Had a pretty busy work week, hardly got time to read anything. So still on The Sunlit Man by Brandon Sanderson.
What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening to lately?
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The LOTR series read by Andy Serkis. Beautiful Narrator. I started with the Silmarilion and am now almost finished with The Hobbit.
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
Great space fiction, if you liked the Martian you’ll dig this.
I use my commute to alternate between audiobooks and podcasts. Just finished Death of Dulgath by Michael J. Sullivan. Catching back up on podcasts and then I’ll jump into book 4 - The Disappearance of Winter’s Daughter.
Gideon The Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
Not usually my type of book but every time I try and get a few pages in, I enjoy what I read.
I really like the way she sets scenes and moves you through them. Her use of language is really fun and has top notch analogies.
About half way through Player of Games by Iain M. Banks.
Decided to re-read the entire series. Read it years ago and it’s as good the second time round.
Black AF History
Currently on book 3 of the Abhorsen saga (which actually goes by the name ‘Abhorsen’ after Sabriel (book 1) and Lirael (book 2).
Currently reading:
Richard Schwartz - No Bad Parts. It’s an introduction to Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy.
Michael Cisco - Antisocieties. A short stories collection about loneliness and isolation, definitely in the weird literature area, gives Ligotti vibes.
Picked up:
Being Human: How Our Biology Shaped World History
while traveling recently. Haven’t gotten far yet but it seems like a good, fun science based read.
I went on a reading blitz in 2023 but haven’t done much since then, which kind of sucks.
I did Jemisin’s Broken Earth trilogy, loved it. Becky Chambers? Read everything she wrote. Love.
Some other things in there that were kind of dumb but enjoyable (Rysa Aoki’s Light From Distant Stars) or just shallow (Legends & Lattes) or forgettable (Alice Oseman’s Loveless) but I have tried several others and it isn’t sticking.
Too bad; I really do enjoy reading but nothing’s really taking hold.
I really liked Broken Earth too, and I have Becky Chambers on the TBR.
You could try sci-fi magazines or short-story collections (like The New Yorker’s Century Of Fiction which is over 1000 pages!) to find new authors you like and check out their work. Or you could double-down on Jemisin’s other books.
I’m on Shakespeare for Squirrels by Christopher Moore. I recently worked through Lamb, A Dirty Job, and Secondhand Souls by him during a couple of long road trips.
I picked up reading You by Caroline Kepnes assuming I might be able to get back into print reading with material that I’m vaguely familiar with ( I watched a season of the show years ago), but I’ve stalled with it the same as I have every time when attempting reading over listening in recent years.
Why did I have to see this post now?
Three books:
Righteous Victims by Benny Morris, the detestable Zionist who laughs about starving children. It’s very weird reading about Israel’s historical atrocities throughout this book given the author’s recent behavior.
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. About a quarter of the way in, and this book is strange. It has not proven its legacy to me yet, despite the descriptive writing and impressively gritty plot.
Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein. Some of these poems make me cry. That is remarkable.
Just wrapped up Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson. The book is better than the movie, and I enjoyed the commentary.
44% through War and Peace…stuck in the wolf hunt, going very slowly…
About start Horns by Joe Hill.
Just finished Sphere by Michael Crichton this morning on my commute. And started State of Fear by Michael Crichton on my evening commute 😅. Kinda binging through his books currently and saving Jurassic park for last.
