2020 - Majkia (Jean) in Margaritaville - part the 4th

Long live the Conch Republic!

3rd Quarter Reading


July
66. Crucible : A Thriller - James Rollins - pages 656 - 🎵 (reader: Christian Baskous ) - AlphaKIT, Focus Series, BFB
67. The Black Tides of Heaven - J. Y. Yang - pages 238 - ROOT
68. The Lost Fleet: Fearless - Jack Campbell - Pages 304 - 🎵 (reader: Christian Rummell ) - AlphaKIT, SFFKIT, Focus Series
69. The Ruin of Kings - Jenn Lyons - Chorus of Dragons #1 - pages 650 - 🎵 (reader: ) - AlphaKIT, BFB,
70. The Killing Way - Tony Hays - pages 272 - ROOT, RTT Quarterly, MysteryKIT
71. Chasm City - Alastair Reynolds - pages 704 - ROOT, MysteryKIT, SFFKIT, AlphaKIT , 🎵 (reader: John Lee )
72. Cauldron - Jack McDevitt - pages 368 - 🎵 (reader:Karen Hvram) - ROOT, SffKIT, focus series

August
73. Five Red Herrings - Dorothy L. Sayers - pages 292 - Series: Lord Peter #7
74. A Pale Light in the Black - K.B. Wagers - pages 432 - Series NeoG #1 - ROOT, SFFKIT
75. Heirs and Graces - Rhys Bowen - pages 304 - Series: Her Royal Spyness #7 - ROOT, AlphaKIT, MysteryKIT, BingoDog
76. Aftershocks - Marko Kloos- pages 276 - Series: Palladium Wars #1 - ROOT
77. Every Heart a Doorway - Seanan McGuire - pages 176 - Series: Wayward Children #1 - ROOT, SFFKIT
78. Odd Thomas - Dean Koontz - pages 480 - ROOT, AlphaKIT, ScaredyKIT
79. Wrath of Empire - Brian McClellan - pages 656 - Series: Gods of Powder #5 - 🎵 (reader: Christian Rodska )ROOT, AlphaKIT, BFB, Dice
80. Have his Carcase - Dorothy L. Sayers - pages 448 - Series: Lord Peter #8 - ROOT, MysteryKIT
81. The Hidden Empire - Kevin J. Anderson - Series: Saga of the Seven Suns #1 - 🎵 (reader: George Guidell)ROOT, AlphaKIT, BFB
82. A Forest of Stars - Kevin J. Anderson - Series: Saga of the Seven Suns #1 - 🎵 (reader: George Guidell) - ROOT, BFB
83. Valor's Choice - Tanya Huff - Series: Confederation #1 - pages 409 - ROOT, AlphaKIT, Focus Series, SFFKIT

September
84. Playing for the Ashes - Elizabeth George - Series: Lynley 37 - 🎵 (reader: Donada Peters) - ROOT, BFB, AlphaKIT, MysteryKIT
85. Age of Swords - Michael J. Sullivan - Series: Legends #2 - 🎵 (reader: Tim Gerard Reynolds ) - ROOT, BFB, AlphaKIT, Focus Series
86. Unconquerable Sun - Kate Elliot - Series: Sun Chronicles #1 - 🎵 (reader: Natalie Naudus ) - ROOT, BFB, AlphaKIT
87. Embers of War - Garth Powell - Series: Embers of War #1 - 🎵 (reader: multiple ) - AlphaKIT
88. Extremes - A Retrieval ARtist novel - K.K. Rusch - Series: Retrieval Artist #2 - ROOT, AlphaKIT, Focus Series, Dice
89. The Blinding Knife - Brent Weeks - Series: Lightbringer 2 - 🎵 (reader: Simon Vance) - ROOT, BFB, Focus Series
90. Lines of Departure - Marko Kloos - Series: Frontlines #2 - 🎵 (reader: Luke Daniels) - ROOT, AlphaKIT, SFFKIT
91. The Lake District Murder - John Bude - Series: Meredith #1 - ROOT, MysteryKIt
92. Angles of Attack - Markos Kloos - Series: Frontlines #3 - ROOT, AlphaKIT, SFFKIT

