Not much change at my end, still reading Your Money Or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence by Vicki Robin.
Also started volume 7 of Jujitsu Kaisen manga, by Gege Akutami.
What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening to lately?
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Just finished Whalefall by Daniel Kraus. An anxiety inducing story that follows a young man scubadiving into dangerous waters to recover the corpse of his abusive father. The audiobook is only like 8 hours long but I couldn’t pause it for the last two. Solid 9/10 and broke a significant reading slump for me.
I’m currently reading Dune by Frank Herbert, halfway through the first book. It’s great to compare to the latest Denis Villeneuve movies, how they adapted the story for the camera.
I got the nice leather bound version by Gollancz:
In parallel, when I’m doing work in the garden, I listen to the audiobook of The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin. Almost finished with the first part of the trilogy, it’s very good. Some insight on the emergence of communism in China, and how the propaganda was inflicted on its citizens, at the expense of logic and science.
Buckle up, bud! Three body problem gets wild after the first book. The dark forest is my favorite but the 3rd book is phenomenal too. One of the few series I can think of where the first book is the weakest.
About halfway through The Foundation by Isaac Asimov. I watched the show and wanted to check out the source material.
I also recently started Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. I’ve been trying to mix in some YA fiction and this one seems to fit the bill.
Just finished Behind her eyes, by Sarah Pinborough. Found it very nice, a good page turner. The ending was unexpected.
I don’t know yet what will be next (probably I’ll find in this conversation or another from this community as almost always).
Edit: Started The three-body problem, by Cixin Liu. Seen a comment about it in this post and I remember having heard about it at the radio or so. Plus I’m thrilled to discover Chinese literature.
Halfway through “The Fisherman” by John Langan
