Welcome back after the holidays! Hope you had a good time, and your new year is starting well!
I didn’t get much time to read, so still reading The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson. Third and final book the of Mistborn series (first era).
What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening to lately?
There’s a Midyear Bingo check-in post, do take a look. Even if you haven’t started this year’s Book Bingo, you can still join, as there are still 6 months remaining!
For details, you can checkout the initial Book Bingo, and it’s Recommendation Post . Links are also present in our community sidebar.
For the last few years I have doing a ‘big read’ of something over the course of each year - War and Peace, In Search of Lost Time, Finnegans Wake and, in 2024, Romance of the Three Kingdoms. There is some enduringly memorable material in each of those, and reading them has been quite an experience but I have decided to take a break from that format of reading and just have a year of SF in 2025 - catching up on some that I have long meant to read, starting with Dan Simmons’ Hyperion. Just finished the Scholar’s Tale so far and am thoroughly hooked.
Otherwise, I am most of the way through Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner - which I believe was recommended in this community a while back - which is notable if for no other reason than it includes the first use of the term infangthief that I have encountered since reading 1066 And All That in my teens. And also a recent Doctor Who audionovel The Lord of Misrule by Paul Morris, which is an enjoyably nostalgic tale featuring some beloved characters (as read by Jon Culshaw), but overall nothing exceptional so far.
Been reading Bernoulli’s Fallacy, both fascinating and disturbing… Glad I got into it.
If you like that, I’d recommend E.T. Jaynes’ Probability Theory: The Logic of Science (which Clayton repeatedly praises) next. Bernoulli’s Fallacy is good as at exposing the theoretical and historical flaws of conventional statistics, but Jaynes’ book is a more thorough overview of Bayesian statistics.
I recently finished Wind and Truth (Stormlight Archive #5) and was extremely pleased with the end of this era.
I am currently (re)reading A Darkness at Sethanon by Raymond E. Feist (Riftwar Saga #3). This series isn’t as good as I remembered from when I was in high school, but it’s reasonably entertaining on the whole.
Not sure what I’ll read after that. If anyone has a good fantasy / sci-fi recommendation let me know! Keep in mind, I’ve read all Sanderson has to offer :)
During the holidays with my family, my brother convinced me to give “He who fights with Monsters” by Shirtaloon a try. I’m currently about 30% deep into book one. It’s my first time reading LitRPG and even though I’m not quite sure about the genre I’m enjoying this one quite a lot.
