Still Reading The Sunlit Man by Brandon Sanderson. His fourth and final standalone Cosmere “secret project” novel.
About halfway through, not much more to add.
What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening to lately?
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I just started This Is How You Lose the Time War. It seems fun at the 4% mark.
I remember that fondly and a good read
Just started today, Player of Games by Iain M. Banks.
I’ve read the entire series, and decided to re-read. Just completed Consider Phlebus yesterday and it was as good as the first time I read it.
I’m on the last fifty pages of Ursala Le Guin’s The Dispossessed. Absolutely loving it. I’ve been on a scifi kick since reading Dune for the first time in January and this might be my favorite one yet.
I just finished Hail Mary Project which I started last week - really enjoyed it. It scratched a perfect itch for some optimistic sci-fi.
Yeah, it was a nice read. Looking forward to what he writes next.
My favorite book! I can’t wait for the movie.
Still reading If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller - still weird! 😁
I put “furiously happy” by Jenny Lawson aside for a while. It is a good book, just not for a read in one go. It’s also short stories, so I’ll get back to it later. Started “Rama 2” by Gentry Lee (it says Arthur C Clarke, but my guess is he only lended his name). About 20% through so far. It’s okay, nothing special so far. Also still listening to “the eye of the Bedlam bride”, about 2/3 through. That one is still good!
Read Dungeon Crawler Carl yesterday. It’s fun and silly. I’ll probably read more of the series.
Welcome to the Princess Posse.
Goddammit Princess…
Currently reading Keverjongen (original title: Beetle Boy) by M.G. Leonard. I find it enjoyable so far and am curious how the story’ll end so that’s a good sign.
day of the triffids, just started today so far so good.
Sounds interesting. Looking forward to your review of the full book.
Ok I finished it. 5/10 kind of boring. It was more of a story about a person dealing with the collapse of society than it was sci survival. The Triffids barely played a role I think they were mentioned only a handful of times and presented very little threat each time. The characters were smart and most of he people were reasonable. So there wasnt to much conflict. Still it was a short book and i enjoyed reading it.
Hmm… okay. Will keep in the list but at low priority.
I enjoyed Sunlit Man. It was cool how planetary dynamics played such an important role in the plot.
Last week I started The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie, but it was fucking terrible. I only made it maybe 50 or so pages in before I put it down. The writing was so bad. How many times can he write, " “Aaargh” said Logen," or " “Ooof” said Glotka?" I swear those are actual quotes from the book that are both used multiple times in a very short stretch of the book. Then I could absolutely predict exactly what would happen with the characters, which I confirmed by reading spoilers after I put the book down. The story might end up being very good, but the writing is so bad.
I then started The Farseer trilogy by Robin Hobb. It is the exact opposite of The Blade Itself, and I’m really enjoying it so far.
I just finished The Golem and the Jinni, Helene Wecker, which was such a nice and interesting book. The story was slow and well paced without feeling slow, and was clever in the use of seemingly bit characters weaving their way back into the plot. It was refreshing to have most of the conflicts and plot points be solved by expanded knowledge, rather than violence.
Next I’m going to read The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, Stephen Graham Jones, which has good reviews.
I’m reading Wool by Hugh Howey, the first of the Silo series. I’m liking this book more than the show! It’s much faster-paced and makes the show feel needlessly full of fluff. Hoping the series stays this good but have heard it goes downhill.
can confirm it goes downhill. haven’t seen the show but the first book is pretty good. the second was way less interesting to me and made me not want to bother with the third. stopped caring about what happens to the characters.
My TBR list grew 3 sizes in the last month with books that came out or were on heavy discounts by authors I adore and read all their stuff right away.
I started with John Scalzi’s When the Moon Hits Your Eye.
Heh. I am trying to buy less and read more, it’s not like I buy too much, but it’s more than what I read. I have about 100+ (not going to say how much + is that) to-read book at home at this point (collected over years). I don’t think that number will ever reach 0, but I want it to go down for a while, let’s how it goes.
Starting to read the manga series “Seraph of the end” with volume 1 and I’ve read Jujutsu kaisen volumes 0, 1 and 2 lately
I was reading Jujutsu Kaisen, but I have been told it gets weird halfway through, or in words of my friend, you need a STEM degree to process what’s happening. Apparently ending wasn’t that great either. Pretty much all them told me to not waste my time and money on it.
If you do continue, would love to hear what you think about it.
Just started Isles of the Emberdark. Just realized that outside of manga I’ve been reading nothing but Sanderson novels for a good bit
I haven’t read the short story this is based on, is it completely stand alone or based on some other novels?
It can stand alone I think, but it also is pretty deep in his expanded universe. I’ve only just gotten into act 2 and there’s stuff that ties into other stories, some of which I haven’t read, and I’m still enjoying it. Definitely no worries about missing the short story though as he sprinkles it in as flash backs in act 1 of the story.
Thanks for the info.
