What are you reading at the moment?
What are you reading at the moment?
Currently reading Tom Clancy - Debt of Honour, although I'm struggling to keep motivated as the writing is so damn small with tiny line spacing!
Leviathan Wakes by James S A Corey
I've watched The Expanse TV series a few times now so it's about time I got round to reading the books. It's no surprise that I'm really enjoying it so far, though it's the first novel I've read in years.
Such a great read, there's a bunch of add on books I heard too, I'm going to look them up as I'm jonesing for more since it all finished. I did see there's a TellTale game coming out too. Will need to see what like that is a well.
I'm so jealous that you're getting to read it for the first time! The Expanse series is my favourite TV show and the books are brilliant! The general plot remains roughly the same but there are some differences with subplots and characters. Enjoy!
It's bloody brilliant isn't it. Not usually one for sci-fi novels but loved the series so thought I'd give it a go. Read the first 3 so far and now taking a break and reading something else.
Finally started reading dune. Loving it so far.
The Burning God by RF Kuang.
There’s war, there’s a girl who spits fire, there’s dirty jokes. What more could I want?
Need to finish that series. I read the first book but never got around to reading the others.
I’m reading the entire thing in one go, and it’s been very enjoyable!
The Lost Rainforests of Britain by Guy Shrubsole. Very interesting if very Guardian-y bit of British lore I’d never even heard about before, and it very much makes me want to take a trip west to see the remnants of our rainforests.
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. It's a cyberpunk sci-fi novel where the term "metaverse" was first introduced. I'm enjoying it so far.
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
That actually sounds really interesting! Going to add that to my reading list!
Spaceships Over Glasgow: Mogwai, Mayhem and Misspent Youth by Stuart Braithwaite - a musical memoir of the Mogwai star. It's a really great and nostalgic look back at the Scottish alternative music scene of the early 90s so far, enjoying it a lot!
Dungeon Crawler Carl, was recommended by a friend. Fun concept and kind of funny so far.
The indictment of Donald J. Trump. Honestly entertaining, scary, and fascinating. Some of the coconspirators come off like slime.
I particularly liked their senior campaign advisor's description of the scheme as "just conspiracy shit beamed down from the mothership"
A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter 👀
My big read is Finnegans Wake - which I am reading through the year along with others on a reddit sub - obout the only thing that keeps me there at the moment. It continues to be fascinatingly incomprehensible.
As well as that I am reading Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Time, which has some thoughtful worldbuilding and an intriguing plot.
I am also reading through a series of Doctor Who novels from the '90s - the 'wilderness years' - when the novels became a lot more interesting and experimental, with little requirement for accessibility for mainstream audiences any more. Death and Diplomacy at the moment, which has some good character beat for the Doctor, but is a bit slow overall and I am losing momentum.
And I am reading one of Robert Brightwell's Flashman prequels Flashman and Madison's War - which, although still entertaining, is the weakest and most disjointed of this series so far. The author had not found a particularly strong thread to overcome the scattered and episodic nature of the historical event it features.
I am also dipping into a collection of Neil Munro's Para Handy tales from time to time, which are not exactly demanding.
Children of Time is an amazing book. The way it tracks the parallel development of two societies in different environments is brilliant. Managing to make the non-human one believable and relatable was a touch.
I'm reading The Blacktongue Thief. It's not bad but it's no Joe Abercrombie.
Got a load of digital 2000AD trades in a Humble Bundle I've been reading though over the last year in and off. Just started Mega-City Undercover. The early Jock art on the first few strips with Andy Diggle is great.
I'm reading Ken Follet - Triple. It's pretty good so far. It's been a while since I've read a paper book.
Ken Follet - Triple
Oh that sounds right up my street! I'd admittedly never heard of Ken Follet until recently when I impulsively picked up "Never" in the supermarket but really enjoyed it.
Yeah it's my first book I've read of theirs, but it's been good so far. I would recommend.
Traffication: How Cars Destroy Nature and What We Can Do About It by Paul Donald
The Reprieve by Sartre. It has an intense writing style which takes some getting used to; locations, characters, character speech shifts around erratically, sometimes even mid-sentence. I am really enjoying trying to wrap my head around what's going on, who's speaking and where I am at any given moment.
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy.
Wow.
The Gospel According to Blindboy in 115 Short Stories.
Blindboy Boatclub is one half of the Rubberbandits. There are stories about a van fuelled by Cork people's accents, Tipperary's first ISIS recruit, a sexually aggressive banshee and a fridge dragged heroically through the streets of Limerick.
I'm currently going through Dungeon Crawler Carl. An amazingly hilarious story!
Memories of Ice, the first book in the Malazan Book of the Fallen series. I've read it before and can highly recommend the series if you like fantasy.
The Satsuma Complex by Bob Mortimer. Technically not reading at the moment, but is actually the most recent book I read and it was a bloody fun read - couldn't help but read it with Bob's voice as narration (and I don't think I've had that with any author before). Would recommend; warm, silly and easy to read.
Finally got around to downloading an epub version of worm onto the kindle so I'm reading that. Good story so far and lots to go it's a huge body of text.
The indictment of Donald J. Trump. Honestly entertaining, scary, and fascinating. Some of the coconspirators come off like slime.