Started Whispers Underground by Ben Aaronovitch. Book 3 of Rivers of London series.
Just started it, not much to say about it yet.
What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening to lately?
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I’m reading Super Powered: Year One by Drew Hayes. I really enjoy his stuff and this one is pretty good too
The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
I guess it’s classified as YA but it’s been a fun read so far. I like the protagonist’s snarky nature.
I stumbled on this one because we got a heap of books in for our homeschool program and I idly picked this one up. before I knew it I was a few chapters in. Great easy reader.
Such a fun read. The rest of the books In the series are great but the first one is just so much fun. It’s one of the books. I wish I could read again for the first time.
Just read the The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Biggest pile of funny nonsense I’ve read in a while. Don’t understand the hype though, seemed like most of the humor comes from the random anecdotes instead of proper storytelling.
Blackvine Manor Mystery. It isn’t that good. The story is fine, but the ghost scenes are written like the author is describing movie special effects, and the development of the relationships between the main characters all happens off-page.
Currently reading The Glass Hotel by Emily St John Mandel. I’d previously read her book Station Eleven and adored it. This one is also very good, although possibly lacking the sheer punch of Station Eleven. Very good author, anyway; highly recommend.
I’m reading some anniversary collection of Beetle Bailey comics by Mort Walker I picked up at the library. I used to read these as a kid, and have been feeling like revisiting them lately.
I used to love those.
I’m reading The Company Man by Robert Jackson Bennett, one of his earlier novels. It’s an alt history mystery noir set in the 1920s. It’s super atmospheric and kinda reminds me of the show Severance. I’m less than a third of the way through but am hooked and absolutely loving it so far.
Unconscious Memory - Terrell Bainbridge.
A few more Deathlands for me, up to 111 now.
I started the third Thursday Next book and got about 3 hours or so into it but I just couldnt really carry on. I enjoy the world and the concepts behind what is happening but the story itself behind that is just fucking dull. I might go back and try to get a bit further but as of right now I don’t have the motivation as I just don’t care about what might happen.
Instead I started A Sunlit Man as I said I would. I have just got past the point where Wit has showed up again and I am super excited to “see” him again as I always enjoyed him in the other cosmere novels so I’m looking forward to seeing where this goes. It is also nice to hear places like Roshar mentioned again as it has been a while since I heard those names :D
Did you finish it, Dresden? How did you find what you read?
Currently reading Lady of the Lake by Andrzej Sapkowski the last main book in the Witcher series
Listening to The Fury of the Gods by John Gwynne the last book in the Bloodsworn Saga. Would highly recommend the series it is so good and compelling.
Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse. Fantasy with a Native American mythos. It started great, then became a soap opera.
I read her first one and loved it. Haven’t read any more by her.
The Eye of the World, Wheel of Time series book 1
Well, you’re in for the long haul
it’s a pretty good series, if a bit lengthy at times
The first couple of those are great.
To me it is the best fantasy saga i ve read. Nice characters, nice actions, nice thoughts. Have fun !
The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie. (Ebook) I keep trying to find books in the Fantasy genre that I enjoy reading. hopefully this will be the one that gets me there.
Polostan by Neal Stephenson. Bought this one blind because I like every one of the author’s books that I’ve read. They’re usually filled with math and or philosophy and he does a great job of explaining things in the context of the book, so I’m excited to get into this one and feel dumb for a while until I pick up whatever he’s putting down.
I just finished (today) both Dark Matter by Blake Crouch and The Man Who Died Seven Times by Yasuhiko Nishizawa.
I’m nearing the end of The Hunt For Red October. I remembered I liked reading Clancy’s Politika when I was a teenager and the recent show of Jack Ryan made me curious about the books.
I found out that there are some major movie titles based on Jack Ryan books, like October but also The Sum of All Fears, Clear and Present Danger and Rainbow Six, which is of course a video game series.
It’s pretty fun to read the books and imagine Jack Ryan played by John Krasinski.
English is not my native language but if at all possible I try to read these kinds of books in the original language. Clancy is a good writer, although sometimes punctuation could provide a bit more readability.
In any event, it’s a book that finds it drive very late, but somehow keeps you engaged through some really boring chapters because you continuously feel something big is going to happen soon. When it does find its drive, it’s a bit anticlimactic. Over the entity of the book (or at least where I’m currently at) especially dialog and character description made it a very lively book. Clancy is also pretty detailed when it comes to army, navy and air force stuffs. It just feels well-researched, even though it’s fully possible it’s all incorrect.
Clancy books realy go deep into the tech of war, so he spends a lot of time describing weapon systems and military processes.
I have read a number of his books and the two I highly recommend are The Hunt for Red October and Red Storm Rising,
Still Reading Infinite Jest. Nearing the end finally
Worth the slog?
