What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? February 03 (discuss.online)

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Finished Mistborn: Secret Histories novella. Don't want to spoil, but it was really exciting to read this secret history.

Read Redshirts by John Scalzi. A sci-fi about the "redshirts" in a Star-Trek like universe. Highly recommended for any Star Trek fan.

Started Rosemary and Rue by Seanan McGuire. First book in her October Daye urban fantasy series. This is my first Seanan McGuire book, have heard a lot about her.

Still skimming through The Bullet Journal Method by Ryder Caroll.

Putting Ultra-processed Food by Chris van Tulleken on hold for a bit, shouldn't have started multiple non-fiction at once. Will pick it up after finishing the Bullet Journal Method.

Bingo squares covered: Short and Sweed, Award Winner (Hard mode)

What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening to lately?

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[-] theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

I finished off Buy Mort - Singularity which turned out to be the last book in the series and overall I really enjoyed it all!

Then straight back into the Deathlands universe with the Outlanders books, polished off a couple of those and they are great so far as they are fleshing out the universe really nicely with a lot of new lore and information as well as calls back to the Deathlands books and characters occasionally!

[-] huquad@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Listening to my first audio book series, dungeon crawler Carl. And damn is it good. Currently on book V, the butchers masquerade.

[-] slaughterhouse@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

You're in for a fantastic ride. Glurp glurp!

[-] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

A friend has been recommending these, and I intend to either read or listen sometime soon.

[-] TheLastRadiant@lemmy.today 1 points 1 month ago

Finished rereading The River Why by David James Duncan, a personal favorite of mine, definitely not for everybody, but a good read nonetheless.

Currently moving onto Oathbringer in the Stormlight Archives after a short break after Words of Radiance. very excited to get back into it!

After that, I am going to start the Mistborn series, which I have only heard good things about.

[-] theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

Personally I prefered Mistborn over Stormlight but it isn't like any of it is bad by any stretch!

[-] LordGennai@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

I just finished The Broken Earth trilogy and liked it. The first book was by far my favorite and I felt the third was a bit of a “quick, I need to explain everything” exposition dump at times. Overall the series was interesting though.

I’m now re-reading Project Hail Mary in preparation for the movie. I really liked it the first time so don’t expect this time to be any different!

[-] scala@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Finished Dungeon Crawler Carl books 1-7 a few months ago. In preparation for Book 8 in May I'm now listing to the Audiobooks followed by the Soundbooth immersion tunnel version.

Last month read The Expanse first 3 books.

Currently reading Children of Time while waiting for Operation BounceHouse to release next week.

[-] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 0 points 1 month ago

Last month read The Expanse first 3 books.

Oooh, I wish I could recreate that experience.

[-] scala@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

That's how I feel with the DCC series.

[-] khannie@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Just finished Red Rising. Decent enough. Hunger Games meets Harry Potter a bit for the first book (I have not read the Harry Potter books). I read myself to sleep and it ticked the box nicely / I was happy to pick it up each night. I'll continue with the series for sure.

Currently reading My Friends by Fredrik Backman. Beautiful descriptive language use in it. Slightly less gripping story for my tastes but I'm enjoying it.

[-] white_nrdy@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

Listening to The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson for the first time. ~35% through, really enjoying it. I've read The Mistborn trilogy a couple times before. This is my next foray into the Cosmere.

Reading Caliban's War, book 2 of The Expanse. First time reading the series. Haven't actually picked it up in a few weeks though. It isn't holding my attention as much as the first one, but I've also been really busy

[-] EverXIII@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I am trying to finish the Call of Cthulhu... and I not sure whether I will finish or not.

[-] SHBI7368@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

The bitcoin standard. Some interesting info mostly boring. 5/5 would recommend

[-] slaughterhouse@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 month ago

A conspiracy of friends have me reading LitRPGs right now, so I'm reading the second Book of the Dead by RinoZ right now, and listening to He Who Fights With Monsters.

[-] zout@fedia.io 0 points 1 month ago

Are these any good? I've read books by a few writers last year who seem to churn out 3-4 books a year, and reading them you can tell they didn't spend time proof reading or developing the plot.

[-] slaughterhouse@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

As with any genre, some authors are stronger than others. There's a lot of trash, but there's some really good stuff as well. Dungeon Crawler Carl, for example, has my highest recommendation.

[-] kat_angstrom@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Finished "The Gone World" by Tom Sweterlitsch, based on a recommendation from a previous weekly thread on here. Holy crap it was good. Darker than my average fare, but that whole True Detective with Time Travel and a dash of cosmic horror was fantastic!

Almost finished "Our Man in Havana" by Graham Greene. Not bad. It's okay. Feels dated tho

[-] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

The Gone World was awesome, and I have numerous times recommended it to people, but couldn't remember the name and have to go look it up, and I end up describing the main character (physically) and adding time travel to my query, and I usually am able to find it.

[-] dkppunk@piefed.social 0 points 1 month ago

Still working my way through The Secret Commonwealth by Philip Pullman. I’m about 80% through now, I’ve been reading less than usual this week with life stuff going on.

I really enjoyed Redshirts by John Scalzi. I enjoy pretty much everything I’ve read of his, but Kaiju Preservation Society is still my favorite.