- What book is currently on your nightstand?
- Who is the author?
- What genre?
- How do you like it?
- Would you recommend it to others?
Probably lots of bleed-over from the last week since it was posted so late, but…
Currently reading “The Kaiju Preservation Society” by John Scalzi. Lightweight, humorous sci-fi. Just recently finished “The Gentleman of Moscow” by Amor Towles, which is lovely storytelling if you enjoy character building. KPS is definitely a much different feel.
Depending on what you like to read, I would recommend both - but for different reasons.
I really enjoyed Scalzi’s Interdependency series. Definitely light compared to some (and there were arcs/characters I would have liked to see develop a bit more), but it’s a decent enough ride.
Currently reading “The Kaiju Preservation Society” by John Scalzi.
This was a fun read. I enjoyed it enough to put Red Shirts on my reading list, just have not gotten around to it yet. If you want to stick with the Kaiju genre, Project Nemesis by Jeremy Robinson had a similar vibe.
I just finished KPS and loved it! It was fun in a “this entire thing is fucking ridiculous” sort of way that Scalzi (and the book itself) fully acknowledges.
“I lift things” started infiltrating my spoken phrases without me realizing it and I was like “wtf‽” when I realized.
Have you checked out “Fuzzy Nation”, “Red Shirts”, or the “Lock In” series? All fun stories by Scalzi in similar veins (Lock In is a bit more serious, but not like The Interdependency).
American Prometheus, the Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin.
I wanted to check it out before the movie comes out, and I highly recommend it for a very in depth view of his life.
I also recently finished On the Origin of Time, by Thomas Hertog, which I also recommend. It’s about Stephen Hawking’s final ideas and theories, told by one of his closest proteges. There are some incredible ideas in this book that I had never heard of before, and I’m a cosmology nerd.
Halfway through book 2 of The Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons
My friend described it as a “scifi version of the Canterbury Tales” and I am loving it so far!
Hyperion is my next in line to read. I caught a thread on reddit before leaving about best scifi books to read aside from the classics and Hyperion was way up there in recommendations. I’m pretty excited for it.
About to finish The word for world is forest, by Ursula K. LeGuin
It’s sci-fi, about the clash between Earth colonizers on a world covered by a forest and the people already living there.
Beautifully written and super short. She’s able to show a lot in basically 100 pages
So I cannot recommend it enough! She’s just so good at depicting other societies and putting and anthropological point of view
Check The left hand of darkness too if this caught your interest
About to finish The word for world is forest, by Ursula K. LeGuin.
Sounds interesting. Is this a standalone or the first in a series? Or, should I read any of her other books before this one?
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. I’m maybe a quarter or a third of the way through it and I quite like it! It’s been a slow-go mostly just because I’m not good at dedicating time to read. I recently got the audio book to make more progress while driving.
Patrick did a short cameo on the twitch show “Critical Role” which is a D&D campaign that is led and played by voice actors. It’s incredible if you’ve never watched it. Patrick’s role was a paladin and he was a little awkward with the format, but his character was very good and some of the notes left behind by him were incredible for building the story up even more even after he left.