Books

I’ve been working my way through the Sandman graphic novels 

•The Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson - 3.5. The book examines class consciousness through the lens of technology, interesting read

• Kiln People - David Brin. - 3.5 Disposable clay doubles and a private investigator’s attempt to get to the bottom of a mystery. Engaging and fun read

• Memory’s Legion - James S.A. Corey - 3. The novellas, and digital extras for The Expanse series. The Expanse is one of my favorite series. Most of the book’s material was included in the television series.

• Clans of the Alphane Moon - Philip K Dick - 3.5. PKD is always a wild ride!

• City - Clifford D Simak - 4 - A collection of stories about humanity and man’s best friend from present to thousands of years into the future. Really enjoyed this one

• Life - Keith Richards - 4 - “It’s Only Rock and Roll, but I like It!” Life of a rock and roll icon from early days to adulthood. The guy has lived an interesting life.

Kept it pretty lowkey in June, read only two books: Loop by Koji Suzuki (3rd book in the Ring series) and Osamu Dazai's recently translated The Flowers of Buffoonery.

I got sucked back into One Piece, the anime I sorta dropped, put on eternal hold

So I figured I’d start the manga and give it a go, it’s much more enjoyable ^^

I read Anne of Green Gables and Anne of Avonlea by Lucy Maud Montgomery cos I liked the tv series and wanted to see where it went. By the third book I was bored af so I totally changed to The First Law by Abercrombie. So far it’s really good,

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• The Boys from Biloxi

Michael Connelly:

• The black box
• The concrete blonde
• The last Coyote

I am open for recommendations

The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch - I really enjoyed this storytelling and plot about multiple dimensions and timelines and murder. Thrilling and exciting.

Technically I finished the last few pages of this yesterday but whatever - Spell Bound by F.T. Lukens was an adorable rivals-to-lovers story with some excellent magical worldbuilding. It also has so much in common with The Owl House I refuse to believe the author isn't a fan.

I read three Claudia Gray books:

• Defy the Worlds (book 2 in her Constellation series)
• Defy the Fates (book 3 in her Constellation series)
• Star Wars: Master & Apprentice
• Also started Legendborn by Tracy Deonn and I’m loving it so far.

Tasha's cauldron of everything... DnD rulebook.

I just finished No Longer Human last night. Haven't breezed through a book like that in quite awhile!

I finally finished Anna Karenina and Flowers for Algernon in June. Sometimes I like to torture myself with these types of classics that one "should" read. Neither was a bad read, but didn't really end up being my cup of tea. Nevertheless I'm happy to have read them.

I started House of Leaves and I gotta say, it's not great. I feel like a lot of the proponents of this book really advocate for the unique narrative style over the actual substance of the book but, in my opinion, it's kind of poorly written and boring. I find myself skimming more and more as the book goes on just to try to finish it and I'm completely disengaged with all of the wacky notes and errata at this point. I could tell where the story (stories?) were headed about a third of the way through, so at this point finishing just seems like a tortuous, lengthy exercise. Maybe that's "the point" if the book though

In that case, nothing this month… sorry just trying to see if comments are working with this app for now. 😅

Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.

I'm a sucker for (post) apocalyptic survival, but overall it wasn't very good. The first third was fairly engaging, but the other two thirds were relatively predictable. By then end of the book I disliked pretty much every character.

The Royal Game or Schachnovelle by Stefan Zweig. Great book and a natural next step after his other books, especially in context

What is read?