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?
This week I finished A Stroke of the Pen by Pratchett and Excession by Banks, I then started Inversions also by Banks as the next part of my Culture re read. I haven’t read some of the books in that series for several decades so its been great to revisit them. I have been doing that a lot the last couple of years as last year I reread all of Pterrys books and earlier this year I reread all of Tolkiens books.
Excession is good but it struggles to keep the competing story elements tied together in a deep and meaningful way, they just sort of exist next to each other in the same part of space time. I prefer others in the series and its one of my least favorite Culture books. I prefer Inversions, its one of his more subtle books, almost a non culture, culture book, as if Iain Banks wrote it not Iain M. Banks.
A Stroke of the Pen really is for only hardcore PTerry fans who are completionists who want to see how he developed as a writer as it collects stories found that he published under pseudonym in local newspapers. I found it quite short., but obviously they can only publish what was already there so its hardly a serious complaint. I enjoyed reading it and appreciated the huge amount of effort went into the detective work finding these lost stories from the local newspaper archives. One strictly for fans of PTerry.