Book reader community.
I've just started reading The Wager. I'm a sucker for ship based media, and I'm hoping this'll be no exception.
It's my third book of the year after previously reading both A Clash of Kings and How to get rid of a president
Gnomon. A massive disappointment.
Sorting the Beef from the Bull: The Science of Food Fraud Forensics. I saw it mentioned in one of the threads about the recent apple sauce food poisoning, and it's very interesting (whoever that was, if you are reading it, thank you!).
The One Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by NK Jemisin.
It's basically this:
Currently reading A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine. There's also a first book called A Memory Called Empire and both are very good.
"My Heart Is A Chainsaw" by Steven Graham Jones
My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Name_Is_Red
Trying to capture the nuances of writing in first person.
Exile
Book 2 in the chronological order of The Legend of Drizzt series
Not sure what happened but I used to knock back 50-80 books a year, now I barely read anymore. I'm trying to get back into it with all the books being on every electronic device so I can read wherever, and I have two physical copies of the books from different releases. Yet I'm still dragging my feet getting through it.
The frustrating thing is once I get into the book I don't want to put it down, but once I stop reading it's hard to start again.
I miss reading.
Incidentally, I was looking at the Kobo readers recently and they look pretty neat!
I bought a cellphone sized e reader, called the moaan inkpalm. It being so small has really helped me get more reading in. There are better ones available now, but it's pretty cheap for what it is. I can pull it out whever i'm waiting for my family somewhere, and pick a book that i'm in the right mood/mental state for.
Sometimes a book just isn't for you, or you need something with more fun and less substance because of all the other demands on your time and attention. I used to plow through difficult books when I had the time. Now that I generally read in 15 minute stretches that's not nearly as easy. It's not a black and white thing.
If you didn't already read it: O'Brien's Aubrey/Maturin Series. He greally goes deep into ships and sailing but the story is still compelling.
Currently on the third book of J. D. Kirk's Bob Hoon series
I've never laughed so much at an audiobook in my life.
Imagine if you took something like The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and made it really Scottish, extra violent and incredibly sweary. That's Bob Hoon
Female villain - "I'd ask you to join our operation, Mr Hoon, but I know exactly what you'd say"
Hoon - "I'd tell you to shove it up your fish-hole, you badly-aimed batch of ejaculate"
Female villain - "Well ok, I didn't know exactly what you'd say..."
Damn, this sounds exactly like my next book, thanks for recommending it.
Might be easier to read if you're not used to the accent, but the narrator of the audiobook absolutely fuckin nails Hoon's voice
Half way through the fourth book in the Shopocalypse Series -
Buy Mort: 30,000 Leagues: How I Merged And Became New Earth Affiliated by Joseph Phelps and Damien Hanson
I was actually just reading about this series on Goodreads a few days ago; is it delightful, or simply Okay?
I'm really enjoying it and would say it is better than okay for me personally, I will be disappointed when this book is over and I have to wait for more to be recorded / released.
Just started raft by Stephen Baxter, little concerned when I found out there are a dozen more books, roughly.
Digging the first though, so...
I just finished Lieutenant Hornblower and am thoroughly enjoying the series. I’ll be starting Hornblower and the Hotspur soon.
Working my way through He Who Fights with Monsters by Shirtaloon (aka Travis Deverell), currently on Book 7.
It's fucking great!
I just read "Eyes Guts Throat Bones", highly recommend at least reading the "Rath" story
I finished A Memory of Light (the final book in the Wheel of Time Series) and The Last Metal by Brandon Sanderson. Now I'm rereading The Lord of the Rings.
I'm also reading The Recording Engineers Handbook and Complete Vocal Technique.
Currently about a third of the way through "Babel: Or, The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Translator's Rebellion" by R.F. Kuang.
It's pretty good so far, but also I'm really still waiting for the plot to kick into gear, lots of wonderful world building has been taking place so far.
Also, you and I have the same Kobo! I'm a fan of this device, and haven't read a physical book since last June.
Dungeon Crawler Carl and Yumi and the Nightmare Painter by Sanderson
Hey I have The Wager in my list, but right now I'm reading The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber, it's excellent. Going really slow because it contains so much information, I read a few pages and that sends me in a research spiral for an hour and a thoughts spirals for the day.