Finished Moon Over Soho by Ben Aaronovitch. Book 2 of Rivers of London series. Our PC is getting better with the magic, and yet is still very new to this. We get a peek at the bigger magic world. Would be interesting to see how it develops further.
Reading Artemis by Andy Weir. Have read his other books and loved them, but this is supposedly different then his other work. Let’s see.
Also, I think I should start working on Book Bingo, if I wait till the end of Bingo year, I would’ve forgotten half of what I have read. If any of you are working your Book Bingo, how far have you reached?
What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening to lately?
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White Noise -Don DeLillo
The wife upstairs - Freida McFadden I’ve been trying to read more fiction lately, just for a change ya know. Not bad.
Hmm… a modern retelling of Jane Eyre. The reviews are pretty varied on it, from “best thriller I’ve ever read”, to “this isn’t a thriller, it feels like romantic comedy”.
How are you liking it so far?
I finished it. It was good. I’ve come to know Freida’s style now. She has great twists at the end, but her writing can drag for too long before she gets to the good stuff. I have started on “The Count of Monte Cristo”(in Arabic), and at the same time I’m reading another book called “Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies”(Also in Arabic). I split my reading to into my fiction part in the morning and the non-fiction in the evening.
Infinite Jest, which I WILL SOMEDAY FINISH (this is probably incorrect)
I swear I’ve spent more time in the back of the book reading footnotes than actually reading the book at the point. I have three bookmarks.
I finished The Liar’s Key by Mark Lawrence (Red Queen’s War book 2). It’s a fantasy-scifi blend leaning more towards fantasy, in a post-apocalytic setting. I struggled a bit at first but my enjoyment really picked up in the second half. I look forward to seeing how this trilogy will end.
I just started book 3, The Wheel of Osheim last night. I’m only a chapter in but I’m already finding it very gripping.
In between, I read Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane. This is a crime/thriller book taking place in South Boston in the 1970s. It features a significant event in Bostom’s history from that time period (busing to desegregate the city) and a fictionalized version of the crime boss Whitey Bulger. I found it considerably better than most crime fiction I’ve read and thought the themes were heavy hitting and well done. I will say I wish the author gave a little more explanation of what he pulled from real life events at the end of the book.
For bingo, I’ve now read 7 books that qualify for at least one tile (I’m not counting multiple books from the same series - which has been the majority of my reading). I don’t think I’ll fill the whole board but I think I can achieve at least a couple bingos by the end.
Recently finished 1Q84. Thought it was an excellent book. A few flaws here and there, but overall a great read, and worth it for such a long book. Then I make the mistake of looking on YouTube and almost everyone is trashing it (going off the click bait titles). I did not watch any of those stupid videos.
Am currently on book 2 of the Evan Tanner series. A complete change of pace from 1Q84. The plots are absurd, but it’s an easy read. Guilty pleasure. I prefer Block’s later stuff, but he said this series was his most original.
