Still reading The Twelve by Justin Cronin. Book 2 of The Passage trilogy. Enjoying it enough to not give up, but not enjoying it enough it enough to read it quickly, so it’s going slowly. Going to try to speed up and finish it quickly.
What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening to lately?
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Dracula by Bram Stoker. Never read it before. I did see the 1992 movie adaptation, but that was a long time ago.
I signed up a few years ago for Dracula Daily and it sends you (via email) the appropriately dated entries each* day. I read through it each year now.
I’ve been listening to 2666 by Roberto Bolaño. So far I’ve been enjoying it, even though I have no idea where it’s supposed to be going. I can’t imagine the current plot thread persisting through 28 hours.
It’s one of my all-time favorite books and I’m still not sure I could actually explain the plot to someone. In fact, I’m not confident there is a coherent plot rather than a bunch of related vignettes that just kind of happen, some of which tell a story and some not so much.
My brain just kind of spent so much time trying to understand what the point of any of it was that I eventually ended up with an interpretation that I loved to view the book through, and therefore I ended up loving the book.
Just finished 'Salem’s Lot by Stephen King. It was enjoyable and I can see it’s influence on newer works of horror.
Up next is Life Ceremony by Sayaka Murata and Hail Mary by Andy Weir.
Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father’s Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success
An entertaining biography dealing with corruption and greed, covered under a layer of snark.
Candle & Crow, book 3 in the Ink & Sigil series by Kevin Hearne came out today, I’m looking forward to getting into it. It’s set in the same world as the Iron Druid Chronicles, but isn’t really related outside of a couple of old characters popping up IIRC. I don’t think I even knew about this until I saw it on a list of upcoming releases last week.
I’m also reading through Swifts and Us by Sarah Gibson, which is a book my gf got for me last Christmas and only just got around to handing over 9 months later. It’s a non-fiction book about my favourite bird, nothing to do with pop singers.
