To be fair, the weird thing about the book that they keep alluding to is a payoff that had me CACKLING with delight. Personally, I found the inserts of eye witness accounts, etc. to be really good for the pacing, because you begin to see exactly what Jack is leaving out or lying about in his own narrative, and that creates its own mysteries. Great read!

I loved this book. I read it every year after A Christmas Carol.

Question: is this an action packed book? Like with guns, explosions and fights? Cause if it is I will be skipping it. 😅

Billie had an extra set of papers including a passport plus an Amex. (Chapter 10). That’s how they paid for everything.

Came by way of Bryan MR. Subbed, and hello from a newbie book tuber in New Zealand! Best, Mark.

Hi Brandi I can recommend some excellent science fiction that has been my favorite I've been reading the series since I've been 16 and I'm 55 now it's called BattleTech excellent

Yes! Sourdough is so charming and inventive, badly underrated since everyone seems to only talk about Mr. Prenumbra. I am definetly hoping to get time to read moonbound this year as well, but I will look forward to seeing what you think of it, as I haven't seen anyone read it yet. I loved Steve Cavanaugh's Thirteen, he definitely does creative twisty unexpected thrills very well.

I also have an old hardcover of Dragons of Eden because I loved it when I read it in paperback 😊

No! Poor Kahless 😢

Such a cool book hall. I want to come to your house and sit in the corner reading until I've finished all of them!

A real mix of books 📚, I’ve been seeing Splinter of the Minds Eye in book stores since the eighties, never did pick it up.

Great haul! 😊📚

It's a shame that the novelisation of "All Good Things" wasn't a much longer novel: a real missed opportunity to really flesh out the characters in the two alternative timelines of the two-parter. "The Ophiuchi Hotline" (off-e-YOO-ki) by John Varley was a real page-turner for me; following the many adventures of Lilo-Alexandr-Calypso's many clones. After I'd read the Gaean trilogy and a couple of short story collections, I was determined to track down a copy (before online booksellers was a thing) It was well worth the long wait. I now have everything Varley ever published - I don't think he's written anything since "Irontown Blues" (2018). "Splinter of the Mind's Eye" was the first book that I bought back in 1978. (Another page-turner; one that I mostly read in one sitting) It was originally conceived as a low budget sequel to the first movie...before that became a blockbuster.

Great haul! I have the same copy of Prelude to Mars. Picked it up on a whim. And I still have my original copy of Splinter of the Mind’s Eye from my childhood. I will reread that one eventually. Hope you are well.

Nice. My local library had that edition of The Shining a long time ago. Shoot, it might still be there. Hadn't seen it in years in any case. The map book. Why am I thinking about Cosmo Kramer's coffee table book about coffee tables that folds out into a coffee table? 🤔 Hope it's a great month, reading and otherwise!

Book Club edition for King just feels right

Great line up, Brandy! That Stephen King Omnibus is very sweet, I must try and get one!

Great video! I've started with "Pile of Possibilities" instead of a tbr, just makes more sense for me. Look forward to hearing your thoughts on The Shining. Happy Reading!

Hey, Brandy! What a wonderfully bookclectic selection! 😉 I am really looking forward to videos from both Randy Ray and you about the Mars trilogy. The Map that Changed the World sounds fascinating. Have you read Longitude by Dava Sobel? It sounds similar. As an animal lover I’m also curious about Beyond Words and look forward to hearing your comments about it. Thanks!

Ambitious!!!

That old version of the Shinning is gorgeous.Never heard of the Dracula book and I love Fred Saberhagen. Now I have to stop myself going in search of it.

Great list Brandy! It’s King’s birthday month ❤️

I didn't do BookTrek this year due to life, but I'm already planning for next year. Some really interesting reads there great wrap up

This was so entertaining

I read The Genesis Wave 1 and 2 after I saw you mention them. I need to get to 3. I enjoyed them a lot (but they did portray Geordi as more awkward than I thought he deserved).

Enjoyed hearing your reads. Hopefully next year will be better 🖖

I also read Pliable Truths and Khaless for book trek. Bummer you didn’t finish Khaless (I loved it) but I understand how you could have been burnt out on Trek Books by that time.

The objectification of women is disappointing on multiple levels -- it demonstrates a misunderstanding of the character.

I'll have to check out the Patrick Stewart book. Much as I loved Next Generation while growing up, I was also a huge Arthurian legend nerd, so his relatively small role in "Excalibur" loomed large in my mind as well. 😁 Yeah, the objectification business. I don't know about that particular author, but as much as I love the Original Series, I concede that its treatment of women is far from enlightened. Although I've gotta say it's downright hilarious some of the unlikely ways they'll have Uhura contorted at her station to show off those legs. 😂 That being said, I do think people sometimes look too hard to be offended. For example, I was reading that some Original Series reruns eliminate that scene in City on the Edge of Forever where Kirk tries to explain Spock's appearance by saying he's a Chinese man whose ears were mangled when he got his head caught in a "mechanical rice picker" as a child. I mean c'mon, in context, it's a comedic scene where Kirk is inventing a ridiculous lie on the spot and realizes how ridiculous it sounds even as he's saying it. 😂 It's hardly the stuff of real malice, but I don't know; maybe I'm just obnoxious and privileged or something. 🙄

For me, Star Trek novels are my year-long comfort reads, although I have to say that I haven't read any of the books mentioned...my cut-off point was 2011 - maybe it's just as well; it sounds like these new authors don't know how to write Star Trek properly or have an understanding of its characters.