4th Quarter Reading


October
93. Remnant Population - Elizabeth Moon - DNF
94. Red Sister - Mark Lawrence - Series: Ancestors #1 - 🎵 (reader: Heather O'Neill ) - ROOT, Dice
95. Two Graves - Preston & Child - Series: Pendergast #12 - 🎵 (reader: Rene Auberjonois ) - ROOT, AlphaKIT, Focus Series
96. The Forever War - Joe Haldeman - 🎵 (reader: George Wilson) - ROOT, SFFKIT
97. Murder Must Advertise - Dorothy L. Sayers - Series: Lord Peter #10 - 🎵 (reader: Nadia May ) - ROOT, AlphaKIT
98. The Darwin Affair - Tim Mason - DNF - ROOT
99. The Little Shop of Found Things - Paula Brakston - 🎵 (reader:Marissa Calin) - MysteryCAT, LibraryBook
100. Blood of Empire - Brian McClellan - Series: Powder Mage #6 - 🎵 (reader:John Telfer) - ROOT, BFB, Focus Series, Dice
101. The Widows of Malabar Hill - Sujata Massey - Did Not Finish - ROOT, MysteryKIT
102. Vicious - V.E. Schwab - Series: Villians #1 - 🎵 (reader: Noah Michael Levine) - ROOT, AlphaKIT

November
103. The Last Odyssey - James Rollins - Series: Sigma Force #15 - 🎵 (reader:Christian Baskous) - ROOT, Focus Series
104. The Long Sunset - Jack McDevitt - Series: the Academy #7 - 🎵 (reader: Alyssa Bresnahan) - ROOT, Focus Series
105. Blind to the Bones - Series: Cooper and Fry #4 -ROOT, Focus Series, RandomCAT -
106. The Quantum Magician - Derek Kunsken - Series: Quantum Evolution #1 🎵 (reader:T Ryder Smith ) - ROOT, BFB, AlphaKIT, SFFKIT
107. In the Presence of the Enemy - Elizabeth George - Series: Lynly/Havers #8 - 🎵 (reader: Donata Peters) - ROOT, BFB, AlphaKIT
108. The Confession - Charles Todd - Series: Ian Rutledge #14 - ROOT, RandomCAT, Focus Series
109. Chains of Command - Marko Kloos - Series: Frontlines #4 - 🎵 (reader: Luke Daniels) - ROOT, SFFKIT
110. The Nine Tailors - Dorothy L. Sayers - Series: Lord Peter 311 - 🎵 (reader:Ian Carmichael) - ROOT

December
111. The Broken Eye - Brent Weeks - Series: Lightbringer #3 - 🎵 (reader: Simon Vance) - ROOT, BFB, focus series
112. Medusa Uploaded - Emily Davenport - Series: Medusa Cycle #1 - ROOT
113. Murder on Black Swan Lane - Andrea Penrose - Series: Wexford #1 - 🎵 (reader:James Stewart ) - ROOT, MysteryKIT
114. Salvation - Peter F. Hamilton - Series: Salvation Sequnce #1 - 🎵 (reader: John Lee) - ROOT, BFB
115. Gaudy Night - Dorothy L. Sayers - Series: Lord Peter #12 - ROOT, BFB
1116. Salvation Lost - Peter F. Hamilton - Series Salvation Sequence #2 - 🎵 (reader: John Lee) ROOT, BFB
117. Saints of Salvation - Peter F. Hamilton - Series Salvation Sequence #3 - 🎵 (reader: John Lee) ROOT, BFB

Planned Series



SFF
1 Lightbringer Series Brent Weeks SFF 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 #1 - The Black Prism (re-read)
2 Demon Cycle Peter V. Brett SFF 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 #1 - The Warded Man (re-read)
3. Craft Sequence Max Gladstone SFF 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, #1 - Three Parts Dead
4. Legends of 1st Empire Michael J Sullivan SFF 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 #1 - Age of Myth
5. Laundry Files Charles Stoss SFF 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 #2 - The Jennifer Morgue
6. His Dark Materials reread Phillip Pullman SFF 1,2,3, 0, 0.5 #2 - The Subtle Knife
7. P.C. Grant Ben Aaronovitch SFF 6,7 #6 Lies Sleeping
✔ 8. Powder Mage Brian McClellan SFF 4,5,6 #4 Sins of Empire #5 Wrath of Empire Blood of Empire
9. Repairman Jack F. Paul Wilson SFF 1,2,3,4,5 - #1 The Tomb #2 Legacies
10. Devine Cities Robert Bennett SFF - 1,2,3

Sci Fi
✔ 11 The Academy Jack McDevitt Sci fi 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 #4 - Omega #5 Odyssey #6 Cauldron #7 The Long sunset
12 Revelation Space Alastair Reynolds Sci fi 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 #2 Chasm City
13 Greg Mandel Peter F. Hamilton Sci fi 1, 2, 3 #1 - Mindstar Rising
14 Confederation Tanya Huff Sci fi 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, #1 - Valor's Choice
15 The Retrieval Artist K.K. Rusch Sci fi 1, 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. #1 - The Disappeared
✔ 14 Heris Serrano Elizabeth Moon Sci Fi 6,7
16 The Lost Fleet Jack Campbell Sci Fi 2,3,4,5,6 #2 Fearless

