Trudi Canavan - The Ambassador's Mission
Loved the first trilogy, only recently found out there's a second.
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Trudi Canavan - The Ambassador's Mission
Loved the first trilogy, only recently found out there's a second.
Just started βYumi and The Nightmare Painterβ
Cradle by Will Wight, I think I'm at book 8 of 11/12 (I don't usually look so I don't gauge how long til the end).
It's been a fun western take on a progression fantasy and cultivation novel.
Perdito station by China Meiville(hope I spelled it right) I just started a week ago and have only been able to read a bit because of time constraints but so far I'm pretty intrigued.
Stephen Kings IT. Also listening to Stephen King The Outsider in preparation of Holly coming out in September.
Book 4 of the Wheel of Time (about half way through). Series has been something I've started on and off for 20 years, but picked up the first book after my Dad died a couple of months back and finding it a lot easier to stick with it this time around.
A lot. I lost count, really. I'm a professional 'middle of the book' reader. It's a way of living.
Catch-22. The classic itself
Escape from Billings Mall, by Chuck Tingle. It's a choose your own adventure book!
Consider Phlebas
"Uncle Tom's Cabin". So far very powerful writing. Just finished reading "Tuesday's with Morrie" which is fantastic.
Call to Arms, by Lu Xun
It's a short story collection. I'm actually at the beginning, I've only read two stories so far. Kong Yiji is really good!!
I'm halfway through the first Witcher book. After being disappointed with the Netflix show, I had to read the original source. I'm enjoying it so far. My goal is to read them all and play the games afterwards.
Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle and The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo AndriΔ. I always go over two books at the same time where one has heavier material (philosophy/history) and the other lighter that I can read when I'm tired.
Everything is f*cked.
The Alchemy of Finance by George Soros.
Seeing Like A State by James C Scott.
The Wastelands - Stephen King. It's kinda nearing the middle of the Dark Tower series and it's pretty damn good.
Just finished Ten Days that Shook the World. I really enjoyed it. It's one thing to read history from a large-scale top down perspective, another to see how a revolution was actually conducted on a minute by minute street by street basis. Looking for the next thing to read now
Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata. I'm on page 30 of 160.
Also procrastinating on these:
A couple, The Institute by Stephen King and Cosmos by Carl Sagan
Yumi and the Nightmare Painter by Brandon Sanderson. Itβs the third of his Kickstarter books and Iβm enjoying it so far, but Iβve barely started it.
The Joy of Abstraction by Eugenia Cheng
Category theory is awesome!
Minima Moralia by Theodor Adorno and Postmodernism by Frederick Jameson. Just finished Lacanβs lectures on the 4 fundamental concepts of psychoanalysis and understood about 10%. Iβm playing catch-up with the serious people from the last century.
Blood Meridian by Cormac Mcarthy. Book is outright brutal but written in such a compelling way you can't help be want more. Fantastic writer.
I'm just started reading Wool by Hugh Howey. I finished the first season of Silo and didn't want to wait a year to get more of the story. The book has been great so far. It seems like the show followed the book pretty well with a few changes.
The Mask of Mirrors by M.A. Carrick.
It's fantasy, but feels pretty fresh to me with the focus being on the main characters trying to con a rich family and less of the more usual (but no less fun) adventuring, combat etc. (at least so far, I'm still very early in the book).
If you like that kind of story you might want to read The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch.