Working my way thru Dungeon Crawler Carl audiobook, on Chapter 34 now. Its a lot of fun. The voice actor for this book is very impressive. He has a huge range and really gives so much personality to the characters.

I'm 90% of the way through Anna Karenina, but having to take a break to read a book for my book club. That book is Evenings and Weekends by Oisín McKenna. I'm enjoying it so far; a nice slice of life involving a group of friends/roommates/lovers living in London. It has some quite poetic commentary on queerness, communication across different generations and living in a city. And it has its funny moments :)

Just finished cat's cradle by kurt Vonnegut and um wow! Never read any of his work before. It was a wild ride

Im going through "The Nature of Predators"

We are the aliens. Its a sorta space opera kinda deal. I like it so far.

I haven't been reading a ton, so I'm only a little over 1/3 of the way through Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir. It's still enjoyable, but I am getting a little impatient for the story to just get on with it. It's not slow, exactly, but the nonlinearity does kinda make it feel like it's going backwards, or in circles, or sidestepping, rather than plunging into the meat of things.

Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy

I loved the first two books in the trilogy, but I'm not sure about this one yet. The characters don't quite seem like themselves, but maybe there's a good reason for that.

Going to revisit McCain’s Promise aka the expanded/standalone “Up, Simba!” nonfiction by David Foster Wallace, given the midterms here in the US. Very interesting examination of the traditional campaign trail, and how the ideological veil starts to fall apart in ways the rallygoers don’t see from only one night or from the front end (Wallace readily admits he’s seeing things from the side rather than from “behind the scenes”).

Under the Dome. Stephen King

Finishing **Wheel of Time 8: The Path of Daggers ** Maybe I'll read something else before I begin WoT9

Food Sense by Christopher Gardner

Trying to get through Dan Brown’s most recent novel “Secret of Secrets”. It’s really bad so far — like someone put together a paint by numbers version of a Dan Brown story. I’m sure they’ll make another Tom Hanks movie out of it.

I finished Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time today, a bit shy of two years after I started it. Well, I actually started the series in the nineties, but this time I managed to finish it.

OP asked me for my opinion on the ending, but at this point I'm sort of unsure myself. It's such a long series with so many concepts and characters that it's hard to summarize my thoughts in writing. I don't have that Talent. I do find myself satisfied with how the series ended, though. There's some Christian philosophy woven in to the conclusion that I don't really agree with, but it makes sense and works within the world the story takes place in. Brandon Sanderson was a great choice for writing the final books.

Yes, it is a good series, but one I can't really recommend to most people, and it frustrated me at many points. Heck, I think half the books should have been slashed. Don't have your spouse for an editor I suppose.

I'm glad it's done.

I also read Guy Delisle's comic book Hostage. It's the true story of a kidnapped NGO administrator who was kidnapped in 1997 in the Caucasus. Very interesting read and a daring story to adapt to a comic book, since it's mostly one man alone hand cuffed to a radiator. It must have been a harrowing experience for the hostage though.

Next up I think I'll read Остров Сахалин by Eduard Verkin. It's a sci-fi book I picked up from the library.

Read "The Library at Mount Char" by Scott Hawkins. It was wild and I really enjoyed reading it, but I wouldn't necessarily recommend it widely due to some of the content. Weirdly twisted and dark, brilliant but also somewhat conveniently plotted. Almost too convenient at points.

Another week of "the Wandering Inn" volume three. Man this one is big, I'd thought I would have finished it by now. The book gets better in the end, not that it was really bad to begin with. My problem with it is that is was written as a web serial, and by design there are a lot of tangents where the book goes of from the main story line.

Re listening to Rainbow Six by Tom Clancy.

Crime & Punishment

It's kind of a slog to be honest but I'm determined to make it through, slowly.

I'm just about to finish up the 13th book of He Who Fights with Monsters. I'm pretty sad I'm getting to the end of what is currently out.

Think I'll go for a few more Dresden books after I'm done!

The Door by Magda Szabó https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/497499.The_Door

Reading The Rouse by China Miéville; starting The Republic of Memory by Mahmud El Sayed and The End of Everything by M. John Harrison.

Nearing the end of Circe by Madeline Miller. I have very much enjoyed it.

Started Amber and Iron by Margeret Weis. Its book 2 in a trilogoy i started a little while back? It is a d&d book so its not gonna be great by any stretch but at least or hopefully entertaining. Jumped to some new books i got before going back to this. Really want to push through this trilogy and maybe another book or two before i get back to the He who fights with Monsters series. Think its like 12 or so books so feels like that is an undertaking. Also i have had far better luck reading litrpg books in a physical copy vs audiobooks so i dont even think they are all out in physical editions yet.

I'm about 2/3 through The Eye of the Bedlam Bride (DCC VI), so I'll probably finish that this week.

And next up is We Are Legion (We Are Bob) by Dennis E. Taylor which was recommended by someone on Lemmy somewhere at some point.

An amazing intersection of Technology and history about how forecasting has affected us as a society, the cost and reasons of certainty even when they're not facts, including AI.

Finished my Culture series re-read. Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M Banks. Loved it, and I miss the series already. Started Free and Equal by Daniel Chandler. A book about how to implement John Rawls philosophy in today's world. It's a fantastic intro into Rawls genius, and provides a good lens through which to look at some of todays most challenging political differences.

I just started The Fires of December by Brandon Sanderson cause my copy arrived in the mail. The first chapter has me intrigued.

Just finished Paper Towns by John Green with very mixed feelings

I have been mildly irritated at the whole book right up to the last 30 pages where it kind if got better. I can't really put a finger on what has annoyed me, but it just feels wrong and somewhat artificial

Holding off on anything until There Are No Giant Crabs In This Novel: A Novel of Giant Crabs by Jason Pargin comes out, but I just finished chewing through the other four books in the John Dies series again in preparation. Fuck, I love Jason Pargin, read his books and listen to Bigfeets!

Bullring Days Four by Wes Boyd

The Ethical Slut by Dossie Easton and Janet Hardy.

A Farewell to Arms - Hemingway

Murder by Design by Lee Goldberg

Listening to the audiobook as i don't have the time for reading nowadays.

Just finished Birdbox by Josh Malerman, and immediately picked up the sequel Malorie. Also reading Lords and Ladies by Terry Pratchett this week.

I'm really digging it so far 😀 about 10% in