Didn’t get any reading done this week, so still reading:
- Your Money Or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence by Vicki Robin.
- The Passage by Justin Cronin
What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening to lately?
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I finally picked up Cinder by Marissa Meyer last Thursday. I knew immediately that I was going to want to read the whole series, so ordered them to be shipped to my house. Unfortunately, I finished the first book on Friday, and my package still hasn’t arrived. I was able to check out the 2nd through Libby, but I read that in 2 days as well, and the 3rd is checked out through my library, so I’m stuck waiting for the shipment.
In the meantime, I started reading Top Ten Games You Can Play by Yourself In Your Head - I found it through a random role playing game blog, and bought it on a whim. While I support expanding your imagination, and the games and structure included do seem pretty entertaining, the author has managed to write the most pretentious book I’ve ever encountered - it’s insane.
So, to take a break from that, I’m rereading The LEGO Book - LEGO’s retelling of their history. I’ve read it once before, but it’s been a while, and it’s a pretty fun walk through the history of the company, from tiny wooden toy shop to globally dominant construction toy company.
I found fulcrum entertainment on YouTube. Voice acted audio books they’re amazing.
I’ve been listening to starwars death troopers this week. I’m in the last parts now.
After this I’m going to listen to red harvest by the same YouTube channel
Currently listening to “zero hour” from the expeditionary force by Craig Alanson. R.C. Bray is such a great narrator and “Skippy” is always cracking me up.
Been finishing off the Invasion - Downfall series by DC Alden
A hypothetical scenario where the islamic state invades Europe and the UK
Brilliantly written nonstop action thriller, it starts with a bang and never lets up.
I wondered why I never heard of it, then I read the comments on Goodreads from all the people who don’t know what fiction is 😂😂
Didn’t get much reading done last week; I’m about 40% of the way through On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers.
How are you enjoying it? My Tim Powers experience wasn’t very conclusive, I need to read more of his work to see if I like it or not.
I’m liking it pretty well (haven’t read anything by him before). There’s a big, foreshadowed event coming up pretty soon, I think, and then I’m not sure where it’s going to go, beyond “save the girl”.
Did you have issues with Three Days to Never besides the first half being slow? This has been fairly quickly paced so far.
Slow and dense, but that could just be me. It’s also possible I didn’t like the start because of my expectations. I was expecting a sci-fi, and while it is a sci-fi, it’s a very different kind of sci-fi.
On Stranger Tides is one of his most known work, so will give it a try.
