Books: What have you been reading?

[MajorHoy]

Started reading

Too Young to Die: The Complete Cases of MacBride & Kennedy Volume 3, 1933-35
by Frederick Nebel

[Zauriel]

Started reading a book called The Kennedy Women: The Saga of an American Family written by Laurence Leamer.

[Chubistian]

Started reading In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote

[Deathstroke]

My three latest reviews for Mystery Scene magazine were finally posted online.

Suspect by Scott Turow

Mystic Wind by James Barretto

Should I Fall by Scott Shepherd


I also finished the Matthew Betley thriller The Neighborhood today. You can check out my review of that book via this Goodreads.com link.

[The Darknight Detective]

New books: King's Ransom (2017), the third Xander King prequel by Bradley Wright...



... and on my Kindle: Lions of the Lord (1903) by Harry Leon Wilson.

Started reading In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote

Greatest true crime novel, IMO.

[the illustrious mr. kenway]

"The Knight, the fool and the dead" by Steve Cole. It's a Doctor Who tie in novel set during the Time Lord Victorious event. That event is set after the Water of Mars episode from 2009. The 10th Doctor journeys to a planet called Aldhani. The inhabitants are approached by the Kotthuri, a group of aliens that have found a way to stop death through a device called the Lifeshroud. The Doctor is suspicious of their claim and investigates.

He teams up with Brian a mysterious alien assassin who wants the device for his employer, Chaskal a crooked politician who hires Brian, Fallomax an amoral scientist who had a previous encounter with the Kotthuri and Estine a young girl of interest to the Kotthuri.

It's a great read and feels like a lost Doctor Who episode.

[MajorHoy]

Started on

The Case of the Shoplifter’s Shoe (A Perry Mason Mystery)
by Erle Stanley Gardner
(originally published in 1938 / reissued by Penzler Publishers April 2022)

[The Darknight Detective]

Okay, now I'm reading the Histories*, since I finished the Comedies (favorite? maybe A Midsummer Night's Dream, though it's tough to choose from) last week. Looking forward to Richard III, FWIW.

* King John
Richard II
Henry IV, Part 1
Henry IV, Part 2
Henry V
Henry VI, Part 1
Henry VI, Part 2
Henry VI, Part 3
Richard III
Henry VIII
Edward III - this is not actually included in my collection for some reason, as well as The Two Noble Kinsmen in the Comedies. I'll read them on my Kindle at a later date.

Getting to the end... just have to read the Tragedies, Poems, and Sonnets to be well read regarding Shakespeare. Of the ones I haven't read here, looking forward to Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and The Tempest, though I'm not sure any of them can top Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet.

*Coriolanus
Titus Andronicus
Romeo and Juliet - read it in high school 40-something years ago
Timon of Athens
Julius Caesar
Macbeth - read it in high school 40-something years ago
Hamlet
King Lear
Othello
Antony and Cleopatra
Cymbeline
The Winter's Tale
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
The Tempest
The Poems (Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Passionate Pilgrim, The Phoenix and the Turtle, A Lover's Complaint, and Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Music)
The Sonnets

[The Darknight Detective]

Kindle-wise, I'm now reading The Lodger (1913) by Marie Belloc Lowndes. I have seen a few adaptations of it (the most famous being Hitchcock's silent masterpiece), so I know it will be good.

[the illustrious mr. kenway]

"All Flesh is Grass" by Una McCormick.

I just want Davies to patch things up with Eccleston and adapt "All Flesh is grass" as a miniseries for Disney+. It's a great multi- Doctpr story between 8, 9 and 10. It also follows up on the events of "The knight, the fool and the dead" and acts as a bridge from the Waters of Mars to the End of time.

[Deathstroke]

I finished reading the new Michael Connelly book Desert Star today. In true Connelly fashion, this book was just freaking fantastic! I haven't written my Goodreads review yet but it will definitely be a positive one.

[MajorHoy]

Started reading

The Case of the Golddigger's Purse (Perry Mason)
by Erle Stanley Gardner
(originally published May, 1945 / reissued March, 1970 by Pocket Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc.)

[MajorHoy]

Currently reading

South Wind: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Jerry Tracy
by Theodore A. Tinsley (Book 1)

[the illustrious mr. kenway]

Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami.

[The Darknight Detective]

The latest e-book I'm reading is Evergreen Christmas Readings (2018) by various authors, which will probably tide me over on my Kindle for the next few years at the holidays.

Started to take up yesterday where I left off last year at the end of the holidays (which was only 20% of this huge Kindle anthology).