Mystery/Thriller

17 Ian Rutledge Charles Todd Period mystery 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, #12 - The Red Door #13 A Lonely Death #14 The confession
18 Dept Q Jussi Adler-Olsen Contemp mystery 7, 8 #7 - The Scarred Woman
19 Seb St Cyr C.S. Harris Period mystery 10, 12, 13, 14, 15 #10 - Who Buries the Dead
20 Sigma Force James Rollins thriller 13, 14 #13 - The Demon Crown #14 Crucible: A Novel
21 Pendergast Preston/Child thriller 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, #11 - Cold Vengeance
22 Flavia Alan Bradley Period mystery 9, 10 #9 - The Grave's a Fine and Private Place
23 Gamache Louise Penny mystery 10, 11, 12 #10 - The Long Way Home
234 Cooper & Fry Stephen Booth mystery 3,4,5 - #3 - Blood on the Tongue #4 - Blind to the Bones #5 One Last Breath

2nd Quarter Reading

April
27. The Black Prism - Brent Weeks - pages 540 - 🎵 (reader:Simon Vance) - ROOT, Dice, Focus Series, BFB
28. Down Among the Dead - K.B. Wagers - pages 448 - ROOT
29. The Spaceship Next Door - Gene Doucette - pages 368 - 🎵 (reader: Steve Carlson) - ROOT, AlphaKIT
30. The Witch Who Came In From the Cold - Multiple authors - Season 1 - pages 429 - 🎵 (reader: cast) - ROOT, MysteryKIT
31. Barbary Station - R.E. Stearns - pages 448 - 🎵 (reader: Mia Barron) - ROOT, AlphaKIT
32. The Collapsing Empire - John Scalzi - pages 336 - 🎵 (reader:Wil Wheaton) - ROOT, AlphaKIT
33. The Consuming Fire - John Scalzi - pages 320 - 🎵 (reader:Wil Wheaton) - ROOT, AlphaKIT
34. The Last Emperox - John Scalzi -pages 330 - 🎵 (reader:Wil Wheaton) - ROOT, AlphaKIT
35. The Weight of the Evidence - Michael Innes - pages 243 - 🎵 (reader: Matt Addis) - ROOT,Dice
36. Gideon the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir - pages 448 - 🎵 (reader: Moira Quirke) - ROOT, AlphaKIT
37. The Demon Crown - James Rollins - pages 672 - 🎵 (reader: Christian Baskous ) - ROOT, Focus Series, BFB
38. Jennifer Morgue - Charles Stross - pages 401 - ROOT, BingoDOG, Dice, Focus Series, AlphaKIT
39. Odyssey - Jack McDevitt - pages 432 - ROOT, Focus Series
40. The Darwin Elevator - Jason M. Hough - pages 496 - ROOT

May
41. The Time Traders - Andre Norton - pages 179 - ROOT
42. Revenger - Alastair Reynolds - pages 448 - ROOT, SFFKIT, RandomCAT
43. Shadow Captain - Alastair Reynolds - pages 448 - ROOT, SFFKIT, RandomCAT
44. A Lonely Death - Charles Todd - pages 348 - ROOT, Focus Series, AlphaKIT, Dice
45. Bone Silence - Alastair Reynolds - pages 640 - 🎵 (reader: Clair Corbett ) - ROOT, BFB, SFFKIT
46. The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club - Dorothy L. Sayers - pages 256 - 🎵 (reader: Ian Carmichael ) - ROOT, RandomCAT, MysteryKIT
47. Legacies - F. Paul Wilson - pages 450 - Repairman Jack #2 - 🎵 (reader: Christopher Price ) - ROOT, Focus Series, AlphaKIT
48. The Desert Spear - Peter V. Brett - pages read: 450 about - ABANDONED - DNF
49. The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday - Saad Z. Hossain - Pages 176 - ROOT, AlphaKIT, SFFKIT
50. Network Effect - Martha Wells - pages 352 - 🎵 (reader: Kevin R. Free ) - ROOT, SFFKIT
51. To Kingdom Come - Will Thomas - pages 290 - ROOT
52. Lady Takes the Case - Eliza Casey - pages 304 - ROOT, AlphaKIT
53. Sins of Empire - Brian McClellan - pages 624 - 🎵 (reader: Christian Rodka ) - ROOT, Focus Series, Dice, BFB
54. Wyrd Sisters - Terry Pratchett - pages 288 - Discworld #6 - 🎵 (reader: Celia Imrie ) - ROOT, AlphaKIT, RandomCAT, SFFKIT
55. The City in the Middle of the Night - C.J. Anders - pages 368 - ROOT

