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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.
I'm on my second read-through of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels. I'm currently going through the Rincewind books, and I'm partway through The Last Continent.
Just finished Foundryside -- phenominal book. Reminds me a lot of Mistborn. Excited to read the rest of the trilogy
Reading The Night Circus now, about halfway through and I'm seriously digging it. Great style.
Next is Cold Days to continue my Dresden Files obsession.
Elan.shool. I JUST GOT MY HARD COPY IN!!!! It's perfection. I've been waiting for the hard copy in my hands doe over a year, and I would have waited twice as long and be just as elated. I'm so deeply grateful to Joe Nobody and the massive amount of work he did to create and publish this masterpiece of biography and documentation. The dedication in the front made me weep uncontrollably in forever gratitude. In paraphrase, "To the children who had to go through this nightmare and were never believed."
Late to the party, I know, but I've jumped on the Red Rising series. It's so dang good.
I tore through them last year, great series! The way the story develops and escalates is fantastic, proper space opera epicness with a nice balance of the grim without going too far into grimdark territory. Thought we'd have the final book this summer though, looking like it'll be next year now.
Just started Strixhaven: Omens of Chaos. The first long-form piece of fiction that Magic has had in universe in a very long time.
Im only 5 chapter in, but so far it's written well, and a fun read. I love all the little Easter Eggs sprinkled in for long time Magic fans too.
Written by one of my favorite authors!
I read Virginia Woolf's The Waves over the last week, and it is just amazing. It's certainly more difficult than her other works I've read, and more abstract, but it is incredibly beautiful.
Now I am starting the first book of the Bobiverse for an IRL book club. I'm not loving it so far, but part of that is probably just whiplash from going from some of the best prose I've ever read to this fairly standard stuff. I am keeping an open mind however! I'm glad to be starting this book club, even if not everything in it will be my favorite it will be good to discuss things I'm reading with people in person.
When you have finished We are Legion we are Bob, feel free to check out the Tildes Book Club discussion and contribute if you feel like it here
Really loved 'The Waves', been a few years now though. I've also read 'Orlando', 'A Room Of One's Own', and 'To The Lighthouse' but I think The Waves is my favourite.
Working on Nick Harkaway's Titanium Noir. It's reminiscent of Richard Morgan's Altered Carbon in its seething distaste for the inhumanity of great wealth and the longevity it buys. However, the near/alt-future setting is barely distinguishable from our modernity.
Harkaway's carbon-black humored dialogue and sharp observation of humanity make for a very pleasurable read.
I'm 40% into the Stand by Stephen King and I'm enjoying it.
I'm rereading the Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane for Tildes Book Club this month.
I'm rereading The Offing by Ben Myers It has some of the best nature writing I've ever read. It features an unexpected friendship that grows between a young man and an older woman who hires him to do odd jobs. She is smart and sardonic and thoughtful and becomes a great mentor.
I finished Brigands and Breadknives which is a fun adventure.
I finished In the Midst of Winter by Isabel Allende Three people from different countries in latin america get caught together by a new york snowstorm and share life histories. They later have an adventure in upstate New York. But the timelines are all mixed up.
I'm currently in the last part of James S.A. Corey's The Faith of Beasts and, so far, it's a solidly enjoyable follow-up to The Mercy of Gods with plenty of great moments and ideas.
In the week prior, I wolfed down the first two Dungeon Crawler Carl books. Gotta hand it to Dinniman, they're a hell of a lot better written than the blurb might imply, and addictive as fuck. Very funny throughout too, particularly for one reared on CRPGs and with a few years of TTRPG experience under their belt.
I'm another DCC fan, eagerly awaiting book 8. However, I always want to add a warning that these books are frequently rude, gross and crass alongside the tense adventure and inspiring, heartwarming and funny content.
Well worth pointing out. The violence can hit somewhere around Invincible levels of gratuity, or even Mortal Kombat OTT silliness. Personally, I'd consider those all qualities sitting firmly in the series' 'strengths' category, but expectations should be calibrated accordingly before hopping in. The tone can kinda go the way our D&D table does once the party are a few beers in ha.
It actually works in favour of the more poignant moments, I think. With a wider sort of 'emotional dynamic range' it really lends extra weight to when Dinniman wants to target the feels.
I have seen some readers bounce off the worst content attributing it to Dinniman, where I see it as illustrating various awful characteristics of the conquering culture and evil characters.
Near the end of book 1 of Malazan.
It’s about how I remember it, for better and worse. I plan on sticking it out for book 2 at least
I was reading the stormlight archive but have since moved to the audiobook format because I simply don't have time to read these massive books. They're so good though and I didn't want to stop the story, so now I listen to them on my way to work and during work.
Just finished The Shadow Rising, book 4 of the wheel of time. Really enjoyed it! I can see why some people say the series slows in the middle, as this book had a lot fewer action scenes than the previous, but I am really enjoying the buildup and history/world building that is being established
In the final stretches of Memory of Light (the final book in the Wheel of Time series). I'm about a quarter of the way through Chapter 37, which my Kindle has estimated will take me about 4 hours to read. This chapter is longer than many books.
While I appreciate Robert Jordan for the world and characters that he created, I'm much happier with Brandon Sanderson's writing in these last few books. I probably wouldn't have finished reading the series if Robert Jordan had written it through to the end. There was just too much repetition and unnecessary descriptions for my taste.