What the title says. What books are you reading? Or if not books, what are some interesting articles you’ve read lately?
I’ve been devouring Rick Riordan’s Heroes of Olympus series this past week (just started the last book yesterday). It adds so much to the Percy Jackson universe, and I plan on binging Trials of Apollo afterwards.
I’m reading The Golden Compass for the first time. I’m enjoying it, but I’ve been going through it slower than other books, and I’m not sure why. After I finish it I might go back and re-read a Terry Pratchett book.
Pratchett books are so easy to read and so fun you can just burn through them.
I’m reading the penultimate book in The Expanse series - Tiamat’s Wrath. A Christmas present from my daughter
I had so much fun with that series!
It’s very nicely written. I came to it from the TV series
I’m currently reading Number the Stars with my children and The Great Hunt for myself. So far, I’m enjoying both. I especially appreciate the way Number the Stars tackles such a heavy topic without being too intense for children.
I enjoyed this article quite a lot: Brains Are Not Required When It Comes to Thinking and Solving Problems—Simple Cells Can Do It
Riordan is a great writer.
I was reading The Catcher In The Rye by J D Salinger, but I haven’t picked it up since November.
If I don’t finish it, my next book will probably be either Heartstopper by Alice Oseman, The Martian Chronicles by Douglas Adams, or The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie.
Even though it’s a stereotype, Catcher was my favorite book throughout school. From abouy 6th grade I read it every year until I graduated high school. I wrote many essays around it for my English classes.
The Fifth Head of Cerberus, by Gene Wolfe.
I adore The Book Of The New Sun, but have been pretty meh about everything else of his that I’ve read, so we’ll see how it goes
I recently finished The Myth of Sisyphus by Camus. I’m going back and forth between Meditations by Aurelius or Kraftwerk: Future Music from Germany by Schütte. I tend to take my time with books so I want to make it count. Meditations is shorter and been on my list for a while, but I’ve been on a serious thing for Kraftwerk lately.
I’m doing some classic sci-fi working my way through Heinen’s books, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress was great, Have Space Suit Will Travel was fun, and I’m reminded of why I enjoyed Starship Troopers so much.
It’ll be Vonnegut next…
Deliverance Lost by Gavin Thorpe.
Currently at the end of ‘Fabius Bile: Clone Lord’ (Warhammer 40k book) and a quarter the way through a book named: Certain Dark Things. A book about modern vampires in Mexico. I read that it was good but it’s not hooked me yet.
I’m reading Truth of the Divine by Lindsay Ellis. It’s pretty good, and lots of novel ideas, but some of the sentences are better than others.
Sounds like a similar premise to Childhood’s End.
Just finished Adam Nevill’s horrifying short novel, “The Vessel.” I rate it five stars - very intense and sort of “wicker man” vibes. I’m now reading “I Found Puppets Living in my Apartment Walls” by Ben Farthing. And even though I just started it, it’s quite creepy!