You read a lot, Brandy. Great reviews. I’m very disappointed in Christopher L. Bennett and the objectification of women. I had thought better of him-not that I have much experience with his books. Really thoughtful reviews. Thank you.

Love the fact that you said you hadn’t read much and then reviewed tons of books that I would be amazed if I got through during the Summer. Love the video, love the way you talked about the books.

awesome... ready to start book 1 on the 1st :)

Probably my favourite books on Mars, enjoy

Hoping you and Randy enjoy the series. My September will focus on a biography, and trying to finish some of the books left over from August :p

Love this - intrigued to see what you think of these books. They've been on my radar but haven't got to them. I am concentrating as much as I can on Tchaikovsky in September so can't join in but I'm looking forward to the livestreams or videos that come out of it.

I miss you! ❤

When is the BookTrek wrap up video coming??

Hope you have better luck with it than I did. Hypothetically, I should have liked it better than I did, but at the time, several of the characters kind of annoyed me, and when a certain plot development made me realize that Robinson would likely be including many of them throughout the entire trilogy, I noped out. I don't think it's a "hard" DNF though. I'd like to give it another chance in better circumstances.

Yes, McCoy had a daughter. In the story outline for a third season TOS episode: "Joanna"; she was the doctor's only child, and was mentioned in *Star Trek Writer's and Director's Guide* - she was said to be a nursing student back on Earth, who only received an occasional letter from her father to remind her of his existence. For some unfathomable reason she was written out of the episode's final script: "The Way to Eden".

which one would you recommend to read first? The hot zone or the Red Zone?

:):)

Great video. Thanks for catching us up...from last year's BookTrek. I've read a number of these books, too. I loved the Prey trilogy...and I ALSO hadn't read Khaless yet, either. I now have it, and will be reading it in the near future. A few years ago I read the first book in the 50 Years of Star Trek. Had the same feelings that you did about the struggles between the actors on set. It left a bad taste in my mouth, so never picked up the second twenty-five years. Because you enjoyed it so much...I will be picking it up, soon. Thank you. Have you ever read I am Not Spock by Leonard Nimoy and then the sequel I am Spock? If you haven't, it is a time capsule moment in his life, and how he felt about his career and not being pigeon holed, as an actor, then later embracing it. Really feel they are must reads for Star Trek fans. Thanks, again...will be back for more of your videos.

Oh, this is amazing. I am an avid fan of Star Trek, and for over a year, I've been reading TOS novels (which was my entry into Trek...with syndication. I was born in 1966, and when syndication became a thing, we watched Star Trek: TOS every weekday at dinnertime. I owned all 79 VHS tapes of the series, and watched them into my adulthood. SO, hearing about #BookTrek2024 is amazing. I've read a number of the books you held up in this video. Really enjoy the TOS era books, my first love. Without knowing about this readathon, I decided to start reading the Trek Lit Reading Flowchart on the first of June (coincidence? ), and started with TNG. It is now the end of June and I have read 17 novels in June (so far, it being June 28th...might be able to read one more). 1) Star Trek: TNG - Post-Nemesis: Death in WInter by Michael Jan Friedman 2) Star Trek: TNG - Post-Nemesis: Resisteance by J.M. Dillard (aka: Jeanne Kalfridis) 3) Star Trek: TNG - Post-Nemesis: Q & A by Keith R.A. DeCandido 4) Star Trek: TNG - Post-Nemesis: Before Dishonor by Peter David 5) Star Trek: TNG - Post-Nemesis: Greater Than the Sum by Christopher L. Bennett 6) Star Trek: Titan - Post-Nemesis: Taking Wing by Michael A. Martin & Andy Mangels 7) Star Trek: Titan - Post-Nemesis: The Red King by Andy Mangels & Michael A. Martin 8) Star Trek: TNG - Post-Nemesis: Articles of the Federation by Keith R.A. DeCandido 9) Star Trek: Titan - Post-Nemesis: Orion's Hounds by Christopher L. Bennett 10) Star Trek: Titan - Post-Nemesis: Sword of Damocles by Geoffrey Thorne 11) Star Trek: Destiny - Post-Nemesis: Gods of Night by David Mack 12) Star Trek: Destiny - Post-Nemesis: Mere Mortals by David Mack 13) Star Trek: Destiny - Post-Nemesis: Lost Souls by David Mack 14) Star Trek: Voyager - Post-Nemesis: Full Circle by Kirsten Beyer 15) Star Trek: Voyager - Post-Nemesis: Unworthy by Kirsten Beyer 16) Star Trek: Voyager - Post-Nemesis: Children of the Storm by Kirsten Beyer 17) Star Trek: Voyager - Post-Nemesis: The Eternal Tide by Kirsten Beyer SO...as you can see...I've been having fun in the Summer...with #BookTrek2024, not even knowing it existed. Thank you for this video. I will now be looking forward to your videos, and checking out the other content creators. Thanks for doing this. It is now going to be my destination for MORE Trek reading each Summer. Talk to you, later.