June
56. The Disappeared - K.K. Rusch - pages 366 - 🎵 (reader: Jay Snyder ) - ROOT, SFFKIT, AlphaKIT, Focus Series
57. Middlegame - Seanan McGuire - pages 528 - 🎵 (reader: Amber Benson ) - ROOT, BFB
58. Blood on the Tongue - Stephen Booth - pages 401 - ROOT, Focus Series, MysteryKIT
59. Columbus Day - Craig Alanson - pages 432 - 🎵 (reader:R.C. Bray ) -ROOT, SFFKIT
60. Strong Poison - Dorothy L. Sayers - pages 252 - 🎵 (reader:Ian Carmichael ) - ROOT
61. Kraken - China Mieville - pages 528 - 🎵 (reader:John Lee ) -ROOT, AlphaKIT, ScaredyKIT, BFB
62. Killing Gravity - Corey J. White - pages 176 - ROOT, AlphaKIT, SFFKIT
63. The Lake House - Kate Morton - pages 512 - 🎵 (reader: Caroline Lee ) -ROOT, AlphaKIT, RandomCAT, BFB
64. Where the Hell is Tesla? - Rob Dircks - pages 396 - 🎵 (reader: Rob Dircks ) -ROOT
65. Edinburgh Twilight - Carol Lawrence - pages 446 - 🎵 (reader: Napoleon Ryan ) -ROOT, MysteryCAT

1st Quarter Reading


January
1. The Well of Ascension - Brandon Sanderson 🎵 (reader: Michael Kramer) Series: Mistborn #2 pages: 815 - SFFKIT, ROOT, BFB
2. The Bayern Agenda - Dan Moren - Pages: 384 -Series: The Galactic Cold War #1 -ROOT, SFFKIT - ROOT from 2019
3. Dispel Illusion - Mark Lawrence - Impossible Times #3 - 🎵 (reader: Matthew Throw) - pages 234
4. Whose Body? - Dorothy L. Sayers - Series: Lord Peter Wimsey #1 - 🎵 (reader: Roe Kindall - pages 224 - ROOT, BingoDog
5. Age of Myth - Micheal J. Sullivan - Series: Legends #1 - 🎵 (reader: Tim Gerard Reynolds - pages 432 - ROOT, AlphaKIT, SFFKIT, Focus Series
6. Un Lun Dun - China Mieville - pages 498 - ROOT, SFFKIT, AlphaKIT
7. Ancestral Night - Elizabeth Bear - Series: White Space #1 - 🎵 (reader: Nneka Okoye) - pages 512 - BFB, ROOT, SFFKIT, AlphaKIT
8. The City of Brass - S.A. Chakraborty - pages 544 - 🎵 (reader: Soneela Nankani) - BFB, ROOT, SFFKIT, AlphaKIT, Dice
9. Deep Secret - Diana Wynn Jones - pages 384 - ROOT, 75rs TIOLI
10. The Warded Man - Peter V. Brett - pages 480 - 🎵 (reader:Peter Bradbury) - ROOT, SFFKIT, Focus Series, Dice
11. The Tomb - F. Paul Wilson - pages 448 🎵 (reader: Joe Barrett) - ROOT, SFFKIT, ScaredyKIT

February
12. Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel - 🎵 (reader: Simon Slater ) - pages 560 - BFB, BingoDOG, group read
13. Finders - Melissa Scott - pages 412 - AlphaKIT, SFFKIT, ROOT
14. Clouds of Witness - Doroth L Sayers - 🎵 (reader: Ian Carmichael ) - pages 230 -RTT, ROOT, BingoDog
15. The Red Door - Charles Todd - pages 368 - RTT, ROOT, BingoDOG
16. Velocity Weapon - Megan O'Keefe - pages 544 - 🎵 (reader: Joe Jameson) - BFB, ROOT, Dice
17. Cold Vengeance- Preston/Child - pages 457 - 🎵 (reader: Rene Auberjonois) - ROOT, Focus Series, ScaredyKIT

