Reading Books For Pleasure

[HisArpy]

Blackveil by Kirsten Britain. Still 3.5/5 and I had to put it down a couple of times.

Out of books again so off to Barnes & Nobel this afternoon. *sigh* This reading habit of mine is expensive!

 

[HisArpy]

The Golden City by J. Kathleen Cheney. 4/5. Starts a little slow but a very unique plot that gets going about 1/4 of the way into the book; though Miss Paredes does seem a bit too simple for her role.

 

[Farawyn]

I'll try your book, HA.

 

[HisArpy]

I'll try your book, HA.

Be gentle with me, it's my first time.


The Chicago School of Watchmaking - Chapter 15, Fitting factory balance staffs This is a watchmaking course I have on CD. I'm in process of fitting a new balance staff to an 1880 pocket watch and needed to re-read the parts about pivot diameter/size and fitting them to the jewel hole size. Fussy fussy work under a microscope with tiny tiny tools the size of a gnats eyelashes.

The course is great and has lots of information in it even for amateurs like me.

 

[Farawyn]

Be gentle with me, it's my first time.


The Chicago School of Watchmaking - Chapter 15, Fitting factory balance staffs This is a watchmaking course I have on CD. I'm in process of fitting a new balance staff to an 1880 pocket watch and needed to re-read the parts about pivot diameter/size and fitting them to the jewel hole size. Fussy fussy work under a microscope with tiny tiny tools the size of a gnats eyelashes.

The course is great and has lots of information in it even for amateurs like me.

We'll see.

 

[HisArpy]

We'll see.

I will check to see if I'm stocked up on bandages and peroxide then.



The Seat of Magic by J. Kathleen Cheney. #2 in the series and improving in quality of her writing. 4.5/5. Dammit, now I need to go buy book #3.

 

[pete]

tried to start "bonfire of the vanities" but after about 30 pages i wasn't feeling it.
maybe another time.

so i'm reading a great comparitve study of various world mythologies, organized by subject. its pretty damn fascinating

 

[HisArpy]

Some Girls Bite by Chloe Neill. 4.5/5. Light and fun reading that will keep you up until you're finished with it. I will read this book again.

 

[HisArpy]

Gentleman Jole and The Red Queen by Lois McMaster Bujold. 3/5

VERY disappointed in this book. It's the last book in the Miles Vorkosigan saga and doesn't live up to its predecessors. Not even close. It flatly and totally contradicts the earlier books at least twice and fails to deliver the action that the series was built upon. No intrigue, no chaos, no confusion - just a linear plot that plods along to a very predictable end.

You should read it if you've read the series, but I wouldn't buy this one first.

 

[Miles Long]

About 1/6 of the way into The Historian. So far I am enjoying it.

 

[FurryFury]

Lonely Planet Coastal California by Sam Benson, Alison Bing
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts by Joshua Hammer
The Rainbow Comes and Goes: a Mother and Son on Life, Love and Loss by Anderson Cooper, Gloria Vanderbilt
Ice by Sarah Beth Durst
Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
The Burning World (Warm Bodies, #2) by Isaac Marion

 

[HisArpy]

Welcome back FF.

Heritage of Cyador by L.E. Modesitt Jr. I want to give this book a 4/5 but I can't. I also can't give it a 3.5/5 either. And 3.75 just doesn't fit anywhere.

The book is the second in a series about early Hamor in the Recluce series. The first book in this series was typical Modesitt; fast, well created, with good characters and lots of good stuff in there. This one was draggy. Much too much voice over narration in style.

But it's good too. Sorta. The ending was too fast with too little development but the book has to end someplace, right?

All in all, not bad, but...

 

[juicemandrew]

I like nonfiction books and facts. Does that count?

 

[HisArpy]

Friday Night Bites by Chloe Neill. 4.5/5 I like this series. It's fast, funny, and light reading. Lots of silly girly stuff in there to add humor and depth to the characters.

 

[HisArpy]

I like nonfiction books and facts. Does that count?

Why, yes it does. See post #3306.

 

[HisArpy]

Twice Bitten by Chloe Neill. 4/5. I like series stories. I like this series. It's fun, light, and creative.

 

[seela]

I finished Anna In w grobowcach świata by Olga Tokarczuk.

I don't know if it's been translated into English, but the title is something like "Anna In in the graves of the world". It's a modernized take on an old Sumerian story of the goddess Inanna going into the underworld and returning, with the classic Olga Tokarczuk spin on it of course.

Olga's language is beautiful and the stories she tell are weird and weirdly addicting, and this book delivered on both accounts. I highly recommend this one if you can find it!

 

[LucyBee01]

Gentleman Jole and The Red Queen by Lois McMaster Bujold. 3/5

VERY disappointed in this book. It's the last book in the Miles Vorkosigan saga and doesn't live up to its predecessors. Not even close. It flatly and totally contradicts the earlier books at least twice and fails to deliver the action that the series was built upon. No intrigue, no chaos, no confusion - just a linear plot that plods along to a very predictable end.

You should read it if you've read the series, but I wouldn't buy this one first.

Oh I loved the Miles Vorkosigan series, so that is a real shame. Thanks for the heads up. Think maybe I wont bother so my happy memories of the series remain undisturbed.

 

[HisArpy]

Oh I loved the Miles Vorkosigan series, so that is a real shame. Thanks for the heads up. Think maybe I wont bother so my happy memories of the series remain undisturbed.

It's still a good book. It's just not the "disturbed anthill" chaos that I was expecting from the author. From my perspective it would have been more interesting to have Miles' father's aneurysm be suspected of some plot against the empire.

 

[HisArpy]

Hard Bitten by Chloe Neill 4/5
Drink Deep Chloe Neill 4/5

 

[DeepGreenEyes]

Sucker for time travel, so really enjoying "All Our Wrong Todays."

Think lovable loser travels backward from a perfect version of our world and fucks it up, so we get ... this.

 

[HisArpy]

The Shores of Spain by J. Kathleen Cheney. Last book of the series, not as good as the first 2. 3.5/5.

 

[RubiDia]

Sue Monk Kidd

This is like an early summer nights-type book for me.

 

[HisArpy]

Cold Reign by Faith Hunter. 4/5. The next installment in the Jane Yellowrock series.

 

[RubiDia]

Black Madonna. Oh Lord. I have the air conditioning off.