What Are You Reading?

[Ironclad Alibi]

"Bimbos of the Death Sun", Sharon McCrumb

I have that book! It is in a two book volume titled Bimbos and Zombies, the second novel being Zombies of the Gene Pool by the same author.

It's going to be read one of these days.

[morgana]

"Bimbos of the Death Sun", Sharon McCrumb

[Kit-Ginevra]

The Future of Us by Jay Asher & Carolyn Mackler.... Josh and Emma find a disc that lets them log on to their Facebook pages on the Internet with their friends relationships and status updates...except it's 1996 and no-one's heard of Facebook

I read Alice in Wonderland. I have wanted to read this book for a long time. And I want to say that the book is not worse than the movie.

[Nunavut Pants]

It's a bit similar to the Potter books, but only in the sense there's magic and occult stuff in it.

Good point, but that's the short-one-sentence description. A slightly longer description would add "...as written by a Doctor Who writer."

[mjr]

You're intending to learn the Czech language? I've got German and Russian novels and "English to [language]" dictionaries, but with the Russian ones, I will have to start from Square One.

Yes. I have some Czech ancestry in my background, and thought it might be interesting to learn.

[greek_jester]

Like Potter he does have to have training in the magical arts, but he has to squeeze that training in with his police duties. Oh, and we're not entirely sure just how old his trainer is ...

Well, we do know he fought in WW1...

[Pixelated]

I just started reading Oliver Twist. The phrasing takes a bit getting used to (long sentences with commas in odd places make for slow reading!) I am quite enjoying it it... been a long while since I've read any classical literature....

That makes me think of "Ruled Britannia," the book I mentioned earlier (in which the Spanish Armada succeeds in conquering Britain). The author uses what sounds to me like fairly legitimate Elizabethan-era English. It's not something you can just skim through.

Well, my glasses came in yesterday, so now I'll have to work on "catch up" reading. I bought myself a book on the Czech language, and I still have some other techie books (like "Clean Architecture" and "Language Implementation Patterns") to read as well.

You're intending to learn the Czech language? I've got German and Russian novels and "English to [language]" dictionaries, but with the Russian ones, I will have to start from Square One.

Note that the original title was "Rivers of London"; for some reason they decided to change the title for the US market or some such.

One friend of mine described it as "Harry Potter grows up and joins the Met." (London's Metropolitan Police force, for colonists like me who don't know what that is.)

Dammit! I thought the cover art looked familiar, but was duped by the new title! I hate it when they do that.

It's a bit similar to the Potter books, but only in the sense there's magic and occult stuff in it. The main character is well past 11 when he finds out that he has magical capabilities (unless the London Met is hiring really young ). They're a bit drier in humour than the Potter books, perhaps because they're written from the POV of the main character. Like Potter he does have to have training in the magical arts, but he has to squeeze that training in with his police duties. Oh, and we're not entirely sure just how old his trainer is ...

[Nunavut Pants]

I also re-read Ben Aaronovitch's "Midnight Riot" in which a young PC based in London finds a witness to a murder ...

Note that the original title was "Rivers of London"; for some reason they decided to change the title for the US market or some such.

One friend of mine described it as "Harry Potter grows up and joins the Met." (London's Metropolitan Police force, for colonists like me who don't know what that is.)

I am presently reading The Lord of the Rings. It is an epic fantasy novel written by English author and scholar J. R. R. Tolkien.

[mjr]

Well, my glasses came in yesterday, so now I'll have to work on "catch up" reading. I bought myself a book on the Czech language, and I still have some other techie books (like "Clean Architecture" and "Language Implementation Patterns") to read as well.

[It's me]

I just started reading Oliver Twist. The phrasing takes a bit getting used to (long sentences with commas in odd places make for slow reading!) I am quite enjoying it it... been a long while since I've read any classical literature....

[Jay 2K Winger]

Finally picked up Brief Cases, the second collection of Dresden Files short stories.

The very first story is set in the 19th Century and features Warden Anastasia Luccio hunting necromancers with Wyatt Earp. I was grinning like a fool at the mere prospect of it all.

[Pixelated]

I was on Goodreads but found the site confusing. Hmm ... someday I should maybe try it again.

[AnaKhouri]

I started keeping track on Goodreads. This year I have read The Exorcist, Anno Dracula, A Record of Our Debts, and The House in the Dark of the Woods. I specifically disabled some of my social media so I would have more time to read without being tempted to the Internet. It's working! I am currently reading Triumph of the Moon, a history of modern-day pagan witchcraft (something like that is the subtitle). The author traces most of the rituals performed by modern pagans back to a movement in the late 19th-early 20th century. It's very scholarly and I think it will take some time to read but it's interesting so far. I'm reading it in case it has some ideas I can use in my Iron Age fantasy.