March
18. The Serrano Succession - Elizabeth Moon - Pages: 802 - Last of the Serrano series - ROOT, SFFKIT, BFB, Focus Series
19. Bring Up the Bodies - Hilary Mantel - pages 432 - 🎵 (reader: Simon Vance) Series: Wolf Hall #2 - Group Read
20. Foundryside - Robert J. Bennett - pages 512 - 🎵 (reader: Tara Sands) - ROOT, BFB, SffKIT
21. Omega - Jack McDevitt - pages 512 - 🎵 (reader:Karen Hvram) - ROOT, BFB, SffKIT, focus series
22. Who Buries the Dead - C.S. Harris - pages 384 - 🎵 (reader:Davinia Porter) - ROOT, focus series, AlphaKIT
23. Wicked Autumn - G.M. Malliet - pages 320 - ROOT, AlphaKIT, RandomCAT
24. European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman - Theodora Goss - pages 736 - 🎵 (reader:Kate Reading ) - ROOT, AlphaKIT, TravelKIt, SFFKIT
25. Unnatural Death - DorothyL. Sayers - pages 736 - 🎵 (reader:Ian Carmichael ) - ROOT, MysteryKIT, group read
26. The Ruin - Dervla McTiernan - pages 400 - 🎵 (reader:Aoife McMahon ) - ROOT

So, thru July I have met and passed my ROOTs goal of 60 books, and am already at 72 books for the year. I guess being locked in the house has upped my reading game.

I hope everyone stays safe and healthy.

73. Five Red Herrings - Dorothy L. Sayers - pages 292 - Series: Lord Peter #7

One of my favorite Wimseys. I liked seeing him out of London.

>8 majkia: I'm reading a book right now called Bright Young Things: A Modern Guide to the Roaring Twenties by Alison Maloney.

Much of it brings to mind and illuminates the earlier Wimsey novels, especially Murder Must Advertise.

>9 MrsLee: Oh, that sounds interesting. I'll check it out. :)

74. A Pale Light in the Black - K.B. Wagers - pages 432 - Series NeoG #1 - ROOT, SFFKIT

A character driven science fiction story, with lots of action and great world-building. Hopeful, and funny, and poignant too.

Congrats on the new thread and your reading success for this year!

Happy new thread! I'm glad you enjoyed A pale light in the black, I can't wait to get my hands on a copy!

75. Heirs and Graces - Rhys Bowen - pages 304 - Series: Her Royal Spyness #7 - ROOT, AlphaKIT, MysteryKIT, BingoDog

Fun series, with semi-competent Georgiana, cousin to the queen, getting roped into dealing with Royalty's foibles. As usual. If she only had an income!

>13 Sakerfalcon: I really enjoy her books. Not the usual just shoot everything in sight military sci fi.

76. Aftershocks Marko Kloose - Series: Paladium Wars #1 - ROOT

What happens when you lose a war? Paybacks, infighting, reparations, resentments, and chaos.

77. Every Heart a Doorway - Seanan McGuire - pages 176 - Series: Wayward Children #1 - ROOT, SFFKIT
Finally getting round to this series. It was okay, and I liked it better than other books I've read of hers. Not sure why she doesn't appeal to me that much. She writes well, she's very imaginative. So not sure what gives.

78. Odd Thomas - Dean Koontz - pages 480 - ROOT, AlphaKIT, ScaredyKIT

After I started listening to this (audio version quite good) I remembered having seen the movie. Too bad I knew the ending. Story quite interesting and well done.

79 Wrath of Empire - Brian McClellan - pages 656 - Series: Gods of Powder #5 - 🎵 (reader: Christian Rodska )ROOT, AlphaKIT, BFB, Dice

Exciting and very well written, I enjoy the Power Mage books immensely.

Camping again at Eastbank Campground, a good place to social distance.

>19 majkia: Beautiful. Enjoy the peace and quiet!

>19 majkia: Absolutely beautiful.

>19 majkia: Magnificent! Enjoy yourselves. How warm is that water this time of year?

>20 Sakerfalcon: >21 Busifer: Thanks!

>22 clamairy: Well, the Gulf is in the high 80s at the moment so this lake is probably not much lower. Water comes down from the mountains into this dam, but with little rain, there isn't much new fresh water entering. I'm not about to stick my toes in, since there are gators here.

>23 majkia: ACK!!! Don't do it! I didn't realize that was fresh water. I thought it was an inlet or bay on the gulf.

>19 majkia: Soooo pretty! We have had several spectacular sunrise/sets like that recently, but they are due to the many fires surrounding our valley, so it kind of takes the joy out of them.

>25 MrsLee: I hope you and yours stay safe and the fires spare you!

Speaking of bad weather, we have not one, but two tropical storms heading our way. One is currently expected to land on top of us. The other is further toward Louisiana but we know better than to expect the tracks to not change, for better or worse. They are supposed to both arrive on the same day!

>27 majkia: Lovely! Stay safe.

