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Read Rosemary's Baby for the next podcast episode. Honestly, if you've ever watched the (original) movie you almost don't need to read the book, its the most faithful adaptation I've ever seen. Almost word-for-word in a lot of places.
Having finished that, I'm now reading Lake of Darkness by Adam Roberts which, for those unfamiliar, is sci-fi with a speculative edge. I'm about 25% in and it has me hooked.
Lake of Darkness sounds like exactly what I'm looking for next, thanks!
Im rereading The Victorian Internet by Tom Standage. It’s about the history of the electric telegraph. It’s very interesting.
Finished The Dead Zone, now reading project hail Mary by Andy weir. Excellent book!
Hail Mary is amazing.
I think its better than The Martian and im only 100 pages in!
I’m currently reading "Los pazos de Ulloa" by Emilia Pardo Bazán. It’s a literary work that critiques 19th-century Spanish society. Pardo Bazán was heavily influenced by naturalism [1] , a literary movement that was very popular in France, with Zola as its main representative. The book is a classic and a cornerstone of Spanish literature.
[1] Naturalism
Playground by Richard Powers. Really enjoyed the ride. Probably give The Overstory a try soon.
I am listening to Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters with my daughter. We're loving this. Will definitely get the next one. We listen on the ride to/from school, and then at bedtime.
Listening to Spec Ops by R.C Bray on my own and it's alright but every single chapter is starting to feel identical/formulaic already and I'm only book 2. "Unexpected problem. Super intelligent AI solves 99% of the problem. The main character is somehow smarter than God-level AI and solves the last 1%. Robot screeches Filthy Monkeys." Rinse. Repeat.
May go back to Sandman Slim and Perdition Score is up next.
Ooh I’ve been reading Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief to my son in the evenings.
He loves the illustrated edition. I’m hoping he still likes the books when we shift to text only haha.
I did not know there were illustrated editions. I am gonna have to look that up now! Thanks. 😁
We started straight into the Audiobook. I never heard it before. It's good. We tried the Redwall series and Eragon but I think my daughter is still too young, too many characters.
Percy Jackson has just the one illustrated edition. Funnily enough, so does Eragon.
Just finished Kropotkins "The Conquest of Bread". Might be time for some fiction again.
I just finished The Long Walk and I really liked it. I read it a decade or more ago, but I appreciated it more this time.
I like books about death sports so it’s right up my alley. They finally released Battle Royale as a digital book so I would like to read it as well, but its length (800 pages!) is intimidating.
I also finished The Neverending Story, which I enjoyed but not as much as the much shorter first movie.
I started reading a few things.
The End of the World as We Know It is a short story collection that explores the world of Stephen King’s super-flu-ridden The Stand. I’m really liking it so far! The stories do a good job of further illustrating the world as it breaks down.
I also started a biography about one of my favorite people in vintage professional wrestling, Gorilla Monsoon. It just came out today and I’ve been looking forward to it. I’ve always been fascinated by him and no one else has written a book yet!
I reread the first three books in the Lady Astronaut series by Mary Robinette Kowal and have started on book 4 (The Martian Contingency), which just came out. The original books held up very well on reread but I find myself feeling more annoyed by the main protagonist than I did my previous read-through. Regardless, I am super excited to see where book 4 takes the story.
Ah! I read about these in the past and wanted to put them in my tbr list but forgot, so thank you for the reminder
Martha Wells - Star Wars “Razors Edge”.
It’s a story with the the main cast; Leia, Luke, Han and Chewie.
I’m enjoying it, starts right off with action and hasn’t really let off the gas pedal yet.
Recently started We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates. It feels quite apt in the current moment.
Ah really want to read something by him, I always like his no bullshit perspectives in interviews.
I think I've been a bit unfair to Coates in the past because I've felt like, outside of "The Case for Reparations" his writing reads like "James Baldwin-light". But I think he listens to criticism and I want to go back and finish Eight Years (I DNF'd it after re-reading the Reparations chapter) and read his new book The Message.
Brandon Sanderson's Oathbringer
Journey before destination 🫡
Prophet of Discontent by Douglas and Loggins.
It's about MLK and his place in the tradition of American black radical thought. It's pretty academic and dives straight into the race/class Marxist discourse. Which is catnip for weirdos like me.
Heretical Fishing 4
Just finished my 2nd listen of Handmaids Tale. I'm rinsing myself off with some Discworld.
Next up will be A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny. I got turned onto it last year and it became an annual tradition instantly. It's 31 chapters (short ones) and you do one a day starting on the 1st.
I just finished Perchance to Dream by Howard Weinstein. It’s the first Star Trek novel I’ve ever read and I went with TNG because it’s my favorite series. I really enjoyed the book and loved how I could hear the voices of Picard, Geordie, Worf, Tori, Riker, all of them in my head. I have mild aphantasia so books based on characters from shows and movies I have watched are a lot easier for me to picture.
I’m currently going through the September/October 2024 Asimov’s Science Fiction periodical that I paused last year. Nice scifi short stories, poems, and novelettes to read until my next book.
On that note, my next book is my vacation book. I had 2 I was thinking of reading, but decided on Polaris Rising by Jessie Mihalik. I really enjoyed her Starlight’s Shadow series, so when I saw space princess and outlaw soldier romance, I said YES PLEASE!! Please give me more science fiction/space opera romance!
Just finished Daily Life Of Women In Ancient Rome. Uncertain what I'll move on to next.
I’ve finished Takaoka’s Travels and Feminist point of view (not sure of the title in English, which were on deconstructing the male gaze in the cinema)
Starting the tirs book of the Nexus trilogy
The Jewish pirates of the Caribbean by Edward Kritzler