“weekly thread” was clearly a lie
“weekly thread” was clearly a lie
Hah :D
Anyway, at the 3rd book of Red Rising, after which I’ll wait till book 7 is out to read 4-7 of it (as I was told that it works as trilogy, and that way I won’t be interrupted for the 2nd part).
Then I’ll return to Cradle, for the 12th and final book.
And then I’ll take a look at Project Hail Mary and A Memory Called Empire, both in the top 10 book of the month of !sciencefiction@lemmy.world :)I just finished Project Hail Mary yesterday. Loved the book!
Not fantasy; I am reading The Brothers Karamazov. I am now at around 25% mark. An interesting love triangle seems to have developed involving Alyosha’s brothers Ivan, Dimitri and Dimitri’s fiance. Dimitri has made a mess of things and poor Alyosha’s trying to help by mediation.
Just finished the second book in the Broken Earth trilogy. It has been pretty good so far :D
Heart-breaking and soul-flaying, but yes: very, very good. The third book puts such a beautiful cherry atop the whole series.
I keep telling myself to read more N.K. Jemisin, but I keep not wanting to be depressed.
Pirateaba dropped 80K on their Patreon this week so working my way through that.
Still need to finish Yumi and the Nightmare Painter too. Its another on of Hoid’s tales so I really should get to it.
Oooh. I loved Tress of the Emerald Sea. It was very refreshing style, if Yumi and the Nightmare Painter is anything similar, it’s going to be great too.
I think Tress is my favourite Brando Sando book. Its just so whimsical and you can tell how much he tried to vary from his normal style.
Rereading Malazan Book of the Fallen, with all the side books mixed in with the core 10.
Side books as in the other 10 Malazan books, written by that other author (Sorry, forgot his name), or there are some other books too?
Yeah, all the Esslemont ones, in the order the authors recommend on the wiki. There is the new Witness Trilogy from Erikson (#1 The God is Not Willing is out - it and the audiobook are great).
Wow, that list is a lot longer than I expected. Thanks for the info!
Not reading anything Fantasy right now. Unless we count manga, in that case, reading JuJutsu Kaisen. Just started it. Liking it so far.
We also have a weekly thread (not a lie) at /c/books@lemmy.world. You’re all welcome to join in on the discussion. It’s about all books, so everything from Fantasy, sci-fi, romance, non-fiction, text books, all are welcome!
I am reading “Setite” which is a vampire the masquerade novel in a large series of novels. I bought the entire series as they came out and only read them once. They are a lot worse than I remember haha.
I’m reading Generation Kill. I don’t usually go for nonfiction but it offers some fascinating insight into the US right after 9/11 and the subsequent war. There are definitely some bits where I feel like the author is embellishing some, but overall quite interesting.
I’m reading The Passage by Justin Cronin. It’s great. It feels like many books in one book. A very enjoyable, though slightly jarring read. I’m looking forward to the next books in the series.
Babel by R. F. Kuang, really enjoying it. I’ve been trying to learn a second language this year, and the idea that determining the relationship between languages can be a source of magic is very fun.
Also, the Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K. Le Guin. I understand it’s a good faith attempt to examine 1969 America’s notions of gender and sex, but 50 years on, the age is showing. The default pronoun for all these non-gendered characters being ‘he/him’ scratches my brain continually.
The pronoun thing bothered Le Guin a bit too. If you dig around, you’ll find a short story set in the same world, Winter’s King, that uses she/her pronouns instead. (I confess that I don’t remember much else about it, though.)
Yeah, hindsight is 20/20 and all that, but the idea of a spacefaring civilization only having a concept of he/she pronouns is very amusing.
Eh, I put it in the same category as spaceships with ashtrays, or spacefaring humanity still building giant 1960s-style batch-oriented mainframe computers even though they’ve reached distant solar systems. It’s something you have to be able to ignore to enjoy the older works.
(It’s also better than James White’s solution of calling anyone who wasn’t a gender-distinguishable member of the speakers’s own species “it”.)
