Literature

The Murderbot Diaries.

I've been enjoying it, it has a surprising amount of heart for a series about an emotionally damaged not-robot.

Currently working my way through the Three Body Problem series. They are very good but I'm not sure how much I'm enjoying them, they are pretty bleak in places.

Currently reading Hitch hikers guide to the galaxy really fun reads though it got weird in some places

Just started Howl's Moving Castle. Liking it so far!

Not exactly like the movie, but it's pretty close.

I am in the middle of reading Men at Arms, one of the Discworld novels by Terry Pratchet. Very much recommend!

The eyes of the dragon by Stephen King

Just finished the audiobook of Thud by Terry Pratchett while my wife and I were on a road trip

The Count of Monte Cristo! Liking it so far and I've heard good things

1356 by Bernard Cornwell. Its cheesey typical damsel in destress stuff set in a bloody french chevauchée, but I'll be damned if it aint a whole lof of fun. Think the expanse, but with horses as worse charachters.

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow. Not bad so far. I just finished The Dark Tower series (loved it) so it is definitely an adjustment.

Neuromancer. It's okay so far.

I just finished Wolf in White Van by John Darnielle. I LOVED it.

I'm reading The Stranger, by Albert Camus. It's a short read and I'm already focusing on some of The Atlantic's recommendations in the Summer Reading Guide.

working my way through Discworld again. currently at Unseen Academicals.

I will read Shepherd's Crown this time.

Currently reading "Brave New World", Aldous Huxley. Next up Isaac Asimov's Foundation.

Expeditionary Force: Match Game

Pattern Recognition, William Gibson.

Gibson is tough to get into, personally, but his stories are very cool!

Memories of Ice - Malazan Book of the Fallen I am really enjoying this series so far. I get absorbed right in even with how dense it is at times.

Recently finished "how to do nothing" by Jenny Odell. Working on her latest book now about saving time.

I'm currently re-reading Transgender Warriors by Leslie Feinberg, for Pride Month!

The Goblin Emperor, Katherine Addison.

Just started. A bit surprised by the prose, wasn't what I was expecting, but I think I'm into it.

I usually have a print/ebook and an audio book (for the car) going at the same time.

For print book, currently reading Crooked Kingdom, one of the books in the Grishaverse series/world. I, uh, got a little obsessed after watching the first season of Shadow and Bone a year or two ago.

For audiobook, currently listening to Children of Ruin. Not too far into it yet, but I loved loved loved Children of Time (also listened to the audiobook version), so I'm excited to see where this one goes.

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot. It's so good! I was expecting it to be more technical and sciency but found a very human side to the story that places Henrietta's sotry in the overarching history of human rights. The author does a great job with her captivating writing style. Highly recommended.

I've just started reading Cribsheet.

It's quite interesting. I've seen some reviews complain that she doesn't conclusively tell you what is better, but from the bits I've read so far it is really just tearing apart common advice, showing there's very little evidence for most of it.

I'm re-reading Middlemarch by George Eliot. I had forgotten how funny it is in places, and what a wry and surprisingly modern voice she has (once you get used to the 19th Century writing style).

I'm currently reading through Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. I'm a fan of SciFi, and cyberpunk especially. This book was on my reading list, and I decided to pick it up while in the bookstore the other day.

So far I'm really enjoying it. It feels a bit more pulpy than some of the other cyberpunk classics such as Neuromancer and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, but that's not a bad thing. It certainly doesn't take away from the entertainment in my opinion. Not every book needs to have a grand philosophy behind it.

Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson and There are no accidents by Jessie Singer.

Really enjoying the Singer book so far. It talks about accidental deaths and injuries such as automobile crashes and workplace injuries but also large scale accidents like oil spills.

It's really one that makes you rethink how we treat accidents and how we often assign blame for them to individuals vs dangerous conditions/systems but especially the influence of powerful people to shield themselves from blame for accidents