Making Connections discussion

"Legendary" by Stephanie Garber and "Aliens in My Garden" by Jude Gwynaire

Finished listening to Mother Teresa: A Life Inspired. Now listening to Time's Divide.

I am reading French Exit -- ironic take on a very dysfunctional family you wouldn't want to know in real life but who are indeed entertaining.

Currently reading The Nix by Nathan Hill. Pretty hefty tome (752 pages), but it's easy and quite entertaining reading. Part love story, part writer odyssey, part modern U.S. history (shifts among 60's, 80's and post-9/11 periods). Funny, lots of interesting detail, and skillful writing.

Currently reading The Doctor and the Kid(Weird West Tales #2) by Mike Resnick

I've been reading The Coast-to-Coast Murders for almost three weeks now. I can usually get through a book in two weeks (not a bad book, but something about it is holding back my interest - although it could be because I've been super busy). My next read will be All Quiet on the Western Front (someone loaned it to me). But then, after that, I'm gonna read plenty of books from authors in this group. Looking forward to reading and supporting the independent self-published.

I'm currently reading "In The Dark" by Mike Omer.

Currently reading The Wise Man's Fear (The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two) by Patrick Rothfuss.
Published by DAW Books, Inc. - New York, New York - 2011.

Current read. Been slowly re-reading action thrillers I've enjoyed in the past. Might finally give Don Winslow a try next since I'm getting another hankering to try my hand at finally penning the elusive crime thriller

Currently reading "The Leavenworth Case," a classic locked room mystery by Anna Katherine Green. Originally published in 1878, is was Green's first novel, and a classic of detective fiction. Had read her book "That Affair Next Door" some time ago, and liked it a lot - well written, well plotted, and the detective, Green's spinsterly sleuth Miss Amelia Butterworth, is considered one of the precursors of Christie's Miss Marple.

I've just started reading:
The Midnight Library

nearly finished The Sixth Extinction
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

I'm currently read The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner. So far, it's pretty cool

I'm reading by Jonathan Kellerman

Read a quartet of novellas by Cornell Woolrich good setups, some good plot twists, but they tend to fall apart at the end.
Also read Charlotte Armstrong's psychological suspense novel "Mischief" which was made into the film "Don't Bother to Knock". I think it would have been tighter without all of the internal monologues, but overall pretty tense and suspenseful.

I'm reading The Secret History by Donna Tartt. Admittedly I first heard about it after seeing it everywhere on Dark Academia aesthetic boards, so I wanted to know what the hype was all about. It's very good!

It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover

I've been reading a lot of Victorian era/Golden Age mysteries. I really enjoyed "The Twickenham Peerage" by Richard Marsh.
Just finished "The Return of the Pharaoh" by Nicholas Meyer. Meyer wrote the Sherlock Holmes/Sigmund Freud pastiche "The Seven Percent Solution"; this one is an adventure set in 1911 Egypt. I posted a review.

The Book of Cold Cases

im less than halfway into it and color me unimpressed. i loved Sundown Motel so much. i just gotta keep pushing through, i adore Simones writing

I'm halfway through Anthony Oliver's "The Pew Group" the first of his four-novel, English countryside mysteries featuring the retiring Detective Webber and the somewhat eccentric widow Mrs. Thomas. I read the other three, but couldn't get my hands on the first, since the books are long out of print and the existing copies were quite expensive. Finally got the first.
Really superior writing, crafting of the plot and characterization - unfortunately Oliver (who was also an authority on rare pottery, wrote a couple books on the subject) passed away after the publication of the 4th book.

I’m reading 13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher

Reading Dorothy Cameron Disney's "Death in the Back Seat," which was written in the mid 30s. Very good so far.
Not to be confused with another very good suspense writer, Doris Miles Disney, nor with any other Disney.

I've been reading a lot of Richard Marsh. Marsh wrote in the latter 1890s into the early 20th century. Most of his books mix mystery with supernatural or seeming-supernatural elements. His 1897 novel, The Beetle was published in the same year as Dracula and outsold Stoker's work.
Marsh can be hit or miss, sometimes he over-writes, but his book The Twickenham Peerage, written in 1902, was one of my favorite reads of '22, the other being novel written in the 1980s, Anthony Oliver's "The Pew Group."

I just finished re-reading - These books are soooo good and I highly recommend them!

I'm starting ...

A gripping, radically intimate debut novel about a group of enslaved women staging a covert rebellion against their owners.

I am listening to an audio book I've listened to before by John Sandford entitled Gathering Prey. It's amazing how many details I forget about a book after a year or so.

WILD by Cheryl Strayed

Miracle at Midlife by Roni Beth Tower

https://www.amazon.com/Unified-Theory...

Fairy Tail, Vol. 01

Hiro Mashima

⭐⭐⭐ Stars
Manga
2006-07 book
Wanted to try for a long time.
Fantasy mages adventure fun

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Hidden Pictures

I just finished reading Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner. Beatifully written.

The Threat Below


⭐⭐⭐⭐ Stars
Dystopian fantasy story

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I’m reading a couple of books at the moment! Starless Sea, Iron Widow, and The Last Tale of the Flower Bride. All very different vibes lol

Zero Day Ghost: An Electrifying Near Future Techno-Thriller of Revenge and Redemption


Read as an advance review copy and views based on my reading of the novel.
⭐⭐⭐ .5 Stars
Release date 1st Sept 2023
Great debut novel.

Check out the review -
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

#technothriller #thriller #ai #netgalley #2023release #septemberrelease #ZeroDayGhost #NetGalley #debutauthor

I'm currently reading Fourth Wing Divine Rivals and Castle of Bitter Thorn

The Text


⭐⭐⭐⭐ Stars
The Text by Julane Fisher

19th Sept 2023 #release
Read as an ARC on #booksirens
Young Adult Dystopian futuristic adventure. Worldwide pandemic. Government monitoring people through App.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Project Outcast



⭐⭐⭐⭐ Stars
Project Outcast by A.C. Louis

Published 1st Sept 2023
Read as an ARC on #booksirens
Dystopian space colonization adventure.
Deadly Pandemic on ship.
Government cover-up

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

The Lord of the Rings

Rebirth of the Gangster Act 1 (Original Cover): Meet the Family


⭐⭐⭐ Stars
NetGalley
Review Copy
Graphic novel
Black & White

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

The Worlds of Dune: The Places and Cultures that Inspired Frank Herbert


⭐⭐⭐⭐ Star Review
NetGalley ARC
Non-Fiction, great reading
Frank Herbert's legendary universe.
Illustrations
For series fans
Understanding the Dune universe

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Fables, Vol. 15: Rose Red


⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Star Review
Bill Willingham's fables
Golden run
Epic battle
Origin story for Rose Red
Great content

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Just finished The Famished Road. It took everything I had to get through it.

Reading Shift and Divine Error. Listening to The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August.

"The Unified Theory of Motivation and Living"

1637: The Transylvanian Decision

It's been informative and helpful.

Any one else reading this ?

This book made me laugh out loud Tales of Habib the Hoaxter: Sometimes Hoaxed, Always Good for a Laugh

DC vs. Vampires, Vol. 1

⭐⭐⭐⭐ stars
Graphic novel. DC comics
Batman, Wonderwoman, Green lantern, Superman, and everyone else in the Justice League and beyond.
Vampires.
Great stuff. Every page is a blockbuster.

My review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...