May is here! How are we five months into this year already?! Almost summer up north, almost winter if you’re upside down 
passes out allergy meds Lots of great books coming out this year, so much T. Kingfisher this year; let’s keep hyping them up, sharing the love and completely eviscerating the bad ones!
So Whatcha all readin?
This year apparently I have the attention span of an over caffeinated grasshopper on crack..
Print:
Blitz by Daniel O’Malley, still plugging away but damn four pages of plot then FIFTY pages of tangent. I love the world he’s created but dude, focus!
How to Fake it in Society by K.J. Charles. Her newest Regency m/m romance. I love her characters, most are ordinary people, some are con men but hardly a Duke or Earl in sight.
Wolf Worm by T. Kingfisher. I"m having trouble getting into it, I’m not a fan of body horror … or swarming insects for that matter.
System Collapse by Martha Wells. Frankly, I NEED some snark in my life right now.
Khadaji was one of the earlier members of SDMB, and he was well-known as a kindly person who always had something encouraging to say, particularly in the self-improvement threads. He was also a voracious, omnivorous reader, who started these threads 'way back in the Stone Age of 2005. Consequently, when he suddenly and quite unexpectedly passed away in January 2013, we decided to rename this thread in his honor and to keep his memory, if not his ghost, alive.
Stan and Ollie: The Roots of Comedy: The double Life of Laurel and Hardy by Simon Louvish, the last of the books I received last Christmas.
Comments:
1.) Decide on the subtitle you want to use before your book goes to press
2.) Very good so far. Both men had very interesting family histories and childhoods. The description of Oliver Hardy’s father, Oliver, reads like a description of Oliver Hardy himself. Sadly, the younger Hardy (whose name was really “Norvell” (his mother’s maiden name) , so he wasn’t a “junior”) never got to meet his father.
3.) Louvish wrote a great many other books, including one on the Marx Brothers. Our own Exapno undoubtedly has an opinion on that one.
On audio I finally found an audiobook of another Clive Cussler-inspired novel – Quantum Tempest, an “Oregon Files” novel actually written by Mike Maden. I swear, Cussler publishes more books now that he’s dead than I do alive. I’ve already spoken of my suspicion that he left a whole stack of plot ideas before he died, so that his many collaborators could continue the grift, but I might be selling Mr. Maden short.
My bedside reading is still The Penguin Book of Mermaids, which includes quite a few stories that have never been published elsewhere, or have just been translated into English, or which appeared in obscure old books.
The Nile Toby Wilkerson
A travelogue/history (mostly history, the travel part is a just few paragraphs here and there) of Egypt along the Nile, from the far south to Cairo.
Fairly interesting, talks a lot about ancient Egypt, but also the Christian and Islamic epochs.
Finished The Kosher Guide to Imaginary Animals, by Ann and Jeff Vandermeer; and Alien Clay, by Adrian Tchaikovsky, both of which I enjoyed. They’re very funny.
Next up: More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech, by Meredith Broussard; and Infinite Archive, by Mur Lafferty. The latter is the latest in the Midsolar Murders series.
The Kill List by Frederick Forsyth. Good read regarding Islamic and cyber terrorism thus far.
I finished Wolf Worm by T. Kingfisher finally. It is one of Ursula best crafted stories. I probably wouldn’t have read it if I’d known about the body horror, but it was a good read nevertheless.