{Sunday Post} — Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek, and With a Mind to Kill

What Am I Reading? 

I did a tad of reading this past week; I finished Anne Hillerman's Lost Birds and read 3/4 of Tom Clancy's Act of Defiance by Andrews & Wilson. I should finish the latter later tonight. Then I'll move on to a library loan, Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay; it's a shorter book, so I hope to have it knocked out of the park by Wednesday. I have a few ARCs coming, so I'll either move on to one of those—if I receive them soon—or start another library loan, Josh Malerman's Incidents Around the House.

Song of the Week

What's New on the Bookshelf?

My local Walmart is having an issue getting the August batch of "mass market" paperbacks—nothing changed in that section. The only new book I found there is the one I bought, The Perfect Son by Freida McFadden.

I have visited the Half-Price Books store in the city two or three times per year for the past few years—usually during holiday sales. Well, I went there on Wednesday—minus a sale—and picked up—shockingly—a few Star Trek titles: Log Six by Alan Dean Foster, Log Seven by Alan Dean Foster, Starfleet Academy (based on the Interplay CD-ROM) by Diane Carey, Shockwave by Paul Ruditis, Enterprise: Rosetta by Dave Stern, Voyager: Pathways by Jeri Taylor. Also, I learned there was a clearance section near the restrooms in the back, thanks to a kind booklover stranger who pointed out Star Trek books marked down; that's how I got Log Six and Log Seven for $2 each.

Now, I always look for other non-Star Trek books at Half-Price Books; I rarely find anything else. Luckily, this wasn't the case this time, as I found five old Battlestar Galactica books: Saga of a Star World by Robert Thurston, 4: The Young Warriors by Robert Thurston, 6: The Living Dead by Nicholas Yermakov, 7: War of Gods by Nicholas Yermakov, and 10: The Long Patrol by Ron Goulart.

New titles on my Kindle are The Vampire Diaries: Sefan's Diaries: Bloodlust (ghostwritten by an unknown author), With a Mind to Kill by Anthony Horowitz, Artic Drift by Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler, Medusa by Clive Cussler with Paul Kemprecos.