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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.
Getting through the Stormlight Archive. Currently maybe halfway through book 2. I ran into these immediately after finishing all seven of the Mistborn books.
I haven't read anything in probably over a decade and I am apparently back into it!!
How did you enjoy the Mistborn books outside of the original trilogy? I’m a third into the first one now, (really enjoying it) and I’d also like to move to the Stormlight Archive, but I’m not sure if I should read the other Mistborn books before moving to Stormlight.
General consensus is Mistborn Era 1 (the original trilogy) should be read before Stormlight. There's a lot of discussion on reading order (see the subreddit wiki) but Mistborn Era 1 is consistently among the first set to be read.
Here's a recent video by author himself giving his recommended reading order!
Personally, I've done:
I really enjoyed picking out small details from Mistborn Era 1 in The Stormlight Archive, but they're very much still background "blink and you'll miss it" level stuff, so the exact reading order doesn't seem super strict.
Four Corners: A Journey into the Heart of Papua New Guinea, by Kira Salak
Kira Salak was in her 20s when she quit teaching primary school and went traveling alone to weirdly impossible places. Rather her than me! But she's an interesting writer and her hair-raising travels make good reading.
Im listening to The dark tower by Stephen King. It's the seventh book and "final" book in a series also called the Dark tower.
Its the first books by Stephen King I've read and I'm very positively surprised.
Its also the first time that I'm listening to a pod cast analyzing the books as I go trough them (pod called "Kingslingers").
The series are quite long in it self, adding the pod cast the listening time almost doubles but it's absolutely worth it.
The books takes some very unexpected turns and both the character and world building are amazing
I'm hoping to follow the beam another time in the future. It's a very interesting story with many twists and turns. Brace yourself for the back half of book 7!
Working my way through the Aeon 14 books, of which there are many, in universe chronological order, because I couldn't think of a better way. Currently on book 3 of the Sol Dissolution "The Hyperion War".
Aeon 14 universe is split into ages, where each age is told in a series of stories, often trilogies.
E.g. "Sol Dissolution" is a trilogy set in their "Age Of Terra". There are other books in Age Of Terra, another trilogy and a standalone.
I thought I'd be burned out on them by now, but surprisingly not. Still hooked.
I'm just about to start 'A Peculiar Peril' by Jeff Vandermeer.
I found his book Annihilation to be utterly engrossing at every turn. Having been introduced to his work through the titular movie adaption, I took special enjoyment in his descriptions of the alien creatures and strange animal-plant hybrids.
If it's not too much to ask, will you reply to this comment after reading it? I'm curious to hear your thoughts.
The hangman's tale: Memoirs of a public executioner by Dernley, Syd
It's kinda my area of interest to study executioners and know their life story. Also the psychology, criminology, and culture around them throughout the eras.
Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy a beautifully written story about a world after animal populations have collapsed.
This is how we lose the time war for Tildes book club.
I got inspired this week to try reading again after watching Answer In Progress's recent video about reading. I started Raven One, a book about an F18 squadron written by Kevin Miller, a former F18 pilot. I have flown the F18 for a few hundred hours in DCS, so I'm pretty interested in the source material. I'm only 30 or 40 pages in so far but I do like how well it paints the environments you're in, like I'm getting a very good mental picture of what the specific carrier is like that the story starts on. What I didn't like is the introductions to the first two women in the novel was very obviously written by a man, but that won't deter me from reading it and hoping that their introductions highlighted character flaws that will be developed later. There's just a weird paragraph that says one of the women would yell at former boyfriends for checking out other women and so now she has dismissed all men and then she's checking out her roommate either out of jealousy or because she is attracted to her? IDK, it just seemed out of place in the introduction but maybe it will be built upon in a good way.
I just started Rose/House by Arkady Martine. Given I thought her previous books, A Memory Called Empire and A Desolation Called Peace were some of the best new sci-fi I've read for quite a few years, I'm excited to get into this one. It's not part of the Teixcalaan series but that's not a problem (although I definitely would like to read more in that universe!)
Previous to that I was reading Stephen Baxter's latest, Creation Node, which is predictably Baxterian in it's epic scope and very hard science. It's a bit softer than some of his other books but I enjoyed it a lot. I'm not sure it would be the first of his I'd recommend to a new reader but that said, my wife was poking around on my reader and wants to borrow it after reading the first chapter.
Prior to that I was reading Nettle and Bone by TJ Kingfisher, which I would definitely recommend. I don't read a lot of fantasy but I really enjoyed this self-rescuing princess kind of tale. It wasn't silly like their other book, A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking (also very good as well as silly), but it was sweet and touching and tense and well paced.
Not really what I'm reading so much as what I'm reading on, but I got a new ereader after my ancient Kobo was barely holding charge for a couple of days. So now I have a fancy colour ereader. Apart from the sleep cover image being in colour I have not noticed. It's too small to read comics on so I probably won't bother doing that, and the books I read usually don't have pictures.