What are you reading [Apr 2017]?

[Kramodlog]

More than Human by Theodore Sturgeon.

 

[Nellisir]

I just read The Weathermonger, by Peter Dickinson. It's an older (1968) book wherein "something" affects the British Isles, creating a loathing of machines and technology in people and animals. Reviews call it a children's book; nowadays it'd be called a YA. Actually very well written; I think I would have liked it (more) when I was a teenager. Apparently the first in a trilogy.

 

[megamania]

Still reading King's The Drawing of The Three. Made the commitment to read all seven novels.

 

[Richards]

I'm just starting up Beyond the Ice Limit by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. It's the fourth in their new Gideon Crew series, about a reformed art thief with a limited amount of time to live who's decided to make the most of the time he has left. I guess it falls into the action/thriller category, and this particular book picks up a previous plot thread that started out in a much earlier book by the same two authors early in their career.

Incidentally, I just got my adult son started on Relic, the first book in the Agent Pendergast series (although he's not really the main character really until the third novel). He's devouring it at an astonishing rate, and plans to follow it with the rest of the series (I've got the next fourteen on a shelf in my man-cave).

Johnathan

 

[Jhaelen]

I've started reading 'Children of Time' by Adrian Tchaikovsky.
This one's interesting from the outset. It switches between a colony ship with Earth's last survivors and a terraformed planet that had been chosen for an uplift experiment (called 'Brin' as a rather obvious hommage) gone awry due to sabotage from religious fanatics: Instead of monkeys, the uplift virus works to improve hunter spiders. So we get an interesting view from their perspective as they become more intelligent from generation to generation.

 

[DamnAnimal]

For Whom the Bell Tolls

 

[trappedslider]

Gods of Mischief: My Undercover Vendetta to Take Down the Vagos Outlaw Motorcycle Gang by George Rowe. I wanted to check out Vagos, Mongols, and Outlaws: My Infiltration of America's Deadliest Biker Gangs by Charles Falco but the library's copy wasn't were it was supposed to be.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

Shadow & Claw is done. Even a second time through, it wasn’t an easy read. Definitely enjoyable and challenging nonetheless.

Now I’m starting Judges Guild: A Cautionary Tale. Something a little lighter and easier.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

I finished reading the Judges Guild. It was fascinating, but really needed an editor to improve its flow, remove the random tangents, flesh out the interesting stuff, and check the spelling. It seemed rambling and unfocused at times, but there’s a core of a great book and historical document in it. I'd still say it's worth reading, though.

Now I’m onto Joanna Russ’ feminist sci-fi classic, The Female Man.

 

[Blue]

After finishing The Fifth Season I needed some mental sherbert to cleanse the palate and went back to the Alex Verus books. Enjoyable, but not mind warping like The Fifth Season. I'm part way through the 5th, Hidden.

And I misplaced it and wanted a book, so I grabbed an old favorite that I recently replaced since I wouldn't mind switching back and forth. So I'm reading Good Omens. Ooo, I had forgotten how much I had enjoyed it.

Next new book coming up is "Little, Big".