No reading done this week. Lots of things going on.
What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening to lately?
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Through 4 of the 8 released Dungeon Crawler Carl books - they’re so fun
For what it’s worth, there’s a small but growing Dungeon Crawler Carl fediverse community: !dungeoncrawlercarl@lemmy.ca
Come for the explosions, stay for the… Well, explosions as well.
Glurp glurp!
Rereading The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. It’s one of the longest series I’ve read but the payoff is oh so worth it. Even though the last 3 books had to be finished by another author after Jordan’s death, Brandon Sanderson managed to keep up quality while not trying to mimic Jordan’s style and that eventually got me into Sanderson’s other books.
Living my life by Emma Goldman her autobiography basically and it is a good look at her life and thinking and in a broader way the state of radical politics in America especially in immigrant communities in late 1800’s early 1900’s would definitely recommend it.
Slow rolling my way through the latest Dungeon Crawler Carl. I’ve also got Burden To Bear from Gregory Amato to finish up, but it isn’t really grabbing me.
For what it’s worth, there’s a small but growing Dungeon Crawler Carl fediverse community: !dungeoncrawlercarl@lemmy.ca
Come for the explosions, stay for the… Well, explosions as well.
I finally got around to the Psy Corps books in the Babylon 5 universe. Interesting that we only discovered teeps in humans because university students were told to find something absurd, study it clinically, and write a paper on it because you all need to learn how to write scientific papers.
Oh cool, I’ve just started the show and partway through the second season, it has been an absolute blast!
The other day I finished The Two Towers, it was great. Right after that I binged all of Skin Game (Dresden Files 15) in one day which has been my favourite in the series since the first time I read it.
Now I’m just cleaning up a couple of random things I’ve had on the backburner, then it’s Return of the King, Peace Talks and Battle Ground as soon as possible so that I can get to Twelve Months.
Other than that, I’ve picked up my The Wise Man’s Fear audiobook again now that I’m working out regularly again because it was my gym noise back in… wow late 2024. Time flies.
Apparently Michael G Manning’s latest book came out a couple of weeks ago too, but I haven’t had any luck finding it for some reason, no idea what’s happening there 🤷♂️
An Isaac Asimov collection called “The Wonderful Worlds of Science Fiction - Intergalactic Empires I”
It covers some stories about Empires, that he quantifies as having a “rational historical backround” and says his Foundation series is the first to do so in 1942.
One of the stories is his own, and is Foundation adjacent, just takes place in his universe, it’s titled “Blind Alley”
After this it’s the next Star Wars book which is “Children of the Jedi”
Reading Dracula through Dracula Daily
Just finished ‘Children Of Strife’ the fourth book in the ‘Children Of Time’ series by Adrian Tchaikovsky.
One one hand, he has a trope he keeps going back to, on the other he makes it work pretty well.
I’d suggest starting with the first book, and reading the whole series.
Classic.
Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett.
This book created the whole noir genre. The plots been used and reused dozens of times, but it’s good to go back to where it all started.
A tough private detective is dispatched to a corrupt mining city. It’s full of warring gangs and our hero is going to clean it up, no matter how many murders it takes.
I’m on The White Dragon by Anne McCaffrey. This is my 6th Pern book. It’s not my favorite, but overall I am still greatly enjoying the world. The main character is in an interesting predicament and so far I’ve found the way he navigates it to be relatable. His characterization also feels quite realistic for an 18 year old brought up in his circumstances.
That was my first Pern book. Loved it. Found Ruth a fascinating outlier especially after reading more books and seeing what a “normal” dragon is like. It’s possible a reread would be less because of your point, it’s a teen perspective, and I was a teen.
Favorite Pern might be Dragonsdawn, simply because it’s harder scifi to explain why it’s all there.
Oh yes, I’m looking forward to learning more about the origins of the world! My favorite so far was Dragonsinger. It was so wholesome seeing Menolly come out of her shell, and I loved getting to see Harper Hall.
Just finished My Mother Was Nuts by Penny Marshall and started A Life in Parts by Bryan Cranston
Still listening to Echoes of Worlds by M. C. Carey.
Just began Demon in White. The 3rd book of The Sun Eater series. In the very beginning but ok so far. Will see what adventure Marlowe get into this time.
Currently reading “the atrocity engine” by Tim Waggoner. I think it was mentioned here a couple of weeks ago, so I decided to try it out. I’m about half way through, and still undecided.
I started it and found the opening action scene a little more visceral than my casual summer reading mood was into. I’ll prob go back to it at some point, but with the sun out and flowers blooming, now didn’t feel right
I finished Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams. As bad as I thought Facebook was, it was actually worse. It was an awful but fascinating read.
The one thing that stood out to me was how the author seemingly failed to grasp that she is just as bad as all these other people at Facebook she was writing about. There was zero self reflection or admission of her massive part in making Facebook what it is today (she was Director of Global Public Policy). From the way the book is written, if she was called out on her part in Facebook’s rise I would expect a Nuremberg defence.
I started One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston and I think I’m going to take it slowly. I’ll probably start It Rhymes With Takei by George Takei for my book club this week.
