What book(s) are you currently reading or listening? 01 December

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?

xxmelomaniacxx,

Finished:

  • Tomorrow Tomorrow Tomorrow
  • Jingo

Currently reading

  • Left Hand of Darkness
fievel,

Finished The Fisherman, by John Langan. It’s a great story, well written an very enjoyable.

Just started: Infinite Powers: The Story of Calculus - The Language of the Universe, by Steven Strogatz

tankplanker,

Finished The End and the Death Volume II by Dan Abnett. Its really good but unless there is a ton I am missing there isn’t really enough for much of a third and final book in this end game trilogy for the Siege of Terra. Feels like it should have been two books not three, may be I will change my mind end of January when the next one comes out.

Also finished Matter by Iain Banks. Its another good book but it suffers being read back to back with the rest of the series during my read through of the Culture series. I do not think the story is as strong as it could be. Spoiler:

spoilerEnding is great if you like left field endings, and brutal endings.

Now reading Surface Detail by Iain Banks. Penultimate Culture book, then I can read the revised Tolkien’s letters and his bibliography. First non fiction in a very long time.

Roggebrood,

I’m currently reading Monbiot’s Regenesis, a book on the problems of modern day agriculture and a vision of a new future for food. I’m currently about halfway, and it’s mostly still about the problems of the current agricultural practices, but it’s already intriguing and throught-provoking.

Audalin,

Finishing Pynchon’s V.

JaymesRS,

I finished The Olympian Affair by Jim Butcher last week. Now I just have a few of novellas that I’m working on. Minor Mage by Kingfisher, Ocean at the End of the Lane by Gaiman, then I’ll pick up either Last Unicorn or The Library at Mount Char.

chemicalwonka, (edited )
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Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? - Mark Fisher

FlyingLoon,

Just finishing up The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune

seaQueue, (edited )
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Just started Arkady Martine’s A Memory Called Empire.

I just finished Scalzi’s Interdependency trilogy which was entertaining but very Scalzi. I think the next time I read him I’ll take it in smaller doses. Irreverence can be entertaining and refreshing when it’s a garnish to another style but Scalzi just keeps scooping more of it into the bowl here.

haulyard,
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Just picked up a copy of Debt: The First 5000 Years

noUsernamesLef7,

Oh nice, have you read any of his other books? I keep meaning to get around to reading Bullshit Jobs.

haulyard,
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I haven’t, and didn’t realize it was the same author! Bullshit Jobs is also on my list

Lemminary,

For the non-fiction enthusiasts:

I still need to finish “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” . It’s been very good so far! Talks about the emergence of human cell cultures and Henrietta’s family.

Also, “Mistakes Were Made But Not by Me” is a good recent book I read. It’s about cognitive dissonance and gives a lot of real-world examples. It’s basically a collection of micro stories that illustrate its points.

ArcusMurelius,

Just finished Bands of Mourning by Brandon Sanderson, and Mistborn: Secret History by Brandon Sanderson.

Currently listening to The Lost Metal by Brandon Sanderson.

lucullus,

I just finishef Accelerando by Charles Stross, a really weird and complex scifi novel with lots of interesting concepts. And now I started Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut.

Stern,
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All the Pretty Horses by McCarthy. Enjoyable though the lack of quotation marks both annoys and somewhat speeds up reading.

dresden,
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No quotations marks for when people are speaking?

Stern,
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Correct, it’s apparently his thing

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cormac_McCarthy#Syntax

dresden,
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That’s pretty interesting. I should go and read one of his books.

Thanks for the link!

Stern,
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All the Pretty Horses is the one recommended for easing into him, but if you want to be extra, grab Blood Meridian. Alternately, you could go for something like The Road or No Country for Old Men to see how they’re different from the movies.

WestwardWind,

The Dresden Files audiobooks are so good. They’re read by James Marsters of Buffy The Vampire Slayer and he just hits every tone and sigh of Dresden perfectly.

I’m actually finishing up The Olympian Affair, book 2 of Jim Butcher’s new series Cinder Spires. It’s steampunky magic with political intrigue, airships, and tribes of cats with their own language. The first book was a little meandering but the second one has been very interesting and more dynamic so far

dresden,
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lol, I am not an audiobook fan, but listening to James Marsters reading Dresden Files might be worth a try.

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