Reading Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi. It, and couple of others, were recommended here recently, and is somewhat of a new genre for me, memoir / biography in graphic novel format, graphic memoir?
Got the omnibus edition, “The Complete Persepolis”, it’s a pretty interesting read. It’s about young girl in Iran during the Islamic Revolution of 1979, at least the first volume, after that it’s about her life after that.
What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening to lately?
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Just started Washington At The Plow, a book about Washington’s life as a farmer and his thinking on the subject, very promising so far!
I finished up “The End of Eternity” and have moved back to a SW book. The next is a short story collection, “Tales of the Bounty Hunters”. Five stories about various bounty hunters a few years after Aldeeran was vanished.
Next will be “The Bicentenial Man” by Isaac Asimov, it’s been made into a major motion picture.
o7 Robyn Williams.
I finished Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wistwell and really enjoyed it. It was very cozy and won a Hugo go so I’ve got some options for where to put it for Bingo, now I’m moving to a House of Frank by Kay Synclaire I think (alternatively The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill, both have orange aspects of the cover).
Finished “this inevitable ruin” by Matt Dinniman. Didn’t have a lot of time to read recently, but finished the last third of it on Monday. I liked it a lot, I was kind of bummed out on this series earlier this year after finishing “The Butcher’s Masquerade”, which felt to long and dragging.
Just started reading “Salvager: A Military Science Fiction Adventure” by Scott Moon. I’m three chapters in, and it’s okay so far, but a bit early to have a feel for it yet.
I just received Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means by William T. Vollmann in the mail this morning. It’s the abridged version of his seven volume series. I’ve been wanting to read Vollmann for a few months. With the world in the state that it’s in it seemed like a good choice to start with. I’m looking forward to reading it.
It’s Banned Books Week, so I downloaded a pdf of The Turner Diaries. I’m told this book is considered inspirational by those who think having a race war would be fun and glorious. It might also be of interest to non-racists with morbid curiosity about White Nationalist ideology. Otherwise, I do not recommend it for its literary value. I read this so you don’t have to.
Holy moly I just read the plot summary. Please be sure to take reading breaks from that one cauuuuse yikes
Thanks for the sacrifice!
I’ve been reading Circe by Madeline Miller. I had it on a to-read list for a long time and finally started it. I’ve really been enjoying it so far.
I listened to the audiobook of this a few months ago. I really enjoyed the story
I can recommend “Matrix” by Lauren Groff.
It’s the year 1158 and an 18 year old bastard daughter has been named abbess of a small convent. Elizabeth needed to get the girl out of the court, and the convent seems like a good place to hide her.
Just a well written glimpse into life in those days.
Currently almost done with the Skyward series by Brandon Sanderson. Totally sci-fi fantasy fluff books, but they’re fun. Reminds me a bit of Andy Weir.
Yeah, it’s a pretty fun series. I have got his The Reckoners series, another YA, non-Cosmere series, will start it soon-ish.
I’m about a quarter of the way through To Kill a Mockingbird. Atticus seems like such a decent person in comparison to some of the other characters. The way in which the book is told through the eyes of a kid is expertly done - you really get a sense of their childhood innocence as they come to understand the ways of the world. I’m looking forward to reading on.
We named our youngest Atticus after that character. Then the other book came out.
I’m currently reading ‘The wind in the willows’ which I should finish later today.
Next on my list is ‘The road’ by Jack London, an autobiography of the author’s life as a homeless person in the early part of the 20th century.
I finished up Martha Wells - Star Wars “Razors Edge” and have moved on to Isaac Asimovs “The End of Eternity” it’s my last scifi book of his that’s related to his broader Foundations universe.
Although the three stand alone scifi novels were eventually alluded to in the Foundation universe. It’s not really related though. Just a passing reference to a bygone time.
Have you watched any of the Foundation series? I’ve watched the show but haven’t read the novels so I’m wondering how close they are in terms of story, since adaptions to screen sometimes change significantly
Yes I have watched the series, but not the newest season yet.
They’ve definitely truncated things and brought a few future story lines in, but like other series, casts change between books, so trying to keep story lines with main cast in place instead.
They’ve definitely truncated are also doing three story lines in one, Robots aren’t talked much about as they’re, you know gone. So all that lore is taken from the Robot series. Robots existed before the galactic empire was a thought in people’s minds.
And there’s no real stories about the galactic empire, you only know of the current Emperor because of Haris involvement. The three novels are more about humanity working towards to galactic empire. There’s a few Empires that have quite a few planets and are starting towards it.
All in all, most of his series were stand alone, until he used the last two (40 years after the others)foundation novels to combine them, there is SOME minor continuity errors because of this, just stuff shoehorned to combine, since there’s millennia between the series.
Thank you for the synopsis! I think I’ll give them a read then
Just gave up on the latest Dan Brown novel. Really bad. Starting to wonder if it was written by a ghostwriter or AI. Life is too short and there are too many other good books to waste time finishing a bad one.
that sounds right, Dan Brown is a bit of a hack, or at least that’s what I’ve heard - he’s commercially successful, though!
EDIT: I’ve seen Umberto Eco recommended as a Dan Brown alternative, I reallt enjoyed Name of the Rose but I think Foucault’s Pendulum is usually recommended for Dan Brown fans who want something better.
I just finished reading “Final Lap” by Jessica Alter. Really fun upbeat hope punk sort of book. I liked it quite a lot.
I’m listening to A Night in the Lonesome October. And I just added a Star Trek book to my DNF list. Not a terribly bad story, just not the one I thought it was.
Which Star Trek book was that?
The one I started was Star Trek Movie Tie In by Alan Dean Foster. The one I wanted was the Motion Picture novel by Roddenberry.
Ah okay. Thanks for the info.
