What are you reading? All New / All Improved Dec 2017 Edition.

[KahlessNestor]

Working my way back through Uncle Rick's demigod universe and i'm on Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters

Percy Jackson is fun, and they get better as the series goes on and gets into its own. The first half seemed a bit like a Harry Potter ripoff, but the second half was awesome. The other series of his are pretty cool, too. Don't miss the 3 part e-short stories series between Percy, Annabeth, and the Kanes from his Egyptian series. I'm in the second to last book of his Heroes of Olympus before I got sidetracked. Need to go back and finish that. Then the Thor and Apollo books, too.

 

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Percy Jackson is fun, and they get better as the series goes on and gets into its own. The first half seemed a bit like a Harry Potter ripoff, but the second half was awesome. The other series of his are pretty cool, too. Don't miss the 3 part e-short stories series between Percy, Annabeth, and the Kanes from his Egyptian series. I'm in the second to last book of his Heroes of Olympus before I got sidetracked. Need to go back and finish that. Then the Thor and Apollo books, too.

oh i own all of the main books Greek and Roman, Kane Chronicles and his Norse series. I only own a couple of the side books sadly.

 

[Eltab]

"Harpoon" - Israeli later joined by US agencies (not quite spies and not quite accountants) trying to shut off money to Jihadi groups, set in the near-past. I picked it up because I just got a new job as an accounting assistant.*

"Book of the Damned" for Pathfinder. I'm looking for ideas to make the demon-worshippers of Impiltur (Forgotten Realms) into more than cardboard cut-outs for the Heroes to defeat. Eventually there will be a home-written AP.

"Killing Kennedy" - just finished. The last of the "Killing ..." series in my backlog.* Weaker texts than Lincoln and Jesus, perhaps because O'Reilly is describing events he remembers personally. Now I hope to get "Killing England" for Christmas.

"Inheritors of the Earth" - The author is a life-long environmentalist and biology scientist who has noticed that most Environmental Activists are trying to hold back living nature and keep things in stasis as they were about 100 years ago. He observes that many species LIKE it when people change the habitat. Overall, diversity worldwide is increasing. (Obviously does not apply to megafauna.)

"Best 100 Stocks For 2018" - Because it's that time of year, and I finally have time* to think about my IRA and 401k.

* My previous job involved working second shift 6 (sometimes) or 7 (usually) days a week, and really made it hard to make time for reading anything.

edit: grabbed books and copied titles I could not remember on-the-fly

 

[Blue]

"Harpoon" - Israeli later joined by US agencies (not quite spies and not quite accountants) trying to shut off money to Jihadi groups, set in the near-past. I picked it up because I just got a new job as an accounting assistant.*

"Forensic accountants"?

At least, I've seen that title in another story (that I'm blanking on) and they were pretty fierce.

 

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Percy Jackson is fun, and they get better as the series goes on and gets into its own. The first half seemed a bit like a Harry Potter ripoff, but the second half was awesome. The other series of his are pretty cool, too. Don't miss the 3 part e-short stories series between Percy, Annabeth, and the Kanes from his Egyptian series. I'm in the second to last book of his Heroes of Olympus before I got sidetracked. Need to go back and finish that. Then the Thor and Apollo books, too.

I'm on the Heroes of Olympus series now and in back in book when picking out a weapon for Piper, Annabeth offers a mossberg 500..now I want either a novel or short story with a demigod who uses a shotgun to defeat monsters lol

 

[Richards]

I'm reading Blind Man's Bluff, the 22nd (I think) book in Peter David's Star Trek: New Frontiers series. I'm of two minds about it: on the one hand, Peter David is one of my favorite Star Trek authors, as he has a good grasp of the characters and has a knack for taking bits and pieces of the Star Trek universe (often all-but-forgotten ones) and putting them together in new and interesting ways; on the other, he often tends to get too "cutesy" for my tastes. Case in point: one of the enemies in this current book are the "D'myurj." C'mon, Peter, if you want a race called the Demiurge just call them the Demiurge! (He does this rather frequently; the main character is Mackenzie Calhoun, but his first name is a translation into Federation Standard from his real name, "M'k'n'zy." Ugh.)

