young, developing Richmond Hill, Ontario in the 1850s (which is where I grew up btw), caught between the bucolic and burgeoning industry, modern science and spirituality, old world customs and the new, it all felt so lived in and real. Grace is a...

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





This was my first Agatha Christie book, and I picked one of the most popular ones hoping to fall in love...I was underwhelmed. Was the mystery and reveal twisty at the time it was written, maybe? I found the methods of deduction too simple/assuming too many things, and the solution convoluted. There also wasn't much...

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





I appreciated the author's trademark dry humor and great descriptions of atmosphere - both the kooky and kitschy Wonder Museum and the foggy, eerie Hollow Place. My rating is based off more my personal enjoyment; I was looking for more frights, but clearly looked in the wrong place, my fault, since I know Kingfisher's brand of horror is...

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





Do NOT be fooled by the serious and somber cover, this book is so fun!! I was expecting a moody, classic 19th century whodunnit, which sure, it delivers that, but it also maintains an air of levity throughout, thanks to the cast of characters, who are like the Scooby gang if they existed in 1896. They range from an idiosyncratic alienist, to a pair of hilarious Jewish brothers/forensic pathologists, to a badass gun-toting female secretary, to our narrator, the unseasoned but enthusiastic sidekick. They had great chemistry and I enjoyed following them race around NYC and contributing to the burgeoning field of criminal psychology. Needless to say this book is chalk full of...

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

[Christine]

[Greg]

Finished reading Eruption Michael Chrichton's unfinished book that was finished by James Patterson. I am starting Jeff Shaara's The Glorious Cause.

[Bartholomew]

Currently working through The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs by Steve Brusatte, and Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab

[Denise]

Rosalyn wrote: "



Rollicking good fun, think Knives Out but set in wintry Australia. The dry humor kept the book buoyant, but this was a lighter murde..."

I figured out the twist of Roger Ackroyd long before the end so i was also underwhelmed. But I DID like Murder on the Orient Express (which I read first) and Murder on the Links so I'd give her another try

[Christine]

[Cristen]

The Map That Leads to You

[Terry]

Just finished:


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[Jean]

Just finished Keep it in the family

[Ági]

Az öreg halász és a tenger - Elbeszélések - Hungarian version of The Old Man and the Sea. The book also contains other stories by Ernest Hemingway.

[Terry]

[Ági]

So This is Permanence: Joy Division Lyrics and Notebooks by Ian Curtis

[Ági]