A day late, but better late than never!
Finished Proven Guilty by Jim Butcher. Book 8 of Dresden Files. Loving how the series is progressing. How the characters are growing, and how the stakes keep getting higher and higher.
Currently Reading Cytonic by Brandon Sanderson. Book 3 of Cytoverse / Skyward series. It continues from after Book 2, and we haven’t come across the events of the novellas yet. I am interested to see how they will cover those.
What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening lately?
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I’ve just read “Starter Villain” by John Scalzi.
Good Reads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61885029-starter-villain
If you would like to read an easy an humorous book --> go for it! I can recommend it to 100%! It is also a good choice if English is not your native language.
Thanks for the recommendation!
Just finished Spinning Silver by Noami Novik. It was not bad, Uprooted was a much better read.
About to jump into Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
Glad you’re like the Dresden series. It gets better with each book (granted, I never read any of the novellas)
Let me know what you think about Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrel. It has been on my backlog for a long long time.
I haven’t read any side stories either, but I have got the first collection of short stories lined up, but I think only 2-3 are during first 8 books (where I am), rest are in the future, so going to read them along side main novels.
Finished Relic by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child last night. One of the authors worked in the real-life counterpart of the book’s museum setting for a few years, and it shows: there was lots of interesting detail about the parts the public doesn’t get to see. In general, I thought this was a fun enough popcorn read, although the first 60% seemed a little slow for something billed as a mystery horror thriller. Not sure I want to read any of the sequels, but I’ll probably check out the movie to see how good an adaptation it is.
Bingo squares: It Takes Two; Disability Representation; Eazy, Breazy, Read-zie; Now a Major Motion Picture; Mashup (debatable); Institutional HM; (alt) A Change in Perspective
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I’m planning to start To Catch a Thief by David Dodge next.
- Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky
- Sodom and Gomorrah by Marcel Proust
- The Riddler: Year One by Paul Dano, Stevan Subić (Artist), Clayton Cowles (Letterer)
From Manufacturing Consents to Sodom and Gomorrah to The Riddler. That’s a nice combination 😀
Which one are you liking the most?
I think I like Sodom and Gomorrah the least. Proust’s view on homosexuality seems partial.
Manufacturing Consent is worth reading for its relevance. Two serious wars are going on and the media is still using the same formulas.
The Riddler is fun to read.
Just picked up “Eruption” - the final Michael Crichton novel. His wife found the unfinished manuscript in his papers, sent it to James Patterson who really enjoyed it and agreed to finish it.
It’s… well… it’s not very good. Stock characters, disaster premise (monster Hawaiian volcano!), etc. etc. But it moves VERY fast. 419 pages and 109 chapters. On average under 4 pages a chapter.
I finally finished Death’s End (book 3 of the Three Body Problem series). I have to admit, I was pretty tired of this series by the end. I don’t think I’ll read the 4th? Overall, I like the ideas presented, but found the story to be underwhelming and sometimes boring.
I just started Severance by Ling Ma. I’ll try to remember to post an update in a future thread when I finish!
There’s a fourth? Isn’t it a trilogy?
Ha kind of? There’s another book in the series written by a different author as a fanfic I believe that was “blessed” by the actual author and published as a 4th book.
Ah, like that ‘Cursed Child’ Harry Potter book, whose existence I refuse to acknowledge.
