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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I finished the first two books in the Red Rising Saga and have just begun the third.
Really enjoying the series as a whole - fun concept, interesting characters, and lots of action!
I fiiinally finished The Recognitions (Gaddis), so now I’m on to something lighter and easier to enjoy: The Queen of the Damned (Anne Rice). My kid and I are sort of going through the vamp chronicles together, and they’ve been excited for me to start reading this one and catch up with them.
How are you liking the Vampire Chronicles? These were my first vampire books and I really enjoyed them. At least the first 3, don’t recall what I thought about the next ones. I do feel I read first 6, till The Vampire Armand, but not sure.
I really like them! I read the first two years ago as a kid, and reread them recently when the AMC show came out (which I highly recommend if you haven’t seen it). I will probably read at least the fourth one, but maybe not right away. Too many other books on the stack. :) But yeah, I love Anne Rice’s style, and she did a great job building off existing vampire lore and also adding new lore on top of it.
Halfway through “The Fisherman” by John Langan
On Monday, I finished The Winter of the Witch, the last in Katherine Arden’s Winternight Trilogy - it was absolutely fantastic from front to back. Last night I picked up The Time Traveler - I got a physical copy for super cheap from a second hand book store. I’ve never read it, so I’m excited to see how it reads. So far, it’s pretty good - a bit pretentious in some of the word choice, maybe, but I suppose that’s kind of to be expected.
Without giving any spoilers, did that character got his well deserved comeuppance? 😀
The Time Traveler by H. G. Wells? I remember reading it a long long time ago and liking it, though don’t remember most of it now.
Very much so, although the author manages to make it much more poignant than I expected, but it was for good reasons.
Yeah, H.G. Wells. I finished it a couple nights ago. It’s very… Pompous? It’s so over the top that it wouldn’t surprise me if it was actually supposed to be satire… but I don’t think it was. I’m glad I read it, but I highly doubt I’ll ever pick it up again. Oh, and it’s The Time Machine, not Traveler - sorry for the brain fart.
I finished The Heaven And Earth Grocery Store by James McBride. I was worried it wouldn’t stick the landing and it didn’t. A lot of the promises it set up in part 1 seemed to be forgotten. Almost like the author was working on two completely different books and decided to lump them together without editing them to match.
Now I’m about to start Knife of Dreams by Robert Jordan (Wheel of Time book 11) and I’m super excited. He set so much up in the next book and I’m hoping the payoff is good.
