Reading The Twelve by Justin Cronin. Book 2 of The Passage trilogy. Around 180 or so pages in, and we are still in the past, the story is interesting, so reading about these characters, but I am still not sure if it will have any effect in the future / present, or it’s just for world building. I am now invested enough now to see where it goes though.
What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening to lately?
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2001 A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke: I’m about 70% of the way in and it’s pretty good. I really enjoy reading early/pre-space age stories because the ideas about what would and wouldn’t work in space are so fascinating. The way he talks about moon life, interstellar travel times/methods, and more show so much creativity. It’s also interesting to see the difference between movie HAL9000 and book HAL9000. I’m excited to watch the movie again after I’m done
Finished The Rise of Endymion, finally. It seemed like it would be a good 400-500 page book but instead was a 800+ page slog. I really enjoyed the first two books in the Hyperion cantos but the last two were rough.
Currently finishing rereading Levithan Wakes and just started Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas, which is obviously incredibly depressing.
Just started Midnight Kingdom, book 2 of a series by Tara Sim.
It’s fine. Book 1 was also fine, not great but not bad. It’s just a bit flat, and I don’t really care about the characters.
Currently I’m reading:
Mockeries and Metamorphoses of an Aztec God Tezcatlipoca, “Lord of the Smoking Mirror”
by Guilhem Oliver and translated by Michael Besson
It’s a text book about Tezcatlipoca.
@MisterNeon @dresden interesting
It really is and it’s thorough. It’s got charts of when Tezcatlipoca shows up visually in codices which I can then cross reference.
@MisterNeon I see. I’m not that versed in Aztec mithology. Right now I’m reading Gary Jennings’ Aztec. Have you read it?
Just finished Slewfoot by Brom. Starting Salem’s Lot by Stephen King next
How was Slewfoot? It’s been on my TBR for ages, but I’ve never gotten around to it.
