Still reading Cold Days by Jim Butcher, the 14th book in Dresden Files series.
Yet another busy week but things have started to settle down, got back to reading properly yesterday and have reached the point where we get some interesting reveals. Very excited about where it goes from here.
What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening to lately?
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The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin.
For fiction I’m reading “Thud!” By Pratchett. For non-fiction I’m reading " The Traitor and the Spy"
Just started The Hallmarked Man by Robert Galbraith (JK Rowling).
Just finished the expanse. Starting isles of the emberdark.
Just finished the Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes. I was hoping for more puzzles and less teeny bopper romance, but it was still compelling. Still working on Galaxy Outlaws by J. S. Morin, and I’ll probably pick up another anthology of his on sale from Audible. Currently reading The Jolliest Bunch by Danny Pellegrino. Christmas is my favorite holiday, so I like to read something Christmasy this time of year, fiction or nonfiction.
The last week or so has been busy for me too so it’s been sporadic, but I’ve been reading through Brigands and Breadknives by Travis Baldree. It’s the first true sequel to Legends and Lattes given that the second book in the series is a prequel. It reunites a main character from Legends and Lattes with a friend from the prequel. Im enjoying it so far but not quite as much as the prior 2 yet, but I’m still only about 40% in.
Dexter in the dark. Been reading the Dexter books lately, pretty good, just about done with this one.
Warlock by Oakley Hall. A Western novel about the town of Warlock and it’s a very good example of revisionist western: where characters are shades of moral grey instead of classic old west good vs. Bad.
The writing though does a lot of effort to make dialogs appear old-timey (was written in 1958) and characters will often go around to beat some desert bush, making some conversations dreadful.
Regardless, a solid recommendation for anyone with a western itch.
- The Everlasting, by Alix Harrow
- Letters from an Imaginary Country, by Theodora Goss
- The Mathematical Structure of Syntactic Merge, by Marcolli, Berwick, and Chomsky (most likely Chomsky’s last linguistics book)
- Creating Democracy: Arendt and Bakhtin in Dialogue, by Charles Hersch
Tom’s Crossing is sitting here, taunting me. That’s probably next on the list:
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/588857/toms-crossing-by-mark-z-danielewski/
Rhythm of War by Brandon Sanderson. Just about 3/4 of the wat through.
I was supposed to buddy read three different books and all of my buddies backed out. I’m sitting here not sure what to read :( I was so ready for House of Leaves too.
Maybe it’s time to finally pick up Absolution by Jeff Vandemeer
