Still reading When Moon Hits the Eye by John Scalzi.
Had some vacation, so didn’t get time to read much.
What about all of you, what have you been reading or listening to lately?
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Waypoint Kangaroo by Curtis C. Chen right now. So far is very well written one.
Started Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers, about the effects of prolonged stress, a few chapters in pretty good so far
About to finish The Night Circus. I can see why a set of my friends are obsessed.
I am on a Dungeon Crawler Call run at the moment. Listening to book 4.
Finished There Is No Antimemetics Division (audiobook), started Children of Memory by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Book 3 of the Children of Time series)
I read There is No Antimemetics Division a few weeks ago
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. I loved how it turned into an SCP flavored love story at the end.
Reading Wool by Hugh Howey and H.P Lovecraft complete story collection.
Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky. It’s pretty much Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy (that style of deadpan humor and comedy of manners) with dumb robots and not-so-sane people taking place on post-apocalyptic Earth.
His Children of Time series has been so good. Empathy virus building a post scarcity society - so cool.
“The Kings of the Wyld” by Nicholas Eames. Only a few chapters in, but I love it.
The premise is: decades after a famous band of heroes has retired, one of them tries to get the band back together again to rescue his daughter. They’re all old and grumpy, and it’s just awesome. Very dry humor.
Very fun read! Reminded me of a combination Terry Pratchett and Joe Abercrombie in a way.
I’m listening to the Dungeon Crawler Carl series, currently on book #3.
I didn’t expect there to be so many books, I thought it’d finish on the 1st - not sure if it’s “worth it”.
I like the overarching idea but I’m a bit tired of hearing about skill points and mana costs and all that.Each book really references that less and less
I just finished Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey. It was a fun read, interesting to read something that old and I really liked Austen’s sense of humor. I don’t think I will read another one of her books though, at least not soon, because the whole “oh my goodness, when can I see him again, he asked me to dance with him” schtick was too much for me.
And right after that I started Helm by Sarah Hall. I’m not far in yet, but it’s really interesting. It’s about a wind (the meteorological phenomenon, not flatulence) whose name is Helm.
The only problem is I have a serious cold at the moment, so I can’t read now. (This comment took me ten minutes to type in between sneezes.) I hope tomorrow’s better.
I’m halfway through The Crystal Star which is a Star Wars Legends book. It’s been better than the previous stand alone ones atleast.
After this, it’s Dungeon Crawler Carl book #5.
Struggling through the Adventures and Misdaventures of Maqroll - what a drag, feel like I’m reading the same episode over and over again.
Eric Idle’s biography ‘Always Look On The Bright Side of Life’. Really interesting.
I can hear the whistling.
I’m rereading A Song of Ice and Fire for probably the 4th time. I just finished A Clash of Kings. Doing a mix of reading at home and audiobooks when I’m at work.
“Cibola Burn” by James S.A. Corey, so The Expanse #4. I like the TV series a lot (watched first, before reading the books), I really liked “Leviathan Wakes” and “The Butcher of Anderson Station”, but the second and third volumes were meh. The second one is too similar to the first one and the third one, I don’t know, just didn’t click. “Cibola Burn” is good, finally the themes have changed, the setting has changed (Ilus) and there are new mysteries to uncover (well, I watched the TV series, so the story is kinda spoiled for me, but it’s not like I remember everything).
Loved every one of the Expanse books, but could not get into the new series by the same authors. I’m hoping that they do a third series of something that maybe I’ll like.
It’s also stupid that Amazon or someone else hasn’t gotten the gang back together to film the final two books. I guess they’re too busy spending all their money on Wheel Of Time and Lord Of The Rings.
