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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.
It's been a few of months since I read anything which was Bitterthorn. I guess I got a little burned out from reading almost only fantasy with queer characters so the couple of unread books on my shelf are kind of just collecting dust - they are also both 500+ pages which I have, similarly, read a lot of and they often test my patience even though they are more than likely to be very worth the read.
I bought This is How You Lose the Time War on account of seeing it in the tildes book club thread a while back, so hopefully I can find the motivation to get started and read it soon. I know that I will like it.
Does anyone have recommendations for similar digestible, shorter books? Anywhere between 100 and 200, maybe even up to 300 pages? Very much wouldn't mind queer, fantasy, and/or sci-fi, but it can be basically anything except horror or overly erotic. Short story collections might also be good - currently on my list is Girlfriends by Emily Zhou for example.
Idk, it's a very specific ask but hopefully not too difficult criterias.
Point B by Drew Magary is some pretty good queer sci-fi. I'm not sure how many pages, though.
Finished The Assassins Quest.
It's overall a good story, but I feel like it could've been half as long (book and a half instead of 3). Felt like a lot of dead time hammering home points we'd already made, and a lot of characters feel dumb for the sake of plot. The enemy is supposed to be absolutely evil and selfish and foolish and yet keeps winning because.....it'd be boring if they didn't.
Started back on my sanderson stuff, so Yumi and the Nightmare Painter.
Nothing special yet, but enjoyable. Only 1/3rd of the way through so far.
I've been horsing through Light Bringer, the latest, and penultimate, novel in Pierce Brown's Red Rising series. I enjoyed the 'Hunger Games, but better' vibe the first one had going before the second immediately blasted the whole thing off into full-on space opera and wound up as a very satisfying trilogy. The fourth entry, Iron Gold, dipped a bit as it is very much a 'scene setter' novel but ho. ly. fuck. I was not prepared for the compulsively grim depths into which the aptly-titled Dark Age then dove - complete with its own Red Wedding challenger to boot. It has also been a joy to see Brown pushing himself with each novel and the development of his writing skill throughout the series' run, it reminds me quite a bit of The Expanse series there.
So yeah, very much enjoying the series, easy recommend for fans of action-packed sci-fi. The finale is due out next year, and Brown has a good track record, so little to fear for those adverse to incomplete series.