Reading The Stranger by Camus, listening to Pachinko by Min Jin Lee.
After a decade of literary fiction I’m going back to check on some more mainstream stuff. I’m reading The Dark Tower saga by Stephen King. Just starting the first book.
I just finished The Deluge by Stephen Markley (all 900pp!)
It’s basically a US-centric “narrative” of the 2030’s, told from the PoV of about a dozen different characters, with the thread of climate change prominent throughout.
Really it’s hard to describe it as good or bad, an enjoyable read etc. It is certainly well written, and characterisation is exceptionally good and detailed, but for me it was by turns scary, amusing, depressing, profoundly sad and wrenching in its humanity. I have no reason to doubt its accuracy based on the science.
It took me almost a month to read because I had to take breaks to get my “cognitive dissonance” recharged.
I would definitely recommend it.
It would make a good streaming series on Amazon Prime or Apple TV.
Foundation Trilogy, by Isaac Asimov.
I think it’s the first modern science fiction book I’ve read, I read 19th century ones like Verne and Frankenstein before though.
Wow! Funny to hear Asimov described as modern (unless you mean it in the sense of modern vs. classical vs. post-modern etc.). But – I love those books and want to reread them someday… Enjoy!
The Book That Wouldn’t Burn by Mark Lawrence. Such a cool fantasy concept, I’m about 1/4th of the way in.
I also finished Forth Wing this week. It was okay for what it was.
The Spy and the Traitor [Non Fiction] by Ben MacIntyre. It’s the story of Oleg Gordievsky, a kgb agent who was working with MI6 during the height of the cold War.
I took a chance on it and was pleasantly surprised.
Currently reading The Winter Fortress by Neal Bascomb. It’s a good read so far!
Currently knee deep in The Way of Kings, I took a massive break from it when I originally started as I was a little overwhelmed but I’m flying through the pages now, just started part 3 ^^
Phenomenal. Those books are so good. His other series are really good too.
Eyes of the Void by Adrian Tchaikovsky
In my queue. Can’t wait.
Stand on Zanzibar - John Brunner
I’m reading the final book of the Dark Tower series, which is also titled The Dark Tower. It’s been such an amazing journey, and I can’t wait to see how this epic ends. Still have plenty of time though as it’s a little over 1000 pages and I’m on like page 400 lol.
I’ve been reading The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt. Love it so far!
I’m reading it too at this moment. In Dutch, by the way, which is funny as there are so many references to the Netherlands. Indeed a book to dive into and forget about the here and now, though it’s not particularly a walk in the park there and then. At times it feels a tiny bit slow, but I’m enjoying it so far.
God Emperor of Dune. Really liking it so far and I hope to get through the whole chronicle by next year. (I’m not grinding them one after another). Dune (the first book) is one of my favorites of all time.
Also, Make Something Wonderful, a collection of Steve Jobs’ writings and speeches, which was free. I’ve enjoyed it, since I’m in that industry.
Second reading of The Broken Earth trilogy by N.K. Jamison. Each book won the Hugo award for fantasy in the year it was written. They’re SO well written-real page turners!
Chuck Palahniuk - Consider This
I’m reading Diary by him right now!
I’ll have to check it out!
Oooo Diary is great!
