Finished Carl’s Doomsday Scenario by Matt Dinniman, book 2 of Dungeon Crawler Carl.
spoiler for book 2
I thought Bea will show up in the second book, though it looks like she is actually dead now. Carl has a point if she was still alive some show will have found her by now.
It looks like they are going to do something in future books and split up Carl and Donut. Not a fan of this in most books, so let’s see how it goes.
Started Sword of Destiny by Andrzej Sapkowski. Book 2 of The Witcher series. This is the second short story collection, after which comes the 5 book novel series. I read the series quite a while ago, but never finished all the novels, so re-reading the earlier books to finally complete the series.
What about all of you? What have you all been reading or listening to lately?
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I hit a wall on finding the energy for getting into a new book and went back to a comfort series: The Morningstar Strain by Z. A. Recht. First book is The Plague of the Dead, which is one of the first zombie apocalypse novels I ever read. It’s like slipping on a well broken-in slipper. It has been so long since I originally read it, but the plot and characters are still compelling.
Currently reading Buried Mage, book 4 of the Fledgeling God series by Michael Taggart. It is a slightly cracky a heavily gay modern setting fantasy progression series. The magic is explored in interesting enough ways to be fun, the characters are a little one dimensional sometimes, but the whole thing is a lot of fun. It doesn’t take itself too seriously and is just there for a good time, so it never feels to desperate or reaching.
I would give it a solid 80% rating, but I am very picky, I am currently listening to the series for the 3rd time so it is good enough to get repeated listenings.
“Blood Of Victory” by Alan Furst. Not my favorite Furst novel, but the one I decided to reread. I’m sticking with it because he is fantastic at creating an atmosphere. Every hotel, nightclub, and train car seems authentic.
It’s set in 1939. Britain is holding on by a thread, and the Nazis are enjoying life in Paris. A Russian writer has resident alien status in France, and is being recruited by various governments to act as an agent. “Oh, you met her? She’d recruit God.”
Finished “Practical Magic”. Easy, fun read. I have the sequel book in my queue. I’ve heard the sequel movie doesn’t follow the books, so it will be interesting to compare.
Still trying to read through Revenge of Odessa and I’m reading, ahem, Switch On! Doujinshi/H.
Revenge of Odessa is really good but sometimes a bit heavy on the mind and mood. It is fiction and about a journalist that tries to figure out why a Nazi group did something that’s related to him.
Switch On! Is surprisingly enjoyable. Simple story but decent. I will leave the details out since I’m not sure how the rules are here regarding erotic content.
Finished Martha Wells’ “The Death of the Necromancer”. It was okay. Honestly, it dragged a bit.
I’m loving “Over the Wine Dark Sea” by H.N. Turteltaub. 40% through it, buuuut, I’m taking a break because
Finally reading “Children of Strife” by Adrian Tchaikovsky! Book 4 of his I don’t actually know what this series is called. Is it Children of Time, named after Book 1? Anyways, I didn’t care much for Book 3, but I’m into this so far, gonna fly through it fast
I wouldn’t blink if you said “Children of Time series” to me in a conversation.
I really enjoyed the series. I do think Children of Time itself was the best of the lot, but I think I enjoyed Book 3 more than you did. “We’re going on an adventure!” made me laugh.
Someone on here made a video game that makes me think of the starship from the book. Dead Reckoning I think?
Shift
It’s the 2nd novel in the Silo series and I tried reading it a couple years ago now and couldn’t get in to it but now (after catching up on the TV show) I’m listening to the audiobook and really enjoying it.
Malka Older’s delightful Investigations of Mossa and Plieti.
The Mimicking of Known Successes
The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles
The Potency of Ungovernable Impulses
It’s a Holmsian cozy murder mystery sci fi sapphic romance set on Jupiter after the earth becomes uninhabitable.
Great read, very fun, good autistic rep.
I started Carl’s Doomsday Scenario by Matt Dinnaman the other night. This series has already sucked me in and I’m happy for it. After this one, I’m going to read something else because I don’t want to go through the series too fast lol
I’m 2/3 of the way through The Last Days of Jack Sparks by Jason Arnopp. It’s been an easy, entertaining read so far, and I enjoy the gimmick of it being the manuscript of an unreliable narrator that someone else has added clarifying material to. It is starting to feel overlong, though; not sure if it’s me, the pacing, or if the story’s just wearing a bit thin.
Still grinding through rationality from ai to zombies. It does get you thinking, but has some serious repetition issues. Often arguments feel like strawman in particular the consciousness arguments (consciousness means people who discuss consciousness). Its also not great as an audiobook as significant portions are very math heavy (at least they often say just go read this chapter). Anyway its long and I’m not loving it.
I’m nearly a third of the way through Anna Karenina by Tolstoy. It’s surprisingly easier to read than I expected, and he doesn’t go off on heavily religious tangents like Dostoevsky does. There’s this nice flow between characters, and you get to see things from quite a range of perspectives. I also like how nuanced the characters feel.
It’s probably going to take me a while to get through this one, and I don’t mind that at all. It’s very charming.
I made like no progress over the last week reading. Had a few days off work and just ended up playing some video games so I am still in the middle of Morning Star, book 3 in the Red Rising trilogy and Between Two Fires.
Morning Star is getting really interesting so I hope to finish it by weeks end.
I read the trilogy last week. So good. Setting aside the seriee until the last book comes. I think Morning Star is a good stopping point.
I’m on book 3 of the tyrant philosophers series from Adrian Tchaikovsky. It’s been pretty good it reminds me of some parts in the Malazan books
Picked up Stephen King’s Duma Key in a Little Free Library and am enjoying that so far (3/4 of the way through it).
The amount of people that sleep on King’s astounding storytelling because they assume it’s all horror is pretty sad.
