This week flew by pretty quickly. Didn’t even get time to read all the messages in last week’s post…
Finished Valour’s Choice by Tanya Huff. Book 1 of Confederation. Enjoyed the book, going to continue with the series, and may check some more of Tanya Huff’s work too.
Read Jujitu Kaisen Vol. 5. Nothing much to say about that, more of a manga goodness.
Started Dark Moon by David Gemell, a standalone fantasy book. This is my first Gemell book and I am enjoying it. I am about 1/3rd of the way in, and the world-building feels like something that can sustain a trilogy or even a longer series.
What about all of you? What have been reading or listening?
I’m still on Wheel of Time book 3 (The Dragon Reborn). I’ll probably finish it this week and move on to… book 4 lol. Trying to keep my momentum up as long as I can. Helps that I’ve been really enjoying the story so far.
Well, everyone is different, but it’s a long series, just don’t burn out on it. My method these days is to add lighter / something completely different in-between, but if this is how you enjoy reading, then binge on!
Yeah historically I’ve just binged through series but I’ve never read one so long and am a bit worried about it. I plan to join a monthly book club run by my library starting next month so that will force me to break things up (and push me away from reading almost exclusively fantasy). Hopefully it helps!
Finished reading The Black Gryphon with my sibling. Was surprisingly progressive for when it was written, and although the non pov characters were very cardboard, it was a fun read.
Listening to Good Omens finally. I absolutely love the comedic writing, and about half the cast. The actual plot bites me to tears so I’ve had trouble focusing on it, but weirdly still enjoying it.
Started Perdido Street Station. New Crobuzon feels like he took the Cantina scene in star wars and expanded it to an entire city. And I love that the PoVs so far are an artist and a scientist just doing their thing.
I really enjoyed Perdido Street Station when I read it years ago, the weird fantasy of it feels so like extravagant and full in scope while also being grounded.
I finished Leviathan Wakes a little bit ago and am considering whether to jump right into Caliban’s War or to read something else in between. Probably would do something non-fiction if I did.
I enjoyed it a lot! Its very popcorn-y and I breezed through it really fast. The hard scifi setting is really cool and feels very fleshed out and verisimilitudinous, the characters I was pretty lukewarm on tho, and it did feel pretty predictable but I’m hoping that will all get better in the sequels and it is just sortof “first bookisms” on that front.
I knew going in that the writers are kind connected to George RR Martin, and I felt like there were some cross setting parallel ideas between it and ASoIaF. Mid-read I heard that it had evolved out of a play by post forum rpg, which I thought was really cool in concept, but I also started to see the strings a little bit, y’know?
Just started Spark of the Everflame because my wife read the three books in the series on Kindle Unlimited in a weekend. I’m up to chapter 8 and it’s fantasy with romance elements. It seems interesting. I’m trying to finish all three before starting something else cause my wife wants to talk about it.
