Books

Just started Gene Wolfe's The Shadow of the Torturer after seeing some good reviews about his Book of the New Sun series, going in blind though and it's pretty slow so far. Let me know if you liked it and think I should keep going

For We Are Many: Bobiverse Book 2

Just finished The Expanse books, and now reading The Wall by Adrian Goldsworthy. It’s absolutely beach-reading sword-&-sandal nonsense, but the author loves his (paper thin) characters and is an Oxford-educated professional historian who writes novels on the side, so it’s fun and the world building and research are impeccable.

Technically I am also still wading through In the Name of the Rose. Gotta get back to that one and wrap it up. I’m fond of ol’ William, but my bandwidth to understand and allegorize the intramural politics of late-medieval monastic orders is limited.

I just finished This is How You Lose the Time War today. It's a pretty short read, but I think it's as good as everyone says.

Roadside Picnic

The original story that was the inspiration for the S.T.A.L.K.E.R series.

Translation State by Ann Leckie, and I'm enjoying it quite a bit. It's a standalone novel set in the Imperial Radch universe, and I would absolutely recommend it.

Dragon's Egg from Robert L. Forward. I heard about it on the fediverse, and I am really glad I did. It's a hard sci-fi book about the interactions between humanity and a highly intelligent alien species that lives on a neutron star with 67Billion Gees.

Just a note for OP, June is the sixth month, and you wrote 7 in the title xD

As far as what I'm reading, I'm starting 'Noble Roots', by Drew Hayes, one of my favorite authors. The book is part of an RPG-lit series that it's really fun and interesting. I'm not quite sure of where it's going, but I'm enjoying the ride so far. The first book is called 'NPCs'.

I'm still working my way through The Social Distance Between Us by Darren McGarvey. I mainly read at work, so maybe only 30 minutes a day, but I'm slowly getting through it.

I also just finished reading through George RR Martin's A World of Ice and Fire.

I’m just starting Brandon Sanderson’s The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval England. Not far enough in to speak on how I like this book specifically, but Sanderson is one of my favorite authors, so I anticipate that it will be a good time.

The hardcovers for the larger Secret Project kickstarter collection of which this book is a part have also been absolutely gorgeous so far, for those here who, like me, are as excited about the design of a book as they are about reading it. There are so many beautiful full-page illustration inserts and little flourishes. The attention to detail is just lovely.

I'm almost finished with my re-read of Deaths End, the last book of the Rememberence of Earth's Past series. It's just as good as the first time I read through! The Three Body Problem, book one, got kind of popular a bit ago. It's great sci-fi, with a writing style I've never encountered before.

I'm reading Moby Dick and i kind of hate it. The narrator switches at unusual points and the story is paused more often than not so that the author can go on long winded digressions about random things tangentially related to whaling. The only point in it's favor is that the prose is very pretty.

Guns, Germs and Steel. Still making my way through it as it can get a little dry but talks about how environment and subsequently food production capacity shaped different populations that spread across the planet and how that translates into the modern world.

The Primal Hunter 6 by Zogarth

So far (30% in) it's kind of dry with basically going over numerous item descriptions from an auction for the items gained in the last book. But if you've made it this far in the series that's kind of par for the course, a lot of time is spent describing things I would have skipped as an author. Hasn't been bad enough yet to make me want to drop it though.

Neurodharma: New Science, Ancient Wisdom by Rick Hanson (a little dry, but interesting in small doses)

Can't Spell Treason Without Tea by Rebecca Thorne (cozy fantasy, low stakes)

Seasonal Fears by Seanan McGuire (2nd book in a duology, compelling characters)

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari (Also a little dry, but the audiobook format makes it easy to consume while doing other things)

Just finished Terry Pratchett's Discworld Book 1 "The Colour of Magic" which I freakin' loved, and now I'm about halfway through John Sandford's "The Investigator" which takes up the story of Letty Davenport, Lucas' adopted daughter. It's a good read and hard to put down.

I started reading Planet X. Is a Star Trek x X-Men crossover novel.

