What Are You Reading?

[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.

[Racket_Man]

Just found out there is now a sequel to the book Ready PLayer One called ironicly Ready Player Two. I am about half way through. kinda interesting so another quest this time forced by an interesting antaognoist same characters as the first book

also reading the new Hunger Games prequel about Snow and his history. hope it is another trilogy

[Nunavut Pants]

I've just started on "Servant of the Dragon", the third in David Drake's "Lord of the Isles" series. I've had the first book for a very long time, but didn't read it because after I bought it I found that it was part of a long series that was not finished at that point.

I recently read "No Parachute", by Arthur Gould Lee. It's a first-hand account of being a fighter pilot in World War I, back when aircraft were still a very new thing.

I have a couple of books on the Golden Age of Air Racing (the 20s and 30s in the US) theoretically showing up tomorrow that I hope to start on soon. I love those old birds, especially the Gee Bee Model Z.

[AnaKhouri]

And Disney refuses to pay him for his work using a BS excuse that they acquired the property, not the obligation to pay the author. It's outrageous. Even the SFWA has called out Disney.

My interest right now is in the Clone Wars era (because I'm watching Clone Wars, surprise ) so I have a nice little TBR from that time period. I am starting with Master & Apprentice by Claudia Gray.

[Ironclad Alibi]

I am in a big Star Wars mood so my next book is a SW novel!

The first Star Wars books was ghost written by Alan Dean Foster. If you are not familiar with him check out his Commonwealth series of novels, especially those about Flinx.

He wrote a number Star Wars books, the latest being Star Trek: The Unsettling Stars.

[AnaKhouri]

I just finished Mists of Avalon (3/5...some part were reallllllly boring). I felt weird about reading it but it seemed important to so many women I thought I'd give it a shot. I'm rather relieved I didn't love it, to be honest.

I am in a big Star Wars mood so my next book is a SW novel!

[Ironclad Alibi]

I just finished The Guns Above by Robyn Bennis. Next up is the sequel By Fire Above.