Reading anything?

[Svengoolie 3]

Persepolis rising, a novel of the expanse universe.

Elysium fire, set in the revelation space series and a sequel to "the prefect"

[BoyScoutKevin]

Ye-es!
And 6 of 1 in various formats.

graphic novel
Wonder Woman/Conan
collecting issues #1-6
a mash-up


graphic novel
Lumberjanes : to the Max Edition
v.4. Out of Time
collecting issues #25-32 + And Your Bird Can Sing


graphic novel
Lumberjanes : the Infernal Compass


Chris Nickson
Brit
The Hanging Psalm
1st in the Simon Weston series
6 more fiction in 2 more series
Hero: Brit
Place: Leeds (U.K.)
Time: 1820s


Elsa Hart
American ex-pat
City of Ink
3rd in the Li Du series
Hero: Chinese
Place: China
Time: 1710s


Denis O. Smith
The Further Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes, v.1
Hero: Brit
Place: U.K.
Time: 1880s


graphic novel
Bram Stoker's Dracula
an adaptation of Franis Ford Coppola's film from 1992


Next time: and a half dozen more in various formats

[indianasmith]

EISENHOWER: SOLDIER, GENERAL OF THE ARMY, PRESIDENT-ELECT by Stephen Ambrose

This is an excellent biography covering the first half of Dwight Eisenhower's remarkable career; the follow up volume covers his Presidency and retirement. The first historian's poll, conducted by Arthur Schlesinger in 1962 at the behest of President Kennedy, ranked Eisenhower near the bottom in terms of legacy and accomplishment; the most recent poll ranked him at #7 overall, at the top of the "near great" list.  It seems like the longer Ike is gone, the more we appreciate him.  This biography explains many of the reasons why as it covers his childhood, education, and military career in a comfortable and readable style. Overall VERY well done!  5/5

[ER]

EISENHOWER: SOLDIER, GENERAL OF THE ARMY, PRESIDENT-ELECT by Stephen Ambrose

This is an excellent biography covering the first half of Dwight Eisenhower's remarkable career; the follow up volume covers his Presidency and retirement. The first historian's poll, conducted by Arthur Schlesinger in 1962 at the behest of President Kennedy, ranked Eisenhower near the bottom in terms of legacy and accomplishment; the most recent poll ranked him at #7 overall, at the top of the "near great" list.  It seems like the longer Ike is gone, the more we appreciate him.  This biography explains many of the reasons why as it covers his childhood, education, and military career in a comfortable and readable style. Overall VERY well done!  5/5

Eisenhower was a gifted administrator who had a talent for finding the best man (as it was then) for the job, then giving that person rein to carry on, and I'm not sure it's always been understood how rare and useful an ability that was.

[indianasmith]

THE GNOSTIC LIBRARY - OK, yes, I wrote this book.  But I picked it up last week and started reading it, and it got its hooks in me again! This week I blew through the last 200 pages in one day.  It's just a good old fashioned adventure story, and I don't care if I sound conceited saying that!  I love these characters, and this book was their swan song.  The adventure involved mysterious scrolls, romance, a couple of mummies, some terrorists, a sharp shooting lady archeologist from England, hostage drama, unlikely deliverance, friendship, a couple of minor miracles, one of my most evil villains yet, and a very satisfying conclusion to the Capri Team series.  I'd love it if more people read this book - it hasn't sold well - but if I can pick up my own work and be entertained by it, then I'm satisfied I did a good job.

[Alex]

THE GNOSTIC LIBRARY - OK, yes, I wrote this book.  But I picked it up last week and started reading it, and it got its hooks in me again! This week I blew through the last 200 pages in one day.  It's just a good old fashioned adventure story, and I don't care if I sound conceited saying that!  I love these characters, and this book was their swan song.  The adventure involved mysterious scrolls, romance, a couple of mummies, some terrorists, a sharp shooting lady archeologist from England, hostage drama, unlikely deliverance, friendship, a couple of minor miracles, one of my most evil villains yet, and a very satisfying conclusion to the Capri Team series.  I'd love it if more people read this book - it hasn't sold well - but if I can pick up my own work and be entertained by it, then I'm satisfied I did a good job.

