My 10 year old daughter is reading Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief.

And asked me to read it with her. So that's what I'm reading now. And I have to say... I'm really enjoying it so far. Plus doing a mini book club with my daughter is pretty much the best.

Tried “The Housemaid”. Gave up. I don’t understand the hype around this book.

Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey, the first book in The Expanse series. I'm roughly half way in, and it's enjoyable so far.

The Deluge by Stephen Markley. Didn't know what I was getting into. Would not have listened to it if I knew. Now can't stop listening.

I should be finishing up both The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebeca Skloot, and Small Gods by Terry Pratchett this week. Not sure what's next yet.

I completed book 8 of Dungeon Crawler Carl yesterday and now I’m on to the new Dresden novella OutLaw.

Almost 1/2 way through project Hail Mary. I liked the Martian so I expected to like PHM, but I didn't realize to what degree I would like. As a Molecular Biologist myself, I feel quite connected to Ryland.

Been reading Fiber Fueled during work breaks. Wanting to take extra steps to dial in my gut health.

I haven't listened to it in a while, but I'm pretty far into the Dungeon Crawler Carl series. Really great listen, kind of a dark comedy, numbers go up (it's a lit rpg), and there's a bit of moral complexity in the plot.

Should also note, Jeff Hays is now my favorite audiobook narrator.

The spear cuts through water. I've never seen an author break so many literary conventions so masterfully before.

This week I finished James Herbert's Rats trilogy. I was getting pretty bored with the 3rd book so halfway through I skipped to the last chapter to see how it ended. Nothing about the ending was a surprise and I'm glad I did. The first two books are far better at half the length.

I also started Eisenhorn by Dan Abnett (WH40k). I did not get on with the writing style and dropped it quickly.

I'm now reading Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams which is an account of her years at Facebook. It's as awful as you might imagine and sometimes worse. I can't stop reading it though, like not being able to look away from a car crash.

Black House by Stephen King and Peter Straub

Audiobook

Echo of Worlds by M. R. Carey

Oryx and Crake, entertaining so far.

I just started reading The Gathering Storm by Brandon Sanderson, book twelve of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time series. I've never read any Sanderson before, so it'll be interesting to see the tonal differences in writing.

I just finished Whalefall by Daniel Kraus.
Oof what a ride. I went in blind so all I knew was "diver trapped in a fight between a giant squid and a whale".
I was not prepared for the

I'm also halfway thru The Dispossessed by Ursula K Le Guin.
Le Guin's stories are like the opposite of page turners for me but in the best possible way. I just want to sit with each page, there's so much to chew on. (Even tho I have bounced off this and some of her other books because the begginings are rough for me for some reason. Too much to chew I guess haha)

Reading the Age of Dread trilogy. I haven’t read anything in a while so I’m proud to be on the third book.

I am just starting on book 4 of the Lee Harden series which follows on from The Remaining by DJ Molles.

I am really enjoying it so far and it makes the book "Abe" that I disliked before make a lot more sense. I don't know why the reading order I had suggested to do Abe at the end of the original remaining series of books as it makes absolutely no sense there and was part of the reason I disliked it at the time.

These books are less about the infected in general but follow all the characters that I got to know and like from The Remaining books so I am liking it and it bought tears to my eyes again because of that damn dog! I don't know how but well played Molles!

Not sure what I'm going to listen to once these are all wrapped up though. Haven't got anything specific lined up.

Kind of scattered these past few weeks, so I'm about halfway through Murakami's After the Quake, on story two of Three by Tey, and on the first fifth of Terry Pratchett's The Truth

I recently went to my local library and grabbed a book called Ocean: Earth's Last Wilderness written by David Attenborough and Colin Butfield.

I'm only 2 chapters in but it's about all the things Attenborough has learned about the oceans in his prolific lifetime.

And as usual he makes you feel like shit because of what humanity is doing to the environment while also making you hopeful that humans will change and learn how to live symbiotically with the world around us.

I just started reading Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass yesterday. I realized a while ago I never actually read it, and only had seen the various adaptations. I have to say, it’s quite different than what I grew up on.

I’m also disturbed that Charles Dogson (Lewis Carroll) is basically described as being a pedophile for his “love” of a 10-yo little girl (Alice Liddell, the daughter of his boss, for whom the story is told) whom he wanted to marry while he was in his 30s.

Next up I plan to read Blue Are the Hills: The Final War for Humanity. I expect it to be completely different than Alice of course.

That’s just how I roll.

I finished Dungeon Crawler Carl’s Gate of the Feral Gods over the weekend. While I enjoyed the first four books I’m looking forward to sinking my teeth into what other readers generally consider the more popular titles of the series.

In the meantime I’ve started reading Haruki Murakami’s The City and its Uncertain Walls while I wait for the remainder of the DCC books to become available at my library.

I'm reading Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe.

I'm not sure how much I like it. It does a very good job of giving a look into African society around the time of slavery and missionaries, so I can see why it is touted as such an important novel. That said, I don't love the writing style or the characters.

I’m currently reading The Genesis of Misery by Neon Yang. It’s Joan of Arc meets Pacific Rim but done really well. I have about 130 pages left before I finish.

Free ride, what an adventure. She is incredible.

(Itchyboots / Noraly Schoenmaker)

Finished reading Dennis E Taylor's Bobiverse series for the second time, waiting on the new book to be published. For now it's audiobook only, and I like reading it myself. Just started reading Martha Wells' "Platform Decay", Murderbot being one of the other series I found last year that I really liked.