Holidays are over! Happy New Year!
I didn’t get much to read over the holidays, but I finished The Black Company by Glen Cook. The story was interesting but the way it is written made it hard for me to read. Still, going to continue with the trilogy and see if second book is any better in that regard.
Currently reading Dead Beat by Jim Butcher. Loving the book. The series just keeps getting better and better.
What about you? What have you been reading or listening?
Last weekend I read the first four Murderbot diaries novellas. I read another one during the week, and now I’m reading the full length novel.
All Systems Red by Martha Wells is the first one and you won’t want to stop there.
Just finished up American Gods by Neil Gaiman and started the Jack Reacher novels by Lee Child. I’m most of the way through Killing Floor.
How are you liking the Killing Floor? I have been meaning to start the series but couldn’t find the starting book at my local bookstore.
So far so good. I have the bad habit of picking up a book or series to compare/contrast with the show or movie and IMO if you enjoy Reacher, you’ll enjoy the books and vice versa.
Reacher the show? Or the Tom Cruise movie? Cause I have only seen the Tom Cruise movie, and I don’t recall too much of that.
I am slowly reading through Metro 2033 in Russian, and after more than a year I am only halfway done. 😑
I think I spend too much time in a dictionary, where I am clicking through entries when I don’t understand a single word (or I am just not 100% sure about it’s meaning). Also I think on few occassions I have seen few words that are completely made up (mostly non-existing word forms) by Dmitriy, because even Google Search didn’t show anything up :P
I’m reading “Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone”, a delightfully smart and funny locked room mystery
I have started my year-long read for this year: The Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Two chapters a week will get me through it by December.
Otherwise, I am two thirds through The Rings of Saturn which is a melancholic reflection on death, remnants and legacy over the course of a walking tour of the Suffolk coast, where I live and work. I have been aware of it for ages, and it has finally hit the top of my pile. A thoughtful and easy read, though it does seem a little over-romanticised.
And I am continuing with Peter Frankopan’s The Earth Transformed. This is a history of the world taking account of changes in climate and environment: both their effects on history, and human effects on them. Informative, although the detail obscures the main points at times.
Finally, I am continuing with the Doctor Who novel The Death of Art. Some well researched worldbuilding and atmosphere and an enjoyable writing style, but an overcrowded plot that gets bogged down as a result.
That’s an interesting idea to have an year-long series. Specially for a book that you may find difficult to read or get into. I should do that.
I think you mentioned The Earth Transformed before too. How is it going, still enjoying it?
The Earth Transformed - this is a much longer read than I was expecting. It is certainly still interesting, but also continues to include a LOT of detail and examples that make it difficult to keep in mind the overall points that the author is making. I have read a good few ‘popular histories’ - which is what this ultimate is - that are clearer. I’m going to continue though.
