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What book(s) are you currently reading or listening? March 11

Finished Shadows of Self by Brandon Sanderson. Book 2 of second era of Mistborn.

It was interesting where the story is going. Character development and the world building is interesting. Not a big fan of how the book ended, but I guess this is how it had to be. Looking forward to the next book.

Finished Gangsta Granny by David Williams.

My kid got it from school library, and wanted me to read it too. It's mainly about how kids find old people boring and old people weren't always old, they lived a life before reaching this age. A fun middle-grade novel. Highly recommended (for kids).

Also read it's sequel Gangsta Granny Strikes Again

The first half felt a bit childish to me (that's not a negative, it is a children's book), but enjoyed the latter half, but mentioning any of that will be a spoiler for the first book. If you read the first book and like it, I would also highly recommend the sequel.

Reading Amulet series by Kazu Kibushi. It's a graphic novel series for middle-grade, and was highly recommended by Brandon Sanderson.

There are 9 books in total, I have been getting them one at a time but was waiting to collect all the books before starting it. So, finally got the whole set and started reading it. Have finished the first 5, and am currently reading the 6th one.

Highly recommended for fantasy fans, both young and old.

What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening to lately?

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Just finished Harry Potter 4. Dunno what to read next. Will take me a few days to figure it out
- What about Harry Potter 5?
  
  I was considering that, but i need a break from HP.

Just finished Red Shirts by Jon Scalzi, a Star Trek satire about the disposability of side characters in sci-fi. Not a bad book, by any regards, but had a very simplistic writing style that got tedious at times. The best part of the book was when the narrative finished 75% of the way through the novel, then it spent three chapters exploring three of the minor characters from the narrative and the repercussions the plot had on them. This made the book worth reading, but I still felt a little unsatisfied at the end.
I'm now reading Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky. I'm only two chapters in, but so far, this looks much more up my street. Earth has become a fascist technocracy that sends its political prisoners to far off planets to endure forced labour. The descriptions of acceptable losses in the first chapter made the tense descent of the main character to his new prison planet all the more so. Interested to see where this one goes.
- The microwave won me over in Red Shirts.

I finished "dungeon crawler Carl" by Matt Dinniman, and currently reading the second book in the series "Carl's doomsday scenario". So, even though I didn't remember getting the first book, and being a bit reluctant to start it, I enjoyed it a lot. I did have to get into it for a while. Overall the pacing is nice, the humor is great without getting in the way. The premise of the story is of course quite nonsensical, but it doesn't get in the way of some good storytelling. All in all a very entertaining book.
- Woo!! Dungeon Crawler Carl is the best! The most recent book was a trip.

Revelation space by Alistair Reynolds
I listened to the audio book, but the book changes perspective so fast and often that the audiobook is hard to fully digest. Reading the prose form has me picking up on entire plotlines that I zoned out with in the audio version.
Would recommend if you're into hard sci-fi. No warp drives, FTL comms and so far the only aliens are extinct (minor spoiler until page 2).

On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe by Caroline Dodds Pennock
It's an interesting subject, but not a gripping read. Pushing through to free up a 'currently reading' slot for A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers.

Still working on I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons by Peter S. Beagle. I'm much more satisfied with it at the 75% mark, now that the plot's well under way. I think I may try to fit something else by him into my list for 2025 bingo, because I'm really enjoying his writing style.

My Darling Dreadful Thing by Johanna van Veen. Queer gothic horror, and rather interesting read so far.

If you count comic books, I am re-reading the entire ElfQuest saga so I can finally read the Final Quest books.

Other than a few Deathlands books (tired of reading that word yet? Cause I'm only around a third of the way through xD) I have literally just finished Torment by Jeremy Robinson which is a other book in the Infinite series. It was decent enough but not oone of the best from the series.

Just started "Black Pill" by Reeve.

Finished Too Late, by Colleen Hoover. Well I have mixed feelings about it. On one hand it's a good page turner with some suspens and so on. But I was a bit uneasy about the over occurrence of sexual relations described with a too high level of detail. At times, I wondered if I was reading a psychological triller or the scenario of a porn movie... I think this was done in order to describe the horror of the main bad character but it was just too much and unnecessary in my opinion.
Well I don't know yet what to read next, I'll look up maybe here if something please me.
Edit: I think I'll go for The Antidote, by Karen Russell. Seems to have some good reviews.

Just finished Half Share, First Break All the Rules, and How to Deliver a Great TED Talk
Started Law School for Everyone: Constitutional Law and will start Talk like TED tomorrow.

I’m currently reading The Art Thief by Michael Finkel.
I really like the book and I’m amazed how Breitwieser accomplished everything and the way he thinks makes me curious as well.
Can’t write much because don’t want to spoil the story and the people (non-fiction).

I finished Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin. It follows two friends and video game devs from childhood into adulthood. This author did some really interesting things and I intensely loved parts of the book. At the same time though, parts of the book really frustrated me, pulled me out of the story and made we want to stop reading it entirely. I've never been so conflicted about how I feel about a book.
Now I'm continuing to read Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson (Stormlight book 3). It's been very slow going but I am really enjoying it.

I'm a few chapters into the Graphic Audio version of Words of Radiance by Sanderson, it's pretty cool so far. There are a few voices that don't fit the versions of characters in my head though, especially Jasnah. I'm sure I'll get used to it.
I've also started Daughter of the Dragon by Michael G Manning which came out last year and somehow completely flew under my radar. It's book 2 of Wrath of the Stormking, which is a sequel series to Art of the Adept, which I really liked. It's much better than his Mageborn series & related continuations IMO, but those grew on me a lot over time.
Finally, I've switched from Goodreads (which I haven't really used in the past 2 years anyway) to The StoryGraph. Not much to say about that yet, it seems to be fine.

I just finished Blood Meridian and now started The Cheese and the Worms by Carlo Ginzburg. It's about the beliefs of a medieval Italian miller who was burned at the stake by the inquisition.

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