WHAT have you finished reading recently? Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War and the Catastrophe in Ukraine, Scott Horton. It’s now technically the biggest book I’ve “read” on goodreads, though a third of it was endnotes. (There are over ten thousand of them. No, I’m not exaggerating.)
WHAT are you reading now? Mostly through The Presidents and the Pastime and halfway through Star Trek Strange New Worlds: Asylum. Asylum is a quick read, Presidents more bulky. However, I’m at George HW Bush, and it only goes to 2018. (I actually have a draft review of Presidents and the Pastime ready to post, but will wait for Clinton, Bush, & Obama to finalize.)
WHAT are you reading next? SHELLI: MurderMind, Doug Brode. The sequel to SHELLI, an SF mystery featuring a human & synthetic pair of detectives.
So, today’s prompt from Long and Short Reviews is…..favorite covers. That’s a tall order given how many books I read, so I’m going to do my usual thing and just go with the books that occur to me.
From left to right, top row followed by bottom row: SHELLI, a SF detective novel; I Contain Multitudes, about the role of bacteria in the human body; What You are Looking For is in the Library, a moving work of magical realism; Over a Torrent Sea, a hard-SF Star Trek novel set on an ocean world; The Fountainhead, with a fun mid-century look and a cover that evokes a man against the world; Strange Weather in Tokyo, which has a cover that has no relationship to the plot but drew me to it in the first place; Astounding, which had a far better cover than contents; Sid Meier’s Memoir, which drew from the pixel art style of Sid Meier’s Civilization; a cool look into a turn of the (last) century bar; and finally, Fighting for Space, featuring two women aviation pioneers.
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There’re some great covers there, Stephen. I didn’t even know Sid Meiers had a memoir. That looks interesting. I’ll be on the lookout for it.
It wasn’t as great as I expected, but still worth it if you’ve invested any serious amount of time into his games!
I like the cover of Shelli!
My favorite cover of those is Over a Torrent Sea…. I love water and floaty-ness always appeals to me. Not sure what that says about me.. lol.
The cover has resonated with me since the book was published!
wow, Horton’s book is nailing it!!
Last book I finished: Sing a Song of Sixpence: A Short Story, by Agatha Christie
Am reading: Mystery of the Green Cat, by Phyllis A. Whitney
Am listening to: The Layton Court Mystery, by Anthony Berkeley
Next: Nova Core, by Franck Denizot
I just watched a Christie play, but haven’t read that novel!
I had the same challenge after blogging for so long, Stephen. Love the cover on Faces Along the Bar. Thanks for sharing.
https://thebookconnectionccm.blogspot.com/2025/06/wednesday-weekly-blogging-challenge.html
I’m glad you enjoyed the cover of Faces!
Need I say, I like that illustration of “What You Are Looking For…”!
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