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1sumik
Hello, everyone! It's Belmont Stakes Day and despite my disappointment in I'll Have Another's injury and scratch I'm still pretty excited for the race.
But what am I reading?
Well, I just finished Blackout by Mira Grant the 3rd book in the Newsflesh trilogy. I was really looking forward to this book. We were left with a huge cliffhanger at the end of the second book Deadline. I have to admit that I felt a little bit deflated at the end of the book. I'm not sure why - the ending was satisfying in many ways - but perhaps I felt that some of the conclusions that were drawn were disappointing? I guess I'm just not sure that it lived up to it's promise.
Meanwhile, I acquired Galen Beckett's Master of Heathcrest Hall this week. I was going to dive right in but then realized that I wasn't sure that I'd finished The House on Durrow Street. Despite stumbling across it everytime I've looked for something else in the past few months, I cannot find it now. Most frustrating. So, I'm not reading Galen Beckett.
I am re-reading A Clash of Kings inspired by the finale of the tv adaptation.
But what am I reading?
Well, I just finished Blackout by Mira Grant the 3rd book in the Newsflesh trilogy. I was really looking forward to this book. We were left with a huge cliffhanger at the end of the second book Deadline. I have to admit that I felt a little bit deflated at the end of the book. I'm not sure why - the ending was satisfying in many ways - but perhaps I felt that some of the conclusions that were drawn were disappointing? I guess I'm just not sure that it lived up to it's promise.
Meanwhile, I acquired Galen Beckett's Master of Heathcrest Hall this week. I was going to dive right in but then realized that I wasn't sure that I'd finished The House on Durrow Street. Despite stumbling across it everytime I've looked for something else in the past few months, I cannot find it now. Most frustrating. So, I'm not reading Galen Beckett.
I am re-reading A Clash of Kings inspired by the finale of the tv adaptation.
3sumik
Thank you!
And I did find my copy of The House on Durrow Street and reread it very quickly. Not at all what I remember of my first experience of it and gulped down The Master of Heathcrest Hall today - a very enjoyable third book to the trilogy.
And I borrowed my friend Kathy's copy of Bowling Avenue the new new book by Ann Shayne. I'm very much looking forward to this book. Ann Shayne is one half of the Mason Dixon Knitting team responsible for Mason Dixon Knitting and all the rest of the Mason Dixon knitting books. If you follow the blog then you'll know about this book but let me just say that the blogs are very witty, funny and well-written so my high hopes for the book are based on that and the very positive comments of my friend Kathy and the beta readers quoted on the Ann Shayne website.
And I did find my copy of The House on Durrow Street and reread it very quickly. Not at all what I remember of my first experience of it and gulped down The Master of Heathcrest Hall today - a very enjoyable third book to the trilogy.
And I borrowed my friend Kathy's copy of Bowling Avenue the new new book by Ann Shayne. I'm very much looking forward to this book. Ann Shayne is one half of the Mason Dixon Knitting team responsible for Mason Dixon Knitting and all the rest of the Mason Dixon knitting books. If you follow the blog then you'll know about this book but let me just say that the blogs are very witty, funny and well-written so my high hopes for the book are based on that and the very positive comments of my friend Kathy and the beta readers quoted on the Ann Shayne website.
4sumik
Thank you!
And I did find my copy of The House on Durrow Street and reread it very quickly. Not at all what I remember of my first experience of it and gulped down The Master of Heathcrest Hall today - a very enjoyable third book to the trilogy.
And I borrowed my friend Kathy's copy of Bowling Avenue the new new book by Ann Shayne}. I'm very much looking forward to this book. Ann Shayne is one half of the Mason Dixon Knitting team responsible for Mason Dixon Knitting and all the rest of the Mason Dixon knitting books. If you follow the blog then you'll know about this book but let me just say that the blogs are very witty, funny and well-written so my high hopes for the book are based on that and the very positive comments of my friend Kathy and the beta readers quoted on the Ann Shayne website.
And I did find my copy of The House on Durrow Street and reread it very quickly. Not at all what I remember of my first experience of it and gulped down The Master of Heathcrest Hall today - a very enjoyable third book to the trilogy.