Every author should love reading his own stuff. 

[ER]

THE GNOSTIC LIBRARY - OK, yes, I wrote this book.  But I picked it up last week and started reading it, and it got its hooks in me again! This week I blew through the last 200 pages in one day.  It's just a good old fashioned adventure story, and I don't care if I sound conceited saying that!  I love these characters, and this book was their swan song.  The adventure involved mysterious scrolls, romance, a couple of mummies, some terrorists, a sharp shooting lady archeologist from England, hostage drama, unlikely deliverance, friendship, a couple of minor miracles, one of my most evil villains yet, and a very satisfying conclusion to the Capri Team series.  I'd love it if more people read this book - it hasn't sold well - but if I can pick up my own work and be entertained by it, then I'm satisfied I did a good job.

I read it and can say anyone who hasn't doesn't know what he's missing! 

[BoyScoutKevin]

Ye-es!
and a half dozen more in various formats.

Richard Ratay
American
1st book
Don't Make Me Pull Over :
an Informal History of the Family Roadtrip
the subtitle says it all, including our family's roadtrips.


Clea Simon
American
Cross My Path
3rd in the series
11 more fiction in 2 more series
Heroes: Brits
Place: U.K.
Time: Unknown


Paul Doherty
Brit
Dark Queen Rising
1st in the Margaret Beaufort series
22 more fiction in 2 more series
Heroine: Brit
Place: U.K.
Time: 1470s


Eddie Dominguez
Cuban-American
Baseball Cop :
the Dark Side of America's National Pastime


H.W. Crocker III
ex-pat Brit
award winner
Armstrong
1st in the Custer of the West series
6 more non-fiction + 1 more graphic novel
Hero: American
Place: Montana Territory
Time: 1870s
What if Custer had survived the Battle of the Little Big Horn and then had to make his way secretly as a gunfighter for hire.


Sophie Hannah
Brit
award winner
Agatha Christie's Closed Casket
2nd in the new Hercule Poirot series
11 more non-fiction
Hero: Belgian ex-pat
Place: Ireland
Time: 1920s

Next time: 6 of 1 in various formats

[BoyScoutKevin]

ye-es!
and a half dozen more in various formats.

Sophie Hannah
Brit
award winner
Agatha Christie's the Mystery of the Three Quarters
3rd in the New Hercule Poirot series
Hero: Belgian ex-pat
Place: U.K.
Time: 1930s


Antonia Fraser
Brit
award winner
The King and the Catholics :
England, Ireland, and the Fight for Religious Freedom, 1780-1829
14  more non-fiction + 8 more fiction + 2 short story collections + 2 anthologies
And if you'd rather see it than read it, her Marie Antoinette was made into a film.


Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
Brit
but not an award winner
Headlong
11th in the Bill Slider series
17 more fiction + 1 short story collection
Hero: Brit
Place: London (U.K.)
Time: Present


Jeff Pearlman
American
Football for a Buck :
the Crazy Rise and Crazy Demise of the USFL
7 or 8 more non-fiction


E. S. Thomson
Brit
The Blood
3rd in the Flockhart and Quartermain series
Heroes: Brith
Place: London (U.K.)
Time: 1st half of the 19th century
If you see initials, then you know it is a woman (normally) as here.


Charles Todd
(mother and son writing duo)
Americans
A Forgotten Place
10th in the Bess Crawford series
+20 more fiction in 1 more series + 2 stand-alones + 1 short story collection
Heroine: Brit
Place: U.K. and France
Time: 2nd decade of the 20th century


Readable or unreadable
If it is readable, then it may be a slog, but once I start, I can finish it. If it is unreadable, and it has nothing to do with the quality of the writing or the lack thereof, I do not even start. Then there are some like the next two. I can start, but I just cannot finish.

