{Sunday Post} — Hero At Large, Killing the Witches, and Wrath of Poseidon

The Caffeinated Book Reviewer's Kimberly hosts a weekly meme called "The Sunday Post"! 

* Weekly Tidbits *

 

• Maybe—just maybe—I've finally beat this ongoing cold of mine. I've been able to breathe normally for the last two days after hitting a brick wall on Thursday with more congested issues. Add a fever blister into the mix, and I didn't feel my best during the week.

• This afternoon, the Kansas City Royals play their final game of the year. Will the manager be let go immediately following the game? Or tomorrow? Or later? Someone will get held accountable for the train wreck of a season.
  

What Am I Currently Reading? 

I know this will sound like a broken record—I really mean this—I'm going to catch up on my reading this week—if I don't get distracted with something else. Instead of reading ARCs, I read 261 pages of Voyages of Imagination: The Star Trek Fiction Companion by Jeff Ayers. I didn't read anything else until this morning when I engulfed the first five chapters of Jason Rekulak's Hidden Pictures.

 

Recent Reviews

The Blind
★★★★✰

What's New on the Shelf?

This week, I bought Killing the Witches by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard, The Haunting by Natasha Preston, Captive by Iris Johansen (not pictured), and Wrath of Poseidon by Clive Cussler and Robin Burcell.

Have you ever heard of the John Ritter-starring film Hero at Large? Before I discovered the 1980 novelization at a thrift store, I had never heard of it. I initially mistook it for The Greatest American Hero until I saw John Ritter on the cover. A. J. Carothers wrote the novelization.

I picked up March, April, and September 1992 issues of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine for ten cents apiece. Fact: Asimov died in April 1992.

Also, I got MechWarrior: Dark Age: Dragon Rising by Ilsa J. Bick, MechWarrior: Dark Age: To Ride the Chimera by Kevin Killiany, Diablo: The Kingdom of Shadow by Richard A. Knaak, EverQuest: Rogue's Hour by Scott Ciencin, and Hegira by Greg Bear.

Last, I grabbed a 1938 first edition of Daphne de Maurier's Hungry Hill for only a quarter.

As my loyal followers probably already know, a new batch of Star Trek titles goes on sale on Kindle each month. Half of them went on sale early on Friday. I grabbed the two I didn't have—Troublesome Minds by Dave Galanter and Child of Two Worlds by Greg Cox. Somewhat Star Trek-related, I got Star Trek Movie Memories by William Shatner for $2.99. Earlier in September, Shatner's other memoir, Star Trek Memories, was also on sale for the same price, but I missed it.

Last Sunday, I got Jack Carr's Only the Dead on Kindle for $3.99. Sometime during the week, I snagged Star Wars: Last Shot by Daniel Jose Older for $1.99.

Kindle just released a "Creature Feature" short story ebook series. I had pre-ordered one of them: The Pram by Joe Hill. I wasn't planning on getting the other five, but I thought they might make good October reads, so I got the others today—Ankle Snatcher by Grady Hendrix, It Waits in the Woods by Josh Malerman, In Bloom by Paul Tremblay, Best of Luck by Jason Mott, and Big Bad by Chandler Baker.

More new titles on my Kindle are A Case of Conscience by James Blish, Bury Him Darkly by John Blackburn, The Dead House by Dawn Kurtagich, and All the Little Raindrops by Mia Sheridan.