And I borrowed my friend Kathy's copy of Bowling Avenue the new new book by Ann Shayne}. I'm very much looking forward to this book. Ann Shayne is one half of the Mason Dixon Knitting team responsible for Mason Dixon Knitting and all the rest of the Mason Dixon knitting books. If you follow the blog then you'll know about this book but let me just say that the blogs are very witty, funny and well-written so my high hopes for the book are based on that and the very positive comments of my friend Kathy and the beta readers quoted on the Ann Shayne website.
5sumik
Okay, back after more than a month. I need to bookmark my thread because I just cannot find it.
I just finished Ready Player One - I had started it some months ago and then been distracted and picked it up again (metaphorically since it's on my Kindle) last night and finished it off this morning. It must have been my time for it - because I found it very enjoyable.
I also read Lady of Devices - a steampunk YA novel that I've had in my kindle for a while. I enjoyed it and it's the first book in some sort of series so I can look out for the next one.
I started The Great Deluge last week while staying with friends who have airconditioning. It's about Hurricane Katrina and was written by Douglas Brinkley who is David Brinkley's son and a historian.
I have also started reading Sham Great was Second Best - which is a biography of the Sham (by Pretense out of Sequoiah - a daughter of Princequillo) who was second to Secretariat in the 1973 Kentucky Derby and Preakness and Jeremy James's book about The Byerley Turk.
I just finished Ready Player One - I had started it some months ago and then been distracted and picked it up again (metaphorically since it's on my Kindle) last night and finished it off this morning. It must have been my time for it - because I found it very enjoyable.
I also read Lady of Devices - a steampunk YA novel that I've had in my kindle for a while. I enjoyed it and it's the first book in some sort of series so I can look out for the next one.
I started The Great Deluge last week while staying with friends who have airconditioning. It's about Hurricane Katrina and was written by Douglas Brinkley who is David Brinkley's son and a historian.
I have also started reading Sham Great was Second Best - which is a biography of the Sham (by Pretense out of Sequoiah - a daughter of Princequillo) who was second to Secretariat in the 1973 Kentucky Derby and Preakness and Jeremy James's book about The Byerley Turk.
6sumik
Man, I have been such a slacker here.
Also: not really reading that much which kind of explains the above.
I have been enjoying two Kindle serial novels - Gooseberry Bluff Community College of Magic by David J. Schwartz and Indexing by Seanan McGuire (who is also Mira Grant). The serial novels are a blast - you get about a chapter every other week and of course, the chapter ends on a cliffhanger that makes you yell. The Schwartz novel is about a member of a secret agency that investigates misused magic who goes undercover at Gooseberry Bluff Community College. Lots of fun - I highly recommend it. (And I suppose if you get it now you will have a much more substantial portion of the book to read.) Indexing started more recently and has been enjoyable but with more set up than I had expected. But I think that the story has really started now.
Also: not really reading that much which kind of explains the above.
I have been enjoying two Kindle serial novels - Gooseberry Bluff Community College of Magic by David J. Schwartz and Indexing by Seanan McGuire (who is also Mira Grant). The serial novels are a blast - you get about a chapter every other week and of course, the chapter ends on a cliffhanger that makes you yell. The Schwartz novel is about a member of a secret agency that investigates misused magic who goes undercover at Gooseberry Bluff Community College. Lots of fun - I highly recommend it. (And I suppose if you get it now you will have a much more substantial portion of the book to read.) Indexing started more recently and has been enjoyable but with more set up than I had expected. But I think that the story has really started now.
7sumik
Okay, I've been such a slacker at this and yet I've been reading quite a bit. I have discovered free and very cheap books via Kindle. Oh, so bad for me. I was bereft that both Gooseberry Bluff Community College of Magic and Indexing finished this fall. No more Tuesday updates to look forward to. I hope to find other interesting serial novels in the future. It was a very enjoyable way to experience these books. Although, I'm not sure what the pacing would be like if you read them all at once.
On the other hand, I have also read the Wool books and I believe that these started off as a serial and wound up published as novels. And they are quite good.
I am currently reading the Emperor's Edge books by Lindsay Buroker. I've read the first 4 books and a collection of short stories. They are an adventure series featuring a band of mercenaries set in a world where there is an empire (reminiscent of the Roman Empire), steam technology and magic. . . although within the empire they officially don't believe in magic and yet magic-use is a prosecutable offense. The first four books are The Emperor's Edge, Dark Currents, Deadly Games and The Emperor's Edge Book 4. The collection of short stories was (confusingly) titled Ice Cracker II and other short stories - but it was named after a ship that was the central setting for one of the stories. I love the characters and that Buroker has humor mixed in with the intrigue.
