Hey Beehaw (and friends)! What’re you reading?
Previously I had these thread labelled as monthly threads, but I have had an incredibly busy few months and had not been able to keep up with it. So this is now going to be a general sticky that will be replaced “every so often” when the previous thread gets overly full :)
Novels, nonfiction, ebooks, audiobooks, graphic novels, etc - everything counts!
I have been reading the Wheel of Time series for the first time (by Robert Jordan). Currently starting Crown of Swords, book 7.
Recently placed a request in my library for the following, hopefully they’ll be coming in within the next week:
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How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler
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Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
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I had no idea of this - I just googled it and it’s almost exactly like something out of the book.
I really enjoyed Yellowface, it’s a great read and a bit of a black comedy in places!
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Swastika Night. It’s like 1984 if the nazis had won. Published in 1937. Enjoying so far.
Working my way through Anne McCaffrey’s Pern novels again. Read them first as a child and it’s lovely being back in that world again
I finished Ignition! and am about to start The Player of Games from the Culture series. I really enjoyed Consider Phlebas, but I’ve been trying to switch off between fiction and nonfiction.
I only noticed this comment now, I’ve been reading the Culture series too - I enjoyed the world building in Consider Phlebas a lot but after a while I just wanted it to finish. So I skipped on and read a few others in the series then came back to finish it.
The Player Of Games was brilliant, enjoy!
I’ve been reading The Culture series by Iain M Banks. I gave up on the first book a while back, which I’ve heard is quite common, but I plan to go back and finish it.
I’ve just read The Player Of Games and Excession and both are exceptional.
Orientalism by Edward Said Super relevant now.
I’m making my way through the Lyonesse trilogy by Jack Vance. I’ve read the Dutch version many years ago and it’s a real treat to read it again English.
It’s basically one gigantic fairy tale and I’m loving all of it…Underworld by Don DeLillo
The Bands of Mourning by Brandon Sanderson. It’s been my favorite of the mistborn era 2 books, and I’ve heard the finale is even better
The Name of the Wind on a friend’s recommendation. It didn’t grab me at first but it’s starting to pick up. It’s nice to have an easy read for a change.
Currently reading through Lord of the Rings with my wife. We’re on book two. I’ve been pretty scattered between books lately otherwise, reading Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Erikson’s Midnight Tides from his Malazan Book of the Fallen series, and a book of art made by survivors and witnesses of the atom bombs in WWII Japan called Unforgettable Fire. Haven’t had the mental willpower lately to sit down and get a good read in, so I’ve been jumping between snippets of these books.
finishing up The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk. very long, and I struggled for the first half of it with keeping track of the dizzying array of characters, but overall pretty good. I enjoyed Primeval and Other Tales by her much more, however.
next up will be Soldiers and Kings by Jason DeLeon (Land of Open Graves, his previous book, was a goddamn gut punch, and expecting the same from this one - both deal with migration at the southern US border). also looking forward to James by Percival Everett.
One of the “I. Inquisitor” series. It is edgy Polish dark fantasy (not translated into English).
Just started Blindsight. I’m really enjoying some sci-fi with religious undertones. Hyperion is in the mail for my next one.
Recently finished rereading Perdido Street Station by China Mieville. I really ought to read the other Bas-Lag books. Currently reading Under Heaven by Guy Gavriel Kay
