I finished Death Masks by Jim Butcher, 5th book in the series. This is probably the best book in the series yet, pretty much no dull moment. And I have heard it just keeps getting better from here, so looking forward to that!

After that, looking for epic fantasy, started The Daevabad Trilogy by S. A. Chakraborty. Read the first book City of Brass and loved it. A different setting from the “medieval European” one we usually get, and thoroughly enjoyable book.

Before starting next book in the series, read Elly Griffith’s The Janus Stone, 2nd book in Dr. Ruth Galloway mystery series. It was a quick but nice read, I’m going to continue with her books.

Just starting The Kingdom of Copper by S. A. Chakraborty, the next (2nd) book in The Daevabad Trilogy.

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

  • GreyShuck
    5•1 year ago
    • Still going with across-the-year reading of Finnegans Wake. Nearing the end of part 3, which seems to be interpreted at the “ideal future”, and soon moving on to part 4: “the actual future”. The Wellington & Napoleon & Tristan & Iseult & Osiris & Set -ishness of it all continues to mystify just over the understandizon. At the moment, I think that Crime and Punishment is going to be next year’s big read.
    • Finished Happy Endings by Paul Cornell - the 50th in the Doctor Who Virgin New Adventures series and a cameo-filled celebration of this series so far wrapped around Benny’s wedding. An easy read, but too many cameos overall.
    • Reading GodEngine by Craig Hinton - the 51st in the same series, and an interesting (so far) dive into Ice Warrior culture.
    • On hold until I have finished the above Flashman’s Waterloo by Robert Brightwell. Quatre Bras is out of the way in this entertaining and well-researched prequel series and Waterloo itself is in the offing. However, I want to finish the the DW novel, since that is a natural pause in that series, before immersing in this again.

    And after those I am planning to read Adam Biles’ Beasts of England - a Brexit-parody sequel to Orwell’s Animal Farm released a few weeks back and then Sandra Newman’s Julia - her alternate take on 1984. They seem a good pairing.