No change on my end. Still reading:
- The Better Part of Valour by Tania Huff, book 2 of Confederation.
- Your Money or Your Life : 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship With Money and Achieving Financial Independence by Vicki Robin / Joe Dominguez
What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening?
I also maybe took Ambien and maybe signed up for some digital library cards with fake addresses because more books lol.
I’ve been away from reading for a few months, but am interested in diving into a good fantasy novel. My most recent binge was The First Law trilogy, which was a fun time, but the ending of it was unsatisfying to me.
Does anyone have a recommendation for a series that’s low to high fantasy, but with well-developed system of how magic works in the world, and with competing characters and character development?
Have you read Brandon Sanderson’s work? He has some very well-developed systems of magic.
Honestly, I haven’t yet. I’m not even sure where I should get started with his works, there are so many of them.
There are many places, like Mistborn is a good series, but it’s one of his early works and probably not the most well written. You can try one of his secret projects, 4 books that he released last year. 3 are part of Cosmere, but they are written as standalone books. 4th is a completely standalone book. All are nice, noncommittal way to read some of his work.
You can also try one of his non-cosmere series, like Cytoverse (starting from Skyward) or The Reckoners (starting from Steelheart).
I just finished up Red Rising and I really enjoyed it but I can’t bring myself to dive headlong into a series right now. My current read is A Separate Peace and next on the docket will be the autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt.
I tend to struggle to finish books that I start but this year I wanted to get better about reading so I set a very modest goal of 14 books. I’m already finished with five books since the start of the year!
Congratulation on covering 30% of your goal already!
There is no reason to force yourself to read something you don’t want. I can rarely read series back to back now. I switch to something completely different after finishing the book and then get back to next book in the series after that. Keeps me from burning out.
How are you liking A Separate Peace?
Just finished Constructors and now started The Long Way Home.
Just finished Children of Dune. Took me longer than expected, but now I’m reading Thrawn which I’m flying through.
