Consider phlebas by ian m. Banks. I’ve seen so many people recommend it here. Enjoyable so far, I’ll likely continue

Just started listening to Fabulous Bodies by Chuck Tingle.

Also reading a Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine which I’m pretty sure was recommended around here.

Edit to add: I think I read it so fast it didn’t get mentioned but I loved it and really want to mention

I just finished To Ride a Rising Storm by Moniquill Blackgoose.

I finally finished Anna Karenina the other week - long, but beautiful and still very relevant.

I’ve now started on Recursion by Blake Crouch. At first I was getting a little worried this would be too similar to Dark Matter, but having just finished part 1 everything has now clicked for me and it feels like a unique concept with some very interesting repercussions. I can’t wait to find out what happens!

I didn’t quite like Children of Time (was hoping for less spiders) so I started Mistborn and it’s ok so far.

Just finished Dragondrums byAnne McCaffrey. I’ve been slowly going through all her old Pern novels. I had read this one as a kid, but I’d forgotten a lot of the story beats. It felt more like a new book than a re-read!

Also started Line of Polity by Neal Asher. Another of his books caught my eye a few months ago and it turns out that he has over a dozen books in his setting! Should be fun.

Currently reading The Expanse for the first time.

Haven’t watched the show yet, gonna do it after, don’t want to spoil anything.

I’m in the third book right now, juicy stuff!

Not sure I’m so much as reading it but… Tower of Fools, I think it’s called. By the same guy that wrote the Witcher stuff they made the games about. I haven’t played them but I’ve heard they were good.

It’s sat, so far, about 6 months on my nightstand. I finally picked it up, read the intro, and set it back down for a week. Just the other day I made it through the first 2 chapters.

Honestly, I was skimming towards the end. He uses a lot of ecclesiastical terminology and I wasn’t interested in looking them up. Haven’t gone back to it in a few days now.

A sad state of affairs for one who used to be a voracious reader and always enjoyed expanding my vocabulary. I just can’t seem to get in a comfortable mental state anymore. I just want to turn my brain off with a game or gorge on doom scrolling.

I used to finish a few books a month but lately I can’t even finish an article.

I’ve got:
There are no giant crabs in this novel: a novel of giant crabs (Book 5 in the John and Dave series).
I love these books, really hit my sense of humor/horror.

The Princess Bride by William Goldman. Technically I didn’t finish it yet, but while reading the afterword that was added in the nineties I started to get annoyed by the author. I’m not sure yet if I’ll finish it or start a new book tonight.

The rest of the book (I skipped the foreword, also written in the nineties) was nice. It’s funny, kind of a weird story but a lot of fun to read.

i’m a stephen king fan from way back, but at some point i stopped finding his work worthwhile, but i recently decided to take up some of his more recent work. just finished fairytale: the novel and later. fairytale was okay, but didn’t wow me. later on the other hand i found really compelling, a great shorter story.

right now i’m reading a self-published book one of my college history instructors wrote years ago. it’s about a guy in 1968 who has to decide what he’s going to do about the draft. while it’s a bit clumsy in some ways and really calls out for an editor i’m finding the local historical aspects of it pretty fascinating.

i’m also still reading an indigenous people’s history of the u.s.. it’s fascinating and well written, but non-fiction tends to get set aside for novelty. i’m still commited to finishing it.

I recently finished Magical Girl Mechanical Heart by Natalie Maher and Are You Even Human by Natalie Maher. Both are heavy and dark, SciFi/fantasy. Best things I have read in years. I can’t wait for the next books.

Current reading Memory’s Flame, The Wandering Inn, Book 20.

Finished Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty. Apparently her books are quite popular with the wine moms. That’s not me, but even I thought this was a good family mystery.

Next up I think is going to be Ringworld Throne by Larry Niven. I read the first two Ringworlds a while ago, and recently came into possession of the sequels Throne and Children.

I’m right now listening to The Haar. Mhairi Morrison does a great job in narrating the audiobook.

I’m about 400 pages into War and Peace, and I’m blown away. The story is rich in themes, well-developed characters, history and ideas. At the same time, it is a gripping read and nowhere near as tough as I feared. My only regret so far is that I wish I had bought a translation that kept the French intact; I am switching between translations – I read the free Maude translation digitally, and my physical edition was translated by Anthony Briggs. While both are enjoyable, neither indicates which character is speaking in which language. But it’s important to know, because Tolstoy puts a lot of meaning into how characters express themselves.

Anyway, is anyone else reading it at the moment, or has anyone read it in the past? How do/did you like it?

I started Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables, I’m suprised how colorful and interesting the language is but still it’s easy to read.