Oh, this got delayed a bit.
I am still reading Valour’s Choice by Tanya Huff. Book 1 of Confederation series. Almost near the end though. Enjoying the book a lot.
What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening?
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Almost done with N.K. Jemisin’s The World We Make.
Also reading the fourth John Dies at the End book.
And listening to Why We Sleep.
I’m reading Stephen King - Insomnia on my breaks at work and listening to David Jason’s Autobiography in the car.
I been slacking off lately:
- The Dark Half - Stephen King, 3/4 done.
- Rogue - George RR Martin ed, 1/4 done.
- The Beekeeper’s Apprentice - Laurie R. King, just started.
- Some of the Best from Tor: 15th anniversary - various, 1/5(?) done
Well, you read a lot even when slacking off…
Rogues sounds pretty cool, some really big names in it. How are you liking it?
Rogue is really nice so far, I am currently on story 9 and each of the previous ones are a hit. Particularly “What Do You Do?” by Gillian Flynn, “The Inn of the Seven Blessings” by Matt Hughes, and “A Year and a Day in Old Theradane” by Scott Lynch. Recommend.
I should have finished Stephen King’s “The Dark Half” last month. Haven’t been reading as much.
I am slogging through the last bit of “Judas Unchained”. I love the world that’s been crafted, but at times it’s way too detailed.
I am reading a bit too much different things at once right now, so this is a fairly long comment:
I’ve been reading “For Whom The Bell Tolls” by Ernest Hemingway for a while, and I have read 5/6 now. It’s about partisans in the Spanish civil war. I am enjoying Hemingway’s prose and the story, but I think I will wait a bit after this before reading any of his other works.
I’ve been meaning to read the great Chinese classic novels for a while, but I never got to it. Last week, after seeing someone on here was reading it, I decided to start reading “Romance of the Three Kingdoms”. The story (about the fall of the Han dynasty and the war of, you guessed it, three kingdoms) is very fun so far, but there are like 50 names in the first 50 pages, so I have trouble remembering who is who. I’m hoping for a bit more dialogue too.
I’m also halfway through the “Aeneid”, the great Latin epic by Virgil. It’s a decent story, but I should have gone for a modern translation instead of the old one I have now. I think I’m going to stop with this one for a while, as this is the perfect point to stop.
Lastly, I’m reading Leo Tolstoy’s “The Kingdom of God Is Within You”, his most well-known non-fiction work. I am a massive Tolstoy fan (War and Peace is my all time favourite novel), so I wanted to know more about his philosophy. It is very interesting so far, with how he makes arguments for non-violence, as well as his arguments against the principle of the Church. I don’t always fully agree, but it is a very thought-provoking book.
Last week I also read Tolstoy’s short story “Master and Man”. I think it may be the best work to read as an introduction to Tolstoy. The setting is perfect for this time of the year, the prose is amazing as always, the psychological depth is unbelievable for so short a novel, and the moral part is typical for his later works, but not too prominent that it bothered me in any way. So if you’re interested in reading some Tolstoy, you should definitely read this one!
I finished Queen of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner last night and so I’m on to Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher then King of Attolia by Turner over this week.
