Oh, this got delayed a bit.
I am still reading Valour’s Choice by Tanya Huff. Book 1 of Confederation series. Almost near the end though. Enjoying the book a lot.
What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening?
Rachel Maddow, “Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism”
Almost done with N.K. Jemisin’s The World We Make.
Also reading the fourth John Dies at the End book.
And listening to Why We Sleep.
I’m listening to Hidden by Benedict Jacka, the fifth book in the Alex Verus series. I really enjoy both the story and the narrator for the audiobooks!
Just finished Wheel of Time book 2 (The Great Hunt) and about to start book 3 (The Dragon Reborn). I absolutely devoured book 2 so I’m super eager to continue.
How to be an antiracist, The Palestine Laboratory, The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine (a translated version instead of the original text and I question my decision every day) and The Dos and Donuts of Love.
And yes I’m a huge mood reader
Interesting reads. “Donuts of Love” sound tasty. 😀
I been slacking off lately:
- The Dark Half - Stephen King, 3/4 done.
- Rogue - George RR Martin ed, 1/4 done.
- The Beekeeper’s Apprentice - Laurie R. King, just started.
- Some of the Best from Tor: 15th anniversary - various, 1/5(?) done
Well, you read a lot even when slacking off…
Rogues sounds pretty cool, some really big names in it. How are you liking it?
Rogue is really nice so far, I am currently on story 9 and each of the previous ones are a hit. Particularly “What Do You Do?” by Gillian Flynn, “The Inn of the Seven Blessings” by Matt Hughes, and “A Year and a Day in Old Theradane” by Scott Lynch. Recommend.
I should have finished Stephen King’s “The Dark Half” last month. Haven’t been reading as much.
I finished Queen of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner last night and so I’m on to Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher then King of Attolia by Turner over this week.
Finally got my Gideon the Ninth hold to pop up at the library at the right time. 2 hours in and digging it
Just started on a re-read (audiobook) of Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, by Douglas Adams, also read by him. Oh I love him as a narrator! Also continuing with Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol.
Ah, were these also on radio or just read as audio books?
I think these were available on the radio. To be honest I got them over the high seas since I didn’t like the audible narrator (don’t remember his name).
Ah, I’ll look up the details.
I’m reading Erdogan Pizza by John Dolan. It’s a collection of real travelogues from an utterly unadventurous, shy nerd who keeps managing to get kicked out of third world countries while being dead broke. I couldn’t imagine a greater mismatch between the personality of someone and how they’ve chosen to live their life. Very amusing.
I have a TV program for you
They also made a nonfiction book out of this, but I liked the show better.
Honestly I don’t really like Ricky Gervais’s gleeful cruelty or his style of comedy, but I think the show was really good for Karl Pilkington. You could see how mousy he was in the first few episodes, miserably eating the Chinese lady’s toad just because she told him to, and then partway through the first series he kind of finds his balls and he’s yelling at the guy in Jordan “I’m not getting on the fucking camel!” when stuff is unreasonable beyond a certain point.
Travel is good for you.
The series with Warwick Davies is great. Brilliant clash of attitudes / personalities between Karl and Warwick resulting in some both hilarious and uplifting stuff. inkeeping with the trajectory Ricky’s stuff has generally taken.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_Cause_(novel)
Quite OK so far.
How is he as a fiction writer? I have come across posts by Doctrow over the years, but have never read any of his fiction.
Been reading some adult books lately by Lillian Lark. Currently on Entranced by the Basilisks.
Harpo Speaks! by Harpo Marx.
How is it? Are you enjoying it?
I am reading a bit too much different things at once right now, so this is a fairly long comment:
I’ve been reading “For Whom The Bell Tolls” by Ernest Hemingway for a while, and I have read 5/6 now. It’s about partisans in the Spanish civil war. I am enjoying Hemingway’s prose and the story, but I think I will wait a bit after this before reading any of his other works.
I’ve been meaning to read the great Chinese classic novels for a while, but I never got to it. Last week, after seeing someone on here was reading it, I decided to start reading “Romance of the Three Kingdoms”. The story (about the fall of the Han dynasty and the war of, you guessed it, three kingdoms) is very fun so far, but there are like 50 names in the first 50 pages, so I have trouble remembering who is who. I’m hoping for a bit more dialogue too.
I’m also halfway through the “Aeneid”, the great Latin epic by Virgil. It’s a decent story, but I should have gone for a modern translation instead of the old one I have now. I think I’m going to stop with this one for a while, as this is the perfect point to stop.
Lastly, I’m reading Leo Tolstoy’s “The Kingdom of God Is Within You”, his most well-known non-fiction work. I am a massive Tolstoy fan (War and Peace is my all time favourite novel), so I wanted to know more about his philosophy. It is very interesting so far, with how he makes arguments for non-violence, as well as his arguments against the principle of the Church. I don’t always fully agree, but it is a very thought-provoking book.
Last week I also read Tolstoy’s short story “Master and Man”. I think it may be the best work to read as an introduction to Tolstoy. The setting is perfect for this time of the year, the prose is amazing as always, the psychological depth is unbelievable for so short a novel, and the moral part is typical for his later works, but not too prominent that it bothered me in any way. So if you’re interested in reading some Tolstoy, you should definitely read this one!
I’m reading Stephen King - Insomnia on my breaks at work and listening to David Jason’s Autobiography in the car.
