What the title says. What books are you reading? Or if not books, what are some interesting articles you’ve read lately?
I’ve been devouring Rick Riordan’s Heroes of Olympus series this past week (just started the last book yesterday). It adds so much to the Percy Jackson universe, and I plan on binging Trials of Apollo afterwards.
I’m reading The Golden Compass for the first time. I’m enjoying it, but I’ve been going through it slower than other books, and I’m not sure why. After I finish it I might go back and re-read a Terry Pratchett book.
Pratchett books are so easy to read and so fun you can just burn through them.
I recently finished The Myth of Sisyphus by Camus. I’m going back and forth between Meditations by Aurelius or Kraftwerk: Future Music from Germany by Schütte. I tend to take my time with books so I want to make it count. Meditations is shorter and been on my list for a while, but I’ve been on a serious thing for Kraftwerk lately.
I’m reading the penultimate book in The Expanse series - Tiamat’s Wrath. A Christmas present from my daughter
I had so much fun with that series!
It’s very nicely written. I came to it from the TV series
I’m currently reading Number the Stars with my children and The Great Hunt for myself. So far, I’m enjoying both. I especially appreciate the way Number the Stars tackles such a heavy topic without being too intense for children.
Riordan is a great writer.
I was reading The Catcher In The Rye by J D Salinger, but I haven’t picked it up since November.
If I don’t finish it, my next book will probably be either Heartstopper by Alice Oseman, The Martian Chronicles by Douglas Adams, or The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie.
Even though it’s a stereotype, Catcher was my favorite book throughout school. From abouy 6th grade I read it every year until I graduated high school. I wrote many essays around it for my English classes.
The Fifth Head of Cerberus, by Gene Wolfe.
I adore The Book Of The New Sun, but have been pretty meh about everything else of his that I’ve read, so we’ll see how it goes
I enjoyed this article quite a lot: Brains Are Not Required When It Comes to Thinking and Solving Problems—Simple Cells Can Do It
Currently at the end of ‘Fabius Bile: Clone Lord’ (Warhammer 40k book) and a quarter the way through a book named: Certain Dark Things. A book about modern vampires in Mexico. I read that it was good but it’s not hooked me yet.
Just finished Adam Nevill’s horrifying short novel, “The Vessel.” I rate it five stars - very intense and sort of “wicker man” vibes. I’m now reading “I Found Puppets Living in my Apartment Walls” by Ben Farthing. And even though I just started it, it’s quite creepy!
Deliverance Lost by Gavin Thorpe.
Spies by Calder Walton. History of spying between the USSR and US/UK going back to WW2 with how quickly Stalin got ahead of the West by spying on his allies whole the West thought that wasn’t “gentlemanly”.
Soul Music by Terry Pratchett reread when Spies is too heavy or dry for my current mood
I’ve been on the Deathworlders book for a couple of months. Figured I would get bored after a few thousand pages, but I’m still going.
Take a look, the premise is pretty wild.
Currently Reading:
- FICTION: Leviathan Wakes by James SA Corey (first book of TheExpanse series)
- NON-FICTION: Outlive by Peter Attia, MD
Rereading Terry Pratchett’s Guards! Guards!
I’ve just been getting burnt out on the literal insanity of the world and most notably of the people in positions of power, and needed a complete diversion. I had been reading Haruki Murakami 's 1Q84, but I just couldn’t stay with it - too many loathsome characters. So I set it aside and pondered what to read instead, and Discworld just seemed the obvious choice. I read the entire series over the last ten years or so, so it’d been long enough that I could at least reread the earlier ones. And this time through, I can skip the ones I didn’t like so much (like pretty much all of the Rincewind books). So I started with Equal Rites, then went on to Mort and Wyrd Sisters and am now on Guards! Guards! And it’s just as good as I’d remembered.
If you want some fresh air and something light try ‘In the Lives of Puppets’ by TJ Klune. I just finished and it left me feeling happy and good.
I’m doing some classic sci-fi working my way through Heinlein’s books, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress was great, Have Space Suit Will Travel was a fun romp, and Starship Troopers is excellent, so much better than the movie, which was also fun.
It’s on to Vonnegut now!
