The Luminaries

Set in the small town of Hemlock Falls, the novel follows Winnie, an exile from an ancient society that protects humanity from monsters and nightmares. Winnie is determined to restore her family's good name by taking the deadly hunter trials on her sixteenth birthday.

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/th...n=9781250896155

I'm literally only a few pages in; the book is fine thus so far. Part of my brain though keeps thinking it should be Moonlight Falls rather than Hemlock Falls. Moonlight Falls is the world in TS3 Supernatural. I can't blame Maxis for this problem, but

Clearly the part of my brain where sims sit needs to be re-programmed or de-programmed depending on how a person looks at things. This isn't worst problem to have, but it is annoying.

I'm reading Tess Gerritsen
Bloodstream (pol. Nosiciel) now
I love all her medical thrillers.

The Luminaries- This book is not bad, I'm halfway through it. There is something about it though that is rubbing me the wrong way. Instead of putting it away temporarily, I haven't been reading any books which is dumb. There is nobody twisting my arm while telling me that I have to finish a book that isn't my thing. It is going back to the bookcase. If I end up ignoring it for a few months, I'll donate it.

New book that I'm going to start today once I'm done cleaning up all the micro messes that have taken over my house: The Serpent & The Wings of Night.

Currently reading Jill Haven's Divine Dragons -series through about tenth time now. Guardian Dragons -series is also excellent but I always seem to go back to Divine Dragons. I managed to buy two of the five books (His Elder Dragon and His Dragon Protector) from Amazon but can't find the rest three books. Isn't paperback appreciated anymore? They only seem to be available either audiobooks, ebooks or kindle. I just prefer real books, real paper. Maybe I'm old fashioned.

Meteor.
Okay I mean, I started it 6 months ago, and forgot about it for 2 weeks, re-started. Forgot about it and the cycle continued so far. But yeah, Meteor.

I'm reading the Silo series by Hugh Howie, after seeing the Silo TV series. Really gripping, such great sci-fi!

@Johnny_Bravo Who is Meteor by, please?

@simsample

It's by Dan Brown. Considering that I've liked his stuff so far, I'm surprised I'm not actively reading it.

@Johnny_Bravo Oh, I looked and Meteor is apparently the German title for Deception Point? I read a couple of the early Dan Brown novels but gave up on him pretty early because I hated his writing. I'll try to get a copy of this one though and give him a second chance, because the subject is right up my alley. I checked goodreads and the reviews were NOT good:


Oh well, I'm going to give it a try after I've finished Silo! How are you liking it so far?

@simsample These reviews aren't wrong I'm not that far into the story yet, it's alright.

Now I'mdefinitely going to read it... it's on my list!

Light reading is more my cup of tea just lately, rather than serious literature. So I'm reading 'Pirates of the Main', printed in the 'Boys & Girls Book' for 1938. It is a ripping good yarn, if you are not too picky and don't mind a few plot holes, (which I suspect may be due to the original book being abridged). Although it is supposed to be set in the early 20th century, some of the characters are straight out of the 18th, from the way they talk. There is one character named Doubloon Tom who, in spite of his name, an eye patch, owning a parrot that keeps reciting macabre verses about bloodthirsty piratical deeds, and him beginning almost every other sentence with "By thunder!", is not actually a pirate, but one of the good guys. But his language owes more than a little to Long John Silver: I've lost count of the times he's said "you may lay to it". He hasn't said "Arr Jim lad" yet, but that's only because the boy protagonist's name is Harry. The day he meets any young man named Jim he will certainly say it. In fact you may lay to it.

I’m reading The Eye of the World a high fantasy novel by Robert Jordan, the first book of The Wheel of Time series. I loved The Lord of the Rings so thought I’d try this series

The Fine Print- Lauren Asher

EDIT: Finished and meh.

I do like the authors writing style, so I'm going to try a different book. This book wasn't nearly as fun as I thought it was going to be.

Cresent City: House of Earth and Blood- Sarah J Maas

The dreaded reading slump. I'm not currently in one, but I have two books I started last year that couldn't keep my attention if my life depended on it. Perhaps listening to people talking about them affected the way I feel about them.

Why Reading Slumps Happen: Understanding Attunement and Attachment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEJqgb6Vv-o

Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan. It's been living on my shelf for like a year and I suddenly got the urge to read it- it was super fun! Like its def not the usual thing I'd read but the author got the vibes right

Mortal Fear by Robin Cook

I love it so far! It's not life changing or anything but its just well written (i.e. not tv show written for a psychotic 13 year old girl vibes like a recent books of this genre). The pace and tone are great, and so far stupid things only happen because characters are unaware so its not supidity/impulsiveness/over confidence. It also focuses on the right things i.e. the medical horrors happening and not the main guy's relationship with his girlfriend. The relationship is mentioned but its not all in your face- he asks how her day was, she drives him home after his traumatic evening, etc. its these things that make it legit but don't take away from the actual story.

Children of the Dust, by Louise Lawrence.

This is a re-read, being one of my favourite books!

It's a novel aimed at young adults, but it blew my mind when I read it as a teen and was one of those influential books that has stayed with me throughout life (the others being Dark Universe by Daniel F. Galouye, Z for Zachariah by Robert C. O'Brien, Contact by Carl Sagan and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams). Also, Louise Lawrence was my friend in real-life, although I read the book before I met her. So I was pleased to be able to say, when I joined a writer's group of which she was a member, 'You wrote that? It's one of my favourite books'!

The synopsis is that it's a novel in three parts. The first is set in a quiet Gloucestershire town on the eve of a nuclear war. A teenaged girl, Sarah, is running home as warning sirens sound. She and her family struggle to survive in their small cottage, worried for her absent father, Bill. She learns she must protect her young sister, Kate, at any cost.
The second part tells the tale of Bill, who quite by chance ends up in a government nuclear bunker in Avon. He realises that humans need to look further then gene splicing and acquisition of finite resources, if they are to prevail. He worries about his daughter, Ophelia, and her chances of survival in this sterile environment.
The final part tells of Simon, Ophelia's son, setting out from the crumbling bunker in a world for which humans are not equipped. He meets up with Kate, now very old and with descendants of her own. He finds that the new generations of humans are far different to himself, and struggles to reconcile his place in the world. But life continues, and the children of the dust are working their way toward a growing future.

I'd recommend this book to anyone of any age, as I think it's just so darned good. Louise Lawrence is a really descriptive writer, very imaginative and great at character development. It always survives a re-read and stands up today as well as it did in the nuclear 80s I think. Louise (real name Liz) wrote a number of novels, I was lucky enough to have signed copies of many of them. The first scenes of the book are my favourite, the description of a terrified child running home through the beautiful countryside is heartbreaking and feels so real.

Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles are newly plagued by what seems like a completely senseless murder. Sofia Suarez, a widow and nurse who was universally liked by all her neighbors, lies bludgeoned to death in her own home. But anything can happen behind closed doors, and Sofia seemed to have plenty of secrets in her last days, making covert phone calls to old contacts and traceless burner phones. When Jane finally makes a connection between Sofia and the victim of a hit-and-run months earlier, the case only grows more blurry. What exactly was Sofia involved in? One thing is clear: The killer will do anything it takes to keep their secret safe.