I'm still deep into He who fights with monsters by Shirtaloon. Need to pick up some pace though, when I want to finish my bingo on time. Still two entire books to go!
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I'm just about done with Shaman by Kim Stanley Robinson, I've read most of his work and this might be his strongest work. It's clear from the Mars and science in the capitol trilogies that the man is obsessed with stone age culture so it's an obvious choice of setting for him and unlike much of the rest of his work it's a simple and self contained story.
I'm also a few chapters into Julia by Sandra Newman, a retelling of 1984 from Julia's pov. Very evocative and well written so far, looking forward to the rest of the book.
I just started Red Mars! Very good so far
I adored the Mars trilogy as a teenager, it's hard for me to be objective about it as it's such a comfort read.
I know a lot of people feel the series loses steam part way through Green Mars, and I can see why, but I love all three books unconditionally 🥹
Currently I'm a few chapters into Wind and Truth. It's the last book in the first arc of the Stormlight Archives and I've been enjoying it so far. No major revelations have been made yet but the story's going at a great pace.
I'm on chapter ~130. It's great. Feels like less of a sanderlanch than Rhythm of War to me though.
I'm still reading Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson (Stormlight book 2). It's going great so far! Some moves that I really wasn't expecting from Sanderson. And amazing characters all around.
Words of Radiance is my favorite of the current five Stormlight books! So good
Still working on Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman. I'm finally halfway through! It's still enjoyable, and not slow at all, but I'm starting to get impatient to finish it; I might have to try a bit harder to find time to read.
Too long? Or just not getting enough reading time?
It's a combination of being 400+ pages and sometimes only getting through a few pages at night before I get sleepy. Thankfully, I'm not finding it slow on top of that.
Well, good luck!
I recently finished the Silo trilogy by Hugh Howey and absolutely hated it lol so now I'm doing the Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson and absolutely loving it
Funny: I disliked the Mars trilogy and enjoyed the Silo trilogy.
Is this one of those where the show is better than the book?
I have not seen the show but I did find out about the series via hearing about the show. I dont think ill be watching it
I have heard they changed somethings in the show, and all my friends seem to love it. (None of them have read the books)
I haven't watched it yet though, don't watch much shows anyways, and wanted to read the books first even if I do watch it.
Silo is a bit of a slog after the first book I thought.
For real! I loved Wool, it was great. The rest of the series was awful.
Just about finishing listening to The Kremlin's Candidate. And just started reading (yet again) The Lord Of The Rings. This time on Kindle.
Something tells me you are quite a fan of The Lords of the Rings.
Just a bit. Since the mid 60's.
That's how I started last (2024) year, rereading all that good Tolkien's stuff, Bilbo, lotr, the silmarillion,... It's really the kind of masterpiece, you can always "discover" new details and links every single time you read it...
Just finished Expanse 7 (and 7.5) novella. Loved them. Number 7 has been my favourite so far. Also just finished 3 novellas making a trilogy called Binti. I try to read authors different gender or race from me. Binti trilogy was a fun and interesting read. If you don't love it, after book 1 (around 150 pages) it wraps up in a way you wouldn't need to read the others.
Reading my first non-fic for the year now. I usually try to read 4-6 non-fiction out of my 30-35/year. Reading "Down With the System" by Serj Tankian. I'll probably make "Walking Disaster" and "Smart, but Scattered" two of my others this year.
Waiting for my reading buddy to catch up so I can start Stormlight 5 and read "Between Two Fires"
I was just thinking about messaging you the other day, to see where you disappeared to!
Will look up Binti novellas. How's Down With the System?
Haha the amount of time I spend on Lemmy Ebbs and flows depending on work, family, how angry I want to be, Etc.
Down with the System has been a good read. I saw a system live when I was young, and was very much into the punk rock, Alt rock, numetal scene. When I went to University, and later education, a lot of that stuff got put behind me for some reason. And the last 5 years, my children have been asking what music I like to listen to and my middle child is very much taking a liking to the aggressive nature of the music that I like.
