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Finished Mistborn: Secret Histories novella. Don't want to spoil, but it was really exciting to read this secret history.

Read Redshirts by John Scalzi. A sci-fi about the "redshirts" in a Star-Trek like universe. Highly recommended for any Star Trek fan.

Started Rosemary and Rue by Seanan McGuire. First book in her October Daye urban fantasy series. This is my first Seanan McGuire book, have heard a lot about her.

Still skimming through The Bullet Journal Method by Ryder Caroll.

Putting Ultra-processed Food by Chris van Tulleken on hold for a bit, shouldn't have started multiple non-fiction at once. Will pick it up after finishing the Bullet Journal Method.

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[–] scala@lemmy.ml 7 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (2 children)

Finished Dungeon Crawler Carl books 1-7 a few months ago. In preparation for Book 8 in May I'm now listing to the Audiobooks followed by the Soundbooth immersion tunnel version.

Last month read The Expanse first 3 books.

Currently reading Children of Time while waiting for Operation BounceHouse to release next week.

[–] IceSoup@sopuli.xyz 2 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

I watched the Expanse, and have considered reading the books as well. Did you watch the show before reading?

[–] scala@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 hours ago

I haven't watched the series (yet). The books have been fantastic so far

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 0 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Not the person you asked, but I did, at least the first few seasons, meaning: I started to watch the show, then (I guess in a lull between seasons), I started reading the books. IMO the TV adaptation is true to the books and I enjoyed both immensely. It is, at least up to that point, one of the best TV shows ever for me.
But at some point I got bored; season 7 maybe? Does that correlate to book 7?

[–] IceSoup@sopuli.xyz 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

In season 7 not a whole lot happens. Mostly because it doesn't exist haha. I enjoyed it the whole way through, but I do think the first 3 seasons were the best. Once they went to the new planet and stuff it kinda lost focus. No idea how it relates to the books, but I'm pretty sure they didn't adapt all the books.

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 1 points 13 hours ago

Once they went to the new planet and stuff it kinda lost focus.

This. And I remember starting to read the according books and it was much the same as in the show.

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Last month read The Expanse first 3 books.

Oooh, I wish I could recreate that experience.

[–] scala@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 hours ago

That's how I feel with the DCC series.