What Are You Reading: The Sequel!

[RJDiogenes]

Yeah, I know him too. He's at Exile abd once when I was at comic-con I noticed a book of his for sale, as I. paged through I noticed he had named a bad guys ship teh Rhea abd tgat is the name of the Exisler we was alowys picking on so I told her about it and we hqd. good laugh

Yep, he's at Ex Isle. I ignore him there, too.

I got so tired of the Joe Morelli or Ranger fight< i named myself Nonny, Queen of the Ranger Babes abd was tunned when they accepted that.

Oh, so that's where that name came from.

I keep trying to post but I ge an error message claiming that mypost hasn't go enough words and it does but also won't let me qdd qny,

If you get that message, it means that you've already posted and you just clicked on the submit button too many times.

[Lupine]

Checking in to see if RJ knows that there's a new Alex Benedict novel out.

[RJDiogenes]

Yes, thank you, I had pre-ordered it a while back, so it arrived a couple of weeks ago. As soon as I finish Jim's book, I'll move on to Australis's, and then Alex.

[australis]

Because I now leave (for now) elsewhere, I have a new library to explore.

Currently a biography of Raymond Chandler. Next, either a Best of Connie Willis or a Cory Doctorow book with four novellas.

Sometime soon, the first Witches books fron TP's Discworld, or Gibson's Sprawl trilogy, which first got me into computers.

[RJDiogenes]

I'm a bit more than halfway through the australis collection, then I'll move on to a fanfic I promised to read from a poster at Terran, then on to Jim's next book, then Lupy's rewrite, then I'll get to Jack McDevitt's latest.

[jgc]

Hi. Not sure I've ever posted in this thread.

Recently, I've gone thru my book case and read all the Stephen King books I own but hadn't read yet.

Currently on Bag of Bones.

I've already re-read all my favorites by Anne McCaffrey.

[Lupine]

^I should re-read those myself one of these days.

[RJDiogenes]

Yeah, it's been a while since I've read a Pern novel. It would be nice to go back to that world.

And I have just one more story to go in australis's book. He's got several interesting series going on there, some of which are familiar from having been posted here in the past.

[jgc]

Currently Four Past Midnight.

When I'm done with this, I think I'll read something lighter.

[RJDiogenes]

Yeah, Stephen King can be a bit grim.

[Lupine]

Since the final episode of Elementary will be titled "The Last Bow", I decided to start reading His Last Bow By Arther Conan Doyle. I might have read it before as "The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge" seemed slightly familiar.

[RJDiogenes]

I read the complete set of Conan Doyle's Holmes stories in high school, then re-read some sporadically after that. But it's been decades at this point since I've read one.

[Lupine]

Finished His Last Bow by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Reading this I was surprised that I was familiar with many of these stories as many if not all were adapted for TV for the Jeremy Brett version of Sherlock Holmes on PBS. Specifically I remember seeing aspects of “The Adventure of the Cardboard Box”, and “The Dying Detective” in various episodes. And I had read “The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot” decades ago- which is probably the best of this collection followed closely by “The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge”. Both of these set up impressive mysteries. The collection climaxes with “His Last Bow”, which is a bit different from the rest. While the other stories- like many of Doyle’s Holmes tales- are set up as Watson’s memoirs of events in the late 1800s, “His Last Bow” takes place on the eve of World War I. Also it is told from a third person perspective rather than the first person usually employed. It was obviously written as a final story as everyone from Moriarty to Irene Adler are name-dropped and it is mentioned that Holmes had come out of retirement for the case.
But of course The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes were written later so Doyle wasn’t through with the character yet.

[RJDiogenes]

No, he just wished he was.

I'm about 10% of the way through Hyperlight 10, so hopefully I'll be able to finish up in a couple or three weeks, and then I'll be able to move on to Murder The World.

[huggle]

I'm reading Terrys Pratchett's "the Truth".
Funny that when they first camne out, I never noticed that from book to book his stories got more grim and bloody. I guess his Altzheimer plus his frustration about it took their toll.