So not only has reading this book being enjoyable because I quite like the band, it's had a bit of a Renaissance on my music habits.
From a literary standpoint, it's been very interesting to hear the band came to be on how much Armenia and the Armenian Genocide has played a role in their lives (granted I'm only ¾ done).
The other book I'm excited about comma Is Joe Abercrombie's "Devils" book. I still have the last Trilogy For the first law world Comma but this one looks promising too.
Edit: while plot wise, not everyone loves the mistborn second era as much as the first. But for me, the characters were so much better and I enjoyed the second era more than the first. Your mileage may vary, but I love Wayne
Hehe, glad to see you rediscovering your favourite music.
I think I am done with Abercrombie, as much as I like his books, he is too cruel to his characters. Let me know if Devils is any different, but I doubt so.
Well, the second era isn't as dreary, so that's a big plus for me. I do miss the complete badass-ness and power of Vin and Kelsier though. But I have just read the first book yet, so let's see how it progresses. Liking Wayne quite a bit. He is weird. 😀
I just finished The Housemaid, by Freida McFadden and found it to be a gripping page-turner, very quick to read, and thoroughly enjoyable. However, I was a bit disappointed by the ending, which didn't quite match the level of the rest of the book. It seemed like the author struggled to find a satisfying conclusion. As is often the case with such an engrossing read, the ending can feel a bit underwhelming. Perhaps an 'open' ending would have been a better choice.
I just started The Housemaid's Secret by Freida McFadden, continuing with the series and hoping it will be equally gripping.
Thanks for the review, will add it to my list.
I have just finished The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart and Jesus Christ was it a slog to get through. I dont know if it was the way it was written (auto biographical style) or something else but I found it took a really interesting idea / concept and managed to deliver it in the most mind numbingly dull way.
It went far too in depth on some of the situations described during the course of the book that I really felt were unnecessary and ignored other opportunities to expand on other, more interesting aspects.
On the whole I wouldn't necessarily say it was a bad book but would I recommend it to anyone? I doubt it.
After this I went back to my comfy place at the moment, being the deathlands books for number 46 to find they have changed half of the cast of voice actors in the Graphic Audio adaptation I listen to.
I guess it makes sense in terms of how long they will have been recording these books but the new voice actor for the main character is fucking dire compared to the one I'm used to and lends the character a different feel in a particularly negative way.
I'm not going to give up with them yet and I hold out the hope it will get better. Failing that hopefully I'll at least get used to these new actors.
On the whole a disappointing week!
Oh, that seems annoying. It's like changing the actors after 4 or 5 seasons but keeping them same character, would feel pretty jarring,
I do understand that it might be difficult to keep the same cast for such a long series, though.
- The Critique of Digital Capitalism by Eileen Joy
- Shakespeare for Children by Charles and Mary Lamb
Mary Lamb sounds like such a made up name.
How is the Shakespeare book?
Lol. I guess she married into it.
I just started it and so far it's ok. It seems to be lacking some description and details to help young readers internalize the material. At least for the tempest it seems to just gloss over a lot of things which is fine if the goal is to summarize but since the goal is to make Shakespeare accessible to children it makes it not very memorable. But haven't read it all yet.
Ah, okay. Thanks for the input.
A re-read of Dune Messiah. Plots within plots. I usually do a re-read between new (to me) books. My last book was Stormlight 5, I'm still digesting it, but Dune is probably doing to be finished tonight.
I my plan was to read Parable of the Talents next, it's my first time through Earthseed. The first one, Parable of the Sower, I struggled to start just because I heard the world is bleak and I didn't want more bleak in my life. The world is certainly bleak.
If not Earthseed I might start re-reading Mistborn for Era 3 while thinking of something new to read. I did two new books back-back Parable and Stormlight, so it's only reasonable to do 2 re-reads next.
Almost done with The Hydrogen Sonata by Banks. Not sure yet what to read afterwards. It's a luxury problem. I have too many books I still have to read. Choices, choices.
Working my way through the Cosmere. Doing “The Bands of Mourning” right now. Love Mistborn, can’t wait to get to Stormlight.