>26 majkia: Good luck, I hope they both change course!

>25 MrsLee: Good luck to you also, hope your home is safe from the fires.

80. Have his Carcase - Dorothy L. Sayers - pages 448 - Series: Lord Peter #8 - ROOT, MysteryKIT

Excellent entry to the canon. Convoluted and interesting altho I knew the solution from having read it before.

>27 majkia: Keep safe from the storms.

>31 majkia: I only started reading Dorothy L Sayers’s Lord Peter novels a few years ago. I think tgey are great and Have His Carcase us one I have not read yet. Something to look forward to.

81. The Hidden Empire - Kevin J. Anderson - Series: Saga of the Seven Suns #1 - 🎵 (reader: George Guidell)ROOT, AlphaKIT, BFB

Always love his science fiction. Imaginative, great characterization, aliens and great world building. And read beautifully by George Guidell.

>26 majkia: & >30 Karlstar: Thank you, so far we are safe.

>31 majkia: I am long overdue for a Wimsey reread, but I'm immersed in Dresden Files at the moment. I've also been craving Vorkosigan and Nero Wolfe worlds. The familiar and loved places I like to go.

82. A Forest of Stars - Kevin J. Anderson - Series: Saga of the Seven Suns #1 - 🎵 (reader: George Guidell) - ROOT, BFB

Second in the series. Terrifically complex and imaginative world-building, great characters and action you can't predict.

83. Valor's Choice - Tanya Huff - Series: Confederation #1 - pages 409 - ROOT, AlphaKIT, Focus Series, SFFKIT

Well, uneven, at best. I confess I fast forwarded through the world's universe's longest marine battle. I'll try another one at least, though, because I really liked the marines.

84. Playing for the Ashes - Elizabeth George - Series: Lynley 37 - 🎵 (reader: Donada Peters) - ROOT, BFB, AlphaKIT, MysteryKIT

I've been away from this series for far too long. Glad to be back to it.

85. Age of Swords - Michael J. Sullivan - Series: Legends #2 - 🎵 (reader: Tim Gerard Reynolds ) - ROOT, BFB, AlphaKIT, Focus Series

Complex world-building, combined with characters you can care about, make this SFF series compelling. And the reader, Tim Gerard Reynolds is great too.

86. Unconquerable Sun - Kate Elliot - Series: Sun Chronicles #1 - 🎵 (reader: Natalie Naudus ) - ROOT, BFB, AlphaKIT

Interesting and exciting take on Alexander the Great. Gender reversal and in space. Looking forward to the rest of the series!

87. Embers of War - Garth Powell - Series: Embers of War #1 - 🎵 (reader: multiple ) - AlphaKIT

Surprised at how good this was, considering it was free with amazon unlimited. Will more than likely read more in the series, as it has some imaginative alien artifacts.

88. Extremes - A Retrieval ARtist Novel - K.K. Rusch - Series: Retrieval Artist #2 - ROOT, AlphaKIT, Focus Series, Dice

Interesting and unfortunately too timely, considering it is about a virus killing people. Essentially a murder mystery on the Moon.

So... Hurricane Sally. We were camping about 100 miles or so from home. We got kicked out of the campground because of flooding, and so just gave up the ghost and drove home to see the disaster we'll have to deal with.

The house is fine, but the yard is messed up. Fences are down, part of the decking has been wrecked so the water and power lines to the dock are toast. Lots of wreckage in the yard once the fence came down, so we'll be cleaning up for weeks.

At least our house is fine. I feel horribly for those whose houses got flooded or hit with the surge.

With regard to the surge, this one, for a cat 2 storm, which wasn't even a direct hit, was higher than the cat 4 direct hit we got in about 2005.

Power is out at many people, including us, but we have a whole house generator we bought after that storm in 2005 because it took almost two weeks to get power back then. So we'll see when it comes back.

Our area will be trying to recover for 3 or 4 years.

Oh yuk, I'm so sorry and glad it wasn't worse. I bet your yard is magical when it isn't storm-ravaged.

89. The Blinding Knife - Brent Weeks - Series: Lightbringer #2 - 🎵 (reader: Simon Vance) - ROOT, BFB, Focus Series

Great and complex series with a different magical system. Looking forward to #3

Hurricane Sally update: Power came back on yesterday. We're working on cleaning up the mess.

Looks like you have quite the clean up job ahead of you. Glad it wasn't worse!

That flooding looks awfully extensive. No structural damage at least, I hope.

>44 majkia: I'm glad you're enjoying this series! I had fun with it.

