Reading When Moon Hits the Eye by John Scalzi.

What about all of you, what have you been reading or listening to lately?

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About halfway through Dungeon Crawler Carl book #5, it’s been hot out, so only working for a little bit and reading a bunch more. Kids are in and out of camps all week anyways, so not much time for anything else.

After this, it’s book one of The Black Fleet Crises, which is a Star Wars legends series. Looking forward to this one after a stint of stand alone stories.

I’ve enjoyed the John Scalzi short stories that I’ve read, he’s on my list of authors to check out at the book fair next year.

I just finished When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead. It’s a wonderful little scifi mystery that just draws you right in.

"Introduction to Mathematical Thinking" by Keith Devlin. Just an interesting (and short) book about the concepts around math.

And I'm slowly getting through a book about the history of Ottawa.

I'm close to finishing The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien. This month has been a bit rough in my personal life and I haven't, perhaps, been quite feeling it. Luckily, there's always next year.

I don't know what I'll read next.

The Anthropocene Reviewed, by John Green

finished it yesterday actually. The Book is a compilation of stories, memories and thoughts of John Green in the form of short reviews.
Quick read, some stories had me laughing others are very touching, revolving around the loss of a dear friend or concerning his mental problems, but it's mostly about how John Green views Humans and Humanity, he appears to be a big fan which is a suprisingly refreshing take.

very recently got an e-reader so that i can get back into reading, i am excited to be able to post something! hopefully i will find some contemporary fiction to read soonish, it's a bit overwhelming right now so i am just reading stuff that has been sitting in my Calibre library. frankly it has been so long that i am not even sure what i like to read anymore.

anyway, last week i read Concrete Island by J.G. Ballard and now i am chewing through the Standard Ebooks collection of Clark Ashton Smith short fiction. i haven't particularly loved either but that's okay!

Welcome back to reading!

If you want any suggestions you can ask here, or just make a separate post.

I just started Groundskeeping by Lee Cole. A small town love story about a couple of writers. Really good writing so far (~20%)

Last week I finished King Sorrow by Joe Hill. I think the bones were great, but the author struggled to make the final conflict interesting. Too many threads, not woven together nicely. Still a good read, just didn’t quite land the plane.

I also read We the People by Jill Lepore… a history of the US constitution. Great stuff, fascinating to see the back and forth of parties (and sides of the political spectrum) changing their opinions on amendments. Basically, the party who doesn’t control the supreme court demands amendment and the other party fights it tooth and nail. There were some very sad parts looking at the arguments for (and against) women’s suffrage, emancipation and equal rights. Really gross to look back at the 1850s through 1960s opinion on anyone who wasn’t a white man

thankyou! i ought make a dent on my backlog, but once i figure out more about what i might be looking for i will certainly do just that!

Couriers Outbound, Book 19 of "The Wandering Inn" by Pirateaba

There There by Tommy Orange
On The Calculation of Volume by Solvej Balle
The Ontogeny of Information by Susan Oyama

I just started The Muderbot Diaries by Martha Wells.

East of Eden by John Steinbeck.

It is a bit lengthy, but it seems like each interaction is written around pithy wisdoms interwoven into the lives of interactions of the characters.

Each time it happens, it's like stumbling upon on a gemstone by a river, and keeps me anticipating the next unfolding of the plot.

Reading 1984 rn.

Been reading through the Shadowdark RPG rulebook by Kelsey Dionne, as well as the solo rules supplement and some third party materials. I highly recommend it if you like TTRPGs and want something more streamlined than 5e. I played it for the first time at a convention last month, and it really clicked for me.

Oh, that's a great book! A heavy read for sure. A friend aptly called it 'nourishing', which is true of most Steinbeck. Just one of his books sates you for quite a while. I'm glad to hear you like it!

Started "The Faith of Beasts" by James S.A. Corey, book 2 of The Captives War. It's okay. Kind of dark though. Less fun than the Expanse.

Last week read "Darksight Dare", book 16 of the Penric & Desdemona series, as well as "Out Law", by Jim Butcher, book, uh, 18.5 of the Dresden Files. The former was fluffy and cozy but also somewhat simple; the latter wasn't bad at all, and I'm curious to see where the setup goes.

Gonna stop at the store on the way home today and pick up Event Horizon - Dark Descent

It's a graphic novel prequel to the film. It goes over what happened to the original crew. There's also a sequel to the film coming out this year also in graphic novel format that I am excited for.

I am also still working through Echopraxia by Peter Watts, love it so far.

Update: got the last copy!!

I'm only on book 8 does the addiction become more managable?

The same book as last week. I don't read that fast!

