Give it a chance. I remember liking it. Of course, I read it during a forced seclusion, trapped in my house in northern Thailand during a few days of torrential rains, so there was not much else to do.
Just Finished: 1636: The Kremlin Games , by Eric Flint, Gorg Huff, and Paula Goodlett
Now reading: Grantville Gazette VI , edited by Eric Flint (reread)
Next up: 1636: Commander Cantrell in the West Indies, by Eric Flint and Charles E Gannon (reread)
Started this morning on The Drowning Kind by Jennifer McMahon.
Finished Answers in the Form of Questions: A Definitive History and Insider’s Guide to Jeopardy! , by Claire McNear. This book is a lot of fun.
Now I’m reading The Empress of Salt and Fortune, by Nghi Vo.
I’m reading a Jennifer McMahon book right now, too – The Invited. I think I first heard about the book through Straight Dope, so if you’ve read other books by her and posted about it, then maybe it was you. It’s a really good book, which is a nice change of pace because I’ve read a string of books that have underwhelmed me lately.
The only other one I’ve read lately that I found impressive enough to merit a mention in this thread is David Eagleman’s Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives, which are forty pieces of short fiction describing what might happen after you die. Even if you don’t believe in spirits and afterlives (which I don’t, FTR), there were still some thought-provoking pieces exploring – not sure how to describe it. How humans fit into the grand scheme of the universe, I guess.
Yeah, it may have been me that mentioned Jennifer McMahon. She seems to do that supernatural/mild thriller sort of book dependably well.
Finished The Empress of Salt and Fortune , by Nghi Vo, which was excellent. It’s nominated for the Hugo Award in the Novella category this year.
Now I’m reading Whale Day and Other Poems, by Billy Collins.
Finished Whale Day and Other Poems , by Billy Collins. My favorite poem was “Architecture at 3:30 a.m.”, which is about Dagwood making a sandwich.
Now I’m reading The Hidden People, by Alison Littlewood. It’s a fantasy mystery.
Finished The Drowning Kind, by Jennifer McMahon, and gave it five stars at Goodreads. A ghost story that delivers exactly what it says on the tin!
Next up, one I’ve been looking forward to, Alix Harrow’s The Once and Future Witches.
A Game of Birds and Wolves - The Ingenious Young Women Whose Secret Board Game Helped Win World War II - Simon Parkin
World War 2 history of how a disabled former naval officer and ten women from the Women’s Royal Naval Service created a room-sized board game, like a pumped up Battleship, to study U-boat tactics and devise ways to counter them.
Enjoyable and interesting book.
Hat tip to Dendarii Dame who mentioned it a few months ago.
That looks cool, zimaane. Thanks.
Just began rereading a favorite of mine, Joe Haldeman’s trippy 1990 sf novel The Hemingway Hoax. A Hemingway scholar and a Key West con artist decide to try to create and then sell, as authentic, the elusive, long-sought stories lost or stolen from a train at the Gare de Lyon in December 1922. Things get seriously weird by the end, but it’s a fascinating book and would be appreciated by just about any Hemingway fan, I’d say.
Finished The Wreck of the Titan. Short story that is interesting enough but not one I’ll find myself recommending as a must read.
You’re welcome!
Finished The Hidden People , by Alison Littlewood. It was interesting, if somewhat overlong. Oh, and I said it was a fantasy mystery. As it turns out, it’s a mystery, but not a fantasy!
Now I’m reading A Most Beautiful Thing: The True Story of America’s First All-Black High School Rowing Team, by Arshay Cooper.
Don’t wish to step on @DZedNConfused’s toes. Hope all is well on his end. It is a new month though so maybe a mod could start off the May thread.
Finished Emma, by Jane Austen. A comedy of manners, it is considered her masterpiece. My first Austen, I enjoyed it. Apart from the stricter film portrayals, if you saw the movie Clueless, then you are familiar with Emma, as that was a modern adaptation.
Next up, it’s back to Robert Crais’ LA noir with his standalone The Two Minute Rule.
Sorry! I’ve been working a different shift this week and I totally forgot.
Priorities, woman! 