Last book I finished? The Dragon Reborn. Currently reading? The Princess Diaries.
Ayyyyy, are you reading The Shadow Rising soon? I liked it more than the Dragon Reborn.
Yep! Just need to find a bit more time for it. I’ve got a book club with a friend where we’re reading through the series.
I love that! If it’s your first time through, I hope you both enjoy it!
Do audiobooks count?
Leviathan Falls by James S. A. Corey. It’s the final book in The Expanse series. Really got hooked on it. I haven’t made time to find another book since then though 🤔
They absolutely do! I don’t understand the snobbery against audiobooks. When Borges lost his sight he had to have books read to him, and just consider the amazing stories he came up with (and the literary devices he developed) to make up for his blindness.
I read up to Cibola Burn but then ran out at the time, I haven’t gone back since books beyond that came out. I need to start over.
Yes, I was more than happy with the ending. Loose ends were pretty well tied up.
One day there’ll be an expanse movie that covers what the tv series didn’t… one day…
They definitely count as ingesting books but there is a difference between reading a book and listening to an audiobook.
Reading IS the activity but I feel like with audiobooks people are typically driving or something where the book is in the background. Though maybe some people put on headphones and just sit and listen or something. I don’t know if this makes me a snob lol.
Also The Expanse was the first book series I ever read. It was so good. And it made me like the show less even though the show is still great.
The iRobot series by Asimov. Going into Foundation now.
I loved the ‘Foundation’ series! The 1st is in my top 5. ‘I, Robot’ was such a fantastic book as well, infinitely better than the movie.
I loved the first Foundation, but never read beyond that, for some reason. I know I have the first trilogy around here somewhere. I should dig up the other ones.
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. I keep starting some books after this one but I can’t seem to finish anything.
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
I just finished this yesterday! Great read esp since I’m right around the same age as the main characters all the gaming nostalgia rang particularly true to me.
Yeah I’m really liking it so far! I’m at the Both Sides section now and I really like the imagery the book paints in my head.
The Burning Land by Bernard Cornwell. It’s book 5 in the last kingdom series that the TV show is based off of. I love the time period.
“Greenlights” - Mathew McConaughey, surprisingly good. Currently reading ‘Look to Windward’ by Iain M. Banks
Yumi and the nightmare painter by Brandon Sanderson. (very good)
Last series I finished was Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson. (probably the best fantasy series I’ve ever read)
Current read: The God is Not Willing by Steven Erikson
Old Man’s War by John Scalzi - not high literature by any means, but a fun read nonetheless. Currently reading the sequel, The Ghost Brigades, which is equally as fun :)
I was recently reading Scalzi too! His blog is great too.
Dune
Recently finished the seond book in Ken MacLeod’s Lightspeed Trilogy, Beyond the Reach of Earth. Nice SF series with some interesting takes on the complexities of FTL travel, First Contact, global politics, and more.
Brent Weeks’ “The Way of Shadows”.
Currently reading second part “Shadow’s Edge”Raft by Stephen Baxter. Part of the Xeelee sequence series.
Currently on book 2: Timelike Infinity and I’m liking it quite a bit.
I read The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb and it was fantastic
Women, Race and Class by Angela Davis.
Reading some of the history that gets left out elsewhere. Did you know that before the end of the Civil War lynching was primarily used to terrorize white abolitionists? After the Civil War during reconstruction, during Jim Crow, white supremacists needed to find a reason to terrorize and control the black community so the myth of the black man as rapist was woven into public discourse. It was the most convenient excuse to find a reason to violently punish and control black people who in whatever way challenged or violated the status quo. Accusations of even inappropriate forwardness were enough to justifying hanging. But the real reason would be that some black person or family started a business, sought education or became empowered in some way, challenging the white supremacist social hierarchy - and were lynched for it.
