Books

Finally hit book 14 of wheel of time today, A Memory of Light. I think the entire series is something like 4.4m words all in? Taken me since later January to get here, I just glad I going to finish it this year.

Really enjoyed the series as its scope allows you to wallow in the characters and settings. However your could probably cut a couple of the books and not miss them that much as the pace slows down after a while.

Oh, also thinking of Cold Days gives me an excuse to post a cat pic. This was Sarissa, named such after the character you meet in Cold Days.

I started Aurora Blazing by Jessie Mihalik last night. I barely started it and I’m glad I did. I love Mihalik’s work, she writes some really great space opera romance.

I started a book called The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Tutton because it became available at my library. I got about 40 pages in and I stopped because I’m just not feeling it at the moment. I’ll return it and try again another time because the premise of the book sounds really interesting. It kind of reminds me of The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa, which I absolutely loved.

I finished The Illustrated Woman by Melissa Bobe. I loved the short stories in this, I also really enjoyed how it was set up; a woman is wandering through a carnival and finds a woman with magic tattoos that show her the stories of different women who have come to her and their struggles. There were 2 stories that I would love seeing turned into full novels because I found the world very interesting. Leave Your Fear, You’ll Be Just Fine was probably my favorite.

Just finished the Dresden Files (1-18). Latest installment comes out in January. Was kinda addicted there for a minute.

Just finished The Broken Ones by Stephen M. Irwin. Detective/Horror which I didn't think would work so well.

Now trying to start a horror anthology called Howls from the Dark Ages. Also, the new Thursday Murder Club book just came out.

Project Hail Mary because of the upcoming movie.

Been going thru the Discworld series in published order, and now on A Hat Full of Sky. I think it's #30ish out of 40ish in the series? It's taken a number of years, but I'm also getting a bit sad that I'm nearing the end and there won't be any more. Pratchett was a treasure.

I've never read The Grapes of Wrath before, but now I'm about a quarter through it.

You can tell that Steinbeck really lived that hard depression life and had an abiding love for the other people who did too, warts and all.

The Book of Dust, Volume 3: The Rose Field

If you liked His Dark Materials this continuation of the story is pretty epic and the last book was just released!

Ill Met in Lankhmar (1995) by Fritz Leiber in it's first unabridged german translation from 2004.

It is absurd, how underrated Leiber is up to this day. He was so much better than many of his contemporaries.

This Inevitable Ruin

Dungeon Crawler Carl #7

Transformations, by Marcella Althaus-Reid and Lisa Isherwood.

Bill Bryson - The Lost Continent

It’s funny and a great read as Bryson always is, but I noticed for the first time that my values have changed since I first read it.

He pretty regularly comments on how overweight people are, and doesn’t mind describing exactly what he finds unattractive in older or overweight women.

I guess I just got fat friends and find that distasteful now.

I literally just finished The Shining. Somehow I missed this one in the past, but it was a really good read.

I’m also about 1/2 through The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A Fuck by Mark Manson. Ironically, I’m reading it in the midst of a long trip and it’s giving me a lot of things to contemplate.