What are you reading May 2015

[Nancy]

I'm listening to the audio version of a story collection edited by Neil Gaiman called Stories: All New Tales, loosely described by one source as "imaginative fiction." In print, I just finished Elizabeth Wein's latest novel about young pilots, a theme she has written about in several books. The first two focused on young women in World War II, while this one, also set before and during the war but in Ethiopia rather than Europe, has several pilots: mothers and their children (brought up in a family of pilots, they naturally learn to fly when they're in their teens) and several other adults more peripheral to the plot.
Others I've finished recently include Hild, a historical novel by Nicola Griffith (that also worked out as a book by an author with my initials, an item on a book challenge I'm doing); Zealot by Reza Aslan; A Spool of Blue Thread by Ann Tyler (book with a color in the title on one of my challenges); The Boy Who Lost Fairyland by Catherynne Valente; Shadow Scale by Rachel Hartman, a fantasy novel and sequel to a book published a couple of years ago; and The Girl Next Door by Ruth Rendell. Rendell was one of my favorite mystery authors, and this will have been one of her last books as she died shortly after I read this one.

[Pam]

I just finished Final Undertaking by Mark de Castique in the Barry Clayton series. This is the first book I've read in this series and I will definitely read more. Nice quick read with a good story. Best of all, it takes place near Asheville, NC and has Malaprop's Bookstore as a minor setting. Booktopians will appreciate this!

[Sandy]

I just read A Murder of Magpies. It is a very enjoyable quick, light read, with lots of humor. The middle-aged heroine has an amusing outlook on life. She works in publishing and, having listened to the latest podcast with Ann's take on a TV program set in publishing, I wonder if this is any more accurate. The book certainly does not make it glamorous.

[Jaylene]

Late yesterday I finished "After the Flood," the second in the Oryx & Crake trilogy by Margaret Atwood. Read for my book club, and I was skeptical, because I could not get into the first book of the trilogy when I tried reading it a summer or two ago. But, enjoyable read, compelling characters. Next on the list? The recommendation for the audio version of "Boys in the Boat" on BOTNS podcast was so impassioned, I have downloaded that book to listen to.

[Shalimar]

I felt the same way! I'm completely sold on his review.

[Gerald]

This has been a tough month for me in many different ways so my reading and listening has taken a back seat. Right now I am listening to .As with many Ellroy books it takes time to get through the history, police terms, explanation of crimes and so on but the story is beginning to form nicely.

[Gerald]

To continue looking at my bingo card I downloaded . Published in my birth year,1951. Also looking at for book set in Europe. Miracles do happen.

[Linda]

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