Finished Dark Moon by David Gemell. Ending was a bit quick, and left a bit to be desired, but overall I enjoyed the book, and would try some more of his work.
Reading The Better Part of Valour by Tania Huff, book 2 of Confederation. It’s a next military mission in the life of our protagonist, but rest of the whole cast is changed, would be interesting to see if that happens every time or we get old faces next time.
Also started Your Money or Your Life : 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship With Money and Achieving Financial Independence by Vicki Robin / Joe Dominguez. It was highly recommended on reddit’s financial independence subs, so when I recently saw someone had a copy, borrowed it right away. I am still on first chapter, so can’t say much at all, but it seems interesting.
What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening?
I just finished Blood Music by Greg Bear and really enjoyed it. I believe I saw the recommendation on lemmy so thanks to whomever recommended it.
I’d like to see it adapted to a show or movie by someone who could capture the more grotesque portions. But I feel like the unique aspects would be lost in translation and it would end up feeling derivative of the genre.
Blood Music looks interesting, going to add it to my list.
What are planning to pick up next?
I just started Tai-Pan by James Clavell. I read Shogun within in the last year and really enjoyed that. I didn’t start this right away because I heard it was part of Clavell’s trilogy but didn’t realize it wasn’t a continuous story so that disappointed me. But I’m over that now so now I can enjoy this story for what it is without that baggage.
Just started listening to the Crown Tower by Michael J Sullivan. I had read and listened to his magnificent Ryiria Revelations several times, but hadn’t touched the prequel series. It’s good.
I’ve been meaning to read his work. Do you think it should be read in the order it was published or can the related series be read in any order?
Just started A Film in Which I Play Everyone by Mary Jo Bang this morning. It’s a short poetry book, pretty good so far and I’ll probably blast through it today.
After that… I left On Liberty and Fellowship of the Ring unfinished at the end of last year and I should really finish those up. Both really good, both just got left at the bedside for a while for no reason, as is tradition.
How would say it is for a complete poetry newbie?
Good luck with finishing your bedside books! 😀
Thanks!
I’d say that most modern poetry (at least as far as I’ve read) is basically fine for newbies. Like, if you enjoy or dislike something hard on vague vibes without any deep analysis of understanding there’s nothing wrong with that. It’s super subjective anyways, even more than normal taste in books.
This one sort of has this lonely, surreal streak to it. Melancholic, almost nostalgic at times. If that sounds interesting to you then check it out and see how it matches your taste!
just finished the Witcher series on Netflix, so i ordered the novels and i’m gonna read them as soon as they arrive :) from what everybody says though it’s going to be a bit different from the Netflix adaptation
You Are Not So Smart by David McRaney, and The Menopause Manifesto by Dr. Jen Gunter.
The first is one I’m taking notes on for work. The second my wife read last month as we’re starting to get older and she recommended I read it as well.
The titles sound interesting, I would love to hear your thoughts when you have finished these.
