I recently finished The Stand by King. The long, re-release. 1100+ pages.

It is an interesting post-pandemic dystopia. I got it off someone’s “best sci-fi” list. I would say it was good but not great. I would not put it in my top 10 sci-fi.

I got it from the library after being on a waiting list. I am glad I pushed myself to read it/finish it because I have not finished a book in way too long. Great mental exercise but not the best book.

Just finished reading Defiant, book 4 in The Skyward Series by Brandon Sanderson. Loved it, though I am a self-admitted Sanderson fanboy.

I finished Barrayar by Louis Mcmaster Bujold and had a really great time from start to finish. Gripping, funny, and just plain thought provoking, I can see why it won a Hugo award and Locus award.

Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student. Still reading it. Fucking love it!

Last one I finished was Look to Windward by Iain Banks.

Yes, I enjoyed it. I read it every 18 months or so. It is my favourite Banks novel.

Currently reading:

Fiction: The galaxy and the ground within by Becky Chambers.

Non Fiction: Twelve Caesars, Images of power from the ancient to the modern by Mary Beard

First read of both novel and author for both fiction and nonfiction.