What are you currently reading?

[brlesh]

Finished Devoted by Dean Koontz.

It was an OK read brought down by a disjointed and convoluted last quarter of the book.

Back to making my way through Weird Tales: 100 Years of Weird ed. by Jonathan Maberry.

At the 200 page mark and really enjoying this so far.

One of the better anthologies I’ve read in recent memory.

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[RonClinton]

I hope you like it, Ron!

When we first met, my wife asked me what my favorite book was, and when I mentioned LONESOME DOVE, she told me that she had to read it in college, and when she was done, she took it out to the backyard, threw it in the firepit, and burned it. "I hated that book!

Yikes, I hope my reaction when I’m finished is different than hers! I don’t see book-burning on my Bingo card for 2024, so hopefully I’ll be okay.

[TacomaDiver]

Love me some Murderbot! I've been holding off on picking-up Fugitive Telemetry in the hopes the SubPress would announce an LE version like the previous Murderbot titles.

I think Coraline might be the one Gaman title that I haven't read yet. Not sure why as I do like Gaiman's stuff quite a bit; however, something's always kept me away from this one. I'm sure that I'll read it at some point. Have also never seen the film, but I rarely want to see any cartoons/computer animated films these days.

Coraline has such a different aesthetic since it's stop-motion rather than CGI or traditional animation. Really adds to the setting and feel for the story. I am disappointed that in all of the times I've met Gaiman on tours over the years, I never had him sign any of my editions of Coraline.

I met Martha Wells back in November for the newest Murderbot book, and asked her a little about the SubPress editions. Mentioned the broadside they did of a story from Wired and it was kind of funny when she said SubPress sent her some copies and she has no idea what to do with them. Same, I have one and don't know what to do with it either. My bet would be SubPress continues to publish her and Murderbot, especially since they did her latest non-Murderbot book.

[sholloman81]

Last night I began the next installment of Martha Well's Murderbot series - Fugitive Telemetry. I know it's not the newest book, but it's next for me.

Before I started this last night, I finished a re-read of Neil Gaiman's Coraline. Pretty sure I hadn't read that since it came out originally, and it's a hit for me. Gaiman seems to be hit or miss with his novels, but this one one was one of the good ones. Hopefully I can revisit the film soon (I have a sweet 4k version downstairs that I haven't watched yet.)

I started Coraline because while I wanted to read some comics, my iPad's battery was dead, so I needed a shorter book, and it was available on Libby.

The big book I finished before these was Katherine Arden's newest The Warm Hands of Ghosts. I first found her via her Winternight trilogy which I LOVED! I even got to meet her at ECCC in 2019 - I got the best inscription from her since she knocked her water bottle all over my books. (Luckily nothing was damaged!) Her newest is a ghost/love story that takes place in World War I, and is told from the two main character's perspective. It did not click for me. I think I gave it three stars in Goodreads because I didn't want to be too hard on it (although I may revise that rating to two stars the more I think about it.) I don't know, just something about the book as a whole didn't work for me. Which is a bummer because I bought SO MANY versions of this book from retailers all over the world (well, US and UK - that's all over the world!)

Love me some Murderbot! I've been holding off on picking-up Fugitive Telemetry in the hopes the SubPress would announce an LE version like the previous Murderbot titles.

I think Coraline might be the one Gaman title that I haven't read yet. Not sure why as I do like Gaiman's stuff quite a bit; however, something's always kept me away from this one. I'm sure that I'll read it at some point. Have also never seen the film, but I rarely want to see any cartoons/computer animated films these days.

[sholloman81]

I'm also reading SST's Don't Fear the Reaper, a re-read for me...getting ready for Angel of Indian Lake, which I'm so excited for!

I haven't read any Blake Crouch yet, but just this week I got the Pines Limited off of Ebay and I'm looking forward to reading that soon.

I'm super excited for Angel of Indian Lake too! I'll probably hold off on picking it up until SST releases their limited-edition version so I can have a complete matching set of the SST LE's. In terms of Crouch, I think you'll be very pleased. This trilogy rocked (even if the production values of the limited editions were very underwhelming). If you get a chance, also read his book Dark Matter which I thought was fantastic and was my very first Crouch read. If you cans swing it, the Suntup version is especially choice!