Started the next book in Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files series, Cold Days
Since it’s the 14th book in the series, I can’t say much about it without spoiling what happened in the previous books, but things have become very interesting. Though, the more the things change, the more they stay the same, Harry is still out of his depth, and stakes are still sky high.
What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening to lately?
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Transformations, by Marcella Althaus-Reid and Lisa Isherwood.
Oh, also thinking of Cold Days gives me an excuse to post a cat pic. This was Sarissa, named such after the character you meet in Cold Days.
That’s a cute cat! And Sarissa is a good name.
I started Aurora Blazing by Jessie Mihalik last night. I barely started it and I’m glad I did. I love Mihalik’s work, she writes some really great space opera romance.
I started a book called The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Tutton because it became available at my library. I got about 40 pages in and I stopped because I’m just not feeling it at the moment. I’ll return it and try again another time because the premise of the book sounds really interesting. It kind of reminds me of The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa, which I absolutely loved.
I finished The Illustrated Woman by Melissa Bobe. I loved the short stories in this, I also really enjoyed how it was set up; a woman is wandering through a carnival and finds a woman with magic tattoos that show her the stories of different women who have come to her and their struggles. There were 2 stories that I would love seeing turned into full novels because I found the world very interesting. Leave Your Fear, You’ll Be Just Fine was probably my favorite.
Project Hail Mary because of the upcoming movie.
There’s a movie coming? I’m curious how it will translate to the screen. Loved the book though.
The trailer is already out. Movie comes out march 2026
I loved that book and I’m really excited for the movie. I’m planning on rereading it before the movie comes out.
I even got my father in law to read it and he’s not as into scifi as I am, but he really enjoyed it too
Just finished the Dresden Files (1-18). Latest installment comes out in January. Was kinda addicted there for a minute.
Just finished The Broken Ones by Stephen M. Irwin. Detective/Horror which I didn’t think would work so well.
Now trying to start a horror anthology called Howls from the Dark Ages. Also, the new Thursday Murder Club book just came out.
Yeah, I am reading the books slowly, I want the final book to release before I go through them all, but it doesn’t seem likely now.
I’m up to the 7th of the 9 books in my Reread of the Fred the Vampire accountant series by Drew Hayes. I started November 1st after the final book was released. It’s as fun as I remember.
Ill Met in Lankhmar (1995) by Fritz Leiber in it’s first unabridged german translation from 2004.
It is absurd, how underrated Leiber is up to this day. He was so much better than many of his contemporaries.
Look for “The Big Time.”
He did a lot of short stories set in The Change War, a conflict that ranges across all of the Universe, from the Big Band to the Heat Death. Two sides, the Spiders and the Snakes, recruit beings of all races to rewrite history.
Thanks for the tip, that sounds pretty interesting. I look forward to read that and his other SciFi and horror stuff when I am through with Fafhrd and the Grey Mousling.
https://www.darkhorse.com/Books/10-686/Fafhrd-and-the-Gray-Mouser
Because you’d only waste your money on food and rent.
The Book of Dust, Volume 3: The Rose Field
If you liked His Dark Materials this continuation of the story is pretty epic and the last book was just released!
How are these? I grew up reading His Dark Materials and they are my favorite books from my childhood. I have all 3 of The Book of Dust books, I just haven’t started them yet.
They expand on the universe and continue the story in an awesome way! You won’t be disappointed!
Just finished CABIN: Off the Grid Adventures with a Clueless Craftsman by Patrick Hutchison and highly recommend it to anyone looking for a hilarious read. Revisiting Stiff by Mary Roach now, just because it’s been a long time.
The Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Díaz. It’s really good if you are interested in first hand accounts of colonial history but it can also be a tad anger inducing. The main characters lowkey suck
Been going thru the Discworld series in published order, and now on A Hat Full of Sky. I think it’s #30ish out of 40ish in the series? It’s taken a number of years, but I’m also getting a bit sad that I’m nearing the end and there won’t be any more. Pratchett was a treasure.
I really should go read these again, it’s been so long that I hardly remember the stories in these books. I just read a synopsis of this book, and it hardly rings a bell. It must also have been at least 15 years ago, Terry Pratchett was still very much alive when I started reading them.
I’ve never read The Grapes of Wrath before, but now I’m about a quarter through it.
You can tell that Steinbeck really lived that hard depression life and had an abiding love for the other people who did too, warts and all.
Its a classic that is worth reading
I am reading (maybe re-reading) The House of the Spirits. A friend said we read it in high school and I do remember reading One Hundred Years of Solitude in highschool as part of a magical realism unit but I can’t really remember if I did the House of the Spirits. Its great and I can’t put it down.
Ooh, I read The House of the Spirits years ago, such a good book! I read Paula by her before that, but I preferred this one.
It’s been great so far I am going to read some more from her
I am just wrapping up a reread of the back half of The Expanse. I reread 1-2 a year ago and skipped 3-4 because they’re very slow. I really love the setting and how grounded the scifi feels. I think the last few books kinda lose that grounding but the earlier ones are good enough to carry me through.
Next I’ll be reading Rebecca by Daphne De Maurier for a book club. It’s really outside my normal wheelhouse being historical fiction, but Wuthering Heights was one of my surprise favorites from high school and it feels similar enough in its writing. I do really enjoy the flowery prose from what little I’ve read thus far. It’s rare I’m afforded the opportunity to indulge so much in the English language.
Dungeon Crawler Carl #7
Glurp glurp!
HI ZEV!
Goddamnit Donut!
Came to post Carl. Happy I was beat to it. also listening to heretical fishing. both super good.