Philippa Gregory's The Last Tudor
and
Jason Porath's Tough Mothers


Next time: 6 of 1 in various formats

[Alex]

Servants of Evil, a book filled with interviews of Germans who fought in WW2.

[pennywise37]

i've been reading old issues of Superman from (1947) and Batman from (1954) all digital of course

[BoyScoutKevin]

Ye-es!
6 of 1 in various formats


Ellen Wilkinson
The Division Bell Mystery
Originally published 1932

Richard Hull
Excellent Intentions
Originally published 1938

Both with intros. by Martin Edwards
Both British Library Crime Classics
Both republished 2018
Heroes: Brits
Places: U.K.
Times: 1930


Stephen Pastis
American
award winner
Pearls Takes a Wrong Turn :
a Pearls Before Swine Treasury
comic strips published between September 7, 2015 and March 11, 2017
While your laughs may differ, he got 35 LOLs! out of the 253 p.


John Boessenecker
American
Shotguns and Stagecoaches :
the Brave Men Who Rode for Wells Fargo
7 more non-fiction


graphic novel
Notes on a Thesis
translated from the French


graphic novel
Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys :
the Big Lie
with cameo appearances by The Rover Boys, the Bobbsey Twins, and Tom Swift, who is here, an Afro-American


graphic novel
Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird
adapted and illustrated by Fred Fordham, who is a Brit
be prepared for the use of the "N word," which is used 27 times in 272 p.
The characters in the novel are based upon the writer, her relations, and her friends, and the city of Maycomb in the book is based upon Monroeville (Alabama.)


Next time: a half dozen more in various formats

[BoyScoutKevin]

Ye-es!
And a half dozen more in various formats


Ann Cleves
Brit
award winner
Wild Fire
8th and last in the Shetland series
8 more fiction in 1 more series
Hero: ex-pat Spaniard/Shetland Islander
Place: Shetland Islands (U.K.)
Time: Present
If you'd rather see it, than read it, there is the TV series Shetland
And another reason why these type of characters do not make good villains.


Leonard Gribble
Brit
The Arsenal Stadium Mystery
part of the British Library Crime Classics series
published 1939
re-published 2018
Hero: Brit
Place: U.K.
Time: 1930s
If you'd rather see it, then read it, there is a film version with the same title


Alys Clare
Brit
The Angel in the Glass
2nd in the Gabriel Taverner series
15 more fiction in 2 more series
Hero: Brit
Place: U.K.
Time: 1st decade of the 17th century


graphic novel
Penny Dreadful : the Ongoing series
v.3. The Victory of Death
Based on the Showtime series


Bill Press
American
Trump Must Go :
the Top 100 Reasons to Dump Trump (and one Reason to Keep Him)
9 more non-fiction
If you'd rather see him, then read him, he has been the host or co-host of the following . . .
Buchanan and Press -- Crossfire -- The Spin Room


graphic novel
The Backstagers :
v.1. Rebels Without Applause


Next time: 6 of 1 in various formats

[BoyScoutKevin]

Ye-es!
6 of 1 in various formats

j. r. r. tolkien
Brit
award winner
The Fall of Gandolin
edited by Christopher Tolkien (his son)


graphic novel
Star Wars : the Empire Strikes Back
adaptation of the film


Gina McIntyre
American
Star Wars Icons :
Han Solo


Carlene O'Connor
American ex-pat
Murder in an Irish Pub
4th in the Irish Village series
Heroine: Irish
Place: County Cork (Ireland)
Time: Present


Denis O. Smith
The Further Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes, v.2.
a half dozen more short stories featuring Holmes


Tom Clavin
American
Wild Bill :
the True Story of the American Frontier's First Gunfighter
15 more non-fiction


Barry Strauss
American
And that is Dr. Strauss, you peasants
Ten Caesars :
Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine
13 more non-fiction


Next time: and a half dozen more in various formats

[FatFreddysCat]

Right now:
The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture by Glen Weldon

on deck:
Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography by Eric Idle