Posted on 06/27/2014 8:33:15 AM PDT by Tax-chick
What are you reading? There used to be a quarterly "What are you reading?" thread, but I haven't seen it for a long time. I got a lot of good book suggestions that way, and I miss it.
So here's a thread! If you're reading something interesting you think others would like, or something boring you'd recommend we all avoid, jump in! If you have a ping list of FReepers who might be interested, ping them!
Excellent! That's the kind of writing that makes FanFiction great!
I was totally unprepared to like the Percy Jackson series, just as I was the Harry Potter series. Very pleasant surprises for me!
RE your two comments:
GSWarrior
I picked up the Jack Vance Demon Princes omnibus version at a bookstore years ago. I think you can still find it on amazon/ebay. I recently downloaded it from itunes for more convenient reading. I’m thinking of downloading The Dying Earth omnibus at some point soon so I can revisit Cugel, Rhialto, etc.
Tax-chick
Telzey Amberdon is a collected series of short stores, and a novelette about a girl who discovers that she has psi-powers and develops the ability to communicate with and read/alter the minds of others, and potentially other creatures. I think that the whole mental/psi thing was big in the 50’s/60’s, bigger than it is now. Anyway, once she discovers her powers, she is exposed to a world where there are others who have similar powers, many of which are quite dangerous, etc. Adventures ensue.
Is “Inferno” another of his books that takes place in a 24-hour period?
Finished “Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism” by Goodwin and “Do Not Ask What Good We Do” by Robert Draper. Now I’m re-reading some of my dad’s old “Flashman” books.
bfl
Arab Winter - Coming to America
The Gift of Infallibility
The original “Perry Mason” series was one of the best ever. Everything about it was first rate and Della was a beauty.
I read an article by Erle Stanley Gardner way back in the 50s or maybe 60s in “Outdoor Life” about survival. About the only thing I recall was his thinking a six inch barrel Smith & Wesson .22 revolver would be a necessity.
It would probably be considered simplistic today.
“Speaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks in New Mexico History” by Sam Lowe
A surprisingly short book.
LOL!
I think it might be two days or so. Pretty good though...I always learn or re-learn a lot reading his stuff.
Glad to see another Jack Vance fan!
Are you series?
I’m reading ‘That Hideous Strength’ - C. S. Lewis.
‘FM3-36 Electronic Warfare’ - Department of the Army
Thanks, just requested it! I read a biography of Cornelius Vanderbilt not that long ago, and I remember these women having a major role for a time.
I’ve been reading the Stephanie Barron books. You could call them The Jane Austen Mysteries. They’re cute. It’s basically like fan fiction wherein Jane Austen is a sort of Miss Marple or J.B. Fletcher who goes around helping solve crimes between working on drafts of her own novels. They’re actually fairly believable, because Jane stays very much in the character one would imagine: carefully drawing others out over tea, observing quietly in ballrooms, consulting solicitors who can then write the necessary letters (because a lady can’t write to just anyone). I quite like them.
I got through both of those once, but really liked only “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.”
Oh, I’ve read those!
He IS good. Came out of nowhere, that one did!
Ever go to AO3? (archiveofourown.net)
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