What Are You Reading?

[It's me]

Murderbot Diaries #6 just dropped....

[Kit-Ginevra]

I'm just listening to the Cadfael audiobooks- at the most I'm working through The Virgin in the Ice

If you're interested in that sort of time period, may I recommended Bernard Knight's Crowner John series-John de Wolfe is appointed by King Richard in the new office of Coroner and so has to deal with all sorts of unexplained deaths on his travels,as well as keeping his wife and mistress happy, accompanied by his sidekicks-a bodyguard who deals with any unruly or annoying people at inquests and a defrocked clerk who is attempting to get frocked again and teach his master how to read and write. The fact it's set around Devon and the majority of that is around Exeter is especially interesting for me as I can picture all the local places mentioned
Oh and Mr. Knight just happens to be a Home Office coroner so he knows what he's talking about in the way of corpses and their behaviour.

[Ceir]

Have you seen the series with Derek Jacobi? I loved it so much. He was an utterly perfect Cadfael.

It's been ages, probably since it was actually on PBS Mystery. Might see if it's streaming anywhere or at the library!

[AnaKhouri]

Have you seen the series with Derek Jacobi? I loved it so much. He was an utterly perfect Cadfael.

[Ceir]

Plowed my way through the first couple Brother Cadfael mysteries again. Been a couple years since I touched the series, forgot how much I liked it - especially once Hugh is introduced.

[Android Kaeli]

I'm thinking about rereading The Hungar Games again, just because.

[Ironclad Alibi]

I am reading Borrower of the Night by Elizabeth Peters.

[AnaKhouri]

Boudica by Vanessa Collingridge.

You...can probably guess the subject. 😄

[Pixelated]

I've just started They Also Ran by Irving Stone. It's about some of the presidential candidates who, for better or for worse, didn't win.

The first two in the book were journalists. Imagine that.

[Kittish]

Does not yet published count? I just finished the latest one from my author BF, it's scheduled to be published on Amazon later this week. It's pretty good. BF has always been a good story teller. His technical chops have improved a lot, too, and it's much easier for me to read his stuff now that I'm not also trying to edit it (GF is the main editor now, and she has an edit minion to help her, which leaves me with just admin duties, which I am totally fine with).

[Ghel]

I finished reading The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin, and I really liked the trilogy. It's not a happy story, but the ending felt hopeful. It's a good science fiction / fantasy story with some really interesting concepts and complex characters who feel real.

Now I'm reading Old Man's War by John Scalzi. Also science fiction, but it's a much lighter, quicker read. At least so far.

[Kristev]

Distracted, by Maggie Jackson.

[Ironclad Alibi]

I am reading The Laughter of Dead Kings by Elizabeth Peters.

[Pixelated]

I'm nearly finished ripping through An Evil Spirit Out of the West by Paul Doherty. It's about the rise (and crashing fall) of the Great Heretic, Akenhaten (who may or may not have been Tutankhamen's father, nobody seems to be too sure).

This book sure doesn't portray either Akenhaten or Nefertiti in a very good light, but nothing too surprising when you consider they had not only absolute royal power but took on all of a god's powers as ... basically meaning that anything they did was not only acceptable but right.

I had read it before but had forgotten all about it.Was up most of last night trying to get through it again.

[Ironclad Alibi]

I have started reading The House In The Cerulean Sea.

The above book was on the Washington Post Paperback Bestsellers list recently at position 8.

As far as I know, this is the first time a book has appeared on a bestseller list after I have read it.