I'm planning on reading eight books in September. Two of them are just books I decided to read on the spur of the moment because I had Hoopla borrows that were about to expire at the end of August, and I didn't want them to go to waste. Mostly, I'm looking forward to just reading whatever I decide I'm in the mood for, but there are a few that are scheduled reads for book clubs, the 'pick it for me' thing I'm participating in, NetGalley, and my ongoing Hercule Poirot read.
For NetGalley I'm reading Generation Ship by Michael Mammay.
In this riveting, stand-alone novel from Michael
Mammay, author of Planetside, the beginning of a new human colony
must face tyrannical leaders, revolution, crippling instability, and an
unknown alien planet that could easily destroy them all. In 2108, Colony
Ship Voyager departed Earth for the planet of Promissa with 18,000 of
the world’s best and brightest on board. 250 years and 27 light years
later, an arrival is imminent. But all is not well. The probes that
they’ve sent ahead to gather the data needed to establish any kind of
settlement aren’t responding, and the information they have received has
presented more questions than answers.
For book club this month we picked The Android's Dream by John Scalzi.
A human diplomat kills his alien counterpart.
Earth is on the verge of war with a vastly superior alien race. A lone
man races against time and a host of enemies to find the one object that
can save our planet and our people from alien enslavement...
A sheep.
That's
right, a sheep. And if you think that's the most surprising thing about
this book, wait until you read Chapter One. Welcome to The Android's Dream.
For the mystery book club we are reading Feint and Doublecross (Tournament of Shadows #4) by Tilly Wallace. I'll be caught up on this series after this.
An unexpected move could place Sera in check…or
will it be checkmate? A strange beast stalks unfashionable Southbank,
taking victims in a horrific fashion. Naturally the Mage Council sends
Sera to track the supernatural killer. With few clues as to whether the man was
targeted or if it were a random crime of opportunity, Sera casts a
remembrance spell that brings to the surface a similar crime.
My 'Pick it for me' book for this month is Arkhangelsk by Elizabeth Bonesteel. I've been wanting to read this book ever since I read her Central Corps series.
Head peace officer Anya Savelova believed her
people, living on a hostile planet in the ice-bound city of Novayarkha,
were the last of humanity.
Until the day she learned they weren't.
When
a starship from an Earth thought long dead appears in orbit over her
world, Anya imagines an explosion of possible futures, offering her
people the freedom to transcend the limiting environment of the planet
they'd thought was their last refuge. In the starship's crew, Anya finds
creativity, diversity, innovation-all things the colony has had to
inhibit to survive.
Seeing her world through the eyes of the
starship crew makes Anya look closer at her city's inconsistencies,
oddities she's always been told to ignore. But the harder she pushes at
the pieces that don't fit, the more her government perceives the
strangers as a threat. There are secrets in Novayarkha, hiding in plain
sight, that the strangers can't possibly understand-and Anya's drive to
uncover them risks shredding the fragile web holding together everything
she's ever known and loved.
The Hercule Poirot book for September is The Hollow.
Agatha Christie’s classic, The Hollow, finds Poirot entangled in a nasty web of family secrets when he comes across a fresh murder at an English country manor.A
far-from-warm welcome greets Hercule Poirot as he arrives for lunch at
Lucy Angkatell’s country house. A man lies dying by the swimming pool,
his blood dripping into the water. His wife stands over him, holding a
revolver.
As Poirot investigates, he begins to realize that
beneath the respectable surface lies a tangle of family secrets and
everyone becomes a suspect.
Other books I want to read-
I'm still in a super heroes mood after finishing Super Powereds, so I decided to try Superheroes Anonymous by Lexie Dunne.
Everybody in Chicago has a “superhero sighting”
story. So when a villain attacks editorial assistant Gail Godwin and
she’s rescued by superhero Blaze, it’s a great story, and nothing more.
Until it happens again. And again.
Now, the media has dubbed her
Hostage Girl, nobody remembers her real name, and people are convinced
that Blaze is just Gail’s boyfriend Jeremy in disguise. Gail’s not so
sure. All she knows is that when both Jeremy and Blaze leave town in the
same week, she’s probably doomed. Who will save her now?
While You Sleep by Stephanie Merritt
It begins, they say, with a woman screaming . . .
On
a remote Scottish island, the McBride house stands guard over its
secrets. A century ago, a young widow and her son died mysteriously
there; just last year a local boy, visiting for a dare, disappeared
without a trace.
For Zoe Adams, newly arrived from
America, the house offers a refuge from her failing marriage. But her
peaceful retreat is disrupted by strange and disturbing events:
nighttime intrusions; unknown voices; a constant sense of being watched.
Farilane (The Rise and the Fall #2) by Michael J. Sullivan. I've been wanting to read this for a while. I've had it on my kindle since before it was published last year. I can't wait to finally read it!
Some truths are dangerous, certain secrets best concealed, and one story never should have been written at all.
Being
an unwanted twin in the imperial line of succession, Farilane becomes a
scholar, an adventurer, and—in a time when reading is forbidden—a
hunter of books. Her singular obsession is finding the mythical Book of
Brin, a tome not just lost but intentionally buried. Although she is
respected and beloved by the Teshlor Knights, not even their legendary
skills can protect her, for what she finds is more dangerous than what
she sought.
That's it! I'm looking forward to another month full of reading, and seeing what other books I end up being in the mood to read.
