I’ve read all of the Prey stuff, his relationships with women become more realistic and professional (although sometimes complicated) over time.
Yes, I’d mentioned it. One of the few books I’ve ever read that was kinda meh to start, but got better and better and better, all the way to a very powerful conclusion.
Among Others by Jo Walton. Won a Hugo and a Nebula and is apparently out of print in hardcover.
I didn’t care for her dragon book, Tooth and Claw, but am enjoying this one.
Well, Subteranean had a sale, so now I’m knee deep into Cryptic, collected short stories of Jack McDevitt. The Dog Stars is up next.
Finished up 11/22/63 over the weekend. Hell of a good read. Starting in on The Price of the Stars now, which I found through Amazon recommendations. Hopefully it’ll be decent.
Finished Slowness by Milan Kundera and Memories of my Melancholy Whores by Gabriel García Márquez. I’m finishing Republic, Lost by Lawrence Lessig and 1Q84.
Just about to finish The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter. It’s very different to your average Terry Pratchett book, but I enjoyed it all the same.
I’ve never read anything by Stephen Baxter before, so I couldn’t comment if it’s similar to his other works.
I finished Into Thin Air last night. Wow. It was amazing. I’m only sorry I hadn’t read it sooner.
Now I’ve started Frederick Feikema Manfred’s Scarlet Plume. It’s set in my neck of the woods during the U.S./Dakota War of 1862. I decided I needed to read this one because of the timeliness (150th anniversary of the U.S./Dakota War) and because I recently wrote an article about Manfred (this year marked the 100th anniversary of his birth) and realized I need to read more of his work. Until now I’d only read Lord Grizzly. I love reading local/Minnesota authors so I don’t know why I haven’t read more Manfred. I guess I’ve been too infatuated with Sinclair Lewis.
For my bedtime read (Scarlet Plume isn’t available as an ebook and I find it easier to read on my Nook in bed), I started All Roads Lead to Austen: A Yearlong Journey With Jane. The Nook version was free on B&N last Friday. I couldn’t wait so it got bumped immediately to the front of the line.
Just finished a re-read of Jackie Morse Kessler’s Hunger as prep for the second in her Riders of the Apocalypse series, Rage
While the concept is nothing new - humans becoming a power/concept/force of nature incarnate (see Piers Anthony’s Incarnations of Immortality, Death in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series, and, for that matter - the 4 Horsemen in Pratchett & Gaiman’s Good Omens) I think Morse Kessler’s twist on the idea is intriguing. An anorexic girl is tapped to become the incarnation of Famine… she learns from the experience and turns her life around.
Not nearly as Afternoon Special as it sounds from the description, tho. The protagonist is well-written, and the situation is covered both empathically and realistically. In the afterword, the author explains her connection to the topic.
Worth a library read - recommended especially to the target audience of teenage/tween girls who may be dealing with body image issues. I’ll be checking out the next books in the series.
Can’t remember if I saw this here or over at the GB- but thanks to Books on the Knob - I discovered that a bunch of PD classics were available for free via Audible if you “bought” the Kindle version as well. So I snagged their version of Dracula and am finding it much easier going than the print version. Am up to the letters between Mina and Lucy - the plot is unfolding slowly, but the narrators (several well-known voice actors/narrators) are helping to keeping my interest. May set this aside for a bit & save it till closer til Halloween!
Double Cross The True Story of the D-Day Spies by Ben Macintyre.
I’ve read (and loved) his previous WW2/spy histories, Agent Zigzag and Operation Mincemeat. This one looks to be just as good.
The Long Earth, a Terry Pratchett novel.
I spent August reading Harlan Coben’s Myron Bolitar series so I’m kind of still in a mystery/thriller kind of mood. So I’m finally getting around to reading Tana French’s In The Woods. I’ve only just started (maybe 50 pages in). It’s a little slow getting started, but I know several people that enjoyed it, so I’m sticking with it.
it really is a good series. just imagine what a person from 163? will think of cheerleaders!
there is a huge community around these books and mr flint is very generous with his creation.
after zipping through the hunger games trio, i’ve gotten into “end of the states as we know them” books.
amsterdam 2012 and h10n1 were very interesting.
amsterdam 2012 had islamic extremists and a flu outbreak.
h10n1 had a flu outbreak that was set off as bio warfare by north korea.
The writing on the wall.
You’re locked in a toilet stall? 
This NYT article might interest you: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/14/us/14dakota.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
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I read The Long Earth recently and really enjoyed it. Now I’m reading Redshirts, by John Scalzi, and I love it.
Very interesting! Thank you!