Didn’t get any reading done this week, so still reading:
- Your Money Or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence by Vicki Robin.
- The Passage by Justin Cronin
What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening to lately?
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I finally picked up Cinder by Marissa Meyer last Thursday. I knew immediately that I was going to want to read the whole series, so ordered them to be shipped to my house. Unfortunately, I finished the first book on Friday, and my package still hasn’t arrived. I was able to check out the 2nd through Libby, but I read that in 2 days as well, and the 3rd is checked out through my library, so I’m stuck waiting for the shipment.
In the meantime, I started reading Top Ten Games You Can Play by Yourself In Your Head - I found it through a random role playing game blog, and bought it on a whim. While I support expanding your imagination, and the games and structure included do seem pretty entertaining, the author has managed to write the most pretentious book I’ve ever encountered - it’s insane.
So, to take a break from that, I’m rereading The LEGO Book - LEGO’s retelling of their history. I’ve read it once before, but it’s been a while, and it’s a pretty fun walk through the history of the company, from tiny wooden toy shop to globally dominant construction toy company.
Currently listening to “zero hour” from the expeditionary force by Craig Alanson. R.C. Bray is such a great narrator and “Skippy” is always cracking me up.
Just finished Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir for the third time (1st time listening.) Hate it’s only available on Audible (cause F Amazon) but amaze is it so good.
Can’t wait to try another Ray Porter narrated book. Heard the Bobiverse series is worth a go.
I’ve read the Bobiverse series. I would recommend it to everyone. It’s simple, but it’s a very, very good simple.
I found fulcrum entertainment on YouTube. Voice acted audio books they’re amazing.
I’ve been listening to starwars death troopers this week. I’m in the last parts now.
After this I’m going to listen to red harvest by the same YouTube channel
Reading
“The Passage” - Justin Cronin
I remember reading the book when it was first released, but didn’t like it. I was reminded of this book by the recent tv show, and thought, maybe I was too young. So I’m giving it another try.
Finished
“Blue Labyrinth” - Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
“Project Hail Mary” - Andy Weir
Hiatus/Continuous Reading
“Best of Tor”
“Rouge” - George RR Martin edit.
It’s pretty long, and is giving me Stephen King vibes. I am still within first 100 pages or so, which isn’t even 10th of the book.
Yup, which is one of the reason why it interests me at first (I like big books and I can not lie), I believe what turned me off the first time is the time skip (90 years?) from Part I to Part II. I have invested in those characters in Part I and can’t accept that they simply doesnt exist anymore in Part II.
Lets see how a decade effects my point of view.
Didn’t get much reading done last week; I’m about 40% of the way through On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers.
How are you enjoying it? My Tim Powers experience wasn’t very conclusive, I need to read more of his work to see if I like it or not.
I’m liking it pretty well (haven’t read anything by him before). There’s a big, foreshadowed event coming up pretty soon, I think, and then I’m not sure where it’s going to go, beyond “save the girl”.
Did you have issues with Three Days to Never besides the first half being slow? This has been fairly quickly paced so far.
Slow and dense, but that could just be me. It’s also possible I didn’t like the start because of my expectations. I was expecting a sci-fi, and while it is a sci-fi, it’s a very different kind of sci-fi.
On Stranger Tides is one of his most known work, so will give it a try.
Ah, gotcha. Yeah, something not being the kind of sci-fi you were expecting is always rough. I hope you find On Stranger Tides more enjoyable!
Finished off “The Dark” by Jeremy Robinson and since have been burning through the audio book adaptation of “Solo Leveling” by Chugong.
Coming towards the end of book 5 now and I can’t stop listening, I was gonna go back to Deathlands for a break but I may just carry on with Solo Leveling for a while instead!
Is this narration of original light novel, or a modified script made specially for audio book?
Based solely on the credits I believe it is just a narration of a translation of the novel as there are no mentions or credits in terms of adaptation only of original translation.
Ah okay, thanks for the info.
