Had a pretty busy work week, hardly got time to read anything. So still on The Sunlit Man by Brandon Sanderson.
What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening to lately?
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Fahrenheit 451 :3… there was a sale on books at my grocery store yesterday, and that one seemed to be topical to current events
Get it before it’s gone!
Have you read any of the other dystopian classics, like 1984 & Brave New World?
I’ve read a decent chunk of them :3… don’t think I did brave new world tho
What a good idea, a classic I never read yet. Will get it next.
The Kaiju Preservation Society. Really light, fun read.
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780765389138/thekaijupreservationsociety/
I am incredibly jealous you are reading this for the first time. It was my first Scalzi read and I loved it.
Scalzi was hired to reboot a classic sci-fi series. His book was “Fuzzy Nation”, but the OG book “Little Fuzzy” should be read by everyone!
I’ve read Fuzzy Nation and it was great too. I’ve enjoyed all of Scalzi’s books. I have a copy of The Complete Fuzzy by H. Beam Piper that I found at a thrift store after I read Fuzzy Nation. I haven’t read it yet, but it is on the ever expanding TBR
Little Fuzzy is totally worth it and you can probably blow through it in 2 hours.
Free and easy! Thank you! So begins my evening.
Same here, have Old Man’s War lined up next.
“The Andromeda Strain” on my phone to pass time and “The Bear and the Dragon” on my Kobo.
Is it weird to read two books at the same time lol?
Loooooove The Andromeda Strain!
Such a great book, both the story and the fragmentary structure of it. Got a paper copy somewhere, must read that again soon.
EDIT - found it 😁
It depends on the setting your are listening to and reading the books. I listen to audio books on my daily commute.
So if you are listening to one book for the soul sucking drive and another to relax at the end of the day…
That’s kind of what I’m doing now that you made me think about it. One book is usually a light read that is easy to hop in and out of and the other is usually more intensive. The light reads are for killing time and the heavier ones I read before bed.
Just two? Those are rookie numbers.
theorychapter above is also binge reading Crichton. It’s weird, sometimes you don’t hear a name for quite a while and then suddenly multiple people are reading them. 😀
The Andromeda Strain was my first Crichton book, loved it.
Just got James by Percival Everett. Been looking forward to it for a while, plan to start reading it this weekend.
this will be my next fiction read, but I don’t know if I’ll enjoy it because I never read Huck Finn.
I did the audiobook and really enjoyed it
Still on “Rama II”, it’s also been busy. Not much progress since last week.
I know the feeling. Have been on same book for last 2-3 weeks, and it’s a Sanderson book which I generally glide through.
Currently I’m on holiday, and I haven’t read a word in the last week.
Same, except an important deadline at work.
Radical: The Science, Culture, and History of Breast Cancer in America.
My best friend was recently diagnosed with breast cancer (very treatable and likely curable), and we both have the type of personality where it helps to deep dive/learn a lot about scary stuff. I picked out a few books for us to nerd out together on, and this is the first one. It’s super good so far, as frustrating as some of the aspects of the US healthcare system are.
Good luck to your friend, hope things work out well 🤞
All the best to you and your friend.
Hope she gets well soon!
I haven’t posted in some time and while I did read some books in the interim, right now I’m back to reading The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan. I’m now on the seventh book, A Crown of Swords. People say this is where the series becomes a “slog” for some books. We’ll see. I was already frustrated with the last book, since Jordan seems to be a bit too enamored with his own writing and progress is glacial.
Yeah, books 7-10 can be a bit of a slog, haven’t read them in quite a while though.
The Conquest of Mexico & The Conquest of Peru by William H. Prescott. I am only 200 pages in so I have a lot more to go but its good so far. For someone from the 1840s he does a remarkably good job at countering colonial propaganda and supremacist thought. There is still some of course but better than I expected
I finished two short novels and I did not like both: Everyday Is For The Thief by Teju Cole and You Dreamed Of Empires by Alvaro Enrigue.
So it’s back to non-fiction and my next book will be Empire of A.I. by Karen Hao.
Just finished Sphere by Michael Crichton this morning on my commute. And started State of Fear by Michael Crichton on my evening commute 😅. Kinda binging through his books currently and saving Jurassic park for last.
I remember his writing style was exciting. It’s been so long since I read any of it, but I recall his books being pretty binge-able.
Why did I have to see this post now?
Three books:
Righteous Victims by Benny Morris, the detestable Zionist who laughs about starving children. It’s very weird reading about Israel’s historical atrocities throughout this book given the author’s recent behavior.
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. About a quarter of the way in, and this book is strange. It has not proven its legacy to me yet, despite the descriptive writing and impressively gritty plot.
Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein. Some of these poems make me cry. That is remarkable.
Just wrapped up Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson. The book is better than the movie, and I enjoyed the commentary.
Try looking again in umm… 48 hours or so…
44% through War and Peace…stuck in the wolf hunt, going very slowly…
The Southern Reach series and a bit of Clarice Lispector and Lydia Davis short stories added in for the psychedelic spice.
edit it is WAY easier to read these comments if you bold book, author, and series names!
Reminder surround text with one pair of asterisks to make italic text and two pairs of asterisks to make bold text.
I second highlighting the book, author, and series. I like to hyperlink to OpenLibrary myself.
I just finished Eye of the World by Robert Jordan about two weeks back.
Been slowly working my way through Great Hunt (next in the Wheel of Time) but haven’t been able to dedicate as much time to it recently.
It’s good so far. It’s definitely hooked me more than the first book.
I’m stalled in the middle of like 6 different books and I’m not feeling any of them at the moment.
I just DNFed Assassin of Reality as the second in the Vita Nostra series (I really liked the first book, but…), so I ended up rereading The Scholomance series by Naomi Novik instead.
I started the Four Quarters series by Tanya Huff last night, and I just aggressively don’t care about any of the characters. I don’t know what I’m looking for in books right now, and I’m getting a little cranky about it.
… aggressively don’t care about any of the characters.
That’s the worst feeling, but if you drop something that’s meh, then there’s all the more room for something awesome. Good hunting!
Oh no, that’s the worst. Sometimes I can snap out of it with something that’s fast-paced or complete fluff, but other times it’s nails on a chalkboard for like a week. I hope you find something compelling soon!
I just DNFed Assassin of Reality as the second in the Vita Nostra series (I really liked the first book, but…)
Yeah, Vita Nostra’s really cool so far (I’m at ~80% atm), but having read blurbs/reviews for the sequels, I think I’m done after the first one.