The Dragon Republic by R. F. Kuang. Progress has been a bit slow with it as the main character is going through a phase that drags on and on… Though, I do also get the impression that it is deliberate to hammer home how hard it is to detach from drugs.

Now I’m about half way through and it appears to be picking up the pace again. If it goes nowhere, I’m chucking the damn book out the window!

Alexander Munro: The Paper Trail
Francis Beeding: The Three Fishers
Lindsey Fitzharris: The Facemaker

Red Planet Blues by Robert J. Sawyer

I am about half way through Dark Age by Pierce Brown. Despite some minor annoyances I have with Pierce's writing style the series is an absolute page-turner and I'm finding myself blazing through the books.

I'm rereading the "swords" series, by Fred Saberhagen. Been about a decade since I've gone through, and it's almost like a first read because I don't remember all the details after so long

Definitely worth reading if you like scifi/fantasy at all.

Blow-Up and Other Stories by Julio Cortázar
also reading this excellent collection of working class poetry, Hammers and Hearts of the Gods by Fred Voss

I"m about 1/3 to 1/2 of the way through Translation State by Ann Leckie. Pretty good story set in the same universe as her other Imperial Radch novels.

Paladin's Grace - by T Kingfisher

I'm about 80% finished with it, but I'm pretty sure my wife pulled a fast-one on me by recommending it. The characters are unique, and the author is fairly insightful and funny - but I'm pretty sure this is a really soft-core romance just building to a sex scene at some point followed by a 'happily ever after'.

I'll report back when I finish it.

I had just finished Essex Dogs the other day, and was about to start Rhythm of War (Stormlight Archives #4) when my library hold for Thrawn (#1) became available. I've never read a Star Wars novel so I decided to start that last night. I'm currently 200 pages in and I'm really enjoying it so far.

Been reading Roadside Picnic. I don't know if it's a translation issue but I find the dialogue kinda awkward. But I love the world, and the worlds that it has spawned.

i've started the Halo books. i finished Fall of Reach a couple of weeks ago and am onto The Flood. i've also dipped my toes into the Dune series and also the Witcher series, beginning with The Last Wish. in high school i read a book every other day and slowly tapered off as i went from reading for pleasure to reading for work as i became a Lit major in college. it skewed my love for books in a big way and i am trying to get back to reading for fun.

I'm currently reading a yet-to-be-published novel a friend wrote. It's a fantasy story written in a style and format similar to Chinese web novels. It's been a nice filler read while I wait to receive my library holds.

I just started Harlan Coben's latest "I Will Find You" I'm about 20% into it and I'll probably finish it by Wednesday, or Thursday at the latest. Then I'll have to find another similar-sized book to finish out my week.

I'm a fan of most of Harlan Coben's stuff, some of his Myron books were slower than I cared for and I didn't care at all for the Myron spinoff about his nephew, let's just say a lot of his newer work isn't as good to me. This one is better than his series-type books about Win or Wilde that he's made lately. I mostly find his books to be fun and quick thrillers.

Edit: Wait, it's July? Did I miss June? /s

My partner and I finished the audiobook of Le Guin’s Tombs of Atuan over the weekend and started The Farthest Shore, both really enjoyable reads.

I personally am reading through Jane McAlevey’s A Collective Bargain, a nonfiction about the importance of unionization and collectivism as it pertains to both work and democracy. She tells the stories of four folks who managed to fight for and win the right to a union in their workplace. It’s accessible and a fairly short read (just a couple hundred pages), so I’m going to go ahead and recommend that one here too :)

Corporate Finance: Core Principles and Applications

kill me now pls

I'm trying Asimov's Foundation series again. I read Foundation and Empire as a teenager, and it took me a long time to get into it. I'm still not really liking it--not a huge fan of political intrigue, but I AM into the kind of longview approach that Marquez and Michener tend to take, where they can sum up long periods of time in a few sentences. I want to like it, but I'm just not into this. I'm waiting on some books though, so I'll keep trying in the meantime.