Hey!! Let's get some action going! What are we reading?

[Mike Hobart]

Books of December -
it's a long time since I kept a reading log, but here is my book list for the last month.
1Q84 book three (Murakami)
Vhast 02 • Engaging Evil (Lenehan, Cary J.)
Tales From the Cafe (Coffee 2) (Toshikazu Kawaguchi)
Vhast 03 • Clearing the Web (Lenehan, Cary J.)
Forever Rumpole (John Mortimer)
White Face (Edgar Wallace)
First Form at Malory Towers (E. Blyton)
Finders Keepers (Emily Rodda)
Wild Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 2 (Will Murray)
If you lived here, you'd be home by now (Christopher Ingraham)

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Next I read Walkaway by Cory Doctorow. A very good near-future SF story.

I have cheated a little - reading many short works on my TBR list to make my 2024 numbers look better:

The Serpent's Tail by Sarah A. Hoyt
Castor by Sarah A. Hoyt
With Her Eyes by Cixin Liu
Curse 5.0 by Cixin Liu
Grace Immaculate by Gregory Benford
Emerging Legacy by Doranna Durgin
Defender 1 by Neil Gaiman et al.
Sculpture Stories by Neil Gaiman
Rare Bit Fiends by Neil Gaiman
Fortunately, The Milk... by Neil Gaiman
Love, Fishie by Maddy and Neil Gaiman

I can only really recommend Fortunately, the Milk.... and Emerging Legacy

I will pick something for the new year in the new year.

[Fbone]

Originally Posted by Fbone

Next is Foundation by Mercedes Lackey.

A good start to this series. Lackey certainly draws you in with the right amount of introspection and world building. She doesn't overdo descriptions of things. That said since this is the first in the series there was a great amount of background material and little action. Also, some things are not explained either fully or not at all. This leads to inconsistencies. This is probably one of those books the reader should just run with the storyline and don't over examine the details. Rated C+ [3 stars].

Next, I'll complete Chalker's The Four Lords of the Diamond series with Medusa: a tiger by the tail.

[Uncle Robin]

Wang Hui's China From Empire to Nation State is a fascinating and very dense read. It's also a great example of the importance and value of highly skilled literary translators. It also taught me a new word, one I correctly parsed from context - enfeoffment. From never having seen it before to finding it 26 times in one book

[issybird]

I've started This One's On Me the sixth Bandy book by Donald Jack. I checked Goodreads and was startled to discover it's been over ten years since I read the prior book; here's my review:

Not as amusing as the earlier books. Perhaps Canadian politics aren't as funny as the Great War.

Which pretty much says it. Here's hoping Jack's back on form with this one.