Books

Friend recommended me Project Hail Mary which has been a lot of fun. It's a sci-fi book by the same guy who wrote The Martian. I usually have trouble paying attention and doze off when reading but this one has surprisingly kept me engaged!

I just finished the first book of the Wheel of Time series. It was interesting. My friend who recommended it said they get better after the third book, after the author wrested more creative control from the publisher. I'm on the library waiting list for the next one.

I've been thinking about trying Foundation again. I have a feeling my mind will wander a lot while listening to it, which isn't necessarily a bad thing because I also need to think out the next part of my homebrew module for a game I GM.

Currently I'm reading something work related (The practice of Enterprise Architecture) but last Sunday I finished The way of kings by Brandon Sanderson. I'm on a reread for the Stormlight Archive books as book 5 will come out later this year.

I'm reading Finders Keepers by Stephen King and listening to Berserker - Adrian Edmondson.

A prior thread on Lemmy linked me to https://wanderinginn.com/ so I started reading that a few months ago... and it's a ton of content to work through so it'll be another few weeks at least for me to finish the first 9 books. Fun story, the writing is improving as the books progress. World building is 9/10; writing quality is 7/10. Worth giving the first chapter or two a try!

I'm having a plague phase. Recently read the plague by Camus, then Daniel Defoe's diary of a plague year. Now I'm reading the great mortality by John Kerry. I'm only about a third in but it feels like an approachable history of plague. I find something horribly fascinating about plague. It was maybe the worst shit we've ever had to deal with as a species, truly apocalyptic.

I'm listening to the audiobook of Babel by RF Kuang. The narration is pretty great but I don't know how I feel about the story as a whole yet.

I'm also reading Junot Diaz's Drown on the recommendation of a work friend. Interesting how both books use the narrator's native language to help color the stories.

I have been pretty

Even if you do say so yourself

Previous book was, House in the cerulean sea, I think maybe I read it at the exact wrong time in my life.

Currently re-reading The city and the city, almost finished. I enjoyed it the first time, less so the second I think.

I've got Illium lined up for a re-read next. I can't remember what I thought about it the first time through.

Welcome back friend! I was actually thinking of you the other day - I haven't seen a books thread in awhile (it probably has more to do with my sporadic Lemmy attendance)

Since Jan, I read some more of the expanse (just started book 4) and its been good.

I read book 1 of "The Bear and the Nightingale" and likely won't read the rest. Immediately afterwards I read the book "Uprooted" and it was So good. It was everything I wanted the bear to be.

Finally got around to Legends and Lattes, and I listened to (and laughed my ass off) to Seth Rogan's book.

I also read "Between the World and Me". It took me awhile as I don't generally like. Non-fiction (especially reading vs listening) but I wanted to give it a crack as I saw it was on the news for some book ban thing in the USA.

All in all, if anyone cares, check out Uprooted by Naomi Novik. It's a standalone novel and only around 400 pages. Moves and progresses nicely and the characters are good.

I just finished Kiersten White's Mister Magic and give it 5/5 stars. If you've ever been in a cult, or you like creepypastas, or you just like really kind and likable characters, give this one a read.

Currently reading I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong and loving it. Microbiology is fascinating.

Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows, part of the Cthulhu Casebooks trilogy, I’m going through the audiobook, albeit fairly slowly. The premise is that this was part of a once lost/now discovered manuscript that implies that Sherlock Holmes was not only real, but that he also dealt with Lovecraftian gods, cults, and monsters. The setup starts out Lovecraftian enough, with a set of letters describing a manuscript being passed down after an old family member’s death, which then becomes the core story.

So far it feels like a nice blending of the two styles of writing, H.P. Lovecraft and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Lovecraft was a raging anglophile, so I’m sure he would’ve liked the synthesis/remix of works (now both public domain).

My trouble with the audiobook is that I’ve been primarily trying to listen to it before bed. The narrator’s voice work is good, but it’s apparently good enough at putting me to sleep as well. I don’t mean it as an insult, I honestly like the book, the writing, and the narrator, but something about the voice-work is putting me to sleep almost instantaneously. I have trouble sleeping most nights though, so it’s not an unwelcome effect. The problem though is that I’ll have to go through each chapter multiple times before I “get” the whole chapter and actually hear it through to the end.

Just wrapped up chain-gang all-stars and loved it!

I've been reading Wheel of Time book 5, The Fires of Heaven. Should finish this week but the next book is checked out at the library, so not sure what I'll read while I wait for it to become available.

I just finished Empire of the Summer Moon about the Comanches and their rise and fall. INCREDIBLY interesting and very well written.

I'm most of the way through The Quest for Jardine, a Battletech novel.

Revisiting Eric Flint's 1632 series. I read the first several books and anthologies some years ago, and enjoyed them, but lost track of the series. I'm a bit daunted to see they got up to nearly forty published books, but we'll see how it goes!

Just finished Three body problem trilogy intend to start Lord of the flies (I think that's the English name for that one).

I'm currently reading book 2 of the Shatter Me series. It's pretty good so far! The books are easy to read, and dystopian books appeal to me. I still don't really know what's going on, but I'm clearer now than I was in the first book, so that's something!

I randomly found a good VN some time ago and it feels like it finally kicks-starts my passion of reading a book! Gonna start with The Hobbit.

I decided to re-listen to all of John Gwynne's stuff in release order. Just started Ruin and it's just as good the second time around.

Eight by Samer Rabadi