What Are You Reading?

[Kit-Ginevra]

Listening to (well,attempting to. I stick the audiobook on at night and fall asleep halfway through the chapter, so have to keep going back)
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

[It's me]

I am about half way through "Fade" by Daniel Humphreys.

It's like a cross between the Dresden Files and The Laundry Files.


Blurb on Amazon:

Paxton Locke is the son of a Witch.

Family drama is bad enough without adding human sacrifice to the mix. Ten years ago, his mother killed his father in a grisly ritual that Paxton interrupted. Now he criss-crosses the countryside in his RV working as a paranormal investigator while Mother languishes in jail. She’ll never forgive him for interfering…or for stealing her spellbook.

It started as a normal job for Paxton. At least as normal as speaking to ghosts ever was. But then the terrified shade of a murdered boy warns him of a dangerous, newly-freed entity, and suddenly he has to talk to Mother again to save the day.

[Pixelated]

Rereading "Ghost Month" by Ed Lin.

Hmmm, apparently there's more than one of them, I see it's also known by "Taipei Night Market #1".

It's August, a/k/a Ghost Month in Taiwan, when residents burn incense and fake money for those in the otherworld, visit shrines, and avoid things like large purchases and bodies of water.

For Jing-nan, who runs a food stall in the night market, it's a time to wonder how on earth his long-distance, long-time fiancee, who was valedictorian during their years in school and was in a prestigious American university, ended up shot dead while working at a betel-nut concession stand, especially since the scantily-clad "betel beauties" are one step -- one very SMALL step -- above prostitutes.

[Jay 2K Winger]

IIRC, Butcher was writing Peace Talks (the next novel) and realized it was getting too big and too long, and had to do some re-writes to split the story into two distinct books. Hence why we're getting Peace Talks and then Battle Ground almost immediately after.

Per Word of Jim, the series will be at least 20 books long before being capped off by the B.A.T. (Big Apocalyptic Trilogy), which he's said will be called Hell's Bells, Stars and Stones, and Empty Night. So after Battle Ground, we'll have at least three more books before the B.A.T.

IIRC again, after Battle Ground, the next book will be called Mirror Mirror.

[YamiNoHime]

Maybe he was ill or had a family crisis?

[It's me]

The Dresden Files. I have never read them before but now I felt like trying. I am at Turn Coat now.

New novel drops on July 14th, and then the next one on September 29th. No idea what Butcher is up to with the huge gap and then releasing two books almost at once.

[YamiNoHime]

Love that series

[Jay 2K Winger]

The Dresden Files. I have never read them before but now I felt like trying. I am at Turn Coat now.

Oh man. You have Changes on the horizon.

[Mikkel]

The Dresden Files. I have never read them before but now I felt like trying. I am at Turn Coat now.

[AnaKhouri]

Reading Funny, You Don't Look Autistic by Michael McCreary, an autistic comedian. We suspect my older son is high- functioning on the spectrum, and my mom read this and recommended it. It's funny and heartfelt. While McCreary and my son are very different people, I do feel like he's giving me some insight into how my son possibly perceives things.

[It's me]

I LOVE MURDERBOT!!

Don't have an e-reader. I may have to think about getting one...

I really like my Kindle Paperwhite for reading novels. I prefer it over my phone or tablet.

[Nunavut Pants]

I LOVE MURDERBOT!!

Don't have an e-reader. I may have to think about getting one...

[It's me]

There's a new Murderbot novel coming out on May 5th. $14 for the ebook

https://www.amazon.com/Network-Effec...qid=1586662819

[Pixelated]

I've read many of the Falco novels; not so many of the Sister Fidelma novels, but I really like the historical basis for the latter ... the Celtic courts and the fact that women can be advocates. Also the fact that she's a Celt but her partner in many of these cases is a Saxon monk.

The Falco novels are a bit more lightweight, but I really like the main character. He's not a gritty rock-jawed hero, he's just a guy with a sharp mind who periodically gets his butt handed to him, but he also has a wonky sense of humour.

[Ironclad Alibi]

Two very good historical mystery series are:

Twenty novels feature Marcus Didius Falco, the laid-back Roman ‘informer’ who investigates crimes and acts as an often reluctant imperial agent. By Lindsey Davis.

The Sister Fidelma Mystery series, by Peter Tremayne, are set mainly in Ireland during the mid-seventh century AD