I'm halfway through "Cibola Burn" (The Expanse #4), it's a real page turner! So far my second favorite book of the series.

I enjoyed the book and series so far, it’s definitely tackling different topics though. Less politics, more bureaucracy, and it’s about space (the universe), not about being in space, so no epic space battles or anything.

I like it for what it is, but people should not be going in expecting The Expanse 2.0

I finished that last, god what a beating my mood took seeing it literally happening around me as I read it.

It's great! I had a blast playing it at ComiCon.

Halfway through Dracula. It's strange reading the origin of so much media and tropes, but sometimes the language and hesitation in plot development really slows down the suspense.

Nice! I started running some adventures for my regular group, and everyone seems to like it so far. It helps that 2 of the people played at the convention with me.

You know what I'm saying?

It's the reason I started reading it in the first place. It feels highly relevant now in our western parts of the world, based on what I'd read about it.

A German "Küsten Krimi" (thrillers set on German islands in the north sea typically read by women in their fifties) which I picked up because the cover was nice, the book was heavily discounted due to defects on the back of the cover, and because I thought it was interesting that it was written by a husband and wife duo. It's not good. I feel like it is to normal books what an Instagram reel is to a movie. The vocab is straight forward, the prose is clear, and things are repeated way too often.
The name is Wattenmeerfeuer for the German speakers on here.

I think Sly Flourish (of lazy DM fame) ran a full fledged campaign with Shadowdark.

I feel like Küstenkrimis are the localised book version of Tatort. Short and kinda entertaining, sometimes you get an interesting twist but most of the "thrill" comes from Hey-I-Know-This-Place moments.

Finally got around to start The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin. Started and continuing as audiobook, but additionally I got the digital at about 10% in, to reread some passages.

Also, just yesterday, I picked up This is how you lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone. Tried to go in as blind as possible and I'm so glad I did. Really enjoying myself here.

I'm in the final stretch - reading The Gathering Storm, book 12 in the Wheel of Time series.

This is the first of the three final installments co-authored by Brandon Sanderson.

I've read everything in the captive's war series so far. It's good, but not great overall. The novella Livesuit was something else though.

Human knowledge by Bertrand Russell. Probably going to keep reading it for a month or two hahahah.

Agreed, Livesuit was very memorable, and as I'm on the opening third of Book 2, I'm waiting for that plot thread to start showing up

I have just been listening to He Who Fights with Monsters this week. I finished the first book today and went straight into the second.

To begin with I thought it was just a weaker Dungeon Crawler Carl or Sold Levelling and it does have a very familiar feel to those for sure but as the story has progressed I have found myself more and more interested in the story and characters that I want to keep listening.

I went ahead and got the first 6 books of it, I'll see if it keeps my attention as much as the others.

Less than Nothing, by Zizek. Very Hegel.

I've been re-listening to the Cradle series by Will Wight. It makes me wish the series had gotten even a tenth the attention DCC did.

Hey I'm also reading LeGuin right now! The Left Hand of Darkness for me. I'll admit to not being entirely absorbed by it for a bit but I'm in the climax right now and the writing is stellar.

The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo. It's an interesting look into Manchurian folklore, with Snow's explanations about how fox-girls like her see the human world, navigating potentially dangerous interactions with superstitious humans. The lady who sold it to me said it was excellent, but I'll have to see how it ends before saying if I agree.

It's a match for the 'Supplementary' bingo square, even though the author's note unfortunately includes "However, I realized readers might not be fond of footnotes so I cut back on them." There's plenty of room left in the margins, and she'd have heard no complaints from me if she'd done as she originally proposed. I like marginalia.

The Jellyfish Problem by Tessa Yang. A jellyfish specialist travels to a remote island to investigate reports of a massive jellyfish sighting. I'm 1/3 of the way through and it's certainly getting interesting.

I finished the first 3 Red Rising books and have moved on to T Kingfisher’s Hemlock & Silver.

Dungeon Crawler Carl: The Gate of the Feral Gods

The whole series is excellent thus far. Definitely recommend it

For others wondering this looks to be scifi.

I didn't think much of Dracula, took me forever to get through it. And yet I liked the 90s movie (maybe cause I'm a sucker for oldman )

Just finished this yesterday, what a fun series so far! it's popcorn, but it's very good popcorn lol

reading The Freeze Frame Revolution, it's fun so far.

first of the three final installments

stopped at book 6 or 7 when Jordan died. I enjoy Sanderson's other stuff... but wary of venturing back towards Jordan's opus lol

It's tagged as fantasy in Libby. It's definitely got some horror vibes as well.

I just read the first book yesterday and am hooked!