I was supposed to post this last week, but got delayed because of Thanksgiving. Hope you all had a fun time.
I finished The House at Sea’s End by Elly Griffiths. It was an okay read, not bad, but thinking about getting into another crime series with more action / mystery and less relationship stuff. But I have got the next 5-6 books so will read them.
Read the next Dresden Files novel, Blood Rites by Jim Butcher. I feel the quality of writing has improved a lot since the first couple of novels. This one felt a bit less intense than the last one, but liked the character developments.
Read Jujitsu Kaisen, Vol 4, not much to say about it. More action, more silliness.
Currently reading The Black Company by Glen Cook. I have the omnibus (Chronicles of the Black Company) which has first three books, so may end up reading all three as one book. The writing style is a bit weird, but I think I have gotten used to it.
What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening? Or have read and listened in last 2-3 weeks?
Been listening to Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky and so far it’s fantastic. I’ve been asking my GPT4 for recommendations that might match a certain set of criteria. It recommended this one as something vaguely similar to the Bobiverse series be Dennis E Taylor, which I really like.
The last couple of month I listened to the Stormlight Archive series but recently took a break.
I started Reamde from Neal Stephenson again. Funny thing is that its normally not my genre. Computer yes but I am more into hard sci-fi (Hamilton or Tchaikovsky i.e.) or epic fantasy like Sanderson.
But this book totally took me away out of my comfort zone. Thats why I started it a second time. Last was 2 years ago. I am desperate looking for another out of the loop for me but couldn’t find any, yet.
Where are you in Stormlight Archive? I have read the first three, thinking about going to re-read the whole series before the fifth book releases next year, instead of just going ahead and reading four. Will probably start a re-read sometimes next year.
I have been looking at interesting sci-fi to read. While I consider myself a fantasy and sci-fi fan, most of my reading have leaned towards fantasy than sci-fi. Would like to hear your favourites.
I am at book 2 second half . Its in german and they split 1 english book in two german audiobooks. So it is book 4 in germany.
My favourites
Peter F. Hamilton
- The dreaming void trilogy
- Without telling to much it is two sections of a story part fantasy part sci-fi basically.
And if you like his style
- The Night’s Dawn Trilogy
- A massive trilogy that if you stick to it has so many ideas, side stories and places in it you could make several spin off`s out of the lore. It has nothing to do with the void universe.
Adrian Tchaikovski
- Children of Time
- Also sci-fi about humankind coming to a new “eden” 😉