In any case, I read the first dozen or so novels in the series years ago, so when I saw this at a library book sale I picked it up. Apparently quite a lot has happened in my absence: one of the main members of the ship's crew has had her intellect downloaded into the ship's computer; a major character from "Star Trek: Voyager" was slain in a previous conflict with the Borg; Seven of Nine has had her Borg implants removed and is now being asked to help remove the extraneous consciousness from Calhoun's ship's computer, as her time as a Borg has apparently made her an expert in man/machine interfaces. There's also a plot line about an invasion on Calhoun's home planet, Xenex. I feel like I'm playing extreme catch-up, but so far it's an interesting ride - although not to the extent I feel the need to go back and fill in all of the gaps I'm missing from previous books I haven't read.

Johnathan

 

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In any case, I read the first dozen or so novels in the series years ago, so when I saw this at a library book sale I picked it up. Apparently quite a lot has happened in my absence: one of the main members of the ship's crew has had her intellect downloaded into the ship's computer; a major character from "Star Trek: Voyager" was slain in a previous conflict with the Borg; Seven of Nine has had her Borg implants removed and is now being asked to help remove the extraneous consciousness from Calhoun's ship's computer, as her time as a Borg has apparently made her an expert in man/machine interfaces. There's also a plot line about an invasion on Calhoun's home planet, Xenex. I feel like I'm playing extreme catch-up, but so far it's an interesting ride - although not to the extent I feel the need to go back and fill in all of the gaps I'm missing from previous books I haven't read.

Johnathan

And that major death doesn't stick, and the Borg are all gone,some other major events have happened as well...

 

[KahlessNestor]

I'm reading Blind Man's Bluff, the 22nd (I think) book in Peter David's Star Trek: New Frontiers series. I'm of two minds about it: on the one hand, Peter David is one of my favorite Star Trek authors, as he has a good grasp of the characters and has a knack for taking bits and pieces of the Star Trek universe (often all-but-forgotten ones) and putting them together in new and interesting ways; on the other, he often tends to get too "cutesy" for my tastes. Case in point: one of the enemies in this current book are the "D'myurj." C'mon, Peter, if you want a race called the Demiurge just call them the Demiurge! (He does this rather frequently; the main character is Mackenzie Calhoun, but his first name is a translation into Federation Standard from his real name, "M'k'n'zy." Ugh.)

In any case, I read the first dozen or so novels in the series years ago, so when I saw this at a library book sale I picked it up. Apparently quite a lot has happened in my absence: one of the main members of the ship's crew has had her intellect downloaded into the ship's computer; a major character from "Star Trek: Voyager" was slain in a previous conflict with the Borg; Seven of Nine has had her Borg implants removed and is now being asked to help remove the extraneous consciousness from Calhoun's ship's computer, as her time as a Borg has apparently made her an expert in man/machine interfaces. There's also a plot line about an invasion on Calhoun's home planet, Xenex. I feel like I'm playing extreme catch-up, but so far it's an interesting ride - although not to the extent I feel the need to go back and fill in all of the gaps I'm missing from previous books I haven't read.

Johnathan

If you want to know about Seven and the Borg, you NEED to read David Mack's Destiny trilogy. Probably the best Star Trek books I've read. He's right up there with Peter David as a good Star Trek author. Everyone is in that series. Picard, Riker, Christine Hernandez from Enterprise. Major, major events in the novel universe. Seriously worth your read.

 

[KahlessNestor]

And that major death doesn't stick, and the Borg are all gone,some other major events have happened as well...

Ah, I never read the novel with the death. Didn't know it got reversed, either. I haven't kept up. But cool. The books are easy to find on Kindle, and cheap. Just a lot of catching up to do.

 

[ArchfiendBobbie]

I'm currently reading Skin Game of the Dresden Files. It's an interesting book. Not much I can say about it without posting spoilers for those who haven't read any of the series.

I want to pick up a Forgotten Realms novel next, and am uncertain where to start. Maybe with the first one? I'll decide by the time I'm done with my current book.