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Read This Book on a Silent Hill: Meditations that they won't tell you about

Victor Of Tuscon

Roadside Picnic! Any stalker fanatics here?

Just read Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao. Wonderful subversions of many tropes (the classic ya love triangle for one) and filled with rage. It's great.

SS by Barış Pehlivan and Barış Terkoğlu. It's basically a book about Süleyman Soylu's crimes. It's indeed a heavy read, but I think the book does a good job with shedding light on who Soylu really is, so far (I'm at Chapter 5).

Just about to finish the second book in the Starbucks Chronicles by Bernard Cornwell. I'm an absolute sucker for historical fiction and really enjoy it so far. It's an unfinished series tho 😢

Finished reading Blindsight by Peter Watts. I haven’t read this good Science Fiction book in a long time. On to Echopraxis, as it’s a double edition

I finally started Murderbot series over the weekend. Already done with the first four novellas.

I’m reading To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, but only because my girlfriend told me to read from more modernist authors. I’m liking her prose despite the dry beginning, but I’ll see how it comes along over time.

I almost exclusively read non-fiction, but I just got done reading Slash's autobiography (the guitarist for Guns N' Roses among other projects), and that book kept me absolutely hooked from start to end. I have no idea how he's still alive after the wild stuff described in that book. Highly recommend this one if you have any interest in rock music.

I shifted from that to a book about the history of the US Postal Service last week, so it's a pretty big contrast in tone.

I'm finally reading Declare by Tim Powers. All I can say is holy shit I never knew how much I needed this book in my life.

Just finished John Scalzi’s “Lock In”, and enthralling and visionary read!

Chuck Palahniuk - Consider This

Just finished Iron Gold by Pierce Brown. It feels kind of like a "bridge book" where it wasn't all that great compared to the others in the series so far.

Now I'm off to Shards of the Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky. I've started to read a lot of his stuff and I'm enjoying them all.

Bit of a strange pairing, but currently reading:

Schoolgirl by Osamu Dazai

Faster: How a Jewish Driver, an American Heiress, and a Legendary Car Beat Hitler's Best by Neal Bascomb

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

The Book That Wouldn't Burn by Mark Lawrence. Such a cool fantasy concept, I'm about 1/4th of the way in.

I also finished Forth Wing this week. It was okay for what it was.

Judgement of Mars by Glynn Stewart. I read the first four books in the series one after the other then took a break, so I’m looking forward to this next installment. This is the first sci-fi series I’ve read that also involves magic. The journey has been great thus far and I’m looking for more recommendations for books with the sci-fi and magic mix.

Almost at the end of The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went To War in 1914 by Christopher Clark. Highly recommend it to all history lovers!

Just started the third Southern Reach book, Acceptance. Wasn't a huge fan of Book 2, but still down to find out more about the various mysteries of the series.

Arrival by Ted Chiang. Movie was great so though of reading this one. Only in the very beginning though.