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What are you reading these days?
What are you reading currently? Fiction or non-fiction or poetry, any genre, any language! Tell us what you're reading, and talk about it a bit.
What are you reading currently? Fiction or non-fiction or poetry, any genre, any language! Tell us what you're reading, and talk about it a bit.
Finally finished A Deadly Education by Naomi Novak, and then I started Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett. I’m very much enjoying it. I switched my reading progress over to Bookwyrm which seems is a federated alternative to Goodreads that looks promising and has kept me motivated to update my progress daily.
Just finished Tiger Honor by Yoon Ha Lee. I'm not quite sure why I didn't really like it, but I didn't really like it. I really enjoyed the previous book, Dragon Pearl but this one didn't quite gel. It read like YA, and not good YA (because good YA is just a book), it was a bit light and a bit predictable and a bit simplistic. There wasn't a great deal of interesting things going on, and the action (it's all action) was not very well paced or tense. Lee's Thousand Worlds sequence is so far not as good as his Machineries of Empire books which are excellent.
I'm about five pages in to Mistborn: The Final Empire, after someone posted that Brandon Sanderson video here and I thought he seemed like a nice guy. I don't usually like fantasy but I'm always up for trying things and am going to do my best not to prejudge it.
I recently abandoned Nick Offerman's most recent novel/memoir. It wasn't really what I anticipated and I wasn't engaged by it.
What I have been engaged by is Silences So Deep: Music, Solitude, Alaska by John Luther Adams. He's a magnificent American composer and his writing satisfies me greatly. I've also been listening to increasingly more ambient music in the wake of listening to his compositions. I coincidentally bought the book just a few weeks before my mother-in-law died, and Adams discusses death in a powerful way. Highly recommend.