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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.
The Weight of Nature: How a Changing Climate Changes Our Minds, Brains and Bodies
It's a very interesting book and goes along well with a few of the topics I'm studying. Im halfway through and It definitely paints a bleak picture of our future so far so maybe the latter half will give some better info.
Oh boy, here we go.
Currently reading: The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones for personal book club. Writing style is interesting, just started this tonight. Reminds me of a short story I read for school that I'll have to hunt down for comparison's sake. I've never read "real" horror before so I'm somewhat nervous but hoping for the best.
Started the audiobook of Fable by Adrienne Young. YA for work entertainment.
Listening to Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune with my partner. He loved this and wanted me to read it with him. Hilarious so far, 20% in and seriously considering putting all of Klune's other works on hold with the library.
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. First time read for me, excellently absurd, 20% in.
I actually DNF'd two different audiobooks today - The Awakening (Zodiac Academy, which I was trying for the hype, couldn't deal with the writing) and Two Twisted Crowns (going to try this as a text read instead; the narration was too sinister for me to deal with).
Newly finished: A Breath of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon (Outlander book 6). A couple of surprises but mostly entertainment.
The Serpent and the Wings of Night by Carissa Broadbent. I found the writing to be extremely compelling despite being first person, which I struggle HARD with. I did actually put most of her other stuff on hold after reading this!
Also finished a beta read for a writer friend - cozy speculative fiction with cat companions. I really hope she makes headway in finding representation because I had a really good time with this read.
Up next: ... finishing everything I have going, then And the Sky Bled by S. Hati. And rereading my own book so I can write its sequel, eight years after ending the first one on a cliffhanger...
What type of fiction do you write?
This project is historical fantasy (made up mythology, more or less) set in 550-ish BCE Greece! It's intended to be a duology with maybe a prequel about the main character's parents.
Generally, I'm interested in writing both historical and futuristic fantasy. And various other things to a lesser extent. I'm working on adding writing back into my routine after long years of avoiding it due to burn out.
Hi
I'm reading...
"Putin's Wars"
by Mark Galeotti
Info here
binged Wind and Truth last weekend, totally destroyed my sleep schedule but it was worth it!
nonfiction: finished Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom for a book club, read Midnight in Chernobyl on a friend's recommendation, starting Hero of the Empire by Candic Millard. After Hero of the Empire I want to read Legacy of Violence by Caroline Elkins and get a contrast of views on Churchill back to back.
I started Easy of Eden last week. It's my first Steinbeck book, and I'm enjoying it so far.
Still working through a Tree grows in Brooklyn.
About halfway through Matterhorn by Karl marlantes, a very well written Vietnam war novel. Ironically I forgot why I had wanted to read it. I looked at the title on my list and thought it would be nice to read about mountain landscapes. There are in fact mountains in this book, but it is not about a vacation.
I am halfway through The Hobbit. I actually did read it back in elementary school and didn't really enjoy it, and my family weren't crazy about the LOTR movies so I never watched (or read) the trilogy either. But I have avoided it for long enough!
So, one of my guilty pleasures is LitRPG / System Apocalypse genre...
Currently I'm listening to 'Systema Delenda Est: Invading the System' by Inadvisably Compelled.
Interesting take on system apocalypse fiction - the setting is just after a post-scarcity / post-biological humanity finishes defeating the System (at least in the Sol system) at the cost of losing billions of minds that had been uploaded to virtual worlds (which ceased existence when the System interfered with most technology). One individual, a copy of their mind currently inhabiting one of humanities biologically engineered, self-replicating Warframes (think highly advanced war mech based on biotech so it will be able to function under System tech impairment) decides to jump through the portal the System had arrived with just before they close it in order to take the fight to the wider universe with the goal of killing the system on every world.
I just finished The Perfect Run, and it's time loop progression not litrpg but if you haven't read it yet I'd highly recommend! It has a fantastic audiobook too if youre into that
I know of it, but haven't read it yet... that or I read a few chapters but it was a while ago?
I have a long list of 'to read' and it's somewhere on there.
Is it the one that starts off with the main character being this crazy seeming superhero/villain type that takes contract work and has a reputation for always completing the job? I feel like that's what I'm remembering.
It is! Although the premise is only loosely related to the main plot, it shifts to more of an "epic hero's quest" type of thing about 30% into book 1. I thought it also got a LOT better at that time (which i think is pretty typical of webserials once the author finds the right place for the story)
I finally finished listening to all 15 books of The Frontier Saga by Rik Brown. I originally started them because I thought it was the books behind The Expanse show but after realizing my mistake I sorta got used to Jeffrey Kafers voice (acting) and liked having them around. There are comfort books now and I found out that there's a part two of the series...it's never going to end and I'm okay with that.
For psychical books I'm reading Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers by Gabor Maté & Gordon Neufeld and it really resonates with me. Both my parents were working with (troubled) children/youths when I grew up so I've listened to countless discussions about parenting, upbringing and child psychology around the dinner table all my life. This book seems to bridge my parents view with my own because parenting is vastly different today. I've been having trouble combining/navigating my own experience/upbringing with this new dogma and what to pass it on to my own children because my own childhood was not without issues I've come to learn.