>42 majkia:, >45 majkia: Wow, I'm sorry your yard had so much damage although I'm glad the house was ok!

>42 majkia: What a mess! Glad that your house (and you personally) are OK though. We humans do sometimes pay a high price for liking to live close to large bodies of water, don't we.

>42 majkia: so sorry! Glad your house is ok.

90. Lines of Departure - Marko Kloos - Series: Frontlines #2 - 🎵 (reader: Luke Daniels) - ROOT, AlphaKIT, SFFKIT

I'm really enjoying this mil sci fi series. Lots of action, great characters and an imaginative future, with lots of menace.

91. The Lake District Murder - John Bude - Series: Meredith #1 - ROOT, MysteryKIt

Interesting Golden Age Mystery. So different than how we do mysteries now. Quite detailed in odd ways.

>40 majkia: I had to give up on Embers of War, just couldn't stand all of the incongruous details. Glad your house is ok, good luck with the cleanup.

92. Angles of Attack - Markos Kloos - Series: Frontlines #3 - ROOT, AlphaKIT, SFFKIT

Really enjoyable series.

Yikes. So sorry about the damage. Have you made any progress with the clean-up?

>59 majkia: Nope. Mr Majkia was sick and then in hospital since it happened. We do have folks coming over to help clean up tomorrow, I hope.

Meanwhile, Jim is home from hospital after surgery. (appendix).

>56 majkia: Ugh. Well, hopefully he'll rebound quickly. No lifting for a while though!

Good luck with getting cleaned up. I hope Mr Majkia will be fit and well soon.

93. Remnant Population - Elizabeth Moon - DNF

Did Not Finish. Got about half way through. Just lost interest.

94. Red Sister - Mark Lawrence - Series: Ancestors #1 - 🎵 (reader: Heather O'Neill ) - ROOT, Dice

Okay. Not as impressed as I'd hoped I would be.

>60 majkia: I'm glad I did not buy this one when they were pushing it.

>60 majkia:, >61 clamairy:

Actually, I liked it enough to continue with the series. Unfortunately my copy of Grey Sister disappeared during move - I put it aside for easy access during journey, someone else grabbed it and put it in a box - and it has not yet resurfaced.

95. Two Graves - Preston & Child - Series: Pendergast #12 - 🎵 (reader: Rene Auberjonois ) - ROOT, AlphaKIT, Focus Series

Twelfth book in an entertaining, and weird thriller series.

96. The Forever War - Joe Haldeman - 🎵 (reader: George Wilson) - ROOT, SFFKIT

I've avoided this book for a long time because of comments regarding Vietnam similarities. Not at all true, n my opinion. It was okay. But as a reader of currently mil sci fi, I find it didn't age all that well. Still, worth the read.

97. Murder Must Advertise - Dorothy L. Sayers - Series: Lord Peter #10 - 🎵 (reader: Nadia May ) - ROOT, AlphaKIT

One of my favorite Wimseys. Altho Lord Peter's solution, at the end, is a bit old-school, what?

>65 majkia: A great story. One of my favourites too. I love how Lord Peter is described as, like Bertie Wooster with brains.

98. The Darwin Affair - Tim Mason - Did Not Finish - ROOT

It just didn't hold my interest.

>65 majkia: Murder Must Advertise is my favourite Wimsey. I love all that intelligent banter.

>68 SylviaC: If I could have that kind of banter at work, it would be a pleasure to be there. No luck for me.

>65 majkia: All this talk about Murder Must Advertise is making me wish I had time to join the group read this month. Ah, well. Another time...

99. The Little Shop of Found Things - Paula Brakston - 🎵 (reader:Marissa Calin) - MysteryCAT, LibraryBook

Cute little time travel piece. A bit too romance-y for my tastes but others will, I'm sure, enjoy that part more than I did.

100. Blood of Empire - Brian McClellan - Series: Powder Mage #6 - 🎵 (reader:John Telfer) - ROOT, BFB, Focus Series, Dice

Excellent series. Great world-building, complex characters you grow to care about. I especially loved Michail and Mad Ben Sykes.

101. The Widows of Malabar Hill - Sujata Massey - Did Not Finish - ROOT, MysteryKIT

I wanted so badly to like this book. Alas, it was charming, but slow as molasses and spent too much time away from the mystery.

102. Vicious - V.E. Schwab - Series: Villians #1 - 🎵 (reader: Noah Michael Levine) - ROOT, AlphaKIT

Interesting. Well written. Not exactly what I expected, which is not a bad thing.

Late, but good to hear that the house was OK. I hope you're making enough progress on the wreckage outside, and I hope Mr Majkia has healed well.

