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’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.
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.
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.
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’ll let you know. I have the trilogy and plan to read it whole.
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!
This entire trilogy is such a mind fuck, but entirely worth reading, imo
I’m looking forward to it!
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.
I’m also reading Murder Bot, on book 3, and Audible recommended We Are Bob. I suppose you’re enjoying it?
Both are great series. We are Bob is less action packed though.
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.
It’s better to do a thing than live with the fear if it.
Enjoy this journey, Joe Abercrombie is so good, I loved every book in this series.
I’ve been slowly getting into this series amongst other books, up to the third in the series now.
I love how dark and mature it is, some excellent characters in it.
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.
Free ride, what an adventure. She is incredible.
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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
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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.
The most major change will be how quickly everything moves when Sanderson writes, he has a tempo well suited for the general audience while Jordon can meander - poorly at times.
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
I am interested in the movie, but I have to finish the book (audible) so my wife can read it, and then we will go see the movie. One of my coworker’s who has read the book and seen the movie said there were instances where an entire chapter was summarized in a sentence. This just reaffirms my long held belief that books should not be movies. Limited Series are a much better platform for screen adaptations of books. you have 6-10 hours to tell the story. With streaming services you are not constrained to a 44-minute episode so you can make each episode the right length to capture the rising and falling action and end on the right beat. You can set the release schedule to generate more hype and it’ll sit in the public conscious for longer. And yes I realize that it costs more to make 10 hours of video than 2 hours of video, but I kinda don’t care because Hollywood already has such absurd margins.
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I tried The Martian a few years ago and it didn’t click and Project Hail Mary is never available at my library in English, but I’m thinking maybe one of these needs to be my next read.
There’s a lot of stream of consciousness in both books, and within that, a lot math, which definitely does not click with everyone. If you can get PHM as an audiobook, it is way worth it!
I know this thread odd a bit old, but I just finished this book and it was fantastic!
The spear cuts through water. I’ve never seen an author break so many literary conventions so masterfully before.
Re-reading The Wasp Factory for the first time in a long time for the next podcast episode. After that, it’ll be The Red Winter by Cameron Sullivan.
