I was supposed to post this last week, but got delayed because of Thanksgiving. Hope you all had a fun time.
I finished The House at Sea’s End by Elly Griffiths. It was an okay read, not bad, but thinking about getting into another crime series with more action / mystery and less relationship stuff. But I have got the next 5-6 books so will read them.
Read the next Dresden Files novel, Blood Rites by Jim Butcher. I feel the quality of writing has improved a lot since the first couple of novels. This one felt a bit less intense than the last one, but liked the character developments.
Read Jujitsu Kaisen, Vol 4, not much to say about it. More action, more silliness.
Currently reading The Black Company by Glen Cook. I have the omnibus (Chronicles of the Black Company) which has first three books, so may end up reading all three as one book. The writing style is a bit weird, but I think I have gotten used to it.
What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening? Or have read and listened in last 2-3 weeks?
I’ve been reading through a short story collection of Edgar Allan Poe and really liking it. The variety of genres he wrote in is really impressive and I can definitely see how a lot of later novels were inspired by his works! I also never knew just how old they were (1800s!).
I read Poe when I was pretty young, and didn’t really get most of his work. I think I need to revisit it now.
Oh I highly recommend it. As a kid I read a lot of his work and my favorites were the Cask of Amontillado and The Tell-tale Heart. I still love those ones but I feel like I can appreciate the poetry and other stories now.
Another series I’ve gotten a lot of mileage out of revisiting was Calvin and Hobbes funny enough.
I just finished reading “The Fall of the House of Usher” after watching the Netflix show. It’s a great read, and the atmosphere is really eerie, just like I was hoping for.
I’m reading “The Time Machine” by H.G. Wells and I must say, I love his writing style! This is my second book by him. If anyone has any recommendations for something similar, I’m all ears!
Give Olaf Stapledon a try. Another English SF writer who wrote a few decades after Wells.
Some of his work:
Last and First Men.
Sirius
Starmaker.
The last couple of month I listened to the Stormlight Archive series but recently took a break.
I started Reamde from Neal Stephenson again. Funny thing is that its normally not my genre. Computer yes but I am more into hard sci-fi (Hamilton or Tchaikovsky i.e.) or epic fantasy like Sanderson.
But this book totally took me away out of my comfort zone. Thats why I started it a second time. Last was 2 years ago. I am desperate looking for another out of the loop for me but couldn’t find any, yet.
Where are you in Stormlight Archive? I have read the first three, thinking about going to re-read the whole series before the fifth book releases next year, instead of just going ahead and reading four. Will probably start a re-read sometimes next year.
I have been looking at interesting sci-fi to read. While I consider myself a fantasy and sci-fi fan, most of my reading have leaned towards fantasy than sci-fi. Would like to hear your favourites.
I am at book 2 second half . Its in german and they split 1 english book in two german audiobooks. So it is book 4 in germany.
My favourites
Peter F. Hamilton
- The dreaming void trilogy
- Without telling to much it is two sections of a story part fantasy part sci-fi basically.
And if you like his style
- The Night’s Dawn Trilogy
- A massive trilogy that if you stick to it has so many ideas, side stories and places in it you could make several spin off`s out of the lore. It has nothing to do with the void universe.
Adrian Tchaikovski
- Children of Time
- Also sci-fi about humankind coming to a new “eden” 😉
The Book of Dave by Will Self - I’ve enjoyed everything I’ve read by him, most recently, prior to this, was Umbrella.
Land of the Lustrous by Haruko Ichikawa for something light. First manga I’ve read, and very glad I picked it up, though gets expensive as the volumes add up.
Next up I have a couple things by Graham Greene.
Been listening to Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky and so far it’s fantastic. I’ve been asking my GPT4 for recommendations that might match a certain set of criteria. It recommended this one as something vaguely similar to the Bobiverse series be Dennis E Taylor, which I really like.
I’m reading Children of Time now. It is very good. And today I was reading some news about how scientists are trying to translate spider language. Check this out: https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-translated-spiderwebs-into-music-and-its-absoutely-stunning
