Didn’t get time to read at all this week, so still at the same place as last week.
- Reading Three Days to Never by Tim Powers. A standalone sci-fi book.
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Without further ado, what have you been reading or listening lately?
I discovered Tim Powers way too late and his stories are super great.
I’m chugging along with Murderbot, I finished up through Network Effect and am on to Fugitive Telemetry and then System Collapse. I realized I had those two swapped in order in my Kobo halfway through reading them. 🤦🏻♂️
Edit: maybe not swapped? Every Goodreads and Fantastic Fiction both show Network Effect before. ¯\(ツ)/¯
Edit 2: written after but per https://www.marthawells.com/murderbot.htm set before.
I’m not sure where I’ll go next yet, maybe further into Theodora Gross’s Athena Club books. I stared that for a past bingo and ended up enjoying the 1st book. I’m super excited for our bingo to start, but I could be biased.
I am enjoying it. I understand I think why they were split, but the 1st 2 novellas really should be read as 2 parts of the same book, imho. You need to see what Murderbot does with their new independence.
I read the first book in the series and found it… nice, but certainly not up to all the hype. Is it because it is just setting things up? Does it get better, more compelling, in subsequent books?
When Tor gave them away a few years ago, it gave away the first 4 novellas. And I think that was smart. The first one is fun, but like leaving the restaurant after just appetizers. I’d say give the 1st 2 (or even 3) a go to get a solid feel for them. If you are still not into it, it’s ok to drop it. But it really pays off to see what Murderbot does with itself and its new freedom.
I finished A Crown of Swords (wheel of time book 7) and loved it but now I’m taking a short break from the series.
Currently reading Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton. Thrillers are not generally my cup of tea, but it’s nice to read a fast paced book to break up the super long epic series.
Once that’s done, I’m going to reread To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Haven’t touched that book since middle school so I think it’s time for a revisit.
No Dig by Charles Dowding
A vegetable gardening book emphasizing the merits of no dig growing.
Is this for general public, or only for those interesting in doing the gardening?
I would say it’s primarily for people who are interested in growing vegetables.
In Nuclear War: A Scenario, Annie Jacobsen. It’s about the fist 2 hours of a nuclear war. Probably the scariest book I’ve ever read.
I started Southern Gods by John Horner Jacobs. Not really far enough to get a good feel for it yet, but I couldn’t pass up a Lovecraftian-Southern-gothic-noir-horror kind of thing.
