I usually keep a couple books going so I can switch between them. I'm currently reading The Escape Artist by Jonathan Freedland and Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea by Rita Chang-Eppig.
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About 50% through Witch King by Martha Wells, and am so far highly enjoying whatever is going on with this worldbuilding.
i didn't realise that was out already! it's a different world to murderbot?
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Re-reading Kaiju Preservation Society because I needed something light and fun. It still delivers on that promise !
just finishing The Indifferent Stars Above about the Donner party - really great. these folks were built of different stock than we are.
I'm reading The Bible for Dummies now lol. I wasn't raised religiously, but I do find it important to have knowledge about other people's beliefs. It analyses the bible, but before that it gives you a very good idea of the origin of Christianity and how it's linked to other Abrahamistic religions. Would recommend if you're interested in learning about religion.
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Can You Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope and The Count of Monte Cristo by Alenxandre Dumas.
Reading through Attached by Amir Levine, recommended to me by my therapist. It talks about different types of people's ability to form attachments and relationships with others. I've definitely learned a lot about myself so far and I'm only halfway through.
History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell. Going for a cursory overview because of Philosophy club at my uni that has pretty cool people.
Currently Reading The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie. Also trying to get a Lovecraft book club off the ground over at !lovecraft@ka.tet42.org
Currently listening to Dust by Hugh Howey (book 3 of the Wool/Silo books)
Ive also been slowly reading MaddAddam by Margeret Atwood (book 3 of the MaddAddam series)
How is the narration? I've noticed that even my favorite books are so boring if the narrator is bad.
Personally ive been enjoying it a lot. But i also listen to a lot of audio books. There arent a lot of times ive had to stop listening to books. I think a lot of modern audio narration has gotten really good
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H.P. Lovecraft - Tales of Horror
I've been blown away by all of this, up until the one I'm currently powering my way through (Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath). It isn't terrible, though. Just feels very out of place after the overall tone and flow of his other work within the volume.
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I just finished I, Robot. I actually didn't expect to find Asimov so compelling. In general, I've never been too into the classic sci-fi authors, instead preferring more modern lighter sci-fi. I'm now reading River of Gods by Candace Millard.
Children of Memory by Adrian Tchaikovsky. It’s the third in a really awesome, incredibly well thought-out sci-fi series.
I read the Elder Race by him a few weeks back and it was great. Perhaps I need to look into his other works.
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nobody reads this junk here so i'll just shout at a cloud
a deadly education, naomi novik - this should finally unjam the block i've had on fiction; i don't do well with fiction when the world is burning. i've picked this up and set it down many times, but the novelty is that normally, a fiction book that stops after the halfway point to do world-building is one that will end up propping open a door. but in this one the late add increased my interest.
keep my heart in san francisco, amelia diane coombs - an adorable fluffy book set nearby that ended up on the to-be-finished pile during some political firestorm or other.
guide du routard, catalogne - americans don't want to see what i want to see and american guidebooks know it. i often drag in other people's guidebooks when i think about going other people's places.
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Just started a series called Slip Runner. Two guys and a ship pickup scrap from alien ships after the war ends.
I like going on Amazon and searching "scifi boxset". You find some interesting stuff.
Currently trying to finish a book called Les protégés de Sainte Kinga (only available in French I'm afraid, it's recent and really obscure), the story mixes historical fiction with current-day crime fiction. The settings and scenario are interesting, but I'm not too fond of the writing style and the storytelling.
Finished up my reread of Dune and onto Dune Messiah. I also have House of Leaves and Beckett Molloy trilogy in the wings to start at some point.
I’m reading through Le Guin’s Earthsea cycle for the first time, and I’m currently on Tales from Earthsea. Fantastic, unique books.
I'm currently reading Oblomov by Goncharov, after it I might jump to "Ears of corn under your sickle" by Karatkievič
Essex Dogs. It's a historical fiction novel about a band of mercenaries aiding England's invasion of France in the 1300s. It's my palate cleanser after finished the third Stormlight Archives novel.
No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai. Great read so far.