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locker_monsterMy book club keeps me pretty well stocked with books. We exchange books we've read instead of us all reading the same book and this process works great. You only end up reading what interests you, not stuff that interests someone else. I always leave a meeting with a nice pile of books.
Well, I just caught up with my pile, something I never thought possible. Just finished The Help, a book I thought I would never end up reading because everyone and their mother, including my own mother, have read the book and I hate reading books that everyone is reading. But wow, it's a great book. It's outside of my usual realm of sci fi and fantasy, but I'm glad one of the book club ladies shoved it into my hands.
I don't know what to do now. My next book club meeting is in two weeks, but I need something to read now. I have one book from the library coming my way so hopefully that shows up by tomorrow. I just have to make sure to read it slow so it lasts me until the second Saturday in March.
And completely off topic, the local comic book expo says they're going to announce a Doctor Who guest tomorrow. Finally, someone from the show will be attending! I'm betting it's John Barrowman since he's filming Arrow in the province next door so it won't be a big deal for him to fly over here. But if it's, say, David Tennant, well, I won't kick up a fuss. ;-)
Well, I just caught up with my pile, something I never thought possible. Just finished The Help, a book I thought I would never end up reading because everyone and their mother, including my own mother, have read the book and I hate reading books that everyone is reading. But wow, it's a great book. It's outside of my usual realm of sci fi and fantasy, but I'm glad one of the book club ladies shoved it into my hands.
I don't know what to do now. My next book club meeting is in two weeks, but I need something to read now. I have one book from the library coming my way so hopefully that shows up by tomorrow. I just have to make sure to read it slow so it lasts me until the second Saturday in March.
And completely off topic, the local comic book expo says they're going to announce a Doctor Who guest tomorrow. Finally, someone from the show will be attending! I'm betting it's John Barrowman since he's filming Arrow in the province next door so it won't be a big deal for him to fly over here. But if it's, say, David Tennant, well, I won't kick up a fuss. ;-)
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Date: 2013-02-24 04:56 pm (UTC)Read any "Tinker" book by Wen Spencer. They're - "Tinker" "Wolf Who Rules" and "Elfhome."
They're about a teenage genius inventor who lives in Pittsburg, when Pittsburg happens to be relocated to Elfhome, the world "High Elves" come from. It sounds hokey, but it's a very realistically done book, that actually makes sense. And it has a fun, lovable, eccentric genius who everyone looks to to solve problems, but who also finds herself accidentally sticking her foot in her mouth and getting into trouble because she doesn't understand some of the local Elvin customs. It's adventure/fantasy/horror/scif/and romance all wrapped up into one.
If you want some kitchy fun, read, the "Alien" books by Gini Koch. The first on is "Touched by an Alien" they are scif/romance books, but the emphasis is more on the scifi angle.
They're fun, because they're sort of a cross between X-Files and the X-Men. The female hero, who is more a party girl with a strange sort of genius for noticing things and coming up with unusual solutions, is roped into a super-secret government conspiracy when she helps fight off an alien "parasite."
The thing is, the story is about a group of aliens living on Earth who's job it is to protect humans from a spaceborn type of microscopic "parasite" that will attach itself to humans and turn them into superpowered monsters.
The "aliens" in this are actually characterized as super-goodlooking men and women, who all wear Armani suits, who have super strength and super speed, and a variety of other powers. They have their own secret underground bases, and arsenals, and "travel gates" that can get them anywhere in the world almost instantly.
And the female protagonist gets sucked into this world, falls for the head good guy, and ends up helping to save the world, repeatedly. In the books that follow she discovers all kinds of other revelations both personal and global, and it builds beautifully, since all the characters are well developed, they feel like real people in impossible situations, even if they can run at hyperspeeds.
So, basically, if you don't mind a little romance mixed in, and you're fond of eccentric geniuses, superheroes, and the X-Files, you might enjoy these a lot.
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Date: 2013-02-24 07:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-02-26 06:56 am (UTC)If you like Doctor Who, and you haven't read them already, you're welcome to read my Doctor Who fan novel, Youth is Wasted on the Young (http://betawho.livejournal.com/27800.html) it's 11, Amy, and Rory on a future human colony world where humans don't physically age past 12 years old. And one of the Doctor's old enemy's has invaded, so the Doctor, Amy, and Rory have to help the local child-Sheriff and child-military to fight them off.
It's gotten good reviews, and it's free to read online.
Or if you want a historical, I wrote a cowboy episode with 9 and Rose in Tombstone Arizona, back in the old West called "OK Doc (http://betawho.livejournal.com/9182.html)." It's more a novella than a novel, but it may help fill some time.
They're both posted here on livejournal, and they're complete.
Youth is Wasted on the Young (http://betawho.livejournal.com/27800.html)
OK Doc (http://betawho.livejournal.com/9182.html).