Finished Chloe Marr by A. A. Milne. I liked the book, but it's very much product of it's time, the way men and women act. Also, if you can get the literary and pop-culture (of that time) references, you'll enjoy it a lot more. As it is, even though I enjoyed reading it, when I wasn't reading it, I didn't feel too much like picking it up.

Read Jujitsu Kaisen Vol. 3. Continuing my 1 volume per month for JJK. Same as The Dresden Files. Don't want to finish all the published work and wait for new ones. So, once a month will keep me supplied for quite a while.

Read Meet the Maliks - Twin Detectives: The Cookie Culprit by Zanib Mian. Got it for my kid, felt a little bit like Diary of a Wimpy Kid, but more about muslim family and kids. Read it to see how it is, and I enjoyed it. It's first in the series though, the author has also written Planet Omar series, may try those for kid next.

Starting Death Masks by Jim Butcher.

What about all of you? What have all of you been reading and listening?

  • PDFuego@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’ve just finished the Incryptid series except for about another dozen short stories. The main character of books 1, 2 & 5 definitely had the weakest books, but I’m glad I stuck with it because I really enjoyed almost everything from 6-12.

    Now I’m about halfway through Alex Verus book 3. I read the first one a couple of years ago and liked it, but only got around to book 2 last week after seeing that post about the interview with the author. Good stuff.

    Next week I’ll probably get back to Incryptid, there’s another trilogy set in the same universe but not part of the main series, I think it’s about one of the side characters’ origins or something. I don’t remember what it’s called.

    I’ve just moved and my new local bookstore sells comics too, so I was planning to pick up Something is Killing the Children and The Nice House on the Lake by James Tynion as soon as I get a chance.

    Also, halfway through Dead Beat. Still prefer the post-Changes books, still don’t like Butters.

    • dresden@discuss.onlineOPMEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      That’s nice to know about Incryptid, it’s on my wishlist, but I think I would read Rivers of London series first, I have already got the first two books, will start after reading some smaller series first.

      I have also gotten pretty interested in Alex Verus, specially because it’s an actually finished series, but unfortunately couldn’t find the starting books at my local bookstore, so would have to order them. Will get to it once I have reduced my backlog a bit.

      Something is Killing the Children, and The Nice on the Lake both sound great, I’ll see if they have any omnibus editions coming out.

      I had only read upto Death Masks before, though I don’t really remember anything that happened in this book. Excited to see how the books develop.

      • PDFuego@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        The Nice House on the Lake has a hard cover collected release of all 12 issues coming out next month, not sure about the other one.

        Check out “the podcast was on fire and it wasn’t my fault,” it’s a guy who has read the Dresden Files a load of times and his sister who is new to the series, they go through a handful of chapters a week. I think they’re in Dead Beat now so you could catch up easily enough if you wanted to. I stopped listening a few books ago but you might enjoy it more than I did.