Still Reading The Sunlit Man by Brandon Sanderson. His fourth and final standalone Cosmere “secret project” novel.
About halfway through, not much more to add.
What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening to lately?
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I just started This Is How You Lose the Time War. It seems fun at the 4% mark.
I remember that fondly and a good read
I’m on the last fifty pages of Ursala Le Guin’s The Dispossessed. Absolutely loving it. I’ve been on a scifi kick since reading Dune for the first time in January and this might be my favorite one yet.
I just finished Hail Mary Project which I started last week - really enjoyed it. It scratched a perfect itch for some optimistic sci-fi.
My favorite book! I can’t wait for the movie.
Yeah, it was a nice read. Looking forward to what he writes next.
Just started today, Player of Games by Iain M. Banks.
I’ve read the entire series, and decided to re-read. Just completed Consider Phlebus yesterday and it was as good as the first time I read it.
Still reading If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller - still weird! 😁
I enjoyed Sunlit Man. It was cool how planetary dynamics played such an important role in the plot.
Last week I started The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie, but it was fucking terrible. I only made it maybe 50 or so pages in before I put it down. The writing was so bad. How many times can he write, " “Aaargh” said Logen," or " “Ooof” said Glotka?" I swear those are actual quotes from the book that are both used multiple times in a very short stretch of the book. Then I could absolutely predict exactly what would happen with the characters, which I confirmed by reading spoilers after I put the book down. The story might end up being very good, but the writing is so bad.
I then started The Farseer trilogy by Robin Hobb. It is the exact opposite of The Blade Itself, and I’m really enjoying it so far.
Currently reading Keverjongen (original title: Beetle Boy) by M.G. Leonard. I find it enjoyable so far and am curious how the story’ll end so that’s a good sign.
Read Dungeon Crawler Carl yesterday. It’s fun and silly. I’ll probably read more of the series.
Welcome to the Princess Posse.
Goddammit Princess…
day of the triffids, just started today so far so good.
Sounds interesting. Looking forward to your review of the full book.
Ok I finished it. 5/10 kind of boring. It was more of a story about a person dealing with the collapse of society than it was sci survival. The Triffids barely played a role I think they were mentioned only a handful of times and presented very little threat each time. The characters were smart and most of he people were reasonable. So there wasnt to much conflict. Still it was a short book and i enjoyed reading it.
Recently finished Saving Fish from Drowning by Amy Tan.
It starts off by confusingly introducing a large number of characters at the narrator’s funeral, but gets good once 12 of them arrive in China for the Burma Road trip she organized for them. She joins them in spirit, but can only observe cultural misunderstandings she would have saved them from had she been alive, culminating in 11 of them going missing without explanation when their lake excursion never returned.
It’s surprisingly funny given the subject matter involving oppressive regimes and human rights abuses. It’s also entertaining and informative and gets a positive recommendation.
I scored it under Minority Author for bingo as she is Chinese-American. However, I think Amy Tan’s more interesting affiliation is as vocalist with the Rock Bottom Remainders, who I learned about after reading a good book by their guitarist.
Heh, that sounds like an interesting book. Going to check it out.
I’m reading Wool by Hugh Howey, the first of the Silo series. I’m liking this book more than the show! It’s much faster-paced and makes the show feel needlessly full of fluff. Hoping the series stays this good but have heard it goes downhill.
can confirm it goes downhill. haven’t seen the show but the first book is pretty good. the second was way less interesting to me and made me not want to bother with the third. stopped caring about what happens to the characters.
Starting to read the manga series “Seraph of the end” with volume 1 and I’ve read Jujutsu kaisen volumes 0, 1 and 2 lately
I was reading Jujutsu Kaisen, but I have been told it gets weird halfway through, or in words of my friend, you need a STEM degree to process what’s happening. Apparently ending wasn’t that great either. Pretty much all them told me to not waste my time and money on it.
If you do continue, would love to hear what you think about it.
My TBR list grew 3 sizes in the last month with books that came out or were on heavy discounts by authors I adore and read all their stuff right away.
I started with John Scalzi’s When the Moon Hits Your Eye.
Heh. I am trying to buy less and read more, it’s not like I buy too much, but it’s more than what I read. I have about 100+ (not going to say how much + is that) to-read book at home at this point (collected over years). I don’t think that number will ever reach 0, but I want it to go down for a while, let’s how it goes.
Just started Isles of the Emberdark. Just realized that outside of manga I’ve been reading nothing but Sanderson novels for a good bit
I haven’t read the short story this is based on, is it completely stand alone or based on some other novels?
It can stand alone I think, but it also is pretty deep in his expanded universe. I’ve only just gotten into act 2 and there’s stuff that ties into other stories, some of which I haven’t read, and I’m still enjoying it. Definitely no worries about missing the short story though as he sprinkles it in as flash backs in act 1 of the story.
Thanks for the info.
I have hit a mile stone, I’m just coming to the end of book 100 of Deathlands. A character that left around 50 books ago has returned in this one and I have been waiting for his return!
I’ve been thinking about it and that is about 650 hours or so of Deathlands in the last year and a half and I’m still enjoying it a lot! I think after this one however I may slip a couple of other books in.
The Sunlit Man is the last book I need to read out if his 4 “secret” books, still on the to do list :D
Congratulations on the century!
That’s a lots of hours. To 650 more hours!
Haha thanks although I’m kind of pissed off having finished that hundredth book after posting this.
The character I wanted to return ended up not doing so at the end of the book but not only that they killed off another person who could have possibly joined up with their band of people. It has happened quite a few times now and after so many books it would be nice if they added in another companion but instead the authors seem to be too scared to add any additional characters to to regular roster which is quite frankly frustrating as fuck.
They always kill off potential additions in the most pathetic manner and after so many hours it would be a nice addition to just change things up slightly, I don’t want a constant rotation of characters but a breath of fresh air would be nice!
So I have started “The Eyre Affair” which is the first book in a series I think is called Thursday after Next. A few hours in and it is interesting so far!
Heh, hope things improve in next books.