On >64 majkia:, The Forever war I agree with you. Not a bad book, but it just hasn't aged that well.

103. The Last Odyssey - James Rollins - Series: Sigma Force #15 - 🎵 (reader:Christian Baskous) - ROOT, Focus Series

Excellent series.

104. The Long Sunset - Jack McDevitt - Series: the Academy #7 - 🎵 (reader: Alyssa Bresnahan) - ROOT, Focus Series

I'm now caught up on this series, and still loving it.

105. Blind to the Bones - Stephen Booth ; Series: Cooper and Fry #4

I really enjoy this series. Lots of attention to the surroundings, the 'feel' of the place, the people and the culture. Good mysteries too.

106. The Quantum Magician - Derek Kunsken - Series: Quantum Evolution #1 🎵 (reader:T Ryder Smith ) - ROOT, BFB, AlphaKIT, SFFKIT

Very weird book. Okay but hard to follow, I thought. Maybe just the narrator.

107. In the Presence of the Enemy - Elizabeth George - Series: Lynly/Havers #8 - 🎵 (reader: Donata Peters) - ROOT, BFB, AlphaKIT , Focus Series

Complex, hard to see the twists, well done as usual.

108. The Confession - Charles Todd - Series: Ian Rutledge #14 - ROOT, RandomCAT, Focus Series

Excellent entry to an excellent series.

109. The Nine Tailors - Dorothy L. Sayers - Series: Lord Peter 311 - 🎵 (reader:Ian Carmichael) - ROOT

One of my favorite Wimseys.

111. The Broken Eye - Brent Weeks - Series: Lightbringer #3 - 🎵 (reader: Simon Vance) - ROOT, BFB, focus series
I'm really enjoying this series. Lots of surprises, twists and turns.

>84 majkia: Glad you are enjoying it, I just started that series.

>85 Karlstar: I've been a Weeks fan for some time, having enjoyed the Night Angel trilogy so glad this series is as enjoyable.

>82 majkia: The most recent one by Charles Todd The Gatekeeper has been sitting on one of the piles here in the house and I keep meaning to pick it up. I read the first half of the series in rapid succession and then stepped away from it because of other distractions.

112. Medusa Uploaded - Emily Davenport Series: The Medusa Cycle #1 - ROOT

Oichi is a 'worn' on a generation ship. But she's not continent with that, and is determined to extract justice following the death of her parents on a sister ship. And, boy, does she manage to find a way to change the dynamics and power structure.

Intriguing and fascinating. Great characterization and a plot that pulls you forward.

114. Salvation - Peter F. Hamilton - Series: Salvation Sequnce #1 - 🎵 (reader: John Lee) - ROOT, BFB

Re-reading the first of the trilogy so I can finish the series up. Excellent sci fi, , as always is the case for Hamilton.

I got some great books from my Santa!

The Lost Man - Jane Harper
The Fifteen Lives of Harry August - Claire North
The Ashes of London - Andrew Taylor.

Taylor is new to me, as is Claire North.

Thank you Santa and Thank you SantaThing Elves!

>89 majkia: Another Hamilton fan! I was starting to think I was the only one here in the Green Dragon. How are the 2nd and 3rd books?

>91 Karlstar: I'm halway through the 2nd and it is, as usual, very Hamiltonian! Which is a good thing. :)

>92 majkia: Great, I'll add it to my list.

116. Salvation Lost - Peter F. Hamilton - Series Salvation Sequence #2 - 🎵 (reader: John Lee) ROOT, BFB

Second in the Salvation Sequence, wherein humans, and other aliens, are being hunted by one species who has the means to enslave and 'save' them all. The problem is, it's the kind of 'saving' that they object to.

Very Hamiltonian. Complex societal developments along side tech and mental ones. The Plot is simple. The Question is whether or not Humans and others can find a way to defeat the invading species.

>94 majkia: Added Salvation Lost to my wish list.

>95 Karlstar: I started right in on Saints of Salvation.

117. Saints of Salvation - Peter F. Hamilton - Series Salvation Sequence #3 - 🎵 (reader: John Lee) ROOT, BFB

Last of the Salvation Sequence. Nice wrap up with surprises and twists and turns. Societal development, as usual, with Hamilton, just as important as tech advances. Massive time scales and wild and wide open imaginative future worlds.

See me on my shiny new thread: https://www.librarything.com/topic/327958

>89 majkia: I've only read one book by Hamilton, Great North Road, but I loved it. On your recommendations I've just bought Salvation for kindle as it's currently on sale. Well done on a successfully fired book bullet so early in the new year!

>99 Sakerfalcon: Punches the air!