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The Southern Reach series and a bit of Clarice Lispector and Lydia Davis short stories added in for the psychedelic spice.
edit it is WAY easier to read these comments if you bold book, author, and series names!
Reminder surround text with one pair of asterisks to make italic text and two pairs of asterisks to make bold text.
Still on book 1 of the Farseer series and still really liking it. She creates a warm and comfortable world that I enjoy being in.
I just finished The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga. It introduces the reader to the philosophical and psychological concepts developed and popularized by Alfred Adler. I thoroughly enjoyed it and found it to be possibly transformative for my own life and outlook.
In a dramatic departure from usual scheduling I have only listened to one Deathlands book, number 101.
Other than that I have listened to "The Eyre Affair" and I am halfway through "Lost in a Good Book" these are the first two books of the "Thursday Next" series of books by Jasper Fforde.
Thursday Next: "Set in the Nextian Universe, where the ChronoGuard monitors the time stream, the Crimean War never ended and literature and croquet are national obsessions, the series follows the adventures of Thursday Next, Literary Detective and Jurisfiction agent. "
The Eyre Affair: "Acheron Hades, Third Most Wanted Man in the World, steals the original manuscript of Mr Chuzzlewit and kills a minor character, causing him to disappear from the pages of every copy in existence. But this was just a warning, his real target is Jane Eyre, who is kidnapped from the pages of literature. With the help of her uncle Mycroft, a genius inventor, Thursday enters the pages of Jane Eyre, teaming up with Rochester to foil Hades and rescue his beloved Jane."
lost in a Good Book: "Thursday's husband Landen has been eradicated by the Goliath Corporation. They'll bring him back, but only if Thursday releases their top agent whom she trapped in the pages of The Raven. Unfortunately, the works of Poe are restricted, so newly minted Jurisfiction agent Thursday Next will need some help in the form of her new mentor, Miss Havisham."
The entire universe is an absurd alternate history with ridiculous shit happening constantly and I'm loving it!
Starsight from brandon sanderson and dune messiah
The Boomer Bible, as a pdf.
Reading Vita Nostra by Marina & Sergey Dyachenko, along with Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz when I need a break from Vita Nostra's slow pacing.
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Finished:
I don't really have a description for this one. A few of the stories have a shared setting; a few others have a war/revolution theme.
None of the stories in this were bad, they just didn't all appeal to me; the shared-setting ones were coincidentally my favorite. I've realized that part of my issue with collections/anthologies is that I'm stuck diving in blind for every single story, hoping that the author/theme is enough to carry my interest.
The Siege of Vraks, by Steve Lyons
Hee hee, 'listening to books'