I have also discovered three different romance series that involve horses. Whoo hoo! I've read several of Bev Pettersen's books including: Color My Horse, Jockeys and Jewels, Fillies and Females, Thoroughbreds and Trailer Trash and Horses and Heroin. These are standalone novels in the same 'verse. I would say that my favorite is Fillies and Females. This one takes the assistant trainer from Color My Horse and shows him in his new role as head trainer for a breed to race stable in Texas and his developing relationship with the woman who is the owner's nurse. Several of the books are set in North American racetracks of varying size. (The biggest one is Belmont Park - the setting for Color My Horse.) The 4th one is set at a rehab place and the 5th one is set in a jockey's school.
Hannah Hooton has written 3 books as the beginnings of two related series. The Aspen Valley series follows the adventures of people associated with a steeplechasing yard. The Caspian series follows the adventures of people involved in a flat racing stable. Steeplechase (National Hunt) is a winter sport and in the UK flat racing is a summer sport so the books from each series dovetail. The first book I read is Keeping the Peace is actually the second book written. It is the first book in the "Aspen Valley Series" - about a steeplechasing stable. Pippa Taylor unexpectedly inherits two racehorses and Keeping the Peace tells the story of what she does with them. The second book I read was Giving Chase - about a new amateur jockey at Aspen Valley and her struggles as a jockey with both her career and how the sport has affected her family. At Long Odds tells the story of Ginger Kennedy who returns to Newmarket to takeover her father's racing yard. Caspian is a promising colt in her care.
I think I'll stop here and comeback. I really started reading more in the fall - but I also haven't been very faithful in tracking what I was reading.
On the other hand, I have also read the Wool books and I believe that these started off as a serial and wound up published as novels. And they are quite good.
I am currently reading the Emperor's Edge books by Lindsay Buroker. I've read the first 4 books and a collection of short stories. They are an adventure series featuring a band of mercenaries set in a world where there is an empire (reminiscent of the Roman Empire), steam technology and magic. . . although within the empire they officially don't believe in magic and yet magic-use is a prosecutable offense. The first four books are The Emperor's Edge, Dark Currents, Deadly Games and The Emperor's Edge Book 4. The collection of short stories was (confusingly) titled Ice Cracker II and other short stories - but it was named after a ship that was the central setting for one of the stories. I love the characters and that Buroker has humor mixed in with the intrigue.
I have also discovered three different romance series that involve horses. Whoo hoo! I've read several of Bev Pettersen's books including: Color My Horse, Jockeys and Jewels, Fillies and Females, Thoroughbreds and Trailer Trash and Horses and Heroin. These are standalone novels in the same 'verse. I would say that my favorite is Fillies and Females. This one takes the assistant trainer from Color My Horse and shows him in his new role as head trainer for a breed to race stable in Texas and his developing relationship with the woman who is the owner's nurse. Several of the books are set in North American racetracks of varying size. (The biggest one is Belmont Park - the setting for Color My Horse.) The 4th one is set at a rehab place and the 5th one is set in a jockey's school.
Hannah Hooton has written 3 books as the beginnings of two related series. The Aspen Valley series follows the adventures of people associated with a steeplechasing yard. The Caspian series follows the adventures of people involved in a flat racing stable. Steeplechase (National Hunt) is a winter sport and in the UK flat racing is a summer sport so the books from each series dovetail. The first book I read is Keeping the Peace is actually the second book written. It is the first book in the "Aspen Valley Series" - about a steeplechasing stable. Pippa Taylor unexpectedly inherits two racehorses and Keeping the Peace tells the story of what she does with them. The second book I read was Giving Chase - about a new amateur jockey at Aspen Valley and her struggles as a jockey with both her career and how the sport has affected her family. At Long Odds tells the story of Ginger Kennedy who returns to Newmarket to takeover her father's racing yard. Caspian is a promising colt in her care.
I think I'll stop here and comeback. I really started reading more in the fall - but I also haven't been very faithful in tracking what I was reading.
