Where did the Tuesday go? Well, as the power vested in me as a mod of this community, I am declaring today a Tuesday! So, without further ado:
Finished The Crystal Shard by R. A. Salvatore. First book of The Icewind Dale Trilogy, and The Legend of Drizzt / Forgotten Realms series (publication order).
Loved the book. A quick and very enjoyable read. If rest of the trilogy is similar, going to get the whole series.
Read Small Favor by Jim Butcher, 10th book in the Dresden Files series. Liked in much better than the previous book White Night. Full of action, without much dull moments. Stakes keep getting higher and higher, but we are starting to see some bigger picture.
Currently reading Side Jobs by Jim Butcher. It’s short stories in Dresden Files universe. I started it after White Night, but only reading stories that are before the book I have read, so this will not be completed for quite a while.
These don’t cover any Bingo squares, except maybe Eazy, Breazy, Read-zie
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Capital by Karl Marx + Friedrich Engels
I’m not far into it yet, but it’s pretty fucking brilliant so far.
Creatures of Passage by Morowa Yejide and I am loving it.
Nephthys Kinwell is a taxi driver of sorts in Washington, DC, ferrying ill-fated passengers in a haunted car: a 1967 Plymouth Belvedere with a ghost in the trunk. Endless rides and alcohol help her manage her grief over the death of her twin brother, Osiris, who was murdered and dumped in the Anacostia River.
Unknown to Nephthys when the novel opens in 1977, her estranged great-nephew, ten-year-old Dash, is finding himself drawn to the banks of that very same river. It is there that Dash–reeling from having witnessed an act of molestation at his school, but still questioning what and who he saw–has charmed conversations with a mysterious figure he calls the “River Man,” who somehow appears each time he goes there.
When Dash arrives unexpectedly at Nephthys’s door one day bearing a cryptic note about his unusual conversations with the River Man, Nephthys must face both the family she abandoned and what frightens her most when she looks in the mirror.
Creatures of Passage beautifully threads together the stories of Nephthys, Dash, and others both living and dead. Morowa Yejidé’s deeply captivating novel shows us an unseen Washington filled with otherworldly landscapes, flawed super-humans, and reluctant ghosts, and brings together a community intent on saving one young boy in order to reclaim themselves.
Picked up Red Rising that was sat in my backlog for months. Blitzed right through it and now I’m on book 2, Golden Son. Despite the first book getting mixed reviews, I loved it and I heard that book 2/3 are even better so I’m super excited to keep going!
The Mary Sue is a bit overdone though. I thought book 2 was taking it a step back but then it comes back out of literally nowhere with forshadowing that was just, “meh”.
I just finished Raising Steam, and thus have completed the Discworld novels, bar the Science of thr Discworld books. What an adventure. I wasn’t much of a reader going into it and it took me years to finish them all, but I am so glad I did it and proud I stuck with it all this time.
Pretty far into death’s end - the third part in the three body problem series by Cixin Liu. One of the few series I’ve read where I consider the sequels to be better than the first book.
Nineteen Eighty-Four seems appropriate
Taking another crack at the Silmarillion. I picked up the “Illustrated by the Author” editions.
Still on the Brandon Sanderson train. After finally catching up with Stormlight and reading his excellent secret projects, I’m a little over a book in to mistborn.
I finally finished The Wheel of Time series! I took forever to get through the last book, longer than with any of the slog books, but I’m so happy to be done. I do wish the last book was more satisfying. It just felt very different in tone from the rest, partly I think due to Sanderson running out of source material. But there was still a lot I enjoyed across the whole series, so I don’t regret putting the time into it.
I finished I Am Legend by Richard Matheson last night. My copy of the book contains a bunch of short stories by the author as well, so now I am reading through those. He is very effective at writing short, impactful horror.
Still reading There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm. It’s taken quite the cosmic/eldritch horror turn in the second half, which is great.
I love the scp wiki and had not heard of this before, definitely going on my list. Thanks!
Deathlands as per usual, just did a couple of books this week.
I’m also right at the end of Mr Mercedes by Stephen King, it has been a pretty good read and a departure from the usual King I am used to being more of a detective novel but I have enjoyed it.
I’m going to start Flux, the third book in the Infinite series, tomorrow.
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. Someone mentioned the book on Lemmy and I guess I got curious. It’s been pretty good thus far, but it is on the long side.
Mr. Monk Goes to Hawaii by Lee Goldberg
Just finished “The Lesser Dead” by Christopher Buehlman.
WONDERFUL vampire horror book.
I just finished two books by him (between two fires and blacktongue thief) and really enjoyed both. I’ll add this one to my TBR list!
I just started Dan Abnett’s Warhammer 40k Inquisition series, starting with Pestilence.
I have Dan Abnett’s Eisenhorn trilogy ordered, going to be my first Warhammer 40K book.
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Same here. First Warhammer anything for me.
Ah cool, do let me know how you like it.
