Reading The Bands of Mourning by Brandon Sanderson, 3rd book in the 2nd era of Mistborn.
What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening to lately?
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I’m re-reading Eines Menschen Flügel by Andreas Eschbach. It’s about a society started by refugees from a far future civilization, and because touching the ground is deadly, modified their children to have wings.
I re-read the book every few years, because it describes essentially a utopian society and I find it very inspiring, while also just being interesting.
Working my way through Discworld for the first time. Just finished listening to Witches Abroad and enjoyed that a lot, though the previous Reaper Man story spoke to me a little more. Small Gods looks to be next, which I’ve seen people speak highly of, so I’m looking forward to starting that.
Life on the Disc has been such fun to read about! I’m a bit sad I never got around to reading these sooner, but then again, it’s been a real highlight of this year.
For the podcast I’m currently reading Winter Tide by Ruthanna Emrys. If you’ve not read it, I recommend it for fans of Lovecraftian Mythos who’d enjoy a redemption of the work whilst ignoring the xenophobic dick who originally created it.
After I finished Le Guin’s Left Hand of Darkness, I bought The Hainish Novels and Stories. Yesterday I finished Rocannon’s World and started Planet of Exile.
They’re great books, I’m a fan. What I liked about Rocannon’s World is the mixture of science fiction and fantasy elements, and how they’re used to show different perspectives on the same events. Also, I would love to fly one of those windsteeds.
Looking forward to what Planet of Exile has in store.
Right now I’m reading a couple of comic books. First is Laika by Rick Abadzis, about the Soviet Space Program and the titular dog. The second one is Tiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes by Lun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud and Améziane, about events at Tiananmen Square in 1989, when absolutely nothing happened.
Once I’m done with those, I’m finally going back to the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan, with Crossroads of Twilight, the tenth book.
How fictionalized is Laika? And I am guessing Tiananmen 1989 is completely non-fiction? How are they both?
Laika fictionalizes a lot, giving Laika a back story that’s pure imagination, but there’s also a lot of seemingly historically accurate and well researched story and characters there. The leader of the space program being a former prisoner at a Gulag was an interesting bit of info.
Tiananmen is autobiographical to an extent, but the author says it’s not exactly his story, but the story of people like him. Once again it seemed fairly accurate, though I’m not terribly well informed on the subject.
Both comics were decent. Laika was more emotionally evocative, Tiananmen tried to be more accurate, from a protestor’s perspective. The art was nice, especially with Laika, which took some creative liberties. Neither book was very long, so definitely worth picking up if you happen upon them.
