Just finished "How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder" and "Binti"

The former is very good lit fic. It does deal with some tough topics including rape and murder, but it's very good. Highly recommend.

Binti is very short, but well done. The book won a Hugo award.

Currently reading "Blindsight." It's also quite good, though I'm only through the first section.

Made the choice of trying out infinite jest, boy is it tough yet so interesting. Like the parts a lot with some incredible descriptions yet some words are just so incredibly niche I have to stop and look it up.

The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas

I'm new to this and it seems interesting. I use https://bookwyrm.social/ to track my books. I'm unemployed right now and my priorities is to get a job, which means most books are related to that future job where I'm a billionaire. The best so far are:

• Head First Design Patterns : it's a good software development book, and most "Head First" books are nice to read, and won't give you headaches.
• Designing Your New Work Life : it's a bit different from the other motivational books I have read so far, and it gives you an alternate point of view of work and the workplace. This book is not preachy and shows interesting advice on how you can experience (or "reframe" as they say) your daily job.

I stopped reading the "Bullet Journal Method" because it was filled with useless motivational quotes, the kind you can read on Instagram, while giving absolutely no useful advice or method.

Nemesis Games, although probably will finish tonight or tomorrow.

And then listening to Towers of Midnight.

I like series, because there's always another book! Until there's not, and then panic.

I'm on an Ira Levin kick right now. I just finished The Stepford Wives, now I'm reading The Boys From Brazil with a work friend. It's really good.

I'm now reading Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie. I was in the mood for something lighter and I had never read it. No murder yet, no idea how the story will unfold. It breathes that old atmosphere of a classic detective, which is really nice.

Razor Girl by Carl Hiaasen. It is a good drive to/from work audio book, I don't have to pay too much attention to it.

A food store near me has a book shelf where anyone can leave books for others to freely take. I dropped a couple of books and picked up Sid Fleischman's Chancy and the Grand Rascal. It's a lighthearted kids' book, set in the post-civil war USA. It's not a long one, but I've enjoyed it so far. After this I'm probably reading a book written by the mom of someone I know about her parents and their lives during the Second World War. Should be interesting.

The friend of the family by dean koontz. A really slow start but halfway in and i am hooked!

Exhalation stories - Ted Chiang. I'm into short stories while I physically and mentally prepare for Captive War #2.

Anyways, the first story about a gateway that can take you forward/back 20 years, but you can't change anything. Going forward merely tells you where you'll end up, going backwards merely increases your understanding of how you got where you are. Great story, fully locked in, the rest haven't caught my imagination quite like the first though.

Finished Project Hail Mary a few days ago, wanted to get it read before watching the movie tonight. It was such a great read, Rocky was amaze! Started Player One by Douglas Coupland afterwards/now, as I wanted a genre change up, been quite a non-stop thrill when comparing to the length of Project Hail Mary.

On the nonfiction side, reading Metaphors We Live By (by Johnson & Lakoff) currently. Taking it slow as it gets me thinking about experiencing experience itself. Real meta stuff.

Finishing up “Fast Forward” by Robert Sawyer. It’s not very good. Lots of filler. One of the main characters finds out her young child has died and she just continues to mutter about like nothing has happened. One of the villains gives a long rambling speech about his motivations before shooting someone, like he’s a Bond villain. No one does this in real life.

I hear the TV show based on the book’s premise is much better. One of those rare instances where the tv show or movie is better than the book.

Finished "a death in Cornwall" by Daniel Silva, and now a little over half way through "an inside job", the next and latest book in this series. While I think the previous was a decent enough book, it left me with the feeling that the author was tip-toeing around the whole Israel situation where the series was heavily Israel centered in the earlier books (and deliberately pointing at a different country in the process). The not adressing of the current state of affairs in Israel goes on in the latest book unfortunately. Also, the plot twists are too predictable,

I just finished my second reread of Starship Troopers. I've read it in three very different parts of my life and every time I read it, I come away with something new.

I'm currently reading Salt: A World History and listening to The Final Empire.

ive been reading a collection of locked room mysteries called miraculous mysteries: locked room mysteries and impossible crimes. i recently finished after the people lights have gone off by stephen graham jones and realized short stories fit more into the pace of life for me at the moment, and murder mysteries get me in just the right way. plus i dont have to agonize over my guess for quite as long