Books: What have you been reading?

[the illustrious mr. kenway]

Convergence by Zoraida Cordova. Its set in the High Republic era- 200 years before the films. A group of Jedi get involved between two warring planets.

[XandertheWise]

this month I'm busy reading Stephen King's Needful Things and Wheel of Time Book 9 Winter's Heart

[Deathstroke]

Here's an interview with legendary mystery author Sara Paretsky.

[Malvolio]

Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Brinkmanship by Una McCormack

[XandertheWise]

I heard there's a new 4th Wax book of the 2nd Mistborn Trilogy. the new book came out like last year or earlier this year

[Jack Dracula]

How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt.

America is totally boned.

[The Darknight Detective]

New book: The Aviators (1988), the eight and penultimate novel in the Brotherhood of War series by W.E.B. Griffin.

[The Darknight Detective]

On my Kindle, it's the short story A Thousand a Plate (1922) by A.M. Chisholm and the non-fiction collection 2:46: Aftershocks: Stories from the Japan Earthquake (2011) by Jake Adelstein.

[Joy Boy]

Life for Sale (1968) by Yukio Mishima



“When Hanio Yamada realizes the future holds nothing of worth to him, he puts his life for sale in a Tokyo newspaper, thus unleashing a series of unimaginable exploits.

A world of revenge, murderous mobsters, hidden cameras, a vampire woman, poisonous carrots, espionage and code-breaking, a junkie heiress, home-made explosives and decoys reveals itself to the unwitting Hanio. Is there anything he can do to stop it?”

[Jack Dracula]

I scored a few interesting books at our local public library book sale.

The Secret Life of the Brain by Richard Restak, M.D. The biology and functions of the human brain.

Patterns of Anti-Democratic Thought by David Spitz. Written in 1946, but still relevant. It may never be irrelevant.

Tools for Thought by C.H. Waddington. It seems to be all about systems theory which you'd never guess from the title.

[The Darknight Detective]

New reads: Spartan Gold (2009), the first novel from the Fargo Adventures series by Clive Cussler with Grant Blackwood...



... while on my Kindle, it's the short story The Great Cardinal Seal (1914) by Robert Welles Ritchie and the brief historical tract The Abenaki Indians Their Treaties of 1713 & 1717, and a Vocabulary (1859) by Frederic Kidder.

[The Darknight Detective]

New Kindle reads: the short story The Countess of Bellarmine (1891) by Arthur Quiller- Couch and the religious treatise The Abiding Presence of the Holy Ghost in the Soul (1918) by Bede Jarrett.

[The Darknight Detective]

So far it's only me this week.

New Kindle reads: the short story A Wild Night at Wood River (1897) by Cy Warman and The Saint Plays with Fire (1938), the 19th Simon Templar book by Leslie Charteris...