Finally got some reading time and finished Rosemary and Rue by Seanan McGuire (first book in her October Daye urban fantasy series)!
It’s a very quick book, which is kind of ironic for me to say, since I took months to finish it, but finished the last third or so of the book in a single sitting.
There were certain things in the start that I didn’t like, but was enjoying the book by the time I finished it. Would love to read more in the series.
What about all of you, what have you been reading or listening to lately?
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The Scar by China Mieville
This is my first China Mieville book and holy fuck is it something else. The world building is phenomenal. It’s exhilarating. I haven’t been this excited about a book I’m reading in years.
Rereading The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin definitely recommend it for its depiction and criticism of a potential utopian anarchist society.
Just the other day I found a copy of this at a yard sale. A vintage, cheap feeling paperback, which (materially) feels so classy now by way of contrast with most of my other books.
Glad to see the high praise of it! Grabbed it on a whim. When I get to it, will be the first of Le Guin’s that I’ve read.
I was about to grab that from the library the other day, but then I saw it was the listed as being in the middle of a series. Does it fare well on its own or should I start with something else?
Yes it fares well on its own none of the books in the “Hainish Cycle” are really in the same story they just share a vague universe with intersecting technology and multi-planet organzations but barely intersect so all can read on their own very easily.
Listening to The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch. About halfway through and enjoying it a lot. Great performance by the narrator Michael Page!
Might be my favourite book of all time.
I finally got “This is how you lose the time war” out from the library. I dont think ive been this excited for a book in ages. Im 50 pages in and enjoying it so far,
spoiler
even if red’s letters are a bit cheesy.
The book is very well written I really appreciate that the author can paint a good picture of the scene without droning on(I hate tolkien for this)
Hey reading buddy! I just started reading this last night, unexpectedly devoured the first 25 pages, didn’t know what to expect but have been pleasantly delighted and excited to know where it’s going. I think this might be my first epistolary novel.
I just finished it, I was about 50 pages in reading before bed and I couldn’t put it down. My reading light ran out and I read the last half by uncomfortably resting on my arm while holding my phone. Without spoiling anything all I can say is that was a beautifully written book.
Just finished reading Bloom by Delilah S Dawson for the podcast which is a sapphic horror. My teen offspring tells me its called ‘cottagecore’ whatever the fuck that means. I’ll reserve verdict until we record the episode!
Currently dipping in and out of The Real and the Unreal , which is Ursula K LeGuin’s short story collection. Brilliant as you would expect. Just about to start King Sorrow by Joe Hill. Got mixed opinions on his previous stuff so we’ll see how this one pans out.
The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien and Christopher Tolkien, for the first time in like twenty or so years.
I wish you a happy reread!
Eva zu Beck’s memoir The Wilder Way. As someone who has occasionally dreamed of leaving my life behind and becoming a nomad, it’s interesting to read the story of someone who did just that.
I’m continuing through the Miss Peregrine’s School for Peculiar Children series and about to start Red Rising.
I just finished the final book in the Throne of Glass series. I didn’t dislike the series overall but it was fairly basic and I was a bit disappointed by how the characters “developed” over the course of the series.
I think the ending of the final book in particular was just not very interesting. There were no twists or hurdles really in the final battle… random factions appear out of thin air to help in the battle but as a reader you have no idea why you’d care.
I am going to find a one off book to read next as I like to do after a long series. After that, maybe I’ll start Dungeons Crawler Carl.
Still reading “the regicide report” by Charles Stross. Almost through, and a great book. Still mot a lot of time to read due to other fun things.
I finished Spook Street (Slough House book 4) by Mick Herron. This is the first book where I found myself wishing I hadn’t watched the show yet. The author wrote some beautiful foreshadowing. I wonder how I would have reacted to it if I hadn’t already known what would happen.
Started ‘Till we have Faces’, a novel by C.S. Lewis. I quite like this author and reading the first chapter of the book make me think I won’t be disappointed this time either.
Lewis is the author of ‘Narnia’, but he is also (and, imho, foremost) a christian author that has written really deep essays well worth reading even if you’re not the religious kind of person (I’m not). A book like ‘The Abolition of Man’ should be considered a must read to anyone worrying about the type of society we’re building today.
It’s a (short) collection of 3 (or is it 4?) lectures he did back in 1942 aimed at… British bomber pilots (young people expected to erase entire cities) in which he discusses what it means to educate children and why it should matter how we decide to do it. He also points out how easily education can be used to create… a lesser, smaller, or heartless, kind of humanity, or no humanity. Hence the title of the book. A great book.
I’m reading Er mor død by Vigdis Hjorth. I picked it up at the library from a table set aside for staff favorites. It’s about a a woman estranged from her parents who returns to her home town at sixty and wrestles with trying to understand her mother and herself. The main character is, however, somewhat hard to like as she starts stalking her mother and sister and quite obsessed. So far the book has been pretty good. I am myself estranged from a parent, and I think I’ve been processing that on some level lately. No regrets, but these things are always complicated. I find it kind of funny, I find it kind of sad, my parent was also estranged from their parent. I guess it runs in the family.
I’m about 1/4 into The Aeronaut’s Windlass. Might be my first non-Dresden Butcher book. I’ve had the paperback on my shelf for some years but I picked up an invisible copy from the library to read on my commute. I like it so far. It’s an interesting steampunk setting, action forward, likable main cast.
And my beloved and I are reading the Hobbit to each other. Just got to the spiders
I started reading Witch Beast by Bernard King, it’s a fairly okay supernatural horror, I’m not entirely certain what to make of it yet, I’m in the mystery building section so far. But, folks, I really wanna highlight that a vast amount of this books fiction is dedicated to minutiae of urban development in England in the late 80s, to an absurd degree for a supernatural fantasy horror, it comes out of nowhere and just as suddenly disappears into the background
