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I've put together a collage of some books from last months What are you Reading? post. It's mostly random, but the more discussion something gets the more it stands out to me. Going forward I'm going to make a new post every month to talk about what people are reading.
Here is last months post. What are you Reading? (July 2023)
At any rate, what are you currently reading or plan to read in August?
Start WoT now, and you might finish by Christmas
I guess I just read slow in my old age, took me about 10 months, although generally the only opportunity I get to read is after the kids go to bed and before I fall asleep.
I bought both Asimov collections, and after reading the I, Robot edition pictured above, I started Prelude to Foundation.
Just fulinished A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge. Didn't enjoy as much as A Fire Upon the Deep, but it was still a good space opera. Some uncomfortable sex scenes though.
It's one of two books I gave up on. The other was Atlas Shrugged.
I'm reading the Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan, which is the first book of the Kane's Chronicles. I'm also reading Queen of Shadows by Sarah j. Maas.
Last day of my vacation and I've begun my third book in as many days. Just read Yumi and the Nightmare Painter by Brandon Sanderson, followed by A Winter Grave by Peter May. Both books were great, hence why I swallowed them so fast.
Have just started on Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny, and so far it seems promising.
Just finished reading an older series: Nine Princes in Amber. Doesn't age as well as I'd like.
Yeah, I enjoyed them when I was a college student but on later re-reading Corwin just comes across as a two-dimensional good-hearted wise guy who can take care of himself. Kind of a fantasy version of early-generation science fiction a la Asimov or Heinlein.
I´m reading select texts about what is grassroots-community action. It has been quite nice. The book is in Portuguese though.
I've been reading a thrift store find as of late, "The Mammoth Book Of Best New SF 11", a short story collection first published in 1998, ed. Gardner Dozois by Robinson Publishing.
In general I've been reading different sci fi short story collections of as of late, while waiting for the next Final Architecture -book to drop.
a world without visa by ean Malaquais
https://libcom.org/article/world-without-visa
tough to get into but worth every page, but far from accessible if you are not known to french and russian names en masse
I just finished Season of Skulls by Charles Stross. 3rd book of the New Management series... a sort of sequel series to the Laundry Files.
I'm starting Woken Furies by Richard Morgan. I watched the Netflix Altered Carbon series and figured the books would be worth a read, and so far they have been!
I loved the first book but the other two were... Meh. It was like Morgan had given everything he had in the first book of the series.
I enjoyed The Year's Best Science Fiction anthologies edited by Gardner Dozois until his passing. I just discovered its spiritual successor, The Best Science Fiction of the Year edited by Neil Clarke, and am catching up now.
Just about to finish the final book in the Remembrance of Earth's Past Trilogy (Deaths End). Have just picked up The City and the Stars for my August read as Cixin Lui was giving me Arthur C. Clarke vibes with his incredible hard sci-fi epic
Just finished Frugal Wizards Guide, by Sanderson.
It wasn't what I was expecting, but found it weird and fun. As per most of Sanderson's books, I fell down the sanderlanch, and read it in 2 days.
About to finish Snow Crash, and I was just thinking about reading Seveneves afterwards. Is it good? How does it compare to Cryptonomicon and Snow Crash (the only other Stephenson books I've read)?