Had a busy week, so couldn’t get much reading done. So still at pretty much the same place in Rosemary and Rue by Seanan McGuire (first book in her October Daye urban fantasy series).
What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening to lately?
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I just finished the third book. I think it is very well written. It ties the different storylines together in a way that I did not see coming. 4,5 stars
Oryx and Crake, entertaining so far.
Just read this for the first time a couple months ago, immediately followed by the sequel Year of the Flood. Haven’t gotten round to finishing the trilogy yet. I’m interested in your thoughts once you finish!
I just finished the third book. I think it is very well written. It ties the different storylines together in a way that I did not see coming. 4,5 stars
Good to know, I was a bit disappointed by the second though I did like a lot about it. I’ll have to pick up the third and finish it once I’m past the current round of books!
The Deluge by Stephen Markley. Didn’t know what I was getting into. Would not have listened to it if I knew. Now can’t stop listening.
I just started reading The Gathering Storm by Brandon Sanderson, book twelve of Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time series. I’ve never read any Sanderson before, so it’ll be interesting to see the tonal differences in writing.
I’m currently reading The Genesis of Misery by Neon Yang. It’s Joan of Arc meets Pacific Rim but done really well. I have about 130 pages left before I finish.
I’m reading Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe.
I’m not sure how much I like it. It does a very good job of giving a look into African society around the time of slavery and missionaries, so I can see why it is touted as such an important novel. That said, I don’t love the writing style or the characters.
Fluent Forever (Rivised edition). I heard good things about the book and wanted to pick up some strategies in my own endeavours.
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I should be finishing up both The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebeca Skloot, and Small Gods by Terry Pratchett this week. Not sure what’s next yet.
My brother has been encouraging me to read The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie for a long time, and I’ve started it a few times and always got distracted.
Something clicked this time though, and I’m totally absorbed.
It’s also the first fiction I’ve read in a while, and I forgot what an escape it can be. What a weird thing to forget.
Free ride, what an adventure. She is incredible.
(Itchyboots / Noraly Schoenmaker)
Finished reading Dennis E Taylor’s Bobiverse series for the second time, waiting on the new book to be published. For now it’s audiobook only, and I like reading it myself. Just started reading Martha Wells’ “Platform Decay”, Murderbot being one of the other series I found last year that I really liked.
The spear cuts through water. I’ve never seen an author break so many literary conventions so masterfully before.
Almost 1/2 way through project Hail Mary. I liked the Martian so I expected to like PHM, but I didn’t realize to what degree I would like. As a Molecular Biologist myself, I feel quite connected to Ryland.
I also loved project hail mary. Just saw the film adaption recently, and while it is certainly impressive in some sense and has some strengths of its own, it generally skips most of what i enjoyed about the book which was a shame and i honestly think it must be superconfusing to watch if you have never read the book. The way it is is written it was always going to be tricky to turn into a movie but i was still disappointed
