What Are You Reading?

[AnaKhouri]

Savage Legion, a fantasy novel by Matt Wallace that I won in a Goodreads giveaway. It's SO GOOD y'all.

AND. Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir, the sequel to Gideon the Ninth, comes out August 4! Gideon was my absolute favorite book of last year and early reviews for Harrow are spectacular so I am STOKED!

[Ironclad Alibi]

I have started reading The House In The Cerulean Sea.

[It's me]

My latest read is "A Key, An Egg, An Unfortunate Remark" by Harry Connolly.

The writing is a little uneven, part of which I think is due to faulty editing. But the story is
interesting.

Blurb from Amazon:

After years of waging a secret war against the supernatural, Marley Jacobs put away her wooden stakes and silver bullets, then turned her back on violence. She declared Seattle, her city, a safe zone for everyone, living and undead. There would be no more preternatural murder under her watch.

But waging peace can make as many enemies as waging war, and when Marley's nephew turns up dead in circumstances suspiciously like a vampire feeding, she must look into it.

[Kit-Ginevra]

I'm kicking into Julia Golding's Cat Royal
series about an orphan who grows up in the Drury Lane theatre in London in the 1790s,mixing with lords and ladies who patronize the theatre but also the barrowboys and street urchins who lurk about outside. In the next books, she ends up on a slave plantation in Jamaica and being pressganged into a pirate ship...

[Ironclad Alibi]

Hmm, Cline's book sounds like a nice, apocalyptic read ...

Indeed it does. I found out about the book from his talk at a National Capital Area Skeptics program. It is on YouTube.

[Pixelated]

Hmm, Cline's book sounds like a nice, apocalyptic read ...

[Ironclad Alibi]

I Just finished The Sea Peoples by Nancy Sanders.

Next up is 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed by Eric H. Cline

[Ghel]

I finished the Star Wars: Aftermath series and started reading The Lies of Locke Lamora. I'm told it's good low fantasy. I like it so far, even though it leans heavily on the "clever boy who's amazingly lucky" trope.

[greek_jester]

I just totally devoured "All Systems Red" by Martha Wells, the first book in the "Murderbot Diaries". It's only 150 pages, and not very densely written, so it is a quick read. Expensive for basically a novella, but I got it from my local library. I'm waiting for the second book to get checked in, and I may pre-emptively check out the others in the series just in case....

The series is now complete, and I have just finished reading it.

Go read it right now. Seriously. This series is amazing, and Murderbot is a wonderful character. It is written in first person perspective, but if it wasn't then the series wouldn't work as well as it does. At least half the fun is Murderbot's internal monologue about how stupid humans can be when handling security.

Plus, I found them kind of relatable; whenever they get stressed they start watching terrible programs, whereas whenever I get stressed I either start reading or play a quick game of solitaire.

[Ironclad Alibi]

Not long ago, I polished off "His Majesty's Dragon", by Naomi Novik. Enjoyable, lightweight, fun. Could easily be classed as YA or fantasy. The first of a 9-book (so far) series, which I am looking forward to getting from the library as soon as it opens again.

I only have the first seven, so am ordering the last two. The cover of #9 says it is the final book of the series.

I also received the new book Enemy of all Mankind today. It is the true story of a global manhunt for a notorious pirate in the 17th century.

[Nunavut Pants]

Not long ago, I polished off "His Majesty's Dragon", by Naomi Novik. Enjoyable, lightweight, fun. Could easily be classed as YA or fantasy. The first of a 9-book (so far) series, which I am looking forward to getting from the library as soon as it opens again.

Protege--you have my sympathies for the Haynes manual. They're better than Chilton's, but that 's not saying much.

[AnaKhouri]

Got my tween Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America and he read it in 3 days. I just borrowed it from him.

[protege]

I'm in the middle of Robert Bentley's "The Complete Official MGB, 1962-74" as I deal with that damn fuel pump and leaking axle seals.

[It's me]

I've change series for a bit.... Read "Child of Fire" by Harry Connolly, now working on the second book in the series.

[Pixelated]

If you would like a very interesting book about Egypt check out A Thousand Miles Up The Nile by Amelia B. Edwards.

Online here.

PDF here.

Thank you, I will check that out. I've also read (a couple of times) House of Dreams by Pauline Gedge. It was very well written, although it didn't exactly have a happy ending. But the reader has to remember Thu's age during this saga ... she was, what, 14 when the book started, when she first became a concubine?